Hypothetically speaking, Australia and other countries where gun laws are
much stricter would completely fall in no time.
The primary means of defense against zombies...firearms...are highly regulated by the government there.
Australia would begin to collapse from the outward and then it would progress inward toward the center starting with the heavily populated cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin from the North and Perth from the West....finally converging in the deserts in the center of the continent.
The beautiful beaches Australia possesses would run red with blood.
Bodies would wash up in the surf.
The splendor would be replaced with the maddening thunder of the running footsteps of the the dead upon the earth.
On the left side of the road of course!
Later, as the country is taken over, Ayers Rock itself would be a scene of stalwart defense and furious zombie killing.
It would be the ultimate struggle for the very life of Australia itself.
I suspect that the only ones in Australia that would stand somewhat of a chance from an onslaught of raging zombies would be those people in the Outback where the gun laws are much more lenient...so I'm told by friends there.
Having been to OZ and spent a month there interacting with everyone I came across and having dated an Aussie myself, I know how strict Australian laws on firearms are.
Citizens there do
not have the right to bear arms like we here in the U.S. do.
I think an Australian version of Dawn of the Dead could be very good if written well.
The Aussies' experience of it all would be very different.
Much more different than the American Encounter.
I believe it would be much more bleak & horrifying.
How do you fight the undead when guns aren't readily available like they are here in America?
The band of survivors, say 20-30 of them would first need to find a cache of govt. stored weapons.
The road to get those weapons would be perilous and many would die along the way.
After the guns are procured, they would then need to make their way to a human stronghold and along that way, many more would die leaving only a small handful to join the Resistance.
If it were ever made into a real movie, one American would need to be in the cast though....kind of like Brad Pitt in "Snatch".
I would also cast Russell Crowe as the lead.
Only he could do it in my opinion.
What do you think?
How would you paint the Aussie experience of the walking dead?
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