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they're still here
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they're after us there's no more room in
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hell
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what when there's no more room in hell
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the dead will walk here
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when you make a film like this some
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people are going to think you know gee
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this guy's doing something interesting
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over here
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and some people are gonna you know
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want to strangle you you know but people
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just flipped out i mean screaming
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yelling
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cheering i couldn't believe how people
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loved it i thought oh my god it's so
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sick
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a lot of people couldn't watch the film
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it was so over the top
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i'm thinking oh my god what did i get
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myself into
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it's a great film the humor the violence
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and the pulse keeps pushing you and
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pushing you
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when you say the word zombie to most
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people dawn of the dead comes to mind it
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is the
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zombie movie
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i was always attracted to the horror
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genre and
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when i was old enough to go to movies by
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myself
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they were re-releasing the universal you
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know the famous monsters
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the original frankenstein original
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dracula as a kid i
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got to see those films big screen and
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they're beautiful you know they're just
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gorgeous
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and then came the sort of early 50s
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sci-fi
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things big bugs and day the earth stood
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still in the original
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version of the thing so those were the
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films that really influenced me when i
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was re
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at that really early sort of formative
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stage
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but in addition to that the tales of
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hoffmann
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film by the archers powell and
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pressburger
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that's the movie that made me want to
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make movies i think
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because the effects were obvious you
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could see how he did it
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you know he said well gee i might be
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able to do something like that
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i always thought well that's you know
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it's a nice it's a pipe dream
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it's nothing that can ever happen now i
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came to pittsburgh to go to carnegie
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mellon
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to study painting and design and i just
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got antsy and
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left school without graduating and went
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down and
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would hang out at one of these film labs
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cities like pittsburgh
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had film labs because the news was on
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film
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my first job i guess was bicycling these
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newsreels around to the tv stations in
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town
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and i would hang out with these
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journeymen guys smoking cigarettes and
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gluing together newsreels you know i
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learned all the basics from
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from them and then some friends of mine
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and myself
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got together and started a little
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company to do commercials on film
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the calgon story what happens when a
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calgon research team in their submarine
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are reduced to micro size and sent on a
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dangerous mission deep inside a washing
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machine
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we were pretty successful for a few
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years and we wound up accumulating
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lights cameras
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equipment and
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always we would talk about why don't we
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try to make a movie
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i had a little short story that i had
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written about zombies and it was
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basically a rip-off
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from richard matheson's i am legend
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so i took the first part of that short
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story and started to write the
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screenplay for
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neither living dead
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then we decided to just go ahead and
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shoot 10 of us kicked in
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600 bucks a piece and we would shoot for
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you know three days come back
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shoot a beer commercial go back and
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shoot some of the movie again
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it was real gorilla film making
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we lived in that farmhouse there was no
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running water we had to bathe in the
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little stream out back i mean
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this went on for almost a year so we
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were just lucky that
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you know all the actors stuck with us
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and nobody got
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hurt or killed or anything and we were
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able to finish the film
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welcome to a night
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of total terror
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night of the living dead
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the film wasn't very successful right
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away actually returned money
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over the first six months or so but it
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never was a huge success and then it
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came back it was sort of discovered in
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france and then a few
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critics in the u.s started to jump on
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the bandwagon and say gee there's more
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to this film than meets the eye
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theater owners would show neither living
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dead at midnight people would would go
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and it became this event we started to
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get phone calls from hollywood
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saying you know can you make another one
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of those or do you want to come and make
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a horror movie for us and
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i was just resisting completely i didn't
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want to get type cast
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so we managed to scrounge together a few
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bucks to shoot there's always vanilla
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and a few bucks to shoot the season of
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the witch
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and then then the crazy but none of
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those films got seen by anybody they
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weren't getting good distribution
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and at that point i mean i dropped
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pretty much off the radar
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because you know having taken these
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several more
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shots at the wheel and nothing turned
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and you know how hollywood is if you
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don't you know if you don't hear from
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hear about somebody in the last week
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well they must be
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they must have died or something you
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know i met richard rubinstein and
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richard was able to
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go and raise the money to shoot martin
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martial
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in the meantime i was out taking a tour
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of the mall
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one day we had friends here in
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pittsburgh who owned the monroeville
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mall it was one of the first indoor
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malls in the country
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and they said you know you could survive
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up there if in the event of
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a nuclear attack or something so i said
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well gee what about a zombie attack
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that gave me the idea i said this is a
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perfect way to do another film have
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people trying to escape the living dead
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they wind up in this shopping mall you
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know this consumer
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paradise why do they come here kind of
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instinct
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memory what they used to do
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this was an important place in their
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lives i actually started to write the
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screenplay and
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simultaneous to that um
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dario argento called up from italy and
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said that he would be interested if i
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was interested in doing another
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uh
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so dario said you come come i said i'll
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write it he said no you can
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come you're right here you're right here
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georgia
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we get flown to rome to live in an
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apartment in the
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most beautiful part of the city and
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george would have to write
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for two days and then some translator
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would pick up the stuff
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every couple days and translate it and
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then
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dario argenta would come over and take
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us out to dinner and discuss it it was
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wonderful
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you know he was a wild artist flamboyant
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and wild
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and he didn't speak much english then
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and the two of them it was
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they would just smell each other in body
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language you know
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it's so funny dario and i never talked
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ideas i mean his salute he was
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he was very sort of very respectful that
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around
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he said you make film you make the film
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you want to make i finished the script
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in this little apartment
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it took me about three and a half weeks
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to finish it my wife chris was saying to
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me the whole time you know you're nuts
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george this is too big it's too big you
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think you're
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mgm or something i mean this is huge we
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can never make this you know
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but he said oh yeah we can we can don't
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worry george
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i have learned always writes his vision
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and then says i'll figure a way
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and he always does what he wants and
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somehow he pulls it off
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i think that we felt that we could do it
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for under a million
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richard rubinstein he always used to say
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i'll tell you what the parameters of the
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box are
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once you're in there you can do whatever
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you want he was great that way
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we didn't know the proper way of making
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filmmaking at that point so
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okay okay let's call up and see who can
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you know who can do what
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who are you gonna call you call your
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friends you know i got a telegram from
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george and it said
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hey we've got another gig start thinking
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of ways to kill people
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wow what's this so of course i called
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him immediately and then i think um
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i think i got the script the script for
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dawn of the dead i followed his
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his instructions to the letter starts
