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    deerlady83Carolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 11:55am

    It was such a gut punch seeing what happened to Ben when I saw it for the first time. He ended up making it through the night while everyone else around him dead. In the end, he was shot and killed by the police officers. It went to still pictures as they disposed of his body. The hooks they used was a striking image to me.

    It might have been unintentional but George Romero tapped into something powerful in that movie with Ben.

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      Ugh.deerlady83
      7/19/17 12:02pm

      I love how the end of the credits switches from still images to a roaring fire.

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      Mason4444deerlady83
      7/19/17 12:17pm

      Definitely and I don’t quite buy Romero’s line that he wasn’t trying to comment on race relations. Every one of his living dead movies made some sort of comment on society, he never just made a zombie movie. I guess that’s why I love his work, whether it’s bad or good, at least he was trying to do something different.

      And the original, with those scenes at the end, still scares the shit out of me...of course, the fact that I first saw it when I was 5 probably doesn’t help any.

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    Ugh.Carolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 11:53am

    RIP Duane Jones. Dude didn’t get anything close to his due.

    Foree has my favorite line in DotD: “‘Cause they still believe there’s respect in dying.”

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      deerlady83Ugh.
      7/19/17 11:56am

      I met Ken Foree at a con. He was very nice and sweet to me. I had a long conversation with him.

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      Ugh.deerlady83
      7/19/17 12:01pm

      Good on you. I’d have gotten goofily starstruck.

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    Vanguard KnightCarolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 12:15pm

    The next morning, exhausted, Ben leaves the house, only to be mistaken for a zombie and killed by snipers.

    I always saw the scene as they knew he wasn’t a Zombie, but that they took their chance to kill a black guy.

    They wouldn’t bother to check whether he was alive or a zombie because a black man was worth the same to them.

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      insectsentienceVanguard Knight
      7/19/17 1:45pm

      I remember watching this as a kid and thinking something similar. It was so matter of fact, it’s hard to determine what the true motive was. Great film.

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      SailorjeffVanguard Knight
      7/19/17 3:59pm

      That is how I always took that scene as well.

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    HuskyBroCarolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 12:18pm
    Romero said that Duane Jones, the black actor who played the lead and the hero in the film, was simply the best actor for the role.

    To be judged on our merits and not our skin color. What a concept!

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    Time2MakeTheDonutsCarolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 1:14pm

    Ben was the only person in that house with a bit of damn sense, and the only one I really wanted to see survive.

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      Ugh.Time2MakeTheDonuts
      7/19/17 2:57pm

      Though, when you think about it, Cooper was right. The cellar WAS the safest place.

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      EnceldusUgh.
      7/19/17 3:32pm

      I always thought that was a nice twist.

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    BlockedpunchCarolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 2:57pm

    I always liked the theme that people can only survive by working together. Either one of their plans might have worked and led to their survival (except for the little girl) had they worked as a team.

    They all could have survived till the morning in the cellar

    The keys to he gas pump were also down there, which again, working together they could have gotten and escaped

    Hell had they just teamed up proper for 5 minutes BOTH plans would have probably worked

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    burps25Carolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 12:43pm

    The next morning, exhausted, Ben leaves the house, only to be mistaken for a zombie and killed by snipers.

    I never saw it as him being mistaken for a zombie, and just one of the earliest examples of “I feared for my life” on film.

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    Ken Griffey's Swollen JawCarolyn Edgar
    7/19/17 2:41pm

    I know it was one of his latest films but Romero also had a black protagonist (depending on how you view it) in Eugene Clark’s Big Daddy Zombie in Land of the Dead as the guy just wanted to protect his fellow zombies from the humans that were killing them.

    At least that’s how I always saw it

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