To be fair, COVID-19's lower lethality is exactly why it can't be modeled like a zombie plague. Most zombie plagues are less infectious and kill all hosts, which would fizzle outhttps://twitter.com/malamentary/status/1237793167862202373 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
...Not really, if by "kill" you mean killing them in such a way that they don't become a zombie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I think it's in the montage opening up Day of the Dead where they have a despairing scientist talk about how the zombies almost seem designed to spread, they try to eat the living but they're not very good at it, the corpse always turns while it's still intact
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It feels like relatively few zombie films actually sell that, though. There's always a horrible Feeding Frenzy Scene where some poor fuck gets dismembered.
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true but does not every zombie movie also have a scene where a group member gets bit, hides it, and inevitably turns zombie and attacks a few disposable other group members?
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Yeah, but even then that's just not gonna do enough on a broad enough scale. Plus. You know. Most zombie films do it as part of a misanthropic theme
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I just mean as a depiction of how the zombie plague spreads vs. them just devouring someone whole, weirdly the method of spread I most remember from Dawn of the Dead original was that people didn't want to give up the bodies of dead family members for immediate cremation
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It just strikes me that part of this is just that most zombie films are fundamentally right wing mean world REPENT YE SINNERS, CAST OUT THE UNCLEAN. and here's the Resident Evil games firmly refusing to play that game.
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it's an odd canon overall, like you get a lot of right wing colonizers to the genre that want an outlet for their misanthropy while its most creative and interesting voices tend to be more lefty
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I actually don't know if it's that simple. Right wing Romero misanthropy is still fundamentally right wing in that it views humanity and human expression as a pathetic source of weakness and contagion, which will inevitably lead to our downfall as we are punished by Cruel Reality
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Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead are like the exact opposite of this
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That isn't my read of it at all, but, subjectivity. Etc.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Honestly it is my thesis that misanthropy is inherently reactionary.
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