I stumbled upon a movie trailer for a second part of "I am legend", a movie produced in 2007 starring one of my favorite actors Will Smith. What do you think happened next? Right, I started to think ( I' m really looking for the switch off button)
First of all, I don't know what kind of cheap plot are they going to use to bring a dead character to life. I know it's a science fiction movie, but there's gotta be some rules.
Second, I don't really know how they can inflict more damage on a great book. The first movie already turned it from a classic to a mediocre second rate movie.
The book tells the story of the last genuine human living among the dead, we are currently accustomed to zombie movies, but this was fresh in the fifties. He's living among freaks who - fully aware of their actions - execute him at the end after an epic struggle. A guy who gets frustrated by his inability to alter his reality and who keeps getting haunted by figures of the past. He ends up being a martyr of his own identity. I believe he sees it "I am the only one left among freaks, in that sense, I am the freak, hence I am legend". This is an every day relevant story where people are alienated, discriminated against and even prosecuted for being different from the blind masses. It's a story of frustration and desperate existence. It's a story for an Italian black comedy.
The 2007 movie on the other hand is a typical American fairy tale. Sure the guy suffers, sure he dies at the end, but it associates meaning to his death which breathes a fake sense of relief in the audience. It some how says "it's ok, he suffered but for a good cause and that makes him a legend". It some how separates us from the agony he lived, and turns us into the freaks which the original story was portraying.
Just associate a meaning to suffering and it's all gonna work out. Wanna make it even better, throw a sense of hope for a future reward into the mix. This is how you turn a classic novel into a box office blockbuster, this is why nowadays Coelho (all respect to the great author) sells while Camus is just for the intellectuals
First of all, I don't know what kind of cheap plot are they going to use to bring a dead character to life. I know it's a science fiction movie, but there's gotta be some rules.
Second, I don't really know how they can inflict more damage on a great book. The first movie already turned it from a classic to a mediocre second rate movie.
The book tells the story of the last genuine human living among the dead, we are currently accustomed to zombie movies, but this was fresh in the fifties. He's living among freaks who - fully aware of their actions - execute him at the end after an epic struggle. A guy who gets frustrated by his inability to alter his reality and who keeps getting haunted by figures of the past. He ends up being a martyr of his own identity. I believe he sees it "I am the only one left among freaks, in that sense, I am the freak, hence I am legend". This is an every day relevant story where people are alienated, discriminated against and even prosecuted for being different from the blind masses. It's a story of frustration and desperate existence. It's a story for an Italian black comedy.
The 2007 movie on the other hand is a typical American fairy tale. Sure the guy suffers, sure he dies at the end, but it associates meaning to his death which breathes a fake sense of relief in the audience. It some how says "it's ok, he suffered but for a good cause and that makes him a legend". It some how separates us from the agony he lived, and turns us into the freaks which the original story was portraying.
Just associate a meaning to suffering and it's all gonna work out. Wanna make it even better, throw a sense of hope for a future reward into the mix. This is how you turn a classic novel into a box office blockbuster, this is why nowadays Coelho (all respect to the great author) sells while Camus is just for the intellectuals
"Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man."
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