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thinking of ways to kill people
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we had a casting session in new york
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where my wife chris and
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and a lot of other friends of ours who
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were actors used to work
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i was working in a restaurant called
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lady asters where
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um david m ghee also worked i was
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cooking
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in this restaurant and i would get to
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work around 4 4
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30 every afternoon george came in with
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chris his wife
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and he mentioned that he was in new york
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uh casting
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for a movie he was about to do she asked
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me if i wanted to audition
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for dawn of the dead i said well
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certainly
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i could run i went through it once
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and then i went to a call back i could
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run right tonight
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then he just put his hand on my shoulder
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he said okay you got it
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it was that simple and i said can i
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audition
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i said sure why not and uh i did
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hello hq this is police dunk
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operated dead post abandoned
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after the audition uh he i was told that
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i had the role so
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which was exciting wake up sucker with
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these and we're bad guys that's exactly
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what we are
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dwayne jones who starred in the night of
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the living dead
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was a friend of mine i said to wayne
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i want to do dawn dead then sequel the
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next one
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he said he said really say hello to
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george for me i said okay
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sorry you found out i'm pregnant because
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i don't want to be treated any
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differently than you treat each other
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i went into this audition and
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i got the part which was the good
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the bad news was i didn't know how to
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act
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i never worked professionally before in
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my life
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everybody said oh this is really great
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but i was terrified
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we drew heavily upon the people we had
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always worked with of course
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once the news came out that george has
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another film
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um the walk-ins came and our friends
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came and we knew
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pretty much who we were going to be
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using i'd say maybe 15 people at the
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most
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and we just put them put everybody
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together and started to talk about how
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we're going to pull this off
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it's the our gang style of shooting you
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know let's make a film
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you know that's the way it was it was
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done pretty much
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it was the very first day
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of shooting it was the first feature i
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had ever done
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and i'm nervous as production manager
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i was just responsible for getting
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everything together
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to be where it needed to be at the time
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it needed to be there
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i was very young too dumb to realize how
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much was on my shoulders
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and george turns to me and he says we
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going to make a movie
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i'm not so sure what to believe doctor
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all we get is what you people tell us
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and it's hard enough to believe
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in fact it's fast it's hard enough to
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believe without you coming in here
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you're not running a talk show here mr
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berman you can forget
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pitching an audience the moral bullshit
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the first
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five minutes it's a powerful scene
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jordan told me and david that he
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he needed our scene to be really
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energetic and all this kind of stuff
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because it's the lead-in to
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the rest of the movie david early and i
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who was my scene partner he was the
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interviewer uh
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had been in some plays together so we
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were used to working together and i said
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look we got this part
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to this role together why don't we get
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together and
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run some lines so when we get there
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we're ready
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it was at uh wpgh studios channel 53
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in the north hills i said well george we
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rehearsed a little bit he says really
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people aren't willing to accept your
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solutions doctor and i for one don't
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blame them
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every dead body that is not exterminated
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becomes one of them it gets up and kills
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the people it kills get up and kill i
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think he bought the first take
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then later he gave me this hug and
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george is big i mean he can pick me up
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off the floor
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but it's like giving me that big bear
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hug i mean that's george
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i was saying yeah that's this film
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acting is really easy
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[Music]
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there's a scene in the project it was
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such an
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exciting event there were so many things
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happening i mean
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guns shootings explosions squibs
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dead people coming to life everybody was
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into it
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and everyone was excited about it
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[Music]
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dawn of the dead was a learning
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experience
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my job was special effects take the
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script and create what's in there as
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realistic as possible
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[Music]
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the script says blowing the head off
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we'd read the screenplay and
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uh how the hell we gonna do this we had
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this rubber head
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we filled it with condoms filled with
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blood
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apple cores you know shrimp dip you know
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anything on the craft service table went
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in that head
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we sealed it with plaster so when i
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would turn it over or
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or open the molds up i would have this
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rubber head
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filled with these goodies so we did it
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brown like a puerto rican and the afro
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wig sort of in the goatee
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and they said everybody come in tom's
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going to blow off the head and we're
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going to
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uh shoot this head off you know they're
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not doing that
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and uh yes they are oh great let's go
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see this
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we all go trooping out there i'm
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thinking wow okay now i got an audience
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too
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and i remember we cleared the area the
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camera was behind me and i just blasted
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the head off with that shotgun
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it blew up real good it was an eyeful
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and an earful and a stomach full it was
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impressive
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it was really spectacular and then the
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crew applauded
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when that head went off that for them
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was the moment when they thought wow
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this is going to be something special
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nobody has seen stuff like this before
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if they're going to do that in the
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beginning of the movie what are we in
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store for
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then the bites oh my god more goodies i
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just went oh
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good there's no holding back
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[Applause]
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and then we're called downstairs to
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shoot the scene the basement and all the
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zombies are there
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and they're eating each other and i will
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never forget
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i never forget walking in there and i
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looked
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through the wire and i went
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oh my god this is disgusting because
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that actually made me sick
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i was taken aback by it and i said my
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god this would never play the united
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states
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the sensors just won't let them it's too
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gory
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and i looked over at george i said
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george this is disgusting
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he just looked at me he went i know
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and he's just korean
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i knew that we were pushing the envelope
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with the gore a little bit
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i didn't want to shy away from that and
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i also
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had this feeling that it's a real sucker
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punch
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we needed that kind of sucker punch just
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to say that this is real
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horror guys
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[Music]
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meet me on the roof at nine o'clock get
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loud i don't believe we're gonna get out
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in the chopper
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steven we can't we've got
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[Music]
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it's 9pm all right stephen we can't
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we've got this we've got to nothing
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fran we've got to survive somebody's got
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to survive now you'd be upstairs at nine
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o'clock and don't make me come looking
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for you
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go ahead we'll be off the air by
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midnight anyway the emergency networks
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are taking over
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our responsibility is finished
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i love the story and i think people
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watch the film and they think well what
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i do in that situation
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you know i think what really speaks to
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people is the relationship between the
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four characters
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roger always felt that he was able to
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succeed
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no matter what the odds no matter what
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the obstacles are and that's what he
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prided himself on which was also
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his tragic flaw i read the script and
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i said i can't wait to do this i mean
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you're the cowboy you're the hero
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i think it's every kid's dream to put on
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two holsters
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a rifle the bandelier around the chest
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and i couldn't wait loved it loved it
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loved it
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i played the guy who was slightly off
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kilter a little bit he was just an
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ordinary guy he would look
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silly at times he'd make wrong choices
