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Anonymous
DAMN IT FRED!
>> Anonymous
I still don't understand that part...
>> Anonymous
It's because the manakin(sp?) wasn't in the spot he left it, which means something else (aka the zombies) moved it.
>> Anonymous
>>943786

Exactly. Did they? Did some other HUMAN? Did Will Smith do it and forget it?
>> Anonymous
>>943781

Seriously? Do you suffer from symptoms such as having trouble blinking and breathing simultaneously, walking in straight lines or forming complete sentences? You might be a big fucking doofus!

The whole thing behind the doll being there is that Will Smith's character is the real monster, not the vampires. HE'S the dying breed, and they're the normal people. They observe what Will Smith does every day and find that he makes friends with those mannequins, so the vampires took one at night and made a trap so they could kill him.

When he discovered the mannequin out of place, it triggered an adverse effect, him going completely bonkers.

The whole point of I Am Legend is in the damn title. Neville is the last being in that city, and to the vampires he's a legend, just like the Boogeyman or some shit, because he continues to capture and torture/kill (in their eyes) all of their kind.

The way the script is written is to pose the question "Who is the real monster? Neville or the vampires?"

God, you have to be thick as the Berlin Wall to miss this shit.
>> Anonymous
Did you see the movie? Cause they set a trap. When he walks over to look at the shot-up Fred, he gets caught in a rope. They lured him. (They being the zombies). It's quite obvious.
>> Anonymous
why did fred's face move when he drove by and noticed him standing there?
>> Anonymous
BOOTLEG QUALITY FTL!!!
CAPS LOCK FTW!!!!
>> Anonymous
>>943790
Are you so dumb as to not know?
What did you sleep through all the important parts of the movie?
Or are you just so thick headed as not to understand plot twists that are handed to you on a fucking plate?

Let me walk you through it since your too ignorant to figure it out yourself.

1. Robert captures zombie using trap, other Zombie observes this, and becomes angry.
2. The next morning Robert falls for same exact trap used the day previously.
3. Zombie is waiting there to capture Robert who is now caught.

If you cant figure out who the fuck set the trap up, your a drooliong moron.
>> Anonymous
the mutants learned after will smith baited that one girl with blood . they baited him with fred
>> Anonymous
>>943800

It was a 'horror' special effect. Will Smith's character was just tripping balls on a maximum level.
>> Anonymous
>>943796

This where the movie totally failed the book.
Without reading the book, you wouldn't know this just from watching the movie.
>> Anonymous
>>943815
books are for nerds.
>> Anonymous
>>943815

Although the movie didn't spell it out as well, it's pretty damn obvious what the point is, I just think it was marketed to the wrong people. The story of I Am Legend is not mainstream, yet Will Smith draws the mainstream audience.
>> Anonymous
The whole idea of a trap doesn't make any sense. It was already said that the infected people didn't have any reasoning skills. (Since their core temp was 105, their brain would fry in a manner of minutes anyways.) Yet somehow they were able to make a complex trap, communicate and take orders.
>> Anonymous
>>943796
Yea the movie deviated from the original story so far it was basically a different story altogether.
I'm not even sure they even ment for Robert to be 'evil'. Hell even at the end it says he is called a legend because he died for the cure. Not because he became a legend through killing the zombie/vampires.

He didnt even focus on killing them, he focused on surviving, and finding a cure. There were even other people in the movie, as apposed to being the only one left.
>> Anonymous
>>943825

This.
>> Anonymous
Wow, I haven't read the book and i seriously thought the movie was called "I Am Legend" because of the whole dying for mans salvation/jesus thing.

