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Today, the blog opens a new section:

" Folder ". This will be articles made more "comprehensive", covering books, films, exhibitions, plays etc. ... But where I compile more information than in sections only "critical". Well, I hope you'll find it here ^ ^
... The first "issue" of this section will therefore focus on
"I Am Legend"

... I guess that for many of you This title explains the film which starred Will Smith. But do you know that this story comes to us, first, a book ... Then, then, two other movie adaptations, before reaching the 2007 film which we all think? No? So follow me, we'll learn more about this story, which is perhaps not so "futuristic" than that!

Some of the book covers USA.

Author: American author and screenwriter, born in 1926. His novels 1953: Day of fury

(

Fury on Sunday
• ) 1954: I Am Legend
• (I Am Legend ) 1955: The Tits of Ice (
Someone is Bleeding
• ) 1956: The Incredible Shrinking Man
• ( The Shrinking Man ) 1958: Echoes (
• A Stir of Echoes ) 1960: On behalf buddies (
• The beardless warriors ) 1971: The House of the Damned (
• Hell House ) 1975: The Young Man, Death and Time
• (Bid Time Return ) 1978 Beyond our dreams (
• What Dreams May Come ) 1989: Hostage night (Earthbound
• ) 1991: Journal years of powder (
Journal of the Gun Years
• ) 1993: At 7 not Midnight (
7 Steps to Midnight
• ) 2002: The Hunt (
Hunted Past Reason
• ) (source Wikipedia) I will not talk about today, other works the author, since I have not yet read ... (Which does not delay ...

"The Young Man, Death and Time"

me looks like, anyway.) No, let's talk about her second novel ...

Some of the covers of the book in France.

I Am Legend: The Book

. " Every day he must organize his solitary existence in an abandoned town, emptied of its inhabitants by a strange epidemic. A incurable virus which forced the men to feed on blood and forcing them to flee the rays of sun ... Each night, the vampires hunt down to the gates of his home, refuge frail against a horde familiar faces of his former neighbors and his own wife. Every night is a nightmare for the last man, the last survivor of a species now legendary. "
(back cover sheet SF)

The story of the last man has imagined Richard Matheson took up in 1976 amid a city (Los Angeles) empty of all people ...

From the front lines, we cling to that great script that serves the establishment of a world and a man alone ...
The sentences are short and punchy.
And the character is realistic ... It could be us ... It could be him ... Or almost.
When you turn the first pages of "I Am Legend" , we like the feeling of reading an autobiographical narrative about the history, real, this man ..
. We follow her thoughts ... Sometimes borrowed madness. Are we, here, in a true SF novel? I'm not so sure ... What is certain is that by taking our world as the basis of this history, Richard Matheson creates a touching and timeless book ...

It becomes difficult, as and when we turn the pages of this book release.
We see and feel the seeds of madness that germinate, quietly, in the spirit of man ... The interior monologues punctuate the novel and make our "hero" all the more touching. Yes, why not go crazy when you speak Also, when does not exchange more when you no longer touches the Other ... The essence of the human being is annihilated by ...

So one wonders why Robert has not yet killed, why has he not yet decided this life? And he also wonders ... Often
... The subject, as dramatic as it is, is treated here with no pathos. No tearing useless ... No, writing is raw, Richard Matheson n'enrobe not.
Then after a few hours of reading, and after following this man for 3 years, we broke out late in the figure, leaves us speechless, we disarm ...
Perhaps we too familiar with Happy-Ends ...
...

only downside, if there is one: the length of the book ... Too short.

few extra pages would they not have been helpful to give us time to take this loneliness, this time passing, this silence, this absence, this hope ... To imbue us a little more?
And at the same time, these pages would they not break this rhythm so pressing. The same one that makes us turn the pages over and over again ... ...
My Note for I Am Legend: 4 / 5



The film adaptations

: They are the number of three. L'ultimo uomo della Terra (Italy) or, even, The Last Man on Earth

(USA) is a film Italian-American co-directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, released in 1964.

Screenrush Film ), I understand that this adaptation was faithful to the book.

Posters of the first adaptation of Richard Matheson's book.

I have not seen this adaptation (if anyone knows where I can find it, it would be very nice to give me the secret ^ ^). However, reading his summary and various comments on the web (see, for example, plug

(to the extent possible, of course!) The aspect of "vampire" of "creatures" in the book, seems to have been taken into account here, since we compare the film to "Night Undead "Sidney Salkow ... I will complete the details of this movie once I'd seen!
The Survivor

(VO title: The Omega Man) directed by Boris Sagal in 1971.

faithful to the book by Richard Matheson ... Indeed, we see, first of all, too many characters

Posters or visual dvd film The Omega Man.