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he would fail where the
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swat team guys would heroically succeed
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in the beginning of the film fran was
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the drag
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the weak thing you know pregnant getting
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morning sickness on the other hand she
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sort of came through
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as as as a heroine and not just somebody
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that they had to
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take care of you know i liked it when
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franny got strong
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usually horror films had women running
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around in underwear at that point
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screaming
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and crying and being chased by the
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monster and i think
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why there's such a um respect for
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this film is because it it
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went to another place
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we were at the airport and there was a
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zombie
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and george wanted me to scream
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i i i said i'm not going to do it i
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won't scream i'm not going to fall down
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i'm not going to do this i'm not gonna
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do that he's like
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what do you mean you're not getting i
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said i'm not screaming i wasn't gonna
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run and scream or cry
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or do any of that and galen sort of woke
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me up to the idea that that's not
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necessarily the way it should go it was
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early feminist pre-sigourney weaver
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pre-alien where the woman was the
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protagonist that hadn't been explored
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yet in horror films
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after that he never asked me to scream
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maybe he thought i couldn't so why
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bother
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there were two days at the airport the
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monroeville airport literally
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was a grass strip one dinky building
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and a couple little wooden hangers and
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since i was brought in just for this
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particular section
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i didn't have a lot of the continuity of
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knowing other people
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who were involved as well
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[Music]
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i was trying to ask the other zombies
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how's everybody else doing this
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thing basically uh there's little
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direction other than
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we have this great scene and you'll get
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your head taken off by a helicopter the
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script says
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the zombie stands up and that helicopter
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blades take the top of his head off
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so again it was how the hell are we
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going to do this so well what do i need
570
00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:58,559
to see i need the guy
571
00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:01,360
stands up head disappears blood flows
572
00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:02,400
out wow that's simple enough
573
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,960
the appliance that tom had put together
574
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:05,600
added
575
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,679
about two inches or so to the top of my
576
00:22:07,679 --> 00:22:10,400
head and he was able to build out around
577
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,679
with a foam type of component then i
578
00:22:13,679 --> 00:22:14,400
would i
579
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,960
sliced it in many sections and attached
580
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:17,919
each section
581
00:22:17,919 --> 00:22:20,240
with varying lengths of black fish line
582
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,799
laying in on the top of my head
583
00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:27,039
were two tubes which ran then down
584
00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:30,559
my back and all the way down back
585
00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:33,440
through the bottom of the pants legs and
586
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,760
two guys behind the boxes
587
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,679
with the hand pumps filled with the
588
00:22:37,679 --> 00:22:41,280
blood and those were in place
589
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,039
through the walking sequence and so
590
00:22:43,039 --> 00:22:45,679
forth when i got onto the crates
591
00:22:45,679 --> 00:22:47,280
the helicopter wasn't running at the
592
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,520
time the blades were animated in later
593
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,919
you know i just handed that fish line to
594
00:22:51,919 --> 00:22:52,799
a guy and said
595
00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:54,799
run and when he ran with the fish line
596
00:22:54,799 --> 00:22:56,090
jim's head unraveled
597
00:22:56,090 --> 00:22:58,400
[Music]
598
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,240
and then we just pumped blood in through
599
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,600
tubing up jim's legs
600
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,280
to the headpiece spraying out of the
601
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,880
head that was it
602
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,410
that was a take
603
00:23:08,410 --> 00:23:10,640
[Applause]
604
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,960
when i shot the kids at the airport tom
605
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,039
savini's nieces and nephews i think
606
00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:18,320
i didn't enjoy that
607
00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:22,480
no didn't enjoy that shooting the kids
608
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,180
thought that was a little crazy
609
00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:28,720
[Music]
610
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,880
jesus it's everywhere
611
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,000
we're still pretty close to john's son
612
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,600
those rednecks are probably enjoying the
613
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,080
whole thing
614
00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:42,720
i knew that that armory was there and
615
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,200
the national guard was there
616
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,520
and it was my job to go and try and get
617
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,279
it and i just
618
00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:51,840
went and knocked on the door and spoke
619
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,480
to you know lieutenant colonel whoever
620
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,640
everyone in pittsburgh including all the
621
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:57,840
national guard and the people of the
622
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,840
army they knew who george was
623
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:04,400
and they let it happen i guess
624
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,600
probably the national guard that were
625
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,440
due to work that weekend
626
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,720
um came out with their tanks and their
627
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:11,600
guns and
628
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:19,279
all their stuff
629
00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:21,919
it's funny how pittsburghers you know
630
00:24:21,919 --> 00:24:22,320
they
631
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,520
they just got behind everything and uh
632
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,000
it became this this sort of you know fun
633
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,780
thing to do it was an event
634
00:24:33,780 --> 00:24:35,440
[Music]
635
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,279
people really viewed it as kind of a
636
00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:38,880
picnic everybody was
637
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:47,820
very enthusiastic
638
00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:51,450
[Music]
639
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,840
it was great george was so happy you
640
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,930
know
641
00:25:00,930 --> 00:25:07,600
[Music]
642
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,720
what the hell is it looks like a
643
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,840
shopping center one of those big indoor
644
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,840
malls
645
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,679
once we started in the mall it became a
646
00:25:25,679 --> 00:25:27,520
whole other kind of filming
647
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,720
we were up you know breakfast was was
648
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,640
four o'clock in the afternoon then we'd
649
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,559
all gather down the lobby of the bigelow
650
00:25:34,559 --> 00:25:37,120
hotel and we'd all get in the car and
651
00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,120
drive out to the mall we were supposed
652
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,320
to ride with them all about seven
653
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:40,960
o'clock
654
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,919
and it'd be full of people the mishmash
655
00:25:43,919 --> 00:25:45,679
of things going on
656
00:25:45,679 --> 00:25:47,840
i would make up the appliance zombies or
657
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:48,960
um
658
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,880
think about what what effects were going
659
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,240
to happen that night we'd all be
660
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,559
planning or trying to rally
661
00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:56,000
meetings with people about okay what
662
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,799
we're going to do tonight
663
00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,440
we needed everybody to put in 120
664
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,159
percent
665
00:26:02,159 --> 00:26:03,919
i typically would arrive very early
666
00:26:03,919 --> 00:26:05,279
along with tom davinski
667
00:26:05,279 --> 00:26:07,200
and start loading magazines and looking
668
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,360
at gear cleaning lenses
669
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:10,799
and they'd start rolling camera i think
670
00:26:10,799 --> 00:26:12,480
like 10 o'clock
671
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,720
then you'd work all night and continue
672
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,240
shooting until morning
673
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,240
it's a little difficult you know to
674
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,520
adjust to in the beginning
675
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,640
we were just so immersed in doing the
676
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,240
project that it was
677
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,000
you know i i don't even you lost time we
678
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000
were just doing it that's all it was
679
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,960
and there was no other life i don't
680
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:31,520
remember
681
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,279
not working i've been sleeping some of
682
00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:35,039
us had to work all day
683
00:26:35,039 --> 00:26:37,279
to get ready for the night the elixir of
684
00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:38,240
choice by the way
685
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,679
it was coffee
686
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,960
we always had styrofoam cups of coffee
687
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,960
we used to jokingly say george never ate
688
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,760
never use the restroom only drink coffee
689
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,480
and that's real jack daniels
690
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,799
which we enjoyed because it was cold as
691
00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:56,640
crap in pittsburgh at that point
692
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,600
inside we were like shaking like this it
693
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,240
was so
694
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,400
cold i never forget it it was like
695
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,760
freezing cold
696
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,159
it was the dead of winter we had one
697
00:27:06,159 --> 00:27:07,760
night
698
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,760
uh that it snowed it was getting a
699
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,120
little late
700
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,679
once lunch is coming in it's not coming
701
00:27:13,679 --> 00:27:14,720
in there's no way
702
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,200
it's not coming in we're snowed in they
703
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,120
can't get here
704
00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,080
said what we typically wanted to rap out
705
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,320
by about 8 30 at the latest
706
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,480
because the mall reopened so we shot
707
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,000
some incredible hours in terms of
708
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,200
working around the
709
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,720
business schedule the mall and it
710
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,320
wouldn't seem like it went on forever
711
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,120
working seven days a week 24 hours a day
712
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,279
and really for not much money i mean
713
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:40,000
no one made anything but everybody was
714
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,679
up no one was ever down in the dumps or
715
00:27:41,679 --> 00:27:42,559
depressed
716
00:27:42,559 --> 00:27:44,640
everyone always maintained a high spirit
717
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,240
we all got along
718
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,679
and it was all a big adventure i try to
719
00:27:49,679 --> 00:27:51,840
make it as much fun as i can for people
720
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,520
you know we're not doing surgery
721
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,039
you might as well have as much fun as
722
00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:56,880
you can and i love to work
723
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,480
collaboratively with people i mean if
724
00:27:58,480 --> 00:27:59,120
you have
725
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:00,559
20 people in a room you want to hear
726
00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:02,240
their ideas he listens to everybody
727
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,200
craft services
728
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,960
i remember george showing the federal
729
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,240
express man the budget
730
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,960
of a motion picture and he was very free
731
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,880
to share the responsibilities of a
732
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,159
creation
733
00:28:12,159 --> 00:28:13,919
george would come onto a set he would
734
00:28:13,919 --> 00:28:16,000
say say man we're going to be shooting
735
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,840
in this direction and we've got a group
736
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,200
of zombies coming this way and he'd walk
737
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,080
away
738
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,600
i would start designing a shot i think
739
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,039
george would come back and say how's it
740
00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:24,159
look man
741
00:28:24,159 --> 00:28:26,159
george was great to work with gives you
742
00:28:26,159 --> 00:28:27,919
a lot of freedom as an actor
743
00:28:27,919 --> 00:28:29,360
i was supposed to run down the escalator
744
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,039
and i just said george well what if i
745
00:28:31,039 --> 00:28:32,480
slide down there
746
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,039
and he went what i said i just kind of
747
