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Conversationalists

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Pontypool takes place in a small-town Ontario radio station while a language-borne infection spreads outside. Its director insisted the victims are not zombies but conversationalists. The approach was inspired by Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast.1

Fa ko
Ɛdii kan puee
2008
Released 2008
Fibea ho adwuma
Pontypool (2008)
Bruce McDonald (writer Tony Burgess)
Wɔyɛɛ no wɔ
Canada
Deɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
A virus that infects certain words of the English language and passes to the people who use them.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
Using an infected word.
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • not speaking English
  • stripping a word of its meaning
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Stage one: the victim gets stuck repeating a word, often a term of endearment1

2

Stage two: speech becomes scrambled; stage three: the victim tries to chew through another person's mouth1

3

Speaking French or Armenian protects, because only English is infected1

4

Telling a victim that kill now means kiss makes her symptoms subside1

5

News broadcasts about the quarantine spread the infection further1

6

Based on Tony Burgess's 1995 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and also produced as a radio play1

Fibea

  1. Pontypool (film) - Wikipedia

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