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Illustration of Conversationalists
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Conversationalists

IfilimuYosulelekile, isaphila2000 ukuya ku-2009

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

Yiphose edabini
Yavela okokuqala
2008
Released 2008
Umsebenzi woqobo
Pontypool (2008)
Bruce McDonald (writer Tony Burgess)
Indawo eyenziwe kuyo
IKhanada
Oko kuyibangelayo
Okunye
A virus that infects certain words of the English language and passes to the people who use them.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
Using an infected word.
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • not speaking English
  • stripping a word of its meaning

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje2008

Released 2008

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Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Imithombo

  1. Pontypool (film) - Wikipedia

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