Dawn Of The Dead Page #9

''There are some things worse than dying.''

- ''One of them...''

- ''Sitting here waiting to die.''

- You want to be able to do that.

- ''That's not how l feel.''

Sarah doesn't want to die.

This was great too because

Jake has to have this plan.

He only glanced at those trucks down there

- and it was bubbling in his mind.

- Yeah.

At the premiere when he says,

''l have an idea,''

everyone started laughing.

- That's not funny.

- You know it's gonna be...

There he goes. He's good.

And again, this is Hallowed Grounds,

we love that.

lf this had been Starbucks, just think.

The sales would go...

lt would've helped them so much.

Cos they need more money.

lt's a dying business, coffee.

- Clearly it's in trouble.

- Yeah. lt might have saved them.

- lt might have.

- From bankruptcy.

This is great, too.

We shot this a hundred different ways

because we wanted to get...

There was too much swearing in one take.

He'd be like, ''This f***ing f***er.

''F*** this boat. F***ing trucks

with f***ing aluminum siding on them.''

l was like, ''Let's get one

with less fuckings in it.''

He had a lot. Every day

he overshot his f*** quota.

Oh, yeah. So far over.

Scott said, ''lf he says 'f***' one more time,

l'll pull the plug.''

- Stuber wasn't into all the fucks.

- No. l don't blame him.

- No, he was right.

- lt was a little crazy.

He still got away with a few.

- Yeah, he did.

- That's 6 inches, by the way.

Just good to know for later.

That's rubber barbwire.

This is a great song.

The Hangman's Song...

- Yeah, it is a great song.

- ..which we love.

- G Mark give us that, did he?

- No. Well...

- Actually, Zig found it and then...

- Zig was cool.

Zig was great. He played it for me

and l was like, ''Love it.''

Pretty cool.

Marc Abraham got mad at this.

He's like, ''They don't need four guys

to carry that little metal thing.

''They look like jackasses.''

lt's heavy, that thing.

l told him it's awkward.

You can't hold it by yourself.

Like putting up a picture frame.

lt might take two guys to straighten it.

''P*ssy nine-mils'' always gets a laugh

from, like, from my people.

From the gun crowd.

From Max Cady, from...

Kyle McCulloch laughed

at p*ssy nine-mils.

''That's hilarious!''

l love that he has his boat key with him.

You never know when he needs

to remind them how important he is.

And he had it with him

when he left his house.

- Maybe he was gonna go there.

- Possibly.

And then that guy told him

to go to St. Verbena.

Lindy's a little upset here.

There was a great moment

when we wanted Kim to say...

- She was mimicking her.

- Mocking her. ''Don't kill my father.''

- ''Don't kill my dad.'' Making her cry.

- lt was good.

- How's Andy?

- He's not doing so good.

- ls he from Hungary?

- This is the silent movie look.

l love that. That's awesome.

We painted his ribs to make 'em look

a little more pronounced.

This was a scene that we talked about

taking out of the movie

and ended up keeping it in.

- The movie's better for it.

- lt is.

lt gets a good laugh and it also strengthens

their relationship a little bit.

lt's difficult, you've got a woman

whose husband dies

in the first three minutes of the movie.

So to really have her have

this sexual relationship with this guy

would have been distasteful.

But fun.

There is a little kiss here in this version.

ln the unrated version

you get a little kissing and a little chainsaw,

which is kinda the whole reason for the kiss,

so you can get this.

And it makes a nice cut point.

Ving with shotgun at meeting.

- And ideas.

- And ideas.

- He's gonna get some here.

- Boyd's got his shotgun, too.

lf you roll it to the audio track,

there's a funny line

but there's a sound right here.

lt sounds like... l don't know what it is.

Either a seal or a dolphin.

To this day, l don't know what that is.

lt's like a...

l don't know what it is. Could be the toy.

- l don't know.

- But l like it.

Every time l see the movie,

l go, ''What is that?''

And nobody can answer,

so l'm like, ''l'll leave it in.''

James wrote this.

Originally, we had tons of dogs

and they were sending a wagon train over

and then they got attacked by zombie dogs.

We just couldn't do it.

And it worked out well like this.

But it involved animals and CG animals,

which would have been a nightmare

and wouldn't have looked right.

There was a giant

dog-training sequence in the mall.

A huge part of the movie

was gonna be training these dogs

and getting them to believably

pull wagon trains over there.

And the problem with that,

not just the practical concerns,

was it never put

any of our characters at risk.

lt was the dogs.

We wanted to find a way

to get a person over to the mall.

One of my big wants was

l wanted Ving to be able to be the one

who puts the round in Andy's head.

- Cos what are friends for?

- That's right.

lf a friend can't kill you

when you're a zombie, who will?

l mean, l'd do that for you, for sure.

l appreciate that. l do.

This is the walkie sequence.

This is also a clear example

of a low-budget movie.

When they make you shoot a close-up

of a walkie-talkie,

instead of actual zombie war.

lt's great fun, though.

l love it. lt's a great device.

Nicole's gone and done something crazy.

When l was talking to Christina Aguilera

at the premiere,

she said, ''l would have

gone after that dog, too.

''When l saw Nicole going

after the dog, that's real.''

- l said, ''Awesome.''

- She's representative of...

- She's the one. l felt vindicated.

- ''lf she would do it, then who wouldn't?''

Then she punched my nephew Tucker,

kinda like, ''Oh, gosh.''

And he walked away from her

and he turned to my sister Audrey

and said he was star-struck

and he's like, ''l feel weak.''

- Literally. He was star-struck.

- He was like, ''l feel weak.''

l was like, ''That's so awesome.''

He actually got a little dizzy,

which was cool.

Now Andy's a zombie.

He's also a good zombie.

We tried to get this to be later.

ln the colouring of the movie,

l made it feel a bit later in the day.

Because this transition to night is...

coming right now, basically.

We had a chronological...

There's a time jump.

They gotta make a plan.

But the things that bothered us,

or we felt would be problems,

none of them were problems.

The stuff that we went

to great lengths to address,

we didn't really need to address.

The stuff we thought was obvious,

people'd be like, ''What the hell

were you doing? ldiots.''

We couldn't be clearer that, with Vivian,

Sarah says,

''Say hi to your mom for me.''

Then l was reading on the preview cards,

''ls that their kid?''

- ''Who is that?''

- ''Who's that little blonde girl?''

Now they go into this tunnel sequence.

That door, we had a scene

where he looks down that door.

lt's in the trailer -

''Eventually, they're gonna get in here.''

They're looking through that door.

But we took it out.

This tunnel sequence, we were gonna shoot

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