contrast between world war z and zombie land

1. Chai ChinEe 0906p72950 ENGLISH 2 FNBE April 2014,SEM 2
Hi, in this assignment, we need to write an essay about contrast of differences between
two horror movies. Recently, the “Ebola virus” is quite famous because of news which
talked about the dead resurrecting and rising from the dead. This is the first report had
been received which happened in Liberia, Africa. That is so wired just like zombies are
coming. So I decided to choose two zombie movies to do the comparisons which are
“Zombieland” and also “World War Z”.
“Zombieland” is a movie directed by Ruben Fleischer in 2009. “Zombieland” is a
zombie comedy; inside of it got a lot of funny jokes and scenes. The main characters do
not use each other's real names, but identify themselves by using place names which
related to them such as Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock. For me, the
funniest part of this movie is when Columbus's neighbor, named 406 came and found him.
Suddenly, she turned into zombie and tried to bite Columbus. After hitting her down,
Columbus said that: “You see, you just can’t trust anyone, the first time I love a girl in
my life is trying to eat me”. The running time of the movie is around 87minutes.However,
“World War Z” is an action film directed by Marc Forster in 2013. The movie takes
about 116 minute after unrated cut. The movie shows a lot army forces fight against the
zombies. They use a lot of weapon as well as helicopter and combat plane. There are two
scenes from the trailer which are the reason that I chose to go cinema and watched it. The
first part is when the main character Gerry lane acted by Brad Pitt jump to get into the
helicopter and the following zombie fall from the building. The second one is the
zombies step on each other to climb up the huge and high Jerusalem Wall.
For the beginning of the movie “Zombieland”, they showed zombies have taken over
America in early twenty-first century but a shy and inexperienced college student
“Columbus” in Texas has survived. He said that he was still survived with the reason he
played safe and followed by his own rules, for examples: cardio, double tab, beware
bathrooms, seatbelt, etc. After that, he decides to travel to Columbus, Ohio to have a
look whether his parents were still alive. On his journey, he met the other survivor
“Tallahassee” who is heading to Florida. Tallahassee is a man who was particularly
violent in killing zombies. Luckily, going Florida and Ohio are both in the same
direction, and he gets a ride from Tallahassee. On the other side, the movie “World War
Z” started with some news and short clips about pollution around the world until the
animals prey in madness. Then the story begins, Gerry Lane, a former United Nations
investigator and his wife were having fun and guessing the question asked by their two
daughters when stuck inside the traffic in Philippine, but suddenly the situation changed
seen like something are going to happen. Gerry Lane decided to bring his family escape
from the zombie outbreak. He contacted his friend, Thierry Umutoni who is the UN
Deputy Secretary General for help. Thierry Umutoni agreed to help but the special

2. Chai ChinEe 0906p72950 ENGLISH 2 FNBE April 2014,SEM 2
evacuation needed to wait until the next day. So Gerry Lane and his family stayed at
Hispanic family in Newark as a shelter.
The both movie got loves but they are different. For “Zombieland” we can find love
between girl and boy. Columbus fell in love to Wichita. In Bill Murray’s mansion in New
York, Wichita got good feeling to Columbus. Despite Wichita's attraction to Columbus,
she fears attachment and leaves with Little Rock for Pacific Playland the next morning.
Columbus decides to go after Wichita, and convinces Tallahassee to join him. For
“World War Z” is family love, Gerry Lane loves his family. He scarifies himself and
works for his government to keep his family members are safe under protection of army.
He tries to keep contact to his wife to make sure that his family member is safe no matter
how danger the situation he’s involving in.
For the ending part, the sisters are trapped on a drop tower ride. Columbus plan to save
them, he evades and shoots through several zombies to reach the tower, but not before
conquering some of his phobias and even changing one of his rules of survival. In thanks,
Wichita kisses Columbus and reveals her real name, Krista; Little Rock gives Tallahassee
a Twinkie. Columbus realizes he now has what he's always wanted: a family. The ending
of “World War Z”, Gerry Lane explains his theory about the zombies ignore the infirm
because of the healthy issue, and suggests injecting themselves with a deadly but curable
disease to mask themselves from the zombies. The suggestion is approved but
the pathogens are located in one of the zombie-infected labs. Gerry Lane and a group of
members go to the infested labs carefully but are detected. Gerry Lane finds himself in
the vault with the pathogens, cornered by a lone zombie. Without the ability to identify
the strains in storage, many of zombies which could kill him, Gerry injects himself with
one of the samples. His hypothesis is proven correct as the zombie enters the vault but
does not attack. He’s past thought those zombies and walk back safety with more
samples. They use the samples of disease to create a masking agent, allowing them to
rescue refugees still trapped by zombies and fight against them. He says that this isn't the
end and our war has just begun, but there is hope as people have used the masking agent
to evacuate people or fight back.
In Conclusion, both of the movies are just too amazing and well done. If seriously want
me to choose either one as the best, I like action more. So is a yes for “World War Z”