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Another fun fact. You don't see box sets of all the movies because Romero always had to raise money from different people so the rights for them (other than the

Another fun fact. You don't see box sets of all the movies because Romero always had to raise money from different people so the rights for them (other than the first) are scattered.

JKCalhoun 9y ago
Additionally, his indy "Night of the Living Dead" featured an African American protagonist when that was just not a thing people were doing. Such an un-Hollywood ending too. Wow.
- axaxs 9y ago
  Absolutely. For such a 'simple' movie, comparatively to today, the ending was absolutely unexpected and shocking. Probably what made me love it!
- a_bonobo 9y ago
  There is a weirdly slow car crash scene in Night Of The Living Dead - this was written into the script since someone borrowed the car and drove a dent into it, and they needed to explain the new dent in the movie...
- Hasknewbie 9y ago
  Not only that, but Duane Jones got the role solely on merit. The part was not written with an African-American (or a minority) in mind, but Romero decided after the fact not to update the script in any way, which gives the film this odd colour-blind/progressive trait for that time (1968)... (Mild spoiler below) ...And then post-filming but before its release, Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot, giving the film's treatment of Jones character an unexpected tone in context. Romero mentioned this in one of his interviews to illustrate another way in which the film was shocking to its audience (beside the then never-seen-before level of gore in the movie -- something that has gone mainstream since then and may get lost when watching the movie).
- asciimo 9y ago
  As Jordan Peele said about his Get Out, "This is the only woke horror movie of all time, save for Night of the Living Dead. ... I felt like race has not been dealt with in my favorite genre which is horror. Every other human horror has its sort of classic horror movie to go along with it. So I kind of wanted to fill the gap in that piece of the genre of conversation." (http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/515813914/in-get-out-jordan-peele-tackles-the-human-horror-of-racial-fear http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/515813914/in-get-out-jordan-pe...)
- wyclif 9y ago
  "Dawn of the Dead" (1978) also had Ken Foree, another African-American actor. He played the only main male character to survive the zombie attacks.
- chiph 9y ago
  One of the things about the film was how the humans treated each other far worse than what the zombies did to them. The zombies (the slow kind!) were just a force of nature.
axaxs 9y ago
I wonder if that is due, in part or whole, to the copyright blunder of the original...
- deleted 9y ago
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Another fun fact. You don't see box sets of all the movies because Romero always had to raise money from different people so the rights for them (other than the first) are scattered.

JKCalhoun 9y ago

Additionally, his indy "Night of the Living Dead" featured an African American protagonist when that was just not a thing people were doing. Such an un-Hollywood ending too. Wow.

axaxs 9y ago
Absolutely. For such a 'simple' movie, comparatively to today, the ending was absolutely unexpected and shocking. Probably what made me love it!
a_bonobo 9y ago
There is a weirdly slow car crash scene in Night Of The Living Dead - this was written into the script since someone borrowed the car and drove a dent into it, and they needed to explain the new dent in the movie...
Hasknewbie 9y ago
Not only that, but Duane Jones got the role solely on merit. The part was not written with an African-American (or a minority) in mind, but Romero decided after the fact not to update the script in any way, which gives the film this odd colour-blind/progressive trait for that time (1968)... (Mild spoiler below) ...And then post-filming but before its release, Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot, giving the film's treatment of Jones character an unexpected tone in context. Romero mentioned this in one of his interviews to illustrate another way in which the film was shocking to its audience (beside the then never-seen-before level of gore in the movie -- something that has gone mainstream since then and may get lost when watching the movie).
asciimo 9y ago
As Jordan Peele said about his Get Out, "This is the only woke horror movie of all time, save for Night of the Living Dead. ... I felt like race has not been dealt with in my favorite genre which is horror. Every other human horror has its sort of classic horror movie to go along with it. So I kind of wanted to fill the gap in that piece of the genre of conversation." (http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/515813914/in-get-out-jordan-peele-tackles-the-human-horror-of-racial-fear http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/515813914/in-get-out-jordan-pe...)
wyclif 9y ago
"Dawn of the Dead" (1978) also had Ken Foree, another African-American actor. He played the only main male character to survive the zombie attacks.
chiph 9y ago
One of the things about the film was how the humans treated each other far worse than what the zombies did to them. The zombies (the slow kind!) were just a force of nature.

axaxs 9y ago

I wonder if that is due, in part or whole, to the copyright blunder of the original...

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