Goddamnit, it would've been such a better movie had he been a boogey-man to the infected.
>> Anonymous
>>943796
ive read the book also, and the screenplay fails at giving the msg that neville is the legend to the zombies or w/e

however, they do touch upon that they are at least somewhat sentient, seen by how one of them comes out when their partner or w/e is captured and there seems to be some hierarchy formed, but these either end up as loose ends or things the [general] audience didnt figure out
>> Anonymous
The Fred incident was supposed to expose his mental instability from the extended isolation. He had set the trap previously and forgot about it. This is clear because the same counter weight drag line setup had been utilized previously showing it was his own trap. The mannequin seemingly turning its head was probably used to show how unstable Will Smith's character was becoming from the lack of human contact.
>> Anonymous
>>943849
Those that capture him in the book are living vampires where the bacteria mutated. As for the movie he had decided that they had no such skills but was surprised by their setting of a trap which sort of hinted at their cognitive skills developing.
>> Anonymous
>>943859

Some are saying this, but others are saying the zombies did it.

idk
>> Anonymous
I dunno. Seemed like the infected set the trap to me........
>> Anonymous
Let's face it, the Clinton administration of 2009 would have nuked New York City and numerous other major cities (decided by throwing darts at a map of the U.S.) even if the virus hadn't started to turn people into zombies.
>> Anonymous
>>943796

Ummmm.....no.

Good job! You read the novel and now feel the need to criticize others who haven't read the book by stating things from the book as if they pertain to the movie. The only problem with that is that the movie is WAY different from the novel, and even takes the "legend" theme in a completely different direction! OOPS!

In the book, yes, Neville is the last of his kind and he is "legend" in the sense that after his death in front of the new vampiric society, he will become only a legend. But in the movie, he finds a cure, and gives it to a colony of survivors, implying that the humans will overcome this with the cure he found, and his story, his legacy, and his cure are his legend.

Good job being a pompous douchebag though. You play the role well.
>> Anonymous
They made it seem like the infected set the trap as pay-back. The leader guy was prepared with two dogs waiting for the sun to go down
>> Anonymous
>>943894

Actually we don't see the Alpha male with the dogs until he wakes up after being knocked out for a few hours(We know this because of the change in daylight) as he was drug into the trap.

Remember the blood they showed dripping after he hit his head? This implies that after he cut his head open and passed out, the zombies, led by the alpha male were able to find him due to the scent of his blood. They weren't there, but were able to find him by the time he woke up, and were just waiting for sundown to get him.
>> Anonymous
sage for assholery
>> Anonymous
OP here.

I'm glad I sparked such a conversation.
>> Anonymous
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>>943800
first off the head didnt move its the hood that gets blown by the wind giving different lighting to the manequeins face and it seems to move... cuz its obviously a manequin

As for everything else the book explains that some vampires managed to keep the descease at bay and while they could not comunicate with normal people they could with each other and they werent fully retarded like the other vampires.
>> Anonymous
>>943796
wow, like you paraphrased the entire wiki page on the omega man. different stories, though.
>> Anonymous
>>943926
i am so right
>> Anonymous
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how many of us read the wiki description on i am legend?
How many think agree that the fred thing will become a new meme?
what does meme mean?
either way... this thread needs pron
>> Anonymous
I think that the zombies set the trap because the water only hides the snare's cord after the water is spilt. This means the zombies anticipated Smith to shoot Fred, releasing the contained water, and thereby hide the snare. They could have possibly hid other traps like this and the blood let them know which had been sprung.
>> Anonymous
>>943936
It means "Me! Me!" You pronounce as such...
>> Anonymous
Hes just going crazy at that part, the mutants just used it to their advantage with their trap.
>> Anonymous
I hate how the film hinted at the alpha male being pissed off because Will Smith took his girl, showing that they may still contain a shred of humanity, but then forgetting about it entirely. He even says he thinks it's because they are becoming desperate for food.
>> Anonymous
rhymes with "beam"
>> Anonymous
>>943947

Team.
Seem.
Cream.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>943899
Thats a pretty big stretch to think they're implying that he set the entire trap for himself and doesn't remember any of it. Theres no other clues in the movie that he's so crazy he's completely splitting his personality in two, one of which is setting traps for himself.

By talking to the manikins it shows he's starved for human contact. He easily tells the difference between fake manikins and the real people that saved him. (which, also doesn't make sense how they showed up at that exact moment. Or why they'd even be out at all instead of finding a place to hide.)

