Thread: I AM LEGEND alternative Ending

Well that, I also disagree with. Read the book, even watch the original with Vincent Price called the Last Man on Earth. The whole point is that they're a society, not just a bunch of rabid beasts. I mean, tigers of blood thristy but they still love their mates and offspring. That's the only thing I didn't like about the original ending, the most they showed when it comes to intelligence is an incredibly embittered yell when one's girlfriend is kidnapped and a little trap they set. I feel like both endings are missing some very integral, though. If the writers knew what they were doing, they would have combined them.

I don't think the movie was intent depicting the vampires as a society. So that ending just doesn't set well with me. The other ending was better, but for some reason it still felt incomplete. If it was the intent of the writer to show intelligence, then clearly they didn't do a good job because I'm missing something. In which case, I'd agree with you.

I do want to read the book now though. It sounds pretty interesting.

Originally Posted by Black_Eagle

I don't think the movie was intent depicting the vampires as a society.

Then you need to watch the movie again.

Remember this scene?


I rest my case.

Hmmm... I'm not really sure, but I think I prefer the original ending. Both have good points, though. The alternative does a good job in showing the intelligence of the nightwalkers that we saw when the trap was laid out for Will, but I still think it was a little cheesy. I think the desperation of the last scene in his lab is better followed up by his sacrifice and a "humanity is saved but at a cost", rather than a "oh we're all absolutely fine, and humanity is saved" ending. I think Will's death in the original ending was pretty timely, since he lost his dog - his only companion - and his family. His death sorta wraps it up nicely. He's got nothing left to live for except the antidote, and he sacrifices himself for it. So yeah, the original ending packs more punch, and makes the movie seem like it takes itself more seriously.

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alternate ending or not i still didn't like the show!

Originally Posted by Omnius Deus

Then you need to watch the movie again.

Remember this scene?


I rest my case.

I thought that was when he sawe the mannequin outside?

What does that have to do with them being a society? He had been isolated from any kind of human contact for three years, and talked to mannequins so he didn't forget how to.

I thought that seeing one outside would just make him go nuts because he's been so isolated for so long and such.

The book was supposed to be about how one's perspective is everything...

To Will Smith's character, he was trying to save them from a plague that he thought ravaged their intellect and made them less than human...

When in actuality, they were more of an evolution and communicated in a higher form of telepathy and a different sense of belonging which made their needless want of distraction with our so-called "technology" obsolete. When he realized an actual structure to their society, he found they weren't exactly less than human as he thought.

And, on the other side of the coin, the "night walkers" viewed him as a day version of Dracula who wandered around like a phantom who reversely woke during their night, which was day for him and kidnapped and murdered unsuspecting members of their albeit different, yet highly structured society. That's why they focus on the number of I.D.'s on the wall in horror...

I didn't read the book but I heard the book's intent was to try and blur the lines of black and white of what we consider "advanced" civilization. So, while we may think those cultures that don't type on the internet and distract themselves with cell phones and entertainment as savages, if we had a better sense of communication and community then those "technologies" essentially become as obsolete as BETA tapes.

So, the real ending of book was Will Smith's character killing himself because he realizes they aren't savages and in that new society he is actually feared and considered the bad guy...

This ending stays a little truer to the book by blurring the lines of black and white, which I feel is better. Of course the average joe might disagree.

Ah.

Still, against the movie it seemed pretty... Clashing...

You can't depict something on one end of the spectrum for the whole movie and then at the end depict it on the other suddenly.

That's why book to movie conversions generally suck.

They have to hollywood it up and make it a simple story with a happy ending for the mindless masses or it doesn't do well in theaters. The book is supposed to be much more of a mind fuck about who's right and who's wrong.

Take the movie Fight Club for example, the book has the main character Jack shoot himself in the head right as project mayhem commences as the one selfless act from his old self to symbolize completeness and the death of ego... dead... the end... Fade to black... just the way I like it... bitter sweet.

No... Instead, Hollywood makes him somehow survive a shot to the dome in order to be able to hold hands with the person who was supposed to be the antagonist and catalyst that he used to propel mankind into the new age leaving all old ideas of deluded happiness behind.

A complete contradiction to what the entire book/movie stood for... I still liked everything up until he stood up from the shot.

Originally Posted by SolSkye

Of course the average joe might disagree.

Ouch....

Then again, I'm sure I would think differently if I'd read the book first.

I really don't think there's any point in getting riled up when a movie of a book isn't the same as you read. You should instead just try to feel that the movie is a different take on the book - pretty much a different way of telling the story. Then you won't feel like the book has been so violated.

I thought Will put the manaquine there and was going crazy, that he forgot he made a trap there.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

I thought that was when he sawe the mannequin outside?

What does that have to do with them being a society? He had been isolated from any kind of human contact for three years, and talked to mannequins so he didn't forget how to.

I thought that seeing one outside would just make him go nuts because he's been so isolated for so long and such.

They put it out there because they knew he liked them, they caught him like a an animal and as night approached released their hounds.

Originally Posted by Omnius Deus

They put it out there because they knew he liked them, they caught him like a an animal and as night approached released their hounds.

They didn't really emphasize it enough. I feel like if they did think rationally, then it was irrelevant to the movie. It feels like something that was just tossed in there. This movie needs a remake if you ask me.