I am legend?

Question

I wanna know the whole story detail for detail because i cant go see it. also any opinions on it would be nice.

Answer 1

A genetically reengineered measles virus called KV or Krippen Virus, originally created as a cancer vaccine (by a doctor in a cameo by Emma Thompson) and tested in clinical trials involving 10,009 patients, rapidly spreads and wipes out the population of the world by the end of 2009 when it mutates into a lethal strain that is transmissible through the air and blood, leaving military virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) the last human survivor in New York City and possibly the world.

The virus immediately killed 90% of the people on the planet, roughly 5.4 billion. Less than 1% of humans are immune, leaving roughly 12 million people unaffected. The remaining 588 million people were infected but did not die; they instead began exhibiting early symptoms of rabies and then lost all normal human behavior, degenerating into a primal state driven by hunger and blind rage, in turn killing a majority of the immune. Neville is watched by these "infected" people. The infected are strongly affected by UV radiation, so they avoid sunlight and hide in the dark underground and in buildings (called hives by Neville) then swarm out at night. Dogs and rats are also susceptible to the virus. By 2012, Neville has not seen another normal human being since the virus' release three years ago, and suspects that the infected have succeeded in killing the remainder of the survivors. Neville finds himself outnumbered by the infected and running out of time as he seeks to find a cure.

Neville sticks to a strict daily routine that includes exercise, searching for a cure to the virus in his basement laboratory, harvesting corn and vegetables in a plot in Central Park, hitting golf balls on the wing of a plane on the USS Intrepid, hunting for deer in the streets of Manhattan with Sam, his daughter's dog, and waiting by remains of the Brooklyn Bridge when the sun is highest for any survivors who hear his daily radio broadcasts. Neville is haunted by the intense psychological trauma not only of having everyone he ever knew die, but also being completely isolated from all human contact for three years; his only companions are Sam and various department store mannequins he has set up and assigned names to. He has flashbacks of the Coast Guard helicopter carrying his wife and daughter to safety from Manhattan colliding with another helicopter during the chaotic evacuation before Manhattan was placed under military quarantine and isolated by destroying the bridges that connect it with the rest of New York City. Neville is completely immune to KV, whereas Sam is immune to the KV strain spread via airborne transmission but is still susceptible to direct contact. Neville worries that Sam can be infected with the virus if bitten by one of the Infected.

Neville eventually comes up with a promising treatment for the virus in his basement laboratory. The treatment seems to work on an infected rat. He sets up a snare trap and captures an infected woman, but it initially doesn't appear to work on her. During one of his daily excursions out into the city, he is ensnared in a similer trap that he dosn't appear to have set outside of Grand Central Terminal. He manages to free himself just as the sun is disappearing but he and Sam are attacked by Infected dogs released by the Alpha Male hiding inside Grand Central Terminal. Neville kills the Infected dogs but not before Sam is bitten by one of them. He brings Sam home and in an attempt to cure her injects her with Compound 6, which has shown the most promise in his tests, but instead is forced to kill her when she begins the transformation into one of the Infected. He then buries her body in Central Park. In his despair, he nearly commits suicide by attacking a large group of Infected with his car late at night but is rescued by a pair of survivors - Anna from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a boy named Ethan - who bring him back to his fortified home in Washington Square Park. Anna and Ethan had survived the infection aboard a Red Cross evacuation ship, and Anna tells Neville that they came all the way from Maryland and heard his radio broadcasts. She tells him about a survivor colony in Vermont (and in a nod to the book with its religious overtones) says that God sent her to Neville to bring him to the colony. Neville refuses to believe her, telling her that everyone is dead.

That night, hordes of the Infected, who have followed Anna and Ethan to Neville's home when they rescued him the previous night, attack Neville's home and overrun its defenses. Neville, Anna, and Ethan rush into his laboratory in an attempt to survive. When they seal themselves in with the Infected woman Neville was experimenting on, they discover that the ice pack Neville put on her bed had enabled the treatment to start working on her. The key component was lowering body temperature, which Neville believed could give a boost to the serum. Neville quickly draws blood containing the cure from the patient and gives the vial to Anna, putting her and Ethan in a coal chute. Neville then sacrifices himself just as the leader of the Infected manages to break through, killing himself and the Infected with a hand grenade.

Anna and Ethan escape and drive up to Vermont where they discover the fortified colony of survivors. Entering the compound, Anna gives the cure to the guards. In the voice over, she states that Neville's cure enabled humanity to survive and rebuild, establishing his legend


It was a really good movie. I LOVE will smith

Answer 2

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I thought it was good.... except for the fact that they spent so much time elaborating on the first 80% of the movie, they really rushed through the end when the lady shows up. It was like lady, kid, cure, grenade, the end. I was like wtf? They really didn't explain how she got there, how they got out of the hole in the wall and left, how they were going to get the cure from the blood and replicate it, or anything which that kind of stuff annoys me. He was being a martyr at the end there which annoyed me too, just pull the pin from the grenade and get in the hole in the wall, she said there was room for you.. so freaking get in there then BOOM it explodes then get out and everyone is one big happy family. I thought the atmosphere was set well though at the beginning and through the middle. The scene where he goes in the dark after the deer and the dog was freaky. Stupid mannequins freak me out too.

What was up with the one zombie vampire whatever guy coming out at the end and being like the leader? That was weird. Then they got like superhuman strength and climbing up the sides of the buildings and stuff? What was that?

Answer 3

awwww man this movie was sooo good, so many good parts. the beginning was amazing when will smith is driving through the empty streets of New York trying to hunt deer with his dog, and theres another scene where will smith follows his dog into this dark building where the vampires are hiding because they cant go into the sunlight and they chase him in a really suspensful way... and the very end was pretty siik when the vampires are all attacking his house...

Answer 4

Iron Maiden

Answer 5

It's a remake, the original is with Charleston Heston and I think it's called Omega Man.
I think Will Smith is an awesome actor, I'd like to see them remake the 10 Commandments and put Will Smith in the role of Moses, I'm sure he could do a much better job in the role of Moses!!!

Answer 6

Did anyone else wonder how all that vegetation and brush was able to overgrow the city in just 3 years. I believe that was the timeframe, right?

Answer 7

i hope you are talking about the movie with will smith, if not then don't read this lol :P, but i saw it about 3 days ago and its about this cure for Cancer and then it turns all bad and it makes people more aggressive and they loose all of there social skill, and they only come ought at night because there skin is sensitive, but if you ask me, its a really good movie ;)

Answer 8

There's about 20 mins of good scenes. The rest sucks...

Answer 9

OKAY
THE PLOT WASA A CURE WAS FOUND FOR CANCER BUT THE CURE WAS THE MEASLES DISEASE SO IT BACKFIRED AND CAUSED A DISEASE SOMELIKE RAIBES BUT JUST LIKE THE AGRESSION PART
HE IS TRYING TO FIND A CURE FOR IT BECAUSE HE IS IMMUNE TO IT AND THE CURE IS IMMUNE BLOOD HE MEETS TWO OTHER PPL WHO ARE IMMUNE AND THEY TRAVEL TO VERMONT BUT WILL SMITH DIES IN THE MOVIE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Answer 10

I'm not going to recount the whole movie- but it was a snooze fest. Seriously. I fell asleep twice. It was sooo boring.

Answer 11

Rent out "Omega Man", it's a remake of that film.