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• After a homo-fabricated plague transforms Manhattan'southward population (and perchance that of the whole world) into bloodthirsty mutants, military scientist Doctor Robert Neville (Will Smith), allowed to both the airborne strains and contact strains of the virus, struggles to find a cure and to locate any other survivors that may exist. Edit

• The novel I Am Fable (1954), written by American writer Richard Matheson, was adapted for the movie by screenwriters Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich. This version of I Am Legend is the 3rd flick adaptation of Matheson's novel. The ii earlier films are The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971). The 2007 film was partially based on the 1971 film also as the original source novel. Another adaptation, I Am Omega (2007), was released straight to DVD. Edit

• Dr. Alice Krippin (Emma Thompson) created a cure for cancer by manipulating a measles virus so that it would only attack cancerous cells. Unfortunately, the virus (called the Krippin Virus, or KV) soon mutated, becoming communicable through the air and deadly to humans. Information technology killed the vast bulk of the population (90%). In everyone else, except for the i% of the population who were allowed, it acquired a mutation which is characterized by extreme aggression and strength, a heightened sense of smell, loss of pigmentation, shallow and rapid respiration, hyper-metabolism, and hyper-sensitivity to low-cal. Mutants are also attracted to the smell of blood and are carnivorous. The human being mutants are referred to as "Nighttime Seekers" since they cannot live in the light. Edit

• The outdoor scenes were filmed near entirely in New York City. Scenes set in Greenwich Village, the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, St. Patrick'south Cathedral, TriBeCa, and on the USS Intrepid and the Brooklyn Span, were all filmed on location. Streets were blocked off for long periods of time and weeds were imported from Florida and spread around the streets to prove the overgrowth. Pedestrians, moving cars and persons visible through windows were all digitally removed from the final film. Edit

• It'due south a 2007 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500. Edit

• New York City has three major zoos: (ane) Central Park Zoo, (2) Prospect Park Zoo, and (3) Bronx Zoo. The deer and lions could have come from one of them. Upstate New York likewise has lots of deer. Considering that deer tin can swim and that the George Washington Bridge is nevertheless intact, information technology's possible that they migrated into the metropolis. Edit

• Information technology's either vinegar or ammonia, which he uses to block his aroma so that the Dark Seekers tin't track him down. Edit

• A panoramic shot of the interior of Neville'south dwelling shows several gas-fueled generators. He presumably uses these for electric ability. For water, he may have a roof acme water tank. Tanks similar this are still in apply in New York today to supplement water force per unit area. Usually they are fed from the municipal water organization by pumping water to the roof top tank and letting gravity build the force per unit area for the building. In Neville'south case, the tank may be a later addition that is fed past a rainwater collection system of some kind. Whenever Neville turns on the water you tin can hear a pump commencement. Edit

• This appears to be a continuity goof. Otherwise, he had woken up some time nigh dawn and opened them. (The 2nd time we come across Neville wake up, he opens the shutters.) He appears to hide in the bathtub with the gun unable to sleep and presumably gets upwardly at dawn, opening the shutters, letting in the light that he feels protects him and then can finally sleep. Y'all will as well observe he doesn't do annihilation at night that could make noise and allow the dark dwellers know where he is such as exercising or using electricity. Information technology is too possible Neville has a timer on the shutters to open up at a certain time subsequently dawn to let light in to wake him upwardly and to protect him. Edit

• It is a Tower Records/Video. Notwithstanding, this creates something of a plot hole in that the events that pb upwardly to the urban center beingness deserted happen in 2009, and Tower Records liquidated all of their stores in 2006—equally such no place that previously housed a Tower store would even so accept products by 2009, when there were still some residents. While the crew plain went through slap-up lengths not to ever show the proper name "Tower", the font on signage, hours on the door, behind the counter,etc. are all expressionless giveaways to anyone who ever visited or worked in i of their stores on a regular basis. Edit

• There are ii possibilities. Ane, they slumber standing upwards while huddling. Two, they are eating the body of the deer whose caput tin can be seen in the hallway. Edit

• Initially, they may have feasted on the humans trapped on the island. Following that, they might have turned to eating the bodies of the dead, which would explain why there were no bodies lying in the streets. They probably had the smarts and agility to trap or bring down other animals on the island, such every bit the herds of deer occasionally seen jumping between the parked cars or the birds seen flight betwixt buildings or fifty-fifty devious dogs and cats. They may have washed what Neville was doing—scavenged from abandoned houses and stores. Finally, they may accept organized themselves into small-scale groups and killed and ate Dark Seekers from rival hives. It's also possible that they don't actually need to consume merely practise and so out of instinct of their previous lives, much similar zombies in near post-apocalyptic films. Edit

