Theory Discussion
(1) Romance
First of all, what is romance? Well, it meant something would make people cry,touch and shy. For me, romance not necessary only for a couple but also it can see in family. Just go ask yourself a question, will you feel shy if you try to speak out the word of 'love' to your mommy and daddy? Of course, the answer is a YES! But why? Let's continue this in next paragraph.
One of the main reason to explain this is because they are the one you really loved just as couple who loves each other. So, love becomes the key at this moment right now. Besides romance brought us the feeling of romantic, love was also one of them. There are two types of love in our human being which are family and couple love.
As I mentioned before, say 'I love you' to your mommy and daddy will be the example of family love. For myself, I prefer to show my loves to my family through action like help them to do housework, get them a drink when they back from work and so on. Haha, how about you; have you done these before?
Next, let's take a look on couple love. So, how a couple forms? Basically, it can be form in two person with different gender. From the book Cinema Studies: The Key Concept (2013) written by Susan Hayward, she stated that ideological function of gender is to fix us either male or female and is the first in a series of binary oppositions that serve to construct us as male and female in page 176 with line 28-30.
For a movie, there is a triangle that shows how romance can be build and romance cannot perform well if a movie does not use 3 of them. What are these things that important for a romance movie?
Lightning used in romance
I saw many romance movies and they did have the same lightning used which most of the situation were in dim condition. This was because of this kind of light can bring us the feeling of relax and peaceful. In Zombieland, there was a part which Columbus and Wichita danced together and you can see the surrounding light was actually dim yellow.
Props used in romance
Now, I am going to ask you a question. What are the things that usually a movie tried to use so it can relate to romance? For me, I will think of a ring to ask girl to marry him, a bouquet of flower, a red wine manufactures in old time and so on. But why? This is because these are things that show your love to someone you really love. For example, Wichita asked Columbus to have a drink which red wine and they danced after having some of the drink.
Music used in romance
We have lightning and props...However, music is also one of important part that cannot miss out in a romance movie. Just like most of romance movie, Zombieland also included romance background music when Witchita and Columbus dancing together. The music had cleared their mind from the zombie attacks and argument in car. Try listen to some romance music especially piano, you will feel your brain refresh and comfortable.
Romance part of Zombieland
These are the part I felt touched and want to cry when Columbus imagined that the time Tallahasse spent time with his kid. This is family love.
These are the part that explained Zombieland used the triangle that I mentioned to show romance.
(2) Comedy
To define comedy, it is a term that makes people laugh and excited. The objective for putting this term into a film is because it wants to amuse and entertain through actor's action, languages and so on. There are several type of comedies which included slapstick, screwball, black or dark comedy and parody. However, Zombieland contained only two of them which were black or dark comedy and parody.
For black and dark comedy, it can say like when the film showed something very nervous or panic scene like chasing by a group of zombies; it also showed the comedy at the same time like Woody was playing like a kid sitting in roller coaster and he shot zombies at the same time. The whole scene should be very serious but it made comedy at the same time.
The other one as parody can be discuss in how to catch ghost but zombie in Zombieland. Some of scene copied the action that made in ghostbusters like how they made fun when catching the ghost. For example, how Woody killed the zombies and Columbus did double step on the zombie which also can be seen in ghostbusters. Although they had the same action, audience still enjoyed because it was interesting.
In addition, funny can't leave from comedy since it is a family of comedy. To me, funny not only bring me laughs but it impressed me in my memory for longer time. Compare to one of the famous movie called Conjuring, I still can remember the some contents of the film after enjoyed the movie for after a few weeks. However, it needs some times for me to think back the content of Conjuring. Have you had the same experience as me?
(3) Road Film
Road film is a film that targeted on one thing which is road. For what I knew, road film usually used when the setting needed to more one to another place and mostly in car scene. For example, 4 of them in Zimbieland took turn on driving to their destination (Pacific Park).
In the middle of driving, they chit chat with each other about how sweet were their families. As there was a scene extreme close up to the side face of the character, the camera was placed beside the car window. Yet, there was also a scene showed the 4 characters with front car engine and this shot by a truck in front of their car and it stick with their car together in order to balance the camera.
Conclusion
Just like what I said last week, the movie was awesome and good. Furthermore, Zombieland had reached the triangle requirement I mentioned which we can see in romance movie. Also, it had included some of elements which are comedy and road film that are ineresting. Thank you and don't forget to say 'I love you' to someone you loved.
References
S.Hayward (2013), Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts, Fourth Edition, Routledge, London and New York 
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