sorry if this has already been covered.
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merrilyac — 12 years ago(September 27, 2013 12:59 PM)
The Zombies seem more aggressive in 28 days and one drop of their blood will turn you. People in the Walking Dead get blood all over them (and probably in their mouths and eyes when they are hacking them ect) and they don't turn. I was surprised in the scene where Selena is hacking that guy that just turned in Jim's house that the blood didn't splatter in her mouth or eyes! Love both this movie and the Walking Dead!
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TheFurryLobster — 12 years ago(December 01, 2013 10:07 AM)
its a slightly different situation in the walking dead.
Everyone already IS infected, but the virus remains latent until the host's death
, which explains why the survivors can get away with getting blood in their eyes/mouth/etc.
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defensorvindexbrat — 12 years ago(December 03, 2013 03:23 PM)
The coma plot device keeps reappearing because they want to drop a relateable character directly into the fictional world they've created. It also allows the protagonist to ask the questions the audience needs to know.
People keep mentioning resident evil. What they haven't mentioned is that Alice gets amnesia early in the film. If Alice knew everything that had happened and what everything did you wouldn't have as much suspense and you'd have a harder time justifying exposition. Same principal. -
neko-neko-1 — 11 years ago(March 13, 2015 01:01 PM)
And they might have ripped off George Romero's movies or some other earlier zombie movie.
What's with anime/asian film fans who seem to assume that those movies are originals in their genre?
Most movies released in the last 20-30 years are either inspired by an earlier movie/tv show/etc or are an adaptation of a novel (which could be inspired by an earlier novel/movie/tv show/etc)
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artisannes — 11 years ago(June 05, 2014 07:34 PM)
I think once you have seen one Zombie apocalypse movie you have seen them all, in that there is a large percentage of zombies and a much smaller percentage of survivors intent on further survival.
The difference is believability, special effects, characterization and acting. The Walking Dead scores on all points and frankly I think is superior to the majority in the same genre. Although I have to applaud World War Z just because the Zombies moved like lightening and that was seriously scary.
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christos_martinis — 11 years ago(June 25, 2014 11:55 AM)
'wake up in a hospital during a zombie outbreak '
That's the one that can't be ignored. I'd seen the film already when I first read the comic and I couldn't believe it
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mctelinde — 11 years ago(July 06, 2014 09:04 AM)
The similarities in the points you brought up didn't really bother me, though I thought 28 Days Later executed these things better.
What really caught my attention, though, was the laziness in some of the soundtrack music for The Walking Dead Season 1, which oddly enough doesn't seem to have made it into the soundtrack release, or at least I don't think it has. The specific song I remember being either blatantly ripped off from 28 Days Later or copied as a tribute to the song in 28 Days Later, is the music used in the third episode of the first season of TWD when
Rick is reunited with Lori and Carl outside of Atlanta
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Here's the song used in 28DL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCQ937L9slc&index=19&list=PL118AD9ADA54875D6
And here's the scene in TWD (Spoilers, kind of. Sorry for the poor quality, it's all I could find.):
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MrHim — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 01:02 PM)
I believe it was a coincidence. People have similar ideas all the time, and if a writer was toying the premise of having the protagonist wake up to discover the world had effectively ended, waking from a coma would spring to mind quite quickly.
As for the other elements you thought TWD copied, they're fairly common tropes in this type of story.
Robert Kirkman says he didn't see 28 Days Later until after he'd started on The Walking Dead, and I actually believe that. -
DeadandBuried81 — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 08:26 AM)
Not to mention the similarities to Selena and Michonne
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crissttigaldames — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 08:00 PM)
Come on, The waking up in a hospital to find civilization has ended to a zombie (or zombie like) apocalypse pretty much has to be a rip off. It's too obvious.
PS: The walking dead comics came AFTER this movie's release. -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(December 20, 2024 10:48 AM)
crissttigaldames December 03, 2015 05:00 AM
Member since December 2004
Come on, The waking up in a hospital to find civilization has ended to a zombie (or zombie like) apocalypse pretty much has to be a rip off. It's too obvious.
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tanerarchibald-207-976692 — 10 years ago(December 08, 2015 09:35 AM)
the walking dead is based off of a comic book series by robert kirkman, all of the first season is virtually how the comic plays out, Robert Kirkman has stated that he was inspired by many of the classic zombie films such as George Romeros dead trilogy, this film and others, both the film and the walking dead have incredibly effective openings so I dont see the issue, if something is done well it does not matter how cliche it is.
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dltcwebb-184-63055 — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 01:12 PM)
TWD creator Robert Kirkman and the directors of the show have stated numerous times they have been inspired by many zombie shows and have paid homage to them by including similar storylines in TWD graphic novels and TV show. So yeah they did rip off some aspects of 28 Days Later, as well as NotLD, DotD, etc.
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MrBook_ — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 08:29 AM)
Pretty much all these zombie and zombie-type stories are just copying George Romero's zombie movies, particularly the original Dawn of the Dead. It's such a specific subgenre that it's barely a subgenre at all, more a small collection of story elements, themes, and imagery that appear in every single iteration. The band of armed survivors barricading themselves against the zombies, the military imagery, the hospital scenes, the inevitable scene where they raid a store for food and supplies, having to take people out when they get infected, and of course the theme that the living/uninfected people are at least as bad as the zombies it's all just rehashing Dawn of the Dead over and over again.
Hell, the entire idea of hoards of zombies (or infected living people in this case, though the difference is superficial) rampaging around killing people was invented by Romero. There wasn't even such a story until he made Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead.
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