Chryse
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| Subject: RE: Does that really spoil anything for someone lol | Date: Mon 24-Oct-2005, 00:14:45 | |  |
Mm. The Sarge is just a generic, cigar-chomping Sarge, from beginning to end - which works just fine. Vasquez, maybe gets more depth. Drake, not really, and with Vasquez, it mostly comes later on, I'd say. What we get at the beginning isn't that much different from Motown, except Romero gets through it much more quickly - the movie's a bit of a sprint from start to finish, which is different than the earlier dead films.
(I'm not trying to say that Manolette, Motown and Pillsbury are fully rounded, deeply drawn characters - just that they get the job done, storywise, and that their traits are randomly assigned, but fit their roles in the narrative. Plus, for my money, Pillsbury's as memorable as any of the marines in Aliens, apart from Hicks and Hudson.)
I'd disagree on a lack of silliness in Dawn. There's the posse-drinking-Iron-City scene ("'Cause I'm a Man"). There's some goofy zombie bits, like the escalator zombie and zombies-on-ice, there's the silly music in the bank scene, there's the bit at the blood pressure machine, spraying zombies with seltzer water, and the pie fight, to name a few things. Plus there's "The Gonk" playing a couple of times. Not that there's anything wrong with that - Dawn's my favorite. (Better than Night, IMHO, but what they hey.)
Maybe if you were raised in an undead world you would be oblivious but this is a couple years into it, I dont think anyone would be making jokes. Would you be making jokes if threatened by a mugger? that is a norm in our society and about as threatening.
I don't think the mugger's a good analogy - it's not a constant and inevitable threat. This is more akin to making jokes or light-hearted comments about nukes during the Cold War. (Even Reagan got in on it with his "The bombing begins in five minutes" joke.) Or heck, how long did it take for people to start making bin Laden jokes? Humor's always been one way to react to a terrible situation. It's really not that different form the bikers in Dawn throwing pies at the zombies.
That's part of it, at least. The other part is that Land's partly working (or not working for those who don't like it) in another mode, distinct from the earlier films, as an action-adventure film that's not constrained by realism or naturalism.
BTW I dont know how old you are but do you think age has something to do with it? I am mid range age for this site I am 28
Maybe. I'm older than 28. |
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RE: Does that really spoil anything for someone lol