NEW YORK — As a boy growing up in Switzerland, director Marc Forster was obsessed with the way fish and birds, moving together, gracefully coalesced into a single organism, the multitudes swarming seamlessly as one.
From such pastoral visions comes the zombie tsunami threatening humanity in Brad Pitt-starrer World War Z.
Once bitten, the victims frenetically convulse and join an undead horde that sprint through city streets like rabid cheetahs, clicking their teeth malevolently and at times swarming terrifyingly en masse.
“They’re like this force of nature coming at you,” Forster said. “I felt like the more I could base it in nature, viscerally, the more scary it will be.”
The animal kingdom figured heavily into his conception of the zombies. In addition to birds and fish, the filmmakers also paid careful attention to the movements of ants. The mandibular mechanics of the zombie bite were informed by police dogs, specifically the way they lead with their mouths and “then bite forward”, Forster said.
As for the clacking teeth, which seem to evoke gorillas or an insect plague, Forster said that aspect was actually his one nod toward the gothic.
“It’s like an empty shell — you feel a hollowness because they’re not human anymore,” he said. “Their souls have left them.” THE NEW YORK TIMES
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