00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:36,640
slide down the center of it
748
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,920
he said okay
749
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,019
[Applause]
750
00:28:42,159 --> 00:28:44,000
he was always flexible you know to try
751
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,279
something else what i
752
00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,600
soon realized was that i was being
753
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,600
directed in this horror film by this
754
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,880
incredibly kind man who
755
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,000
would let me do pretty much anything
756
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,279
that i wanted to try
757
00:28:57,279 --> 00:28:59,279
and you never wanted to feel like you
758
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:00,799
were letting him down
759
00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:02,799
george was able to get whatever he
760
00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:05,039
wanted out of the crew without asking
761
00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:05,440
for it
762
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,279
do you want to do something for someone
763
00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:08,640
who treats you
764
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,720
so well and respects you and your ideas
765
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,320
you know it makes you a part of it
766
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,000
because you want so much to be a part of
767
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:14,640
it
768
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,399
who cares if 12 13 16 hours have gone by
769
00:29:18,399 --> 00:29:22,960
what can we do next okay and actually
770
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,279
the mall itself was like this huge
771
00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:26,000
playground
772
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,760
if they wanted to get into a store or
773
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,440
something some guy would show up with a
774
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,640
thousand keys
775
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,600
and open up jc penney's we really had no
776
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:34,799
adult supervision
777
00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:37,039
you kids have a good time and turn out
778
00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:38,240
the lights
779
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,360
it is an unreal feeling
780
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,559
to walk into a mall and to own it to own
781
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:46,000
it and inhabit it
782
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,080
you're walking around the mall in and
783
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,399
out of stores nothing was closed off
784
00:29:50,399 --> 00:29:52,159
obviously there had to be insurance and
785
00:29:52,159 --> 00:29:54,240
we had to be careful and we weren't
786
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:54,880
allowed to
787
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,520
you know rob the bank or wipe jc
788
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,840
penney's
789
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,679
and then don't forget the atmosphere was
790
00:30:01,679 --> 00:30:04,720
halloween every night
791
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,559
we're doing stunts we're making people
792
00:30:06,559 --> 00:30:08,000
up you know having a blast in this
793
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,520
playground it was just
794
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,600
a dream existence you know i couldn't
795
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:12,799
sleep life was
796
00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:14,880
so boring compared to being on the set
797
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,679
of dawn of the dead
798
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,039
i got a call from mozilla clinton
799
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:24,640
one afternoon saying we have a
800
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,720
continuity error
801
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,000
and we need somebody to come out and
802
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,080
just do a bit gag you know would you do
803
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,080
it i said okay fine i'll do it
804
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:33,279
scotty's running from one end to the
805
00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:36,159
store to the other
806
00:30:36,159 --> 00:30:38,399
is coming towards us he has a sweater on
807
00:30:38,399 --> 00:30:41,200
wrapped around his waist going away
808
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,960
in the confusion and the chaos of just
809
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,200
getting it done sweater was not on
810
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,279
so somehow he had to lose the sweater so
811
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:50,159
the cut would work
812
00:30:50,159 --> 00:30:52,320
and the cut works because i'm standing
813
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,000
there and then i grab him wrestle him to
814
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,840
the ground in the process i rip it off
815
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,919
tom had a retractable screwdriver which
816
00:30:57,919 --> 00:31:01,200
he promised me wouldn't go into my brain
817
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,120
and it had a tube and as it went in
818
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,000
he pumped the little ball and flooded my
819
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,279
air with blood
820
00:31:09,279 --> 00:31:11,679
i still can't hear you the effect came
821
00:31:11,679 --> 00:31:13,519
off great and it's probably the thing
822
00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:15,360
i'm still most known for no matter what
823
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,519
i do in my career being a screwdriver
824
00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:18,000
zombie
825
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,730
is what everybody remembers
826
00:31:19,730 --> 00:31:22,900
[Music]
827
00:31:25,860 --> 00:31:28,480
[Music]
828
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,399
scotty and ken those two guys hit it off
829
00:31:30,399 --> 00:31:32,159
right away and seeing the two of them
830
00:31:32,159 --> 00:31:33,840
there's a little guy in this big guy
831
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,760
i just think it's it's pretty hilarious
832
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,559
what do you think bag it or try for it i
833
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:47,840
need lighter fluid
834
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,960
you know they really are a team scott
835
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,320
was a little bit of a pain
836
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,799
no i'm kidding i'm kidding no we had a
837
00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:56,480
good time and the sort of humor that we
838
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,120
have
839
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,039
that sort of naturally developed they
840
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:00,880
used to drive to the set
841
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,120
together in the morning kenny tended to
842
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,360
be just always like a little bit late
843
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,679
right and i'm like waiting in the garage
844
00:32:07,679 --> 00:32:09,120
and it's freezing
845
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,120
cold in the parking garage of the hotel
846
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,640
and i'm heating up my car
847
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,399
and kenny sort of summoners over you
848
00:32:14,399 --> 00:32:16,159
know he's taking his time and he
849
00:32:16,159 --> 00:32:19,760
pops in he says okay let's go i'm going
850
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,760
okay gee i'm glad you're here and all of
851
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,360
a sudden we turn on the radio
852
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,080
and they they have the song short people
853
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,640
those short people have two
854
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,679
they don't deserve that i looked in and
855
00:32:31,679 --> 00:32:32,080
said
856
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,480
that's you that's you that's the song
857
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,080
what the hell time is it anyway not
858
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,440
quite nine
859
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,120
nothing as long as we're getting a
860
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,480
pattern that must mean they're sending a
861
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,799
signal
862
00:32:47,919 --> 00:32:49,919
we actors you know we would eat together
863
00:32:49,919 --> 00:32:52,399
talk together go over our lines together
864
00:32:52,399 --> 00:32:55,039
it all sort of worked in our personal
865
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:56,559
lives the way it was working in the
866
00:32:56,559 --> 00:32:57,360
script
867
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,240
everybody suddenly went into character
868
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:00,559
ken
869
00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:03,760
became the strong silent
870
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,360
i can handle this scott became
871
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,559
the joker david he wanted to be like
872
00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:12,399
them
873
00:33:12,399 --> 00:33:15,120
and i was the drag i would have made you
874
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,720
all coffee and breakfast but i don't
875
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,799
have my pots and pans
876
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:20,960
the guys would go and do stuff and they
877
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:22,399
wouldn't include me i want to know
878
00:33:22,399 --> 00:33:24,799
what's happened
879
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,720
and you're not coming with us
880
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:30,799
that was the dynamic behind the scenes
881
00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:34,399
as well as in front of the
882
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,240
camera
883
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,159
i don't like conflict i mean i shy away
884
00:33:40,159 --> 00:33:42,080
from conflict in life
885
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,080
and uh certainly on the set i really
886
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,279
don't like it uh
887
00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:47,679
i do tend to write about characters in
888
00:33:47,679 --> 00:33:48,799
conflict sometime
889
00:33:48,799 --> 00:33:50,880
pretty extreme conflict and you know
890
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,000
it's playing it's
891
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,919
playing cowboys and indians is what it
892
00:33:53,919 --> 00:33:56,000
is it really goes back to those kid
893
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,440
games well i'll be the good guy you'd be
894
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:58,799
the bad guy
895
00:33:58,799 --> 00:34:06,720
and uh that's what it's about
896
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,399
i looked at my dailies and it was
897
00:34:08,399 --> 00:34:10,079
appalling i was sure they were going to
898
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:13,040
fire me any minute
899
00:34:14,879 --> 00:34:18,239
stephen i didn't have a clue
900
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,320
what acting on camera was and i'm trying
901
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:21,359
to figure out
902
00:34:21,359 --> 00:34:23,199
what am i going to do so i was going to
903
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:24,719
an acting coach whose name is mira
904
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:25,918
ristova and mira
905
00:34:25,918 --> 00:34:30,320
was this fabulous old-school russian
906
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,560
acting teacher from moscow theater
907
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,560
school little tiny bird-like woman and
908
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,359
what she had was a scene class
909
00:34:37,359 --> 00:34:39,359
and everybody would come on monday
910
00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:41,359
nights and they'd
911
00:34:41,359 --> 00:34:42,879
read a scene from a play they were
912
00:34:42,879 --> 00:34:44,480
working on and you know the people
913
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,399
bringing in seagull and other people are
914
00:34:46,399 --> 00:34:48,159
bringing in you know
915
00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:51,280
hamlet so i thought okay
916
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,399
i'm bringing in dawn of the dad she goes
917
00:34:54,399 --> 00:34:55,280
okay
918
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,720
what have you got galen i can't
919
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,480
believe i did this and i said well this
920
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,160
is the thing and i'm in the shopping
921
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:02,480
mall
922
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,560
and i'm being chased by this harry
923
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,200
krishna zombie and
924
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,520
what is a zombie you know and i said
925
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,200
well it's a dead person who walks around
926
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,560
and tries to eat
927
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,960
it eats human beings and she's doing
928
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,040
this incredibly seriously as if it was
929
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,640
you know just another classic that she
930
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,720
had to deal with
931
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:24,400
you must do surprise here
932
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,880
you must do terror
933
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,280
then i started bringing her scenes from
934
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,960
from dawn of the dead privately
935
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,240
and she would sit there in her living
936
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,160
room and go okay
937
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,480
now what is the zombie doing today to
938
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,280
you gala
939
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,240
he comes in he grabs your leg what do
940
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:42,640
you
941
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,160
do now another zombie and it worked
942
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,079
so i i had a little help by the time i
943
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:49,620
got back to the shopping mall
944
00:35:49,620 --> 00:35:54,160
[Music]
945
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,720
dawn was the most fun probably any
946
00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,480
project i've ever done
947
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,560
the role was terrific it was a terrific
948
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:01,920
role because it has a
949
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,839
that character is a real arc in the
950
00:36:03,839 --> 00:36:05,200
story
951
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,160
roger come on man get your head together
952
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,359
we got a lot of work to do
953
00:36:09,359 --> 00:36:12,160
he really believes that he can he can
954
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,359
beat this
955
00:36:13,359 --> 00:36:17,520
we got this man we got this by the ass
956
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,119
he was wonderful in that wasn't he in
957
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:26,560
that scene this great
958
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,079
great great bit of work er
959
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,079
my bag i left my goddamn bag and we got
960
00:36:34,079 --> 00:36:36,079
a truck
961
00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:37,920
i'd like to see what i tell scott all
962
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,440
right trooper
963
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,119
you better screw your head on yeah come
964
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:44,480
on come on let's go i made it man
965
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,160
now you're not just playing with your
966
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,079
life you're playing with mine
967
00:36:48,079 --> 00:36:51,280
when we shot that scene we really
968
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,320
thought we were
969
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,839
on top of it
970
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,240
the emotions were going we felt good
971
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:07,359
about it we're committed to it
972
00:37:07,359 --> 00:37:10,079
that's it man
973
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:13,440
gotta deal with that leg man i'm dealing
974
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,640
with it man i'm just dealing with it
975
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:15,839
don't you worry about it
976
00:37:15,839 --> 00:37:17,040
there's a lot to get done before you can
977
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,320
afford to lose me that was that was a
978
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,040
a nice scene there was a feeling as we
979
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,760
were making the film
980
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,280
that this was different and it was
981
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,599
special
982
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:32,000
