This scene shows the uselessness of Stephen/Flyboy. We see here that he obviously is poor at shooting and has to be saved by Roger all the time. This gun is used as a phallic symbol and therefore represents Stephen's respective lack of masculinity. Another scene to link with showing how inept Steven is would be when Peter has to save him from the zombies in the mall on their first run for supplies. In this scene, they use point of view shots and also the angle is slightly slanted upwards. This use of expressionism shows that the characters are good characters and people look up to them. This is mostly based at Roger and we can see from Stephen's face it’s all a bit overwhelming whereas Roger is confident. The auteur of this film is George A. Romero. Romero likes to challenge horror conventions and we see from this scene this is exactly what he is doing. As Stephen is not coming across as the typical main hero because throughout the film we see how useless he is when someone always has to jump in and save him. Roger is small and white while peter is black. Yet they are both clearly better characters than Stephen. Stephen is white and a TV reporter and tall so “should be” a 1970’s hero but due to Romero and his forward thinking ideas he is not.
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