Reddit reviews Pontypool Changes Everything
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I think both are great, but the audio drama is probably slightly better. The movie falls apart towards the end, mostly because they felt a need to include some onscreen action, while the radioplay's ending has a better conceptual continuity to the plot.
The original book both are based on is hella cool and weird, too, although the movie only adapts the first of several linked narratives from it. As far as I know, though, the field of true literary fiction about zombies at this point comprises just Pontypool Changes Everything and Colson Whitehead's zombie book.
It's definitely not a perfect movie; I read somewhere that Tony Burgess, the author of the novel on which the film was based as well as the screenplay, kept redrafting the script until finally the director asked for a copy on the first day of shooting. Had shooting started a few days later, the film might've ended up completely differently. My guess is that some of the ideas, especially the "May I see you in the morning" and etc. bits were remnants of some ideas that got lost as the writing of the script progressed.
Speaking of which, if you get a chance, read Pontypool Changes Everything (on which the movie's based) beacuse it's somehow enormously more insane than the movie. Grant Mazzy is a wholly different character in the novel and there's all sorts of weirdness in there...I loved it; it was nuts.
B) Every good superhero needs a specialized weapon. As a budding witch, I would like a sonic screwdriver to aid in my superhero-ish shenanigans. Did I mention this particular screwdriver has a super secret uv pen and uv light so I can write super secret messages to my super secret companions?! If that's not magic, I don't know what is!
Wife got me the book Pontypool Changes Everything for Christmas.