...film justice. Critics as numerous as they are harsh, so taking on a remake is no easy feat. When looking at the 1978 cult classic Dawn of the Dead and its 2004 remake, there are obvious differences and similarities. The original uses dark humor and wit to entertain audiences, while the remake uses more gore and violence, but both share a similar premise. While the original will always be a classic, but the remake puts a fresh spin on it to draw in younger audiences. The original Dawn of the Dead was first released in Italy in 1978 and then in the United States in 1979, grossing approximately $55 million worldwide up against a $1.5 million budget (The Numbers). The film, directed by George A. Romero, was quickly hailed a classic and one of the best zombie films of the century. The film follows group of survivors who are fleeing Philadelphia, which has been overrun by the reanimated much like the rest of the country’s major cities. The group commandeer a helicopter and eventually seek refuge in a large mall, where they reside for several months....
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...In 1968, horror movies as we know them was forever changed with the making of George Romero introduced us all to the concept of zombies as a whole giving future generations a basic story and zombie mannerisms to base future films around.. Romero himself would actually create the first real horror sequel with Dawn of the Dead in 1978. But it wasn’t the only direct sequel to the original 1968 movie. , both Romero and fellow co-writer, John Russo shared the filming rights with each other and created their own franchises with Russo’s coming almost fifteen years after the original- The Return of the Living Dead. While the Living Dead series does not have the popularity or acclaim than the Romero series, but The Living Dead series deserves...
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...A Brief Summary of Lucky Dip Lucky Dip is a story about a girl whose life is about to take a major turn-around when she discovers a wealthy man lying dead at night in the shadows of England. As poor and homeless the girl is, she takes the time to think what the best possible thing to do in a situation like that is. Crystal, which is the main character, stumbles upon a dead body at the Trenches, which is horrific part of England that is filled with thieves. Crystal decides to hides near the corpse, observing if anyone might be in the same place where she is. After some minutes of observation she runs towards the dead corpse and loots it. She runs back to safety where no one can see her. She takes a quick look at what she looted: a golden watch, a satisfying amount of pounds and a lot of business cards. She has no idea what to do with all the money and the watch, and she is afraid that someone might be coming after her, so she needs to act fast. She chooses to go to her sister’s place, Dawn, who is working in the prostitution industry in order to make money that is given to her by her boyfriend who is also the pimp. Crystal gives the golden watch to Dawn and asks if she can stay the night. Dawn refuses to let her stay. Since Crystal can’t sleep inside the brothel she decides goes on a journey to find a new place to sleep. She finds an abandoned building and chooses to take shelter there. She wakes up next to a known person named Brainy Brian who tells her that someone is looking...
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...tober 27th, 2014 - Destiny: Guardian Dawn, the official adaptation of the video game is set to hit book stores everywhere next month, according to publisher Macmillan Press. The novel, penned by Karen Traviss, veteran author of numerous Halo, Gears of War, and Star Wars tie-in novels, closely follows the sweeping narrative and richly detailed story of the video game. Here's the official plot synopsis, provided by Macmillan: Centuries of invasions by aliens have ravaged Earth's solar system and humanity is confined to a single city on Earth. A lone Guardian, dead for centuries, is awoken after centuries of being dead, by a Ghost. No, the Ghost isn't dead a dead person too, it's just a nickname for a flying machine. It's a different Ghost than the one in Halo, because that one's a vehicle. This Ghost is kind of like a flying robot AI. Yeah, sort of like that Guilty Spark thing. Anyway, a darkness is brewing, a darkness so evil that the lone Guardian is really the only one in the entire history of the universe who can stand against it. After narrowly escaping from some aliens, the lone Guardian flies to the tower, sacred headquarters of the Guardians, where he or she encounters dozens of other lone Guardians, each one sharing an uncannily similar story of being awoken after centuries of being dead by a Ghost, and narrowly escaping aliens to fly to the tower. The lone Guardians venture out into harrowing battles on Earth, Mars, the Moon, and Venus, encountering deadly aliens...
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...Horse... It had been a rough day. Dawn was beat, I was tired, time to rest. A stable is the best place to sleep. Warm, soft, dry hay, plenty for Dawn to eat. I closed the barn doors, and Dawn huffed. I climbed the ladder that led to the top layer of the barn. A cold, heavy, and strong breeze blew through the window. I closed it and latched the ladder way. I took off my dirty shirt, and slipped off my worn down boots. I grabbed the covers from my bag sitting in the left corner of the barn. I light the lantern that was in there to. Wrapping myself in the covers, and wadding some hay for a pillow, I dozed off. The next rainy morning I got myself dressed, and got on Dawn. Me and Dawn are running away from the law. I killed the man who killed my...
