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...si poteva assistere ad obrobri come "1975: occhi bianchi sul pianeta Terra", traduzione oserei dire letterale di The Omega Man.

La guerra tra Russia e Cina sfocia in un conflitto batteriologico che si diffonde su tutto il pianeta, sterminando la maggior parte della popolazione.
I pochi sopravvissuti di Los Angeles hanno subito una mutazione che li rende albini e completamente incapaci di vivere alla luce ed hanno fondato una organizzazione/setta che vede nella scienza la fonte del male; loro ultimo avversario è il dottore militare Neville, immunizzatosi alla piaga grazie ad un vaccino sperimentale da lui sviluppato.
Al fianco di Neville solo uno sparuto gruppo di persone parzialmente immuni, nelle quali il contagio si propaga molto lentamente e che sperano di poter guarire, per rifondare la società umana.

Film dei primi anni '70 dal ritmo sostenuto; il tema del conflitto tra scienza (ed i suoi rischi) e nuovo oscurantismo (e le sue fobie) riesce ad essere espresso piuttosto bene, pur restando un film di fantascienza/drammatico e senza finire con l'essere accademico.

Un classico del genere che, come certi film sugli zombie di un tale signor Romero, ha più di un debito con un capolavoro del bianco e nero italiano: The Last Man on Earth, del 1964.

Voto: 7.

PS: ieri sera c'era pure Grease; decisamente non il mio genere, ma diavolo... tell me more, tell me more... - was it love at first sight?, che classico!

Altro PS sui blog, tratto dalla ultima newsletter di Dilbert:
1. The world sure needs more of ME.
2. Maybe I'll shout more often so that people nearby can experience the joy of knowing my thoughts.
3. No, wait, shouting looks too crazy.
4. I know ... I'll write down my daily thoughts and badger people to read them.
5. If only there was a description for this process that doesn't involve the words egomaniac or unnecessary.
6. What? It's called a blog? I'm there!

Cambiando tema, IPlib un mio piccolo e vecchio modulo Python ha trovato una maintainer e presto dovrebbe essere inclusa nella Debian ufficiale. Piccole soddisfazioni...

Nome di battesimo: Romero, George Andrew
Data di nascita: 4 February 1940
Altezza: 6' 4" (1.93 m)
Coniuge: Christine Forrest::(1981 - present), Nancy Romero::(1971 - 1978) (divorced)

Ultimi lavori:

Diamond Dead (2007) .... [scrittore]
City of the Dead (2006) (VG) .... (producer) [produttore]
The Crazies (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Day of the Dead (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (2005) .... [regista]
The Ill (2005) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
Land of the Dead (2005) .... (written by) [scrittore]
Dawn of the Dead (2004) .... [scrittore]
The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed (2004) (V) .... (special thanks) [misc]
I'll See You in My Dreams (2003) .... (thanks) [misc]

Biografia:
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure. However, by all indications, he was very successful. The director of the ground-breaking "Dead" tetralogy was born February 4, 1940, in New York City. He grew up in there until attending the renowned Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.After graduation, he began shooting mostly short films and commercials. He and friends formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s and they all chipped in roughly US$10,000 apiece to produce what became one of the most celebrated American horror films of all time, Night of the Living Dead (1968). Shot in black-and-white on a limited budget of just over US$100,000, Romero's vision, combined with a solid script written by him and Image co-founder John A. Russo--along with what was then considered an excess of gore, enabled the film to earn back multitudes more than what it cost, became a cult classic by the early 1970s, and was inducted into the United States' National Film Registry in 1999. Romero's next films were a little more low-key and less-seen, including There's Always Vanilla (1971), The Crazies (1973), Hungry Wives (1973) (where he met future wife Christine Forrest), and Martin (1977). Though not as acclaimed as "Night" or some of his later work, these films had his signature social commentary while dealing with issues (usually horror-related) at the microscopic level. And like almost all of his films, they were shot in or around Romero's favorite city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.In 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with the one film of his that would top the success of NotLD, Dawn of the Dead (1978). He managed to divorce the franchise from Image Ten, which screwed up the copyright on the original, making them entitled to no profit from video prints and allowing the film to slip into the public domain. Shooting in the Monroeville Mall during late-night hours, Romero depicted the sorrowful tale of four people who escape a zombie outbreak and subsequently lock themselves up inside what they think is paradise before the solitude makes them victims of their own (and a biker gang's) greed. Shot on a budget of just US$1.5 million, the film earned over US$40 million worldwide and was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly magazine in 2003. The film also marked Romero's first work with the brilliant make-up and effects artist Tom Savini. After 1978, Romero and Savini teamed up many times.DotD's success led to bigger budgets and better talent for the filmmaker. His early 1980s films had better casting. First was Knightriders (1981), where he first worked with an up-and-coming Ed Harris. Then came perhaps his most Hollywood-like film, Creepshow (1982), which marked the first--but not the last--time Romero adapted a work by famed horror novelist Stephen King. With many major stars and major studio distribution, "Creepshow" was a moderate success and spawned a sequel, which was also written by Romero.The decline of Romero's career came in the late 1980s. His last widely released film was the next "Dead" film, Day of the Dead (1985). Panned by critics, the film did not garner much at the box office either. His latest two efforts were The Dark Half (1993)--another King adaptation--and Bruiser (2000/I). Even the Romero-penned, Savini-directed remake of Romero's first film, Night of the Living Dead (1990) was a box-office failure. Pigeonholed solely as a horror director and his recent films no longer achieving the success of his earlier Dead films, Romero has not worked much since, much to the chagrin of his following. In 2005, 19 years after "Day of the Dead," with major-studio distribution, he returned to his most famous series and horror sub-genre he created with _Land of the Dead (2005)_, a further exploration of the destruction of modern society by the undead, that received both excellent and indifferent reviews and even topped the United States box-office in its first week of release. He still resides in Pittsburgh.

Trivia random: Was originally slated to write and direct Resident Evil (2002).
Citazione random: "I'll never live long enough to arrive at some sort of peaceful coexistence of some kind. That's probably the only way you could end it on a note of promise, which would mean the zombies would learn how to eat Spam or chicken livers, instead of your liver. But I'll never get to that point."

mercoledì 26 ottobre 2005

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