World War Z

World War Z was made into a film adaption in 2013 by Marc Forster, with the original author being Max Brooks. The two World War Z versions were successful in their own rights and had the same title, which is the only things that they had in common with each other. The movie is completely different from the novel on the structure of the each version, seen in three forms: character development, plot changes, and themes.

To understand the difference between the two different versions of World War Z the plot must be explained. The novel, known was World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is an unnamed man is commissioned to write a report on the Zombie Wars. The report consists of interviews from people around the world, but this report was censored by his boss because it was too emotional. The unnamed name (the interviewer) decided to take the ‘human factor” out of the report and rework it as a book. It begins with explaining how the plague started. China has a mild outbreak of zombie that spreads out into the world through various ways, smuggling, trading, undead walking around, etc. Many countries ignore the news of the dead rising up from the grave with a ravenous hunger for human flesh, but others, such as Israel, take the threat seriously and begin zombie-proofing their borders.

But the lack of information and preventative measures means the zombie tide doesn’t stay back for long. Then suddenly massive waves of the undead began attacking, biting, scratching and killing things over the entire globe. Government takes defensive measures; but their militaries don’t understand the new enemy, leading to dangerous engagement such as the Battle of Yonkers, where America’s state of the art martial technology does little to even d...

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...ure and saved the world was American, the nation that helped the hero was America.

The film and novel were very different from each other in almost every form in the structure. The novel is a collection of individual accounts, where the narrator is an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission ten years after a fictional zombie world war. These accounts consist of explaining the social, political, religious, and environmental changes that resulted from the world. The movie was about a United Nations employee Gerry Lane traveling the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, threatening to destroy humanity. In my opinion, the film was well-paced, able to capture your attention, and giving a lot of action. While the novel provided a lot of in-depth thinking and interestingly complex ideas that made me think.