One person and one dog at the start, the level talent has been filled, and equipment and materials can be picked up anywhere. People like to use such a gamified description to describe this unique zombie movie. In addition to the horror elements, the loneliness created by the movie makes people feel more immersive. Unlike the traditional zombie movies that started out in groups of three or five, and then played fewer people, "I Am a Legend" started with the lowest configuration, trying to challenge the crazy end of the world.
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Recommendation index: ★★★★
Suspense Index: ★★
Visual index: ★★★
Plot Index: ★★★★
What I want to share with you today is the classic zombie movie "I am a legend" in 2007.
One person and one dog at the start, the level talent has been filled, and equipment and materials can be picked up anywhere.
People like to use such a gamified description to describe this unique zombie movie. In addition to the horror elements, the loneliness created by the movie makes people feel more immersive.
Unlike the traditional zombie movies that started out in groups of three or five, and then played fewer people, "I Am a Legend" started with the lowest configuration, trying to challenge the crazy end of the world.
Plot replay
The pretentious mankind never expected that the day mankind would conquer cancer would also be the first day mankind began to die.
Great scientists have used viruses to eliminate cancer cells, but viruses have also eaten humans. In three years, human beings were swallowed up by the virus. Almost all people infected by the virus have become nocturnal creatures, or night monsters, that lose their sense and humanity and fear the sun.
Neville starring Will Smith is one of the last human beings, and maybe he is the last human being. Because no matter how he searches, it is hard to see the traces of human beings.
Next to Neville, there was nothing else but a German Shepherd named Samantha. One person and one dog depended on each other and became the last life challenger in the empty Manhattan of New York.
They can travel freely during the day, but after sunset, they must hide in a fully enclosed room and dare not make any noise.
In the darkness, there may be agile, powerful, bloodthirsty nocturnal creatures hiding everywhere.
Ultraviolet rays are Neville's golden bells and iron cloth shirts. Once the night demon encounters ultraviolet rays, the body will begin to burn and ulcerate. Where there is no ultraviolet rays, it is a dangerous life forbidden zone.
Neville was not in chaos because of the end of the world. He strictly controlled the daily schedule, fitness, breakfast, safety inspection, material storage, and inspection of the stronghold. He planned every minute in an orderly manner, as if he did not think he was in the end of the world. .
It can be said that Neville has never stopped the illusion of saving the world. He is studying serum and vaccines every day, and experimenting with infected animals. He even traps infected humans, hoping that a certain injection will bring miracles.
Finally, after countless experiments, a subtle change occurred in an infected mouse. The morbid state of infecting creatures has been suppressed like never before.
So Neville set up a trap at a nocturnal creature stronghold, trapped an infected human, and prepared to conduct an experiment.
At the same time, another infected person, ignoring the burning of ultraviolet light, walked out of the shadow and cast a death gaze at Neville.
Neville pondered hard and came to the conclusion that the infected person's reflex nerves are being destroyed by the virus, and the final survival life will disappear from the infected person's body.
In view of this, the progress of the experiment must also be accelerated immediately.
However, Neville's wishful thinking did not bring about the success of the experiment. This time the serum experiment on human infected persons still did not get the results Neville wanted. The only good news is that the serum did not completely kill the subjects.
Neville was very upset, but the day had to go on. He and Samantha drove to the empty streets of Manhattan again.
But this time, Neville became the target of trapping. He was attracted by a model doll that shouldn't have appeared. He stepped on the hunter's mechanism and was hoisted high by a rope. When he woke up and managed to escape from the trap, dusk had arrived.
Neville never thought that it was the infected person who set up this tricky trap. When the last ray of sunlight faded, the infected person released the hounds to bite Neville. Samantha did her best to protect her master with one enemy and three. But he was also bitten by an infected hound during the battle.
After a lot of setbacks, Neville finally found a weapon to repel the enemy, and drove Samantha back to the base.
