I am Legend
Ok saw the movie a while back, one week or so later I was at the bookstore and I saw the book. on an impulse I grabbed it. Personally I liked the movie very much...the ending felt a bit convoluted but the rest of the movie made up for it.
the book was a mistake. shouldn't have bothered reading it. Matheson is one of those science/fiction/horror/suspense writers that blend in the darker sides of human nature with science, surrealism, and usually puts all this in a setting of dystopia. Not my cup of tea at all.
I would like to add that the movie maker people made a mistake. They should not have said "based on the book by..." they should have put "inspired by the book by..." it would have been more accurate. in fact the way the movie turned out caused the title to no longer make sense.
The one of the basic ideas of the story (written) is the difference between what's considered normal and what's not. In the beginning human beings are normal. the vampire is so un-normal that it is legend. No body would believe in the vampire--it was so fantastical that they were too late to stop the spread of the bacteria that actually creates the "vampire". within a few years the bacteria and the infected start to coexist on a less distructive level and now changed human race start to rebuild society. but during the day while they're sleeping there's this creature--an uninfected human--who goes arround bruttaly experimenting on and killing. now legend is normal and normal--the last human being Robert Neville-- is legend.
the book was a mistake. shouldn't have bothered reading it. Matheson is one of those science/fiction/horror/suspense writers that blend in the darker sides of human nature with science, surrealism, and usually puts all this in a setting of dystopia. Not my cup of tea at all.
I would like to add that the movie maker people made a mistake. They should not have said "based on the book by..." they should have put "inspired by the book by..." it would have been more accurate. in fact the way the movie turned out caused the title to no longer make sense.
The one of the basic ideas of the story (written) is the difference between what's considered normal and what's not. In the beginning human beings are normal. the vampire is so un-normal that it is legend. No body would believe in the vampire--it was so fantastical that they were too late to stop the spread of the bacteria that actually creates the "vampire". within a few years the bacteria and the infected start to coexist on a less distructive level and now changed human race start to rebuild society. but during the day while they're sleeping there's this creature--an uninfected human--who goes arround bruttaly experimenting on and killing. now legend is normal and normal--the last human being Robert Neville-- is legend.