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...Williams, color imagery plays a big role in describing the scene. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Browning is a poem about nature and how everything is so beautiful at first, but it then becomes subsides and isn’t as wonderful. “Nature’s first green is gold”, this could refer to the sunrise in the morning (499). This reminds me of all the gorgeous hues of a sunrise and how the sky and everything the sun hits seems golden. It could also be referring to seasonal changes. When spring is around, all the flowers and sunlight look amazing, but when the flowers start turning into leaves and falling off, it is a little upsetting to look at. “So dawn goes down to day”, this gives me the sense that Frost is talking about the early mornings (499). Watching dawn turn into day is disappointing, especially when you get to see all the natural colors coming from dawn and then it just turns into another plain day. The last line “Nothing gold can stay” can refer to many things (499). Frost left this last line to the reader to create an image in his or her own head. This could have the reader picturing that the sunrise can’t last forever. It also allows the reader to think about other things that can’t stay forever. I feel as though frost uses the term gold in this sentence to refer to anything good. This could mean...
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... Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear,— Swift be thy flight! Wrap thy form in a mantle gray, Star-inwrought! Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day; Kiss her until she be wearied out, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand— Come, long-sought! When I arose and saw the dawn, I sighed for thee; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest. I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me?—And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon— Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, belovèd Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon! by Percy Bysshe Shelley Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night!Out of the misty eastern cave,Where, all the long and lone daylight,Thou...
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...hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could not follow With wing of swallow To gain one glimpse of you ever anon! Never to bid good-bye Or lip me the softest call, Or utter a wish for a word, while I Saw morning harden upon the wall, Unmoved, unknowing That your great going Had place that moment, and altered all. as if you didn’t care end your time alive ever anon – ever again lip me – give, with your lips Why do you make me leave the house And think for a breath it is you I see At the end of the alley of bending boughs Where so often at dusk you used to be; Till in darkening dankness The yawning blankness Of the perspective sickens me! You were she who abode By those red-veined rocks far West, You were the swan-necked one who rode Along the beetling Beeny Crest, And, reining nigh me, Would muse and eye me, While Life unrolled us its very best. Why, then, latterly did we not speak, Did we not think of those days long dead, And ere your vanishing strive to seek That time's renewal? We might have said, "In this bright spring weather We'll visit together Those places that once we visited." the cliffs near St Juliot, Cornwall swan-necked – long beautiful neck beetling - projecting ere - before Well, well! All's past amend, Unchangeable. It must go. I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down soon. . . . O you could...
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...Keelan OverbeyAndrea MacCaffree-WallaceFundamental of English03 March 2015 The Zombies are Alive and Well The Harvard essay by Gino Del Guercio,” The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” describing, the adventure and exploration of Wade Davis, a Harvard botanist, on the tiny island using scientific ways and cash to prove the existence of zombies, and the formula used within a voodoo subculture. The Haitian people use a secret commission to govern social deviance by using poison to place people in a state of living dead whereby, a funeral actually takes place for the drugged individual including a proper burial. Del Guercio describes, how the graves are then uncovered by the commission and placed with nearby plantation owners to do menial labor for the duration of their lives in an altered state. The Zombies of Haiti serve a societal purpose to keep down crime, and the unusual deviances from the social norms in which, these poor people have developed over 100's of years. In a general comparison to the zombies of Haiti and the zombies in the " New Dawn of the Dead" movie. The zombies of the movies are made for strictly entertainment purposes and are changed to fit a mold of the producer and writer. The zombies are far fetched whereby; zombies suddenly appear and change humans into more zombies. On the other hand Del Guercio reveals, through Wade Davis, a real voodoo culture on the Isle of Haiti in which...