But at this time Samantha has been infected by the virus. After a short time, Samantha became irritable and unsure whether Neville was an enemy or a friend. Neville knew that she had completely lost this partner, including With tears, I personally sent away my last friend in this world.
After this incident, Neville's temperament changed drastically. Buried Samantha, Neville deliberately drove a heavy jeep at midnight to find the nocturnal base. He drove several infected people into flight, and crushed several infected people with tires, but the number of infected people was increasing. Many, under the command of one of the infected, they launched a siege on Neville's jeep, and after several rounds of offensive, they overturned the jeep to the ground.
Seeing that Neville's life was about to come to an end, a burst of white light shone through, and the whole world became a vast expanse of whiteness. Neville thought it was the light of heaven, but in fact it was just a searchlight with ultraviolet rays.
When Neville woke up again, he had returned to his home. At this time, besides himself, there was a woman and a boy in the family.
Although Neville will broadcast every day on the radio to find survivors, telling them that he can provide food and shelter. But when the survivor stood in front of him, it took him a long time to adapt to the company of humans. For three years, the creatures standing on both legs have always hunted their own monsters and beasts. Suddenly they discovered that they were watching TV and making breakfast. Neville did not relax for a while, everything seemed to be dreaming.
This is a good start. There are still uninfected humans in the world.
But the good times didn't last long. The infected people followed Neville's escape path and found Neville's home. They broke through the heavy defense lines set up by Neville and broke into Neville's home.
Neville hid in his laboratory with the woman and child. However, it was discovered that the infected person who had performed the experiment was slowly getting better. It turned out that the serum was effective, and the hope of mankind had not been completely shattered.
But at this time, the infected person who broke in had also broken into the laboratory, and they were only the last glass wall away from Neville.
Neville finally saw the infected person who took the lead this time. It turned out that he was the one who risked his death and walked into the sun to meet his death.
His target was not Neville. He drew a butterfly on the glass, and the one lying on the arm of the infected female in the laboratory happened to have a butterfly.
loneliness
"I am a legend" is probably the most lonely movie I have ever seen . In the huge New York City, only one person and one dog depend on each other.
At home, the protagonist Neville is used to chatting with dogs. Doggo is already his only relative now. Regardless of whether the dog can understand Neville's words, but the dog's every move, Neville already knows what he thinks.
In the supermarket he frequented, Neville greeted a group of models without contradiction, calling out their names, and helping them think of lines. The model wears the usual clothes, which is not fashionable, but it is also decent, which is in full compliance with Neville's aesthetics. There is no doubt that this is all arranged by him bit by bit.
For each model, Neville has infused them with specific personalities. There are shop assistants who keep on gossip, the boy next door who looks up and down, and the crush who he will be struck by the moment he sees it.
When the infected person put a model named Fred on the street as a bait, Neville even yelled at Fred. The infected person also knows that Neville will be deceived by this trap, because he says hi say goobye to this model almost every day.
What makes Neville most lonely is that he plays the voice of looking for survivors in the port every day. He doesn't want to believe that he is the last human being to survive even if he doesn't get any response.
The content of the broadcast was-"My name is Robert Neville, and I am a survivor living in New York City. I broadcast through all AM channels. When the sun is highest at noon, I will be at South Street Seaport every day.
If anyone is alive and anyone is alive, I can provide food, provide shelter, and I can protect your safety. If anyone hears, no matter who you are, please contact me, for sure. you're not alone! "
It is not so much that Neville wants to tell the survivors again and again that you are not alone. Rather, Neville hopes from the bottom of his heart that he is not alone.
Neville’s bed at night was a bathtub. When the night fell, there was the sound of nocturnal creatures around him. Only the bathtub could form a barrier around him. A man curled up in a bathtub with a gun and a dog. Every night, The bathtub is Neville's world.
When the dog was lost, Neville was the only one left in the bathtub.
Dogs are the highlight
I think many of my friends have been moved by the dogs in the movies.
