...I am legend “I am Legend” is a sci-fi movie based on a brilliant military scientist, Robert Neville, whom becomes the last man on earth. He becomes the last man on earth because of a man-made untreatable virus which turns people into flesh eating zombies. He is immune to the virus and the only one who can save humanity. He spends several years trying to control the virus and also broadcasting radio signals for any other survivors. The Zombies creep around in the shadows, observing the scientist’s every move until he makes a fatal mistake. I liked this movie because the effectiveness and dialogue of it were accurate and I didn’t get lost watching all the scenes. The special effects and background coincided with what was going on throughout the movie and also appeared to be realistic. The performance of the main character, Will Smith, was phenomenal and I also felt as if I was in his shoes. Several aspects during certain scenes made the movie stand out from the thousands of movies I’ve watched. When Neville was driving around New York City with his dog Sam in a 2009 ford mustang GT500, the roar of the engine and the watchful eye of his dog following the deers symbolized modern hunting. After they got out on foot and began chasing the wild animals into the growing forest and the lions appeared out of the fields to take Neville’s priced deer gave me the idea that earth was reverting back into prehistoric times. Finally, when he sacrificed his life after he realized...
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...The novel I Am Legend written by Richard Mathewson in 1954 is a classic book that merges horror with science fiction. Its scope and area of discussion is simple, where it involves an era when the nuclear war has ended, but a major mutation spreads across the world. It changes every human being living on the surface of the earth except one person: Robert Neville. The rest of the population is turned into vampires and thousands of others die in the process. This book turns out to be a traditional story concerning the vampires which infects a previously healthy community and poses a threat to its physical and moral survival (Rosemary, 2014). The remaining healthy person: Robert Neville, spends most of his time figuring out if there is a way of...
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...Robert Neville tested his survival skills when he was the last normal human in existence. I Am Legend was written by Richard Matheson and tells the story of a man’s journey through a plague, with intent not to get infected. Robert faced many challenges everyday to repel the vampires, instead of getting exposed to them. He continuously kills everyone and disposes of their body to minimize their offenses towards him. Robert’s wife and children were lost to the disease. The vampires throw rocks and taunt Robert at night. Then Robert constantly kills the vampires he comes across. This is how he ensures his safety. He is trained to do so, because he fought a war in Panama previously. Robert studies the disease closely and experiments to find the specific effects it has on people. He...
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...I Am Legend Guiding Questions: Was the cause of the plague in this movie viral, bacterial, or protist in nature? A woman claimed to have the cure for cancer, but it ended up giving people a virus. What was it originally meant to accomplish? It was originally meant to cure cancer. Describe the environment around New York City. Very Green, trees and grass everywhere. How has it changed since the outbreak started? (Hint: What type of living things can now be found in New York City?) There is all kinds of animals, deer, lions, zombies... Why did Robert Neville stay behind in the first place rather than try to leave with his family? He wanted to stop the spread of the virus. Does Robert Neville follow any of the steps of the scientific method? Which steps does he perform and how? (Hint: The scientific method involves making observations, asking questions, experimentation, collecting data, formulating conclusions, and revising as needed) Yes, he kept data and had hypothesis and recordings and observations. Why does Robert Neville experiment with more than just one rodent? Because he is trying different cures. How is the disease spread? Are there any intermediate hosts or vectors that transmit the disease? IT can be transferred through bite from darkseekers and or air. What does Robert Neville do in order to ensure that the human race can continue to survive? He gives his life discovering and protecting the cure...
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...Although it fits into multiple film genres, I Am Legend has to be one of the deepest scary/ horror movies of all time. The movies tells the story of Robert Neville (Will Smith), an immune scientist tasked with finding a cure for an infection that turns people into zombie like creatures called Darkseekers. It’s classified into as a thriller horror because of its aggression and reality; there’s, philological confusion, evil vs good, and suspense in every corner. Author Richard Matheson and director Francis Lawrence brilliantly included themes of death, the dark, and loneliness:fears everyone has once experienced, in order to invoke the classic horror movie feelings. At first, the movie seems like a wanna be classic, but after watching it a few...
