Night of the Living Dead

George Romero's Night of the Living Dead was extremely ground breaking AND pretty good for a 1960s thriller movie. If we still had the other movie in Psycho, I would still probably watch this, because I have already seen Psycho, and it is just...meh, for an Alfred Hitchcock movie. What I am trying to say is that I am glad we watched this movie, since I have heard so much about the movie, and we got to watch this movie. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Anyways, on to the prompt for the blog post. There were plenty of things that could be many political implications in the film, but the one that I am assuming of right now is that the political implication is the use of an African American for the main character in the movie who is the hero and has normal hero qualities. He can also be compared to many ground breaking people throughout history, but the one that people most compare Ben to is Martin Luther King, Jr. because he was an African American leader that was killed by a bunch of rednecks (or in Martin Luther King, Jr's case one redneck,) and was the leader of many people. You could actually compare Ben to any leader that had been assassinated. All in all, I loved this movie because it was campy, and I like some movies that are pretty campy.