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Showing posts with label the walking dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the walking dead. Show all posts
Frank Darabont, God among horror Directors, has fired his writers of the first six episodes of The Walking Dead and are now looking for writers for the second season. I kinda wish more shows did this, for example, if someone had fired the writers for Lost, Heroes, Flash-forward, Lone Star and Two & A Half Men, we might live in a better TV world.
So after seeing The Social Network last night and deciding not to post a review right away, I have had a fairly goodnight sleep. If I did do the review, I probably would have been up all night watching Gerry, which is probably not even worth mentioning because of how little that film even registers on my film blips.
So what'd we miss this morning? Well not much apparently.
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/pop-vox/2010/10/27/when-the-zombies-come-i-ll-be-ready.html
With AMC's The Walking Dead airing tonight in the US, Newsweek published a great article about the great zombie uprising which has occurred in the past few years.
Zombies represent an inbuilt fear many people fear, other than death itself, but the fear of masses of people, of crowds and of society itself breaking down. The cannibalistic nature of zombies is the disturbing realisation of humanity coming to terms with eating itself and it's own prejudices. Romero's classic (original) Dead trilogy exemplifies the nature of man on the brink of destruction. Perfectly polarised in the end sequence of Night of the Living Dead (SPOILER ALERT), in which the remaining survivor (a black man, nonetheless, which brings up a whole other subtext) is killed having been mistaken for being undead.
A melancholic end, regardless of whether you're a horror fan, the ending shows the representation of a society accepting its faults, even when it comes down to killing themselves.
