China film title
Dawn of death
Original title
Dawn of death
More Chinese titles
Between the living and the dead
Dawn of Zombies
Eat the living raw ... Translated by Taiwan Province Province.
Film genre
Action/thriller/plot/horror
The length of a movie (according to the screening time)
100 minutes/USA: 109 minutes (unrated director's editing)
Country/region
United States of America
conversational language
English
colour
colour
Match to the original tape
Dolby digital surround sound DTS SDDS
grade
It was rated as R grade because of the widespread and strong terrorist violence and blood, language and sex.
cost of production
(estimated)
Property in copyright
Universal Studios
Shooting date
June 200316-September 6, 2003
loan
be in charge of/supervisor
Zack Snyder Zack Snyder
dramatist
George A. Romero George A. Romero (script 1978)
James gunn (screenplay)
executant
Sarah Polly sarah polley ... Anecdotes
Ving Rhames Ving Rhames Kenneth (male name)
Mekhi phifer mekhi phifer ... Andre.
Ty burrell Tabler ... Steve.
Kevin zegers kevin zegers ... Teri.
Lindy Booth Lindy Booth ... Nicole (woman's name equals Nichole)
Boyd banks boyd banks ... collar cloth.
Matt frewer matt frewer ... Frank
Zack Snyder Zack Snyder ... White House Commandos (undetermined)
producer
Marc abraham ... producer.
Armian Bernstein ... Executive producer.
Thomas Bliss ... Executive producer.
Dennis Jones ... Executive producer.
Michael messina ... Co-producer
Eric Newman ... Producer.
Production and sales
press
Luxury, USA (Print)
Shooting format
35 mm
hairdresser's
Universal Pictures International
Release date?
United States of America
United States of America
March 2004 19
Canada
Canada
March 2004 19
Britain, England
Britain
March 26(th), 2004
Mexico
Mexico
March 3, 20041
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
April 2004 15
Germany
Germany
April 2004 15
Argentina
Argentina
April 22(nd), 2004
Singapore
Singapore
April 22(nd), 2004
Portugal
Portugal
April 22(nd), 2004
Italy
Italy
April 23rd, 2004
Brazil
Brazil
April 23rd, 2004
Spain
Spain
April 23rd, 2004
Taiwan Province Province, China
Taiwan Province of China
April 23(rd), 2004
the Netherlands
the Netherlands
April 29th, 2004
South Korea
South Korea
May 2004
Japan
Japan
May 2004
Australia
Australia
June 2004 10
France
France
June 30(th), 2004
Hungary
Hungary
July 2004 15
United States of America
United States of America
5-38 June 2004 +2004123 October (Film Festival)
Plot introduction
A terrible plague swept across America. After the whole world was knocked down by the plague, millions of corpses were infected and turned into vampire. Dead or alive, as long as a zombie sucks blood, it will immediately become a zombie. Soon, the whole city became a zombie city, and human beings suffered unprecedented looting.
Only a few people survived the double disaster of plague and zombies, including a young nurse Anna (sarah polley) and a police officer Kenneth (Vin Ramses). They hid in a shopping mall in a medium-sized city in Washington state and carefully protected themselves from zombies by using hidden containers.
However, zombies still have some memories of human beings. People like to go to supermarkets and may smell their blood circulation. More and more zombies came to the shopping center, and the few who survived could hardly hide in the end. They must find a way to get out of here and find a really safe place. At the same time, they have to overcome their own contradictions and unite against zombie attacks.
Led by nurse Anna and police officer Kenneth, the survivors plan to go to an island that may not be attacked by plague and zombies in order to survive.
However, to get there, they have to pass through thousands of hungry zombies. Then several people were attacked by zombies and fell down. There are fewer and fewer people left, but zombies gather more and more, watching them hopelessly drown in the zombie pile.
Related comments
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Obviously Schneider has an eye for horror, and his films will exceed your expectations.
