![]() This includes barbaric experiments and the goal of exterminating them however possible. In the source material, Richard Matheson's novel of the same title, the term "legend" itself speaks more to how Neville's inhumane treatment of the mutants. Still, he is too disgusted by them because their existence threatens the resurgence of anything like what he once called humanity to care about. In both the book and movie, throughout his study of the mutants, Neville discovers that despite trying to slaughter all non-infected humans, they have their own organized society, rules, and relationships. He plows himself into the glass, detonating a grenade after the mother and daughter escape with the cure, and this is seemingly the end of his story. And some poor schmoe who didn't start the problem has to try to fix it.Neville's young, late daughter always had a habit of pointing out butterflies, so Neville takes this as a sign that this is the end. ![]() And this starts where? That's right: In New York, which everyone in the movie keeps calling Ground Zero. Sort of like Western military forces arming jihadists (which they regard as a bad thing) so that they'll fight communists (which they regard as a worse thing).Īnd then the built-up virus - the bad thing - mutates into something much worse than the cancer, and it turns on its creators. I mean, it's still a sci-fi blockbuster, but take a look at that plot: Western medicine takes a virus (a bad thing) and manipulates it so that it can fight cancer (a worse thing). And maybe it's just that unlike most of you, I've seen a whole fall's worth of War-on-Terrorism, Rendition-for-Lambs -In-the-Valley-of-Elah movies, but what I started thinking about was that I Am Legend fits right in with those pictures. When they do, banging their heads against plate glass as movie zombies always do, I started needing something else to think about. ![]() But sooner or later, of course, those zombies have to appear. Hollywood's digitizers have outdone themselves, turning truncated bridges and rusting traffic jams apocalyptic, and Smith, who has to carry much of the film without dialogue, is persuasively stir-crazy and heroic. I'm still unable to transfer my immunity to infected hosts.the cryptovirus is elegant."įor much of its length, so is I Am Legend. Three years later, Neville is the last uninfected resident, a virologist searching for a cure, talking mostly to his dog, and to his tape recorder. The island of Manhattan - Ground Zero for the epidemic - has long since been quarantined, all its bridges and tunnels dynamited. Alas, viruses mutate, and this one developed a deadly strain, killing most humans outright and turning the rest into light-phobic zombies who only come out at night. Manhattan, and indeed the world, has been emptied of humanity by a man-made virus that was supposed to cure cancer. There's not a person in sight anywhere - except Robert Neville, who travels, when the sun is highest in the sky, to the South Street Seaport, to broadcast the same message he's been broadcasting for almost three years: "If anyone is out there, I can provide food, shelter, security. Times Square is prowled by lions rather than tourists. Tree roots have buckled the pavement the weeds on 5th Avenue are plentiful enough to support whole herds of deer. Smith races around an eerily vacant N.Y.C., where he can hunt wild deer grazing on weeds growing in the middle of 5th Avenue.
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