{"id":41933,"date":"2020-08-06T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-living-dead-completes-the-full-george-a-romero-experience\/"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:23:00","slug":"the-living-dead-completes-the-full-george-a-romero-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-living-dead-completes-the-full-george-a-romero-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018The Living Dead\u2019 Completes the Full George A. Romero Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018The Living Dead\u2019 Completes the Full George A. Romero Experience<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

The Immortal Craft<\/strong> is our new column in which we celebrate the epic lives that shaped cinema. They may no longer travel<\/a> on our plane of reality, but they continue to impact the world with the art they left behind. Here is our opportunity to thank George A. Romero for inventing the zombie subgenre and refusing to let it go with The Living Dead.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Remember all those horror movie idiots you\u2019ve screamed at over the years? \u201cDon\u2019t go in the basement!\u201d \u201cRun, fool!\u201d \u201cGet out of the house!\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t look around that dark corner!\u201d You would leave the theater shaking your head. No one is that dumb. The writer of this flick is lazy.<\/p>\n

Welcome to America in 2020. Those horror movie nimrods are not fictitious fodder concocted to agitate and boil your blood. They\u2019re your neighbors, and they vote.<\/p>\n

Recently re-watching Night of the Living Dead<\/em><\/strong>, I was struck by the authenticity of Harry Cooper (Karl Hardman). He\u2019s an angry, confused, fearful jerkwad who refuses to recognize\u00a0the science<\/a> gnashing for his brains. Do you think he would wear a mask during our pandemic? Hell no.<\/p>\n

With every passing second of lockdown, the genius of George A<\/strong>. Romero<\/strong> solidifies. His films prove that he understood humanity better than most and that the zombie subgenre is the apocalyptic jail we deserve. They\u2019re not coming to get you, Barbara. They got you, and they\u2019ve had you for decades. When we should have been boarding our windows, we were too busy scrolling TV channels, and Twitter<\/a> feeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Romero was a particularly subtle filmmaker,\u201d says Daniel Kraus<\/strong>. \u201cHe tended to hit things pretty hard, and that was another thing that I adjusted my style too. I\u2019m maybe a little more subtle than him, but in this, I was like, \u2018Fuck it.\u2019 He had points, and he liked to hammer those things home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kraus is the co-author of The Living Dead<\/em><\/strong>, the new novel firmly rooted in the same universe as Romero\u2019s zombie films and cobbled together from a manuscript<\/a> Romero first started constructing in the early 1980s. The book represents the director off the leash, free from budgetary constraints and studio notes. Stretching over six-hundred pages, The Living Dead<\/em> tracks the zombie plague\u00a0from its inception to a post-apocalyptic future never before realized on film.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the book goes fifteen years into the future,\u201d says Kraus, \u201cit deals with a fascinating concept to me. Once the humans are down to a tiny little nub of survivors \u2014 there\u2019s not really any more zombies being made because we know how to deal with them, and the zombies don\u2019t have anybody to feed on \u2014 the zombies start dying out, rotting and returning to the earth. It\u2019s grim, but a hopeful chance to rebuild society in a better way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who doesn\u2019t want to start from scratch, right now? We need a do-over, and the zombies are the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cRomero was a pessimist, and I am too,\u201d continues Kraus. \u201cHe spent a lot of time telling us about the downfall, but did he have any ideas about the repairing? Did he have any ideas of how we can do this better? To put it in Night of the Living Dead<\/em> terms, could Romero visualize a different farmhouse of survivors that would have been able to work together? That was the question that I had to wrestle with in act three, and using what I knew about George, and my own imagination, I came up with some answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

About a month after Romero\u2019s passing in 2017, Kraus received a phone call from the filmmaker\u2019s manager. Suzanne Romero, George\u2019s wife, wanted someone to tackle this massive unfinished manuscript. Knowing Kraus\u2019 fantastical and horror-leaning bibliography, including multiple collaborations with Guillermo del Toro, the author seemed like an ideal candidate. Raised as a Romero obsessive, the challenge was a no-brainer (pun intended), although it did give him an anxious pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up on George Romero in the same way that other people grew up on Star Wars<\/em>,\u201d he says. \u201c[The notion of completing The Living Dead<\/em>] was kind of stunning. I was vaguely aware of the book existing because occasionally Romero would mention it in interviews, but to be suddenly thrust out of nowhere into a position to be a part of that universe? And to, in some ways, conclude the final chapter of it was almost absurd and a little bewildering.\u201d<\/p>\n

To complete the task, Kraus forced himself to construct a chronology out of the existing Romero zombie films and find a place for The Living Dead<\/em> within it, which meant not just the original Romero trilogy, but the whole shebang. No matter what you think of Romero\u2019s later-day input, their narratives are canon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movies<\/a> came out in a completely random order as far as timeline,\u201d says Kraus. \u201cIf you ignore the decade shifts, as he did\u2026the timeline is, and I have this memorized now: Night of the Living Dead<\/em>, Diary of the Dead<\/em>, Survival of the Dead<\/em>, Dawn of the Dead<\/em>, Land of the Dead<\/em>, and Day of the Dead<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kraus followed the clues \u2014 sorting through notes, reading the old Dawn of the Dead<\/em> novelization \u2014 and nailed down a date for when the zombie uprising occurred. And how far into our \u201creal\u201d timeline Romero took his story.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d only gone five years into the future,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of untrod ground that is not handled cinematically, and a neat thing that the book does is the second act is kind of a little Russian doll where you can put the movies inside. If you wanted to, you can read the first act of The Living Dead<\/em>, pause, watch all six of those films in the order I just told you, and then read the second and third acts of this book, and you can have the full Romero experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Romero Experience is all around us today. The brutal condemnation of mob mentality depicted in Night of the Living Dead<\/em> and Dawn of the Dead<\/em> only grows more heated and powerful with its age. While we were screaming at characters like Harry Cooper, Romero was screaming at us. Why did we not listen?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hurts that he\u2019s not here to comment on all of this,\u201d says Kraus, \u201cbecause we\u2019re living in a world he prophesized. I envy, in a way, those people who have yet to discover him, and are about to get their heads blown off, metaphorically speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Living Dead<\/em> is a warm, bloody invitation into George A. Romero\u2019s world. It operates as the films do, using the zombie plague as a stand-in for the numerous social and political terrors consuming our daily lives,\u00a0and the book highlights the grimmest and most selfish of human behavior. There is a line in the sand. Where do you want to stand?<\/p>\n

\u201cSocially, I still feel like horror films are so good at being at the edges,\u201d says Kraus. \u201cPushing the edges, and being able to comment on what\u2019s happening in society before it is decent to [do so] \u2014 or before mainstream Oscar bait comes in and does the same thing. Horror films do it first, and [Romero] was on the vanguard of the vanguard. The pages of the manuscript that I was given were filled with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewing in the words and pictures of George A. Romero gives us the opportunity to reflect on how we want to behave in our apocalypse. What matters most to us? Our comfort? Our survival? Our family? Our friends? Our strangers?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve spent fifty years bemoaning the thickheadedness of Harry Cooper in his basement. Let\u2019s not become him.<\/p>\n

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The<\/strong><\/em> Living Dead<\/em> is now available from Tor Books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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