Dawn Of The Dead Page #6

Ving goes out on the roof,

he's just found out his brother is dead.

Dead-ish.

- You could laugh at this point if you want.

- lf you were strange.

There's Bruce Bohne again,

who you just can't get enough of.

Andy's gun store.

He just wants some info, man.

Give it to him.

- Binoculars.

- Has he put his pistol away?

Cos we originally had him shooting...

l like it better with him just standing there!

lt was totally cool.

James Gunn from draft one

had this Kenneth-Andy relationship in it.

lt's really great.

And Zack rendered it in a great way

and it's just very effective.

That gets a laugh.

l wasn't sure if it would but it does.

Look at Lindy Booth.

Here's Lindy Booth and Matt

and Lindy Booth will look at Kevin's ass

when he walks away

and l'm not sure how l feel about it,

it makes me uncomfortable.

See, she's looking at it and then smirking.

What does that mean?

- l don't know.

- l don't either but l like it.

Clearly the loss of

her mother and her brothers...

lt hasn't hurt her that bad!

She's bounced back from it.

That oestrogen is still going.

- Ermes is having a hard time.

- Yeah. A lot of make-up.

Remember that one death scene

that he did when he died?

l said, ''OK, when you die,

kinda convulse a little and then die.''

And no lie, he convulsed

for close to 0 seconds.

lt was crazy, it was awesome,

the best thing l've ever seen.

Right here, it was like, he just went.

He was flopping around

and Sarah was laughing.

They couldn't control her.

Cos his boob flew out of the bra.

lt was all over the place.

- Didn't we roto out his tongue?

- Yeah. But his rolled-back eyes...

He held his eyes rolled back in his head,

like this... That's real.

He really did that. lt's awesome.

l can't even do it. lt's awesome.

See, look at this. Doing that.

Died without a name, apparently.

- That got a laugh, too, which was odd.

- Yeah.

Which was odd!

And then this. Everyone's scared.

This was funny, we shot this three times.

Then we did that close-up of the eye,

picked that out.

- That linked everything together.

- lt did. l liked it.

And Mr. has a little...

The eye dilates when it's revealed. Ow.

That was a fun poker shot.

This is when Sarah realised she'd made

a good decision, shoving the poker.

You think so? l think she was like,

''l don't know what this movie's about

''so l'll just do this until you're happy

because l just don't know what this is.''

Mekhi gesturing with the gun

was one of our favourite things.

''How do you know?''

When l'm mad at someone

l will point a gun at them while taking.

There you go. That's great.

But we can forgive it

cos he just got some bad news,

that his pregnant girlfriend is gonna die.

- Or become a zombie.

- Yeah.

You can see him thinking about it.

There's a good shot of the mall.

lt was almost like a practical bookstore

in the sense that it was full of books.

We'd drug in a whole book store.

Crazy books, too. Books you could buy

for five cents a copy.

There were hundreds

of Wisconsin currency...

a coffee-table book about

Wisconsin currency from the 19th century.

- The strangest thing.

- lt was great.

l was gonna grab a bunch

and l didn't and l regret it.

And the gun's just there on the counter.

- Frenchie, the armourer, did a great job.

- He did.

He had to deal with my gun requests,

which were a little unorthodox.

He kept showing up with movie guns -

''He should have two Desert Eagles!''

and l'd be like, ''No, that's a movie gun.

''These people are trying to fight zombies.

''What would they have rather than, like...

''She's got two MP5s and, like...

''A Desert Eagle.''

lt's awesome, a lot of people with criticism

when we were developing it

were like, ''They have so many guns.''

But guns don't really help them that much.

l always argued that

the guns allow you to go 20 feet

and then your guns are no good

so all the gun does is let you get

from a door to another door.

But you can't go outside with a gun,

that doesn't help.

lt is Armageddon, after all.

Matt Frewer probably worked four days.

- Four or five days.

- He did good stuff.

He was fantastic, did a great job.

He's also potentially a great zombie.

But when l say that you'll see...

- Shoot Tucker too? That's what l say.

- That's great.

Good, Lindy.

Those guys had that death scene to do.

There's a scene that's a little longer

in this version of the movie

than in the theatrical version

where Lindy and Matt have a scene

where he's gonna tell her to go away.

We shot it all day

and they were exhausted at the end.

lt was good, though.

You shot it well and they played it well.

Here's Mekhi, like...

Watching this l thought

people would think, ''He's gonna kill her.''

- Yeah, he's got his gun out.

- No, it's OK.

We lit this scene really brightly on purpose

because we wanted

the contrast to what happens to it later.

You'll see, it gets a little hard-core.

- lt gets a little freakier.

- When we scouted this

we tore all the walls out but it was like

a crazy discount furniture...

By the way, every place in the mall

was like some weird discount...

- lt was...

- Stuff that fell off a truck.

lt was kind of a scary mall on its last legs.

- Yeah.

- Which was kind of fun.

- lt's the Thornhill mall in Ontario.

- What's there now?

- Has it gone?

- They were developing it.

The big reason we went to Toronto

was they had this mall there

that they were going to tear down

and redevelop in some way

and they said,

''Come on in and do what you will.''

- That made sense.

- Yeah.

- We also talked about one in New Zealand.

- That would've been awesome.

Go to New Zealand

to shoot a mall in Wisconsin,

that's just fun, that's Hollywood style.

Look at Matt, he is a great potential zombie.

He doesn't look good right there.

- He looks very near zombiism.

- He's sick.

And l like this bit with Ving

where he's almost like the executioner,

waiting to come in and ruin the party a bit.

Boy, Ving loved that shotgun.

- He did, he learned to love it.

- He did really learn to love it.

- He had it with him a lot.

- At dinner.

- He did!

- You're gonna see it.

- He had it at dinner.

- He has it at dinner.

- And he loved that do-rag too.

- Yeah.

- lt's good, though.

- lt's very good.

Look at that, that's a good potential zombie.

That's the start of zombie make-up there.

- They're in their cage.

- They lived there for a while.

That's also the set

where Sarah got the first-aid stuff.

And the production offices

were behind that wall,

all the offices were back there.

- The offices at the mall.

- Crafters, as it was called.

That's right. lt used to be a craft shop.

They had up on the wall

all these crazy crafty antidotes.

A lot of ''Shoplifters will be prosecuted''.

lt was a weird mall and also SARS

was going on while we were there

and you didn't see people with masks

but you got a weird vibe

that people were sort of worried about it.

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