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Les Diaboliques

Train to Busan vs World War Z

If thou openest not that I may enter I will smash the doorpost and unhinge the gate. I will lead up the dead, that they may eat the living.”    (Enheduanna). Excerpt from “Descent of Ishtar/Inanna to the Underworld.” Written somewhere between 3000 B.C. to 1900 B.C. Train to Busan and World War Z: A Comparative Approach Call them what you want: the undead, revenant (French word meaning come back or one who has returned), Zombi or Zombii in Haitian, or as many Western viewers know them, zombies. There are fast zombies (both of these movies) , slow zombies (George A. Romero’s classic 1968 film Night of the Living Dead), zombies who are under mind control through nefarious black magic or sorcery, and many more. Zombies are a very important concept in pop culture and society. Specifically, lots of movies have been made about them.   Two interesting films about zombies are World War Z (2013) and Train to Busan (2016). Even though World War Z is has more jump scares and fits into the

The Last Kingdom (television series)

   Tagline-  England is Born. Hello friends! I really enjoy period movies and TV shows. The definition of period is: a work set in a particular time period in history and uses props like clothing or objects either directly from or similar to those used in their respective eras. The budgets and scale for these types of media can be quite enormous: James Cameron's Titanic (1997) holds the record for biggest budget for a film ever (at the time at least, it was since beaten by Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which cost $378.5 million dollars to make) at $200 million. As we know Titanic  was a massive success. Globally it made just over 2.2 billion dollars!  As we see, period films can be enormously expensive and lucrative as well. But what about TV shows and films on streaming services and things like that? Can they hope to compete?  In short, yes. Not every movie with a massive budget and scale will succeed at the box office, or even be a good film for that matter. I'