and Sonny Liston.
Uh… I think you missed an important plot point because you’re wrong.
[spoiler]Jim kills an infected little boy with a baseball bat. It’s the first person he kills.
It happened when they stopped to get gas. He stupidly walks alone into the diner, the little boy comes at him, and he bashed him. Then he comes walking out, wiping the blood off the bat with a rag. The others ask him “Is there anything in there?” He answered “No.” utterly emotionless and dehumanized by what he has done.
That’s why there was the line later on that was so weighty: When the soldier says they have all had to kill someone in order to be alive. “Who did you kill?” and Jim looks away.[/spoiler]
Originally posted by psiekier:
I waffled back and forth about whether the boy at the gas station was infected, but we know by listening to the army commander’s soliloquy that the Infected are unable to speak intelligibly, so the boy must have somehow avoided being infected and thus attacked Jim purely of his own malice and/or desperation!
I don’t agree with that myself, mostly because it depends too much on what the soldiers say, and the soldiers are incompetent idiots, but he didn’t miss that plot point, he just interpreted it differently.
Spoiler for the book and possibly the movie:
If they follow the book, the dog will die but you wont see it happen IIRC.
The dog just stops coming around one day as I recall it.
in the trailer you can see Will Smith carrying a dog’s limp body, so I’m figuring the dog doesn’t make a miraculous recovery then.
Wow, my personal ignorance has been fought in this thread, and I now find myself severely disappointed. Unlike the OP I knew this was based in an old book, but I haven’t read it. I am legend is what a demon that’d possessed a person was “supposed” to have once said, so I always assumed that the book was about demons. It’s just the basis for The Last Man on Earth and so on? I kind of like The Last Man on Earth, but I had no idea that it was connected to the book. And now I have no interest in seeing this new movie.
Why aren’t there any good demon movies?
Actually
[spoiler] The Dog isn’t Robert’s. It’s a stray. He finally persuades it to come inside and he is overjoyed to have a companion. Only a few days later, it dies. He doesn’t have MUCH of a connection with the dog or not nearly what we see in the movie, but it serves to remind him of just how lonely he is and helps push him over the edge
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When I saw this trailer originally, I immediately went home and found the e-book. I read it in about 2 days and have since been waiting to see this movie. If you ask me, I think they are following the story in spirit (if certainly not by the letter. For instance, he wasn’t a doctor in the book. I believe he worked security in town) and it LOOKS GREAT!
I know I’ll be there opening night.
I think you have it confused with “I am legion.” That is what the demon said.
What Loach said: “My name is Legion: for we are many.” {Matthew Ch. 4, v. 5}. One of the great horror lines.
There’s no reason you would see that. Check out Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, and go back and watch Six Degrees of Separation. The guy’s a good actor. Lots of actors have made some stupid movies.
I dunno. It’s hard for me to watch Smith in a serious role. I keep expecting him to break out with a wisecrack. I’d have much rather seen someone else in the role.
This will be a movie that tests Smith’s acting and popularity.
It is VERY difficult to be the only actor on screen for a long period of time.
When Hanks took castaway to 200 million+ by making the audience care about a damned volleyball, you knew America loved the guy.
Does Smith have the same magic?
Oh, and Atheist vampires are terrified by the selected readings of Noam Chomsky.
All these doubts about Will Smith will vanish once his “I am Legend” rap video is released.
Gotta get Zombie With it!
Heh heh. In spite of all that, I have faith in Smith. I used to think of him as no more than an action hero type guy, but I think he’ll pull this off–if he’s given the right direction. It’s a heavy subject material, and if the director recognizes it as such, I think Will Smith will do a good job. If they see it as “28 Days Later” lite, then maybe not.
I can’t wait to see what they do with it, though. I read Matheson’s book years ago, and never saw any of the movie versions. But I’ll go out of my way to watch this.
:smack: I’m still disappointed, though.