Samantha, a German Shepherd with strong combat and human nature, left a deep impression on us. She is the last partner of the protagonist Neville in the last days. They depend on each other and take care of each other.
Samantha used to be Neville's daughter's pet, but when the family was separated, the daughter left Samantha to her father who had to stay in the affected area. The daughter didn't have much thoughts, just wanted to let the father not be so lonely. Unexpectedly, this farewell has become the final farewell between father and daughter.
At that time, Samantha was just a puppie not long after death, and had to hide between the arms of the owner. He was almost the same age as Neville's daughter.
Three years later, Samantha became Neville's right-hand man on the road to survival. Neville must have thought that if her daughter is still alive, if she can grow up safely, she should also be a great survival fighter.
Samantha's relationship with Neville is special. They are not only tacit comrades in arms, but also inseparable relatives.
When Samantha accidentally ran into the night demon's stronghold, Neville broke into the darkness desperately. He knew that he had no chance of winning if he encountered the Night Demon in the dark, but he still did it. Because Samantha was his relative, he failed to protect his wife and daughter, and he couldn't let such mistakes happen again.
So when Neville yelled Samantha's name in the invisible room but couldn't find Samantha, Neville was worried, and the audience was also worried.
In contrast, when Neville stepped into the trap of nocturnal creatures, he was hung high in the air. Samantha always guarded him by Neville's side, calling him, and never left.
As dusk approached, the infected hounds grinned and barked. The power and agility of the infected creatures would be blessed, but Samantha had to face three infected hounds at the same time. This is also a duel with no chance of winning.
Samantha herself was clearly scared to death, but she still fought back to protect her master.
We all hope that Samantha can retreat in the battle. At this time, the progress bar is only two-thirds away. Even if the plot requires, Samantha must die. We are lucky enough to hope that she can leave some more time. .
But Samantha was still bitten, and in more than one place, she was seriously injured.
When Neville brought Samantha back to the laboratory, he thought that Neville would inject Samantha with the unfinished injection, creating a miracle. However, this did not happen.
Neville watched Samantha get infected with the virus bit by bit, and no longer remembered herself bit by bit. Once again experienced the separation of life and death with close relatives. He had to say goodbye to Samantha in a cruel way.
Although Samantha is not a human being, Samantha's death is the most sadistic plot, even a hundred times more sadistic than seeing Neville's family plane crash.
I also own a dog, and the loyalty of a dog is unimaginable for humans. Sometimes when the family goes out, the dog can yell non-stop in order to call the owner. It didn't stop until seeing the family return, when her voice was completely hoarse.
For you, owning a dog adds a color to the world, and for a dog, owning you, she owns the world.
Three endings
Many friends should know that "I Am a Legend" has a double ending. But what I want to tell you is that "I Am a Legend" actually has three endings.
In one of them, Neville handed the serum to the woman, allowing the woman and the child to escape from the secret road. But he stayed, rang the grenade, and died with the infected.
The woman and the child finally found a refuge for humans and gave the serum to them. The future of mankind seems to have new hope.
In another ending, Neville unplugged the infusion tube from the experimenter, and the experimenter's skin changed from smooth to rotten again. Neville picked up the experimenter, opened the glass door, and returned the experimenter to the leader of the nocturnal creatures. When the other night demons wanted to use force against Neville, the first brother stopped them. In the end Neville, the woman, and the boy left the laboratory unharmed.
The first ending is the public version, which is also seen by most viewers, and the second ending is the hidden version.
To be honest, I don't think these two endings are "legendary" enough.
The first one, the heroic plot of greatness and fearlessness, is a bit clichéd. The second is that the basic settings of the nocturnal creatures were suddenly changed, which was shocking.
The most important thing is that it is difficult for you to feel the finishing touch after seeing this ending.
After all, where is the legend?
Later I learned that "I am a Legend" is actually a movie based on the novel of the same name. And the reason why the movie has two endings, there will be two such endings, but also has a certain relationship with the original. In the original book, the protagonist Neville is indeed glorious, and in the original book, nocturnal creatures do have the same wisdom as humans. But the ending of the original book is not a simple splicing of the two endings of the movie version. After reading the original book, you will truly understand why "I am a legend".
