 Originally Posted by EvilNed
Yes, as you can read George's intention was for Big Daddy to be an evolution of Bub.
Thus, with that reference and the dialogue in Land that specifically states that they are 3 years into the outbreak the only conclusion is that Land takes place after Day.
Of course you could argue that Day takes place more than 3 years after the outbreak but that wouldn't make sense for a number of reasons as we've already outlined above.
So the bottom line is that Land of the Dead take place after Day - as both Romero states it and it a timeframe is given in the film itself.
He said an "uber" Bub. That does not mean much in terms of time. It could be that he wanted to envision him as "smarter" than Bub... but, once again, he did not really convey such an idea very clearly in the movie itself. All we see Big Daddy do in common with Bub is carried out with just about the same level of skill (more or less clumsy attempts at doing things that people do.)
By the way: as some people have noted, Romero's memory was getting worse and worse with the years, and I think it shows in that interview. Apparently Romero forgot that Fisher even saw a zombie trying to drive a car in Washington DC. That's something else that we do not see or hear Big Daddy or any other zombie of Land do that the zombies in Day did. So this whole "uber" thingy is rather questionable. Once again we must distinguish between the filmmaker's original intentions and what did he really convey on the film itself, whether wittingly or unwittingly. They are not always the same.
The dialogue in Land does not specify anything about any "outbreak", I have repeatedly challenged you over and over again to find even one single line that clarifies this for the viewer, but you have repeatedly failed to find it, because it simply isn't there. I could not challenge you to do the same in Dawn because such a clear and specific line that leaves no room whatsoever for any doubt does exist there, though.
BTW: if you are still entertaining this erroneous idea that the Cholo-Kaufman "3-years-doing-your-dirty-work" dialogue in Land is supposedly clear and specific enough regarding the zombies and when they first came about, you can quote it to anyone who has not seen any of Romero's movies. Let's see how many people you find that will conclude from such a dialogue that these two characters are supposedly referring to a "zombie outbreak". How much you want to bet that the number is... ZERO! But now do the same with the very clear and explicit dialogue of Dawn regarding the 3 weeks. How much you want to bet that virtually NO ONE will fail to easily see that the two characters are very obviously talking about a zombie outbreak and how long it has been going on? And don't try to pull the "context" excuse either, which is very predictably what you will try to do in order to excuse why no one can make any connection whatsoever between those lines in Land and any "zombies". The Dawn lines are also taken "out of context", yet you will plainly see that no one will fail to easily perceive that the dialogue is plainly about a zombie outbreak that has been going on for 3 weeks, even without having seen the movie, while for the Cholo-Kaufman dialogue everyone will easily perceive it as being about one guy being pissed off with his employer for not treating him right after 3 years of services rendered. There is a reason for that. The two dialogues plainly carry their respective contexts with them. That's why everyone will fail to come to the conclusion that the 3-year dialogue in Land supposedly implies something about any "zombies", while virtually everyone will easily and plainly see that the 3-week dialogue in Dawn is certainly about zombies and how long they have been around, even if they have never seen any of these movies. The "context" is very plain in the lines themselves.
There is no problem either with Day taking place 3 years after the outbreak, unlike Land, where the problems just continue to be there and make it paradoxical, as we've already outlined a bunch of times. There is nothing whatsoever in Day that prevents it from taking place that long into the zombie outbreak. For example, we don't see the paradoxical ignorance of Slack regarding zombie bites in any of the characters in Day, as should be expected from any survivors who have lived longer into the said outbreak. Such ignorance was excusable at the beginning of Dawn, though, as it was only 3 weeks into the outbreak, so we should expect some people to still not be familiar enough with the zombies and what their bites do to people. So, try as you might to ignore all these very pertinent contradictions/paradoxes in Land if you want to see it as happening after Day, they simply won't go away. We will keep on pointing them out until someone can come up with satisfactory answers for all these problems.
So the bottom line still continues to be that Land makes little sense and is quite packed with contradictions and paradoxes (none of which you have satisfactorily "explained") if seen as happening after Day, whether that was Romero's intention or not.
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