Since January 21, 2011 - I Am Legend Genre: Sci-fi, horror
U.S. Production - Year 2007
Director: Francis Lawrence Subject:
from the book "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson
Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich
Production Designer: Naomi Shohan
Photograph: Andrew Lesnie
Music: James Newton Howard
Model: Will Smith (Robert Neville
)
Alice Braga (Anna
), Salli Richardson (Zoe
), Justin Morck, Gabrielle Union, Willow Smith (daughter of Robert Neville film, and real daughter of Will Smith).
Synopsis, Review and Trailer New York City, 2012 years
The first scenes of desolation and fill the screen real estate chaos. Alien invasion? Destruction caused by man? Natural disaster?
A multitude of cars on the road, there are the eye, mute witnesses of dramatic moments that are lost in the past, proof of an absence painful, myriads of lives that are gone.
Nature has begun to restore this habitat. Only a few years ago, would have been impossible to see here, herds of wild animals hungry, roam free and undisturbed. Yet, now hovering agile and wary the wreckage, there are deer, but also lions, ready to repeat innate instinctive gesture of preservation.
Robert Neville, he knows what happened. Locked inside his car, look for the umpteenth time the gruesome scene that presents itself before our eyes. Only in the company of his dog, is going to live another day to survive.
not easy, but has learned not to lose hope and to feign a semblance of normality acceptable. Nighttime hours are the most difficult, barricaded in the house, wait for all steps, the light of dawn to take away all attacks. Then the whole city is yours, but the dark places no, those can be very dangerous, better stay away! Disturbing presences there are around and have little human.
The lush grass has colonized every available part, Robert advancing cautiously scanning the surrounding landscape. How many memories! Quick flashback in his mind, experienced a dramatic day in this place, his wife, his daughter and a multitude of other people, military, means of escape and drama in the air. Then chaos.
Now, like every day is here, on time, with the hope of not being alone anymore. One thing is sure, he does not give up hope dies hard!
He is working on important medical research also continues tirelessly to transmit on any frequency in the medium wave His message, made up of phrases that have long since learned by heart:
"My name is Robert Neville and I am a survivor living in New York ...
If you are there, if anyone, please ...
I will be at noon every day ...".
The rest is to be seen. There are other scenes of desolation, fear and despair, silence full of adrenaline waiting, mysterious caves and large open spaces, and normal game situations alternated with times when the terror fills the night ...
- What strikes immediately is the impressive scenic reconstruction of a chaotic New York real estate yet, violated its modernity, is now partially returned to nature and wildlife.
Tantissime auto raggruppate in un gigantesco ingorgo, a rappresentare il vicolo cieco senza via d'uscita di momenti drammatici, accaduti in un passato non molto lontano. E poi agghiacciante immobilità, assenza di vita umana. E' così che il regista ha scelto di far entrare lo spettatore nell'atmosfera inquietante del film, di far percepire la solitudine dell'unico uomo rimasto indenne in una rovinosa realtà. Scenografie d'effetto e atmosfere angoscianti, sono i lati salienti che danno spessore a questa pellicola e che in fin dei conti, può essere definita abbastanza interessante.
A voler esser pignoli, o forse coerenti, bisogna ammettere che al contempo, non è esente da qualche piccolo lato negativo. Intanto dà subito impression of already seen, situations certainly not original. I have found a significant similarity with
28 Weeks Later, the same theme catastrophic, animated by the same sub-human creatures, violent and macabre instinct. The difference is that in I Am Legend
there is less action and everything is focused on a single protagonist.
However, the director Francis Lawrence
, could not invent from scratch the whole story of the film, because it is none other than
famous novel of the same name ,
written by Richard Matheson
! If anything, the problem lies elsewhere. The World film, from that distant 1954, when the book was written, could not resist the allure of the big screen revive its interweaving science fiction - horror. Just think of the film The Last Man on Earth
1964 and
White Eyes On Planet Earth of 1975, both film adaptations of Matheson's story on paper. Or the many other films, such
Dawn Of The Dead, or the aforementioned
28 Weeks Later and the like, which in later years took its cue from those pages, creating a cult genre, but dangerously repetitive and predictable . Precisely for this reason, even those who did not read the book, it can also be annoying feeling and have seen a recurring theme. The originality, then, is not an honor to
I Am Legend.