i wanted to try to give it the same
983
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:32,880
thematic
984
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,440
core that the original film had and
985
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,079
speak about some of my own ideas about
986
00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:39,760
society and i don't think it's
987
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,760
underlying message i think it's like
988
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,200
in your face right up front
989
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,119
the way society has been conditioned to
990
00:37:47,119 --> 00:37:48,839
think that as long as you have this
991
00:37:48,839 --> 00:37:50,000
stuff
992
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,240
life is wonderful and being falsely
993
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,480
attracted and seduced by things that
994
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,119
really
995
00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:57,520
shouldn't have value in your life but do
996
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,119
everybody would love
997
00:37:59,119 --> 00:38:01,680
to hold up in a shopping mall or
998
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,960
wherever you want it's right there
999
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,839
jewelry money it's a fantasy come true
1000
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,560
a whole satire at the consumerism i just
1001
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,040
thought that was so interesting how
1002
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,599
you know george was tuned into that and
1003
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:22,400
george had
1004
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,440
the bead on that in the late 70s
1005
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,720
when shopping malls weren't as popular
1006
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,280
as they are today i was really surprised
1007
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,520
by the intelligence of the script
1008
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,480
it's a reflection of who we are and it's
1009
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,040
funny
1010
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,200
donna the dead in my mind is much more
1011
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,480
comedic than it is
1012
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,240
scary i don't think it's a scary movie
1013
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:47,839
it's a comic book it's a romp
1014
00:38:48,490 --> 00:38:52,430
[Music]
1015
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,400
with this underlying sense of society
1016
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:57,119
going to hell
1017
00:38:57,119 --> 00:38:59,200
i wanted to have that mash-like effect
1018
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,320
of saying you can laugh
1019
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,599
you can have as much fun as you want
1020
00:39:01,599 --> 00:39:03,839
with this but remember
1021
00:39:03,839 --> 00:39:07,119
there's something else going on here
1022
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,160
can't we do something can't we take him
1023
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,560
to a med unit
1024
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,800
i've seen half a dozen guys get bitten
1025
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,720
by those things
1026
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:21,119
none of them lasted more than three days
1027
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:23,440
after i am dead and i come back to life
1028
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,200
tom had to make me up
1029
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,680
that took about an hour and a half he
1030
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,520
layered
1031
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,839
my face with this moisture and this
1032
00:39:31,839 --> 00:39:33,680
tissue very very thin tissue
1033
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,359
and then he would just let it dry and he
1034
00:39:35,359 --> 00:39:36,960
would blow dry and it would just shrink
1035
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,400
my skin basically
1036
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,440
did george give me any direction
1037
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,640
i don't remember i don't think so
1038
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,480
uh about being a zombie because i
1039
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,000
remember thinking it through
1040
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,079
in terms of my preparation so okay so
1041
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:53,520
what is this about
1042
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,280
okay i'm gonna be a zombie no one really
1043
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,640
knows you know
1044
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,880
what's going on in the mind of a zombie
1045
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,160
i remember thinking that
1046
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,320
i'm fully a zombie now but there was
1047
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,359
like this
1048
00:40:03,359 --> 00:40:06,640
little piece of awareness still
1049
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,000
left one little shred of roger
1050
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,680
left you know which then fully
1051
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,160
disappears as i fully sit forward
1052
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:24,000
i was just playing with that as an actor
1053
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,280
never had problem recruiting zombies
1054
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,760
everybody that we asked would say sure
1055
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,440
i'll come out and be a zombie i mean
1056
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,200
seriously everybody i think i ever knew
1057
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,440
in my whole life came out to be a zombie
1058
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,359
i mean it was come out to the mall
1059
00:40:37,359 --> 00:40:38,800
you know there'll be some food and
1060
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,960
coffee wagon and watch people shoot
1061
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,800
watch these crazy guys shoot a movie
1062
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,680
it was almost like a tailgate party
1063
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,720
everybody was
1064
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,599
gracious and having a good time and
1065
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:52,000
working
1066
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,119
all night for a dollar and a donut and
1067
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:55,760
as
1068
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,760
time went on recruiting zombies got
1069
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,119
easier and easier because people started
1070
00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:00,000
to hear about it
1071
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000
a lot of it was word of mouth and people
1072
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000
just wanting to be a zombie
1073
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,840
in a george movie
1074
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,680
[Music]
1075
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,800
and then it's not just that they want to
1076
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,880
be zombies they want to be juicy zombies
1077
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,240
they want to die in a bloody way or
1078
00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:18,480
something
1079
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,119
which i never could relate to i couldn't
1080
00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:22,160
believe that all these people want to
1081
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,599
get themselves shot or bitten
1082
00:41:23,599 --> 00:41:25,280
they wouldn't take their makeup off they
1083
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,640
wanted to go home and show it to their
1084
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,520
family and stuff
1085
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,440
leaving the mall the looks they would
1086
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,440
get i can still see some of the people
1087
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,920
with their children you know licking and
1088
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,520
pointing and there were a few local
1089
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,400
legends about
1090
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,000
zombies wearing their makeup home and
1091
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,319
stopping at the mcdonald's or the eaton
1092
00:41:42,319 --> 00:41:43,119
park
1093
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:46,640
so word spread pretty
1094
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,359
must quickly destroyed on site
1095
00:41:51,359 --> 00:41:53,280
tom had to make a decision about what
1096
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,839
color are these zombies going to be
1097
00:41:55,839 --> 00:41:57,119
night of the living dead was a black and
1098
00:41:57,119 --> 00:41:59,200
white movie but this is a color film
1099
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,520
my solution to the zombies was everybody
1100
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,200
just should be gray you know
1101
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,000
which was not a good idea sometimes it
1102
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,440
photographed green sometimes they
1103
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,880
photographed blue so
1104
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,880
i don't think anybody was ever really
1105
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,040
just gray but that was the solution
1106
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,119
mainly it was me just slapping gray
1107
00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:16,480
pancake makeup on
1108
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,720
and on big zombie days we brought all
1109
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:20,480
our friends in to slap this grey makeup
1110
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:21,040
on them
1111
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,119
i'd be slapping on scars and gaping
1112
00:42:23,119 --> 00:42:24,319
wounds you know
1113
00:42:24,319 --> 00:42:27,040
or you know false teeth or something
1114
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,079
generic stuff
1115
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,560
that we just threw on people and luckily
1116
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,760
it fit and later on
1117
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,760
my friend tasso came in and helped me do
1118
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,160
makeup
1119
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,960
it never could take longer than two or
1120
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,560
three hours because we need a mass
1121
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,079
amount of zombies and at nine o'clock
1122
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:48,000
they started shooting so
1123
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,560
we were just whipping them out i was the
1124
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:51,119
nurse
1125
00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:54,480
zombie i remember how excited i was
1126
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,599
going to the set
1127
00:42:55,599 --> 00:42:58,560
and i couldn't wait to get there and how
1128
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,599
everybody was happy and how you doing
1129
00:43:01,599 --> 00:43:03,680
i love doing it i love being part of it
1130
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,040
george kind of lets you
1131
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,040
you do your thing you know he wanted
1132
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,720
everybody to be individuals and i think
1133
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:09,839
that if
1134
00:43:09,839 --> 00:43:11,599
he started telling people what to do
1135
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:13,200
would be what george wanted to do and it
1136
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,359
wouldn't be your individual zombie
1137
00:43:15,359 --> 00:43:17,280
it's just much more fun to let people
1138
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,640
invent their own
1139
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,960
dead character and some are very
1140
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,640
inventive some of them really do
1141
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,200
interesting quirky things with their
1142
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,800
with their bodies we let us do what we
1143
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,160
wanted to do
1144
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,079
and let us take it from there and you
1145
00:43:30,079 --> 00:43:32,480
had to stay in character as a zombie
1146
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:33,760
you couldn't change and be a different
1147
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,760
type of a zombie when you made your
1148
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,520
movements you had to be the same type of
1149
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:38,400
zombie
1150
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,240
all the way through the film and so you
1151
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:42,240
cut yeah the concept of how you are and
1152
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:43,839
how you have your eyes and how you walk
1153
00:43:43,839 --> 00:43:45,520
and so forth you make that up yourself
1154
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,880
i just imagined what a zombie would feel
1155
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,400
like
1156
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,119
it was blast everybody was laughing and
1157
00:43:53,119 --> 00:43:55,280
howling and having a good time and
1158
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,570
it was hard to keep a straight face
1159
00:43:58,570 --> 00:44:00,480
[Music]
1160
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,000
they were troopers there were some real
1161
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,839
trooper zombies on dawn of the dead they
1162
00:44:03,839 --> 00:44:08,319
were a staunch bunch
1163
00:44:08,319 --> 00:44:10,160
my sympathy always went to the zombie
1164
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,760
extras in this incredible
1165
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,880
sub-zero temperature
1166
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,720
that fat guy in the bathing suit and he
1167
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:18,480
was in a bathing suit instead of winter
1168
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,079
and then he comes inside and gets shot
1169
00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:21,359
and falls in the fountain that guy was
1170
00:44:21,359 --> 00:44:23,520
so cool the bathing suit guy
1171
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,839
george would get connected to certain
1172
00:44:25,839 --> 00:44:27,520
zombies for instance
1173
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,560
the nun in in the shopping mall
1174
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,200
the nun's habit is trapped in the door
1175
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,240
she can't get out
1176
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:37,760
and i'm about to shoot her george
1177
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,520
came over and he goes don't kill her
1178
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,680
you got to let her go and i said what do
1179
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:44,880
you mean he goes
1180
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,480
you can't shoot a nut so we let the nun
1181
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:49,280
go and i just
1182
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,839
opened the door and let her have it
1183
00:44:51,839 --> 00:44:52,720
slide out
1184
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:54,560
you know it's like an animal it's not
1185
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,400
inherently an evil
1186
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,079
thing he had a very interesting take on
1187
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:02,160
on what was okay and what was not and
1188
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,040
very catholic
1189
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,040
we had worked with mike for years when
1190
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,880
you have a long-term relationship with
1191
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:09,680
somebody
1192
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,560
you don't have to sit and ponderously
1193
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:13,520
and talk about
1194
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,839
style or about intention or anything
1195
00:45:15,839 --> 00:45:16,720
else
1196
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:19,359
we can talk in shorthand about things he
1197
00:45:19,359 --> 00:45:20,400
was like
1198
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,760
talking to a brother i was uh very much
1199
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:24,880
in tune with the director
1200
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,880
and his script there was a kind of joy
1201
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,480
personal joy had in
1202
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,280
understanding his vision and his style
1203
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,720
and he worked like a
1204
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:34,960
fiend on this i mean to make the number
1205
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,560
setups that he made
1206
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,079
sometimes he was on a dolly and then
1207
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:39,680
there are some handheld scenes he was
1208
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:40,960
just able to take that old
1209
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,880
