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Progenitor of the genre of films about zombies, George A. Romero, a TV serial channel AMC «walking dead" has absolutely no relation. And I must say, thank God, because, according to Romero's latest opus, he slowly but surely falls into senile marasmus. At least two recent movie the 70-year director, "Diary of the Dead" and especially "Survival of the Dead", secondary, and look helpless.

The idea to create something like this has long been in the air, but none of the known masters of the genre have not felt the strength and desire to permanently bogged down in the draft, because, as you know, soap operas tend to continue. Sometimes indefinitely or until a complete loss of sanity.

The first season (six episodes, including the pilot) "walking dead" took place in America from October to December last year and began to channel AMC's most successful project in the history of its existence. Took the reins in his hands is none other than Frank Darabont, director of the Green Mile "," haze "and" The Shawshank Redemption ", the latter for several years, he heads to various authoritative lists of movies of all time.

Summarizes the plot of the series.

... Once in a gunfight and got dangerously wounded, Assistant Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) falls into a coma. Rousing himself, he discovers that the flowers wilted, the clock stood, and his life support devices are turned off and have already covered with a thick layer of dust. Leave on the conscience of the writers superhuman capabilities of our hero survive without water, food, and a dropper, but the fact remains, Rick unnerved and disoriented.

Coming to God's light, Rick realizes that while he is slacking in the ward, the world suffered some terrible catastrophe. Hospital itself and its surroundings, literally overwhelmed by mountains of rotting corpses, and the only living organisms encountered by Rick on the way home from the hospital, are the flies and female corpse, for some reason, is has signs of life. Cheerless landscape complete the empty windows of abandoned houses, tons of garbage in the streets and the total absence of Homo sapiens in the conventional sense of the word.

Find your home devastated, but not looted, Rick gets a shovel in the head and thus starts a brief friendship with Morgan and his son Dwayne, who dug in a nearby house. That they devote Rica in recent news. Unknown, but rapidly spread the infection clogged streets of towns and villages, turning people into "walking dead". The sting of this creature immediately leads to fever, resulting in either bitten sooner or later will become the same. Dead, though mindless, but hungry and bloodthirsty, what makes them get in packs of particular danger to the survivors.

Armed with the local police station, a former sheriff, hoping to find his wife and son, goes to the nearest major metropolis of Atlanta, where, according to Morgan, may be the headquarters for the rescue of the survivors ...

I have to say, the series left me with an ambivalent impression. On the one hand, the idea is, of course, chic. That's why the audience expectations of a project exceeds the limit, and pilot episode seen by more than five million people, that for such a specific genre - an incredible success. On the other hand, the authors already in the course of the first season started much surrender and indulge in excessive melodramatizatsiyu, which could not but affect the quality. Tightening the suspense in the beginning, Darabont and the company has successfully dealt with it as early as the third series, and then started volnodumstvovat that led them to a rather banal finale and open-ended. The second season is ready to shoot, will consist of thirteen episodes and will be released in November 2011.

Most frustrating of the fact that the authors have not attempted to bring his project of original thought. Drawing inspiration from ekraniziruemom graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, they gradually learned subjects, filling his work with numerous quotations from classical paintings Romero, "Resident Evil", "28 Days Later" and the famous apocalyptic masterpiece, by Stephen King "Opposition» (The Stand). Subjective "walking dead" are the quintessence of the genre and are designed to affect the scale and atmosphere, but not brilliantly unique.

The full force of his imagination creators sent not to the scenic delights, and the incarnation of the dark despair of a new world, entertainment and the most realistic of what is happening, including "the protagonists of the film -" walking dead ", which, incidentally, for the entire season was never called the word "zombie". Particularly able to prove themselves skilled in makeup, which translate into television is truly awful and impressive monsters. But the desert landscape stone jungle, lovingly traced on the computer is standard, one-sided and inferior to their cinematic counterparts.

Regarding the cast series. The leading roles went to actors Andrew Lincoln and John Berntalu. First appeared in films and on television since 1995, and in particular shone in the Christmas comedy "Love Actually". Berntal - specials on TV series ("Dr. Vegas," "Boston Legal," "How I Met Your Mother"), but in most cases appeared to secondary roles. Third is the nominal star of the show Sarah Wayne Callies, known for a wide audience for her role in the TV series "Prison Break".

As a "guest stars" in the "walking dead" are also involved Laurie Holden (Silent Hill "," Mist "), Jeffrey DeMunn (The Green Mile," "The Mist"), Norman Ridus, Michael Rooker, and Noah Emmerich. All the actors are held, so the whole casting to "walking dead" claims no no.

What we have in the dry residue at the end of the first season? Alas, the series began more cheerfully and hopefully, how did it end. And even though beaten in the course of coming out of a coma patient (in addition to "Resident Evil 2" and "28 Days Later" was like the beginning of the famous "Day of the Triffids"), it seemed that the writers are on the right track. But then a serial nature of this production took precedence over the cinematic component, and clashes with wandering corpses gradually gave way to clarify the relationship between the main characters.

Finale of the first season hit its stereotyped. But, considering that the next portion of adventure will be released only a year later, the authors were forced to complete at least the main storyline. The truth in this part of the characters have simply lost sight of, so let's hope for Morgan, and an outrageously Merla Dixon performed Rucker find a place in the sequel.

In any case, to date, "walking dead" - the first full-fledged attempt to create an epic canvas to the post-apocalyptic theme. Try not devoid of problem areas, but it deserves respect.

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