For the rest, you can get involved easily, by silences full of suspense scenes, the courage of the protagonist, but also from his solitude, spectacular and steeped in flashback from sadness, from life force that tries to enter the track of normality even in the most extreme conditions. And 'this last thing that the director wanted to send more, the innate human need to recreate daily life consisting of simple gestures and reassuring, the indispensable need to have someone with whom to interact and discuss, why stay completely alone in a desolate place is terrible, is not part of human nature.
In the film, Robert Neville, is holding a special bond with her dog and deep, almost like a daughter, a sister, a friend, not an animal, but a person equal. Together they create a semblance of family and this helps him to remain fairly rational and not go crazy from loneliness.
However, this umpteenth version shown on the big screen, departs from the original story in some parts of the book, not only regarding the physical appearance and the previous work of the protagonist, but especially for the ending! Which is not very pleased to have scholars of narrative Matheson. In my view, something is off-key note in the latter part of the film, events and too hasty entry into the scene of two characters from the second floor, in a jiffy even become major players, well, not very in tune with the rest of the plot. Behind all this there is a reason and do not find it at all edifying! We need to go to construction, because in reality there was another final, everything was ready, but Warner Bros., which was to take care of distribution, did change at the last moment, considered appropriate to provide a more commercial! Do not believe it! Unfortunately, things go well, you always try to aim for something that satisfied a greater slice of the public, often sacrificing quality.
In this case, it seems that the original ending was darker, more relevant to the book, too bad.
move on. A
Will Smith not easy getting the role of "protagonist". For almost all of one hundred minutes of the plot, the camera is turned on him. Under such conditions, the possibility of boring and give life to scenes of a slow and exhausting repetitiveness is not impossible. Fortunately, the good Will manages to get by very well, even demonstrating how to manage a professional genres.
In this adventure film, is also relevant in the presence di un
attore a quattro zampe , il fido
pastore tedesco Sam , che nonostante la sua identità canina, calca la scena con destrezza e naturalezza, affiancando degnamente il più navigato Smith.
Una curiosità, tra gli interpreti, con un piccolissimo ma incisivo ruolo, è presente nientemeno che
la figlia di Will Smith !
E' giusto soffermarsi anche sugli effetti speciali, che per quando riguarda certi "personaggi costruiti" non ha dato risultati eclatanti, poiché questi hanno poca naturalità e fanno percepire fin troppo una grafica da videogioco.
Diverso è il discorso per le maestose ricostruzioni di New York, frutto di una ben riuscita combinazione di riprese real tricks of the trade. To capture with this look post-apocalyptic disaster, the experts were "rigged" entire neighborhoods of the city, giving them abundant vegetation, specially made to arrive from the surrounding areas and more importantly, have managed to clear all sides by human presence, is diverting elsewhere the usual chaotic city traffic and tinkering with the necessary special effects wise. And what about the evacuation scene, really impressive and monumental, made all the "real", with many people and effective law enforcement, to be agitated and dramatic moments. Camera
real then, but at the same time, married perfectly with the images equally spectacular Brooklyn Bridge or partially destroyed in explosion of military helicopters in the sky, the result of much more elaborate technology films. That alone is worth watching.
an interesting soundtrack, well suited to the different moments in the film, made in many places, from songs of a famous song by Bob Marley
.
- A film to be seen, a must for those who have read the book and for those who love science fiction genre with the horror aspects.
Duration: one hour and forty minutes
- Curiosity
The film, besides having had some success at the box office, has collected a haul of awards.
- Two
Golden Trailer Awards for "Best
horror" and "Best Sound
.
- An MTV Movie Awards
to Will Smith for "Best Male Performance
.
- A
Saturn Award to Will Smith for "Best Actor
.
- Two awards Teen Choice Awards
, as a "best horror-thriller
", the other to Will Smith as "Best Actor in a horror-thriller
.
- One World Soundtrack Award
James Newton Howard, award
Composer of the Year "!
