A documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead.
Despite my relative knowledge of the film, this documentary still opened my eyes to aspects of Romero's life I had not known. I certainly had no idea how important Fred Rogers was to the earliest days of his career!
The truth behind the connection of the film and racial violence is addressed. Romero says the "ghouls" were the revolution. Other times, the film's impact is played up as coincidence. The lead, a black man among white people, was cast because of his talent, not his skin. And then when Martin Luther King got assassinated shortly after the film was finished, deeper meaning was put upon it.
Despite my relative knowledge of the film, this documentary still opened my eyes to aspects of Romero's life I had not known. I certainly had no idea how important Fred Rogers was to the earliest days of his career!
The truth behind the connection of the film and racial violence is addressed. Romero says the "ghouls" were the revolution. Other times, the film's impact is played up as coincidence. The lead, a black man among white people, was cast because of his talent, not his skin. And then when Martin Luther King got assassinated shortly after the film was finished, deeper meaning was put upon it.