Truth be told, Max Brooks created his books as a bit of fun(and, of course, to make some cash). He said so himself. He was shocked by how many people asked him serious questions about zeds during his lectures... Some people! :P
Furthermore, he is not the final word on the depiction or the concept of zombies. Zombies have been depicted in media as far back as, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Metropolis". These were simply not of the flesh eating variety. We have Richard Matheson and George Romero to thank for being the authors of this new kind of zombie.
I don't believe that experts exist in this imaginary genre. There is one thing to be an expert about the history of zombies in media. There is another thing to "proclaim" that you now surmise that zombies can fly and you are going to write a bestselling book about it and therefore everyone now believes that zombies can fly. That's akin to someone writing about a Leprechaun that can break dance.
The primary problem with the zombie franchise, as I see it, is that no one laid down any ground rules in the beginning of this horror genre about what "exactly" a zombie is and is not and what "exactly" it is capable of and what it is not capable of so...as a result....you get a bunch of bullshittery taken as Bible. This genre needs standards.
There are actually some similarities to the malformed and diverse takes on this subject matter as there were when the World Wide Web was first invented. Different browsers rendered different depictions of content. Thankfully, web standards was introduced and agreed upon and now you can see one version of, say, the CNN, website, versus a different version, based upon "which" browser you use.
That's probably because they're dead and their digestive system doesn't work properly anymore, so whatever they eat just sits in their bowels and rots away along with the rest of their body until they're completely decomposed.
Maybe because most zombie movies are set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse where humans are already far outnumbered by zombies, so the zombies' food supplies are limited. Besides, sometimes you do see fat zombies, like that woman in the Dawn remake.
How is it that they can even swallow or digest "anything" if they are dead and peristalsis has ceased? And, if peristalsis has not been interrupted and stomach acids have not dissolved their stomach tissues, I repeat, why aren't their stomachs bloated (based upon your theory of undigested meat just sitting in their stomach)? Surely there are A LOT of zombies depicted in films who are feasting on LOTS of people. Why isn't a bloated stomach a part of a zombie's ordonnance? This whole discussion totally disregards putrefaction and medical science, but, if you want to continue to argue "zombie science", I'll play along for a short while longer.
I don't really have a scientific answer for it, I've been thinking something about symbiontic maggots but it just sounds stupid. And I wonder why so many people are worried about an undead zombie plague when a 28 Days Later/Rabid/Lifeforce situation is way more plausible.
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Truth be told, Max Brooks created his books as a bit of fun(and, of course, to make some cash). He said so himself. He was shocked by how many people asked him serious questions about zeds during his lectures... Some people! :P
Furthermore, he is not the final word on the depiction or the concept of zombies. Zombies have been depicted in media as far back as, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Metropolis". These were simply not of the flesh eating variety. We have Richard Matheson and George Romero to thank for being the authors of this new kind of zombie.
I don't believe that experts exist in this imaginary genre. There is one thing to be an expert about the history of zombies in media. There is another thing to "proclaim" that you now surmise that zombies can fly and you are going to write a bestselling book about it and therefore everyone now believes that zombies can fly. That's akin to someone writing about a Leprechaun that can break dance.
The primary problem with the zombie franchise, as I see it, is that no one laid down any ground rules in the beginning of this horror genre about what "exactly" a zombie is and is not and what "exactly" it is capable of and what it is not capable of so...as a result....you get a bunch of bullshittery taken as Bible. This genre needs standards.
There are actually some similarities to the malformed and diverse takes on this subject matter as there were when the World Wide Web was first invented. Different browsers rendered different depictions of content. Thankfully, web standards was introduced and agreed upon and now you can see one version of, say, the CNN, website, versus a different version, based upon "which" browser you use.
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That's probably because they're dead and their digestive system doesn't work properly anymore, so whatever they eat just sits in their bowels and rots away along with the rest of their body until they're completely decomposed.
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Then why aren't their stomachs distended, Joe?
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Maybe because most zombie movies are set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse where humans are already far outnumbered by zombies, so the zombies' food supplies are limited. Besides, sometimes you do see fat zombies, like that woman in the Dawn remake.
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The question is: Where's the meat/shit?
How is it that they can even swallow or digest "anything" if they are dead and peristalsis has ceased? And, if peristalsis has not been interrupted and stomach acids have not dissolved their stomach tissues, I repeat, why aren't their stomachs bloated (based upon your theory of undigested meat just sitting in their stomach)? Surely there are A LOT of zombies depicted in films who are feasting on LOTS of people. Why isn't a bloated stomach a part of a zombie's ordonnance? This whole discussion totally disregards putrefaction and medical science, but, if you want to continue to argue "zombie science", I'll play along for a short while longer.
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I don't really have a scientific answer for it, I've been thinking something about symbiontic maggots but it just sounds stupid. And I wonder why so many people are worried about an undead zombie plague when a 28 Days Later/Rabid/Lifeforce situation is way more plausible.