The birth of a legend

Emory 2021-10-19 09:48:04

"My name is Robert Neve, and I am a survivor in New York... I will be at South Street Bay at noon every day, if anyone can hear... I can provide food and shelter and keep you safe... If there are people You can hear that you are not alone!!!” The

deadly virus was unfortunately spread around the world, 90% of the population disappeared from the earth forever, only 1% of the population was immune, and the remaining 9% became “Night Demon” ". Since then, the law of human existence has become simpler-without the state and politics, only hunting and being hunted are left. This is like the scene of hunting in the once prosperous New York city center at the beginning of the film. Neve was originally chasing a wild deer, but unexpectedly encountered the hunting lion group and took away the prey that belonged to him. , The whole world returned to its original animal state after a catastrophe.

Robert Neve, a talented scientist and the only survivor in New York City, constantly uses medium waves to communicate with the outside world every day to try to find other survivors. At the same time, he also hopes to study the immune serum to try to rescue the "Night Demon". Humans... To some extent, this is already a legend. Compared to the Dr. Alice Klippin who appeared in the opening movie (I would rather believe that she is a mad scientist, otherwise I would not be crazy enough to have the idea of ​​using a virus to treat cancer or experimenting with her new drug with more than 10,000 cancer patients), it is ironic The meaning is obvious-there must be crazy people in the crazy world to respond to it, otherwise all this crazy will not appear so normal! Just like Robert Never said in the film: "God does not need to be responsible for these, humans are to blame!" The

film focuses the camera on a survivor like Robert Never and shows us one in 40 minutes. In the life of a "normal person", he tried to preserve the disintegrated civilization, exercising, hunting, playing golf, watching DVDs, and even not tolerating the bloodthirsty "Night Demon". In extremely lonely social places, he would say "stand-up comedy" to resolve, and worry about how to strike up a conversation with "beauties". At these times, we can all feel that he exists in society as a person. All seeming freedom is based on extremely painful loss. He is no longer grateful for his "normal", because these "normal" factors have become the reason for the "Night Demon" to hunt him. At the moment the sun sets, all loneliness and helplessness will come from all directions, solidifying on the piece of film where Neve and his pet are hidden in the bathtub.

In the last part of the film, Robert Neve faced the attack of the "Night Demon" in the laboratory, still hoping to save those innocent victims of disasters with the serum on his hands. I don’t think this is abusive sensationalism or heroism. It can be said that his sense of mission created such a legend.

The performance of Will Smith in the film can be called wonderful, the love for Sam Sam, the pet who is dependent on each other, and the sorrow when he must personally end Sam's life. In several scenes of strong smiles, you can even see the "peerless" sadness through his brows. In other words, as a commercial film, the creativity, acting and action are all in time. What else do you want? You know there are many things you can do in the movie besides killing zombies.

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I Am Legend quotes

  • [speaking of the mannequin at the DVD store]

    Neville: What should I say? You wanna see some infected rats?

    [pauses]

    Neville: I'll say hello tommorrow.

  • Neville: [to mannequin in video store] Morning, Hank. I'm halfway through the "G's".