World War Z (film)

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World War Z is a 2013 American disaster zombie film about a former United Nations employee who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Directed by Marc Forster. Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof, from a screen story by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks.

Gerry Lane[edit]

  • Movement is life.
  • [Referring to the zombies and a possible way to defeat them] I believe these things have a weakness. And that weakness is weakness. Our weakness. I have witnessed them literally bypass people. Walk right around them like a river around a rock. Why? I think, because those people were sick. I think they were terminal. And these things could sense it. I think they're spreading a pathogen, and they need a healthy host.
  • [Ending lines] This isn’t the end. Not even close. We’ve lost entire cities. We still don’t know how it started. We bought ourselves some time. But it’s given us a chance. Others have found a way to push back. If you can fight, fight. Help each other. Be prepared for anything. Our war has just begun.

Jurgen Warmbrunn[edit]

  • Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
  • If nine of us look at the same information and arrive at the exact same conclusion, it's the duty of the tenth man to disagree.
  • Every human being we save is less one zombie to fight.

Andrew Fassbach[edit]

  • Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one's better. More creative. But like all serial killers, she can't help the urge to want to get caught. What good are all those brilliant crimes if no one takes the credit? So she leaves crumbs. Now, the hard part, why you spend a decade in school, is seeing the crumbs for the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus, turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loves disguising her weaknesses as strengths. She's a bitch.

Captain Speke[edit]

  • [Addressing his men as they are about to head out of the base to help Lane and his group refuel their plane] All right. Don't rush. We've got one chance to fuel their plane, so let's do it right. If you ain't a crack shot, don't aim for the head, just get Zeke on the ground. Remember, "Spine's divine, those knees they work just fine!" Let's go, lights out!
  • Looks like we just woke the dead. In that respect, please turn off all pagers and cellphones.
  • [After just being bitten by a zombie on his leg] You're kidding me. I'm a God damn Zeke.

Dialogue[edit]

