I AM LEGENT
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Dr. Krippen (Emma Thompson) is interviewed on TV about her
great discovery: she has changed the measles virus genetically so that it
attacks cancerous cells. She explains that all the cancer patients which her
cure has been tested on have recovered so far. The scene jumps to three years
later. We see New York City has become an empty and desolate place, devoid of
human life. Grass covers roads and buildings, abandoned cars line the highways
and the city is silent. It seems that apocalypse has arrived.
Robert
Neville (Will Smith) is driving through the deserted city accompanied by Sam,
his dog. A herd of deer leap across his path and he follows them gives chase at
speed in the car. He tries to shoot them and we realise it's a hunt. The deer
split up and run down a road blocked with abandoned cars. Neville gives chase
on foot, trying to hunt one deer down. As he rounds a corner he gets the deer
in his gun sights only to be beaten to the kill by a lion. lion, presumably
escaped from NYC zoo. Robert is seemingly torn as to whether to shoot the lion
and its family who also enter the scene. At this point his Robert's watch alarm
starts beeping and he leaves, taking Sam with him. He leaves without firing the
gun. We see Neville's home, it is the typical American detached house, but it
looks as though it were in the middle of a war zone. They -Robert and Sam- have
had a seemingly normal evening, eating processed food and watching tv. After a
bath, Neville shuts, locks and protects every door and window with massive
steel shutters. He sleeps close to Sam.
At his
fortress-like home, Robert exercises and goes down to the basement, where he
keeps a small but hi-tech laboratory. We see that he has been experimenting
with a vaccine / cure for the virus that has apparently wiped out most of the
human race. He's tried the plague virus in some mice in order to find a
vaccine. All the mice look incredibly aggressive, except for one. Robert will
have to inject the blood of that mouse into a human victim of the virus to see
if they revert back to regain their normal human life. characteristics. Later,
Robert goes to a video-rental store where he talks to the mannequins, his only
form of contact with the human form. It seems has created a game for himself to
prevent madness from taking him. He later visits some condo flats nearby,
watching sadly the remains of the people who used to live there. We see the
pain in his eyes as he empathises with the loss of loved ones. Later, we hear
the radio message Neville has created and plays over all AM radio frequencies.
It says that he's alive, and that he'll be waiting for more survivors at the
docks of the bay at midday everyday.
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