# Help identifying this quote?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 18, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-this-quote/473211 "2008-11-18T00:56:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Buran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Buran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buran)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-this-quote/473211/1 "2008-11-18T00:56:54Z")

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I’m currently listening to a track on my playlist which features the quote below, it sounds like its taken from a movie and I was wondering if anybody knew which one? Sounds like a science-fiction movie as well and we all know how popular that genre is here… 😉

The track is Last Man Standing by Innerspace and the quote is:

“We mean to cancel the world you civilised people made. We will simply erase history from the time that machinery and weapons threatened more than they offered. When you die, the last living reminder of hell will be gone.”

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-this-quote/473211/2 "2008-11-18T01:07:42Z")

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The Omega Man.

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**Author:** ![Buran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Buran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buran)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-this-quote/473211/3 "2008-11-18T02:03:31Z")

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Excellent, thank you. That’s the Charlton Heston movie correct?

I saw I Am Legend with Will Smith a couple of months back and remember being distinctly unimpressed, was the original better?

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-this-quote/473211/4 "2008-11-18T05:09:21Z")

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> [@Buran](#):
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> Excellent, thank you. That’s the Charlton Heston movie correct?
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> I saw I Am Legend with Will Smith a couple of months back and remember being distinctly unimpressed, was the original better?

Well I understand that the ORIGINAL was _The Last Man on Earth_, starring Vincent Price.

I haven’t seen any of them, but that would be a point to keep in mind in deciding which one is best.

ETA: And yes, _Omega Man_ was a Charlton Heston film.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-this-quote/473211/5 "2008-11-18T10:14:37Z")

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To be more precise, the 1954 novel _I Am Legend_ by Richard Matheson has been filmed four times:

_The Last Man on Earth_ (1964)  
_Soy leyenda_ (1967)  
_The Omega Man_ (1971)  
_I Am Legend_ (2007)