To some surprise, I've never actually seen this movie, let alone heard of it. We've probably haven't even watched a full 60 minutes of the film yet, but I'm already into it! Before we started watching it, I thought, "Oh great, another movie I'm going to have to analyze to get something out of it." At that, I wasn't very enthused. Now, I've looked back on my notes and I've realized that I'm actually analyzing without even thinking about what I'm actually reading in to! I mentioned the differences in social class depicted in the movie and once I saw that that was one of the topics I could write about for my research paper, I was really excited!
I'm starting to stress out though, because I feel like I'm not going to find any resources on gender/social class/race. I already went to my local library's online catalog to try and find things on horror films and things relating to those above stated topics and it didn't bring up anything. I absolutely despise research projects because they stress me out and I always make them harder than they're supposed to be, or maybe they really are that hard, and I'm not looking forward to writing this one. However, I am looking forward to watching the rest of the film!
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Don't panic too much! You might be casting your net too wide to try to cover gender, social class and race all in one essay. There has been a whole lot of work done on women and horror films, so it might be less stressful if you narrow it down to just the one item.
LotD has a lot in it: Slack training to become a soldier but being forced into prostitution, the tank driver girl being called Pretty Boy, and even that the zombie who gets the second most screen time is the softball girl with the big hole in her jaw.
Or, if you wanted to look at race, you might point out that there are only three four racinated figures in the film: Cholo, Chihuaha (the little man in the hat), Big Daddy, and Pilsbury the Samoan soldier. Personally, I think Foxy is also hispanic, but it's impossible to tell. However, when they go into the city and see the fighting zombies, that's a very hispanic area, from it's leader to its music. Does that mean hispanics might be better equipped to survive a zombie uprising? Or is it more that people are growing tired of Japanese motifs in post-apocalyptic films.
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