Roughin' it in Zombieland

I'm going with Zombieland for my chosen text that inspires me most. As someone who's normally a horror-averse moviegoer, I was pleasantly surprised and entertained at both the material of the film and how the film was presented. Zombieland was a breath of fresh film air for me.

If I had to recreate the spirit of Zombieland, I'd gather three friends to embark on a trip from
Austin to California. Obviously I can't turn the world's entire population into zombies, so instead we'll challenge ourselves as if we were on our own. We would leave with only a set amount of money to use, and we couldn't use our phones or ask for help. Zombieland's message about the road is simple: You can change for the better on a road trip with others. The road is filled with challenges, but by working together, everyone is the group will change for the better as they become closer.

It's important that two of the friends I bring along aren't best friends of mine. I'll bring along one best friend to mirror the already close-knit relationship between Wichita and Little Rock, but the other two friends won't know each other. And yes, I should technically bring along two strangers, but let's face it: The world's just not as safe as it's portrayed in movies.

Our destination in California will be Disneyland, our mirror to Pacific Playland. I've been there before, but it's been at least five years since I went, so my mental layout of the park is likely fuzzy, just as Wichita's is of Zombieland's Pacific Playland. My other three friends should have never visited there (I realize that Little Rock has been to Pacific Playland before, but I'm assuming that since she's so young in the film that she hardly remembers the physical layout of the park.). We'll enter the park without grabbing a map before heading to the Matterhorn Bobsleds attraction, where we will board the ride and then head to the entrance of the park. Once we got off the ride, we would quickly seek places we could hide from zombies if they were actually attacking like they did in the final scene of Zombieland. Once we found a place to hide, we would note how long we had been at the park and then decide if we realistically stood a chance against the incoming zombies if they had attacked. We would, of course, have to take into account that we will be waiting in line to ride our ride, while Wichita and Little Rock didn't have to wait in lines at all to ride their ride.