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Rather than engaging you by killing off the characters, the script brings them to life, giving them a sense of depth only heightened by how they (successfully) deal with what is thrown at them. Spoilers ahead: this isn’t the case in Zombieland, in which each one of the four major leads survives. Much like any other strain of horror movie, zombie movies tend to follow a formula in which characters are slowly picked off one by one to maximise the emotional impact and fear factor. The motivations of the characters also stray from what you might expect: the usual suspects like protecting family members and searching for safety are still there, but so are less conventional desires like attempting to find the mother-load of Twinkies. These are brilliantly laid out by Eisenberg’s Columbus at the start of the film with the assistance of some authoritative 3D text, and mostly include sentiments that you might shout at the screen when watching other, less self‐aware horrors making sure to ‘double tap’ corpses and avoiding bathroom stalls, for example.
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With an awkward, nerdy Jesse Eisenberg at the helm rather than a chiselled action hero, Zombieland is a zombie movie more concerned with obeying the ‘rules’ of its own genre than portraying bad-ass nobility. While the catalyst is described at the start as a mutation of mad cow disease, this only makes the whole premise seem even more ridiculous and self‐aware, framing the apocalypse less as a profound disaster, and more as a worldwide ‘oh sh*t’. A rare virus, an experiment gone wrong, an ancient curse, we’ve seen them all before, and we know that society inevitably collapses, leaving only a few lucky survivors.
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Rather than serving as an origin story describing exactly how and why the apocalypse took place, Zombieland threw audiences in at the deep end, in full knowledge that everyone and their grandmothers knew a few potential causes by then.