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It is a truth universally acknowledged that I have been excited for this movie to be released since I first heard about the project.<\/p>\nIt is a truth universally acknowledged that I have been excited for this movie to be released since I first heard about the project.<\/p>\n
Despite the sarcastic exterior, I have a real soft spot for Jane Austen\u2019s society stories. And you all know how I feel about zombies<\/a>. So when the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/a> novel adaptation was published, my inner romantic and inner apocalypse enthusiast finally found some common ground.<\/p>\n Seth Grahame-Smith did an extraordinary job of taking the source text and reimagining it as taking place in the same period in time \u2013 except with zombies. The women still have to navigate the same social minefield, but they also have to navigate hordes of the undead as well. They have to figure out which type of weapon is both efficient at decapitating zombies and also ladylike enough to wear under a dress. They have to balance their training as warriors with the expectation that they will eventually be wives.<\/p>\n The women still have to navigate the same social minefield, but they also have to navigate hordes of the undead as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It is an incredibly novel premise, and something I had yet to see done before he wrote it. We may not live under the same social constraints of Austen\u2019s time, but there are still a lot of deeply ingrained expectations of women-of-a-certain-age. In my eyes, the addition of zombies to a marriage plot is the ultimate mic drop.<\/p>\n As a fan of the genre, I\u2019ve resigned myself to the fact that the portrayal of women in zombie movies is often as objects one step up the chain from the undead. So the idea of seeing a squad of Regency era sisters smashing the skulls of \u201cunmentionables\u201d and blowing the minds of society snobs \u2013 on the big screen \u2013 was particularly tantalizing.<\/p>\n![\"Final-UK-quad\"](\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Final-UK-quad.jpg\")
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