[Lane is on a plane heading to Camp Humphreys in South Korea, along with virologist Andrew Fassbach and a handful of Navy SEALs]
Lane: [To Fassbach] Look. We don't know what we're walking into, so we do what they say.
Fassbach: Okay.
Lane: If they move, we move. If they stop, we stop. If things were to get crazy, just focus on their boots, focus on their voices, and we'll be all right. These guys are hammers. And to hammers, everything looks like nails.
Navy SEAL commander: I heard that.
Lane: You were meant to. [Back to Fassbach] So, you see something that's important, you call it out and we'll make it happen.
Fassbach: Okay.
Lane: You think we're gonna find anything?
Fassbach: Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna find something. Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one's better. More creative. But like all serial killers, she can't help the urge to want to get caught. What good are all those brilliant crimes if no one takes the credit? So she leaves crumbs. Now, the hard part, why you spend a decade in school, is seeing the crumbs for the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus, turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loves disguising her weaknesses as strengths. [Smiles] She's a bitch.
[Lane and his group arrive at Camp Humphreys, where they're greeted by Captain Speke who is currently the commander of what remains of the US Army garrison]
Speke: My boy who just died out there was 23. He was 23. You want to tell me why?
Lane: [Referring to Fassbach, who accidentally shot and killed himself after panicking during a zombie attack] Because the guy who just shot himself, he's a doctor, a virologist.
Speke: What are you talking about?
Lane: He was supposed to be our best hope.
Ellis: Well, he's not our best hope anymore.
Lane: Hey. That guy volunteered to come here. He didn't have to, you know. None of them did. We're still trying to figure out what the hell this thing is.
Speke: Well, shit happens.
Lane: The doctor would have strongly agreed with you.
Pilot: How do we go about refueling?
Speke: When I say so. And very carefully.
Lane: The noise, are they drawn to it?
Speke: Yeah. Sound draws them. Body shots only seem to slow them down. Head shots do the trick, but just to be safe we tend to burn them when we can.
Ellis: You fought any Zeke yet?
Lane: Yeah.
Speke: Where?
Lane: Philly. Newark.
Speke: Bad?
Lane: [Gives a slight nod of "yes"]
US soldier 1: What about Houston?
US soldier 2: St. Louis?
US soldier 3: Baltimore?
US soldier 4: Atlanta?
US soldier 5: Detroit?
Lane: Guys, I'll be honest with you, I don't know of any place back home that's doing very well.
Speke: All right... if the other guy was a virologist, what do you do?
Lane: There was a memo sent from this installation 11 days ago. It had the word "zombie" in it. Do you know anything about it?
Speke: Yeah. It was an email, not a memo. Pretty obvious nobody back home bothered to read it.
[Speke takes Lane and the others to a large detention cell in the base which contains about a dozen or so charred bodies]
Speke: Now, there's 15, 16 guys in this room. Most of them guards. But all of them were bitten trying to get this man handcuffed to the cot. [Points to the burnt, skeletal remains of a man on a cot] Now, our colonel said he was the first one.
Lane: This colonel, is he around?
Speke: Oh, yeah. He's right here. [Shows the remains of the colonel]
Lane: The guy who's shackled, do you know who bit him, what bit him?
Speke: He was the base doctor. He'd just returned from the field. He'd been sent out to verify the death of a soldier who had just gone AWOL the week before. Some villagers had found this guy foaming at the mouth, oozing some kind of black tar. Then he tried to bite one of them. They shot him, tied him up, threw him in a barn. That's all we know, except the doctor comes back here and begins attacking his patients.
Lane: This soldier, do you know where he came from?
Speke: No.
Lane: Anyone he might have come in contact with?
Speke: [Shakes his head] No.
Lane: There's got to be records.
Speke: You are welcome to take a look if you want. [Points to a pile of burnt and destroyed files]
Lane: Then the origin could have come from anywhere.
Speke: It's a shame you had to fly all the way out here to figure that out.
Lane: How did you all escape this?
Ellis: The expenditure of ammunition.
Lane: [Notices that Ellis is limping] Is that how you tweaked your leg?
Ellis: No, shit's been bugging me a while.
Speke: This prick stands right in the mix, while seven or eight of them turn Zeke all at the same time. But they got no time for Ol' Dirty Bastard here. Biting everything like fat kids love Twix. Got no time for his lucky ass.
Ellis: Ain't it obvious I'm charmed?
[At Camp Humphreys, Lane encounters a former CIA agent, who is currently being held in a detention cell for selling guns to North Korea]
Lane: You're with the CIA?
Ex-CIA agent: But they're not with me. And who are you?
Lane: UN.
Ex-CIA agent: Oh, my Godǃ Captain, put on the World Musicǃ The day is savedǃ
Lane: Why'd you sell guns to the North?
Ex-CIA agent: Why not?
Lane: Are they surviving this?
Ex-CIA agent: Indeed they are.
Lane: Using your guns.
Ex-CIA agent: Guns are half-measures.
Lane: How then?
Ex-CIA agent: All right. [Opens his mouth and pulls out one of his upper incisors with his hand, albeit in a slow and painful way] They took away the Zekes' exponential power. They pulled the teeth of all 23 million in less than 24 hours. [Spits into his cell sink] The greatest feat of social engineering in history. It's brilliant. No teeth, no bite. No great spread. [Places his tooth onto a table, revealing that he's already pulled out most of his teeth]
Lane: Bullshit.
