I Am Legend
Jan. 19th, 2008 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournA good but flawed movie. It lacks the over-the-top Messianic messages in Omega Man, although it is very "Green Christian Movement" towards the end. The infected are more zombie monster and less hippy Christian cultists. Will Smith does an amazing job of carrying the first half of the film by himself, and the overall feel of the film has a lot more personal tragedy. While he is clearly mentally unstable with plenty of OCD and post-traumatic stress, he lacks Charleston's Napoleonic Narcissist meets 'kill em all and let God sort them out' home defense advocate edge. Will's rendition is also a family man, and while he clearly has detached himself from the world and views the infected as animals, he isn't systematically sweeping the city exterminating them. As a result, he is a lot more sympathetic character.
The images are all demos for A World Without People and I could've done without the Old Yeller subplot. Some of the 'documentary-style' freehanded filming sequences were sickening on the IMAX screen, and there's tons of subtext and back-story that is completely missing from the actual 90 minutes in the theater. The religiosity is still there in a more subtle way, as is the "we must fear biotech" theme, but it does take itself far more seriously than the 1971 version.
The images are all demos for A World Without People and I could've done without the Old Yeller subplot. Some of the 'documentary-style' freehanded filming sequences were sickening on the IMAX screen, and there's tons of subtext and back-story that is completely missing from the actual 90 minutes in the theater. The religiosity is still there in a more subtle way, as is the "we must fear biotech" theme, but it does take itself far more seriously than the 1971 version.
