Zombieland

Here came to third week, we already watched two film that given by Mr.Joe Yan. I already learned many theories in this subject. Through it all, we can more understand and able to analysis clearly the films we watch. The third film that we watched on third week was “Zombieland”. After watched this film, our Mr.Joe Yan explain the theories of genre and what is the genre in this film. That a lot of genre that can found in this film. Previously, I thought that only one or two genres can be in a film. But through this tutorial, I realize different kind of genres and how it apply to any films.

Zombieland it sound like very horror. But in this film, there including many genres which is horror, comedy, romance, Science Fiction, action and road film. So during that class, Mr.Joe Yan list out those genres and explain it one by one. I more understand after the explanation. The horror that can find out from this film is the make-up of zombies. The zombies looks very disgusting and guilty. Many scenes will scare audience with another way. The zombie will jump up suddenly when audience get attention to notice the silence scene. Some horror footages is the how zombie killed by Human. The blood not really scary I think, but the director make the scary by more focus on how zombie chasing human. But in this film, the director more focus on the conversation between this four characters, which is Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock.

 Next is the obvious genre in this film- Comedy. I like it a lot. I like horror and comedy genres mix together. Because it can bring out many creative way to grab audience attention to enjoy the film. The funny characters is Tallahassee although he was a serious man in this film but his acting could brought out the feeling of relax and funny. That a lot of dark comedy that can see through the acting of Tallahassee. Tallahassee use funny way to kill the fat zombies in shopping mall but he still look like very serious and steady.

The science fiction genre is the zombie. Zombies are not really exist in real life. But the Hollywood make it real and more exiting to show to the audience. I realize that nowadays Hollywood more focus on the super hero movie. It because the audience more like super hero instead of romance genre.

The romance that can be found in this film is the conversation between this four characters. The beginning of the film, Columbus and Tallahassee and tried to help Wichita and Little Rock, but this two girls cheating them and took everything from Columbus and Tallahassee. They don’t believe each other. I think that if we become zombie, we will feel suffer to kill that people we believe. After that, they start understand each other and need each other to achieve their own goals. When they went to Bill Murray house, Columbus and Wichita done many things to more understand each other.

Action genre in this film is the zombies chasing and how the human defeat zombies. That many scene Columbus and Tallahassee chasing by zombies, and the two guys use gun to shoot the zombies. They try to protect themselves from the zombies. The audience will feel exciting when the action scene bring more realistic.

 Last genre that could be found in this film was road film. The road film is when this four characters drive the car together went to Hollywood. In this scene, editor use jump cut of the transition to show that they drive very long way on the road. This four characters always change their seat inside the car. So through this, we can know that they spend a lot of time conversation inside the car.

I love this film because it create awareness among the people and taught audience how to defeat zombie what if the zombies really exist in real life. For me, if zombie really appear, then I prefer become zombie instead of survivor.