Roger's behaviour a script flaw?

[darth los]

That's just one of the many times the characters of that film engaged in puzzling behavior. Fran also does the same thing when a zombie attacks her man at the airport.

[jim102016]

I didn't see it listed, but doesn't the book say that Roger was a Vietnam veteran? Perhaps the trauma of the dead coming added to the strains inflicted on his mind from years of working on the SWAT team awakened or created PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)?

[darth los]

I didn't see it listed, but doesn't the book say that Roger was a Vietnam veteran? Perhaps the trauma of the dead coming added to the strains inflicted on his mind from years of working on the SWAT team awakened or created PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)? I wouldn't doubt it. The book goes into alot of intricate detail that just wasn't possible in the movie. It gives alot of cool intricate details such as his last name was DeMarco.

[RustyHicks]

As others said, weeks and weeks of seeing this hell before his eyes and being responsible for killing zombies strained him to his breaking point. We can only imagine what Roger has seen in the weeks before the movie took place. When that zombie attacks him in the truck, the two zombies I should say and Peter runs one over and blows the other away, Roger gets cocky, he wants to show those zombies that they won't get to the best of him, you can see his sanity crumbling around him. Peter knocks him out of it with his speech, but I think he was still raved up, just working on calming down. He might not have dropped his bag if he hadn't been startled by Franny's gun going off up over his head. It was then the crap hit the fan and we lost a good fighter.

[darth los]

As others said, weeks and weeks of seeing this hell before his eyes and being responsible for killing zombies strained him to his breaking point. We can only imagine what Roger has seen in the weeks before the movie took place. When that zombie attacks him in the truck, the two zombies I should say and Peter runs one over and blows the other away, Roger gets cocky, he wants to show those zombies that they won't get to the best of him, you can see his sanity crumbling around him. Peter knocks him out of it with his speech, but I think he was still raved up, just working on calming down. He might not have dropped his bag if he hadn't been startled by Franny's gun going off up over his head. It was then the crap hit the fan and we lost a good fighter. I agree that the zombies attacking him in the truck was the last straw for him but he was acting cocky way before that. In the department store when he shot that zombie in the head that he puled in he's actually smiling . He was having a good time. I wonder though if peter's speech made roger lose his edge to the point that it caused him to get bit. Say what ever you want about roger's reckless behavior but he never got bit before that.