Henry Imler June 18th, 2008

I 89% of I am Legend, right up until the ending. They were setting the film up to be a paired down and simplified version of the book to be sure, but the spirit of the book was still there - that these things Nevil was hunting were not complete monsters and that he was one to them because of his hunting of them. In the original ending of the movie, Nevil sacrifices himself with a grenade to allow his magically appearing companions to escape. He is the legend because he found a cure, we discover in the ending monologue. Check out the alternate ending that was cut out of the film:

There, wasn’t that so much better? I mean, the zombie/vamps are still generated using a gamecube, but the spirit of the book is there. As he turns and looks at his "patient" wall, he realizes that he is the monster. Still no where near the quality of the book, but hey, it’s an 1.5 hour movie, whaddya gonna do?

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