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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 09:29 AM Apr 2020

That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too.

Source: Washington Post


The Columbus Dispatch photo of an anti-social-distancing protest in Ohio went viral this week. (Joshua A. Bickel/AP)

That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too.

By Maura Judkis
April 17, 2020 at 11:18 a.m. EDT

The insatiable flesh-hunger of zombies wasn’t exactly on photographer Joshua A. Bickel’s mind when he was covering an anti-social-distancing protest at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. But it was all that was on the, well, braaaaaains of people who saw Bickel’s work on social media, where the photo went viral for its parallels to classic zombie films.

The Columbus Dispatch photographer’s image is frightening and compelling. Approximately 100 protesters who were urging Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to end the state’s stay-at-home order and reopen businesses pressed up against the glass doors to the statehouse, chanting and banging windows.

One wears a Guy Fawkes mask. Two men wear Trump-branded baseball caps. Two women, the closest to the windows, shape their mouths into the same elongated howl as Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” American flags obscure some of the protesters in the back.

“I thought this was a screencap from a zombie movie,” tweeted one woman.

“Some strong ‘Shaun of the Dead’ energy in this photo from the protests in Ohio,” tweeted another man.

It looked awfully familiar to Michael Satrazemis, the director of photography for “The Walking Dead” and director of “Fear the Walking Dead,” two shows that seem a little scarier these days, since they’re about a zombie apocalypse that begins with an uncontrollable pathogen.

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That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too. (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2020 OP
I was thinking the same thing when I saw it. Hollywood could not have tulipsandroses Apr 2020 #1
I agree. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #2
The blond woman on our left is running for office at the state level. Ohiya Apr 2020 #3

tulipsandroses

(5,094 posts)
1. I was thinking the same thing when I saw it. Hollywood could not have
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 09:34 AM
Apr 2020

made this shit up. They could not have written a script about a killer virus stalking people that would not allow us to touch each other. There's usually a corporate villain trying to take over the world in a lot of movies. That would be Trump - The corporate villain that wants to infect more people to take over the world and thus recruits a band of unwitting fools to get more people infected.

Ohiya

(2,208 posts)
3. The blond woman on our left is running for office at the state level.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 10:14 AM
Apr 2020

Not sure if this photo will help or hurt her chances.

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