I am a legend

Wiley 2022-04-20 09:01:09

The first thing to declare is that I read Richard Matheson's novel a long time ago before I saw the movie. This writer has always won my heart, including this year's "The Man From Earth" - which many people disliked. While most critics consider him to be influenced by Brad Poley, it is clear that his writing is more succinct, cold, and restrained than Poley's.
"It's better to die, he thought, and then no longer crave the dizzying pleasure of being embraced. Jump into the whirlpool of death, suffocate in a coma, silence, and then die." I have always liked works in this tone, Although thinking doesn’t have to be cruel, seeing someone who can calmly trample their life under their feet, even if the process is to struggle to survive in a difficult situation, is admirable.
Bone-craving loneliness can be seen everywhere in the novel. You can imagine: when you were the only one left in the world, when you could lie down on 5th avenue and drink a beer, when you could play golf on the 5th corner, when everything you craved was within reach When you’re not alone, this loneliness doesn’t just mean that no one talks to you, no one understands your mood, no one hugs, pets, or just dines with you—except for a dog.
Moreover, in this case, you have to maintain your own reason and draw a certain amount of blood from your body every day to save the world. This kind of salvation is not the beautiful individual heroism of the American blockbusters in the past, but a kind of selfish emotion in order to struggle to survive and maintain the last trace of human dignity. At a time like this, it's hard to tell if more and more of them are normal, or if you're the only one left in the world who can be called a monster.
In the novel, Robert Neville finally decides to die as a human: "He turns to face the wall and swallows the deadly pill. The cycle of life and death. As the last breath of life drained from him, he thought, cycle of life and death. In his seat In a house as strong as a castle, new and eternal legends will be born - I am legends."
Not a big fan of Will Smith. Because he is too active and likes to have some dark humor in the movie, but also because his eyes are a little bigger, his eyebrows are not sharp enough, his hair is too little, his face is round, and because he is too able to guarantee the box office. In the final analysis, it is different from the imagined Robert Neville, and different from the imagined I AM LEGEND. It is best that Robert is a calm, introverted man who only recognizes his beauty. It is best that I AM LEGEND is a small-budget movie. Even screenings are limited by money, and people all over the world are watching blurry gun movies on old old-fashioned projectors at home, and I, only me, and only me, sitting in front of the TV with tears in my eyes and heartbroken It hurts to understand the loneliness of the last person, and the doomed ending of the one person and one dog behind the screen - alas, it's just a nympho's dream after all.

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  • Tina 2021-10-20 18:58:54

    In fact, it’s just for the first half of the filming, the first half of the show, the first half of the sale, and the first half. Foreigners who have read the original don't care about the ending, right...but this is really not addictive. Not as good as BOB MARLEY's REGGEA.

  • Kristian 2022-03-24 09:01:13

    It is legendary for a person to have the courage to survive, not to mention that he has saved mankind. I suggest that modern white-collar workers who live well and are very hypocritical now have a look.

I Am Legend quotes

  • [first lines]

    TV Personality: The world of medicine has seen its share of miracle cures, from the polio vaccine to heart transplants. But all past achievements may pale in comparison to the work of Dr. Alice Krippin. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

    Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.

    TV Personality: So, Dr. Krippin, give it to me in a nutshell.

    Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, the premise is quite simple - um, take something designed by nature and reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it.

    TV Personality: You're talking about a virus?

    Dr. Alice Krippin: Indeed, yes. In this case the measles, um, virus which has been engineered at a genetic level to be helpful rather than harmful. Um, I find the best way to describe it is if you can... if you can imagine your body as a highway, and you picture the virus as a very fast car, um, being driven by a very bad man. Imagine the damage that car can cause. Then if you replace that man with a cop... the picture changes. And that's essentially what we've done.

    TV Personality: And how many people have you treated so far?

    Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, we've had ten thousand and nine clinical trials in humans so far.

    TV Personality: And how many are cancer-free?

    Dr. Alice Krippin: Ten thousand and nine.

    TV Personality: So you have actually cured cancer.

    Dr. Alice Krippin: Yes, yes... yes, we have.

    [cuts to post-apocalyptic New York three years later]

  • Neville: What the hell are you doing out here, Fred? Fred, if you're real, you better tell me right now!