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[/caption]My brother sent me a link to an interview with George Romero. link I t was interesting to see how Romero got his start, but more interesting was who he got his start with. George Romero first starting making films for Mr. Rodgers.
I knew they both were from Pittsburgh, but I never would have but the two together in my mind. Granted I have a pretty twisted mind, but that combination just never happened. Although now that I think about it I can see how the two got a long so well.
Both of them were selling a positive version of human nature. Romero's decidedly a little more twisted version, but positive none the less. If you think about it Zombies spread so fast because we don't mindlessly kill on sight. People get bit because they want to give the person/zombie a chance. If we were all mindless killers with no thought to pulling a trigger on another person then there wouldn't be a zombie plauge.
Mr. Rodgers sold the same message. We are all basically good and everyone should be treated like a neighbor. Maybe it's that message, taught to us when we were very young, that makes us incapable of pulling the trigger without hesitation. If that's right I think Mr. Rodgers may be the cause of the Zombie Appocalypse.
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Zombies are the new Vampires and Romero is their puppet master.
ReplyDeleteSimon Pegg tweeted about a Zombie film made somewhere in Central or South America - it is called Juan of the Dead. IMHO, Shaun of the Dead is about as close to brilliant the genre can get without being Romero's original movie. There are other little twists and turns in the genre that make it less static than many imagine.
Fido is another comedic turn, Serpent And the Rainbow anthropological - or ethno-pharmaceutical - I guarantee you the guy took Anthro 101... and more recently the apocalyptic Zombie's of Resident Evil.
Fred Rogers would be proud.
Serpent is based on Wade Davis's field work in Haiti, so very anthropological. I'll have to lod for Juan. Res plays into the fear of the aristocracy. The corporation, the new aritocracy is the bad guy.
ReplyDeleteCheck the post called the truth about zombies. At the end I link it to the annual edition of Anthropology and a great read on wade Davis' field work in Haiti.
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