* What formula can you identify?
The first movie I choose is “Dawn of the Dead” (also known as Zombie internationally). It is a 1978 zombie film in which George Andrew Romero, "Grandfather of the Zombie.” shows the effects, in larger scale, of a zombie epidemic apocalyptic on society. In the film, a pandemic of mysterious source has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh, which then causes panic in the society. In this movie, the formula that I was able to identify is the Romero formula (extract from George Andrew Romero, "Grandfather of the Zombie."). This formula shows how the types of zombies are not the typical dead people crawling out of their graves, but they are essentially living dead.
The second movie I choose is “28 Days Later.” It is a 2002 British zombie horror film.
The plot depicts the breakdown of society after an accidental release of a highly contagious "rage" virus. In this movie, I identify the Virus formula. In this formula, the types of zombies are people that have been infected by some type of wide spread virus causing symptoms such as aggression, extreme mutation, and loss of all rational thought.
* What are the commonalities in each column of the grid?
In all culture, the zombie represents several different fears. I believe that Human have the same fear the possibility of zombies. Zombies are nothing more than moving corpses who prey on human flesh and who are extremely aggressive. According to George Andrew Romero, Zombies are a rough combination of, werewolf and vampire. They exist in our world between life and death, they consume our flesh like werewolves, and they transmute their disease by biting like vampires. Another similarity about zombies is that do not prey on each other, they only prey on humans. They finally will not respond to any emotions in any circumstance you can imagine.
* How do formulas change over the years?
In the 1970s, the concept that our own friends and family may return starving for our flesh was very disturbing. It was a paranoiac way to criticize the politics by talking about capitalism and communism.
In the 1980s when AIDS became a shocking reality, all zombie concepts changed into an infectious disease. In “28 Days Later” (2002) for example, the “rage” infection spreads in seconds and causes infected persons to attack anyone in sight, spreading the disease through blood and saliva. The concept that our own family and friends may return starving for our flesh is disturbing indeed.
* Is the formula of yesterday still applicable in today's society?
I do not think that the formula of the past can be applicable in an actual society. Reasons are numerous; but what we should think of is that yesterdays society is different from today’s one. The way of thinking was different, and the ideology was different. Therefore, there is no way that a concept or any formula of the past can be applicable for an actual problem. Each different time has its different problems.
* If you could be the director of the movie, video games, television commercial, song writer, or author of a novel, what changes would you make to the existing formula?
In my principle case, Zombie movies, I will try, if I could make a movie, to find a cure and to give humanity a second chance. In our current era, I believe that we are capable of greatness; we need to be more open-minded, more compassionate, and willing to share everything that we have. Humanity knows that life is precious. We should be more careful and help our friends and family and any people we could.
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