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...Wei Lin Writing 39B Professor Greg McClure February 7, 2017 Rhetorical Analysis Inner Fear In Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, as the only survivor of the calamity that has wiped out the entire civilization, Robert Neville is the only hope of human civilization and human species. For some reason, the virus that has mutated every human being doesn’t have any effect on Neville which is a bit ironic. Before the plague, he is just a normal person who lives a normal life. All of sudden, he becomes the chosen one. I Am Legend demonstrate his mental condition breaking down along with his human sanity fading away. After finish reading the book, my direct feeling is fear. The fear is not...
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...Chris Martinelli Dr. Cross English 100 5/9/12 Myopic Society We saw him, the man, as he entered our shrouded, isolated corridor. He is different than we are and that enraged something in us; but, we could change him by force. With a single drop of blood we could rip the man from all he believes is rational, condemning him to a sheltered life of darkness. We ran after him with devastating force, but he was fast. He was not as fast as us collectively, but something about his movements startled us. He threw down obstacles for us and maneuvered almost as if he had a mind of his own. Even more disturbing for us was the fact that he was alone, able to think and move on his own outside of a group. We smelled his fear, his struggle to escape and this dragged us further in rage. He ran out of a door into the light of day and we realized at this point, for now, he was out of reach. We got a better glimpse of him once he entered the light: he was the cause, one of the creators of what we are. We are the Dark Seekers and we are a creation of man’s greed. We are the monstrous creation of his kind and we must destroy that from which we are created. Through film, directors can show us a world in which mankind is only surviving on a thread of hope. They can show us a society that only lived to further progress today, condemning the future to the aftermath of their carelessness. They can warn us, visually, of what we as human kind are capable of producing in a way that no other media can...
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...Companion Book Introduction Legend by Marie Lu, is about about a boy who is trying to save his little brother from a disease. To do so he has to break into a hospital lab and steal the cure. On his way out he ran and got caught by a guard. After he got away from the guard, the guard was killed and he was framed for the murder. In this book there is a lot betrayal and lying. In this writing i will talk about The main theme of the book. I will also talk about The characters development and his relationships. Theme There were lots of themes in my book, here’s a few of them. One of the themes is courage. The main character had a lot of courage during this book. One of the times he was courageous he broke into a hospital science lab to find a cure for his brothers disease. When he couldn’t find any cures, he had to get away without getting caught.When he was trying to get out he was about to be caught by the guards, so he jumped out of a 4 story window to the cemente. He reinjured his bad knee on the fall down, but he could still limp away to safety....
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...I want to talk about the film „I am legend“. First of all, the film tip is only suitable for those of you who like films with a high fear factor and thrills because it's a 2007 American science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring the leading actor Will Smith. The film was shot mainly in the city of New York, by the way, it includes a $5 million scene at the Brooklyn Bridge. But now about the story: It is about Dr. Robert Neville, who seems to be the last living human in New York City and potentially the last human on earth. The reason for this is quite easy: three years ago Dr. Alice Krippin and Neville have found a remedy for cancer, but the virus mutated and killed 5.4 billion people world-wide. Robert lives in the abandoned New York, with him is his faithful dog Samantha. During the day, the military scientists in the area on the hunt for antelope and sends radio messages in hopes to reach other survivors . At night, he barricades himself in his house to protect themself from the mutants calles darkseekers, which leave their dark caves only at night because their hairless, naked skin is sensitive to light. Really scary, isn't it? However, during this time, Dr. Robert Neville often spends his time in his laboratory where he experimented with mutated rats and searches for an remedy for the virus. But when he catch the alpha female and make experiments with her in his lab too, the mutants look for him under the leadership of the alpha male and they...
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...When Science Takes Over Science could be pointed out in some of the most random places, it is even commonly involved in many blockbuster movies we watch today. It has always provided an amazing plot line, to keep the audience on their toes. Science ideas and/or concepts have been used to develop a plot that has both the positive or negative aspects of science included. While watching the movies “I Am Legend” and “Extraordinary Measures” we where told to watch for the differences between the uses of chemistry for “Bad” or “Good” purpose and how it affected the movie in general. Through out the remainder of this paper I would like to highlight a quick summary on the movies we watched and how chemistry came into play through out the movies. The first movie we watched was the blockbuster film “I Am Legend”, where Robert Neville (played by Will...