• Ii possible reasons: (1) Neville'due south main goal was to cure them. He had spent the terminal three years searching for a cure. If he kills the Night Seekers, the human race volition be extinct when he dies, and (2) with no fire department to put out a major blaze in New York, the unabridged city could eventually burn to the basis. Edit

• The infected, or "Dark Seekers", were entirely computer-generated, although part of the time their motion was controlled by actors, using "motion capture" technology. Edit

• He is in the Temple Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art in New York City. Edit

• In 1 of the empty homes Neville enters, there is a newspaper clipping that says infected dogs are able to come up out at sunset (though they can't pass through a stream of straight sunlight). Edit

• The eye scanner can detect dilation of the pupils. Those infected with the virus have pupils that are open to their widest point. The reason why the scanner first detected Zoe (Neville's wife)'s pupils as dilated could be because: (one) the scanner malfunctioned, or (ii) her pupils were dilated due to an adrenaline rush, something that could hands have happened to Zoe when she was existence evacuated. Edit

• Neville had set up a mannequin on the cease of the pier where he spent every afternoon hoping to encounter another living person. The Dark Seekers think information technology is Neville and rush over to information technology, not knowing that Neville is sitting in his truck waiting to shine his UV lights on them and then run them over with his Ford Trek. Edit

• In the original catastrophe of the movie, it was shown that all the bridges were destroyed except for the George Washington Span (GWB). Patrols were stationed on that bridge to control access on and off the isle, and a sign was posted with a Warning that Manhattan was a restricted area and that it was unlawful to enter without permission of the Installation commander. When the catastrophe was changed for theatrical and DVD release, that scene was cut from the movie, leaving no caption every bit to how Anna (Alice Braga) and Ethan (Charlie Tahan) could take gotten on and off the island. Alternatively, and since Anna would not necessarily have known that the GWB was however intact (no mention of information technology is made in Neville's recorded radio broadcasts, and she came from Maryland), she took a gunkhole across the Hudson River with Ethan and their stuff and scavenged the SUV when she got to the Manhattan shore. She may or may not have repeated the same process when she left Manhattan for the Bronx or Long Island or whatsoever route she took northward to Vermont if either she was yet unaware that the GWB was intact or if information technology was effectively impassible. Edit

• She uses a phosphorous flare. The lights on peak of Neville's motorcar are near likely ultraviolet lights, which kept the infected from attacking his car until he flipped it and smashed the lights. Edit

• Anna does say that that the virus cannot survive in the cold, which is the reason that the survivors compound was established in Vermont. It is implied that the cold inhibits the airborne virus merely does not inhibit the infected, i.due east. Neville uses ice to lower the temperature of the infected he is treating because it helps the antitoxin to take effect. All the same the affair is unclear. The epidemic seems to have begun in the pb upwardly to the Christmas season, and Neville has been solitary for three years or four winters. Information technology must be remembered, withal, that some cold-sensitive viruses merely have survival issues when they are outside of a host, such as on doorknobs, toilet seats, or grit particles in the air. Once inside of a warm trunk, the virus is in a perfect 98° to 99° Fahrenheit environs, and the cold will non bear on information technology, so it remains viable and able to exist spread on contact. Edit

• It is common for children who have been through extreme trauma to give upwards speaking. A deleted scene from the movie (on the alternate ending cut DVD), Neville, Anna, and Ethan go to the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art and Ethan jumps into the fish pool. He and so says "it'south cold" when Neville throws in bait and the fish brainstorm frenzying around him. The DVD'south special features reveal that the kid actor has a very thick New York accent that some audiences would find hard to understand. That may be the real reason the character is given no dialogue. The graphic novel "Losing Voice: Ethan's story", explains Ethan'southward silence thus: During the commencement stages of the outbreak of the Krippin Virus, Ethan is shown being driven to school by his parents. When his school bus passes him, Ethan notices that the commuter's eyes are bleeding, a sign that he is infected with KV. Subsequently sundown, Ethan sees other families fleeing the streets outside the automobile. His father leaves the machine to investigate, armed with a golf club. Of a sudden, a mob of Darkseekers appear, dragging his mother out and tearing her to shreds. They then throw the bloody, browbeaten begetter beyond the car's hood as he begs his children with his dying breaths to escape. Ethan and his blood brother climb out of the car's windows and run, chased by the Darkseekeers. They endeavor to hide under a deserted truck, but a Darkseeker drags Ethan's brother away. Ethan escapes and hides in the foliage. He is somewhen constitute past a rescue team, who take him to safety aboard their helicopter. The team tries to question him but, left grief-stricken and catatonic past his brother's death, Ethan does not answer. Edit