-Las Vegas Weekly
The only improvement in this remake is the quality of fake blood.
-Apollo Herald
This film not only surpasses it.
-Washington Post
Behind the scenes production
About the director
Zack Snyder took his first step to the film industry with his debut novel Dawn of the Zombies. Prior to this, he was praised as the most talented commercial director in Britain by the British magazine Communication Arts. Schneider's advertising works are famous for their wide-screen movie style. In his early years, he studied painting in Heathcliff, London, and then entered the art center of the world-famous Pasadena School of Design for further study. Whether it is an epic advertisement of Land Rover SUV in Tunisia or a touching sketch with Robert De Niro in the streets of new york, Schneider has demonstrated his outstanding narrative skills and sense of space.
As a commercial TV director, Snyder has traveled to almost every corner of the world, from the skeleton coast of Namibia to the Arctic ice sheet. As a director and photographer, he went to the Costa Rican rainforest to shoot advertisements for Compuware, Alaska also left his footprints for Audi and Chrysler Jeep, and China also appeared in his Budweiser beer advertisement. In addition, Schneider is also good at sports, and has made promotional videos for Nike and Reebok featuring Michael Jordan and tennis star Navratilova Martina.
As you can imagine, Snyder has won numerous awards, including two Creole International Advertising Awards and the Golden Lion Award at Cannes Advertising Festival.
About actors
The heroine Sarah? Polly, born in a Canadian drama family, is 25 years old this year. She first appeared on the big screen at the age of six on a magical Christmas day. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, Polly began to rebel, not only dropping out of school to join the left-wing political movement, but even leaving home to rent a house and live alone. It was not until Polly came to the United States that her life began to stabilize, and with her acting skills and youth, she won the recognition of some fans on the screen.
Too bad, Sarah. Polly is still as restless as a girlhood. First, she turned down the invitation of big studios, then turned down some blockbusters and insisted on playing roles in some independent films, from elderly students and homeless young people to sexy sluts. Although only in her early twenties, Polly has appeared in more than 40 film and television works, including Unexpected Spring (1997), which made her well known to American audiences.
Sweet Hereaft), in which she plays a girl in her teens 10, who is abused by her father and survives the school bus accident.
Sarah. Polly has been active in independent films. Her latest performance is Life Without Me, which was widely acclaimed last year. Other films are made independently, so they are rarely known to fans. In Zombie Dawn, about vampires and zombies, Polly plays a nurse who is chased by zombies. After experiencing the roles of abuse and slut, she will play a frightened sexy girl in this film.
Remake classic
Dawn of the Zombies is a remake of the movie of the same name by 1979, which is the middle part of George A. Romero's "Death Trilogy" about vampires. The horror film series begins with night of the living dead of 1968. This film is the first of its kind in America. Director Romero created a brand-new shape and life for the "zombie" in the original work (referring to the corpse awakened by voodoo witchcraft), and inspired many such excellent works.
As a huge fan of horror movies and zombie movies, producer Eric Newman recalled: "I have loved this type of movies since I was a child, and Dawn of the Zombies (1978) is my favorite. Although similar zombie movies are not uncommon, Zombie Dawn is always the most outstanding one. I feel that this type of film has not received the attention it deserves. " Newman wants to bring zombie movies into the 2 1 century and present a brand-new look with excellent scripts, actors and productions. He said: "Zombie legends have a history of thousands of years. They are almost like vampires. For me, zombies are the perfect villains. They are fearless, tireless and everywhere. Their goal is only one, and that is to track, kill and eat you. " Newman's passion for zombies quickly caught the attention of producer marc abraham. Newman was introduced to Richard P. Rubinstein, executive director of New Amsterdam Entertainment Company, who was the producer of 1978 version of Dawn of the Zombies and was responsible for the remake of the film.
