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I Am Legend is a 2007 science fiction-horror-disaster film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name, following 1964′s The Last Man on Earth and 1971′s The Omega Man. Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who is immune to a vicious man-made virus originally created to cure cancer. He works to create a remedy while living in Manhattan in 2012, a city inhabited by animalistic victims of the virus. The film’s plot is an example of a zombie apocalypse story, except that the zombies are like vampires.
Plot :
In September 2012, U.S. Army virologist, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville (Will Smith) is left as the last healthy human in New York City. Three years earlier Doctor Alice Krippin (Emma Thompson) altered the measles virus to create a cure for cancer with a 100% success rate. However, the virus mutated into a lethal airborne strain that spread worldwide and killed 5.4 billion people (90% of humanity). Of the 600 million survivors, only 12 million people possessed a natural immunity to the virus. The rest degenerated into bald, pale, aggressive beings referred to as “Darkseekers”,[4] who killed the remaining immune human population. The “Darkseekers”, so called for hiding in buildings and dark places during the day due to a painful intolerance to UV radiation, exhibit increased speed, agility, aggression, and strength, as well as higher pulse, metabolism and respiration rates, and increased body temperature. Despite their primal behavior, the Darkseekers seem to retain some basic problem-solving intelligence, animalistic cunning and the capacity to organize themselves.
Neville, who lost his wife Zoe (Salli Richardson) and daughter Marley (Willow Smith) in a helicopter accident during the chaotic evacuation of Manhattan in December 2009, has a daily routine that includes experimentation on captive infected rats to find a cure for the virus and trips through an empty, decaying Manhattan to collect supplies from abandoned homes and hunting deer that moved into the city. He also waits each day for a response to his continuous recorded AM radio broadcasts, which instruct any uninfected survivors to meet him at noon at the South Street Seaport. Neville’s isolation is broken only by the companionship of his German Shepherd dog Samantha (“Sam”), interaction with mannequins he has set up as patrons of a video store, and recordings of old television broadcasts.
When one of his experiments on rats shows a promising treatment, Neville sets a snare trap and captures an infected woman; as he catches her an enraged male Darkseeker, the alpha male of the pack, locks eyes with him and snarls. Back in his laboratory, located in the basement of his heavily fortified Washington Square Park home, Neville attempts to treat the infected woman without success. The next day, on his birthday, after finding one of his mannequins in front of Grand Central Terminal, he is caught in a trap and passes out. When Neville finally regains consciousness and manages to get free, it is dusk and he is attacked by a pack of infected dogs set on him by the alpha male. Although Neville and Sam manage to kill the dogs, one of the infected dogs bites Sam. Neville takes the wounded Sam back to his lab and attempts to cure her, but she begins to exhibit symptoms and tries to attack Neville, so he is forced to strangle her to death.
Later that night, overcome by grief and rage after burying Sam, Neville attacks a group of the infected. Despite killing a large number of Darkseekers, the infected overwhelm Neville and nearly kill him before he is rescued by a pair of immune survivors, Anna (Alice Braga) and a young boy named Ethan (Charlie Tahan), who have heard his radio broadcasts.
Anna and Ethan take the injured Neville back to his home, where Anna explains that they are making their way to a putative survivors’ camp in Bethel, Vermont. When Anna claims that their meeting wasn’t coincidence but part of God’s plan, Neville furiously rants that, given the devastation incurred by the Krippin virus, there can be no God.
Suddenly, the alpha male leads a group of infected in an attack on the house, having followed Anna and Neville back the night before. The Darkseekers force Neville, Anna, and Ethan to retreat into the basement laboratory. They seal themselves in a room with the infected woman, where they discover that Neville’s treatment is working: the subject has reverted to a more human form. Unfortunately the infected break into the basement, where the alpha male begins to crack and break through the acrylic glass separating them by ramming it. The cracks come to resemble the wings of a butterfly, at which point Neville remembers his daughter mentioning a butterfly the night she died. He notices a butterfly tattoo on Anna’s neck and takes a sample of the infected female’s blood and gives a vial of it to Anna, saying “The cure is in her blood… I think this is why you are here.” Neville shuts Anna and Ethan in an old coal chute and sacrifices his life for them, using an M67 hand grenade to kill himself and the attacking infected.
Anna and Ethan escape to Vermont and locate the survivors’ colony, where Anna hands over the cure. Before the credits roll Anna claims that the survivors are Neville’s legacy, as his fight for a cure became legend.
Cast :
* Will Smith – Robert Neville
* Alice Braga – Anna
* Emma Thompson – Dr. Alice Krippin (uncredited)
* Charlie Tahan – Ethan
* Salli Richardson – Zoe Neville
* Willow Smith – Marley Neville
* Darrell Foster – Mike
* Abbey and Kona – Samantha (Sam), the dog
* Dash Mihok – Infected alpha male
* Joanna Numata – Infected alpha female
* Pat Fraley – President of the United States (voice)
* Mike Patton – Creature vocal effects
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