Writers do everything possible to make Pitt (aka Gerry Lane) a god-like hero. We can quickly deconstruct any number of scenes in World War Z. World War Z revolves around Brad Pitt at the expense of any possible logical development. Like we really need another zombie film with nothing new, nothing except mug shots of Pitt that is. The aggressive force is a virus that transforms healthy humans into zombie-like beings 10 seconds after they are bitten. In reality, World War Z portrays a war that very quickly takes over 4 billion lives on several continents. Otherwise, maybe a massive eruption of people “at the bottom” in a war with wide-spread poverty like nothing imaginable today. (“Worse” is in quotations marks because the historian in me, especially after reading Micol Seigel’s article “Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn,” does not like to compare historical moments or peoples and make value judgments – its relationships that matter.) I expected a nuclear war – though that would be an ultra sensitive topic. I envisioned something “worse” than the world has seen before. With a name like World War Z and the strong connotations associated with the words “world war,” I expected World War Z to be a war in some way related to world wars that have actually happened. Film Still from World War Z From Google Images
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