Media has a way of changing the
way a people as whole view things. Back in the day when we were living off fictional
tales of this and that, we were introduced to the idea that somehow there could
be come kind of viral outbreak that would leave only a small number of people
to survive. The remaining individuals would have to fend off attack from those
that were uncontrollable and violent. This left a very terrorizing image to
those that had never really thought about any such thing happening. Fast
forward to now though it’s almost an everyday occurrence. Be it video games,
books, comics, zombiewalks, and movies.
With this though, it seems that
we go through bouts of fads every decade here in the United States, at least
when it comes to mythical creatures of sorts. The main part of it typically
being some kind of fascination that comes from things that are outside our own physical
possibilities and fantasize about all the ways that we could someday either have
real issues that deal with them. As most people know I have my own fascination
when it comes to movies and video games, but combine that with zombies and I
will most definitely have to own it at some point in time. It’s just something that is interesting and
easy enough to fall into without too much of a fandom war here and there.
Usually the biggest one might result in ‘zombies shouldn’t run’ or ‘zombies
shouldn’t be intelligent’.
Most recently in the zombie film
area there was a new title called Warm Bodies, this is a movie that delves into
the possibility that when you die and rise back up again that there might very
well be some kind of human existence still within you. This is a sharp contrast
to those that are usually intent on either exterminating the entirety of the
zombie race or some how trying to weaponize it for military use. This change is
a sign to show how the effects of a saturated market in regards to zombie love
in the media has swayed what might have been considered entirely outside the
norm and not for the public audience.
So with the influence of media we
have been able to turn the monsters that would creep in the night into
something that we can become friends with.
Zombies are no longer something we are entirely terrified anymore,
especially if they can be so easily personable. True Blood and The Vampire
Diaries were a similar thing for vampires and Teen Wolf was one as well for
werewolves. Our admiration for things that are otherworldly has progressed over
the years.
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