bl and sling it on his shoulder and walk
1210
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,640
around but it wasn't steadicam it was
1211
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,160
mike's muscle power
1212
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,200
we designed a very loose lighting style
1213
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,440
so we wouldn't be bogged down with those
1214
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,319
big moves
1215
00:45:52,319 --> 00:45:54,480
which are typically lighting if you had
1216
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:55,440
to you know spend
1217
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,040
two hours lighting every setup it would
1218
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:58,880
have been absolutely impossible and we
1219
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,640
stayed very very portable
1220
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,319
shooting quick and dirty so to speak
1221
00:46:04,319 --> 00:46:05,839
okay just watch as you're going up this
1222
00:46:05,839 --> 00:46:08,000
way
1223
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,079
mike's just this tireless guy just a
1224
00:46:12,079 --> 00:46:13,520
terrific diligent
1225
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,400
shooter i mean his stuff looks wonderful
1226
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,319
we shot a lot of coverage
1227
00:46:18,319 --> 00:46:20,240
i used to call it the cover your ass
1228
00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:22,640
style of directing
1229
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,359
which is just get a lot of shots and
1230
00:46:25,359 --> 00:46:29,040
don't move the camera left
1231
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,880
if you cover a lot of different angles
1232
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,040
you can basically cut that together any
1233
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,400
way you want you can cut
1234
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,240
dialogue put it somewhere else move
1235
00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:38,960
things around change the speed
1236
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,720
of action you leave yourself a million
1237
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:43,520
options if you shoot that way
1238
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,839
i always enjoy editing my favorite part
1239
00:46:45,839 --> 00:46:47,359
of the whole process
1240
00:46:47,359 --> 00:46:49,119
you can sit there with your coffee or
1241
00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:51,200
your glass of scotch and
1242
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:52,960
think about it for the first time
1243
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,880
without having to make quick decisions
1244
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,319
you know
1245
00:46:56,319 --> 00:46:59,040
god is just a phenomenal editor i would
1246
00:46:59,040 --> 00:46:59,839
sit and watch
1247
00:46:59,839 --> 00:47:01,440
just watch him physically work and then
1248
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,839
he he worked on this little
1249
00:47:03,839 --> 00:47:05,599
movie scope he worked on this little two
1250
00:47:05,599 --> 00:47:07,440
and a half inch square thing he run the
1251
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:08,720
film through there and he would
1252
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:10,160
just cut all of these shots and hang
1253
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,920
them all over the
1254
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,599
all over the room and then he would go
1255
00:47:13,599 --> 00:47:15,200
through and just pull them
1256
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,599
like this and use a scissors to cut in
1257
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:19,280
tighter than you could normally do it
1258
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:20,400
between frames
1259
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,000
and then put tape over and it would be a
1260
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,240
perfectly cut sequence with overlapped
1261
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:26,660
with action that matched
1262
00:47:26,660 --> 00:47:33,520
[Music]
1263
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:39,839
it's an amazing process to watch him
1264
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,000
we couldn't have made this movie without
1265
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,480
tom savini i mean he's so energetic and
1266
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,079
he's so inventive
1267
00:47:50,079 --> 00:47:52,720
and he's he's just got a terrific sense
1268
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:53,440
and glee
1269
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,119
whenever he's got an effect ready and
1270
00:47:55,119 --> 00:47:56,720
brings the stuff out on the set
1271
00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,800
we all sit there waiting like kids
1272
00:47:58,800 --> 00:47:59,839
waiting for
1273
00:47:59,839 --> 00:48:02,559
christmas to see it happen and if they
1274
00:48:02,559 --> 00:48:04,000
don't work he's got something in his hip
1275
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,760
pocket to try it again
1276
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,760
in a simpler way and he'll never leave
1277
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:08,800
you without
1278
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,040
something he's invaluable that way he
1279
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:12,160
was a real showman
1280
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,319
and he could lift the spirits of a set
1281
00:48:14,319 --> 00:48:15,680
just by his very presence
1282
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,839
savini was a very talented guy that was
1283
00:48:18,839 --> 00:48:20,240
crazy
1284
00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:24,000
and thought he could do anything
1285
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,280
we were pumping out three or four
1286
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,800
hundred zombies and you know i was doing
1287
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,079
stunts on the film i was never
1288
00:48:28,079 --> 00:48:30,240
officially a stuntman you know
1289
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:31,920
but i was the gymnast you know in high
1290
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,720
school and there were some stunts coming
1291
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:35,920
up you know so i said you know i could
1292
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,480
do that stuff
1293
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,599
[Music]
1294
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:41,200
i used to carry a sleeping bag around
1295
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,200
with me at the mall
1296
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,040
because you know seven o'clock at night
1297
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,720
till seven in the morning you know
1298
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:48,640
if you're not doing something it's nice
1299
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,319
to catch some z's you know
1300
00:48:50,319 --> 00:48:52,480
invariably somebody will admit tom it's
1301
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,599
time to do a stunt
1302
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,280
tom we need some more zombies over here
1303
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:00,800
so that's what made it halloween though
1304
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,160
because you know i'm doing all these
1305
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:02,620
things
1306
00:49:02,620 --> 00:49:06,079
[Music]
1307
00:49:06,079 --> 00:49:09,280
wow you must get into the roof son of a
1308
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,599
bitch
1309
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,839
what do you think go get them now or
1310
00:49:14,839 --> 00:49:17,839
tonight
1311
00:49:24,780 --> 00:49:26,319
[Music]
1312
00:49:26,319 --> 00:49:27,520
we knew they're going to be bikers in
1313
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,040
the movie then the bikers showed up and
1314
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:30,400
you know and they're real bikers it's
1315
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:31,520
the pagans you know
1316
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,040
like hells angels type people they were
1317
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,720
very nice all
1318
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,079
really nice people they came out and
1319
00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:39,040
brought their bikes and you know just
1320
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:43,599
for the goof of it we had the whole gang
1321
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:46,000
for a day or two we also needed people
1322
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,079
who were able to deliver lines
1323
00:49:48,079 --> 00:49:50,880
and tom savini said well what about us
1324
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,040
we're macho actors stunt guys you know
1325
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,240
and dawn of the dead
1326
00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:59,839
we gotta you know be part of this group
1327
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:01,520
with the sledgehammer that was his
1328
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,040
character he was sledge and i'm blades
1329
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,559
they were just great i mean you know
1330
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:08,720
they were just again energetic and they
1331
00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:10,400
added a lot of flavor and color and
1332
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,720
actually created these couple little
1333
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:15,280
characters that people remember holy
1334
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,839
shit
1335
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,640
they'll get in they'll move the trucks
1336
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,240
there's hundreds of those creatures down
1337
00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:28,079
there come on man that's a professional
1338
00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:29,359
army
1339
00:50:29,359 --> 00:50:30,960
looks like they've been surviving on the
1340
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,040
road all through this thing
1341
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,200
the biker invasion was actually over two
1342
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:36,319
nights
1343
00:50:36,319 --> 00:50:38,880
we did some uh preliminary shots of the
1344
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,400
approach
1345
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,559
the biker invasion was very surreal and
1346
00:50:42,559 --> 00:50:44,160
very very loud
1347
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:48,540
[Music]
1348
00:50:49,839 --> 00:50:51,200
one of the ways that they got in was
1349
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,440
blowing out a b-glass window okay
1350
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,839
and everybody came down to see the
1351
00:50:55,839 --> 00:50:57,920
effect gary zeller was mr special
1352
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,559
effects guy
1353
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,440
gary's whole idea was bigger better they
1354
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,160
put too much explosive power behind that
1355
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,200
bomb i think the entire glass side of
1356
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:10,079
the mall
1357
00:51:10,079 --> 00:51:14,800
went up in a huge explosion
1358
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:19,520
and then we did the big flood entry of
1359
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,520
all the bikes and bikers
1360
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,280
and they were great the leader was
1361
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,119
really cute and i rode on the back of
1362
00:51:25,119 --> 00:51:27,119
his motorcycle in a shot you just see a
1363
00:51:27,119 --> 00:51:27,760
flash
1364
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,319
of my back that was fun for these guys
1365
00:51:30,319 --> 00:51:31,119
to ride their
1366
00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:33,920
bikes through a shopping mall it must
1367
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,839
have been a charge
1368
00:51:39,190 --> 00:51:42,349
[Music]
1369
00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:44,480
they did everything we asked whipping
1370
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,559
around the mall in their motorcycles
1371
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:50,319
it was kind of hard to tame them down
1372
00:51:50,319 --> 00:51:52,800
when they first wrote into that shopping
1373
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,240
mall the sound was
1374
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:56,559
unlike anything i've ever heard i mean
1375
00:51:56,559 --> 00:51:57,359
it was just
1376
00:51:57,359 --> 00:51:59,599
incredible because you know you have all
1377
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:01,520
this marble and all this
1378
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,920
the echo there's just a noise of just
1379
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,839
reverbing and coming back into each
1380
00:52:05,839 --> 00:52:08,079
other
1381
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,400
then i have the headsets on and i
1382
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:11,920
thought i was going to go deaf
1383
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,920
it vibrated the whole building of course
1384
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,440
it blew off all the
1385
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,559
burglar alarms
1386
00:52:18,559 --> 00:52:20,640
it was one of those stunning moments you
1387
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:21,920
know where you say
1388
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,079
what have i wrought well it really was
1389
00:52:24,079 --> 00:52:26,240
our biggest event
1390
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:27,760
because now we're talking probably
1391
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,240
literally 500 zombies
1392
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:32,930
plus bikers
1393
00:52:32,930 --> 00:52:35,119
[Music]
1394
00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:36,640
it was chaotic and it was probably as
1395
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,640
close to combat photography
1396
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,559
as you can imagine because we didn't
1397
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:42,880
have two cameras and we just ran around
1398
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,960
shooting the chaos communication was
1399
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,559
almost impossible
1400
00:52:46,559 --> 00:52:49,040
george and i lost total communication i
1401
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,839
didn't know where george was
1402
00:52:51,839 --> 00:52:54,800
he just kept rolling
1403
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,520
george came to me and said i'd love to
1404
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:58,800
see a biker go through our storefront
1405
00:52:58,800 --> 00:52:59,440
window
1406
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,280
yeah yeah sure i'll do it you know so
1407
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:02,640
they built the plate glass window and
1408
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:03,920
they laid it on the floor and i don't
1409
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,680
think the form was even because
1410
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,839
the glass poured up about that thick
1411
00:53:07,839 --> 00:53:10,160
okay
1412
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:11,760
it was like going through a brick wall
1413
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,359
but the motorcycle broke it the bike
1414
00:53:13,359 --> 00:53:14,559
went out from under when i hit the
1415
00:53:14,559 --> 00:53:15,200
ground
1416
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:16,480
i should have been paralyzed i should
1417
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,480
have been killed perhaps i show this
1418
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,800
accident to people oh my god
1419
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:28,880
did you you broke your neck
1420
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,880
there's a scene where we used a
1421
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,400
volkswagen sirocco
1422
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:33,839
to travel through the mall at high
1423
00:53:33,839 --> 00:53:36,079
speeds we paid nothing for the sirocco
1424
00:53:36,079 --> 00:53:37,680
i mean i remember being on my knees at a
1425
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,119
car dealer begging
1426
00:53:39,119 --> 00:53:43,359
for the car
1427
00:53:43,359 --> 00:53:47,040
we put some sizeable dents in that thing
1428
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:48,880
i think actually tom and maybe tossless
1429
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:50,960
demarcus did a couple of
1430
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,839
falls across the hood of the siracco and
1431
00:53:53,839 --> 00:53:55,760
then we wrecked it
1432
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,800
it hit a pillar what can i say then
1433
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,640
returned it and said
1434
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,359
thank you very much
1435
00:54:04,170 --> 00:54:06,559
[Music]
1436
00:54:06,559 --> 00:54:09,520
at that point i said this is so nuts
1437
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,280
what don't we have we don't have a pie
1438
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,960
fight let's have a pie fight with the
1439
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:14,800
zombies you know we may use it we may
1440
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,160
not but that's good for a laugh
1441
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,640
so okay it's pie fight there are pies
1442
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,319
the seltzer bottles and suddenly were
1443
00:54:24,319 --> 00:54:25,920
the three stooges and i remember people
1444
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,599
sliding around
1445
00:54:27,599 --> 00:54:31,200
