Talk:Land of the Dead

References to use

Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.

• McSweeney, Terence (2010). "The Land of the Dead and the Home of the Brave: Romero's Vision of a Post-9/11 America". In Birkenstein, Jeff; Froula, Anna; Randell, Karen (eds.). Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror". Continuum. pp. 107–116. ISBN 1441119051.

Social satire

Is this section sourced or credited? It does not appear to be and looks like original research. Please correct. TDC 18:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

The Big Daddy character seems saddened/enraged by the Human hoodlums terrorizing his town, so he organized a "concerned zombie citizens" group to take back the night... Seems like they were trying for a take on the zombie's side. How they feel. Citizen Z — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.114.222 (talk) 15:39, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Poor synopsis

The synopsis of LotD needs to be rewritten, as is gets a lot wrong.

One example (of many): "Riley Denbo, both the designer and commander of Dead Reckoning, has recently retired". Okay, he may have designed the vehicle, but he's not the commander of it, and he hasn't retired.

--Stu-Rat 16:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC) 9th May, 2006

Not sure that the "hooker with a heart of gold" thing is appropriate for Slack since A) she's never seen AS a hooker in the movie, only a freed slave of sorts, and B) it was involuntary in the first place. 24.33.28.52 06:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, although I don't think the "hooker with a heart of gold" thing is appropriate for Slack either (mainly because she, like most of Romero's characters in this film and others, is distinctly neutral and so she has a heart of grey, really), she does actually confess to being a hooker. At 31:58 Slack states "...'til sombody figured I'd be a better hooker than a soldier."

She may not be seen as one, but I think her confession counts.

--Stu-Rat 16:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC) 9th May, 2006

Yeah, I know she IS a hooker, my point is that she never serves that function as a character in the movie. I changed it to be more accurate.24.33.28.52 23:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

BUB

I remember reading somwhere that Bub made an appereance. I want to say Simon Pegg played him. Ah well. Can anyone confirm?

Not true at all. The zombie that is played by Simon Pegg does bear a startling resemblence to Bub but it is not the same character.--Stu-Rat 20:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

No. The only connection between Simon Pegg and Bub is that Shaun bases his zombie impersonation on him in Shaun of the Dead. The Kinslayer 08:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, if you listen to the commentary, Romero and the others discuss that Bub doesn't appear in the film, but that Big Daddy 'picks up where he left off.' The Kinslayer 11:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Reaction

Most movies tend to have a "reaction" subsection concerning praise and criticism of the film from critics, and this would especially fit the case since fans were waiting some 20 odd years for this film to come out.

Dawn of the Dead Remake

Romero definitely didn't hate the Dawn remake. He said he thought it was much better than he'd expected. So why is there a "rumour" that he made Land of the Dead to "show them a good zombie movie"?

False fact?

Tom Savini can be briefly seen as a zombie (credited as "Machete Zombie"), reprising his character, Blades, from Dawn of the Dead. This marks the first time an actor has reprised a role in a Romero zombie movie.

The Day of the Dead article says that he had an appearance also. This should probably be removed unless I'm wrong.

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Dennis Hopper's "Paul Kaufman" character

The trivia section has a claim that the character of Paul Kaufman is named after fellow director Lloyd Kaufman, but has George A. Romero actually said so? Romero's home town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the story is ostensibly set, is also where the Kaufmann's chain of department stores originated. Could it be possible that he wanted to give his movie's tyrannical businessman and chief antagonist a name similar to one of Pittsburgh's most prominent stores and wealthiest families? Kepiblanc 19:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Citations & References

See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 06:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Plot summary

The plot summary was overlong. I've restored it to a brief but adequate version from an older revision. [1] --Tony Sidaway 23:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Stand-alone or Sequel?

This article fasley claims that "it's (Land of the Dead) success led to a sequel in 2008, Diary of the Dead". Diary of the Dead is NOT, I repeat, IS NOT, a sequel to Land of the Dead or a sequel to ANYTHING at all. George A. Romero has abundantly made it absolutely clear that Diary of the Dead is not a sequel to Land of the Dead. Not only that, chronologically it makes no sense to call Diary of the Dead a sequel when Diary is a reboot of the zombie plague story and takes place when the zombie plague actually begins whereas Land of the Dead takes place in the unspecified future years after the initial zombie outbreak and zombies have already overtaken the earth. I have taken the liberty to remove this garbage claim. The issue that Diary of the Dead is not a sequel to Land of the Dead is not one of controversy or debate, it is one of fact. So says the creator. 75.254.59.19 (talk) 08:59, 30 March 2009 (UTC) DamnRight

/Is MGS3 the sequel to MGS2? Yes it is, even though it takes place 50 years prior to MGS2. Prequels are still sequels. The fact is that it is still in the same series, and was made after this movie and is therefore a sequel! This is not complex people. Nitro378 (talk) 17:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

So Batman begins was a sequal to Batman forever? weird how he forgot Robin... --121.73.246.11 (talk) 15:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Feudal government?

I may take on the task of editing the plot summary. One apparent glaring error is calling the government of Pittsburgh "feudal," which does not make sense. Feudalism can be defined as nobles holding lands granted by the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals as subservient tenants obliged to live on the land in exchange for homage, performing essentially forced labor in an agricultural setting (notionally in exchange for military protection). The essential elements here are extensive land holdings and serf tenantry--elements that would not be available in an urban setting. In fact I have never heard of any metropolis being described as "feudal." "Autocratic" is probably the better description here.

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