>the team entrusted by the US gov to finding a zombie cure consists of….>10 national guard guys(half are dead by the start of the film)>3 scientists >1 CIVILIAN pilot >1 CIVILIAN radio operatorWould it have been so difficult for Romero to have a couple more of his friends throw on fatigues and lab coats just to have a semi believable premise?
They literally reference in the movie that the project was rushed and probably a few died on the way to even setting it up
>>219229640>by the US govthey were the US gov
It's implied from the start that they have terribly low manpower and backwards technology
>>219229640Things were already fucked before they'd set the whole thing up. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole project was just a last chance hail mary.
>>219229640I still can't get over what a bizarre downgrade this was from Dawn of the Dead.
>>219235894I still can't get over how the bleakest film in the trilogy somehow has the least depressing ending
>>219229640I dunno knowing what I know now it's prob sadly realistic to what could get together in time. There was a comic written showing basically 90% of the research team never arrived.
The budget got cut in half.Because Romero wanted it to be R rated.
>>219236630The original script ended up in Land of the Dead, aside from the bit about actual zombie soldiers though, I guess.
>>219235894 It’s only a “downgrade” if you went in expecting Dawn 2: Mall Harder. Dawn is consumerism satire with goblin energy, Day is just straight nihilism bottled in a concrete bunker. Smaller scope, uglier characters, zero camaraderie. That’s the point.Dawn still has that adventurous streak to it - pie fights, bikers, synth jams. Day is everyone screaming at each other while civilization rots offscreen. It’s meaner and more claustrophobic on purpose. The third act alone clears most zombie movies.If anything, it’s the only one that fully commits to “you lost.” That’s not a downgrade, it’s Romero running out of patience.
>>219236933This is an edited GPT response, I can just sense it
>>219229640I hate that Romero was so obsessed with Zombies returning to intelligence. It ruined Land of the Dead. Just not interesting pretending they'll rebuild their own Dead Civilization
>>219229640It’s directly stated in film that the total surviving populace of the USA is speculated to be <400 and they’re all in bunkers in Washington DC.
>>219236969Of course it is. Who the hell says “goblin energy” earnestly it is also a weird nothing phrase it loves to use
