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seriously if you've never seen the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD do yourself a favor and watch it alone at home one of these nights

'people are scarier than zombies' is old hat now, but most of Romero's inheritors have sadly lost the sharp political edge of that now-trope

Seems like nowadays the REASONS they think people are scarier than zombies is imaginary bullshit, rather than the very REAL terror of…

…humanity we saw in Living Dead. Like… Walking Dead wants us to think humans are scary because at the slightest sign of crisis we revert…

…to violent tribalism and rally around Strong Males to compete for resources or whatever. Which... isn't true. That's not what humans do…

…in communal crisis situations. Living Dead, meanwhile, showed us very real things to be scared of in one another: using crisis situations…

…as an excuse to play out our petty bigotry and petty grievances. To mask our hatred under the DISGUISE of helping. The rednecks get away…

…with it because they have plausible deniability. THAT'S very REAL human monstrousness.

Walking Dead is a wish fulfillment fantasy for the violent yearnings for power of insecure men. It by nature can't co-exist with any honest…

until today I didn't know Actually George Romero Didn't See Race Twitter was a thing

Almost unfathomable in 2017.

Huh. This makes me look at Get Out a little differently in terms of commentary on past films,

Well, yeah. Jordon Peele actually tweeted this today in regards to George A Romero's passing:https://twitter.com/jordanpeele/status/886718735406448640 …

When I saw that movie as a kid it took me a week to get over that ending.

That's not accurate. They did not shoot him out of fear or race. It was stupidity it a lack of communication.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha seriously? You missed the searing critique of the competent black survivor being gunned down by vigilantes?

In the script ben wasnt black or white. They pick the actor because he was the best for the roll. The shootin never was a racial critic

In the script. In reality though, the casting of Duane Jones changed the movie's, and by extension that particular scene's intent.

And for a director like Romero, that was ot an accident. Even without the ending, casting a black lead in 1968 was a subversive act.

Of course we could appreciate the film for what it was without having to bring race into it. "They're coming to get you, Barbara!"

Nope, the racial commentary is part of what makes the film brilliant. Why do you want to dumb it down?

The man was shot because stupid cops didn't check, and he didn't call out. Would be identical ending regardless of race.