on the whipped cream and eating it
1446
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:38,000
and laughing
1447
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,480
i think that it's a giggle i thought it
1448
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,040
was horrible
1449
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:45,359
well i just thought it was over the top
1450
00:54:45,359 --> 00:54:47,599
ridiculous but you know what obviously i
1451
00:54:47,599 --> 00:54:49,280
was wrong because people love all that
1452
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:49,839
stuff
1453
00:54:49,839 --> 00:54:53,040
you know so i'm glad he doesn't listen
1454
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:53,520
to me
1455
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:54,820
um
1456
00:54:54,820 --> 00:55:00,109
[Applause]
1457
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:06,880
bible where the hell are you
1458
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:12,079
we took it it's ours
1459
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,200
what the hell are you doing
1460
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,720
we're starting to get near the end of
1461
00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:20,559
the film i start realizing a lot of the
1462
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:22,319
pas and grips
1463
00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:24,559
are getting in small parts as zombies
1464
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:25,920
and bikers i'm thinking you know i'm
1465
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,839
kind of being left out of the situation
1466
00:55:27,839 --> 00:55:29,119
so i don't lean over to george i hey
1467
00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:30,880
george you know i'd like to do a zombie
1468
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,520
24 hours later i'm getting this machete
1469
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:34,319
in my skull
1470
00:55:34,319 --> 00:55:35,680
getting kicked across the floor and i'm
1471
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,540
enjoying every minute of it
1472
00:55:37,540 --> 00:55:39,200
[Music]
1473
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:40,799
my thing was always to use the real
1474
00:55:40,799 --> 00:55:43,920
actor as much as possible
1475
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,480
we could have chopped a fake head with a
1476
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,000
machete but somehow
1477
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,040
seeing the real actor who can react it's
1478
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,400
the real deal you know
1479
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:53,680
i'm grabbing on his pants and i'm
1480
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,440
raising myself up and i'm going in for
1481
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:56,960
the bite when tom savini comes down with
1482
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:57,920
the machete
1483
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,960
camera cuts okay then they take the one
1484
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,440
with a whole cut in it they place it in
1485
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:04,160
my head
1486
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,280
camera rolls he pulls it out then they
1487
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:08,640
print it in reverse
1488
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,200
say goodbye
1489
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:17,839
and it worked it was a wonderful effect
1490
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:21,810
every time i see it i go like that
1491
00:56:21,810 --> 00:56:28,400
[Music]
1492
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,319
tasso had to die and there's a
1493
00:56:30,319 --> 00:56:32,319
slaughterhouse close to my house so
1494
00:56:32,319 --> 00:56:34,000
i guess it evolved from that thinking i
1495
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,760
could get some pig intestines
1496
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,599
you know we had a rubber chest and we
1497
00:56:37,599 --> 00:56:39,119
put that rubber chest
1498
00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:41,599
on him and put the pig intestines behind
1499
00:56:41,599 --> 00:56:43,599
it throw some blood tubing up his legs
1500
00:56:43,599 --> 00:56:44,720
into that area
1501
00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:46,160
and that worked because they just tore
1502
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,640
him apart
1503
00:56:52,559 --> 00:56:54,559
those intestines coming out they are
1504
00:56:54,559 --> 00:56:56,160
some clean intestines and that's because
1505
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:56,799
tasso
1506
00:56:56,799 --> 00:56:59,520
just washed them rinsed them you know
1507
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,280
and scoured them under hot water
1508
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,200
squeezing them and getting all the goo
1509
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:04,480
off them because they were going to go
1510
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,160
against his skin when they come out they
1511
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,040
are pristine
1512
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,400
it used to astound me that zombies
1513
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,359
would argue over who got to eat
1514
00:57:13,359 --> 00:57:15,040
something i wouldn't want to come within
1515
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,559
10 feet of
1516
00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:18,319
people would fight to be the one i'll
1517
00:57:18,319 --> 00:57:19,760
eat that i'll do it
1518
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:26,960
i will let me
1519
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,599
i was appalled i couldn't believe some
1520
00:57:29,599 --> 00:57:31,040
of the ideas cevini came up with i
1521
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,079
couldn't believe that george would want
1522
00:57:32,079 --> 00:57:34,880
to do about something enough
1523
00:57:35,599 --> 00:57:37,359
i think tom and george like to check
1524
00:57:37,359 --> 00:57:38,640
things out on me if i'm really
1525
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,240
if chris is really grossed out then this
1526
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,559
is good
1527
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:48,799
my stuff has the reputation of being
1528
00:57:48,799 --> 00:57:50,640
very realistic
1529
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,480
my time in vietnam had a big influence
1530
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,880
on me
1531
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,040
as a combat photographer in vietnam and
1532
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:58,160
that's what i try to put into the
1533
00:57:58,160 --> 00:57:59,150
effects and that i do
1534
00:57:59,150 --> 00:58:02,199
[Music]
1535
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:05,680
if i don't get the same feeling that i
1536
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,520
got when i saw the real stuff then the
1537
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:08,079
fake stuff
1538
00:58:08,079 --> 00:58:11,440
isn't real enough for me
1539
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,160
special effects are magic tricks there
1540
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:17,839
are certain things you need to make the
1541
00:58:17,839 --> 00:58:18,240
effect
1542
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,720
shot work if there's a weapon involved i
1543
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:22,720
always try to establish the weapon
1544
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,480
as taking a chunk out of the wall or
1545
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:25,760
give the weapon some strength so when
1546
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,359
the rubber weapon comes in it still has
1547
00:58:27,359 --> 00:58:28,480
that power
1548
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,960
in your mind
1549
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,200
i'm fighting zombies and i get shot i'm
1550
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:36,079
supposed to fly
1551
00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:39,520
backwards so when i did it i'm just
1552
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:40,160
diving
1553
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:41,520
and you'll see it in the film it's me
1554
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:42,799
coming straight off the balcony and
1555
00:58:42,799 --> 00:58:43,920
there's a bunch of mattresses and
1556
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,640
cardboard boxes
1557
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:51,839
except when i did it i missed
1558
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:54,559
my feet went slamming into the ground
1559
00:58:54,559 --> 00:58:57,440
and on my heels
1560
00:58:57,599 --> 00:58:59,760
george runs up and shakes my hand and
1561
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,119
that's all i needed you know
1562
00:59:01,119 --> 00:59:02,640
acknowledgement from george he liked it
1563
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,839
great let's move on what's next
1564
00:59:08,079 --> 00:59:10,000
being the zombie was something i could
1565
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,160
just like grab onto
1566
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,520
i sat there for weeks and weeks watching
1567
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,799
all of these people coming up with
1568
00:59:18,799 --> 00:59:22,319
their zombie and i'm thinking what
1569
00:59:22,319 --> 00:59:25,280
am i going to do
1570
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,119
i had to come up with something that was
1571
00:59:29,119 --> 00:59:32,160
distinctive enough so okay now
1572
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,240
what happens to this guy he gets bit in
1573
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:35,440
the neck
1574
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,079
he's bitten the leg he's shot in the arm
1575
00:59:38,079 --> 00:59:39,200
so basically
1576
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,400
the zombie image came
1577
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,480
out of the wounds that he received
1578
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,720
first time the elevator opens and i come
1579
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:50,630
out it was show
1580
00:59:50,630 --> 00:59:59,680
[Music]
1581
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,599
you time i think george liked it a lot i
1582
01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:02,720
remember him
1583
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,760
going wow king zombie man that's
1584
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,799
great his zombie walk is
1585
01:00:08,799 --> 01:00:11,119
yet to be equal i don't know how he did
1586
01:00:11,119 --> 01:00:11,839
that with his
1587
01:00:11,839 --> 01:00:15,680
foot i mean i really pushed that whale
1588
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:17,440
and i love the thing with the gun it's
1589
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,040
not even aware that he's got a gun
1590
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:20,240
hanging off his finger
1591
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:21,520
those were all things that david
1592
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:23,520
invented his body language it's
1593
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:25,680
really worthy of lon chaney and i was
1594
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:26,559
very much at home
1595
01:00:26,559 --> 01:00:28,880
playing the zombie i mean i just had a
1596
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,119
hoot playing a zombie
1597
01:00:31,119 --> 01:00:42,920
i really do
1598
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,039
[Music]
1599
01:00:48,559 --> 01:00:50,319
i read the script for don of the dead i
1600
01:00:50,319 --> 01:00:52,319
think the original script had the uh
1601
01:00:52,319 --> 01:00:57,839
very horrible tragic ending
1602
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,359
the zombies are coming up and there's
1603
01:01:01,359 --> 01:01:02,720
really no place to go
1604
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:04,400
get out of here
1605
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,640
[Music]
1606
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:10,400
jesus christ beer i don't want to go
1607
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,799
there's no reason to fly off anymore in
1608
01:01:12,799 --> 01:01:15,599
a helicopter
1609
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,319
i shoot myself in the head with the
1610
01:01:20,319 --> 01:01:21,839
damager just
1611
01:01:21,839 --> 01:01:26,480
end it all you know i just give up
1612
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:28,880
and put my head into the helicopter
1613
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:30,640
blade and kill myself
1614
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:34,319
that was i thought a particularly strong
1615
01:01:34,319 --> 01:01:36,000
ending at the same time i could
1616
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,520
understand why they thought that would
1617
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,839
be
1618
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,640
too difficult i'm sure i was always
1619
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,079
saying you can't kill everybody you
1620
01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:44,960
can't do it
1621
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:48,480
i say george it is too much fun to
1622
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,480
wipe them all out he doesn't always
1623
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:52,559
listen to me but he cares what i think
1624
01:01:52,559 --> 01:01:54,319
you know so we never shot ken shooting
1625
01:01:54,319 --> 01:01:55,599
himself we never shot
1626
01:01:55,599 --> 01:01:57,280
her head disintegrating and george
1627
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,039
decided to have an up ending
1628
01:01:59,039 --> 01:02:00,319
you know these people have been through
1629
01:02:00,319 --> 01:02:02,580
so much let them get away you know
1630
01:02:02,580 --> 01:02:05,200
[Music]
1631
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:06,799
i think they made a great choice there
1632
01:02:06,799 --> 01:02:08,240
had to be some kind of
1633
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:21,360
uplifting ending
1634
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,400
[Music]
1635
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:29,359
how much fuel do we have not much
1636
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,119
all right i love that swell the strings
1637
01:02:33,119 --> 01:02:34,559
when they fly away in the end
1638
01:02:34,559 --> 01:02:36,930
you know how can you live without that
1639
01:02:36,930 --> 01:02:46,839
[Music]
1640
01:02:46,839 --> 01:02:47,900
man
1641
01:02:47,900 --> 01:02:51,200
[Music]
1642
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,839
i used all these schmaltzy library
1643
01:02:53,839 --> 01:02:54,720
tracks and it's
1644
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,839
it winds up being so corny in places but
1645
01:02:57,839 --> 01:02:59,440
i i dig that
1646
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,680
and the first time dario saw the film
1647
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,680
that's the way he saw it
1648
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,880
and so we made an arrangement that you
1649
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:07,839
know well
1650
01:03:07,839 --> 01:03:10,240
i could do the edit for english language
1651
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:11,760
countries and
1652
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:13,920
and he could tweak it or cut it for
1653
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,200
non-english language
1654
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,839
countries
1655
01:03:18,910 --> 01:03:28,860
[Music]
1656
01:03:35,700 --> 01:03:38,750
[Music]
1657
01:03:46,900 --> 01:03:50,130
[Music]
1658
01:03:56,839 --> 01:03:59,830
just
1659
01:03:59,830 --> 01:04:08,639
[Music]
1660
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:18,429
[Music]
1661
01:04:32,799 --> 01:04:34,720
the film initially had european
1662
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,799
distribution it really made
1663
01:04:36,799 --> 01:04:39,680
a lot of money but we didn't have a u.s
1664
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:40,640
distributor
1665
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:42,160
and we took it around and showed it to
1666
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,079
the usual suspects you know american
1667
01:04:44,079 --> 01:04:46,400
international the people at that point
1668
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,039
at that time uh who were distributing
1669
01:04:49,039 --> 01:04:49,520
sort of
1670
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,960
exploitation films and people
1671
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,280
wrote it like a pony but would always
1672
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:56,640
come out of the screening room and say
1673
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:57,520
well
1674
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:00,079
that's really rough uh let's see what
1675
01:05:00,079 --> 01:05:02,400
can we do to clean this up a little bit
1676
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,319
but richard and i both believed that
1677
01:05:04,319 --> 01:05:06,240
this film's best chance at success was
1678
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,000
to let it be as strong as possible
1679
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,160
so in the end richard said well you know
1680
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,079
what i'm gonna just prove that there's
1681
01:05:12,079 --> 01:05:13,760
an audience for this film
1682
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:15,599
and he ran at a theater to show it and
1683
01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:17,359
he took out a little one-inch ad
1684
01:05:17,359 --> 01:05:20,640
in the new york times one screening
1685
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,920
and uh we showed up there that night and
1686
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,960
the the the mob was all the way up the
1687
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:27,760
street
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01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:29,760
and we showed the film and it blew the
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01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:30,799
roof off people
1690
01:05:30,799 --> 01:05:33,039
