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At a generalisation, vampire fiction is left-wing (bloodsucking elites preying on humanity), zombie fiction is right-wing (“the peasants are revolting!”)
that is not zombie fiction. what zombie fiction is depicting it like that?
the george romero stuff were about consumerism and brainless shoppers mindlessly spending on crap. the dead rising series (spoilers here) literally has the bad guy be a corporation and the us government and military are complacent in it (the corporation even has an actual cure for zombies but that doesnt make them money like their once a day doses)
also zombies are basically what humans are to animals. seemingly never getting tired and always slowly catching up to you
Vampire fiction being leftwing tracks, but zombie fiction being rightwing doesn't seem as clear-cut. There's definitely a "finally I get to be a real man doing survival-stuff and justifiably kill humanoid beings with personal weapons" aspect to it that feels rightwing, but there's also all the anti-consumerist and anti-corporation themes that are common to zombie fiction.
you forget the queer side of vampire left wing stories. which focus on horny lesbians rather than class issues.
I thought all vampires were sexy
https://youtu.be/iXpxnxAL62A
That's one reading. Another reading is that vampires are bloodsucking foreigners using their exotic charms to tempt and corrupt innocent women into sinful acts. And if a foreign noble is a vampire, then it's justified for ~~America~~ the heroes to depose them. Plus, they found a novel way to weaponise Christianity.
I feel like I've seen a few zombie movies that are critiques of consumerism and unthinking conformist politics, which are not typically conservative themes.
But it's not my preferred genre so I haven't seen many.
What does that make Frankenstein?
A doctor, didn’t you read the book?
No, he wasn't. He dropped out. Didn't you read the book?
Frankenstein is the monster
That's right. Doctor Frankenstein was his father and creator.
It would be rude to refer to the good doctor without the honorific, so it stands to reason if someone mentions "Frankenstien," they are talking about the monster.
Good doctor? No, he was evil, he was the real monster. His creature is the victim
He wasn't a doctor in the book.
He never got a PhD. Neurotypical screeching.
IIRC, when he creates the being (who is obviously also called Frankenstein due to being Frankenstein's son), he is a university student in the Mary Shelley book. Definitely not a PhD or medicine practitioner.
It's quite a stretch to say that stitching together some corpses and reanimating the result means the creature is obviously your son and given your surname. If that were the case it would have been specified in the book, and it is not. The creature didn't even like his creator, so why would he want to be named after him?
You're correct about his title, though - he was not a doctor in the book.
Antinatalist maybe? The monster didn’t ask to be born into a world that hates him because they find him ugly, his creator denies him what he views as his only chance at happiness by refusing to make a wife for him, he ultimately kills a bunch of people and then himself because he’s angry at humanity… oh god, is the monster the original incel???
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I have never ever heard of anyone interpreting zombie fiction as right wing. Like, just look at Night of the Living Dead. Actually, is any zombie movie even marginally right-wing? Zombieland?
Walking Dead certainly satisfies those gun nut fantasies.
I started on the comic before the show and then I realised how much there was and gave up.
But isn't The Walking Dead more about the bad things that people do to each other? Power corrupts, lack of accountability makes for a crueler society, that kind of thing? When circumstances make people desperate maybe you shouldn't exploit that? And it would actually be better if we could change circumstances so people weren't desperate?
Edit: but Rick is also a dickhead right? So I guess if you're a dickhead and see a dickhead protagonist then you might feel validated.