• "Fable" by Bob Marley. "Legend" is not an actual studio anthology only a compilation released by Isle Records in 1984, 3 years after Marley's expiry. Edit

• In that location are several explanations as to why a hand grenade could accept caused a major explosion. One is that Neville used an incendiary grenade. Some other is that the explosion was amplified in the confined infinite. A third is that he kept other volatile and flammable chemicals down there. Edit

• No, this is a common misunderstanding. At the very end of the theatrical version, Anna says, "At approximately 8:49 p.thou., Robert Neville discovered the cure. At 8:52, he gave his life to defend information technology." With Anna's emphasis it has been misheard as "at 'historic period' 52, he gave his life to defend it." In the original novel his age is given as 36. Edit

• Nigh the end of the moving-picture show, both original and alternate, Neville locks himself, Anna, and Ethan in the Plexiglas cubicle that contains the Nighttime Seeker female, but the alpha Night Seeker continues to throw himself against the glass. Neville notices that the chemical compound that he injected into the female several days earlier is beginning to work. Here is where the endings begin to differ. In the original ending (which has go known as the alternate ending and is available on an extra disk in some DVDs), Neville puts down his gun, detaches the alpha female from her IV, and instructs Anna to open up the Plexiglas door. Then Neville wheels the female exterior to the waiting Dark Seekers, who have stopped their attack. Neville gets a syringe and withdraws some of her blood. The female person wakes up and is embraced by the alpha male person, who carries her out of the lab. The adjacent 24-hour interval, Anna, Ethan, and Neville exit Manhattan, headed for the survivors' colony. Anna has left behind a radio circulate that assures anyone listening that they are not alone. The original ending was shown to a test audience who apparently did non like it for a variety of reasons, including the fact that information technology changed the ending of Richard Matheson's novel. A new ending was filmed in which Neville does non exit the Plexiglas room. Rather, he draws upwardly a syringeful of the female mutant's blood and gives it to Anna with instructions that she become it to the survivors' colony so that the antidote compound tin can be extracted from the claret and made into a cure. And then he seals Anna and Ethan in a crawlspace. Pulling the pin on an incendiary grenade, Neville blows up the lab, himself, and the Dark Seekers. The next day, Anna and Ethan go out Manhattan and drive to the survivors' colony in Vermont. The survivors welcome them, and Anna hands them the antidote. Edit

• Collywobbles show up in a number of places in the motion-picture show. The first butterfly is when Neville's daughter Marley forms i with her hands as the family drives to the helicopter to go out of Manhattan. She says something like "Expect, Daddy, it's a butterfly." A fleck after, Sam is chasing a butterfly in the field where Neville is picking corn, and Neville drives by a faded sign that features a butterfly and the logo: God all the same loves you lot. Towards the end of the moving-picture show, some people run into a butterfly shape in the cracked Plexiglas when the Alpha male keeps butting his head against information technology and/or a butterfly smeared on the Plexiglas with the Alpha male'southward blood. Neville then looks at Anna's neck and sees a butterfly tattooed on it, remembers Marley's words, and decides that it's a sign from God. In the original ending, there was a butterfly on the Blastoff female, and people have interpreted the butterfly on the Plexiglas as a sign that the Alpha male is smearing a butterfly on the glass in order to tell Neville that he wants the Blastoff female with the butterfly tattoo. Edit

• The USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, and the aircraft aboard it, are decommissioned vessels that contain the Intrepid Air and Sea Museum, at Pier 86 in New York City. The aircraft had been placed aboard the carrier. The aeroplane is, even so, not an SR-71, but its similar looking predecessor A-12. See: Google Earth at location xl°46′N, 74°00′Due west. Edit

• Neville appears to take a "natural" amnesty. Natural immunities are genetically-based and cannot be passed to other people, with the exception of newborn infants whose mothers have conferred upon them short-term immunities through the placenta or breast-milk. In the case of the blastoff female, she appears to have been developing an "acquired" immunity. Acquired immunities are developed later on an individual has been infected with a virus or other pathogen. The compound that Neville injected into her appears to have stimulated her body's immune system to produce antibodies against the virus. It's these antibodies found in the blood that can be used to confer immunity on others. Neville's blood doesn't contain those antibodies because he never got the illness in the commencement place nor does he have the compound in his blood considering he never injected himself with it. Edit

• "Three Petty Birds" by Bob Marley. This is as well the song Neville sings in the lab as he holds Sam and notices that she'due south mutating. Edit

