"Unspecified Near Future" "Patient X in China" "Election Season" Huh

"Iceland is full of zombies." Plague Inc. players: Impossible.

It's also interesting how in the book, it's stated that the children born after the zombie war were a lot happier than their parents just because they never experienced a life of taken for granted convenience. While prewar survivors suffered from depression and difficulties adapting to a severely damaged society, the new generation are used to the hardships and scarcity of the new world and the fact that they never experienced any of the comfort of life before the zombie war made them a happier generation than the previous one.

I think World War Z is especially unique in that it's the only zombie story type from the perspective of human civilization having *already won*, and the book is telling it from a hindsight point of view.

So in the book the zombies were slow-moving and unintelligent, and the humans were fast and intelligent? Sooo basically the opposite of the movie?

yo this was supposed to be fiction

To explain why Iceland is filled with zombies. During the outbreak, thousands of people fled to Iceland which at the time was zombie free making it a refuge country. Ironically, because of its zombie free status, it attracted a lot of people and of course some infected were with the other passengers and so the outbreak then reached Iceland and now everyone there is a zombie and no one goes there.

4:04 after having re read the book, in actuality the "Safe Zones" in the Redeker plan we encouraged to be well protected and armed against the zombies. They weren't used at bait, rather well armed and protected pockets to draw the hordes away from the actual safe zone.

How to stop a zombie apocalypse 1. Kill the first zombie 2. No zombies

I just love how at 0:10, every country in the world is fighting zombies and Australia is fighting giant spiders

I never interpreted the Chinese boy to be patient 0. He was clearly bit, he was missing a toe if I recall. And his dad disappeared, clearly killed. And when the doctor calls his friend, the friend is clearly aware what is happening, and the military arrives soon after, in hazmat gear and engaging in established protocells. So the Chinese boy was an early case, but certainly not the first.

Just to clarify, the Honolulu conference actually took place aboard the USS Saratoga ( an aircraft carrier ), because Hawaii was too crowded for a proper meeting to take place. Also, North America was not fully clear because the northern regions of Canada and Alaska were still not cleared after 10 years, and Canadians are still finding frozen Zombies.

I like World War Z because it gives us something no other Zombie movie has.. ...A competent military

Just move to greenland. That spots a pain in plague inc.

Some of my favourite parts of the book were accounts of people just trying to survive the societal collapse, where zombies were the least of their concerns and they were literally just struggling to eat. Also the way society had to adapt to the new conditions: For example, because crimes like looting were a much bigger deal, shame-based punishments like pillories became necessary, because mere imprisonment wasn't enough of a deterrent.

WWZ is one of my favorite books of all time in how realistic it's plot is. Of _course_ governments would try to cover up or explain away Solanum, of _course_ the rich and wealthy would join up in their glass fortresses, hoping their bodyguards would fight off the zombies for them, of course a zombie virus would spread through illegal human trafficking and organ trade. Everything is completely believable, and that's what is scarier than the viru itself; the incompetance of modern man. Oh yeah, there was also a side book called 'Closure Limited' that introduces Vampires into the mix. The Vampire story may sound dumb, but it's handled really well.

This seems like it would have been a better movie, like a ton of sequels

The guy who wrote WWZ, Max Brooks, is now making Minecraft books. . . Let that sink in.

The teams that were deployed were called the Alpha Teams, though they never got deployed due to the fact that the virus was to far ahead to be effective. These kill zones are described near the end of the book where the guns are made of old furniture and stamped sheet metal. They used a specific round called a Cherry P.I.E, which was pyrotechnical and if the mixture wasn’t made properly it would make the zombies eyes glow red.

I like the book actually covers the whole world and not just America. It was really interesting seeing different countries fight in unique surroundings and with unique weapons and tactics. Most other films/series/books etc ignore the rest of the world completely.

0:10 I love how a zombie outbreak isn't even Australia's biggest concern

Remember: Patient X was bitten by something while diving. So either there were zombies in that sunken town or perhaps some kind of vector, perhaps a zombified dog or something. A zoonosis.

I think the most fascinating part of the book to me will always be what happened to North Korea. The fact that the entire nation just vanished one day is such a perfect mystery left unanswered. By fan theory is that the virus actually started in North Korea, and that it was a bioweapon that they either lost control off or set off deliberately. Either way once the virus was out they quickly hid themselves in bunkers to protect themselves and emerge later as the world's new masters. And they're either still down there or, as the book suggests, the virus followed them down there. The book says that patient zero was a boy in the Chinese countryside. But when the doctor calls it in it becomes very clear that China all ready has a protocol in place to deal with this exact situation. Rapid response doesn't begin to cover it. They even know to ask if someone's been bit. That kid may be the earliest case that you can still find documents about, but he was not the first case the Chinese government encountered. And on top of that, something bit the kid to begin with. So until Max Brooks writes something that proves otherwise, I am just going to think North Korea created a virus that then spread to China. And they hid themselves away before the zombies could attack them as well.

