Which adaptation of I Am Legend follows the original book by Richard Matheson most accurately? And which is actually the best film?
0:00 Intro
1:06 Setting
2:32 Protagonist’s Name
3:01 Is He A Scientist?
3:36 Hunting Monsters By Day?
3:56 Why Is He Immune?
4:51 Depression, Isolation, Loneliness, and Alcoholism
7:58 Does He Invent A Cure?
8:44 Hallucinations?
9:21 Flashbacks?
9:54 Vampires?
11:55 How Did Virus Spread?
13:13 How To Kill Monsters?
13:52 Burning Pit
14:29 Monster Leader
15:39 Ben Cortman
16:17 Difference Amongst Infected?
16:56 Dog
18:38 Woman’s Name?
18:58 How Woman Is Introduced
20:15 Does She Betray Neville?
20:52 The Winner Is…
21:09 Best Film?
22:55 Random Fun Details
25:20 Shrek
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In “I Am Legend” Sam (Samantha) is not a “good boy” she’s a good girl as it’s a female dog. lol
Interesting how in both The Omega Man and I Am Legend, the main character is quoting a film they've seen before.
I Am Omega from 2007 wasn't too bad for an Asylum movie.
In the book gunshots can kill living vampires the ones with heartbeats and the dead ones needs stakes as their body make a bio film that closes minor wounds…..also only living vampires can get sudo cure that keeps the virus in check and become day walkers
In the Will Smith movie, there was a commentary that explains the dark seekers are not zombies, nor are they vampires. They were infected people who simply mutated.
Christ, I loved this whole thing I’d love to see more book to films comparisons from you!
I saw Vincent Price's version before I read the book. I remember vividly reading through the book years later and going "hey… Wait a minute… I've seen this somewhere"
Charlton heston and vincent price were amazing actors they both loved to try different roles outside thier box. Heston also loved doing and supporting independent cinema.
One of my favorite adaptations of I Am Legend is the graphic novel adaptation by Elman Brown and Steve Niles
In omega man he was living like that childish guy on that planet the captain Kirk and the gang went to see on that episode of the old Star Trek😂
The Vincent Price’s the best one
I recently listened to it (literally only 6 hours) and was blown away how much is taken just from that book alone in other “zombie” media. Basing it in science, the rules, the survival techniques etc. are all things that were recycled for ideas 50 years later. It’s actually insane how much it set the standard for. Also I just love it. (I just clicked on the video so you may have already expressed this but still)
Well the last man on earth was basically the inspiration for night of the living dead
The zombies in light of the living dead were called ghouls
If we want to be technical
Ghouls are flesh eating on Dead…. how the word flesh eating zombie stuck…. i’ll never know. I always say. If a zombie eats flesh he’s a ghoul.
What’s the burning pit scene filmed in Centralia …. just kidding
Loved the video but you missed a major concept of the book. The infected are not literal vampires, they functionally work like vampires of myth but %100 are not. Towards the end Nevil realizes by torturing vampires that he not all respond to crosses, he hypothesizes that the fear response brought on by religious symbols only works on those who had been religious, a Jewish person wouldn’t react to the cross but would the Star of David. In the book it’s made clear the news and world believed they were all dying to vampires so when they got the virus they believed them selves to be vampires. The book gives explanations to why mirrors and garlic affect them, the concentrated light from the mirrors burns them since they are light sensitive. It’s also explained in the book the virus itself is running the body like how zombies work in last of us but with a healing factor, the vampires are able to heal from anything except a wound that is held open long enough for air to get in an kill the virus, hence why stakes work to kill them. Neville also questions whether the virus had existed in the dark ages, suspecting it to be the origin of the vampire myth. Had the world known about the concept of zombies the infected would have collectively used that moniker during the collapse of Society rather than vampire. The disease is psychological and the vampires even talk.
The idea that the infected aren’t vampires is why the end is so tragic because the mentally unaffected infected who had found their own therapeutic drug to prevent them from losing their mind all end up fearing nevil when they find him because he had been killing then in the daytime. They end up looking at him like Dracula in his castle. When Neville is faced with execution by the new society he elements that he’ll be remembered as the monster by this new society of essentially mutants whom posses the benefits of the disease’s healing factor but can still be killed by the sun and must take a drug to stave off death….. waiting Fallouts Ghouls are essentially atomic vampires wow.
Why not have a question saying which film has the Woodstock film? Lol.
Your viewpoint might be a little blurred through the lens you grow up In.
Not gonna lie I am Legend kinda ruined that Bob Marley song for me.
Does anyone remember I am Omega starring Mark Dacascos, it was like a scifi channel version of i am legend . Definitely check it out if you haven't
The Last Man on Earth is genuinely frightening, especially because he is besieged by the living dead in the kind of suburban home most of us lived in as children. When I was a kid, that movie gave me nightmares. The Omega Man really captured the mood of the 70s. You had to be there… the 70s felt like the world was unravelling. Cults were rampant and gas stations were running out of gas. The Will Smith version is a CGI trainwreck.
The first one wins because it actually has vampires.
Love these movies as little time capsules. Grew up with the 70s version myself.