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Comments on Monday 16 August 2004:
A fantastic zombie movie idea, inspired by the fact that Necropolis is filming partially in Chernobyl. A multi-part zombie movie, not sequels or prequels but, er, simulquels, set and filmed in different parts of the world. Same zombie infection, different cultural reactions. The parts would be released in their own country first, then cycle round so that British people can watch Japanese zombies, Americans can watch Australian zombies, and so forth, until all the parts have been released in all the locations.

Each should be filmed by local directors, such that the British one would tend to be a bit bleak and washed out, like a gritty police drama, with ambient background humour, the American one would be a festival of special effects and explosions, and the Australian one would feature strange camera angles and probably one of the heroes being blind and in a wheelchair. The Japanese one would simply be weird (and have kung fu and/or gun fu), the German one would be bizarrely partially animated, and the French one would be boring and would involve people talking a lot, and you'd never even see a zombie in it. The unifying theme is that the zombies themselves must not be culturally affected - they all behave the same way, regardless of their culture when alive. There's a moral in that somewhere, too, but the directors are forbidden from making any explicit reference to it.

In addition to the directorial style being presented as part of the movie, the stereotypes of the countries (only the stereotypes the people of the country themself recognise) would feature strongly. The British one would probably have to end similarly to Shaun of the Dead, whose ending I probably shouldn't give away since Americans haven't seen it yet. The American one would end with the magical American army defeating the zombies by the power of true grit and big guns. The Australian one would end with the populace deciding that actually being zombies would be pretty cool, you'd never have to work again or anything, so they turn themselves into zombies deliberately. And maybe the Japanese summon Godzilla to sort the zombies out for them. [23:14]

Jessica
You're a thinker. I like you and your site, so now it's my new favorite place to kill time. And of course I look forward to that.

AttackOfTheSpam
Now, really. What did time ever do to you?

Hahahaha oh I AM a card.

Nameless
That so took me like a minute to get... I'm such an idiot. But anyways that Shaun of the Dead movie looks pretty cool, but of course it will never come to our town. Because we suck. And are somehow proud of it.

AttackOfTheSpam
It'll never come here, either... does Highland Village, Texas sound like a cultural haven to you? Didn't think so. I'll have to steal SotD from one of my anime-watching friends... they tend to have all the foreign films ever in addition to anime. Maybe a memo goes around to people who watch anime religiously? Dunno. Perhaps I would know if my mother didn't believe all anime was porn and let it in the house.

But I digress.

Jessica
AttackOfTheSpam....this is hilarious....read your comments in Stewie's (from Family Guy) voice. I was actually laughing outloud...but then again I'm blazed and Pink Floyd is blaring in my ear...another digression.

Nameless
'A romantic comedy. With zombies.' That's just fantastic.

AttackOfTheSpam
Thank you.

I think.

(Psst - what the deuce?!)
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