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wolven7I need a large blunt instrument, that i can name "This IS What George Ramero Is About," So i can break people's legs with it.
To start, if you've never seen a George Ramero film, then you need to stop whatever you're doing, right now, and go watch "Night of the Living Dead," and "Dawn of the Dead." (Tori Amos - [Sweet Dreams]). If you really want to, you can go get "Day of the Dead," "Return of the Living Dead," and the others, but the message is really captured in the First two. "Night" is where it starts, "Dawn" is where it plays out. "Day" kind of runs parallel to "Dawn." Anyway, after you've seen these, i want you to go see the new "Dawn of the Dead." Does the Death of Hope disappoint? Does the new feel untrue to the old? I'll bet no.
The The - [This is the Day]--- The point, here, is that i'm hearing a lot of bitching about the new movie, based on grounds of there's too little hope, or that they didn't like the ending sequence, during the credits. I'm not going to talk about it, directly, as some haven't seen it, yet. What i'm saying is, if you're going to bitch about that, if you're going to not understand that, then you're missing one of the principle reasons the Zombie Movie genre, as a whole, even fucking exists. Zombies work like this: Unless there is some kind of "Cure," or Divine Apocalyptic Battling Intervention, then You Will Die. It is only a matter of when, and how. Zombies only serve to emphasize pre-existing mortality fears. They're slow, there are a lot more of them, than there are of you, and they will keep coming.
Ramero's films were like pictographic essays on nihilism, to sound pretentious, about the whole thing. (Fleming & John - [Delusions of Grandeur]). Just when you think everything's going to be ok, you find out, definatively, that they Won't. The only thing that matters, in a Zombie Movie, is how you fucking carry your life, and whether or not you Give up, try to find a way to fight, or accept that, one way or another, you're going to Die, someday, and live your Life in a way that means something. And you can see that, in the evolution of the characters.
If it's a good Zombie Movie, i mean. (Nellie McKay - [Suitcase Song]). For all that "Resident Evil" was-- an action movie, a video game movie, a pretty good movie, on certain levels-- it was not a Zombie Movie. It was a movie About Zombies. It was more a treatise against man meddling with nature, than any kind of statement on the Human condition. Man V Technology/Nature, rather than Man V Man. That kind of thing... *sigh* And i think that's enough of that.
Joydrop - [Sometimes Wanna Die]--- Simply a list of things i think people should keep in mind, if they plan on seeing the new "Dawn of the Dead."
Thanks.
{10.18pm: Things are getting better, here: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31936
The last few actually make me smile. :) }
To start, if you've never seen a George Ramero film, then you need to stop whatever you're doing, right now, and go watch "Night of the Living Dead," and "Dawn of the Dead." (Tori Amos - [Sweet Dreams]). If you really want to, you can go get "Day of the Dead," "Return of the Living Dead," and the others, but the message is really captured in the First two. "Night" is where it starts, "Dawn" is where it plays out. "Day" kind of runs parallel to "Dawn." Anyway, after you've seen these, i want you to go see the new "Dawn of the Dead." Does the Death of Hope disappoint? Does the new feel untrue to the old? I'll bet no.
The The - [This is the Day]--- The point, here, is that i'm hearing a lot of bitching about the new movie, based on grounds of there's too little hope, or that they didn't like the ending sequence, during the credits. I'm not going to talk about it, directly, as some haven't seen it, yet. What i'm saying is, if you're going to bitch about that, if you're going to not understand that, then you're missing one of the principle reasons the Zombie Movie genre, as a whole, even fucking exists. Zombies work like this: Unless there is some kind of "Cure," or Divine Apocalyptic Battling Intervention, then You Will Die. It is only a matter of when, and how. Zombies only serve to emphasize pre-existing mortality fears. They're slow, there are a lot more of them, than there are of you, and they will keep coming.
Ramero's films were like pictographic essays on nihilism, to sound pretentious, about the whole thing. (Fleming & John - [Delusions of Grandeur]). Just when you think everything's going to be ok, you find out, definatively, that they Won't. The only thing that matters, in a Zombie Movie, is how you fucking carry your life, and whether or not you Give up, try to find a way to fight, or accept that, one way or another, you're going to Die, someday, and live your Life in a way that means something. And you can see that, in the evolution of the characters.
If it's a good Zombie Movie, i mean. (Nellie McKay - [Suitcase Song]). For all that "Resident Evil" was-- an action movie, a video game movie, a pretty good movie, on certain levels-- it was not a Zombie Movie. It was a movie About Zombies. It was more a treatise against man meddling with nature, than any kind of statement on the Human condition. Man V Technology/Nature, rather than Man V Man. That kind of thing... *sigh* And i think that's enough of that.
Joydrop - [Sometimes Wanna Die]--- Simply a list of things i think people should keep in mind, if they plan on seeing the new "Dawn of the Dead."
Thanks.
{10.18pm: Things are getting better, here: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31936
The last few actually make me smile. :) }
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Just so everyone knows..
Date: 2004-03-22 11:34 am (UTC)http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31936
The point being that Dawn of the Dead was in the true spirit of its namesake, and those of us who KNOW this are a minority smaller than the surviors of any Zombie crisis.
Oh yeah, and as for Resident Evil... yes, the zombies are man made... however, keep watching. If they do Two and Three true to the series, then the hope factor will seriously go down the tubes fast. Racoon City is FUCKED.
Re: Just so everyone knows..
Re: "Dawn": Exactly.
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Date: 2004-03-22 11:42 am (UTC)*snickersnortlaugh*
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Maybe they'll learn something... Maybe. *shakes head*
Re: Just so everyone knows..
Date: 2004-03-22 01:39 pm (UTC)Zombie chipmunks, anyone?
Re: Just so everyone knows..
also entitled: Why I Love My Creative Writing Class
Date: 2004-03-22 05:31 pm (UTC)"You heard that Passion of the Christ's ticket sales were finally outsold?"
"Really? By who?" (shoulda been 'by whom,' especially in CW, but whatever)
"Dawn of the Dead. Isn't that great?"
"And fitting. I mean, Jesus had that whole zombie thing going for him..."
What's your professional opinion? Will I be able to enjoy Dawn sufficiently, on video/dvd, or is it set up for the big screen? I don't want to see it before I see others, the ones you've mentioned here especially.
Re: also entitled: Why I Love My Creative Writing Class
And yes, That's why we Yell things like "Sweet Zombie Jesus!"
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Date: 2004-03-22 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
But the sequels are rarely as good. Heh.
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Date: 2004-03-22 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
That kind of thing.
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Date: 2004-03-22 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject