ZOMBIELAND

What is classic Hollywood? Classic Hollywood is a term denoting a group style associated with fiction films made under the Hollywood studio system between approximately 1930 and 1960, and defined by certain recurrent features of narrative, narration, and visual style. Above all, the films made the telling of a story the primary concern, through a commitment to unity, comprehensibility, and clarity, especially in relation to the construction of time and space in films. There are four elements of narrative structure in Classic Hollywood such as cause and effect logic, plots and story, character motivation and lastly is closure and resolution. The elements of cause and effect logic is one of the actor cause another actor to another scene, and this actor is effect by previous actor. The elements of plots is the audience can see the actors act in the scene whereas story is when the audience see this scene, they wanted to feel it and imagine by themselves. The elements of character motivation is a character may be the driving force in a narrative, motivating the film’s cause effect relationship, pushing the film’s events forward by desires. The elements of closure and resolution has three stages, which are the beginning, the middle and the end. The beginning is an introduction is set up for familiarization, the middle is the introduced plots then transits into various directions and the end is the plots are tied up, narrowing all developments to a climax for the film’s end, the resolution.

Today I had watched a movie produced from Hollywood which is ' Zombieland". At the beginning, the Narrator, Columbus starts by telling us about how the plague began. In the present, Columbus survives following a set of rule at a gas station. The next morning, Columbus is travelling down an abandoned highway. Columbus and the driver, Tallahassee were know each other at the highway. Tallahassee agrees to take Columbus as far east as the next town but notes that their personalities clash. On the next town, they reached a market.

At that market, they saw Wichita. Wichita tells them to come quick since her little sister, Little Rock, has been bitten.However, they lie Columbus and Tallahassee and steal their car run away. Columbus and Tallahassee had found another car to continue their journey.

Suddenly, they saw their car that steal by Wichita and her sister had abandoned at road side. However, they were in the trap and the trap was created by the twins sister again.

Then, they were grouping to beginning again with their journey. Tallahassee drives the group into Hollywood and they tour the celebrity mansions who is Bill Murray. Bill Murray dress up zombies and scare them. However, Columbus thought he is real zombies and shot him. Thus, Bill Murray had dead. The next morning, Wichita and Little Rock drive the car away again. Wichita and her sister was going to theme park. When they turn on the all the power and everything in the park turns on and lights up, the noise and lights had attracts zombies from the surrounding area. The girls manage to get to temporary safety atop one of the rides. As zombies start climbing up to get them, Tallahassee and Columbus arrives. Tallahassee lures the zombies away from the girls and sends Columbus to rescue them. Tallahassee is forced to retreat to a carnie prize kiosk for his last stand with only two pistol and four extra clips. Columbus is about to reach the girls when he runs into a giant zombie clown. He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue the girls. In the end, all the zombies in the park are dead and the group is safely reunited.

There are three elements of narrative structure in this move. First of the elements of narrative structure is cause and effect logic.

For example, Columbus is the first character appear in the movie. After that, Columbus is travelling down an abandoned highway and meet Tallahassee. Their destination are same which is went to east. On the way of their journey, they meet Wichita and her sister, Little Rock. Wichita and her sister wanted go to a theme park but their destination also at east. At the end, their destination is the theme park that Wichita and her sister wanted to go. At the theme park, they fighted zombies together. In the end, all the zombies in the park are dead and the group is safely reunited.

The second elements of narrative structure is plots and story.

For example of the story, Columbus and Wichita are love each other but each other did not have take any action. One night, Wichita and Columbus get drunk together and dance. Wichita tells Columbus that she would totally "hit that" when she thinks about whether or not they should sleep together.

Example of the plots, Columbus break his rules when Columbus faces and dispatches the ultimate fear: a zombie clown. He break his rules and the rules become 'be a hero'. He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue the girls. Wichita embraces Columbus and tells him her real name. Her name is Krystal.

The third elements of narrative structure is closure and resolution.

At the beginning, the Narrator, Columbus starts by telling us about how the plague began. In the present, Columbus survives following a set of rule. In the middle, Columbus meet Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock. Their destination was at east but different places. Wichita and Little Rock had drive away their car for two times. In the end, they fighted with zombies in the theme park. Tallahassee lures the zombies away from the girls and sends Columbus to rescue them. 

Tallahassee is forced to retreat to a carnie prize kiosk for his last stand with only two pistol and four extra clips. Columbus is about to reach the girls when he runs into a giant zombie clown. He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue the girls.


In conclusion, this movie was belongs to classic movie and it consider horror movie. There are three elements of narrative structure such as cause and effect logic, plots and story and closure and resolution. In my opinion, this movie was funny and little horror because the zombies was appear more in the beginning and in the end in this movie. Thus, it was more funny than horror.

However, I was like the character, Tallahassee because he was very brave and does not scare the zombies. Especially in the theme park, he want Columbus go to rescue the girls then he lures the zombies away from the girls.