• In the moving picture, both Anna and Neville refer to the creatures as "Dark Seekers". However, on the DVD, the subtitle track uses the term "hemocyte" to describe the Dark Seekers. Both names are correct. This is also because in prior attempts at developing the motion-picture show, Hemocytes was the term originally used to refer to what later became Nighttime Seekers. Edit

• The story is, indeed, fix in 2012. But flashbacks show that the virus became airborne and epidemic in 2009. Every bit the outbreak spread around the world, immediately killing off ninety% of the earth's population, at that place were few people left anywhere to make or buy cars. Whatsoever cars were left in Manhattan after the island was sealed in 2009 would have been from the current yr or earlier. Edit

• In Matheson'southward volume, the disease is acquired by a bacterium and not a virus. It starts off like a flu epidemic and is carried on the dusty winds. The protagonist discovers this on his own afterwards a lot of experiment and study. The symptoms of the illness resemble the qualities associated with vampires: the desire to suck claret, the hatred of garlic and mirrors, etc. In the movie, the illness is a genetically-engineered virus that mutates and causes the disorder. The victims are less like vampires and more than like cannibalistic zombies. Edit

• Neville is described at the outset of Matheson'due south story as "a tall human, thirty-six, built-in of English-German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright bluish of his optics..." Information technology'south safety to say he was Caucasian in the original story. In the first two pic adaptations and the graphic novel adaptation, he is Caucasian. Edit

• In Matheson'due south novel, there are 2 unlike kinds of vampires: (i) the reanimated vampires that had died yet somehow came dorsum to life, and (2) vampires that are notwithstanding living. The vampires that are dead were people who had contracted the virus and died from being unable to breathe. Neville'south married woman had get ane of these because Neville had cached her instead of cremating her body. In the volume, the dead vampires are animalistic, merely they are intelligent enough to taunt Neville in various ways, e.yard. the female vampires will elevator their skirts and pose lewdly (the theme of Neville having to constantly fight to control his erotic impulses recurs several times in the volume). Some of them volition plow into ash when Neville stakes them because their corpses are then old. In the pic, The Dark Seekers appear to lose their intelligence afterward contracting the virus. The living vampires are people who had contracted the virus, but did non die. Neville kills these by driving a pale through their hearts. He does non realize they are still live or that in that location are two unlike kinds of vampires. The living vampires are the ones that chase Neville down and try to execute him (they chase and kill the expressionless vampires equally well). Both kinds of vampires in the book share many traits with traditional vampires. They are repelled by garlic, have psychological aversions to religious symbols and mirrors, etc. In the film, the only vampire-like trait is that the Dark Seekers die when exposed to sunlight and are attracted to blood. Edit

• Francis Lawrence said in an interview that he cut out an 60 minutes. He said about of information technology dealt with the Dark Seekers. Edit

• Aye. The first adaptation (The Last Man on Earth) of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend, has fallen out of copyright and at present appears on a number of websites devoted to public domain movies. The film can exist downloaded from Archive.org here or so. Edit

• Also I Am Legend, The Omega Human (1971), and The Terminal Man on Earth (1964), all three of which were adapted from Matheson'south novel, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later on... (2002) has a similar premise in which a virus is unleashed in the Uk and survivors attempt to band together in London. A sequel, 28 Weeks After (2007), was released in 2007. The low-rated, direct-to-video I Am Omega (2007) is also adapted from Matheson's novel, its variant of the infected being similar to the 28 ... Subsequently movies' cannibals. Stephen King's miniseries, The Stand up (1994) also has a like theme, in which survivors of a deadly virus drift to two diametrically-opposed survivors' camps in Bedrock, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada. 30 Days of Night (2007) depicts residents of a small-scale boondocks in Alaska who attempt to survive when the town is overcome past vampires during a month-long nightfall. Daybreakers (2009) (2009) too deals with an epidemic that turns most of the world'southward population into vampires and the subsequent search for a cure. Other movies that deal with viral epidemics include The Andromeda Strain (1971), Robin Cook's Virus (1995), The Satan Bug (1965), Twelve Monkeys (1995), the Resident Evil alive-activity (Project Alice) film series (2002-2016) and its blithe Biohazard anthology counterparts-Baiohazâdo: Dijenerêshon (2008) and Baiohazado: Damuneshon (2012). Edit

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• There are two possibilities. (1) The Dark Seekers made the trap for Neville. The alpha male had copied Neville's trap design and used Fred as the allurement. (two) Neville had made the trap (either for food or to capture or kill the infected), then abased it and eventually forgot about it. The alpha male person found the trap, knew what it was, and put Fred there every bit bait (or Neville may have put a Fred lookalike there himself equally a marking). Neville then roughshod into his ain trap. Fans hotly debate this question, more often than not because information technology'due south unclear only how intelligent the Dark Seekers are. Edit

