Talk:George A. Romero/Archive 1

Archive 1

Newsflesh series

Is it worth mentioning that Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy references Romero heavily as a cultural hero who inadvertently saved humanity by making movies that taught people how to fight zombies? George/Georgia/Georgette is the most common name for children now (including one of the two main characters), etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.91.241.98 (talk) 14:58, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Mr. Rogers

I kid you now, I just watched a documentary about Midnight movies this morning and George said quite literally that after the Mr. Rogers tonsillectomy film he started to look into bringing horror to film of the sorts he used to read in EC comics ... but if you want to omit that detail, it's up to you.

--Mesolimbo 01:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Huh. Go figure. Do you remember the full name of the documentary? If it's citable, then the piece should stay. - Richfife 16:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

It was [Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)] --Mesolimbo 22:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

John Romero

Is George A. Romero related to John Romero? I'm assuming he is since their last names are the same in conjunction with George being mentioned on the Doom 3 article in a section describing inspirations from George A. Romero. --SuperDude 04:18, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No --Richfife 19:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Race in the Dead Tetrology

About the race issue: I think this section contains too much unverifiable speculation about Romero's intentions. Also, the section says race is never explicitly mentioned. In Dawn of the Dead, there is a riot cop who intentionally kills living blacks and Puerto Ricans at the beginning of the film.

Nonetheless, it is telling that the most sympathetic character in Night was a black man--and that was in 1968. Teflon Don 21:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Not to mention Blade's (Tom Savini) fleeting reference to Peter, the African American protagonist, as a "chocolate man" in Dawn of the Dead. Day of the Dead also contains many lines in which military men mock their Latino associate by calling him "Spick." I believe that Dennis Hopper's character also briefly calls John Leguizamo's character a "spick" in Land of the Dead. Race therefore figures into Romero's films on some level. (1 March 2006, not a registered user; my contact is thedano81@hotmail.com)

-Ever notice who is calling people "spics" and killing those of a certain race? The antagonistic pricks who you have learned to hate in the movie. Romero is practically making satire of racism and sexism, it just appears to be the obvious by those who don't actually take in what they're seeing.

I may be mistaken, but I've read in a few places Romero is of hispanic descent anyways. This may not be true, but either way, take notice of who is performing the racism in Romero's movies, and who the heroes are.(Please sign your posts and this is not a message board. This is to discuss issues on the subject's page, not for you to discuss your theories about what Romero intends to convey in his film.)

He is of Castilian Spanish and Lithuanian ancestry, so he is not Hispanic, and 'Hispanic' is a category created for the US census, not a racial category nor a distinct race, so there s nothing about "racism" there, just ethnic prejudice, which is similar to, but not "racism." Incidentally, Savini's racial slur in 'Dawn' ("chocolate man") was an ad lib on Savini's part, and not in the shooting script. (67.234.136.155 (talk) 00:28, 30 January 2013 (UTC))

Cutting back the Romero specific links

I'm cutting back the links to 3. I've kept the ones I liked best and removed these:

• Classic Horror.com bio
• Hollywood Gothique: George Romero on "Raising the Dead"
• George Romero: Tribute song by indie punk band Sprites (music group)

- Richfife 18:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

My Inspiration! I thank you. --66.218.22.2 05:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Long Intro?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the introduction seem a bit long? Shouldn't it be split into a "Romero is a director bla bla bla" and a Biography section? I don't know much about WP though, so please correct me :P --RazorICE 09:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

One of the main things to know about Wikipedia is to be bold--meaning that in most cases you should give it a shot, and if people don't like it they can change it back. Nareek 11:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Ethnicity?

It says Cuban in the catagory, but his article says Puerto Rican. IronCrow 03:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that happens a lot in Wikipedia, eh? Well, John Leguizamo sez he's half Cuban [1] so that's good enough for me. Don't know what the other half is.... Mad Jack 16:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Well actually he is ZERO percent Cuban as his father was born there of Castilian Spanish parents who moved there to open a hotel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.241.91 (talk) 06:40, 10 August 2009 (UTC) O

Oh and the other half is "Lithuanian".(75.69.241.91 (talk) 06:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC))

Quote:"John Leguizamo sez he's half Cuban, so that's good enough for me." Are you for real??? A casual aside from an actor is not a 'reliable source'. For the record, Romero does not have any Cuban ancestry whatsoever. His father's parents were Castilian, and they moved to Cuba in order to operate a motel. So ethnically he is Spanish and Lithuanian. (24.62.126.170 (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2010 (UTC))

Poor Picture

What happened to the previous image of Romero where it looked like he was being interviewed in a parking lot? It was of understandably higher quality than that of the horrible television cap that is up there now. 75.2.43.172 19:07, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I replaced it this summer with a picture we took at Comic-Con. Doczilla 09:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Zombisodes?

