Dawn Of The Dead 2004 - Image 2 Analysis

This particular scene visualises both Kenneth, a police officer and Andre, a supposed ex-criminal who fits the negative black stereotypes – gangster factors of side-on-gun work whilst shooting. Kenneth isn’t particularly keen of Andre, he makes that clear in this scene when Kenneth questions how Andre can’t figure out why he’s in this place because he’s not innocent, but we see a sensitive side to Andre that he expresses to Kenneth. In this scene Andre says how he desperately wants to turn his life around - in an interracial relationship - with Luda and his unborn child. He protects them with all his willpower which made him gets killed by the old; this conveys sheer hope in how he wanted another chance at life, so he could have a happy family life. Converging all of my thoughts to the aspect of an interracial relationship, the original Dawn of the Dead (1979) denotes a supposed interracial relationship between Fran and Peter who were the only survivors, this caused a lot of uproar in the 1970s because it was shocking to see, it was frowned upon a lot. However, context has changed so this isn’t shocking any more. Dawn of the Dead film challenges stereotypes where black people, men in particular, are concerned – Kenneth is a black heroic character who’s a police officer; who’s brilliant with a gun and helps put himself and the rest of the characters to their survival act. Subsequently, Kenneth represents the improvement of representation of black people in films as they’d usually be portrayed as criminals in the vast-majority of films.

This particular scene visualises both Kenneth, a police officer and Andre, a supposed ex-criminal who fits the negative black stereotypes – gangster factors of side-on-gun work whilst shooting. Kenneth isn’t particularly keen of Andre, he makes that clear in this scene when Kenneth questions how Andre can’t figure out why he’s in this place because he’s not innocent, but we see a sensitive side to Andre that he expresses to Kenneth. In this scene Andre says how he desperately wants to turn his life around - in an interracial relationship - with Luda and his unborn child. He protects them with all his willpower which made him gets killed by the old; this conveys sheer hope in how he wanted another chance at life, so he could have a happy family life. Converging all of my thoughts to the aspect of an interracial relationship, the original Dawn of the Dead (1979) denotes a supposed interracial relationship between Fran and Peter who were the only survivors, this caused a lot of uproar in the 1970s because it was shocking to see, it was frowned upon a lot. However, context has changed so this isn’t shocking any more. Dawn of the Dead film challenges stereotypes where black people, men in particular, are concerned – Kenneth is a black heroic character who’s a police officer; who’s brilliant with a gun and helps put himself and the rest of the characters to their survival act. Subsequently, Kenneth represents the improvement of representation of black people in films as they’d usually be portrayed as criminals in the vast-majority of films.

This particular scene visualises both Kenneth, a police officer and Andre, a supposed ex-criminal who fits the negative black stereotypes – gangster factors of side-on-gun work whilst shooting. Kenneth isn’t particularly keen of Andre, he makes that clear in this scene when Kenneth questions how Andre can’t figure out why he’s in this place because he’s not innocent, but we see a sensitive side to Andre that he expresses to Kenneth. In this scene Andre says how he desperately wants to turn his life around - in an interracial relationship - with Luda and his unborn child. He protects them with all his willpower which made him gets killed by the old; this conveys sheer hope in how he wanted another chance at life, so he could have a happy family life.

Converging all of my thoughts to the aspect of an interracial relationship, the original Dawn of the Dead (1979) denotes a supposed interracial relationship between Fran and Peter who were the only survivors, this caused a lot of uproar in the 1970s because it was shocking to see, it was frowned upon a lot. However, context has changed so this isn’t shocking any more.

Dawn of the Dead film challenges stereotypes where black people, men in particular, are concerned – Kenneth is a black heroic character who’s a police officer; who’s brilliant with a gun and helps put himself and the rest of the characters to their survival act. Subsequently, Kenneth represents the improvement of representation of black people in films as they’d usually be portrayed as criminals in the vast-majority of films.