Thursday, 11 December 2014

Dawn Of The Dead (1979) Roger Death

My final scene from Dawn of the Dead (1979) is when Roger gets killed by Peter before he turns into a zombie. This scene uses restricted narration as when Peter shoots at Roger we only hear the gun shooting and it killing Roger, we see a shot of Fran and Stephen in the other room looking scared at what’s just happened. 

This scene also uses cinematography as the close up shot of Roger's face shows the fear in his eyes that he is coming back to life as a zombie.


This scene also uses Propp and Todorov’s Classical Hollywood Narrative Structure as the unhappy ending of Roger's life is usually used in most horror films as shown in their book (Morphology Of The Folktale 1928). This then leads to the final scene of the remaining survivors trying to escape the Mall which Peter and Francine escape in the helicopter, which is an open ending which may then lead to a sequel. 

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