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Originally Posted by Angrist
My brother heard there's a special edition/ending which doesn't even include the soldiers, is that true?
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As The Professor has pointed out, there are 3...
The one your brother is talking about is the one that is shown only through storyboards...
Instead of being "rescued" by the soldiers at the roadblock, the surviving characters take their infected companion to the research lab that the infected chimps originally escaped from, and find a cure for the disease - complete blood transfusion...
Jim sacrifices himself so that they can carry out the procedure in the hopes that *infected character* (if you've seen the movie you know which one it is) can be cured...
As the director himself pointed out, that ending is rather far-fetched considering they had previously established that a single drop of infected blood or saliva entering your body (mouth, eyes, wound) was enough to infect you...
And I personally think it sounds a tad hokey...
I like the official ending the way it is... This wasn't like in the "Dead" series where the dead were coming back to life all over the world for no apparent reason, no matter how that person died, and to completely rid the world of the problem, humans would have to:
- Find a way to prevent natural death
- Avoid death by zombie or other violent/accidental means
- Kill every single zombie one by one
The quick-acting nature of the virus in 28 Days Later would make it nearly impossible to spread past the British Isles... And since the zombies are not really zombies, they didn't receive the added benefit of everlasting (until someone kills them in a very specific way) life...
They didn't need a cure... And the cure in the scrapped ending wasn't even a cure so much as it was the ability to decide who was going to die...
28 Days Later, as a whole, seems more... "Real" than most other zombie movies (and not just because it doesn't actually deal with the crazy idea of the dead rising from the grave)...I felt that the ending fit. *shrug*