Ex-CIA agent: More books, fewer receptions, Boutros Boutros. Now, why do you have to burn them to ashes to get them to finally stop? Why do they move like a plague? Why is Israel winning?
Lane: How is Israel winning?
Ex-CIA agent: They sealed off their entire country days before the undead attacked man. First to know, first to act.
Lane: People have been building walls there for two millennia.
Ex-CIA agent: Mmm. Right. Yeah, but, finish all those thousands of years of work a week ago? Impeccable timing is all. You want answers? Jurgen Warmbrunn. That's the man in Jerusalem you want to see.
[After arriving in Jerusalem, Lane meets with Mossad official Jurgen Warmbrunn to discuss the origin of the zombie outbreak and Israel's response]
Warmbrunn: The problem with most people is that they don't believe something can happen until it already has. It's not stupidity or weakness. It's just human nature.
Lane: How did you know?
Warmbrunn: Gerald Lane. Wrote a self-defeating Jeremiad about his employer, the UN, back in 2010. Caused a few ripples. Sidelined your career. Thought you'd have parlayed those ripples into a self-righteous book.
Lane: No nose for profit. How did Israel know?
Warmbrunn: We intercepted a communique from an Indian general saying they were fighting the Rakshasha. Translation, zombies. Technically undead.
Lane: Jurgen Warmbrunn. High-ranking official in the Mossad. Described as sober, efficient, not terribly imaginative. And yet you build a wall because you read a communique that mentions the word "zombie"?
Warmbrunn: Well, when put like that, I'd be skeptical as well. [Later, he and Lane are driving through Jerusalem] In the '30s, Jews refused to believe they could be sent to concentration camps. In '72, we refused to fathom we'd be massacred in the Olympics. In the month before October 1973, we saw Arab troop movements, and we unanimously agreed they didn't pose a threat. Well, a month later, the Arab attack almost drove us into the sea. So we decided to make a change.
Lane: A change?
Warmbrunn: The Tenth Man. If nine of us look at the same information and arrive at the exact same conclusion, it's the duty of the tenth man to disagree. Now matter how improbable it may seem, the tenth man has to start digging on the assumption that the other nine are wrong.
Lane: And you were that tenth man.
Warmbrunn: [Stops the car] Precisely.
[Lane and Warmbrunn are walking through Jerusalem]
Warmbrunn: Since everyone assumed that this talk of zombies was cover for something else, I began my investigation on the assumption that when they said "zombies," they meant zombies.
Lane: Was patient zero from India?
Warmbrunn: That's the problem. There's so many potential sources in play that no one knows where it began. The organ trade in Germany. Strange examples of violent behavior across the Asian peninsulas. Meanwhile, the zombie plague keeps spreading, and we do what we can. [Shows Lane a massive and newly built wall surrounding Israel and Jerusalem] These are the Jerusalem Salvation Gates. Two of 10 portals through the security perimeter into fortified Israel.
Lane: You're letting people in.
Warmbrunn: Every human being we save is one less zombie to fight.
Lane: If I could get into India, where would I start? Who would I speak to?
Warmbrunn: India is a black hole. Forget about patient zero.
Lane: I can't do that. It's too late for me to build a wall. I'm running out of time. I need specifics. I need answers...
Warmbrunn: [Cutting him off] I don't have answers. All you can do is find a way to hide.
[After waking up at the World Health Organization (WHO) facility in Cardiff, Wales, Lane holds a meeting with some WHO researchers and doctors to discuss a possible cure for the zombie pandemic]
WHO researcher 1: [Shocked] He wants a what?
Lane: Deadly pathogen. With a high mortality rate. But curable.
WHO researcher 1: Okay, well... you'd want a bacteria rather than a virus, I would think. Typhus?
WHO researcher 2: Meningitis. Scarlet fever.
WHO researcher 1: Rocky Mountain fever.
WHO researcher 2: Anyway, excuse me, what's this for?
WHO researcher 3: Mr. Lane believes we can use such a disease against the undead.
WHO researcher 1: [Flabbergasted] I would give you points for such originality, Mr. Lane, if we hadn't already tried that, first thing. One of the many things a virus or bacteria needs to thrive is a live host.
WHO researcher 2: A functioning circulatory system.
WHO researcher 1: I'm afraid it boils down to one simple fact...
WHO researcher 4: You can't make a dead person sick.
Lane: It's not for them. It's for us. I believe these things have a weakness. And that weakness is weakness. Our weakness. I have witnessed them literally bypass people. Walk right around them like a river around a rock. Why? I think, because those people were sick. I think they were terminal. And these things could sense it. I think they're spreading a pathogen, and they need a healthy host.
WHO researcher 2: But even if you're right, I mean, infecting the populace with a lethal illness is not exactly a cure.
Lane: It's not a cure. It's camouflage. It's camouflage.

About World War Z (film)[edit]

  • I can't give it away, but Straczynski found a way to tie it all together. The last draft I read was amazing.
    • Max Brooks, Cidoni Lennox, Michael (April 16, 2013). "Pitt surprises CinemaCon attendees". Bigstory.ap.org. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
  • This whole thing started because I just wanted to do a film that my boys could see before they turned 18 — one that they would like, anyways. And they love a zombie.
    • Brad Pitt, Cidoni Lennox, Michael (April 16, 2013). "Pitt surprises CinemaCon attendees". Bigstory.ap.org. Retrieved June 27, 2013.

Cast[edit]

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