In this scene Peter is getting attacked by a zombie and
Flyboy tries to shoot it and misses a couple of times. Roger then steps up,
aims at the zombie and kills it with a headshot. We assume Flyboy is going to
be the stereotypical male hero as he is a white TV reporter, but Romero twists
it a little bit by making him quite useless. In comparison to Flyboy, the main
zombie character in Land of the Dead (2005) is black and we end up
feeling sympathetic towards him, which is again twisting the what you would
expect.
Flyboy carries a phallic rifle to show that he has a large
amount of power, but then goes on to miss the zombie. So Roger intervenes and
steals the power with his phallic rifle, making Flyboy powerless and emasculated.
Previous to Flyboy trying to shoot the zombie, Fran and Flyboy are attacked by
zombies and Flyboy has an opportunity to be a hero, but he just misses with his
swinging hammer and falls clumsily onto it.
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