I could see this adaptation, and it is only very little

! In the book, we see only a few characters (2 or 3 large maximum ...), and this is not the case here. The reasons for the immunity of Robert Neville, the main character, are not included, the "creatures" infected, they are endowed by conscience, speech, intelligence ... What is not completely the case in the book by Richard Matheson. Finally, after the first quarter of the film, the story itself separately in a different direction ... (With a sort of sect known as the "Family", and wants to destroy all science and technology ...)
short, a kind of movie series B and contains only very few of the interesting points of " I Am Legend " ... What a pity!
I'm not totally out of watching this disappointed since I found
elements, or even plans, almost entirely taken up in the adaptation of Francis Lawrence, 2007. We can cite, for example, the aerial shots of the dead city opening movie, the car of Robert Neville speed maneuvering in these deserted streets, but also dialogues with mannequins or statues ... (To replace the interior monologues of the book.). But finally I found the film
almost comical ... We find no moods burdensome, distressing or sad ... And vampires are ... um ... how to say ... disguised with the means of the time ...
If you must see this film, it will be for this aspect of "fun" ... and not for anything else!


I Am Legend (VO title: I Am Legend)

: is the latest adaptation of Richard Matheson's book. Francis Lawrence's film is released in cinemas in 2007 and blew the box office! (584 million dollars in worldwide box office) (source Wikipedia).


As I said earlier, the original plans for this film (aerial shots and zooms progressive on the car of Robert Neville barreling full speed through the streets of the city) are largely taken from the adaptation Previous: The Survivor .

Posters and visual DVD of the film released in 2007: I Am Legend.

But, fortunately, the comparisons stop there. This film is almost true to the book in its general frame (apart from the end ... We will return later.).
We find the character of Robert Neville, played here by Will Smith
, sole survivor of a bacterial transforming humans into nocturnal creatures aggressive and bloodthirsty. In the book by Richard Matheson, these creatures have all the characteristics of the vampire is not the case here. No need for timber piles for slaughter, a weapon Just fire ... (Keep one or two chargers with you can still use !)...
also needed to find a way to transcribe the book moults interior monologues in this movie. The option of a voice might have been too repetitive for 1:40; Francis Lawrence has preferred this option, the dog , present here as the companion, fully humanized our hero.

So yes, the frame is similar to the book, in outline, but the mood, she is totally different:

- In the book, the character really fluctuates throughout the pages, between madness and reason, between alcoholism and sobriety, between hope and despair unconscious. And that's what makes the interest of the story ...
How not to be mad at that face deep "lack" of humanity?
response, I found Will Smith
too "clean" ... Not enough marked.
Still full of hope, so that is what, from a certain stage of the book, Robert Neville desperately misses ... is this madness that gives half the oppressive atmosphere of the book and that it's hard to find in the movie ... -Finally, no weeping in the next book. The sentences are gross, the situations are difficult, the character falls down ... It is angry, it is sad, you understand ... The book can make you cry, but it is not his goal. So
the contrary, the film grows, sometimes, tears ...

And I did not like it ...
And it seemed that history was still no need. It is sufficient to itself! ...

now to talk about the end. (Do not worry: no spoilers, as usual here.)

In the book, the ending seems to be there to make us think the human condition, on his way to the legend and that is where the book's title makes sense ...
The end of the book is not necessarily beautiful, but does not seem fair either ... It remains open to discussion ... In an acceptance may be, too. In the film by Francis Lawrence, the end is borrows religiosity
... At a sign from God, the character sacrifices himself, finally, for the good of all for the cause of man ... Then we find here the
theme so dear to Hollywood super-hero, the savior of mankind.
And what a pity! We would another end this movie pretty good ... And
hop
Wish come true with the DVD release of I Am Legend .
An alternate ending is present in the bonus ... The latter suits me more but does not, again, Justice to the book. If you have not yet had the opportunity to see this "Alternative Ending" is this:

and, despite the lack of madness of the character that I discussed earlier, the actor manages to shine through her fear of these creatures, his need for "normality" (used in video-club, etc..), and a latent sadness ...

Some shots of Manhattan "empty"
are breathtaking , some scenes in shaking-cam (handheld camera) make hunting and fighting quite impressive, even frightening ... short, a film that is enjoyable to see and review.
But far, anyway, be a pearl ...

My rating for the movie "I Am Legend": 3 / 5

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his is, I hope you enjoyed this first issue! And if you have items to add to all this, please!

Rose