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LITERARY CRITICISM<\/p>\n

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Zack’s Zombie Survival Guide:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ch. 4 – Emergent Species<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is Part Four of a five part series anticipating the premiere of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead on Netflix.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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IV.A. Compromising Factors<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

The corporate investment factor of the zombie film surely spells likelier financial success for its creator but it also spawns external factors which compromise the story. We re-draw the alien to make the action figure cheaper to manufacture. We lever a larger \u201cuniverse\u201d across multiple platforms. We sign on larger actors which condition the characters, call upon enterprising writing teams to increase the pacing, revise resolutions to make more space for sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. Not satisfied with a Marvel Universe, we expand to multiverse; control of the <\/span>Star Wars\/Star Trek\/Friday the 13th\/Supernatural\/Buffy\/Sailor Moon\/GoT\/Lord of the Rings <\/span><\/i>canon becomes political as much as financial. When the bottomless pockets of Netflix roll out a multi-year franchising package for Zack Snyder\u2019s idea even before it premieres, how can story survive?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I spoke with movie creators The Pierce Brothers (<\/span>Deadheads<\/a>, The Wretched<\/a><\/span><\/i>) whose success is both opening doors for more productions but who also find themselves moving into streaming platforms, joining the big-money \u201cbattle for your eyeballs.\u201d While it\u2019s true that Snyder has been granted a larger, freer role in producing <\/span>Army of the Dead<\/span><\/i> than he has been allowed in previous films, we can\u2019t forget that this very freedom is being marketed to us; Snyder is still caught up in this $90 million budget. For Brett Pierce, this is a warning sign. Movies that work with small budgets have to rely on story, he explains, citing <\/span>Night of the Living Dead<\/span><\/i> and their own work, <\/span>Deadheads.<\/span><\/i> But for Snyder, there would be \u201cso many stipulations on what must be in the movie. It\u2019s no longer a single voice.\u201d Brother Drew agrees: \u201cThere\u2019s an arms race for faster and bigger.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Film creators <\/span>Drew (l) and Brett Pierce<\/span><\/p>\n

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IV.B. The Promise of Character<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

With such a budget and expectations from its star power, Brett believes <\/span>Army of the Dead<\/span><\/i> will be \u201clike a heavy metal rock concert\u201d more than a powerful story. Certainly most everything the trailer reveals promises \u201cfaster and bigger,\u201d but creator Zack Snyder says quite pointedly that character is critical to movie:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So you expect pure zombie mayhem, and you get that, 100 percent. But also you get these really amazing characters on a fantastic journey. It\u2019s going to surprise people that there\u2019s a lot of warmth and real emotion with these great characters (Netflix, \u201cWatch\u201d).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Maybe. What he does not say here is that emotions as a checkbox are not enough to make the film work. All of the characters in <\/span>Peninsula<\/span><\/i> had emotions (well, each had <\/span>an<\/span><\/i> emotion), but those emotions generally were not tested in any significant way and were irrelevant to the zombie universe in which they were set; they might equally have told the story following a tsunami or financial collapse. If there is room for character development of the type we see in <\/span>Train to Busan<\/span><\/i> or <\/span>Shaun of the Dead <\/span><\/i>or <\/span>I Am Legend<\/span><\/i>, it might instead be for the very reasons that the movie got big: franchising a \u201cuniverse\u201d also means a lot of narrative space, more than the brief two hours that the movie permits.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“And herein is the Snyder challenge: has he made a film different enough from its predecessors that offers him something new to say without going so far afield as to make it something else? <\/span>“<\/p>\n

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IV.C. Literary Economics<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

\"\"Using space, however, is also a matter of literary economics. If the character\u2019s story is used up in the first five episodes of a TV series and the producers call for three seasons (or, in the case of <\/span>The Walking Dead<\/span><\/i>, 11 seasons), we tend to fill the space with action or jump sharks (the trope made famous by <\/span>Happy Days<\/span><\/i> when Fonzie literally does so to sustain a show that had long worn itself out). On the other sad extreme, Stephen King \u201cblockbuster\u201d novels are often extraordinary exercises in character development while the horror itself could be related in a decent short story or novella (looking at you, <\/span>Under the Dome<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Sleeping Beauties<\/span><\/i>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And so I see the questions as separate ones: there is the essential need to tell a complete story inside a stand-alone film project; then there is the separate question of the \u201cuniverse\u201d storylines. In each, however, my criteria remain. <\/span>Army of the Dead<\/span><\/i> must fulfill its obligations to the zombie canon alone if it wishes to be noted as an essential component to the genre and its lore. The rest might well be a Walking Behemoth or a cancelled series.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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IV.D. Horror or Parody?<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

The Pierce Brothers seem to concur on this. We can enjoy the action-adventure of the heist movie, but if the zombie canon is broken along the way, the film will be unable to \u201cmaintain the horror.\u201d Drew says, \u201cThat\u2019s the tricky part of zombie movies: what\u2019s left to say?\u201d The filmmaker quandary is to maintain the integrity of the zombie horror, yet find a new message inside of it. <\/span>Deadheads,<\/span><\/i> the Brothers\u2019 first breakthrough film, a hybrid zombie-romance-buddy film, bypasses the question through parody and comedy. \u201cAfter everything zombies have meant–racism, consumerism–we\u2019ve milked it in every direction–it all devolves into parody.\u201d Within the first three minutes of <\/span>Deadheads<\/span><\/i>, for instance, most every ethical challenge faced by serious characters in 500 other movies is played out: the cabin in the woods, the desperate redneck, the bitten family member, the \u201cDon\u2019t open the door!\u201d warning, the <\/span>deus ex machina<\/span><\/i> rescue. Once dispensed with for the sake of self-aware comedy, the violation of the canon (talking, semi-reasoning zombies with \u201clives\u201d to live) doesn\u2019t seem like a violation. It\u2019s aware of the canon, and it deliberately chooses to mock it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“After … we\u2019ve milked it in every direction\u2013it all devolves into parody.\u00a0<\/span>“<\/p>\n

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–Drew Pierce<\/span><\/p>\n

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Army\u2019<\/span><\/i>s Coyote (Nora Arnezeder) warns the rest of the cast that \u201cThey\u2019re not what you think they are!\u201d This is fair warning to all of us. But she and Snyder are serious, and this may be the credo for the film: it\u2019s not the zombie movie we think it is. And herein is the Snyder challenge: has he made a film different enough from its predecessors that offers him something new to say without going so far afield as to make it something else?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Brett notes that one of the secrets to good horror is to meet what is \u201cfamiliar, but not,\u201d a formula which works well in <\/span>The Wretched<\/span><\/i>. The zombie is \u201cmindlessness, but us,\u201d and so we meet that difference, that Otherness, and react. This is true of zombies, but also of our expectations of film.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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By now, most fans are anticipating a few bits that the film\u2019s trailer teases. A zombie tiger named Valentine is a curiosity or fun effect, but not a significant addition to the lore or storyline. However, that the zombies are led by \u201cAlphas,\u201d some type of wolf-level reasoning undead that organize the others into quasi-military strategies, suggests a major disruption in the zombie genre. This single change carries two questions:<\/span><\/p>\n