Romance genre exist for the nerdy
Columbus and femme fatale Wichita. In the middle of the film, Columbus starts
to fall for Wichita. “Where ever this girl was, that’s the place I wanted to
be,” Columbus said. His idea of being with Wichita makes himself to find a new
family. Wichita also falls for Columbus twice. First time when she sympathizes Columbus’s sad eighth grade, then leave because she starts
to put trust on Columbus as Wichita makes an agreement on not trusting anyone
else except Little Rock. Second time, the seed of love sparks after Columbus
save the sisters.
It is also a road
film! This film involves many travelling scenes along with vehicles.
Columbus who wants to go Columbus to meet his family, Tallahassee who wants to
go Tallahassee, the female duo who heads to Pacific Playland for a zombie-free
life. They are forced to stay with each other for more than 24 hours in vehicles
and that’s how their relationship starts to bond. This can be seen in the
montages of the main characters take turn to drive in night where they talk
over random things and stuff. Throughout the journey, their hates toward each
other has changed to treasure the existence and companion.
The vehicles involved in the film are such as Tallahassee’s
black truck that Columbus tags along and then drives away and get destroyed by
Wichita and Little Rock, yellow truck that Tallahassee and Columbus stole from a
neighbourhood, minivan that Tallahassee breaks with a crowbar, the
malfunctioned motorbike rides by Columbus who wants to go for Wichita.
Another genre is science fiction, or known as sci-fi! The imaginative concept in
this film goes to mad cow disease which has a wide spread in zombieland. Mad
cow became mad people and became mad zombie. This fast-acting virus makes the
person to have swollen brain, a raging fever that made them become violent and
hateful. It spreads from one to another with no cure. Mad cow disease is so
powerful that it gives apocalypse and extinction to zombieland. Nothing else
left in zombieland excepts zombies everywhere.
Last but not least, action genre. Action genre is always
associated with chasing scene. To name it, in Pacific Playland, the two zombies
who chase after Columbus.
Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita, Little Rock are nominated
for being the action heros or heroines. For Tallahassee, he has the typical
action hero look. He has a manly appearance and body, no fear, good with all
sorts of weapons, always looking for zombie kill of the week, can shot dead the
zombies without aiming. As for Columbus, although he is completely the opposite
of Tallahassee, the nerdy and coward is an accidental hero. Although he feel
paranoid at times, he still strategize. He manages to overcome his phobia and forced himself to
be strong. He killed two of his greatest fears, which are zombies and clowns. By
following his sets of survival rules, he “double tap” the zombies, and even
break the rules to become the hero who then save Wichita and Little Rock in
Pacific Playland.
Wichita is protective towards Little Rock. When Tallahassee finds Little Rock annoying,
he puts the gun to Little Rock. The smart and fast Wichita who is driving will
immediately step on the brakes and places her gun to Tallahassee. Little
Rock, the young sister but brave and smart. She is not afraid to learn new
tricks like driving the vehicle despite of not reaching the legal age to drive.
Before I end the post, let’s have a revision of Columbus’s
rules of survival! Just in case you met zombie, oops!
Heard the sequel Zombieland 2 is in the making? I’m looking
forward, hopefully it will stick with the same casts. Do you?
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