There's about fifteen or so minutes between when Roger was bitten by the zombies, in Dawn of the Dead (1978), and turns. It is enough time for him to semi-help Peter, Fran, and Flyboy shoot some zombies, hotwire and drive one of those display cars, and enjoy some pickles, arcades, and a fedora before the pain and gradual zombie virus courses through him, leading to his death and turn. Something rather melancholic occurs: Roger sees the zombies and the inevitable fate of winding up as one of them begins to materialize to him. He insists that Peter makes sure to put him down if he can't defy the turn. It's hard for me not to feel bummed about these fifteen minutes, and his loss / absence is certainly felt once he's gone. But the movie goes on, and Roger misses some serious action when the bikers arrive. He has a memorable turn and his makeup is quite distinctive. Peter's added anguish when he must shoot him only includes an impact.
The zombie puncturing his wrapped leg wound when he gets in the back of the display car and Fran's attempts to inject him with pain-alleviated medicine, the minor window where he is spared the agony brought about by a lapse of hysteria which led to his forgetting his bag in the truck he was driving and getting flesh wounds from multiple zombies, Dawn of the Dead built sympathy for him.
The zombie puncturing his wrapped leg wound when he gets in the back of the display car and Fran's attempts to inject him with pain-alleviated medicine, the minor window where he is spared the agony brought about by a lapse of hysteria which led to his forgetting his bag in the truck he was driving and getting flesh wounds from multiple zombies, Dawn of the Dead built sympathy for him.
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