Which Movies Could Be Better Told From The Antagonist's Perspective?

 Actually, most already are.

As I came to answer this, I thought about some movies where the "good guys" are obviously bad and realised that to tell the story from the real "good guys" angle would make the plot fall apart.

Notable Examples:

• The Matrix
• Blade Runner
• Natural Born Killers
• Pulp Fiction

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Movies where the "bad guy" is actually the "good guy"

Then you have the case where the good guys and the bad guys are both as bad as each other

Notable Examples:

• Star Wars
• Inside Man
• Watchmen
• Law Abiding Citizen
• Clockwork Orange

What movie could you turn around and say the good guy was really the bad guy?

Now I don't have a problem with morally ambiguous material. In fact, I'm all for it because it's more intereting - when it is intentionally written that way. I have a problem with it when it's the result of bad writing ie when a writer goes out to make a hero but a plot hole in the badly written story makes the hero unintentionally flawed in a way that demolishes the whole story.

A classic example is almost every superhero movie where the superhero appears to have absolutely no interest in the collateral damage they are a party to just so long as the villain is caught. I have never once seen a hero take the fight somewhere where no one would be hurt or coordinate with the emergency services to get people to safety or even help in the clean up afterwards - and they're the heroes? I don't think so.

The problem is context.

Few movie writers think of their stories as part of a whole. Each action, each word, has consequences. And if you don't think about them, they will ripple out, hit an object and bounce back, destroying the original pattern that created them.

Is A Zombie Immortal If Not Shot In The Head?

Short Answer

No, they died to become zombies. That's the defintion of "zombie" They are now re-animated by some other force, either natural (creating bio-zombies) or supernatural (true zombies). In most cases, that re-animating force doesn't stop the body decaying.

Long Answer

The kind of zombie that you're thinking of was created by George Romero. The explanation (such as it is) is that the dead have become infected with a space virus from a comet tail which is transmitted from host to host through breaks in the skin from biting or scratching from the infected. After 2-3 days, the virus has multiplied sufficently to kill the host and then, by means unknown, keeps the nervous system alive so that it can take control of the host and use it to spread the infection by eating human flesh. It is unlikely that the dead host gains any nutrition from this feasting and it is merely a way of encouraging the biting and scratching behaviour needed for successful transmission. Beheading or a simple bullet in the head is enough to destroy the motor areas of the brain which doesn't kill the host (because it's already dead) but stops the virus from using the host as a vehicle for further transmission. Because there is a biological basis for the disease, it's known as a bio-zombie.

This has been the basis for all other bio-zombie movies and stories until the present day. There have been variations from the Romero model but these are simply to make the zombies tougher

However, despite all of the improved powers, these bio-zombies are still really lame.

Here's why:

Day 1:

Within hours, flies will smell the dead flesh and plant their eggs in them. 2-3 days later, the body would become a writihing mass of hungry, meat-muching maggots.In warm weather, conducive to fly growth, maggots can consume 60 per cent of a human body in less than a week

Decomposition: fly life cycle and development times

In 2-4 hours, Rigor Mortis would set in and the body would be unable to move for a few days until it wore off. However, it is possible that virus may have some unknown means to counter-act that in order to use the body.

At the same time, autolysis starts. This is where the enzymes and digestive juices that we produce to consume our food start consuming us.

Day 2:

After 36 hours, putrefaction starts. The bacteria in your gut will chew through your flesh. Unchecked, gasses and liquids will build up and this can cause the the gut to explode. Nice

Also by now, the smell would have attracted scavengers, some like bears, wolverines and big cats will find a zombie little challenge. Others like dogs, foxes, buzzards and crows will simply wait until the corpse is sufficently dismembered to be of no threat to them.

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Also, one point that no film has ever dealt with is that a zombie cannot sneak up on you unless it is downwind. The stench of decaying flesh is unmistakeable so you would be able to smell them long before you turned a corner to confront one. Not to mention the excessive farting and belching they would be doing because of the putrefaction.

I told you that they were lame.

What is the best scene ever in the Marvel Universe movies?

It's the one that started it all.

A guy thinks he's got lucky with a hot chick. They go to an exclusive dance club. Suddenly the sprinkler system starts up. But it's not water, it's blood. And the guy discovers that he's in a room full of vampires so he's in real danger. They beat and torture him as he tries to escape. He lands at the feet of someone and looks up. The entire mood changes. All the vampires recognise the stranger and they're scared - really scared. An entire room of vampires backs away to reveal Blade. He smiles and steps forward as the vampires continue to move back.

Here was the first legitimate black comic character. Not the jive-talking escapee from a blaxpolitation movie that was in the comics but a real live recognisable black American. OK, so he was created in 1973, two years after Shaft and although it was also 6 years after In "The Heat Of The Night", I suppose that they thought a Shaft clone would appeal to their younger, hipper readers. Or maybe as a bunch of middle class whiteys, they had no idea how to present a black character. As Marv Wolfman said "The early Blade dialogue was cliche 'Marvel Black' dialogue. Later on, I tried to make him more real. But it took growing up as a writer"

And he looked liked someone who could take on a room of vampires, too. He came in armed and prepared.

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Sadly, nothing that followed ever lived up to the promise.