I Am Legend questions and comments.?

Question

I just recently watched the movie I have some questions.

SPOLIERS** for those who didnt watch it

First: what was with the whole Fred thing? Did he fall for his own trap?

Second: why didn't he use the cure on his dog? It was worth a shot.

Third: is he [protagnest] immuned to the virus? i think the movie mentioned something like that and he seemed unaffected when he was bitten.

forth: why did he go and risk his life and ram up zombies? did he want to avenge his dog? or did he want to avenge his dog but also kill himself because he didnt want to completely be alone?

fifth: in the end, how did that gernade do that huge explosion? how did that chamber thing protect the woman and the boy? was it an elevator that went somewhere deep? and in the moment before he died, why did he refused to save himself? did he just want to kill himself and felt that he wanted to end his life? if he did that for the woman and the boy, why didnt he just drop the gernade live at the last moment and hid in the chamber with them? was there not enough room? she [the woman] did offer him a seat though if in that case. besides, if the chamber could protect them from what seems like a gernade and 2 barrels of oil, why didnt he just camp in the chamber with the woman and the boy untill dawn? it would be just zombies banging at it.

sixth, why didnt he [protagnust] just build a big steel vault door under ground (like fallout)? that would insure 100% safty.

seventh: how do they expect the cure to cure any zombies? strap every billion (the protaganst's statstics mentioned in the film) of zomies and put them all in the hospital?

my comments: i really liked the movie but it just felt that it wasnt what i really expected (i am not saying its disappointing). the zombies seem to have a sence of a fural animal rather than zombies; they had a leader and he commands them and it seemed that they can communate. this kinda made it fell less of a horror movie. and the movie felt incomplete; not as if there sould be more that sould be added but it felt like there is a huge gap in the middle of the plot. i think they sould have added 30-40 more minut to the movie bewteen when the dog dies and the woman saves them. it would really renforce the enviorment. i also felt that 2 or 3 vertian suriviers should have been recuited bewteen those 30-40 minut. not right after the dog dies though.

so if you kinda thought what i thought or can answer any my questions, fell free to express your opeion. sorry for my spelling threw out the whole thing

Answer 1

So many questions.



In the book they are vampires. In the movie they appear as zombies. Because you called them zombies and I think of them that way, I will continue to call them zombies here.



1: The Fred thing. Neville is of the impression that the creatures are mindless zombies. In fact, they are clever and tricky. He has been driving around the city killing and capturing them and one of them, presumably the mate of the one he recently kidnapped, decided to use his own trick on him. He knows that Fred didn't walk out there on his own, but isolation makes a man a little crazy and he talks to Fred, even though he knows Fred is a mannequin. He falls for a trap set by a creature.



2: Neville does try the serum on the dog, but it fails. In the movie it appears as though he is putting his dog to sleep, but the details explain he gave it an experimental cure. In fact, when the drug fails, he strangles his dog.



3: He is immune. Some people are. In the 1971 version of the movie, the doctor had taken an anti-viral drug but was not able to isolate more. He is trying to make a cure.



4: Rage, revenge, confused thinking, isolation.



5: He scarified himself so the woman and boy could escape to a safer place with the cure. Presumably there were more explosives than one grenade.



6: When you are surrounded by an enemy that will do anything to kill you at any cost, you cannot afford to "wait it out" in a shelter. They can wait longer than you can.



7: A cure, in the hands of a dedicated people can cure all of the zombies in the same way an infection spreads, a little at a time. Hopefully, humanity will slowly take more ground and expand safe areas taking back the world from the creatures. No one said it would happen overnight.



I agree, that the zombies were clever and social made them more sympathetic, but no less an enemy of humankind. I also felt that the arrival of the woman and child was fortuitous and could have been timed differently, but within the context and time-line of the plot, it could not. They had to arrive after his dog died and before the female zombie was cured. I am also uncomfortable with any hero making that sacrifice; it would have been better for me if he had fought to the last, hoping to escape, and failed.



The plot inconsistencies and the damaged psychology of the hero did not prevent it from being one of the top 100 grossing movies of all time.

Answer 2

Yeah, the book explains alot. It's also scarier than the movie was. More of a horror novel made into an action/horror movie, but to answer our questions:



1. Neville mind was playing tricks on him. He wanted human contact so bad, Fred became a conduit of interaction, albeit a false one.



2. At the time he figured the cure didn't work, and it more than likely wouldn't work on a dog. In the book, what happens to the dog is also sad, but it's handled differently.