Brooks gave an interview shortly after the book was launched where he made it clear that he has little faith in the ability of governments to respond to any form of pandemic. At the time, he based his opinion on various natural disasters such as Katrina and the historical record going back to the Black Plague. Fast forward to 2021 and, sadly, he was right in almost every country on earth - even Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have had to deal with second and third waves.

You forgot the most important part, the invention that allowed the militaries to defeat the zombies: *Shovels*

I kinda want to see a zombie apocalypse in the medieval or prehistoric or dark ages

With The Walking Dead over, I'd love a World War Z show based on the book. Yes, we are getting The Last of Us, but WWZ is a very in depth story of the world and the struggles of both famous and ordinary people. An anthology series or something like Interview with a Vampire could work for a style of show. There are so many stories from the book I want to see adapted to the screen: Yonkers The Chinese Submarine Sharon and the Church Radio Free Earth Cape Town Kondo Tatsumi's escape from his apartment complex This could be such a great anthology series! We just need somebody with the knowledge and balls to do it!

What I like about WWZ is that governments don't just crumple as soon as there are some undead milling about, the military actually does shit and zombies are appropriately easy to remove with the firepower human armies have. In a ton of zombie stories, the army, governments or even secured major population centers are no where to be seen

the book was so good, with lots of clever and plausible concepts zombie fans haven't seen before, underwater zombies, insane people pretending to be zombies, fighting in pure darkness (no electricity at all), changing politics and military style, realistic battles etc. it's worth reading and so much better than the film

I liked Max Brooks reaction to the movie "Oh I loved that it was nothing like the book. It meant I could watch it with no idea what was going to happen"

"A mysterious new disease that popped up in a rural town in china, which got supressed by the government. " Boy, I am happy this took my mind of the news.

It’s insane all they took was the name after paying tens of millions for the rights to Max’s brilliant novel

I still maintain that instead of a movie, we should have gotten an HBO miniseries, each episode dedicated to one or two stories at a time. Some of the stories told in the book would have been interesting to see in live action given how unique the character's perspectives are. For example, the pilot watching from a blimp all the chaos on the highway, the audience would only see things from a birds eye view same as him. Or the people of radio free earth having to broadcast information while listening to the many desperate calls for help. We'd still have our action episodes like the battle of Yonkers and the suspenseful survival tales like the pilot who went down in the Deep South, but the series would bring a different type of perspective every episode.

I guess it depicts humanity's ability to... Come back from the dead

This is probably one of the best books ever. Took me a while to get through and Im not going to lie, i was terrified. I have big fears about distopian era books like 1984 and nuclear warfare, but i LOVE geopolitics and these are the books that cover it. Due to this i picked up a copy about 6 months ago and read it in a fear enduced frenzy. It is crazy cool to see how it mirors real life, such as ebola in 2014, and Covid in 2020 the disbielif the fear, the misinformation, but most importantly, humanity surviving.

I hate in zombie movie scenarios how the armies of the world never use conventional bombers. Like bro, their moving slowly in large packs with no cover. That’s a bombers wet dream.

0:11 Australia's fighting a spider... So pretty much nothing's changed over here. Business as usual

Instead of a movie, World War Z should be adapted into an anthology TV series, like Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Gotta love 2015 Althistoryhub

i look at this video now and it still reminds me of 2020

The scariest thing about the book is that the reactions of various governments were surprisingly believable. Max Brooks (yes, the son of Mel Brooks for those who may wonder) did a fantastic job. He obviously put a lot of thought into it, and probably quite a bit of research to boot. Of course as you pointed out, Hollywood said, "That kind of complexity makes our brains hurt, let's just fill it with A-list actors and CGI zombies that run like track stars!" It's the biggest high-budget butchering of a novel by Hollywood since The Relic, IMO.

I can't help but think of God playing Plague Inc above this earth and failing at the zombie level

I think the best way to translate the book to the screen would be a miniseries where each episode details a different survivor's story similar to the narrative of the book.

No way, another youtuber I watch just uploaded a World War Z video today!

A bit of a theory, Patient X got the virus when he was swimming to try and find treasure when he was bit by something. These zombies have been shown to hide on the ocean floor so could that mean a zombie outbreak could have happened before and gotten forgotten by history?

0:10 Australia has more troubling problems than zombies apparently...

This actually made me want to read the book. Thank you for this video

I remember going to the theater to see this and afterwards I was very disappointed. My friends like it and told me I was wrong and it was a good film. I started ranting on all the stories lines, the computer gamer that climb down a 50 stories apartment building and teamed up with a blind monk to kill 300 zeds. I got to admit though, this should of been a tv show.

"A child in china gets sick because of an unknown virus" Laughing in corona virus

Armies in Zombie movies: Oh no! Zombies, better get out of my GIANT ARMORED VEHICLE

3:00 This aged HORRIBLY well.

Dam they should turn it into a movie

I've lived near NYC my entire life and as a kid these types of movies always made me scared to go to New York. Usually everything bad in movies happens in the cities! Like why? At this point New York has survived robots, Godzillas, zombies, black outs, outbreaks, terrorism, mass destruction, poisoning, quarantine, major crime, etc etc lol

I'm pretty sure the only thing the movie took from the book was Israel walling its borders off.

