Diary of the Dead
George Romero is coming back to the silver screen... and he brought zombies with him! Trailer is here.
As an aside, you'll note a promo blurb at the link, which contains this little gem:
I must admit to being rather puzzled when I first read that sentence. What does a hurricane have to do with a good old-fashioned zombie flick? But after a minute of pondering, it suddenly came to me: much like zombies, the denizens of New Orleans produce nothing, create nothing, and preserve nothing... they simply consume and destroy.
Now it makes sense.
As an aside, you'll note a promo blurb at the link, which contains this little gem:
Told with Romero’s pitch-black humor and an unflinching eye on our post-Katrina world, GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DIARY OF THE DEAD marks the noted filmmaker’s return to his roots.
I must admit to being rather puzzled when I first read that sentence. What does a hurricane have to do with a good old-fashioned zombie flick? But after a minute of pondering, it suddenly came to me: much like zombies, the denizens of New Orleans produce nothing, create nothing, and preserve nothing... they simply consume and destroy.
Now it makes sense.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 12:13
5 Comments:
Ooo hey new zombie flick from the Master, nice. As a zombie aficionado I shall have to make a point to check out the new edition to his series. Though I fear the mad angel doesn't quite share my taste in such fare.
Post Katrina is probably right in that Romero has said in the past that his zombie movies are making a political statement. Who the hell knows what he is saying but there ya go.
Aw now ya' see...I'm a political fiend through-and-through, but I don't want politics mixed with my Zombies damnit!
Zombie politics is simple:
Step 1) See creepy shambling undead
Step 2) Shoot creepy shambling undead in the head
Step 3) WIN!
OR
Step 1) See creepy shambling undead
Step 2) Try to show sensitivity and reach out to the Gaia consciousness that MUST exist in this true creature of nature liberated from its greedy human bonds.
Step 3) Get ripped open like a meat filled Jiffy-Pop(tm) container and eaten alive by creepy shambling undead.
or alternatively...
Step 3) Get bit and turn into creepy shambling undead
Step 4) *I* shoot both creepy shambling undead in the head
Step 5) I WIN! Double Zombie Score!
I've seen pretty much everything Romero has filmed, and I'd have a really hard time finding anything political in his movies. I think it's more likely he's just playing up that angle to try and attract larger audiences by drawing in the liberal whiners, though why anyone would actually want nasty-stinky-smelly hippies watching their nasty-stinky-smelly zombie movie is quite beyond me.
Sorry, read some articles. His dig is against society and consumerism in general as read here:
Night of the Living Dead earned a vast sum (estimated at about 250 times its budget) on the midnight movie and TV syndication circuits, and was honored at the Museum of Modern Art and preserved by the Library of Congress. It repays all the critical attention with a maddening thumbs down on humanity. Characters are done in by their zombified siblings and children. The film’s roots in resurrection and cannibalism parody the founding ideas of Catholicism, yet it avoids any hint of spiritual or supernatural meaning. The zombie plague follows a public-health epidemic model, but the movie doesn’t really offer a scientific explanation for the tragedy. (Hints about radiation from a NASA probe are quickly and shrewdly abandoned.) You get the impression that the dead are rising against us because, in some general way, we deserve it.
Romero’s zombie follow-ups featured increasingly direct political content. The epic-scaled 1978 Dawn of the Dead moved the action to a shopping mall for a grisly satire of consumer culture; the most brain-dead viewer couldn’t miss the meaning of those zombies shambling dimly to the elevator music and eating intestines outside the Thom McAn shoe store. The unloved 1985 Day of the Dead dispensed with the satire, making shrieking villains out of military types who were still holding out against the undead. The inevitable fourth film in the trilogy, Land of the Dead (2005), was practically a 527 ad, with full-bore jibes at American foreign policy and the real estate boom, Dennis Hopper playing a profiteer modeled on then–Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Romero openly siding with the zombies.
So, alot of stuff I read, tells me he is not a fan of capitalism. Which stands to reason, most of people in the entertainment and movie industry are a bunch of communists. Personnally, I just ignore the "message" the movie is trying to tell me, like in "Day after Tommorrow" and enjoy the general destruction and cool effects.
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