went crazy i mean people were screaming
1691
01:05:33,039 --> 01:05:34,079
and yelling and
1692
01:05:34,079 --> 01:05:35,920
it was incredible it was the best
1693
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:37,520
audience experience i think that i'd
1694
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:38,319
ever had
1695
01:05:38,319 --> 01:05:40,640
salah hassan who ran united film
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01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:41,520
distribution
1697
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,280
came to the theater that night saw that
1698
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,119
reaction and in front of the theater in
1699
01:05:45,119 --> 01:05:46,960
the midst of that mob i think made a
1700
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,359
deal with richard
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01:05:49,359 --> 01:05:52,799
in 1968 george romero brought us
1702
01:05:52,799 --> 01:05:55,280
night of the living dead it became the
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01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:56,559
classic horror film
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01:05:56,559 --> 01:05:59,920
of its time now george romero brings us
1705
01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:02,000
the most intensely shocking motion
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01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,359
picture experience
1707
01:06:03,359 --> 01:06:08,799
for all times dawn of the dead
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01:06:08,799 --> 01:06:10,799
salah was willing to release this film
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01:06:10,799 --> 01:06:11,839
without a rating
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01:06:11,839 --> 01:06:14,880
and i think that while it
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01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:18,319
contributed and made the film as popular
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01:06:18,319 --> 01:06:19,119
as it is
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01:06:19,119 --> 01:06:21,200
that limited its success because it's
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01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,440
considered an x in those days it was an
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01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:23,839
x
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01:06:23,839 --> 01:06:26,559
you can't advertise in prime time
1717
01:06:26,559 --> 01:06:27,359
televisions
1718
01:06:27,359 --> 01:06:29,119
you can't advertise in some newspapers
1719
01:06:29,119 --> 01:06:30,880
at all but they
1720
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,559
we knew it was going to be hit when the
1721
01:06:32,559 --> 01:06:34,000
film opened at the rivoli
1722
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,760
we saw this crowd down times square
1723
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,839
and i'm going gee what movie is that for
1724
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and it was for us
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[Laughter]
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it was very exciting time i was thrilled
1727
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,799
to see it with an audience
1728
01:06:46,799 --> 01:06:48,079
but it was at that point i realized what
1729
01:06:48,079 --> 01:06:50,240
we had done we had frightened the hell
1730
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:51,520
out of people
1731
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:53,440
the reward for me was picking somebody
1732
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:54,960
in the audience and just watching the
1733
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:56,640
evolution of their heart attack for some
1734
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:58,160
people it was too much i think you know
1735
01:06:58,160 --> 01:06:59,920
i went to see dawn of the dead when it
1736
01:06:59,920 --> 01:07:01,520
opened at the united artist theater in
1737
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:03,039
new york with my grandmother
1738
01:07:03,039 --> 01:07:05,359
i told her not to come i warned her
1739
01:07:05,359 --> 01:07:06,240
ahead of time
1740
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:08,400
she said no i'm coming i'm coming so i
1741
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,240
sat with her
1742
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:14,319
the guy's head was blown off
1743
01:07:14,319 --> 01:07:17,359
she just went oh my god i said you want
1744
01:07:17,359 --> 01:07:18,799
to go now don't you she said
1745
01:07:18,799 --> 01:07:23,039
yes so i escorted her out quickly
1746
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:25,440
somebody went running out of the theater
1747
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,720
and threw up
1748
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:32,319
so you know the early on the legend was
1749
01:07:32,319 --> 01:07:32,960
born
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01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,559
i know it was too much for chris romero
1751
01:07:34,559 --> 01:07:36,240
you know i was like oh my god what will
1752
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:37,119
my dad say
1753
01:07:37,119 --> 01:07:39,839
you get a varying degree of reactions
1754
01:07:39,839 --> 01:07:41,440
depending on who's watching it you know
1755
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,039
some guy's getting his head chopped off
1756
01:07:43,039 --> 01:07:45,599
with the helicopter
1757
01:07:45,599 --> 01:07:50,720
people are like yeah show us more
1758
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:52,240
i wasn't really surprised at the
1759
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,880
reaction your hero on one hand and the
1760
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:56,079
devil on the other hand
1761
01:07:56,079 --> 01:07:57,760
and i was satisfied that we'd made a
1762
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:59,599
film that pays off
1763
01:07:59,599 --> 01:08:02,160
on several levels horror fans dig it
1764
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:03,839
people that want its messenger it's
1765
01:08:03,839 --> 01:08:04,640
satire
1766
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:08,160
dig it it's a fun ride and i knew
1767
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:11,200
that if we'd done anything at all we
1768
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:15,119
had made a crowd pleaser
1769
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,158
those were golden days because we were
1770
01:08:18,158 --> 01:08:19,279
so unrestricted
1771
01:08:19,279 --> 01:08:22,319
and i think that those films reflect
1772
01:08:22,319 --> 01:08:25,120
that kind of freedom you know somebody
1773
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:26,799
was actually paying me to go play with
1774
01:08:26,799 --> 01:08:28,399
electric trains you know
1775
01:08:28,399 --> 01:08:30,080
well i thought it was great you know i
1776
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:31,920
was so excited to be part of it and it
1777
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:32,640
was just all
1778
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:34,399
it was just everything was just so fun
1779
01:08:34,399 --> 01:08:35,920
and exciting
1780
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:37,359
the only bad part about that is we
1781
01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:38,640
thought all the movies would be like
1782
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:39,040
that
1783
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:42,560
silent wanted to do a sequel right away
1784
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,520
and i said i wanted to wait i had a
1785
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,198
script called night riders that i wanted
1786
01:08:47,198 --> 01:08:48,880
to make
1787
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:50,880
and we had developed a relationship with
1788
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,359
stephen king
1789
01:08:53,359 --> 01:08:56,640
and steve rode creep show so
1790
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:58,340
our plate was pretty full
1791
01:08:58,340 --> 01:09:00,000
[Music]
1792
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,120
eventually we made another zombie film
1793
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,759
but it had you know smaller distribution
1794
01:09:05,759 --> 01:09:07,359
and didn't do any business
1795
01:09:07,359 --> 01:09:09,120
so we may have hurt ourselves a little
1796
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:10,719
bit there but
1797
01:09:10,719 --> 01:09:13,600
that's the way it went
1798
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:19,198
the fandom behind dawn of the dead it's
1799
01:09:19,198 --> 01:09:20,158
amazing
1800
01:09:20,158 --> 01:09:22,799
i mean people come from all around the
1801
01:09:22,799 --> 01:09:24,960
world to visit the shopping mall
1802
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:26,319
we had a special trip from charlotte
1803
01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:28,479
northland just to get to this mall
1804
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,158
came all the way from germany and a
1805
01:09:30,158 --> 01:09:32,158
little really number one
1806
01:09:32,158 --> 01:09:34,000
dawn of the dead so coming here today
1807
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,560
for the dawn of the dead mall
1808
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:37,839
is a special treat especially with
1809
01:09:37,839 --> 01:09:40,000
george being here looks different but
1810
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:40,719
the
1811
01:09:40,719 --> 01:09:43,198
keep looking after zombies that blows me
1812
01:09:43,198 --> 01:09:43,920
away
1813
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,158
and whenever i go to festivals or
1814
01:09:46,158 --> 01:09:48,238
conventions the number of fans and the
1815
01:09:48,238 --> 01:09:50,080
loyalty that they have to this film is
1816
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:50,479
really
1817
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:54,158
gratifying there is an industry out
1818
01:09:54,158 --> 01:09:55,120
there
1819
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:58,560
of fans who just love this film
1820
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,840
and have followed it i'm just shocked at
1821
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:03,600
how many people are out there
1822
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,719
worldwide who really love this film they
1823
01:10:06,719 --> 01:10:08,560
remember this film as like some sort of
1824
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:09,679
seminal thing in their
1825
01:10:09,679 --> 01:10:12,080
their lives people will tell you in
1826
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:13,440
complete honesty
1827
01:10:13,440 --> 01:10:15,600
that it's changed them this guy came up
1828
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:16,719
to me
1829
01:10:16,719 --> 01:10:19,199
and he started to talk to me about how
1830
01:10:19,199 --> 01:10:20,960
the movie changed his life
1831
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:25,199
you changed my life and
1832
01:10:25,199 --> 01:10:27,360
you're responsible for the person that i
1833
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:28,400
am today
1834
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,000
i said are you kidding i've seen the
1835
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:31,840
movie 40 times
1836
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,960
i've seen this movie 125 times
1837
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,080
i've seen the film 365 times how often
1838
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:38,960
do you look at it
1839
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:40,960
every friday night every friday night i
1840
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:42,640
looked at his wife and i said that's why
1841
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:45,760
you don't have any kids
1842
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:47,600
this one guy came up to me and he says
1843
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:49,520
you know i've driven 14 hours to meet
1844
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:50,080
you
1845
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:51,760
i've been waiting to meet the nurse
1846
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:53,360
zombie for years
1847
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:56,080
you're my favorite zombie when i die i
1848
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:57,679
want the movie in my casket
1849
01:10:57,679 --> 01:10:59,679
he rolled up his sleeves and i kid you
1850
01:10:59,679 --> 01:11:02,640
not he had tattoos
1851
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:06,159
like all over him and like he pulled up
1852
01:11:06,159 --> 01:11:07,520
his shirt showed on his chest
1853
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,480
of every character from george's movies
1854
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:10,880
you know
1855
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,520
it it blows you away it's it's i mean i
1856
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:14,960
think it's nice for george i think it's
1857
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:16,080
really nice that he has
1858
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:20,159
those fans dawn of the dead little did a
1859
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:21,760
lot for me i mean i got
1860
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,320
friday the 13th the first friday the
1861
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:24,880
13th
1862
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:26,880
because of dawn of the dead and began
1863
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,440
the splatter craze
1864
01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:31,199
i worked from movie to movie i worked
1865
01:11:31,199 --> 01:11:32,480
for a long time
1866
01:11:32,480 --> 01:11:34,080
and don had a lot to do with that you
1867
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:35,679
know a lot of the jobs that i have
1868
01:11:35,679 --> 01:11:36,960
with the michael manz and the marty
1869
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:38,480
scorsese all come out of the fact that
1870
01:11:38,480 --> 01:11:39,679
they respect george
1871
01:11:39,679 --> 01:11:41,600
it's been so easy for so many of us who
1872
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,920
came to hollywood from pittsburgh
1873
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:46,400
we've all done quite well and that's
1874
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:47,840
thanks to george
1875
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:51,120
he really mentored and he may not even
1876
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:54,080
have realized he was doing it and you
1877
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:54,560
think
1878
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:55,920
who is this person who makes these
1879
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:58,239
horrible movies it's this
1880
01:11:58,239 --> 01:12:01,679
lovely bright sweet
1881
01:12:01,679 --> 01:12:05,360
man that yeah you give 110
1882
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,239
for because you want to he's one of the
1883
01:12:08,239 --> 01:12:08,640
best
1884
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:11,199
people i've ever known as i look back
1885
01:12:11,199 --> 01:12:13,360
i'm happy i made the choices that i made
1886
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,520
and i'm very comfortable with sort of my
1887
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,840
body of work if you want to
1888
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:19,520
call it that i think i'm still
1889
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:21,920
considered by hollywood mainstream is
1890
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:23,920
being a maverick what's that guy
1891
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,270
going to do if we give him money
1892
01:12:26,270 --> 01:12:27,840
[Music]
1893
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cut freeze as long as i can keep doing
1894
01:12:30,719 --> 01:12:31,440
it
1895
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:33,360
i'm happy as hell that's really all i've
1896
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:34,560
ever wanted to do
1897
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:38,320
yeah let's uh let's let's go again
1898
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:39,920
there's no doubt in my mind that there's
1899
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,159
a market for for a fourth film
1900
01:12:42,159 --> 01:12:43,920
and particularly these days this seems
1901
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:45,840
to be sort of the year of the zombie or
1902
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:47,120
something i mean there are all these
1903
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:48,480
zombie films coming out
1904
01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:51,199
uh or have been out or that are coming
1905
01:12:51,199 --> 01:12:53,120
out including a remake of dawn which i
1906
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:53,679
didn't have
1907
01:12:53,679 --> 01:12:56,560
anything to do with the fourth film as i
1908
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:57,360
have it written
1909
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,840
is basically about ignoring the problem
1910
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:00,960
it's sort of like trying to live with
1911
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:02,480
terrorism you know
1912
01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:04,480
and i think it does reflect sort of
1913
01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:05,679
what's going on today
1914
01:13:05,679 --> 01:13:08,480
you know it's a little bold and a little
1915
01:13:08,480 --> 01:13:10,239
more expensive i might have to shoot a
1916
01:13:10,239 --> 01:13:12,640
couple of versions
1917
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,679
so if it all works out fine there are
1918
01:13:15,679 --> 01:13:17,040
some hardcore true
1919
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,199
zombie fans out there who are just
1920
01:13:19,199 --> 01:13:21,040
waiting for the next romero zombie movie
1921
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:21,520
you know
1922
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:22,960
and all these other ones are just
1923
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:32,860
warming them up okay
1924
01:13:32,860 --> 01:14:02,840
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1925
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[Music]
1926
01:14:15,890 --> 01:14:51,580
[Music]
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