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Dawn of the Dead (2004) is a remake of George Romero's 1978 film of the same name. Directed by Zack Snyder and with the screenplay written by James Gunn. Download high resolution version (430x640, 45 KB)Dawn of the Dead (2004) movie poster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Tagline: When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
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Sarah Polley, in an unknown movie production Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and director of short films. ...
Irving Ving Rhames (born 1959) is an American actor. ...
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Plot Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. For an unexplained reason, the dead have begun coming back to life as the undead after being bitten and killed by the living dead (though the audience is led to believe from the introduction that a virus is the cause). Ana, who is played by Sarah Polley, goes home from work at the hospital one night and wakes up the next morning to find her suburban Milwaukee town in ruins around her. Her husband is attacked by a young girl from the neighborhood, and Ana is forced to flee in her car. After crashing the car, she meets up with Police Officer Kenneth, played by Ving Rhames. Kenneth wants to go to Fort Pastor, but instead they meet up with a second group of survivors. They convince Kenneth and Ana to go to the mall with them, for safe refuge. Later we find out that Fort Pastor is gone. They find themselves trapped inside the mall with various other survivors, surrounded by thousands of zombies, a loss of power, and a slowly dwindling food supply. Three types of viruses: a bacterial virus, otherwise called a bacteriophage (left center); an animal virus (top right); and a retrovirus (bottom right). ...
Sarah Polley, in an unknown movie production Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and director of short films. ...
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There is a montage in the film set to a lounge music cover of Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness," performed by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. During this montage, the survivors engage in normal pastimes such as shopping, playing sports, watching movies and having sex. There is a feeling of macabre comedy as one character casually hits golf balls into a sea of raving zombies below him. In the following scene, Andy snipes at zombies which resemble celebrities, continuing the thread of dark humor and social commentary for which Romero's other zombie movies are well-known. In motion picture terminology, a montage (literally putting together) is a form of movie collage consisting of a series of short shots which are edited into a coherent sequence. ...
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Lead singer, David Draiman singing at a concert in New Jersey. ...
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Conflict breaks out in the group, as is common in Romero's zombie movies (The conceit of inhuman zombies symbolising the barbarity of modern society), involving survivors turning against one another. Eventually, the remaining humans reinforce some parking shuttles and escape to one character's boat, docked nearby, and sailing onto a zombie-free island.
The ending is left ambiguous. Using a hand-held camcorder film device, we see during the credits the last few days of the survivors. It ends with them arriving on an island, only to be attacked by a horde of zombies. The last image on screen, after the credits, is of a zombie falling down in front of the dropped camera, bleeding. The audience is left questioning if anyone truly escaped. Zack Snyder later admitted this follow up scene was hastily shot after major filming was complete.
Major changes between the 1978 and 2004 films - The zombies can actually run - rapidly - as opposed to simply shuffling around, and are much more aggressive. This concept is similar to that of the Infected in the film 28 Days Later. Their speed makes the remake's zombies extremely mobile and more threatening, in contrast to the original's who were usually only dangerous in large groups. Romero himself has announced his distaste for this change, arguing that zombies could not move quickly due to rigor mortis, though fans of the remake have pointed out various flaws in this idea (mainly that rigor mortis is only a temporary condition).
- The infection and "undead" process was dramatically sped up. A few characters change into the undead within a minute of being bit. An example of this is the gun store owner, Andy. He goes over fast after being bitten on the hand. In Romero's "Dawn" and "Day", infection was a slow process which could take days. In "Night", however, it only took a few hours. In both the original and the remake, the time it takes to turn is not set. It's dilated or contracted for dramatic purposes.
- The cause of the undead crisis is a blood virus rather than a mysterious plague that affected the entire world. In the Romero films, if a person died in any manner once the crisis started, they eventually rose from the dead. Example; the recently dead rose from funerals at the cemetery in Night of the Living Dead. In the 2004 remake, only a person actually infected with the virus would rise up, thus Mekhi Phifer's character does not rise up when he is shot and killed.
- The 2004 remake is considered by some to be an action film, whereas the original is a satire of the American obsession with shopping malls, materialism, and consumerism.
- Andy's Gun Store, not present in the original, is a key stronghold in the remake.
- While both films portray a mall as a refuge from the zombie hordes, the 1978 version dedicates more scenes showing the lengths to which the survivors attempt to secure the mall. There was an elaborate scene in which they moved semi-trailer trucks to block doors and glass windows. There were also more zombies present within the mall which they had to elude (and, later, kill). In the 2004 version, the plot seems to ignore this major issue; it is implicit in the characters' actions that the mall was considered instantly secure.
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Trivia - Both Ken Foree (Peter from the 1978 original) and Tom Savini (the special effects artist for the 1978 original) play minor speaking roles in the 2004 version - Foree as the televangelist who utters the film's tagline early in the movie ("When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.") and Savini as the county sheriff, a sly reference to the Night of the Living Dead remake that also includes a quick-talking, realist sheriff.
- Scott Reiniger (Roger from the 1978 original) plays the general.
- Zack Snyder (the director) has an uncredited appearance as the commando at the U.S. Capitol Building.
- Johnny Cash's song "When the Man Comes Around" is played to the opening credits.
- The Jim Carroll song "People Who Died" is played during the closing credits.
- Several memorable lines and shots were repeated as a homage to the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead, such as one scene where Andre and Michael shoot an undead from the camera view of the undead (which isn't seen in the final cut of the movie) and where Kenneth repeats a line that Stephen in the original said on the roof top of the mall. He is also wearing the same sunglasses that Stephen was sporting.
- There is a clothing store in the mall with the name "Gaylen Ross". Gaylen Ross was played the lead female role, Fran, in the original version.
- The DVD includes a wealth of bonus material, most notably "We Interrupt This Program", styled to resemble a TV news broadcast reporting on the outbreak of the undead. Richard Biggs, in one of his final appearances, plays the news anchor; his Babylon 5 co-star, Bruce Boxleitner, is heard as the voice of the President of the United States.
Actor Ken Foree (born Kentotis Alvin Foree) was born October 9, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama, in the United States. ...
Tom Savini (3 november 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an award-winning actor, stunt man, director and special effects and make-up artist. ...
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See also This is a list of film remakes: The Amityville Horror (Andrew Douglas; US, 2005) (original film: The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg; US, 1979), based on the novel by Jay Anson) Ben-Hur (William Wyler; US, 1959) (original film: Ben-Hur (Sidney Olcott; US, 1907)) The Birdcage (Mike Nichols; US, 1996...
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