Dawn of the Zombies (1978) was not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, but was released by a small independent film distributor. Although the shooting cost was only $500,000, its domestic box office totaled more than $20 million, and the global box office reached 55 million, which won many praises. In the following years, many people wanted to remake the film, but Abraham politely refused until he met Newman. Rubinstein said: "I think Romero's films are successful in business and criticism because the creation, shooting, production and distribution of films are all done outside the mainstream production system." I'm worried that the producers will tamper with Newman's works during the production process. Finally, I found that marc abraham has always been very loyal to the integrity of the film, so I will agree. "
"This is a re-conception of the classic, not a simple repetition. There are many new remakes. I like Kaufman's alien human body, Carpenter's grotesque shape and Conanberg's flies. These are great movies, and they didn't destroy the original movies. We hope that through this film, zombie movies can attract new audiences, "Newman said.
Abraham added: "Dawn of Death (1978) is obviously a cult film and a milestone in horror movies. We believe that we will present the same thrilling movies to young audiences, and we will apply the advanced technology that was popular at that time. " Rubinstein also agreed to increase investment in shooting and use the most advanced shooting techniques and special effects makeup. The only problem is how to attract the current audience with original elements. Therefore, the task of adapting the script fell to another zombie fan, james gunn, who enthusiastically said, "I am a die-hard fan of the original. For me, "dawn of the dead" is the first horror film I have ever seen that focuses on social issues. It is extremely scary. In addition, I have been writing comedy scripts for several years, and this time I want people to change from laughter to exclamation. "
Producers, screenwriters and publishers are all in place, and the right director has become an urgent problem to be solved. At this time, Zack Snyder was looking for a film suitable for his debut. When he was young, he was also a horror movie fan. He thinks it is the most appropriate choice to start his career with zombie movies. Schneider respected Dawn of the Zombies from 65438 to 0978, and all this was not only reflected in the imitation of style, but also two actors and makeup artists who had appeared in the original work appeared in this film.
About shooting
Producer Newman said that Schneider's enthusiasm infected everyone, and he always left a deep impression on producer Abraham, because Schneider personally completed all the storyboards of the film. Schneider said: "I don't have the idea of remake, because remake is to take the original script and remake it step by step." What we have to do is reinterpret, which is a process of re-creation. We don't want to compare this movie with other movies. This is our version. "
Sarah polley, a talented Canadian woman who has been active in the independent film industry, is very willing to play Anna, the soul of the film, and even director Schneider is surprised by her joining. Polly not only loves the creativity of the creative staff, but also admits that she has been fascinated by zombies since she was a child. All ideas come from curiosity about death. If death is not eternal, if the body is still alive, Polly also fell in love with Romero's movies.
This movie is Polly's first action movie, but she didn't expect the physical requirements of filming. She said, "I started running a week after filming. It seems that all I need to do is running, which has never happened in my filming experience."
Since we have to re-conceive, the zombies in the film must be re-designed, because the ferocious face of 30 years ago is no longer a deterrent today. In 2004, zombies were agile and supernatural. They have a keen sense of smell for blood like sharks and act in groups like wolves. Once a person is killed by a zombie, he will instantly become a new zombie, so the number of zombies increases rapidly.
In order to create a lifelike vampire, the crew invited David LeRoy Anderson, a special effects makeup artist who won two Oscars for Professor Crazy and Men in Black. It took Anderson four weeks to complete the design and form a team. In order to truly show the appearance of death and decay, Anderson studied a large number of forensic books, crime scene photos and traditional zombie legends, and got a detailed understanding of the characteristics of human body's decay in days, weeks and months after death, and divided the decomposition of zombies into three stages: the first stage was very pale and there was a lot of fresh blood; The second stage is that the wound is moist, the skin begins to break, and there are many ecchymoses, mostly turquoise; The third stage is the most serious, the bones begin to show, the wound has dried up, and the skin has completely peeled off and turned oily black. According to these three stages, blood also has corresponding differences. For example, in the first stage, blood has a standard red color and fluidity, while in the second stage, blood tends to be brown and sticky, and in the third stage, it becomes black and oily.
