Mireille Enos, as Karin Lane, is as central as her husband Gerry in helping their two daughters escape to safety near the start of the film. On these grounds alone, WWZ is far more feminist-friendly than many zombie flicks.Īdditionally, the film (again, in contrast to the book) features several strong female characters. He does not play a hyper-masculine, domineering or savior role, in contrast to so many other recent zombie texts and their male leads, such as Shane and Rick in The Walking Dead, the military father in Warm Bodies, or the gun-loving “nut up or shut up” Tallahassee in Zombieland (Woody Harrelson). In contrast, Gerry in the film is framed as a loving father and husband, a cooker of pancakes and a collaborative, tireless champion who wishes to save others and the world rather than just kill as many zombies as possible. He functions in a quasi-investigative-reporter role, detailing his findings about the world post-zombie-apocalypse in detached, omniscient fashion. In the WWZ book, this character narrates the vignettes that make up the novel, but we do not know any details about his personality or life. First, it gives us a central character to route for–Gerry Lane ( Brad Pitt). The film adaptation differs from these texts in several major ways. His previous work, The Zombie Survival Guide, a mock-guide based on World War II survival manuals, proffers a similar message–that once zombies are in the picture, the only recourse is to amass weapons and be prepared to kill or die.
Max Brook’s massively successful book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War ultimately suggests the only way to survive the zombie apocalypse is by all-out war.
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