In this final scene we are left with our survivors Fran and
Peter. This shows George A. Romero again challenging character stereotypes in
horror as Fran is a blonde, sexual active woman who survivors usually horror
this kind of character is first to be killed. She also learns to shoot and fly
the helicopter and could be considered as an early feminist as she is not just
an object of the male gaze (linking to Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze Theory).
Then we also have Peter who is a black male hero this also links to
the context
as racism was still an issue in 1970’s society. The fact that these two
characters leave together at the end gives the spectator a slight hint of an
interracial relationship again challenging the cultural dominant ideology
at the time. However the film has an unhappy ending as Roger and Stephen
are dead, also the film has an open ending as we are left with two
survivors but they don’t have much fuel.
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