Agreed it would be ineffective - for a start I can't think of many places where media industries even let you have an actual mpeg file right now.
This just seems like garden variety marketing tosh to make the format more appealing to businesses. I wouldn't activate irate mode over it.
If you take any of Elias Canetti's ideas seriously zombies can be seen as the modern version of our ancient fear of out groups. The Dead is the biggest and oldest group of 'others' that can be found. Canetti said there was an inherent fear in people that everyone who ever died was sitting around somewhere, in a giant group with malevolent intent. Despite being modern and civilised and having overcome a lot of our hard wired beliefs, the popularity of zombie films (and the fact that a single zombie is never scary) bears him out.
That's not the interesting thing about zombie films though. The most interesting thing in zombie films for me is how the zombies become a single minded thing, basically one giant organism, while the humans become even more individual. I haven't seen a zombie film where every major plot event didn't come out of one of the characters personal strengths or weaknesses. The zombies are usually just a predictable, avoidable, slow moving force that brings the main characters into relief.
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Didn't this happen a year ago?: http://gawker.com/#!5548195/heres-the-apple+factory-suicide-pledge
Hey, it was COMBINED WITH A FORM OF FUSION. This fact explains everything.
Agreed it would be ineffective - for a start I can't think of many places where media industries even let you have an actual mpeg file right now. This just seems like garden variety marketing tosh to make the format more appealing to businesses. I wouldn't activate irate mode over it.
If you take any of Elias Canetti's ideas seriously zombies can be seen as the modern version of our ancient fear of out groups. The Dead is the biggest and oldest group of 'others' that can be found. Canetti said there was an inherent fear in people that everyone who ever died was sitting around somewhere, in a giant group with malevolent intent. Despite being modern and civilised and having overcome a lot of our hard wired beliefs, the popularity of zombie films (and the fact that a single zombie is never scary) bears him out. That's not the interesting thing about zombie films though. The most interesting thing in zombie films for me is how the zombies become a single minded thing, basically one giant organism, while the humans become even more individual. I haven't seen a zombie film where every major plot event didn't come out of one of the characters personal strengths or weaknesses. The zombies are usually just a predictable, avoidable, slow moving force that brings the main characters into relief.