By making them more than monsters, Smith's Robert Neville becomes a much more nuanced presence in the narrative.

A simple fix to this meaning change, however, would be to embue the first movie's mindless antagonists with a genuine sense of empathy and pathos. However, in the movie version of I Am Legend, Smith’s character becomes a “ legend” among human survivors because he finds a cure for the illness that creates Darkseekers, whereas the novel and the alternate ending of I Am Legend’s movie adaptation offer a very different explanation of the title.

Like the Mad Max movies, both the novel and movie of I Am Legend portray their antihero as a hardened and unhinged, but ultimately good-hearted, lone drifter who seeks human contact in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic event. Related: I Am Legend Remake Can Avoid The Biggest Will Smith MistakeĪssuming, judging by Smith's return, that I Am Legend 2 follows on from the alternate ending of I Am Legend, the sequel can show that Smith’s character is a monstrous villain in the eyes of New York’s vampiric inhabitants the Darkseekers.

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