Dawn of the Dead:
Even though “Dawn of the Dead“ was remade in 2004; in this paper, the version that will be discussed is the 1978 version. It was both written and directed by the legendary director, George A. Romero. This film was starred by “smaller” names like, David Emge(Stephen), Ken Foree(Peter), Scott Reiniger(Roger), Gaylen Ross(Francine), and David Crawford(Dr. Foster). The film was also the second part of the “Dead” trilogy, which started by the Night of the Living Dead (1968) of Romero (IMDb. 2016). However what made this film was the intense story, the atmosphere it created on its audience and the very well consumerism criticism which was molded into the story itself.
The plot of the film is very simple, yet it is also deeper than …show more content…
The director, Romero, have always had his own political and social satirical commentary in his films and this one was no exception. Since all nations have their own cultural imagery. These imageries are quite important to be realized by the researchers of the topic.
In the Dawn of the Dead, it can be seen that, there is actually a satirical criticism towards the North America’s destructive habit of consumerism. We can understand this both from the acting, from the music that was chosen and from the way the film progresses. The main theory on this topic, is that the mall which was chosen for the film’s main place, is because of the consumerism and they felt comfortable in the mall due to this habit(Bishop 2010, p.234). The reason for this can be found both in the old version of the film and in the newer version of the film as well. Since Romero is a very talented observer of the people of the North America, the zombies can be related with the people and their habits can be related to the people’s habits quite simply (Williams 2015, p. …show more content…
As most of the Western countries, the U.S. is no exception to the fact that the materialist ideas rule the country and as all other sections of society and businesses, the media and the cinema sectors are no different. Also, it can be seen that the genre of zombie is prominently Western. I believe the materialistic ideas rather than the spiritualistic ideas are rather more “believable” for the Western societies, thus it is more important –surely it doesn’t mean that any kind of spiritualistic films are unimportant-. It can just be seen, such genres do attract and scare the Western people. The fact that it is also used for different purposes, such as Romero’s criticisms, or the promotion of capitalism etc., we can see this being a fact too(Birch-Bayley 2012, p.
Even though “Dawn of the Dead“ was remade in 2004; in this paper, the version that will be discussed is the 1978 version. It was both written and directed by the legendary director, George A. Romero. This film was starred by “smaller” names like, David Emge(Stephen), Ken Foree(Peter), Scott Reiniger(Roger), Gaylen Ross(Francine), and David Crawford(Dr. Foster). The film was also the second part of the “Dead” trilogy, which started by the Night of the Living Dead (1968) of Romero (IMDb. 2016). However what made this film was the intense story, the atmosphere it created on its audience and the very well consumerism criticism which was molded into the story itself.
The plot of the film is very simple, yet it is also deeper than …show more content…
The director, Romero, have always had his own political and social satirical commentary in his films and this one was no exception. Since all nations have their own cultural imagery. These imageries are quite important to be realized by the researchers of the topic.
In the Dawn of the Dead, it can be seen that, there is actually a satirical criticism towards the North America’s destructive habit of consumerism. We can understand this both from the acting, from the music that was chosen and from the way the film progresses. The main theory on this topic, is that the mall which was chosen for the film’s main place, is because of the consumerism and they felt comfortable in the mall due to this habit(Bishop 2010, p.234). The reason for this can be found both in the old version of the film and in the newer version of the film as well. Since Romero is a very talented observer of the people of the North America, the zombies can be related with the people and their habits can be related to the people’s habits quite simply (Williams 2015, p. …show more content…
As most of the Western countries, the U.S. is no exception to the fact that the materialist ideas rule the country and as all other sections of society and businesses, the media and the cinema sectors are no different. Also, it can be seen that the genre of zombie is prominently Western. I believe the materialistic ideas rather than the spiritualistic ideas are rather more “believable” for the Western societies, thus it is more important –surely it doesn’t mean that any kind of spiritualistic films are unimportant-. It can just be seen, such genres do attract and scare the Western people. The fact that it is also used for different purposes, such as Romero’s criticisms, or the promotion of capitalism etc., we can see this being a fact too(Birch-Bayley 2012, p.