Night of the Living Dead is a film directed by George A. Romero and released in 1968. From that day to a nearby cemetery nights were never the same over.
In film artisans talk about this great masterpiece that, like most masterpieces, were assessed over time, without neglecting to George A. Romero , the social aspect, the genre that frames the film and of course the history of zombie culture.
Synopsis
One night seemed quiet in Pennsylvania, is altered because the dead begin to leave their graves due to radiation from a satellite. Zombies come hungry, eager to kill and infect the living. Barbara after being chased by a zombie manages to find refuge in a house, however, in a few hours looks infected undead.
Genre and subgenre
Before starting to talk about the movie, let's talk about the film genre and subgenre. Clearly the film is classified in the horror genre and subgenre " movie zombies . "
Whenever we talk about p elÃculas of zombies, you are classified as secondary film industry, low budget or out of "intellectual" movies. Basically the zombie movie subgenre , has very bad press, so it falls under the Class B movies . But despite its detractors, this subgenre has a large catalog of films, its own conventions and of course, with millions of fans spread across the world.
George A. Rosemary
Before going into the movie first discuss its creator George A. Romero , director, writer and actor in American cinema. But Neoteo we will classify as the creator of the popular zombie culture today that apart from zombie movies, has created a fantasy world that has millions of fans.
Night of the living dead
Now located in the genre of film and its creator will begin to analyze how these artisans film could make this cinematic masterpiece. George A. Romero , John Russo and Russell Streiner after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , founded the production companyThe Latent Image and tired of producing several television commercials, decide to make Night of the living dead . This is associated with Eastman and Hardman and create Image Ten , thinking that the pursuit of money for the production of the film they were going to make, but they were wrong. Finally the film was made as an independent film and funded in large part by its five partners and some actors.
Now start talking about the movie, the action is not a long wait. Spend not more than 6 minutes Writing (performed by Romero and Russo) to Barbara (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny (Russell Streiner) are attacked by a Zombie in the cemetery. It then starts a pursuit of the first Romero zombie created by Barbara, it ends when the blonde gets refuge in a wooden house, it will not offer much resistance to the zombie attack.
The house
The house certainly is the fundamental space where the story unfolds. We see the helpless blonde (the style Hitchcock ) is attacked in the house, until the hero that any fair maiden need appears, Ben.Romero in 14 minutes we put together the story and we have a house, a hero, a blonde and many zombies hungry for fresh blood.
But like all great horror movie whose shelter a home, you can not miss the basement where most people (Tom, Judy, Mr. Cooper, his wife and daughter's refugees is very sick). And after much discussion between them decide to join and leave the house to fight the zombies attack .
An African American killing whites
Romero always showed in their social reviews movies. And in his debut where we see this social aspect. Ben is an African American who kills in a very violent way to white. Yes! And the same year and very close geographically where Martin Luther King was assassinated for defending the civil rights of African Americans. Many conservatives wanted Puritans and tick the film racist, but that nickname or approaching, the work is a review of what happened in the United States at that time.Though this cost him first and then get funding distribution for the film. Romero never let go of their ideals and changed nothing of the plot, this quality being the highlight of Romero as an artist.
