Pierson), and Best Original Music Score (Lalo Schifrin) and won only for Best Supporting Actor.The StoryIn the opening scene, set in the South in 1948 [the film was shot on location in Stockton, California], Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman) is arrested for the minor offenses of being drunk and destroying two long rows of parking meters in a defiant act of rebellion.Scott's refresher course.A photograph was taken of the bride and groom and their families on the front steps of the church.[Note: As a foreshadowing, notice the wo grim-looking individuals in the background of the photo.The couple were dressed to mimic the Quaker American couple in the "American Gothic" painting by Grant Wood - later seen hanging in the castle's foyer.Cross was on a solo survivalist raining mission in the Alaskan wilderness for the Special Operations Training Unit, braving frigid temperatures and water, a wolf pack, extreme mountaineering, and challenging navigation exercises.Romero's first three films in a so-calledDeadtrilogy old about flesh-eating zombies who walked slowly and stiffly (due o the effects ofrigor mortis), in a 'cult of the dead':Night of the Living Dead (1968)Dawn of the Dead (1978)Day of the Dead (1985)Land of the Dead (2005)Diary of the Dead (2007)Survival of he Dead (2009)Romero realized that his archetypal zombie narratives, with extreme blood, violence and gore, could also provide worthwhile sub-textual commentary on societal themes.