Topic: Dawn of the Dead 1978
This is the theatrical release of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.
There's lots of variations on Dawn-of-the-Deads in cinema, just thought I'd be clear.
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Dawn of the Dead 1978
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Good one. I noticed this wasn't an enhanced version in the podcast feed, which is fine. We were going old school here 
Couple comments. The X rating was a thing, but the MPAA never trademarked it so unlike the other ratings anyone could use it. That's why they abandoned it for NC-17, but just like the X only a couple "real" films actually took advantage of it.
Dorkman's joke that in the uncut version of the remake all the nude scenes are important to the plot is forcing me to quote an early issue of Dave Sims' Cerebus comic (the last chapter in the first graphic novel collection). An artist is describing his style and subject matter:
"You can't beat breasts when it comes to universal symbols. I did bowls of fruit for years... you ever try using ripe breadfruit to illustrate man's inability to reach harmony with his environment? It doesn't work. But BREASTS! Breasts work! The first thing people ask is 'What is this? Breasts?' You see? Breasts open up a DIALOGE! There is a need to communicate about breasts... their first question is 'What IS this'. Fortunately for my bank account, their second question is generally 'Can you do one of those for ME?' Breasts are even more popular then monsters! Beyond a shadow of a doubt any artist who is not putting breasts in his paintings is cutting himself off from eighty percent of the art-consuming public..."
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Good commentary. I like the '78 DOTD but that may be down to being the first zombie film I remember seeing back in the 80s. Night of the Living Dead is the better film though, I feel.
Can I just add though, Romero has actually made 6 zombie films, not 5-
Night, Dawn, Day, Land, Diary and Survival. The last one is shite and is sort of a sequel to Diary and features zombies on an island. It came and went though, it's easy to leave it out
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Given how long it took to get funding for Land, I can't blame for at this point doing a film whenever someone's stupid enough to throw money at him. I can always ignore the final product
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Fair enough. A shite film is a shite film, is all I'm saying. Low budget films can still be good if they are written and directed well. Survival just isn't.
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Listened to it again, which reminded me of some things. There's actually two links back to the original Night of the Living Dead in the film. The first, as mentioned, is the fact you're seeing the behind the scenes of the TV station they're watching in Night. The second is easy to miss. As our heros fly their helicopter as daylight hits they fly over an isolated farm house surrounded by good old boys killing zombies- this is suppose to be the house from the first film. It's made more clear in the 1990 remake of Night with Romero produced, which ends with a character looking up at a police helicopter flying over the scene then away.
Teague's story idea of what if once we were the zombies, killing off the smarter life form and taking over, naturally brings to mind one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes Full Circle (4th Doctor, the one where Adric joins the cast). We have a crashed space ship who's inhabitants every few hundred years have to fight off these primitive zombie like creatures who rise up from the swamp. We later find out that the original crew died long ago, and the full cycle is for these quickly evolving monsters to take over the ship, develop the intelligence and culture to treat the tech as part of their religion and history, then get killed by another wave of the swamp creatures.
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They should probably do the director's cut. Is the theatrical even available on dvd or bluray? I'd choose the theatrical because it has a bit more of the weird 70s vibe, which is one of the things i like about it, but that's me.
To be honest i'm glad Phase II never got made. It would've been awful. Would it have had Kirk/Spock/McCoy? Ilia was already cast for it. I love her (i wish) but not every week, especially it she was meant to replace Spock. Although, a chick from the sex planet offers lots of story ideas. But the FX would've been bad; no better, or worse than TOS. There was no ILM to call in the mid-70s. Or maybe it would've been the best Trek ever, we'll never know.
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ended up listening to this tonight on a flight from Melbourne to Perth, really interesting stuff.
Trey's story about his friends hung over zombie experience was hilarious.
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