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Conversationalists

FíìmùÓ ní àkóràn, ṣùgbọ́n ó sì wà láàyè2000 sí 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

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tó farahàn
2008
Released 2008
Iṣẹ́ orísun
Pontypool (2008)
Bruce McDonald (writer Tony Burgess)
A ṣe ní
Canada
Ohun tó fà á
Òmíràn
A virus that infects certain words of the English language and passes to the people who use them.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
Using an infected word.
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • not speaking English
  • stripping a word of its meaning
àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Àwọn orísun

  1. Pontypool (film) - Wikipedia

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