World War Z: The Controversies

World War Z is an adaptation of Max Brook’s novel of the same title. Brad Pitt’s head to head struggle with Leonardo DiCaprio’s production to win the rights in translating this into a movie had paid off. World War Z was a box-office hit in June 2013, with a chance of weaving a sequel. Brad Pitt, who played the lead character, was a retired UN employee chosen to travel around the globe to investigate a worldwide Zombie pandemic.  In his journey to find the possible vaccine for a rabid-like virus plaguing the whole world, he has battled with the undead with hopes in going back to his family safe and successful. His journey has brought him to a military base in South Korea, a safe zone in Jerusalem, and a WHO research facility in Cardiff, Wales to find the cure.

Just like the novel, World War Z – the movie presented the same gory tales about human versus zombie struggle, sometimes presenting Pitt as a sympathetic family man and sometimes a warrior hero. This led into series of polishing, reshoots, and finishes. Finally, a copy with a soft ending was released, and amazingly, it did not fail to entertain the viewers across the globe. With a successful opening of World War Z, a sequel has already been considered at this point, a very unlikely development, considering the many set backs World War Z had encountered in filming the movie. World War Z followed a relatively different path with that of the book, considering the many rewrites and an attempt to deviate from the book’s style of presentation. Several fans of the book were very unhappy with the deviations in the movie, as the production thoroughly diverged from World War Z- the novel.

Despite the existence of a solid script writing team, World War Z the movie find it difficult to follow World War Z - the book’s plot, but it had managed to pull up a good script and stuck to the book’s political emphasis. Written as a UN Documentary report regarding a Zombie pandemic, it was much of a struggle to write a relatively good script that can be defined as an excellent masterpiece, continuing the legacy that the book has established, years before the World War Z – the movie was materialized.

The film’s international scope simulated the international legacy of the book. Max Brooks, author of Word War Z had completely relied in Brad Pitt’s capacity to give justice to the book, given an extravagant investment. He claimed to have zero control over the film, except for some consultation regarding casting of some characters including Pitt, and the choice of a good screenwriter.

Critics, who had given 62 out of 100 rating, reviewed the movie as a good movie adaptation. World War Z was such a difficult movie, and it was very unlikely that someone could come up with a movie with high “best picture” potential. Overall, Brad Pitt, with the help of some popular players in the movie industry finally commenced the production with a big bang. However, the movie has had several inconsistencies in the characters but these inconsistencies were not enough to cause a draw back.