Thursday, September 23, 2010
28 Weeks Later Trailer
The movie "28 Weeks Later" is an excellent example of a movie that paints a vivid image of what it would be like if an apocalypse-bringing pandemic was released into a densely populated city. The trailer was very interesting and descriptive, drawing me in using words and video clips to describe how in the prequel movie "28 Days Later" the pandemic was quarantined and contained and in the second installment "28 Weeks Later", the city is beginning to be repopulated when the pandemic returns and shows a glimpse of what chaos a pandemic of that magnitude would cause. Using intense scenes of violence such as large-scale bombing and rabies-infected zombies chasing uninfected people, the preview was extremely enticing to me and made me want to see what happened and if the virus would be contained. The concept of a virus that could cause such chaos is scary but interesting to me because it does not seem out of the question, and I feel the preview to "28 Weeks Later" illustrates in great detail what society might become if something like this happened.
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this kid deserves an A
ReplyDeleteVery funny Nate...
ReplyDeleteHaha, but Nate does make a good point Dan, that you did a nice little job of summarizing that primary source in a cogent, well-expressed little paragraph. If this was your primary source, I would say, what specifically about the "intense scenes of violence" made this trailer so compelling for you? What specifically did the filmmaker do? Was it the music he used? Certain contrasts such as the intense dehumanization of the rabies-infected zombies versus the frenzied people (inflictor of fear vs. the fearful)? How does the filmmaker EFFECTIVELY achieve this dehumanization?
Good example of a sound primary source Daniel.