![]() ![]() The short story deals with what it means to lose your humanity to the ordeals of the Cold War while the film addresses what we must do to retain our humanity in a post-9/11 era. We have three very different endings with three very specific challenges to the nature of our humanity.īoth the film and the short story essentially serve as parables – their messages tailored to their specific viewing audience. However, personally, I think the changes were necessary (and quite brilliant). The 2007 film received a fair bit of criticism for significantly departing from the plot of the novel, especially in regard to the ending. I Am Legend is the story of one man left alone in a world of vampires. In 2007 Will Smith starred as Robert Neville in I Am Legend, the second cinematic adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 short story of the same name (the first being 1971’s The Omega Man). Imperial Talker on “Take a sad song, and make it… WCRobinson on Point-Counterpoint: Divergent… Xena the Warrior Princess: Fiction’s Fearless Females.Red’s Retaliation: The Untethering of a Subterranean Revolutionary – Fiction’s Fearless Females.Fiction’s Fearless Females: Dana Scully. ![]() “Take a sad song, and make it better:” My totally sporadic, barely thought-out, unapologetically random top ten Beatles songs list.Point-Counterpoint: Divergent Takes on Evil Dead Rise. ![]()
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