Buy Zombie, an excellent source of zombie news and events, is running a feature right now about the evolution of our undead counterparts from Night of the Living Dead all the way through Land of the Dead. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in it, specifically related to Land of the Dead. I must say, I only saw the movie once so I missed a lot of the subtle details. From the article:

It was also during this movie that we get the characterization of yet another zombie character known as Big Daddy, who is like Bub 2.0 where he tries to act like a car station mechanic but regular people still see him as a dead person. He doesn’t understand this and here is where we encounter our major plot point: the zombies see us as the invading disease because they think they are normal, so Big Daddy decides to revolt against the living. He is vastly intelligent compared to most zombies and he understands that the ‘sky flowers’ are just distractions so people can raid the stores and kill ‘his people.’ He is a revolutionary, he teaches the zombies to use their weapons like meat cleavers, batons, guns and their appetite to revolt against the living and take back their land.

This is some good stuff. It makes for a great read especially in light of the soon to be released Survival of the Dead.

Romero and the Evolution of Zombies (buyzombie.com <- new window)