Next, I want to take a little inventory of the differences between the movie and the original, and then tell you what the third ending of "I Am Legend" looks like.
In the novel, I prefer to call the infected person a vampire, because nocturnal creatures’ habits and infection methods, and even their fear of garlic and cross, are very similar to vampires. And we usually call the movie a zombie.
The protagonist Neville has a very different image in the novel from Will Smith. He is a white man with blond hair and blue eyes. Will Smith’s image is tough and tough. Seeing him holding a gun, he unconsciously thinks of the devastating action movies he has starred in. So when I watch the movie, I actually don’t worry about Will at all. Smith's safety, I believe he will be able to protect himself.
Neville has seen uninfected dogs, but he has not domesticated dogs for a long time. He is in a real sense, fighting alone.
In the novel, there are no women and boys in the movie, but there are female night monsters disguised as humans. Although they are infected by the virus, their human consciousness has not been completely destroyed, but they no longer think of themselves as humans. Rather, it completely separates itself from humans and unconsciously infected people, and claims to be an independent species. This female night demon looks almost the same as a human being, but her true identity is an undercover spy who spy on intelligence, the purpose of which is to understand the true situation of Neville.
In the end, Neville did not capture the nocturnal creatures alive like in the movie, but was captured alive by the nocturnal creatures and tied to a fire.
Taken together, the movie "I Am A Legend" can only be regarded as a fan work of the novel at best. There are too many differences, and even some cores have undergone major changes due to changes in the plot.
Why do I say that compared with novels, movies are not legendary enough. Because Neville in the novel is the last human being in the true sense. And in the movie, Neville's legend is told about a human who has only just met him for a day, but in the novel, it is the nocturnal creature who fights with him every day.
Although most of the length of the novel does not describe how legendary Neville is, the sudden change of perspective at the end made me finally understand this unassuming title-I am a legend.
Finally, I excerpted the end of the novel, let's feel it together.
The streets are crowded with people. At the moment before dawn, the sky was gloomy, and they were going around, very emotional, the noisy human voice sounded like millions of insects buzzing at the same time.
He looked at the crowd outside, clutching the iron railing in his left hand, his fingers were no longer bloody. His eyes were bloodshot.
Suddenly, someone saw him.
For a moment, the crowd suddenly clamored, and some even started roaring loudly.
However, in a blink of an eye, they suddenly fell silent, as if there was a large invisible blanket covering their heads. They all looked up at him, all of them pale. He stared at them too.
Then, it suddenly occurred to him that, here and now, I am the stranger. Normal is a concept belonging to the group, the criterion of the majority. When there is only you in the whole world that is different from others, it is you that is abnormal.
He looked at their faces-horror, fear, trembling, panic-at that moment, he suddenly realized that they were afraid of him. In their eyes, he was the source of some kind of terrible scourge that had never been seen before, even more terrifying than the plague they had experienced. He is some kind of monster. Whenever their beloved dies and their blood dries up, they know that he has been there. He suddenly understood how they felt, so he didn't resent them. He tightly grasped the small packet of pills in his right hand. In this way, everything can end peacefully, without violence. In this way, they would not see any bloody and brutal pictures...
Robert Neville looked at the new humans on Earth outside. He knew that he did not belong to their country. He knew that he was like a vampire, a symbol of evil and fear, a monster condemned by the heavens, and must be eliminated. At that moment, in the incomparable pain, he suddenly felt very funny.
He coughed hard and his throat choked. He swallowed the pill and turned and leaned against the wall. Before long, the feeling of paralysis and death began to spread to his limbs. At this moment, he suddenly thought that everything was back to the original point. A new kind of horror is about to be born from death. A new kind of legend was born, and that legend is about to become eternal, unbreakable forever.
I have become a legend.
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