World War Z- What book?
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Usually when you buy the rights to a book, you assume that the movie is going to be based on the book. Hollyweird is known for taking liberties but in this case they threw away the book and rewrote it.
The only thing that the two have in common are zombies, a mysterious plague that causes them and the United Nations. That's it.
Max Brooks originally wrote World War Z in the style of Studs Terkel's The Good War. It was a collection of stories told by the veterans of World War II. It had their voice and was an oral history. A critically acclaimed history told by the people that had fought in the war and survived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_War
Brook's book followed this design. It took place in the future. It interviewed survivors of the zombie war and told their story. It was collected by a minor functionary of the UN.
Of course that was apparently too difficult for Hollywood. They threw it all out the window. They made a zombie apocalypse movie that shared the name World War Z.
Of course in its own right, it's not a bad movie. Brad Pitt stars as a retired United Nations troubleshooter. When the zombie apocalypse breaks out, he goes back to his old job. He travels the zombie infested world in search of answers. As a movie, I give it a C+.
However- it loses the entirety of what made the book special. You don't get the characters voice. You don't get the characters. All you get is your typical Hollywood adrenalin-pumping thriller with little or no message or staying power.
Read the book. You'll get more out of it. Wait for the movie to hit NetFlix.
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