Monday, 13 January 2014

Dawn of the Dead (1978) Scene Analysis 3





This still shows an establishing shot of the mall that the characters choose to live in. Along with this shot, there is contrapuntal music that gives this scene a bit of a humorous but eerie side to it. Romero chose to use a shopping mall as the main location for this film as he tries to tackle the issue of consumerism and capitalism. Romero’s auteur style shows that in his film he brings aware different issues in the time the film was made e.g. Racism, Capitalism, and the Vietnam War. In this film he used the shops and the mall as a ‘safe base’ for the characters which eventually gets invaded, connoting that shops and shopping malls seem to be a good idea, but really they’re just a up and coming problem in America.


 

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