Editorial Observer - Mr. Darcy Woos Elizabeth Bennet While Zombies Attack - NYTimes.com:
"Zombies are more bluntly menacing. When they rise up, what results is a “zombie apocalypse,” or complete social breakdown. That image resonated in 1968, the chaotic year when “Night of the Living Dead,” the black-and-white zombie classic, was released. And it resonates today, when the banking system teeters on the brink of collapse and once-solid companies like Lehman Brothers are melting into air.
Zombie stories often end with a hearty band retreating to a small, secure space — a cabin or a shopping mall — and fighting for survival. It is the horror movie’s equivalent of embattled investors today who are shifting their retirement funds into cash and stocking up on gold and canned food."
This seems like a bit of a stretch.
pshaw! Mr. Darcy is far too proud a man to be in the company of zombies! Who thought up this crazy mash up?
ReplyDeleteBesides the NYT has it beackwards, zombie movies are not a reflection of the economic times, they are the cause of the times!