Well, that's just what I took away from it.Īlso, sorry for the down votes people are giving you for voicing your opinion. And the fact that they were still animals, with capacity for emotion, (remember how crazy sad it was when he killed his dog) was something that Will Smith's character failed to take into account when he kidnapped and killed hundreds of them, and that's the final revelation of the story. It tells the tale of Robert Neville who appears to be the sole survivor of a pandemic that has ravaged the world and turned the dead into vampiric monsters that come out at night to terrorize the protagonist. It's never even implied that they're an advanced society, just that they still can band together in tribes and families and whatnot, like ugly vampire apes.Īnd for me, I never took it to be that they ended up nice and normal (that would be stupid, yeah) but just that they were a species that was savage and primitive and definitely sub-human, but still creatures that were capable of pain and love and longing and whatnot. I Am Legend was written by Richard Matheson and was published in 1954 by Gold Medal Books. The novel was adapted to film in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, in 1971 as Omega Man, and in 2007 as I am Legend, starring Will Smith. In 2012, it was named the best vampire novel of the century by the Horror Writers Association and the Bram Stoker Estate. Personally, I don't have a problem with them forming a society ants and birds and elephants form societies all by themselves in nature. Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend has been a major influence on horror literature.
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