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One thing about this alternate reality

posted 8 years ago by rem-82191
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I know it's just a movie & Hollywood can do whatever it wants(I like to state this in posts so miserable morons who like to feel superior to me don't have to point this out), but I have one thing about getting the alternate reality to work. It was the fact that some of the girls traveled to the Far East to learn martial arts & the Chinese & Japanese languages.
Due to the fact that it would take about 2 years(4 years round trip) to sail to the Far East, plus about 2 more years to learn martial arts, customs, and language (depending how well someone learns), I figure it would take 6 years away from home. Throw in a few people who have trouble learning this & it becomes a real waste of time.
Wouldn't have been easier to bring a few Shao-lin monks and other Far East martial arts teachers to England?

[–] tlm557 8 years ago

Sorry, you are all wrong about the travel time, which was nowhere near two years.
One way would have been 3 to 4 months, with some routes & ships making it in 50 days.

[–] depastino 8 years ago

And my assumption is that they were sent as children.

[–] teatat 8 years ago

Given that England is full of zombies I wouldn't think being away from home until you learn how to fight them a bad idea.

[–] DrHerbertWest 8 years ago

I assumed this was a play or a reference to something in the original story.

[–] FFNogoodnik (775) 7 years ago

No, it was not. In the original story the daughters just went into the village everyday (practically) and occasionally might go into town (what they called London).

The thing was that if you lived in an area like they did you might be sent to travel with an Aunt or close friend and stay for several weeks. The hope would be that you would go to parties and dances where you might get married off. Jane Austen does this with a lot of her heroines Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice travels with her Aunt and Uncle and Lydia goes off with a family friend. In the P&P and Zombies book it was done as well, I do not remember what happens in this film adaption.

[–] Loincloth 8 years ago

I agree with the posters below who said it probably wouldn't have taken that long in that era; my slight problem with it is actually it would probably have made more sense to send people to Normandy, the Netherlands or Spain and have them learn swordsmanship, archery and pistoliery there. If they wanted to intimate that the plague was rife in continental Europe as well, that should have been mentioned in the script's final edit.