The image is from the film Dawn of the Dead (DOTD).
It shows Stephen or “Fly boy” trying to shoot Zombies but keeps on missing. It
challenges the horror stereotypes of
the handsome white man failing at a simple task. This shows the influence of Romero
as auteur because he likes to flip characters stereotypes. Compare to another
of his films... such as day of the dead, where he has a drunken man as one of
the main heroes, or in martin where he has a sympathetic vampire. In the image
Stephen’s face shows he is almost feels emasculated as Roger takes his place.
Roger is a small-ish man who is in the SWAT team which could be considered bad
in some way. So it is a shock to see the roles are almost reversed. The guns they use in DOTD are
large guns which symbolises female power, and the way Roger shoots better than Stephan
it connotes that Roger has more male power than Stephan which again flips the stereotype.
The natural lighting connotes that the zombie apocalypse is
only starting and it will get darker and darker along the way. And the medium
shot gives a quite plain appearance which could connote how they feel - they
could only shoot zombies as now civilization doesn’t exist.
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