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Snyder keeps you firmly planted in the mayhem, strapping the camera to the hood of a car as Ana desperately tries to drive away-the type of showy but exhilarating trick that screams exciting first-time filmmaker zombies and fleeing survivors alike ping-ponging off the vehicle. Leonetti immediately place you in Ana's shoes with a pan shot for the ages, the camera over Polley's shoulder taking in at least three separate dioramas of chaos taking place on a usually quiet suburban street.
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After watching her adorable pre-teen next-door neighbor make a meal out of her husband's neck, nurse Ana ( Sarah Polley) steps out her front door to see a small Milwaukee suburb gone mad.
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Instead of steadily building tension, Snyder simply tosses the audience through a plate glass window from the jump Dawn of the Dead's opening ten minutes is packed with some of the most electric visual storytelling that horror has seen in the past 20 years. Snyder began his film career with his foot duct-taped to the gas pedal.
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The last 17 Years of Snyder has been a lot, is what I'm saying, full of dramatic highs and lows, but when I think of a Zack Snyder triumph? I still think, first and foremost, of his beginning, of Dawn of the Dead, which remains the best, purest serving of Snyder's trademark mix of popcorn and blood He invented an entirely new subgenre of shirtlessness with the 2006 Frank Miller adaptation, 300 he brought Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "unfilmable" comic masterpiece Watchmen to vivid life in 2009 he was handed the keys to the DC Comics kingdom and built an Extended Universe several million miles away from its colorful Marvel counterpart, one populated by scowling god figures and Grecian tales of life and death. Across nearly two decades, Snyder has become an auteur lightning rod, capable of sparking support and criticism with equally startling passion. Seventeen years later, Snyder returns to the genre with Netflix's Army of the Dead, and to say the filmmaker's career has been a "bit eventful" in the interim is understatement enough to spark its own apocalypse in the comments. Romero's bitingly satirical zombie flick Dawn of the Dead. In 2004, hotshot commercial director Zack Snyder made a major splash with his directorial debut, a remake of George A.