by Romeo Luevano and Gretchen Trupp
Romeo and Gretchen's movie review comes after our field trip to see the new movie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), as part of our Spring 2016 seminar, Languages of Fear, Racism, and Zombies at Swarthmore College. **SPOILER ALERT**
Romeo and Gretchen's movie review comes after our field trip to see the new movie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), as part of our Spring 2016 seminar, Languages of Fear, Racism, and Zombies at Swarthmore College. **SPOILER ALERT**
The film is so White that we can mistake it as one of this year’s Oscar nominations.
Winners of *most memorable zombie duo* from the movie.
From the beginning of the movie, it seemed fairly clear that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies would carry a healthy dose of all the title promised, some of it being from the producers rather than content of the book itself. The zombie virus itself came from “the colonies”, and could be transferred by a bite. Having the virus come from European colonies and then affect the greater London area seems to indicate fears that the colonizers had about their own power and who they were trying to control. For the first few hours (up to days depending on individual circumstance), the zombie would blend in with humans-- only their decaying flesh would give them away. Most of the zombies bitten while alive retained their speech capabilities and memories-- a trait not often seen in zombie movies. A big part of this seemed to be for shock and horror value, as the violence appeared to be pretty gratuitous for a PG-13 rating.
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