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...According to Paffenroth (2006) ‘the movie dawn of the dead’ shows how the normal world has completely broken down leaving everyone to fend for himself ,the economical and racial hierarchies are the only traditions that are intact demonstrating the profoundness of the institutions in the society .By depicting a mall in complete disarray Romero tells us that living in a society where we define ourselves by the material goods will lead to the collapse of social responsibilities as people will attempt to accumulate as much wealth as possible disregarding those that are less well off. By depicting such a world he has brought us to think of what has exactly brought us to this brink of social collapse and destruction (Paffenroth, 2006). The literal destruction that Romero’s focuses on symbolizes the consequences of the actions of the society that he depicts. He shows the horrors of unequal social hierarchy through the oppressive power they got over the marginal people in the society. The destruction depicted in the films is always...
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...When someone becomes aware of something it metaphorically “dawns” on them and they recognize the actual effects that it has on them. Many times when someone has a sudden awareness of a moment that usually means it has a harmful effect to come from it. Most dawning moment that are good it always feel as if it is supposed to happen and so a moment of dawning from a detrimental moment they realize the true reasons on why it has happened or what will happen because of their sudden realization from it. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare knows that something will happen and she feels it in her soul,”O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:Either my eyesight fails,...
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...I recall a time about three years ago when my grandpa had a stroke and I went to visit him. When I first saw him I noted that I had never seen him in the level of pain the stroke gave him, which was a terrible realization considering the fact that he was and always has been the toughest person I knew. Several hours later when I had the opportunity to deeply think about his condition, it dawned on me that he would possibly never be the same person again and this was terrifying. The dawn of something is a sudden burst of light, but metaphorically speaking, a burst of realization. When someone has a “dawn” they are hit with an extreme moment of realization, an epiphany, which is most jurrasic when it is negative. Romeo & Juliet is a tragic play...
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...short story Ice Break is written by Astrid Blodgett and was published in 2012. The story is about a girl named Dawn, who is going on an ice fishing trip with her dad, her younger sister Janie and their uncle Rick. Dawn’s mother warned her father about going, because it is late in the season and the ice could break, but they are going anyway. The relationship between her mother and father is not the best, and that is why her mother doesn’t want to come, and says she have some work to do. When they get to the frozen lake, they are looking for Rick and suddenly the ice breaks under them. The father tries to save Dawn first by forcing her out of the car window, but she won’t let him go, so he squeezes her fingers till she let go. Afterwards he tries to help Janie, but it is too late and they both drowns in the car. The end of the story is about their funeral, and is very tragic. Dawn is the middle sister in a sibling crowd of three. She is a regular girl. She pays Janie to go ice fishing with her and their dad, because she doesn’t want to be alone with him. “I didn’t want to be alone with Dad. He was always grouchier when it was just him and me. He was scary when he got mad. And he never knew what to talk about with me so it was uncomfortable and we both ended up saying all the wrong things.” (l. 89-92). This is a description of the relationship between Dawn and her father, which shows us they were not that close. Further more the story takes place at the family’s home...
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...By the Bog of Symbolism By the Bog of Cats is a play that takes place in present day Ireland. Filled with suspense and tragedy, it tells a story of a woman by the name of Hester Swane, who copes with the separation of her and her husband. Throughout the play there were significant parallels between the setting and the plot. The landscape created by the author, Marina Carr, helps shape the characters and its outcomes of the play. She uses history and tradition of the Bog, use of time of day, the dead black swan and its color contrast, as well as the caravan; in order to create and set a presence. By the Bog of Cats, by Marina Carr takes place on a terrain of land known as the Bog. Bogs are one of the most distinctive pieces of wet lands. "its spongy ground consist mainly of partially decayed plant matter called peat. They are found in cooler climates that have poorly drained lakes and lake brazens" ("Ireland's Peat Bogs."). Bogs, also referred to as blanket bogs are deeply interwoven into Irish history, and have been useful in many ways. The peat found on bogs, were widely used to heat homes. They were also used for water storage. Because of the lack of drainage within bogs, rain water would be stored there, which prevents flooding. The bog also holds history; literally. Due to its denseness and many layers of turf, bogs are an excellent habitat for preserving things. A prime example of this would be a recent discovery made in 2011. The body of a man was found who is believed...
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...Around dawn O’Brien recalls the moment a young enemy soldier emerges out of the morning fog. Without thinking O’Brien pulls the pin on a grenade and throws without aim. Seeing the grenade, the enemy soldier drops his weapon and begins to run, with a puff of smoke the grenade explodes and the soldier falls to the ground. O’Brien continues, explaining the regret and uncertainty the act of killing the enemy soldier elicits and the way the soldier ambushes his mind for the rest of his life. O’Brien includes imagery,...
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