Dawn Of The Dead Page #4

- Yeah. lt could be hilarious.

This was one of the first days with Ving.

lt's morning, we were shooting in this tunnel,

which is actually quite close to the mall.

Not as close as it appears in the movie,

but just down the street.

There's a fake mall coming up.

- There's Mekhi...

- Fake as in CG.

..Jake and lnna -

we were really lucky with our cast.

- Yeah, great.

- Really lucky.

Look at 'em. They believe it.

Ving's pissed there. ''Why are you

shooting at me? What are you doing?''

Ving is cool.

And Ving - it never happens -

Ving came after us and was like,

''l wanna be in that movie.''

And l don't think we thought

we could get him.

Then suddenly he was like, ''l wanna be

in this movie cos the black guy lives.''

- Which is awesome.

- Awesome.

l'm into that.

- Jake Weber.

- Look at Jake, he believes it.

- ''l'm going to the mall.''

- He believes it.

Guess where he's going?

- Good.

- That's awesome.

- He's seen some atrocities.

- That sequence going to the mall,

we weren't gonna have that in.

l thought that could be

a trailer moment or something,

then we put it in.

l thought it was

too on the nose on the day,

''We're going to the mall,''

it sounds cheeseball.

lt actually gets a laugh,

like, the right kind of laugh.

Exactly correct. lt's awesome.

There's your mall.

ln some of the earlier versions

- Eric said, ''Shrek's gonna come out.''

- The Shrek mall.

- lt was awesome.

- We got a lot of Shrek stuff.

- This sequence is not in the movie.

- ln the theatrical version.

And this guy actually was

missing that arm in real life.

And he's getting shot there

and doesn't really care.

- There's the MTV guy behind him, lan...

- He comes at the last second.

- He's right behind him.

- ln the leather vest.

- Here's this guy...

- He's the last guy you see.

- Gnash your teeth!

- Boom. There he is, oh.

- The teeth gnash is gone.

- No, we cut that out.

He gnashed his teeth in this crazy way.

lt was too much.

At some point we just had them,

here they were.

Remember we picked them up here,

and then for the theatrical

we kept whittling it away.

- Till they just smash a toilet.

- Which is great.

Scott Stuber asked me,

''What is your obsession with toilets?

''You've got these toilet shots -

a close-up of the toilet,

- ''it falls in slow motion...''

- Slo-mo toilet.

l don't know. l never realised

how obsessed l was with toilets until...

l think your next movie should be

basically a toilet story, a drama about...

lt'd be cool. But you don't want to be

POV the toilet.

- Toilet POV? No.

- That's something you don't want.

- A small minority does but...

- Guys get arrested for that.

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