3. Yes, Neville was immune.



4. He rammed his car into the infected humans because he gave up... he had nothing left to care for.



5. The ending was awful in my opinion. I don't get why he chose to die, but I'm guessing he wanted to make sure the blast killed the infected. Not to keep talking about the book, but the infected actually are intelligent one can communicate with Neville. The book's ending is just more effective... I don't get the movie's ending... it's weird.



6.I thought that too. He built all this other stuff, just build a safehouse down there; with a tunnel that goes to another secure location. I can't explain that.



7. Once again, I don't get the movie's ending. The "cure" in my eyes is to wait it out and hopefully all the infected die off. The book has no easy "cure" or answers. It ends on a downer, but the way it should end.





I thought this movie was just ok. I think Will Smith was miscast. I think more seasoned and dramatic actor (like Denzel Washington) should have been cast. Also, the infected in the novel were vampires, not the bad CGI zombies in the movie. The plot was lacking, and acting was so-so. I hope they remake it with the right script/actor/director/etc.



...last time saying it... but the book explains alot and is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than the movie.

Answer 3

1. He's been on his own so long he is "losing it" mentally and the mannequins are replacements for human contact including Fred



2 I can't remeber if he tried or he knew he couldn't because of the dogs immune system



3 Yes he is immune.



4. Up to you to answer. Maybe a combo of the two, and alsomaybe he felt so alone in the world that he just wanted to out of the loneliness



5 I don't know whether it protected the woman and boy totally, but enough that they would survive in the rubble but it would kill the zombie creatures. There was no space for him or he could not set it off without being out there. The plexiglass was breaking and they wouldn't have survived until dawn



6 There may not have been a steel door or he didn't have the skills to do it and it may not have guarenteed his safety



7 Not sure he got that far... Maybe some darting system?



I think they were somewhere between human and "feral animal". An orca is damn smart but they don't have a human conciousness. They will kill to eat and aren't sentimental over killing a calf or baby seal. An orca (or think of the big cats or wolves) can communicate. Maybe not as indepth as humans or as abstract, but they can communicate...

Answer 4

Ever see a zombie that couldn't come out in the light? They were vampires. Read the book.



His belief that the infected were going down hill mentally was wrong. They easily constructed a trap that got him.



He tried to save the dog. It didn't work.



He was immune to the disease.



"in the end, how did that gernade do that huge explosion?" Hollywood of course, overdoing things like normal.



Every try to lift a big steel vault door?



At least two other movies have been made from the original story. The Last Man On Earth with Vincent Price in black and white and The Omega Man with Charlton Heston. The Price movie is often found in the five dollar bin at Walmart or online really cheap. I believe you can watch it for free online as well since it is now in the Public Domain. The Heston movie is a little harder to find and rarely runs on TV anymore.



The book, I Am Legend:

Answer 5

I havn't watched the movie in about a year so bear with me if I forget some things. :P But I have seen it three times. Also, it's protagonist and grenade.



1. The creatures are smart enough to learn from how he catches them. Hence the scene before when he captures one and the other was roaring in the sun and slinks back into the warehouse. Im guessing the night before, they move fred to right in front of their hole and place a trap because they know he's alone and will go to it.



2. Because it already killed the rat. It doesn't work.



3. yep. Only a tiny portion of people are immune to both airborne and fluid transmitted. His dog was immune to airborne, but not fluid.



4. He felt like there was absolutely nothing to live for anymore. he lives with such anger and resentment toward them for taking away everything good in his life. He lost his wife. His daughter. Sam was his only friend in the world keeping his at least semi-sane.



5. I really have no answer. He's kind of insane. lol I feel like he just knows that now since he found the cure, there's no reason for him to live anymore. Also, remember the butterfly? Maybe, just for that second, he believed that there was a chance he could come see his little girl again in heaven.



6. Ok. The got into his house. Did you see how amazingly he covered his windows and doors? it was locked tight. they have super human strength.



7. Well... they could cure a few at a time and start rebuilding themselves up until they can just exterminate the rest lol.



Ok... they are not zombies. They are still alive. They aren't undead. lol it's like a virus that changes their whole chemistry.

Answer 6

Dude that movie was amazing. I love that movie. Wish it would have ended with will smith livin and sammy the dog living as well but still that was part of the movie and a great movie. 2nd favorite of the year after 300. Very sad. I loved how he talked to the dog like a normal person. and was glad when he rescued him from the dark the first time. anyways later dude.

Answer 7

Actually the book itself has a lot more detail then the movie. If you read it that would probably answer a lot of questions.

Answer 8

This is a challenging question, and one that intrigued me for quite a long time.

Answer 9

Haven't thought too much about that

Answer 10

no