Chapter 458： Thats right! (1/2)
Chapter 458 is right!
If there is a well, a group of happy frogs live underneath, and a frog on the well thinks that their life is too poor, and tries their best to pull them up to the beautiful world it thinks, this is a kind of salvation, or Self-righteous?
This is a question that Wang Yang has been thinking about for a long time. All kinds of ideas and various forms have started from ”Firefly” to ”I am Legend” and will continue. Neville is the frog. , And the group of frogs in the well used to live in the well.
The infected people in the original novel ”I am Legend” (1954) have no change in appearance and IQ, but have symptoms like vampires. This is a group of ”new humans”. The virus immunizer Neville is studying vaccines to cure the virus. Fear and hatred make him continue to destroy the vampires' attempts to rebuild society at the same time, thus becoming the most hated person of the new humanity.
One day, he caught a woman ”Ruth” who thought he was not infected, but got along and found that she was suspicious. Ruth finally reluctantly agreed to let him take a blood sample for testing, but he stunned him, and he also realized By the way, she is an infected vampire. When Neville woke up, he found a note, she said that the infected person was slowly overcoming their illness, they could already stay in the sun for a short time, and hated him very much, she warned Neville, she People will come over to catch him, he should leave his house and escape.
However, Neville ignored her warning, he was captured, and then he saw Ruth again. Ruth tells him that she is a senior officer in the new society, but unlike others, she does not hate her, she admits that this is her planned capture operation. Neville felt badly injured. He accepted his fate and just asked Ruth not to make that new society cruel and ruthless. Ruth kissed him and his hair.
While being executed, looking at all the vampires, suddenly, Neville understood these new human beings. They have their own morals and pursuits. They have their own new world. They do n’t need to be healed or rescued by anyone. He is just a survivor of the old man! When he was dying, he said: ”I am a new legend, I am a legend.”
Yes, Neville will probably be the evil character of the mythology of the new civilization, such as Satan. This is a redemption and anti-redemption. This is a discussion of the struggle of human nature and the concept of racial civilization. Any racial civilization is no higher than anyone. Life will find a way out by itself. This is the original meaning of ”I am Legend”.
In The Last Man on Earth (1964), there are weak and stupid vampires, as well as new variants of blood-sucking humans, and the ”dog” appeared. It is a stray dog. When it first met, Morgan failed to catch it After a while, it was infected with the virus when it appeared again, and soon died, Morgan buried it.
Morgan (Neville) fell in love with Ruth at first sight, convinced her to go home with him, and cured her immediately with the vaccine, he saw hope! But at this time, Ruth's people appeared, they killed the vampires gathered around Morgan's house, then found and caught up with the fleeing Morgan, the two gangs exchanged fire, and Morgan lost. Although Ruth begged his companions to let him survive, he was still nailed to the altar with a spear by them. Before dying, Morgan called them “Freaks” and declared him the last real person on earth. People!
This first edition has already misinterpreted ”I Am Legend”. The ending of the story is meaningless except to show loyalty to the human audience.
Richard Matheson, the original author who co-wrote the script at that time, was very dissatisfied, but in order to keep receiving the subsequent dividend income from the movie, he still used the name of the vest ”Logan Vence”. Combination of his first name and his mother ’s last name. Mathison said: ”I am disappointed, even if they follow my story more or less, but this is a superficial and barren direction, I just don't like it.”
”I'm looking forward to it.” Mathison, who is now 80, said this before in an interview with the New York Times, because the adaptation rights used to belong to WB and now belong to FF. He has no right to ask how to adapt. But for Wang Yang's remake, the old man showed great expectations and optimism: ”Maybe before I die, I can see a real” I am a Legend ”, a real Neville.”
”The Last Man on Earth” has its story, but its significance is more important than the creation of the zombie genre (the vampire and the zombie in the film are almost the same), and the content of the film, the box office, etc. are not the objects of its praise.
In ”The Last Man” (1971), hundreds of albinism mutation survivors in Los Angeles formed an organization ”The-ly”. The family believes that science has caused this tragedy, so all signs of science should be eliminated, they do not use Guns and other high-tech products, even imitating medieval dresses, are at most flashlights and slingshot cars; ”the last remnants of ancient culture” Neville and family relations are hostile.
