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Originally Posted by Sculpt
That first zombie scene is interesting in just how smart the zombie is. He's pretty quick moving, but more importantly smart -- he tries to open the door to the car, and then he goes and finds a brick and tries to bash the car window open!
The folks later in the film, and the zombie films to follow, are lucky the zombies weren't as smart as the first classic zombie in film history.
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That's what I love about Romero's zombies! They're not completely mindless like in other zombie movies because they are intelligent enough to pick up tools like the zombie breaking Barbara's car window with the brick, Helen's zombie daughter stabbing her to death with a garden shovel, the zombie using a tire iron to break into a truck, and of course Bub being able to figure out how to fire a handgun. The fact that they were capable of learning is what made them scarier.
And not just that but seeing some zombies go about their old routines like they did when still alive was pretty eerie. Like the old lady zombie in the Night of the Living Dead remake cuddling a babydoll like she's holding her own child or the zombie in Dawn of the Dead who was picking up coins in a fountain. The best example was seeing Bub do things like shave, read a book, and talk on the phone and even doing things like salute or use a handgun because he was in the military when he was still human.