Darth_Rob Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Actually, that last post about Tex being a member of the walking dead brought a question to me.In popular culture, espicially back in the day, it was common in horror stories and films for a zombie to eat brains. Why the brain? Why not just the flesh, or any other internal organs and whatnot? Once again, I also get this knowledge from The Simpsons, when in one of the Halloween episodes zombies appear in Springfield searching for brains. When they get to Homer they knock on his head, which produces a hollow thud, then continue the search for brains. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verdex Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Well, the brain is nowadays very much seen as the prime location of the personality. So eating the brain is symbolic for eating, i.e. destroying, taking over etc., your 'you', so to speak. In older cultures, the heart was seen as the location of the soul - and so it was the target of symbolic actions like rippin' it out and even eating it. Asteroids do not concern me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 As i quite like Zombie movies let me explain the reason for brain eating. I the first Zombie movies the living dead would simply eat the whole body (as seen in The Night of the Living Dead or Braindead). The brain eating came with the film The Return of the Living Dead (really worth seeing since it is actually rather amusing). In that film the Dead eat the Brains of the living so as to make the pain of being dead go away (rather weird I know). The Simpsons episode is a reference to that film. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Hmmm...so a quick brain snack made the zombies feel better about death. Interesting, but I prefer it when they target the entire body and just eat skin and bone and all the gushy stuff in between. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I recommend watching both parts of the Movie "Return of the living Dead". It´s ugly, it´s scary and also damn funny. You remember Michael Jackson´s Thriller-Zombie-Vid? Well a Michael Jackson-double appears in the second part as a Zombie of course. Who cares at all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTofu Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 My two bits: In Spook and Stiff (Both nonfiction books) Mary Roach investigates the "Scientific search for the soul." The leading candidates for its location are as follows:The BrainThe HeartThe Blood (Okay, so only one guy thought that, and it was the guy who 'discovered' the circulatory system- I just thought it was pretty good) Thus, the zombies are eating your very soul. Sort of. Kind of. Meh. I'm amazed that only Chuck Norris eats people's hearts... 12/14/07Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aenivae_Ikeda Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 AHHHHH Nowhere is safe from Chuck Norris talk! Gah! -Gags self- "I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." -Allen Ginnsberg, "Howl" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 It's true. Speaking of which... Chuck Norris is like a zombie because if you manage to kill him, he'll get right back up. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTex Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 It's true. Speaking of which... Chuck Norris is like a zombie because if you manage to kill him, he'll get right back up.That exactly proves why Chuck Norris is NOT a zombie. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can kill Chuck Norris Finally, after years of hard work I am the Supreme Sith Warlord! Muwhahahaha!! What?? What do you mean "there's only two of us"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 You can only slow him down. i suggest imprisoning him in cement and dropping him to the bottom of the mariana trench. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 If you did that, he would just break through the cement and burrow his way through the sea floor to the earth's core, and come up the other side. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTofu Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 I was making a referance to this with the whole heart-eating thing... 12/14/07Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 I was making a referance to this with the whole heart-eating thing...The game has strange physics Put the mouse on chuck's shoulder to see what i mean. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 thats one wierd game Tofu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Don't forget Tofu is one weird guy. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budious Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Two new zombie films to be released soon: 28 Weeks (sequel to 28 Days) - http://www.blackfilm.com/20070105/features/28weekslater.shtml Grindhouse (double feature - 1 of the 2 being a zombie flick) - http://www.grindhousemovie.net/ "In the future it will become easier for old negatives to become lost and be 'replaced' by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten." - George Lucas, 1988. [u.S. Congressional hearing testimony on film preservation.] My old Rebellion site (very web 1.0) - Bud's Korner and Rebellion Strategy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoJoemeru Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Sweetness on 28 Weeks! "The Chimaera is at your command, Admiral." —Captain Gilad Pellaeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Both sound good. I loved 28 days as a zombie movie.That one fat old lady scared the crap outta me. As for grindhouse, I am also excited. I saw the trailer when I saw 300 (I think) and I also the posters, and was like "wow this looks sweet". And it does. Two movies for the price of one, espicially one by Tarentino. Im excited. On an unrelated topic (well, at least it still involves the undead) has anyone else ever seen From Dusk Til Dawn? That movie is pure insanity.The first half of the movie seems like a normal run of the mill hostage/drama movie. Then the kidnappers take the hostages to this bar, which happens to be a vampire hangout, and the movie turns into this vampire-killing slayfest. Great great movie! Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I saw that movie several times. It´s pretty cool. 28 Days was quite good, allthough I wouldn´t say that it´s a pure Zombie-Movie. I rather prefer the original versions of "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead" plus "Zombie". Another very cool movie which has zombielike creatures in it is "Lifeforce", which has really cool effects. "The Night of the Creeps" is also very nice. Who cares at all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 That Tarantino movie looks sweet!!! I am going to try and get to to see from Dusk Till Dawn soon. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 Oh its so great. Sex Machine is one awesome character!!! Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediHunter Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 i'm just gonna throw this in there.. the movie y'all are talking about is titled 28 Days Later. 28 Days is a Sandra Bullock movie about an alcoholic in rehab... just thought i would clear that up for y'all... and yea... From Dusk til Dawn was a bad ass movie.. "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j34/akira9949/4297_image.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budious Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Zombie Pr0n! Warning: Adult Content "In the future it will become easier for old negatives to become lost and be 'replaced' by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten." - George Lucas, 1988. [u.S. Congressional hearing testimony on film preservation.] My old Rebellion site (very web 1.0) - Bud's Korner and Rebellion Strategy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 ...wow...that's almost as bad as the gag-gift my friend bought me a few years back. It was a DVD called "Lord of the G-Strings"... Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytos Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Zombie Pr0n! Warning: Adult Content Considering the amount of adult content, I'd recommend not posting the link - or at least the under age link http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1778/reloadedbannerdu8.gifhttp://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1333/3dartistbanneranimationws1.gifhttp://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4026/rebellionbannerdi2.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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