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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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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They're both about the people who think they're hard enough and jaded enough getting owned by the zombies anyway
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I still think it has too much in the way of gleeful lurid scenes of feral corpses devouring people in swarms while we're invited to revel in their pain to *not* be "see this is what happens when you are WEAK"
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IDK I never saw a movie or comic where the zombies went on and on about how they're the superior species and just cattle, that's usually the human villains line and he usually ends up eaten by the zombies which is why the zombies rule
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