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| Topic | Where do you stand in the black guy (ben) Night of The Living Dead controversy? |
| yusiko 11/19/18 10:31:32 AM #35: | there is a reason barbara was basically a moving prop throughout the movie she wasnt in the original script when they came to the town to start filming they met her actress who IIRC was a waitress they liked the way she looked and thought she would be perfect for the movie but all the parts had already been cast so they wrote a character into the script for her. creating the iconic opening "they're coming to get you barbara" and thats why in the opening she does everything right and is competent but after ben shows up she does nothing. its because they couldnt rewrite the plot around one character so they wrote her one scene and then hide the character in the corner with only a handful of references to her. the other female characters were ok like the teenage girl who decided she wasnt going to stay and wait for the men to do everything and chose to go with them (which ended badly for her) and of course the mother who was my favorite character in the movie. the remake isnt really better. it does improve the character of barbara but it somehow made the gas truck scene death scene even dumber than it was in the original --- yusketeer ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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