One day, the family captured Neville in a wine cellar. After trial, the family convicted him as a guilty demon and sentenced him to fire in the center of the stadium.
But another group of survivors Lisa (the woman he saw before on patrol) and Dez (a former medical student familiar with Neville ’s work) saved him, and Neville wanted to use his own plasma if he was immune The manufacture of serum may cure these people (previously he only searched for food and clothing during the day and killed family members). If the serum is effective, they are ready to leave Los Angeles and avoid the family to start a new life together in the wild.
Lisa's brother Rich was successfully cured. Because of sympathy with the family, Rich took the serum and tried to persuade them to receive treatment. The leader Matthias refused to believe and killed Rich. After Neville arrived, it was a big battle. When the gun was blocked, he was stabbed by a spear thrown by Matthias and was fatally injured!
At the same time, under the leadership of Detz, several survivors drove a Land Rover off-road vehicle to escape from Los Angeles. They found a dying Neville by a fountain. He handed the serum bottle representing the hope of recovering humanity. After Dez, he died shortly after, and the survivors embarked on an unknown journey.
In 1971, Neville was ”I am a legend” because he developed a serum that restores humanity and sacrifices life to bring hope to humanity. He is a heroic legend, not a demon. Still far from the original intent of the novel, it is no wonder that Matheson believes that he has not seen the real ”I am Legend”.
However, the legend has not won much praise and box office for it, its performance is worse than ”The Last Man on Earth”. However, it has a shining point, that is, the appearance of Neville's leisure ”shopping”, ”puppet model” and other elements, Tim Burton once said: ”If I am alone on a desert island, I may choose Things, I might be talking to myself, like ”The Last Man”, I don't know why it is one of my favorite movies, but it is. ”
The theme of the original WB version of ”I am a Legend” continues to be the hero of the big reel to save humanity, and it also absorbs some of the praise elements of the first two scripts. The stray dog becomes Sam. The first half of the story focuses on Neville ’s loneliness and life through daily life. In the doomsday atmosphere, he eventually died at the cost of his life and the infected people who broke through the last line of defense, protecting Anna's mother and son from leaving. His serum became the hope of redeeming mankind, and his fighting deeds became legends (the finale of the release version).
On the other hand, there have been two huge changes in this version. The infected people have become powerful, low-witted, predatory, violent, and ugly Darkseekers. Only the boss has good intelligence, just like Now the predator of ”Firefly”; and it has no new human organization, but there is a legendary survivor camp, ”Ruth” with Rich became Anna mother and son, they brought hope, also put ”hope” Successfully brought to the survivor camp.
It can be said that the three versions and novels are on different tracks, because of business, because of political correctness, because of goodness and hope.
”T-ME, Ke Ke is.” Wang Yang did not know whether Matheson could see ”the real” I am a Legend ””, he would not make Neville a stubborn person, nor a man who saved humanity. The hero is now in 2006, but he is one of the most box-office directors today. Will Smith is one of the most box-office superstars. Is he still crippling like he was a few decades ago? What a joke!
But he will not let a female character like ”Ruth” appear, there is no room for negotiation, no! The appearance of a woman will completely destroy those loneliness, depression, and despair. Sam's death will become meaningless immediately, and she will destroy everything!
When the moon is empty, the night is getting darker and deeper. In the bright study room, Wang Yang shook his head, and those words and images were suddenly swept away. Do n’t worry about the three versions of “I am Legend”, do n’t go What did he want in the original novel?
I want Neville to die as the last human! I want him to be the legendary demon! Wang Yang has thought about it for a long time, a lot, in fact, what he wants most is loneliness, a world of wasteland!
He knows why the mediocre ”The Last Man” is one of Tim Burton's favorite movies because he had a similar idea because it portrayed Neville's loneliness and some wasteland worlds. Looks, and his goal for this shooting is to go all out in these two aspects! Therefore, ”Ruth” must not appear. After Sam's death, he pushed Neville's loneliness and the loneliness of the world to the extreme, and he was the only one.