Dawn Of The Living Dead Film Analysis

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infecting people through a bite or a scratch. The zombie genre has also evolved by their characteristics since they went from slow, unskillful zombies to fast, jumping, climbing zombies or infected. She uses several films to get her point across to the audience, but the one that she focuses on the most is the film directed by Danny Boyle 28 days later. Bayley focuses on this film the most because the zombies are not really zombies in this film since they do not die and then rise again, but they are just infected by a virus that spreads throughout the world.
Bayley begins by giving us some background on the zombie genre. She starts off by telling us that George Romero started the subgenre of zombies with his film Night of the Living Dead. She
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She is initially right by stating this certain fact because the government is never prepared to handle global crisis since they have never had any experience with it they are only use to local or oversee conflicts, but never the entire world so they will be unprepared to stop a global crisis like she says in her article. She also elaborates on the modern film Dawn of the Dead directed by Zack Snyder and she says that Snyder got his idea for the film by George Romero’s film Dawn of the Dead the only difference in the films is that Snyder modernized the film to fit our time period better. The way that Snyder decided to modernize the film Dawn of the Dead is that he decided to film it in a shopping mall where most Americans spend their leisure time and he also bumped up the abilities of the zombies since in the film directed by Snyder they can sprint, jump, climb, etc. while in Romero’s film they were still the traditional slow moving zombies that most people would not have expected back

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