romero interview
boy did he look like he was in a bad mood and couldn't find anything nice to say about this movie! i'm suprised they put that interview on the extra features.
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I think it's a shame, too. I just got the Season of the Witch disc and watched Vanilla first. I thought it was terrific.
Watched a bit of the doc first and heard George say the intent was to do Night of the Living Dead as a romantic comedy. Sounds strange but I think he succeeded and made something really different. There's some minor bits that seem kitschy and dated but I was really surprised at how full of real-life horror it is.
The machine....what a great metaphor for an existential crisis. Ray Laine's character getting responsible, finding work and then being asked to get young people to join the army.
All in all, I think it's a great example of romantic comedy; it feels real and never panders to the audience with overbearing sweetness.
I read somewhere too that George really likes Bruiser, which I think is really bad. Go figure.
I watched the interview before I watched the movie...so i thought it was going to be the absolute worst film ever. Well, i actually enjoyed it. I've seen worse believe me - i just thought the movie was a little more coherent than Romero lead me to believe from his comments on the disc. The biggest fault the movie has is its full of bad acting. Ray Laine picks up the slack for everyone else though, i thought his acting was of a higher caliber than the rest.
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He says in the interview (included on the "There's Always Vanilla" disc) that he had nothing to do with the writing of the movie. It was supposed to be a "demo reel" for Ray Laine to showcase his acting talent. The writer wound up adding more and more scenes and Romero would shoot on the weekends or when he could. They ran out of money and all sorts of problems came about after the shoot. George says now that he was really only there to "edit" the fragemented pieces together into some kind of coherent story. The problems he has with the movie seem to stem from bad memories directly related to the production I think. It must of been pretty bad because he absolutely hates this movie. Personally I thought some of the scenes worked very well. I love how Ray Laine's character is talking directly to the audience as if in an interview. The guy that posted above stated that it has alot of "real life" horror to it and I whole heartedly agree. In the end I really do think its alot better than he makes it out to be.
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