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...Zack Sousa English 102 Section 51 2 May 2016 Professor Rowe Essay 3 Final Draft I am Legend:Book V. Movie Zombies have been around for ages now. In the fictional world of zombies, there have been many changes to their appearance, behavior and all around being from their origins way back in the day. Zombies are known as the living dead. Something that has died, and under strange circumstances, came back to life. Due to many entertainment outlets such as television, movies, books etc… there appearance, has been modified to keep the viewer/audience entertained. One story that I had taken particular interest in, was the movie I am Legend. The movie is based off of the novel, I am Legend, written by Richard Matheson. Although both the movie...
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...“Even if I hadn’t got the acid in my eyes-on my face (by accident: Rose-Ann had meant to ht Harry to be hurt by the acid- hit me, but Harry, who was, as I said, unexpected). Even if I hadn’t got the acid in my eyes, I’d never have seen my father again” (1). In the novel Sleena was mentioning how she got blind by accident. She sees what her mother had done to be a accident. Her tone towards this isn’t too upset as to be expected . I thought her tone would be more upset that she is upset because it is pretty hard when you’re mother had caused it. I think this shows how strong she is since she is past that matter. “I was excited, so happy. For the first time in my life of eighteen years, someone had talked, laughed, helped me. I was trembling for happiness” (26). In the novel Sleena was at the park where she met a man named Gordon. They began to chat and got comfortable in each other’s company. He left to get themselves both some food and Sleena was in thinking about how happy she is. Sleena’s voice is expressing how happy she is that she got to meet Gordon. I think it was very interesting how happy she got just because he began speaking to her. “No one, not even Mr.Faber had ever, I’m sured cared whether I drank at all, let alone what I cared to drink. It was fabulous. I would stuck my nail into my hand it hurt I was not dreaming”...
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...In I Am Legend and The Red Masque of Death there is a deadly disease outbreak that strikes their country or their world which kills most or all of the population, which represents that bad things can always happen. In the movie I Am Legend, there is a pandemic of an outbreak virus that kills the population quickly, or turns them into blood thirsty dark seekers. And in The Red Masque of Death, a disease spreads across the country wiping out the population except the people who were safe in the castle abyss. The disease outbreak does not effect Neville or Pospero personally, but it does make them take action for their own safety and for some others. In this paragraph, when something devastating happens to one of the main characters, they take their own actions to keep themselves safe....
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...In both A Separate Peace and I Am Legend there were many themes, but one theme stood out the most. War and Rivalry affected both Gene Forrester in A Separate Peace, and Robert Neville in I Am Legend. You can say war and rivalry affected them physically but it affected them much more than that. In A Separate Peace, Gene had a rivalry more with himself than any other character throughout the book. In a lot of instances Gene conflicted with himself just by overthinking things and making things much more than they actually are. “You are both coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. You did hate him for breaking that school swimming record , but so what? He hated you for getting an A in every course but one last term. You would had an A in that...
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...relates to the play because comparing the themes with the characters expresses the true intentions of Shakespeare. The themes that appear in both the essay King Lear’s Folly and the actual play is power of who holds it, nature and the values of what it represents, and parallels created with how the characters are contrasted. The first theme in the novel is power who has it, how one defines it, and how it plays into King Lear. As in the opening act Lear creates a love test to justify giving Cordelia a large share of his kingdom as she is his favorite. Instead of her answer resulting in flattery and gushing confessions of love like her elder sister’s, Cordelia's reply is tempered, honest, and reasonable- “ Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less”. With this he banishes her and puts his two eldest in charge and with the power Goneril and Regan begin to treat their father poorly, with this look at power should also come an investigation of age and gender into the play. Since Edmund seduces both of the eldest sisters then Lear is banished into a storm, this (as King Lear’s Folly states) threatened the stability of the social structure. There is the treatment of the elderly and placement of women in Shakespeare’s time compared to society today. Considering that Edmund, Regan, and Goneril treated their fathers with such hostility as Edmund’s father was ashamed of him as a bastard and Cordelia was Lear’s...
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