0:44 this aged well

siberia would kinda be a good area to survive in winter its so cold that without proper clothing you would freeze almost instantly once the zombies are freezed you could get an axe or a bat and just smash em you just gotta create defenses till summer cuz in summer it gets pretty hot there

How to survive every apocalyptic scenario. Step 1. Panic.

So in theory you can wear a bomb suit and walk through a horde of zombies in the book?

I like watching this video while playing World War Z: The Game and Will be doing the same with the World War Z: Aftermath upgrade 👍🏻

Why does this movie resemble reality? Max Brooks is a senior fellow at West Point military academy and researched effects of epi/pandemics, so the book is thoroughly grounded in actual and possible reality. World War Z is a great book to read from a literary perspective as well. The story is told from the POV of people all over the world, before, during and after the war, and I would recommend trying it on audio book for a great ensemble reading.

"The Australia Is Fighting With Spiders Not Zombies." Interesting....

Wow I wish the movie covered stuff like this I want to read the book now

They should adapt the book into a mini series. Each episode taking place of one of the short stories

Wait a minute this is 2020!

Just so everyone knows if you don’t..... There is a super kick ass audiobook version of the novel that you can get with many cool people voicing the characters, like Mark Hamill, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins, Simon Pegg, and many more. Totally worth checking out if you think you might want to read the book.

Your missing one thing Canada should be fighting the zombies with hockey sticks

I love how even in the animation universe, 1:02 Taiwan is it’s own sovereign country and China is a big cry baby for thinking it’s theirs

6:25 It may not be alternate history Wait, WHAT?!?!

they *infecc* they *attacc* but more importantly they *snacc*

At least the military isn't dipected as incompetent cannon fodders.

This video introduced me to one of my all time favourite books I love the level of detail and thought put into a relatively realistic portrayal of a zombie pandemic.

Would LOVE to see a map animation of this world war and its aftermath

How would Australia be overrun by zombies, the emu’s would of taken them out already

In any zombe apocalypse... Run fast, think fast and follow the rules in the movie zombieland

You gotta revisit this and go deep

Scenarios like this always have excited me

80% of comments: CoROnA VirUs 10% of comments: wwz is good 9% of comments: questions 1% of comments: the country balls at 00:10

WW Z definitely did NOT follow the book. Shame, that story needs a top quality movie. Still, Max Brooks himself, being perplexed by the actual story being ignored, had expected the movie to suck...it did NOT. He praised it. I agree.

Something you missed near the end, Mexico is now known as Aztlan, and presumably had different borders and economic status

Can you imagine how haunting the Redeker Plan could look like in live action. A father and mother, thinking they've made it to safety with their children, only to hear the hoards of zombies outside their walls. No defenses. Only realizing at the last moment that they've been used as a decoy, a sacrifice. No way to keep their family safe any longer. Damn. The movie really stole from us great content.

Read the book as a teen when it first came out. 20 now. Saw the film. It would have been okay if it had have had any other name. But it insulted one of my favourite childhood books by existing.

you forgot to add the fact that Saudi Arabia, for some unknown reason destroyed its oil fields. Also Russia 'Liberated' Belarus and parts of Eastern Europe. Apart from that, great video

*IT HAS BEEN 5 YEARS NOW KZfaq, WHY DO YOU STILL RECOMMEND ME THIS, I HAVE WATCHED IT MANY TIMES OVER*

for those of you still confused about the north koreans I have been told that they wen't underground to escape the Zed's and slowly died out because of that

2:38 That poor grunt, stuck in the wrong universe. At least zombies are way less dangerous than Flood.

lol, australia fights a giant spider. that's better than having to deal with horses of flesh eating zombies.

0:52 well that didn't age well...

It was one of the first videos I have seen, and I still love it ❤

When the zombie virus started in China and the government tried to suppress information about it, and you're reading this in the middle of the corona virus outbreak

Perhaps the Australian is not fighting the spider, but telling it to go kill some zombies?

0:52 this is just 2020

I was re-watching some of Cody`s videos and I have noticed the map today (0:59). Nice!!!

I love how everyone has their own weapon at 0:10 like for example, france is surrendering

I didn't read the book but after watching this, I'm gonna grab the copy from my bookshelf and read the first sentence and put it back

The interesting part of WWZ to me is the legistics of it a war against Zombies. WWZ dives into the details of managing it. Managing dead bodies, resources, reforming of nations, refugee crisis, and cleaning up after all of it. No other zo.bie story goes into that detail. Thats why its realism resonates so much.

How does it feel knowing this is the most comprehensive WWZ video on YT

* Zombie invasion * * Humans kill each other * * What *

"This is called 'The Great panic" (Shows Halo Grunt Running)

Cody, if you see this, just know don’t ever take this video down. It’s a good video

Im glad you specified the zombie war was fictional, was worried for a minute there