Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

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In the first few minutes, Nicole is at her job at the hospital and you hear of a "special high priority case from some government place." She goes homes and shags her boyfriend Lewis. The next morning, the neighbor girl (zombified)comes into the house and bites Lewis, who dies because his Jugular was cut. Nicole frantically calls 911, but no one answers. Meanwhile, Lewis gets up and attacks her. She escapes through the window and drives off, and we are introduced to the utter carnage in the city. She teams up with a cop, and they take refuge in a mall with several others. Towards the end, they decide to try to make it to an island in one of the survivor's boats, so they soup up two shuttle vans in the parking garage and break through the crowd of zombies outside. In the town, one van tips over and the boat owner is killed. The others pile into the other van and peal away, but Nicole stops them to run back and get the keys from the guy's corpse. They make it to the boat, and they float away.

Factual error: When the survivors are first in the mall, you can see a store called Roots with a Canadian beaver logo. While the movie was filmed in Canada, it is supposed to take place in the USA where Roots has a different logo. (00:17:05)

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CJ: What are you, a fucking doctor?
Ana: No, I'm a fucking nurse.

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Trivia: When Kenneth and Andy play chess they use the Alamo chess set. This is symbolic of the situation - a handful of survivors outnumbered by the enemy's forces.

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Question: In the opening scene, why was Luis not particularly bothered by the sudden appearance of a neighbor child in their house standing at the entrance to their bedroom? He reacts to her initially as though she were an overnight guest who had been sleeping down the hall and not as someone who doesn't live there.

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Answer: Since it's not addressed in the script or the film, any answer would be speculation. One could be that Luis is just a generally laid back person, and the appearance of a young child he knows is not enough to ruffle his feathers, even if she isn't supposed to be there. He also just woke up, so he could be a bit groggy and not fully processing the situation as quickly as he might normally. More likely, it's simply the way the scene was filmed; the director and actor didn't think it important to show Luis "bothered" by the girl's presence (prior to noticing the blood, of course).

Answer: He also likely knew her since Anna had a conversation with the kid earlier about "say hi to your mom for me'.

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