Robert Neville followed a man‚ who was turning‚ into an ocean of unlike humans. In an excerpt from‚ I Am Legend Richard Matheson uses a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to convey the strong action he uses. Matheson uses different types of imagery and similes to describe the man who was leading him in the beginning of the excerpt. Neville hears the man’s voice as "a grating rasp" that is labeled as sonic imagery that the reader can connect to someone/thing in their own life. Furthermore
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I recently watched the Will Smith movie "I Am Legend"‚ and found the movie extraordinarily interesting and thought-provoking. The action in "I Am Legend" entertained me and the psychology of the film lured me into an empathic bond with the star of the movie. After searching for more information regarding "I Am Legend" on the internet‚ I found an alternate ending for "I Am Legend" that rounded out my experience. However‚ as is often the case‚ I enjoyed the book "I Am Legend" even more than the movie
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“Day one thousand and one. We came in close contact with a hive today. Blood tests confirm that I remain immune to both the airborne and contact strains. Canines remain immune to airborne strain only. The vaccine trials continue. I’m still unable to transfer my immunity to infected hosts. The Krippen Virus is... elegant.” -Robert Neville A virus breaks out in “I Am Legend”‚ virtually wiping out the human race‚ leaving only a select few to return order to the world. Instead of being contractible
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I am Legend Genre and expectations of that genre Science Fiction-Alternative future-Technology/Future World/End of the World: Creation of an anti-utopia‚ ironic though because in order to have any utopia you must have civilization. Mundane simple tasks are turned into extremes such as when he goes’s for a drive or ’shops’ or locks up the house. Themes and issues explored All of our actions have consequences (Newton’s Law-For every action there is an equal or opposite reaction) Christianity
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hears the title I Am Legend being mentioned‚ they usually associate it with Will Smith and the terrific job he did in portraying the protagonist of the story Robert Neville. However‚ what they typically leave out is the equally terrific job done by author Richard Matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. While Richard Matheson’s post-apocalyptic science fiction book‚ I Am Legend‚ and Francis Lawrence’s post-apocalyptic science fiction movie‚ I Am Legend‚ both have similarities
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The way the world is seen varies with each passing person. What is observed as good from one may be the damning pathway to hell for another. Many times these beliefs are instilled upon us at a very early age which can result with a twisted outlook on life that we had little to no control over. As we grow older we are than further influenced through our religion (or lack of)‚ culture‚ and passed experiences. With that in mind‚ it is easy to see that reality can be just as interchangeable and
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Reflection: Hope. It is something that we can hold on to at times. One in which the main character in the movie‚ Richard Neville‚ only had. He had hoped that he can save the humanity and with determination‚ he did. The movie itself shows to us many values and lessons that each one has to learn in life. Like him‚ sometimes we also need to think of others first before ourselves‚ as what he did to save the mother and the child on the last part and also by doing his best to discover the antidote alone
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I Am Legend (film) I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller 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 man-made virus originally created to cure cancer. He works to create a remedy while defending himself against humans mutated by the virus
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I AM LEGEND(book) The novel’s main character is Robert Neville‚ apparently the sole survivor of a pandemic the symptoms of which resemble vampirism. The author details Neville’s daily life in Los Angeles‚ as he attempts to comprehend‚ research‚ and possibly cure the disease that killed mankind‚ and to which he is immune (Neville assumes this is because he was bitten by a vampire bat who was "infected". Because it was not a human‚ it did not kill Neville‚ instead‚ he became ill for a period of time)
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Film There are many films that I have seen that have left me with my mouth open‚ but there is one film that stuck out from all of them. My favorite film of all time is‚ I Am Legend. This film had so many moments that left me in amazement. It is about a man that spends several years by himself trying to find a cure for a horrible side effect that made the human race lose every bit of its human traits‚ as a result from the cure of cancer. What I loved about this film is that it was not
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