Here we can see Roger and Stephen in the middle of a field
shooting zombies. The mise-en-scene in relatively empty which really makes us
focus on Roger and Stephen. Looking at the phallic symbol of the gun, we can
clearly see Roger is much better and more powerful than Stephen, as he has to
take over because every time Stephen tries to shoot a zombie he keeps missing.
This sort of challenges the horror conventions as we would expect Stephen to be
generally quite powerful and eventually be a survivor in the film, as he is
good looking, a TV weather reporter, and has a beautiful girlfriend, yet his
consistent uselessness forces us to not like him.
The medium close up allows us to see both their reactions,
and more prominently the looks of disappointment from Stephen. There is little
body horror in this scene, just a little spurt of blood from the zombie after
being shot by Roger. I feel this is done to make us concentrate more on the
uselessness of Stephen, and again brings across Romero as an auteur as he has
flipped the character stereotypes with Stephen.
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