I think that in the end, Dawn of the Dead is about redemption because it's about a bunch of people who have lived certain lives, who have maybe not been the best people, and suddenly they have everything that they've used to define themselves: Their careers, their churches, their jobs, their families are stripped away. They're gone. They start at nothing and they have to become who they really are in the face of all that and some of the people are redeemed and end up becoming good people and some of them are not redeemed and they end up, you know, not redeemed. And that's what kind of drove me throughout the story, was it was a story about redemption. I also think that there's a lot about how people survive and what people turn to in the face of such tragedy. The tragedy in this case being flesh-eating zombies. And really it's a group coming together to work as a community who wouldn't otherwise work together. So there is that foundation of love, that basic message, within even Dawn of the Dead...
-JAMES GUNN
James Gunn has a nasty habit of mixing the most wholesome lovable characters and the most disturbing nightmare fuel possible.
Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 American action horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by James Gunn. Ana goes home to her peaceful suburban residence, but she is unpleasantly surprised the morning that follows when her husband is brutally attacked by her zombified neighbor. In the chaos of her once picturesque neighborhood, Ana flees and stumbles upon a police officer named Kenneth, along with more survivors who decide that their best chances of survival would be found in the deserted Crossroads Shopping Mall. When supplies begin running low and other trapped survivors need help, the group comes to the realization that they cannot stay put forever at the Shopping Mall and devise a plan to escape.
I love the way this movies show just how fast the apocalypse can destroy society, and just how fucked you are when it happens. This movie opens with Ana Clark finishing a long shift as a nurse at the Milwaukee County Hospital, and heading home to her suburban neighborhood and her husband Luis. Really normal people going through the motions just like every other day. Exept when she wakes up the next morning, a girl from the neighborhood (minus her bottom jaw) enters and bites Luis. Ana forces Vivian outside and tries to call for help. While she is dialing, Luis bleeds out, reanimates and attacks Ana. She flees in her car, and we get the full scale of just how massive this apocalypse is. A woman being gutted in the back of a city bus, a car driving into a gas pump causing an explosion, and so much more. Its a worldwide expression of agony, panic, and confusion in a way I had never seen before, and this opening still gives me goosebumps. Soon enough or leading lady crashes and passes out while the credits start to roll and Johnny Cash starts to sing. It is quite literally the best horror movie opening I have ever seen to this day, and in 10 short minutes perfectly sets up the events to follow.
Upon waking, she joins police sergeant Kenneth Hall, electronics salesman Michael Shaunessy, petty criminal Andre and his pregnant wife, Luda. They break into a nearby mall. Im surprised I never noticed before that when we get to the mall, there is this sickly green color pallet that helps make this otherwise normal mall feel haunted and alien. The new mall setting also introduces some new mall characters, guards C.J, Bart, and Terry who make them surrender their weapons in exchange for refuge. And now that we have all of the important (and totally unimportant) characters introduced, let’s talk about the social commentary that is so in your face in the original movie.
Just like the original movie, the best thing this movie has to offer is its characters. Even the human shit stain CJ isn’t completely good or evil and I love the total lack of black and white morality. Just there is no wrong way to grieve; there really is no inappropriate response to the total collapse of society. CJ Is far more concerned with his perception of control than any zombie threat. Some refuse to believe there family members are dead, some believe help is on the way, some believe hope is useless, and some simply want to carry on living the same way they always have been. It’s amazing seeing how all these characters handle the same circumstance in vastly different ways, and its why I say the characters are the best part of this movie.
Although if im being honest, its tied with the incredible gore effects in this movie. Despite the brief Savini cameo The special makeup effects for the film were created by David LeRoy Anderson, with assistance from his wife Heather Langenkamp. Since the filmmakers had decided that the zombies in the film would become more decomposed over time, Anderson accordingly researched on the appearance of decay following human death, looking through several medical books, war footages, and crime scene photographs showing graphic images of trauma victims in order to properly depict this appearance; he broke down the look of decomposition into three stages:
"The first stage looks like someone who was just in the ER – pale, with lots of fresh blood. The second stage has moist wounds but the skin is beginning to break down. There is a lot of discoloration and mottling, mostly blues and greens. The third stage is the most intense, with the skeletal form coming through. The wounds are dried-up, the skin is sloughing off and colors are oily blacks"
Due to that extreme level of detail, every single second of this movies effects look phenomenal, and there are plenty of nasty set pieces worth admiring. A zombie baby eating his way out of his equally zombified mother, a mallet handle through the skull, a jawless little girl, and so many more I can’t possibly name them all
THIS SHIT RULES
10/10
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