As all of us VIRUSES are facing this deadly COVID19 virus originated in Wuhan, China let us have a look at how our Hollywood movies are handling such viruses and learn much from them for our daily lives.
Movies like OUTBREAK (1995) in which we’ve seen similar condition where deadly virus outbreaks leading the whole world into a pandemic and a great loss of wealth and lives both. We see similar cases such as carelessness at first which leads to a large number of deaths and when everyone gets to understand the situation they start to follow the measures (social distancing) to stay safe.
STEVEN SODERBERGH’S CONTAGION(2011) have been enjoying unprecedented streamers because everyone wants to understand current situation events. Here we can see in this movie spread of a deadly virus originated in Asia due to which there was a global lockdown too. However, it’s sober tone is opposite to the bombast of a disastrous movie and it was made with the input of medical experts at Columbia University.
Similarly RESIDENT EVIL from 2007 VIRUSES directed by Russell Mulcahy starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Latter, Oded Fehr and Lain Glen survivor of the Racoon City. Here too we see that zombies are walking here and there in clusters and they attack each and everyone they see biting the person getting him infected and turning him into a zombie. This is really about infection and the only prevention is staying at home because there is no cure of it just like COVID19.
Now let us have a look at werewolves movies another movie name strikes our head AN AMERICAN WOLF IN LONDON (1981). Here too we can see the fear of infection that someone bites you and you are changing into a wolf and then you’re going to pass the infection to someone else in a very same way.
Audiences VIRUSES watching zombie movies may correlate and might find they resonate in a new way.
Movies editor for people magazine Nigel M Smith said there is a lot coming out of the COVID19 to inspire countless screenplays to come.
As we all know when some accident such as 9/11 happens the film making industry starts making movies from these incidents. So we are more likely to get something of this genre.
But to watch such movies you need to stay safe so please follow quarantine help the government to save yours and other’s lives too.
STAY SAFE
STAY INDOORS
HELP TO FIGHT COVID19 SAVE HUMANITY AND DEFEAT THIS DEADLY VIRUS.
DEEPANSHU KUMAR
UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD
FATEHPUR, UTTAR PRADESH.
He is an attentive listener, voracious reader and above all a wanderlust.
