I Am Legend

[Jimmy_Dean]

ask sugarlicious what delish means
if you need b

 

[GoldenDelicious]

i thought you finally got a wikipedia entry

 

[nefertiti]

I read the book...they are vampires, not zombies. Though the movie looks like it's hardly going to even come close to following the original story.

 

[Stefka]

Zombies are way better than vampires.

 

[Spartacus]

Yep, The Omega Man "re-make" using the original story title....looks good.

exactly what I thought after seeing the trailer for the first time

 

[Spartacus]

 

[jnevin]

Vampires are cool. 30 Days of Night kind of badasserry.

 

[Spartacus]

i thought you finally got a wikipedia entry

I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in Los Angeles.



The book takes place in the then-future of 1976-1979. The novel opens with the monotony and horror of the daily life of the protagonist, Robert Neville. Neville is apparently the only survivor of an apocalypse caused by a pandemic of a bacterium, the symptoms of which are very similar to vampirism. Every day he makes repairs to his house, boarding up windows, stringing and hanging garlic, disposing of vampires' corpses on his lawn and going out to gather any additional supplies needed for hunting and killing more vampires.

Neville's psychological disposition is a significant element in the novel, and his struggles with despair imbue the character with intensity and gravitas. The author emphasizes that he is an ordinary, flawed man trying to deal with an extraordinary catastrophe. It also explores the loneliness of being by himself, excitement and hope of finding others, and disappointment over still finding himself alone.

Much of the story is devoted to Neville's struggles to understand the plague that has infected everyone around him, and the novel details the progress of his discoveries. Instead of asking the reader to accept a supernatural explanation for vampire phenomena, the author strives to offer scientific basis for such symptoms as aversion to garlic, craving of fresh blood, and resistance to bullets but vulnerability to stakes and sunlight. The aversion to mirrors and crosses is classified as psychological.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend


Other adaptations
2.1 The Last Man on Earth
2.2 The Omega Man
2.3 I Am Legend
2.4 I Am Omega

 

[Whiskey]

AAP, I heard the mist is the feel bad movie of the millenium. What was so bad about the ending? everyone die or what?

Oh, and all in for I am legend.

Whiskey

 

[Spartacus]

after reading that wiko entry I suspect stephen king ripped off "I am legend" for much of "Salem's Lot"

I remember as a teen staying up all night to finish Salem's Lot and then going to school at 8am
I had to finish it that bad and couldn't put the book down