DVD Exclusive: Zombieland’s Cynical Survivors

Zombieland!

Until we finally get our Pride and Prejudice and Zombies epic, then I guess we’ll just have to settle for this – the hilarious accidental zombie road trip, pairing the armed-and-insane Tallahassee with the terrified, timid Columbus. It was a fun time in the theaters – right up there with Shaun of the Dead, in twisting around the conventions of the genre as fodder for a few memorable punch lines. (See Techland’s Five Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces)

And let’s be honest: If you were on the run from the zombie apocalypse, you’d want to find someone with the maniacal mindset of Tallahassee. We all might feel like a Columbus inside, but at the first sign of the Rapture, find a good Tallahassee to buddy up to.

Zombieland hits DVD tomorrow, and the folks over at Sony were kind enough to let us get our hands on a great deleted scene from the DVD special features. You might remember that Wichita and Little Rock steal Tallahassee and Columbus’s car – twice. In a row. But on the second attempted grand theft auto, they agree to a truce, and partner up and brave the undead together.

Well, in this deleted scene, it suggests that Wichita and Little Rock did indeed ditch the guys a second time, determined not to get bogged down by the “slow or the weak.”And then a few minutes later they start to realize that the slow and the weak might come in handy, if they ever need a couple dunces to sacrifice when the going gets tough.

It’s a fiendishly cynical little scene – making it clear that Wichita and Little Rock are two women who will do whatever it takes to survive. Enjoy the clip!

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Good decision to delete the scene.
Steven James Snyder

Ha! I actually kind of liked it – how it spun from halfway sorta-sweet to crazy cynical in about half a minute. But yes, these editing decisions are usually made for a reason.
grape_crush

I thought the scene was a bit dull and would have made later plot developments feel false, as Tallahassee and Columbus would be more like complete suckers instead of heroes. Wichita and Little Rock had to have some level of goodness/humanity for the rest of the film to work.