Neville, a military scientist who tried to stop the virus, is apparently the only unaffected human left. Flash forward three years: that mutated virus has killed 90 percent of the population and turned most survivors into Darkseekers-pale, hairless, zombie-like predators who feast on blood.Ī military scientist, Neville seeks a cure for the virus She tells the news anchor that measles is like 'a fast car with a madman at the wheel' but her team believed it could be used for good if 'a cop were driving it instead.' And so, they mutated the virus and turned it into a successful cure for cancer. A doctor (an uncredited Emma Thompson) explains how her team was able to mutate the measles virus. And only one man seems to have survived its effects. The filmmakers weave their own story and themes (including all of the spiritual content) out of the book's basic premise that a virus has decimated the Earth. Like that film, I Am Legend is more 'inspired' by the book than a cinematic re-telling. The most well known version is the dated and goofy The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston. Yet others don't care, they exist solely as a vehicle for horror and gore.Įverything considered, I Am Legend creates its own new creature that merely borrow from vampires.Will Smith as Robert Neville, with his dog Sam Other movies make vampires/zombies more clearly magical (remake of Dawn of the Dead). why haven't they all starved? If they are just feeding off what food is left in grocery stores and the like, why aren't they fighting each other over it (or if peaceful, cooperating with Will Smith)?

but they aren't eating Michael Phelps' 10,000 calorie diets (that we can see). what are they feeding on? Stronger and faster than the best athletes. Though they do not have any obvious magical powers, they seem to have much more energy than can be accounted for. In the modern movie, they are some sort of mutant or persons afflicted with a chronic condition. None of their traits or abilities need to be explained by physics. These are creatures that drink blood, kill and convert the living to what they are, can't abide the light of day, and can't easily be destroyed. There aren't many variants either, almost all of them are what you and I would recognize as vampires. In the earliest stories of the undead, they were purely creatures of magic.

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