Summary
Zombies: A New Epidemic in the TA’s Community
Train to Busan is one of the most outstanding zombie movies for its plot and selection of characters as the movie represents human nature and the reality in social levels. The movie focuses mainly on father and daughter Seok-Woo and Su-An, who are passengers on the KTX (high-speed train) to visit their wife/mom. On its track, one zombie got its way on the train and started to spread the epidemic to other passengers. With the appearance of other characters, will Seok-Woo and Su-An escape the zombie apocalypse? Throughout the movie, the audience gets to see the reflection of what is actually happening in the real world: the superiority of the rich people, the purposeful ignorance from selfish people to the main characters in order to save themselves, etc. In my adaptation, I will highlight the reality of different social levels, which focuses on the privileges that are given to the rich people and how they use it to be superior to the lower class people. The similar story will run the same as the zombie epidemic in Train to Busan, but the setting will be in Thornton Academy as I want the story to be more real and easier to imagine.
Annotated Bibliography
Train to Busan - A Masterpiece of Social Commentary *
This article explores the social privileges between the rich and the poor, the morality and responsibility demonstrate the characters, and it discusses the “rapid ” that starting to leave the elders behind.
“Social hierarchy in South Korea is particularly complex and ruthless. Conformity and social expectations, place of birth, job, place of residence, accent, and clothing all factor into the endless judgement of status in the country, which rises from a complex web of history and development that has culminated in an autocratic, work-driven society that pays the majority of its workforce (with large numbers of ‘migrant labourers’ that are distinguished from ‘expats’ in another example of hierarchy) a severely low wage. In such a consumerist society, social mobility becomes a primary motivation, and in South Korea, according to Seoul based economics professor Ju Byung-ghi, the best way to get rich currently is to be born that way. “Inequality of opportunity will make it increasingly difficult for poor children to move up, which is expected to lead to more conflict between different social classes." This critique will help me in my adaptation by addressing the Korean culture, of how the government and the people with high authority will rule and have power over people below them, in which specific character is addressed and in what situation power is shown. Also, he highlights that social status is essential as it determines the level of respect you will get.
“One Generation Consuming the Next: The Racial Critique of Consumerism in George Romero’s Zombie Films” *
This paper analyzes how Romero’s film uses the reality and history of the society, that there are different social groups and each of them is treated differently. Also, Powell writes each of Romero’s films such as Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead with the years like the 1960s and 1970s in order to comment on America’s society in those years.
“In the aforementioned quotation, Romero is speaking of the symbolic power of his films. Each film depicts the American moment in which it comes out, showing prejudice and greed as American norms that plague the societies in each of the three films. The experiences of many different social groups with these habits of prejudice and greed are central to the messages of the three films. The group that Romero focuses on most often is African Americans as each of the films features a protagonist who is black and prominent scenes that depict the African American struggle.”
Powell’s critic will help me understand more about American’s culture as Powell writes about how Romero addresses the American’s social reality through his films. As I will incorporate a Korean plot in an American’s setting, I will take advice from how Romero addresses the struggle that the lower class people dealing with.
Works Cited
Buchanan, Jack. “Train to Busan - A Masterpiece of Social Commentary.” Filmosophy, August 20, 2018, https://www.filmosophy.co.uk/train_to_busan_social_commentary.html
Powell, Henry. “One Generation Consuming the Next: The Racial Critique of Consumerism in George Romero’s Zombie Films.” Colby College, (2009), Honors Theses, Paper 462, https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1475&context=honorstheses
Train to Busan is one of the most outstanding zombie movies for its plot and selection of characters as the movie represents human nature and the reality in social levels. The movie focuses mainly on father and daughter Seok-Woo and Su-An, who are passengers on the KTX (high-speed train) to visit their wife/mom. On its track, one zombie got its way on the train and started to spread the epidemic to other passengers. With the appearance of other characters, will Seok-Woo and Su-An escape the zombie apocalypse? Throughout the movie, the audience gets to see the reflection of what is actually happening in the real world: the superiority of the rich people, the purposeful ignorance from selfish people to the main characters in order to save themselves, etc. In my adaptation, I will highlight the reality of different social levels, which focuses on the privileges that are given to the rich people and how they use it to be superior to the lower class people. The similar story will run the same as the zombie epidemic in Train to Busan, but the setting will be in Thornton Academy as I want the story to be more real and easier to imagine.
Annotated Bibliography
Train to Busan - A Masterpiece of Social Commentary *
This article explores the social privileges between the rich and the poor, the morality and responsibility demonstrate the characters, and it discusses the “rapid ” that starting to leave the elders behind.
“Social hierarchy in South Korea is particularly complex and ruthless. Conformity and social expectations, place of birth, job, place of residence, accent, and clothing all factor into the endless judgement of status in the country, which rises from a complex web of history and development that has culminated in an autocratic, work-driven society that pays the majority of its workforce (with large numbers of ‘migrant labourers’ that are distinguished from ‘expats’ in another example of hierarchy) a severely low wage. In such a consumerist society, social mobility becomes a primary motivation, and in South Korea, according to Seoul based economics professor Ju Byung-ghi, the best way to get rich currently is to be born that way. “Inequality of opportunity will make it increasingly difficult for poor children to move up, which is expected to lead to more conflict between different social classes." This critique will help me in my adaptation by addressing the Korean culture, of how the government and the people with high authority will rule and have power over people below them, in which specific character is addressed and in what situation power is shown. Also, he highlights that social status is essential as it determines the level of respect you will get.
“One Generation Consuming the Next: The Racial Critique of Consumerism in George Romero’s Zombie Films” *
This paper analyzes how Romero’s film uses the reality and history of the society, that there are different social groups and each of them is treated differently. Also, Powell writes each of Romero’s films such as Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead with the years like the 1960s and 1970s in order to comment on America’s society in those years.
“In the aforementioned quotation, Romero is speaking of the symbolic power of his films. Each film depicts the American moment in which it comes out, showing prejudice and greed as American norms that plague the societies in each of the three films. The experiences of many different social groups with these habits of prejudice and greed are central to the messages of the three films. The group that Romero focuses on most often is African Americans as each of the films features a protagonist who is black and prominent scenes that depict the African American struggle.”
Powell’s critic will help me understand more about American’s culture as Powell writes about how Romero addresses the American’s social reality through his films. As I will incorporate a Korean plot in an American’s setting, I will take advice from how Romero addresses the struggle that the lower class people dealing with.
Works Cited
Buchanan, Jack. “Train to Busan - A Masterpiece of Social Commentary.” Filmosophy, August 20, 2018, https://www.filmosophy.co.uk/train_to_busan_social_commentary.html
Powell, Henry. “One Generation Consuming the Next: The Racial Critique of Consumerism in George Romero’s Zombie Films.” Colby College, (2009), Honors Theses, Paper 462, https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1475&context=honorstheses