• Neville quickly brings Sam dorsum to his dwelling house and injects her with the cure that appeared successful on a test rat, merely the compound is ineffective. Seconds later, Sam becomes fiercely aggressive and attempts to bite Neville. To salvage himself and spare Sam the hurting and suffering of being a canine hemocyte, Neville is forced to strangle her. Edit

• Many viewers think that Neville could have done more to save his domestic dog Sam's life. He had the glass room, cages, chains, manacles, etc. Just Neville surely wanted to spare his dog the desperation of being a canine Nighttime Seeker, peculiarly since he couldn't be sure of curing her. Edit

• It's shown throughout the film in flashbacks that, during the evacuation of Manhattan Island, Neville brought his wife Zoe (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) and girl (Willow Smith) to the dock, where they were put on ane of the last helicopters transporting people off the Island earlier it was to be quarantined. The armed forces then blew upwards all the bridges, and as they did, some desperate people jumped onto the outside of some other helicopter that was taking off. This caused the helicopter to spin out of command and crash into the ane that was carrying Neville's family unit, killing them. Edit

• Neville had been an Army scientist, probably in charge of a government task force to contain and cure the disease. This had made him an important figure during the crunch, and many had looked to him to find a cure. His face had appeared on the cover of Time with a headline asking whether he could relieve humanity (this Time cover appears on his refrigerator door), and he was mentioned in the 2nd recorded broadcast of "The Today Testify" Neville was watching. He also mentions himself by proper name in his own repeated broadcast. Edit

• Neville only travels during the day, when the Dark Seekers can't follow him. He is meticulous about his comings and goings, and he covers his tracks. When Anna brings him home, it is still dusk during which the Dark Seekers can nevertheless track them. She does not realize this nor does she know about Neville'south precautions of spraying vinegar or ammonia on the steps outside the house, and so the Dark Seekers detect his hideout. Edit

• Led by the Alpha Male (Dash Mihok), the Dark Seekers break into Neville'due south house, managing to get past his UV yard lights and mines and forcing Neville, Anna, and Ethan to accept refuge in the basement lab within of the thick plexiglass-walled room where Neville has been keeping the infected female he's been treating. Neville notices that she has go much more human in appearance and realizes that he has found a cure. As the alpha male begins crashing himself into the wall, Neville tries to convince him that he can cure them, but the male person keeps upward the crashing until the plexiglass starts to crack, the design curiously resembling a butterfly, which seems to restore Neville's faith, particularly when he notices the small butterfly tattoo on Anna's neck. While Anna and Ethan clamber into a coal chute, he rapidly draws a vial of the female'due south blood and hands it to Anna. "I call back this is why you're here," he says and shuts them inside. He then detonates a M67 grenade, destroying himself and the attacking Night Seekers. The next twenty-four hour period finds Anna and Ethan driving along a route in the Vermont countryside until they are stopped past a walled chemical compound. The gates are opened to them, revealing the -to-be survivor colony. In a voiceover, Anna says, In 2009, a deadly virus burned through our civilisation, pushing humankind to the border of extinction. Dr Robert Neville defended his life to the discovery of a cure and the restoration of humanity. On September 9th, 2012, at approximately 8:49 p.m., he discovered that cure and, at 8:52, he gave his life to defend it. Nosotros are his legacy. This is his legend. Lite of the Darkness. In the final scene, Anna hands over the vial with the antitoxin. Edit

• The viewer tin simply approximate at what was going through Neville's listen at the time. There certainly was room for the three of them, as Anna says, "Neville, in that location is room in here. come." However, Neville replies, 'They're not gonna stop.' Some possible reasons that have been suggested to explain Neville's decision include a) he had lost his will to live, b) if the grenade didn't kill all the Dark Seekers in the basement, the survivors would know where he, Anna, and Ethan were hiding, and c) the Blastoff Male person was but after Neville. Edit

• It'south necessary to closely sentinel the sequence of events as they accept place in that scene. Beginning, Neville, Anna, and Ethan run down to the basement laboratory with the Darkseekers endmost in on them. Neville barricades the iii of them in the containment room. Merely so does Neville discover that the compound appears to be working on the Alpha female person, who is also in the containment room with them. But the Darkseekers have already invaded the lab and surrounded the room, and so Neville has no mode to become to the compound, which is stored elsewhere in the lab. The only thing to which he has access is the female's blood, so he draws upwardly a sample and gives it to Anna, knowing that the compound can exist obtained and replicated from the blood as long as Anna is able to get it safely to the survivor's colony in Vermont. Edit

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