It is not difficult to describe the scary appearance of zombies. Anderson's team has tried various methods. He said: "After the original film came out, a large number of new technologies and materials appeared one after another. Although the frightening elements are the same, we can do this more realistically now. " Anderson's team will dress up hundreds of extras as zombies. When shooting some big scenes, Anderson's 55 staff will all go into battle. By the end of filming, Anderson's team will have created 3000 zombies.
When filming "dawn of the dead" on 1978, Romero led the film crew to shoot at Pittsburgh Shopping Center from midnight to 6 am every day. In the filming of this film, the crew found the Thorn Hill Plaza Shopping Center which is about to be demolished in Toronto, Canada. The shopping center has a history of 20 years. Andrew Neskoromny, the production designer, has only eight weeks to transform the shopping center into what the film needs. The 45,000-square-foot building had to be completely remodeled, even the steel beams were exposed.
Wonderful tidbits
Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger and tom savini, who starred in this film, all appeared in dawn of the dead in 1978.
According to director Zack Snyder, Starbucks coffee shop refused to appear in this film.
Most of the music in the film was selected by director Zack Snyder.
The scene of Anna, Andre, Norma and Monica in the Sacred Reason Coffee Shop was rewritten, and the revised script intentionally added actress Kim Poirier, because director Zack Snyder and producer Eric Newman liked her performance very much. However, the name of the role played by Kim Poirier was never mentioned in the film. Unfortunately, many of her dialogue scenes were later deleted.
The editor of the Canadian magazine Rue-Morgue once played a zombie in the film.
1978 The WGON helicopter transporting survivors in Dawn of Death also appeared in this film.
Some trucks outside the shopping center belong to BP Transportation Company, which once lent them to the producer of 1978 Dawn of Death.
In the film, there is a clothing store named "Galen Ross" in the mall. Galen Ross once played Fran in dawn of the dead (1978).
Alex Zane, a British MTV host, also played a guest role as a zombie in this movie. When the zombies entered the mall and ran across the screen, he played a zombie in a bright white plaid shirt.
When Anna sewed up Kenneth's wound, the director invited a real nurse in the close-up. The nurse misunderstood the director's request and accidentally stabbed Ving Rhames's skin, but Remus didn't say a word until the filming ended, and the director also thought that the bleeding effect was real.
At the beginning of the film, before the "Special Report" was broadcast on TV, the director Zack Snyder shot an advertisement for Subaru WRX.
In the 10 minute aerial photo at the beginning of the film, when Ana drives off the road, a truck can be found rushing into the gas station. This scene echoes the scene in night of the living dead (1968), when Ben was sitting in the car and heard on the radio that a truck crashed into a gas station.
The word "zombie" has never appeared in the film.
Most of the scary faces of zombies in the film are designed according to real forensic photos.
This film is the first one that hasn't been cut 10 minutes before the network TV broadcast. It was only five days before the national release date. In addition to being broadcast on Internet TV in the United States, Channel 4 in the United Kingdom also made a special introduction.
The premiere of this film was held in Beverly Shopping Center in Los Angeles, and the actors also attended.
Kyle Cooper, the title designer, used real human blood when designing the title and film title.
The two mutilated zombies in the film are really played by disabled people.
Due to the box office fiasco of "House of the Dead", Universal Pictures obviously cut the shooting cost of the film for fear that zombie movies would lose the market. The film's response was unexpected. Although the shooting cost was only $28 million, the film earned its cost after three days of release.
George A. Romero once claimed that the film left a deep impression on him.
This film is 40 minutes shorter than the director's edited version of George A. Romero.
A (movie) fiasco
The story of the film takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, but there is a photo of Ontario, Canada hanging on the ambulance at the beginning of the film.
In the picture of Ana and Louis taking a bath together, Ana's hair is waist-length, obviously using body double.
When Andre and Michael went out to save the people in the truck, Michael shot the zombie in the abdomen, but hit the head.