Films recently watched & worthy of some discussion

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Ajay,

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The film makers should not shy to employ creative consultants and the producers, instead of wasting their money on Audio Launches & booking online mafia to promote their films, should spend money qualitatively.

Tagged 'first' does not give it a gaint excuse, but it should act as a motivation to deliver something interesting & unique. Miruthan-the film looks like its been made after watching few Zombie movies (back-toback) & picking plots from related games. Even then, they missed the whole point about Zombies in general. The script is juicy though with its own share of multiple flaws - a point-to-point journey of a group of doctors, crossing the city to reach an hosiptal during a viral outbreak.

Zombie myth can be divided into blackmagic, science (history) & fantasy.

- When people beleived life is nothing but energy source, and if it goes exhausted, the body becomes motionless. So a few mastered to induce a kind of alternate energy into corspe using 'Blackmagic' through a doll which acts as the life source and the energy awakens the dead, a similar thing to our own "Pilli Soonyam" myth. That explains why such Zombies had torn clothes and deformed faces.

- During the late 18th century where science was debated a lot and travel to explore many lands brought it a sort of a virus through rats. Just like the Vampires Fantasy, where Dracula, a fictional character is based on a sort of skin disease where the affected becomes pale, allergic to sunlight & garlic juice, a sort of disease was spread by rats. The disease spread through bites or even saliva, affected certain part of the human brian making the infected to move around lathargically. The conversion took several days. In between their skin itched and the forceful scratchings teared their flesh. After a point they went into a sort of coma where their body temperature increased and when they woke up, they were hungry and attracted to a fully functioning human brain. This explains how Zombies became man-eaters.

- There are two different fantasy elements brought into entertainment keeping in mind the set of audience addressed (relative to time) :

1/ Previously, when the movie going audience were more into fun & frolic, the Zombie Movies were based more on the myth, as in a curse, followed by a bit of history, like a journey into unknown lands.

2/ For a most recent audience who try to evaluate reality in fiction, T-Virus became the principle origin of Zombies [Introduced by Umbrella Corporation, a fictional enterprise from the Game Resident Evil (1996)]. The effects are quicker & deadly allowing the action to unfold at a faster pace. The major breakthrough in the series is Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, as it brings in the ancient theories of irritation, time taken for the infected to convert into Zombie including coma state & its after effects. The rest are more likely slasher films where George A. Romero visioned the ultimate Walking Dead, and the first Zombie Movie is White Zombie (1932). The quarantine were the major plot point in the games. Should not be confused with other Science Fictions on reanimation.

There are much more interesting details about (fictional/fantasy) Zombies, look into them if you are interested. The next Zombie movie in Tamil should be either a Dark Comedy like the Britisher's take or simply gore or drama like Maggie.

Miruthan - Miru from Mirugam and than from Manithan, meaning "One who could easily be victimised (a vic)". Shakthi Soundar Rajan closes his film with a kind of Zombie Invasion. Hope he makes a Part 2, this time taking several zombie culture into account and opts for a better casting.

Miruthan - Ooty Malai Beauty, opps, Zombie !