![]() Morse has a disappointingly small part in the film, but he’s far from unmemorable. What is the real significance of David Morse’s ex-CIA character? Other than that, the investigation structure provides for good storytelling. It reminded me of the crew in Prometheus attempting to find out the origin of man just to find out. If anything the trip assigned to Gerry ( Brad Pitt) to find out the source comes off as just the U.N.’s desire to know. You just don’t need to find a Patient Zero to develop a vaccine. Perhaps more knowledge of what they were dealing with might have helped, but it doesn’t seem necessary. That partly means looking for a vaccine or cure, which is what the scientists at the World Health Organization were doing, and as with many diseases they could investigate or experiment just fine without knowing the origin. At the point in which the world was ravaged by this zombie apocalypse, the real agenda should have been figuring out how the remaining humans could survive or otherwise avoid becoming infected. Given the history of epidemics and the difficulty of their origin being pinpointed, this is a very good question. What’s the point of the South Korea mission if the source isn’t important? And as it so happens in the movie, it doesn’t really end up mattering what caused the outbreak. Nobody knows for sure who Patient Zero was for many plagues and viruses nor the definite source of other epidemics. As in the case of that film, the world never figures out the true cause (even if the audience is let in there at least), which is often the case in real life. ![]() ![]() So, I just assume the outbreak originated with a diseased pig in a kitchen in Macau, a la Contagion. From what I’ve read, the closest thing to a source was initially mentioned in the script as having been based in China, but the line was eliminated in hopes of appealing to the country’s distribution censors ( it seems not to have mattered anyway). Later the infected are just called zombies, in a sort of knowing nod to a pop culture tradition that seems to exist in this onscreen world. In the beginning of the film, news reports call the outbreak a form of rabies. There’s no mention of a probe returning from Venus with extraterrestrial contaminants, no accidentally leaked biological weapon or toxic chemicals, no voodoo magic. What actually caused the zombie outbreak? World war z zombies movie#All in all, let these talking points first and foremost serve as a means to discuss the movie in full without concern for spoilers. And of course, as usual, some of the questions are not answerable at all because they’re more criticisms in the form of a hypothetical query or simply disagreements with how the movie was plotted or how the characters thought or acted. Additionally the expectation that the story of World War Z will continue in sequels means the filmmakers might be choosing to flesh out some stuff later on. Speaking of the infamous production problems, they do tend to factor into narrative flaws and holes and confusion like those I raise below. However, where there is some relevance to explaining something on screen by the issues of the rewrites and reshoots and such, so I do try to mention it if I’m aware of it. I also haven’t followed every little piece of the production, but that shouldn’t matter either since the movie on screen should stand alone. I haven’t read the original book by Max Brooks, which apparently doesn’t matter given how little the movie resembles the text. But just because something is futile doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. It’s pretty futile starting up a list of unanswered questions regarding a popcorn flick about vaguely defined zombies co-written by Damon Lindelof. We recommend reading it after you see the film. ![]() Spoilers Ahead: This article contains advanced talking points for Marc Forster ’s World War Z. ![]()
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