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oh, and Bouncer, the reason Ben dies in NIght of The Living Dead is because Romero wanted to say something about the state of Civil Rights in the country at the time. Black people were struggling very hard to achieve equality, and it seemed like no matter what they did, they kept getting "shot down"(pun intended).Even to have a black lead at all which, aside from Sydney Poiter in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" was unheard of, was very groundbreaking in its own right.
And as for the feminist undertones, I have a feeling most of the films have less to do with feminism, and more to do with the fact that a whole lot less people wanna see a hot teenage boy bein chased around by a knife wielding maniac. Regardless of how much "integrity" some of these movies pretend to have, the bottom line is money. And studio execs know that hot teenage girl being chased is gonna rake in the green.
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