Books similar to i am legend and other stories goodreads. The future that legend paints definitely isnt a pretty onethe government controls everything with an iron fist, slums are filled with sick and overworked people, and kids arent even guaranteed education unless they can prove themselves worthy. Theres lessons to be learned about mob behavior and respect for minorities. He relieves her of the cure and returns her to the hemocytes.
If you havent seen this alternative version do so because it makes the whole movie a whole lot better. The opening act is too magnificent for the terrible ending to wreck it. What i am legends director would change in retrospect. Differences between i am legend book vs movie page 1. Like prices version of robert neville, hestons version is a scientist who was. But when it comes down to it, is the book really better than the movie. Off the back of the huge success of i am legend back in 2007, warner bros was keen to develop either a prequel or a sequel to the film. How to get away with murders series ending explained.
Find books like i am legend and other stories from the worlds largest community. Stephen king said, books like i am legend were an inspiration to me. This man, our protagonist in both the book and film, is robert neville. The version of i am legend which i watched ended with will smith alive, but my friend claims that he had watched the same movie, in which he was killed by the zombies. Blogger adam katz sent me the link because of the book vs. The book i am best known for, or only known for, is a novel i am prepared to repudiate. I am legend 2007 the basics hopefully all of you know the basic story behind i am legend. Not only does the book end in a similar way, but it in fact was the entire freaking point of the book. I am legends alternate ending wrapped things up way better.
A sequel to the books events wouldnt leave much to work with either. Although many people werent huge fans of it, i really enjoyed will smiths i am legend when it was released two years ago. I assume you are referring to the 2007 film starring will smith and the controversial original ending special feature on the dvd release. For more thoughts on i am legend, the book and the films based on it, head over. Is there an i am legend movie that actually preserves. Thats where the title i am legend came from, nevilles realization at the end that the vampires were the good guys and that he was the monster of their legends, since he had been mindlessly driving stakes through their heart at every. Alternate i am legend ending is far superior screen rant. Films like contagion, outbreak and even will smiths viral epic i am.
Neville draws a vial of her blood and gives it to anna, before shutting ethan and her inside a coal chute in the back of the lab. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. He checks the planks and boards that hes hammered in front of all the windows, and. The movie stars will smith as virologist robert neville, the apparent sole uninfected survivor in a postapocalyptic version of new york city where most people are dead, and the. Steven spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Books similar to i am legend meet your next favorite book. In particular, the ending was changed for this version. The alternative ending shows, supported by 2 preparative scenes, the survival of all mankind, but with a bitter aftertaste. Instead of blowing himself and the hemocytes up with a grenade, neville discovers that the hemocytes actually came for the female he captured earlier in the movie. The infected people attack nevilles lab and he hands over the infected female hes been working on to the leader a. I am legend 1010 movie clip alternate ending 2007 hd. Everyones abuzz over the alternate ending to i am legend that showed up online last week. Yesterday, some intrepid soul posted an alternate i am legend ending to youtube.
You can find an alternative cover edition for this isbn here and here. Film critics noted that the british film 28 days later 2002 and its sequel 28 weeks later both feature a rabiestype plague ravaging great britain. How much does that alternate ending change i am legend. I am legends biggest change from the book broke the movie. This alternate ending to i am legend is imho far superior to the abrupt version in the theatrical release, and fits in better with something that happens in the film about midway through at one point in the movie when will smiths character took the lead zombies mate away from them, the zombie reacted with extreme rage, indicating that there was some vestige of humanity left in them. I always wanted to like this movie because it had a lot of potential, but it never quite delivered on that potential. Alternate ending at the best price available today. Find books like i am legend and other stories from the worlds largest community of readers. The idea is that neville has been living the last few years thinking of himself as the only normal person left, and that all of the other people are monsters vampires in the book. How i am legends ending is different in the book screen rant. The ending to the alternate theatrical version varies from the original ending. I am legend is a dystopian story very loosely based upon a book of the same name.
I am legend is about a zombielike horde wiping out much of humanity, but its confusing ending and butterfly symbolism become a lot more clear if you understand the personal journey of its hero. I am legends book ending is different to both versions of the movie, but skews closer to the controversial alternate ending of the film. Putting all of that in a movie might not be possible or might not make a good movie, but the alternate ending for this one goes just about as far as it could in one scene. The i am legend dvd with this alternate ending included is now available to buy on. Anyway, its enough to distract you from the december all around. As popcorn movies go, this one has enough of the good in it to make it watchable, and enough of the bad to make it disposable. Like many book to film conversions, the screenplay differed from the book. Final warning, both endings to i am legend are going to be spoiled.
