![]() Nicholas Hoult, Rob Corddry and Teresa Palmer lurch through a scene in Levine's zombie romantic comedy. That was something that was really important to me about the movie, was I wanted to - even though it's a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world and all that stuff - I wanted to distill it to the fact that it was a guy and a girl, and we had to kind of calibrate that voice-over to find the right tone a lot." "The voice-over really took a lot of calibration to find that place where it felt like it could just be a guy and a girl. On how Warm Bodies is just a story of a (dead) guy and a girl It reminded me of the protagonists in a lot of John Hughes movies that I loved growing up, and I thought it was just such a clever way to address that kind of character in a way I hadn't seen before." He's totally incoherent and unable to articulate himself in front of this beautiful girl, and I sort of could identify. Like, this guy thinks he's a total loser, and his internal monologue reflects that. And I thought the brilliance of this book - and what I wanted to translate into the screenplay - was like, 'Yeah, being a zombie is not that different from being a shy kid.' You're trapped in your own body. Going back to even Night of the Living Dead, they've always been a tool for holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know. "I think that's the great thing about zombies. And so you know, every time I'm in an airport now, it's kind of been ruined for me." you can look around an airport today and see a lot of zombies, whether they're brain eaters or not - that there were a lot of people just locked into their own internal boxes. ![]() There's this other moment in the beginning of the movie when we show all these people in the airport, just kinda on their cellphones, just wandering around almost bumping into each other. "Issac Marion wrote this wonderful book, and this guy was stuck in this airport, and I thought it was this very clever commentary on commercialism. ![]() On zombies as symbols of modern self-involvement Levine talked to NPR's Audie Cornish about zombie symbolism, teen alienation and how he became a staunch defender of Twilight fans everywhere. It's told through the eyes of R (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie living in an airport. Warm Bodies is a zombie romance brought to you by the man behind the recent cancer comedy 50/50 clearly, director and screenwriter Jonathan Levine has an interest in genre bending, and this latest flick is equal parts Night of the Living Dead and Romeo and Juliet. This past weekend, a surprising little movie topped the box office over pop-action juggernaut Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and the Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook.
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