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Hugues Yangongo
Mr.Kozak
Part 4
14 December 2012
Night of the Living Dead : Independent horror film
I’ve been a horror movie fan for five years and I got obsessed by George Romero’s work.
For the first time I heard about horror films I thought of something else. Just like everybody else think of these movies. The horror films used to gross me out when I was ten years old, but as I grow up I started to like them. Sometimes I feel like I exaggerate in watching horror films because on my free time it’s the only thing I think about doing first. I had heard people talking about the release of the movie and I told myself that I must see it. It sounded interesting, bloody, and thrill. I hopped on the computer one night to look up the summary of the movie and I decided to go to the theater so I can watch it over there. But I didn’t get a chance to. I decided to buy a DVD on the market. When I got the DVD, I was really excited and I couldn’t wait to play it on the DVD player. I started to think about the way the director wrote the scripts of that movie, the scenes were very scary; the unburied dead return to life and seek for human victims.
The characters got riddled ever since the film was released. Night of the Living Dead is the most apolitical of Romero's films, but the ending--the film's hero, a black man, is shot by a white zombie hunter--sparked much discussion and soul-searching when it was released in the racially discordant year of 1968. Realizing the jackpot he had stumbled onto, Romero made a conscious effort to insert political controversy into his films.( Sonny Bunch). For our purposes, a zombie is defined as a reanimated being occupying a human corpse, with a strong desire to eat human flesh--the kind of ghoul that first appeared in George Romero's 1968 classic, Night of the
Living Dead, and which has been rapidly proliferating in popular culture in recent years (far upstaging its more passive cousins, the reanimated corpses of traditional West African and
Haitian voodoo rituals). Because they can spread across borders and threaten states and civilizations, these zombies should command the attention of scholars and policymakers
(Drezner, Daniel W.)

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George Romero (the director of the movie) wanted to do something about revolution because it was late 60’s. I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains.
To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead. My stories are much more about the living people. I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet. A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation (George
Romero).
The Zombies are just part of the mainstream. I think the craze will die down, but then someone will make another zombie film, and it will be back. They do not have to explain what they are; everyone already knows.
The industry appears ready to give Romero some respect. When 14 minutes of Land previewed at May's Cannes Film Festival, the reception for the gray-ponytailed Romero was rousing enough to wake the dead. "It was the longest standing ovation I've ever been a part of, and I've done good work," says longtime admirer John Leguizamo, 41, who leads a rebellion against the ruling elite in Land.
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