James Plath.The ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Zombies will Still Get to You (англ.) // popmatters.com // 19 марта 2018 // …It was especially striking in 1968 that Jones, the lead actor in a film set in rural America, was African American—something audiences were not used to seeing… Romero explains, “Duane was the best actor from among our friends.”…
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Interview: George Romero - Film directorАрхивная копия от 4 августа 2018 на Wayback Machine (англ.) // scotsman.com // 4 марта 2010 // …Daringly for the time, it featured a black actor, Duane Jones, in the lead, whose casual shooting by an all-white posse in the shocking climax seemed to reflect the rifts violently appearing in late-1960s …Far from Jones's casting being a comment on the divisive issue of race in America, he was chosen simply because he was "the best actor from among our friends"…
Interview: George Romero - Film directorАрхивная копия от 4 августа 2018 на Wayback Machine (англ.) // scotsman.com // 4 марта 2010 // …Daringly for the time, it featured a black actor, Duane Jones, in the lead, whose casual shooting by an all-white posse in the shocking climax seemed to reflect the rifts violently appearing in late-1960s …Far from Jones's casting being a comment on the divisive issue of race in America, he was chosen simply because he was "the best actor from among our friends"…
