What's the Difference between World War Z the Book and World War Z the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Max Brooks
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Gerry Lane
Portrayed by: Brad Pitt
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This Character does not appear.
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Karen Lane
Portrayed by: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257969/?ref_=tt_cl_t2
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This Character does not appear.
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Karen Lane
Portrayed by: Mireille Enos
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This Character does not appear.
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Captain Speke, U.S. Army special forces
Portrayed by: James Badge Dale
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This Character does not appear.
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Gunter Haffner
Portrayed by: David Morse
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Paul Redeker
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This Character does not appear.
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General Travis D'Ambrosia
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This Character does not appear.
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Todd Wainio
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This Character does not appear.
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Colonel Christina Eliopolis
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This Character does not appear.
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Breckenridge "Breck" Scott
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This Character does not appear.
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Roy Elliot
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This Character does not appear.
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Stanly MacDonald
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This Character does not appear.
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Rolihlahla/Nelson Mandela
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This Character does not appear.
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Dr. Kwang Jingshu
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This Character does not appear.
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Captain Chen
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This Character does not appear.
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Hyungchul Choi
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This Character does not appear.
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Tomonaga Ijiro
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This Character does not appear.
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Kondo Tatsumi
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This Character does not appear.
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General Raj-Singh
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This Character does not appear.
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Jurgen Warbrunn
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This Character does not appear.
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Father Sergei Ryzhkov
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This Character does not appear.
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Philip Adler
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This Character does not appear.
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Emile Renard
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This Character does not appear.
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Andre Renard
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This Character does not appear.
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Queen Elizabeth II
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This Character does not appear.
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World War Z Book vs Movie
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
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Zombies appear to be incapable of running. The fastest have been observed to move at a rate of barely one step per 1.5 seconds. |
They run very, very fast with amazing agility. |
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The format of book involved a U.N. employee interviewing survivors of the zompocalypse about the zombie apocolypse and their experiences. Explores why the world wasn't prepared to deal with the zombie hoards. |
The movie is basically your race-against-time action/thrillerwhere the U.N employee is the reluctant hero who must overcome insurmountable odds to save the world (and just maybe… the woman he loves).
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Max Brooks works for the UN and travels around the world to chronicle the history of the 10 year old war with the zombies. The events have already happened. |
Gerry Lane is a former UN investigator who experiences the beginnig of the zombie appocalypse in the present. |
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The first person infected by the zombie plague is in China. |
They are not sure where "Patient Zero" came from, but it is either South Korea or India.
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The American government is slow to react because of overconfidence. They ignored outbreaks in other countries because they didn't believe they would be harmed. |
The American's are the good guys and they are the ones who save the day. |
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The Zombie war has been going on for ten years. |
The events of the zombie outbreak are only covered for a few weeks.
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Many areas are not affected by the Zombie outbreak. Much of the UK is not infected. |
The entire world, save Israel is overrun by zombies. |
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The North Korean population disapears into tunnels under the country to avoid the zombies. |
The population has their teeth removed so that no one can be bitten.
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Governments all over the world use convicted criminals as a distraction for the zombies so the rest of the population can attempt to flee. The criminals are dropped into the infected zones. |
This doesn't happen. |
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The Army wages a huge battle in Yonkers New York where they try and fail to stop the zombies. |
There is no battle of Yonkers.
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The military uses a tool called the "Lobo" to smash the brains of the zombies to save ammunition. |
There is no "Lobo". |
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Zombies walked the ocean floors |
not in the movie
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People take hours to weeks to die from an infection and reanimate as a zombie. Zombie eyes become cloudy as a result of prolonged damage and lack of tears. |
Persons turn into zombies in a matter of seconds after bitten; their eyes become immediately cloudy. |
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Other than people being bit by zombies, none of the events of the movie happen in the book. |
Other than people being bit by zombies, none of the events of the book happen in the movie.
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This doesn't happen. |
A vaccine is developed to help hide people from the zombies. |