Whatever happened with this Zombisodes thing that's mentioned in the article? This was supposed to be Romero's next project after Land of the Dead. Is it possible that Zombisodes was an early name for Diary of the Dead? --Keith111 10:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It's connected to Diary of the Dead. We need a source on that, though. Here's some info on it: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Doczilla 09:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Romero separated from Christine?

I was just reading this article and towards the end, it says "He is separated from his wife and former collaborator, the actress Christine Forrest, and now lives with his girlfriend." Does anyone know anything about this? -Joltman (talk) 16:51, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks pretty legit to me. White_Bishop (talk) 19:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to say that any more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.236.74 (talk) 22:19, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

He says in the July 2009 interview on homepageofthedead that they are in the proces of divorcing(75.69.241.91 (talk) 06:41, 10 August 2009 (UTC))

References

The body of the text has references 13 - 15, but they do not appear on the list. We'll either need to add them, or re-reference the sentences in question. Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 14:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't see it (they top out at 12 for me). References are numbered and listed automatically by the mediawiki software, so what you probably saw was a transitory software fart. Refresh and check again. - Richfife (talk) 18:01, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Refreshed, cleared cache, and tried another browser, but they are still there. Toward the end of the 'Biography' section, there is definitely a 13, 14, and 15, but they don't correspond to a reference. The reason why I noticed it was they were originally string literals (e.g. [13], [14], etc.) and I converted them, but they don't lead anywhere. My edit can easily be undone, but it still leaves footnotes that go nowhere. Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 19:10, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Ah so. Here's what happened. An IP user tore out a bunch of stuff they shouldn't have here and then tried to fix it here, but screwed it up. The original refs should be restored. - Richfife (talk) 21:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Nice detective work; that helps a lot. As the anon edits can't be reverted, what would be the best way to restore in this case? Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 22:37, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Like that... - Richfife (talk) 23:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks again. :) Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

The link in Foot Note 2 in the references takes you to a page that no longer exists. (InformationvsInjustice (talk) 15:32, 12 September 2015 (UTC))

Marriage to Christine Forrest

There are some 2 year old sources that indicate that they were (at the time) separated and he was living with another woman. But I can't find any sources that say he's divorced or even currently separated. An IP from Pittsburgh (his home town) blanked the section that says he's married. Not sure what to do with that text... - Richfife (talk) 18:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

The homepageofthedead interview mentions they are preparing the divorce. Saying "Was preparing to divorce as of Jun 2009" just seems lame, though. - Richfife (talk) 19:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Ummm... Guys...

Check item #3: [7] - Richfife (talk) 17:42, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

You can stop now

We get it. - Richfife (talk) 01:09, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies

Romero wasn't featured in the zombie map Escalation. Althought it was the second map pack of Black Ops, the map is called "Call of the Dead". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.53.145.156 (talk) 08:50, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Space Dandy E04

George Romero wasn't credited at the end of it, his name was put there as an homage and nothing more. Wikipedia really needs better guidelines for what kind of garbage people write with no citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.172.37.249 (talk) 19:28, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Be Bold. Web based encyclopedia with tightly enforced content addition rules have been tried a number of times. They don't work. - Richfife (talk) 21:04, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Canadian?

I realize that George A. Romero now resides in Canada and has been a Canadian citizen for a few years, but for the vast duration of his career he has been American. Other entries with British actors who have resided in the United States for decades and have been citizens for nearly as long still describe them as 'British' with their status as American only being noted in the categories on the bottom. This was also the case with Natasha Richardson who, when she died, had been an American citizen for a much longer period than Romero has been up until this point (June, 2014.) Describing him as 'American-Canadian' in the first sentences of the entry seems to imply that he was either born in Canada, of Canadian parentage or, at the very least, a long term resident of Canada and none of these is the case here. I think his Canadian citizenship deserves to be noted, but without proper context and given the fact that nearly all of his notable achievements pre-date his Canadian citizenship by many years, the entry might benefit from some revisions.(174.54.19.92 (talk) 00:03, 29 June 2014 (UTC))

Wikipedia regards citizenship formally. Moreover, for whatever reason, he took the noteworthy (for his age) step of so applying for and getting Canadian citizenship, and is now dutifully identified with dual nationality.

Conversely, in spite of his Canadian background, Steven Pinker for example seems to have altogether abandoned his original heritage, and is altogether regarded by Wikipedia as an American. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohndanR (talk • contribs) 04:43, 20 June 2016 (UTC)