Goodreads members who liked i am legend and other stories al. What did the healing zombie in the basement have to do with it. It turns out those changed into vampirelike creatures by the plague. I am legends alternate ending wrapped things up way better than what. I am legend is brilliant commentary and society and human relationships and, really, the very definition of humanity. The alternate ending of the 2007 i am legend probably comes closest, but still isnt quite right. I do like in the book that just seeing a living dog creates such a strong reaction. With i am legend we have an intriguing opportunity to compare book and. The will smith i am legend once again fails to replicate this ending, but its alternate conclusion is much closer to the books message. I am legend is a novel by richard matheson in which robert neville struggles to survive as the sole remaining human in a world overrun by vampires robert neville is the only. As such, its no surprise that the book has been adapted for the big screen.
Film column i did on the source material and the four films loosely inspired by it. The 2007 film was partially based on the 1971 film as well as the original source. Itll be on the dvd, of course, but that isnt stopping anyone from drooling all over it now, or from. Francis lawrences 2007 film i am legend had not one but two endings, and while both are different from what happens in the original novel by richard matheson, the alternate ending not shown in theaters is a lot closer. I have gone through a similar question to mine, but in that question they are talking about the ending of the book while my friend is sure that he had watched the movie where. In the alternative ending, the director plays out the theme of scientific hubris. Im 100% sure that he read the classic novel and not the novelization of the movie.
Right, i just saw i am legend, and dont get the end. I am legend is a 1954 postapocalyptic horror novel by american writer richard matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. On the first day of may, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as the long walk. The alternate ending version is so so so much better than the original version. The alternative cut however gives them a more human touch and shows humanity as a disturbing factor for them.
As i understand it, the alternate ending was the way the movie originally ended, but it didnt test well with audiences so they dropped it and gave neville the more heroic. He then takes a grenade and kills the darkseekers and himself, saving the cure. How i am legends ending is different in the book screen. On a morning in january 1976, a man named robert neville walks around his house, carefully checking to see if its wellfortified. I like the movie, but i agree other people here who say the difference is night. At the end, neville realises that in the eyes of this new society of monsters he is the monster. That or just set up a power source at a radio station and set it to broadcast. The first time was in 1964 with the last man on earth featuring vincent price, and then in 1971 with the omega man with charlton heston.
The alternate ending to i am legend where they respect him and growl at him in an acknowledging way is odd and feels out of place. According to the theatrical cut, the darkseekers are displayed as monsters who deserve their annihilation. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in i am legend, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The books characters realization of their perspective is the whole point of the book. The movie took all the intelligence out and just made it about the action. Hes a legend, but for the wrong reasonsin line with richard mathesons book, he is an entity the darkseekers fear. This was actually the third time it had been made into a movie.
Film is a column comparing books to the film adaptations they. Generally, alternative endings are considered to have no bearing on the canonical narrative. I am legend 2007 alternate ending as discussed by first showing and film, the alternate ending for i am legend is a better representation of the source material. I was wondering if i can find some clarification here. I find it refreshing that it was so different than the movie and. I am legends alternate ending explained in the theatrical cut of i am legend, nevilles house is stormed by the vampires, right as he finally discovers a cure for their condition. The novel i am legend 1954, written by american author richard matheson, was adapted for the movie by screenwriters akiva goldsman and mark protosevich. I am legend changed the vampires of the novel to the mindless darkseekers. I thought it was the biggest waste of time ive ever spent reading a book. Neville, anna and her son walk along the george washington bridge, hoping to find survivors. I am legend is a 1954 postapocalyptic horror novel by american writer richard matheson that.
Moritz, lorne orleans, erwin stoff, michael tadross, jeffrey wetzel, james. Just as smiths robert neville does in the films original ending, the book version of the character realizes that he. And the dock is the most logical place for people to come to given the safety of the sea. You should look up the alternate ending for the movie, its a lot better and a.
My thoughts on i am legend, both with the 1954 book written by richard. In the last scene all three of them leaves city to search other survivors. The character has the same name in both the book and the movie. The novel was a success and was adapted into the films the last man on earth 1964, the omega man 1971, and i am legend 2007. The controversial original ending where neville finds out that the infected are, in fact, organised, b.
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