Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140712065858/@comment-6052796-20140714082837

Actually you really should watch The Crazies if you want to see Romero's "Don't fuck with nature." The reason they were so nuts was because someone tampered with their drinking water. Although that's human error through and through,  it implies that if the virus went into an uncontrolled water supply like a lake or an ocean we'd be fucked. Not all his works are anticapitalism though. The first living dead film was all based on the Aesop that if the people held up in the barnhouse kept their head straight and worked together, they woulda made it out alive. Dawn of the dead was more anticonsumerism than capitalism. Their message was that your paridise could one day become your prison/grave. The mall was the perfect place to hide, but in the end it was 4 people trapped with their treasures and neither could escape or want to. Day of The Dead had two messages, one is that patience is the one thing many lack, but when properly practice could be a good thing. Dr. Logan, while it took along time was able to civilize a zombie, whilst Rhodes going insane with impatience killed him before he made any real progress that could have saved their asses. The other message is that when everything goes to hell, it all depends on how you wanna spend it. The Scientists want to spend it trying to bring the world back the way it was,  the military just want to leave not caring where they go and the civilian radio and pilot guys just want to go to a private island and spend the rest of their day soaking up the sun. The list goes on, but Romero had other messages,  if you thought he was a downer, bear in mind, in Dawn he wanted to kill all his main characters. He even wanted to have the pregnant girl shove her head into helicopter blades before the zombies could get her. But the reason he didn't go for that ending was because he liked his characters and kept going that route. So far the only ones that didn't have a political message were when he worked on King's works and the reason why he worked so well on them regardless of them robbing his ability to send a political message, was because he was doing a favor for his friend. If you want a good example of Romero's work as well as King's work, watch Creepshow.