The scene before the trap was will smith trapping an infected girl and the alpha male getting really pissed off. It makes more sense that the alpha male, being pissed, set up the trap, since the alpha males waiting for him with two dogs once the sun starts going down. Even though none of it really makes sense because of all the plot holes.
>> Anonymous
>>943960

While I agree with you in thinking the Alpha Male set the trap, Will Smith's character was absolutely crazy enough to have set it himself and forgotten about it. The manikins go beyond craving human interaction; if you experience what he experienced followed by 2.5 years of solitude coupled with the knowledge that you are 1 in maybe 14,000 people left on earth, you'd go crazy too.
>> Anonymous
>>943800
Neville was slowly going insane throughout the movie if I understood correctly
>> Anonymous
>>943955
Fuck that. Fred got what the fuck he deserved.
>> Anonymous
>>943960
>>943979

Mannequin. M-a-n-n-e-q-u-i-n. Mannequin.

And no, Neville did not set the trap. Unlike the vampires in the novel, the zombies in this film do not demonstrate enough intelligence to pull such a trap off. True, they hunt in packs. This is a basic instinct, however, and is not nearly as advanced as the skills required to construct such a trap. You're talking about a full-scale trap, set with steel cable, attached to a CAR of all things. Not even the Alpha Male is smart enough to do this. He's seen beating his head into the glass at the end of the movie, afterall. Neville set the trap and forgot about it. He also had forgotten about it when he moved Fred there himself. Why did he move Fred there? He believes these mannequins are REAL. They are real enough to envoke REAL emotions in him(Remember how afraid he was of speaking to the girl in the video store?), so he moves and positions them so that they appear real to him. And yes, sometimes he has to set up a situation to where he gets angry with them. Anger is a normal part of a relationship. If it were too perfect, it would seem fake
>> Anonymous
>>944013

FUCK! I mean that Neville DID set the trap.
>> Anonymous
not /r/ i know, but does anyone have the rar of the book?
>> Anonymous
Will Smith was so hot in this movie, the push ups scene was a highlight
>> Anonymous
Fred shouldn't have been out there. He knows the limits!
>> Anonymous
>>943891
i thought you we're a troll and i was expecting a "intellectual checkmate" at the end of your statement to let everyone know you were joking.
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anyone who thinks he set the trap himself is a fucking dipshit and thinking too far into it, the director makes it obvious the zombies make the trap, throughout the movie the zombies show strange signs of intelligence ect ect.
>> Anonymous
>>944013
You're right, it doesn't make any sense that the infected would be smart enough to set the trap. But, it doesn't make any sense that they would be able to communicate, take orders, or hunt in packs. Also it doesn't make sense why they're not just completely dead since their core temp of 105. So many things in this movie don't make sense.

But they don't give any other clues that he's that crazy. I'll give it to you that maybe he might move the mannequins around and try to pretend he didn't, but definitely not setting a trap for himself. His interaction with the mannequins is hardly as emotional as when he see's Fred moved when he didnt do it. He's yelling at it asking it if it's real. He doesn't get freaked out by any of the other mannequins. He's only that freaked out because he knows he didn't move it. That someone else did.

He's doing everything in his power to stay alive and to find a cure, it just doesn't seem like he would set a trap for himself. The movie implies that the alpha male set the trap.
>> Anonymous
>>944063
What you just said.
>> Anonymous
Anyone who genuinely believes that Neville set the trap and forgot about it is a dumb as a fucking brick. 3 reasons why.

1. When he traps one, he uses a bag to conceal them from the light and he probably only does after he scouts some first and lures them.. he does not just set random traps for no good reason.

2. The dark seekers were waiting. Obviously, Fred had been outside and untouched for a long time for his sweater to get so worn and faded. Why would they suddenly take interest in him now if not to lure Neville there because they knew it would attract him?

3. He survived for 3 years. Why would he make such a dumbfuck mistake like that? You don't just 'forget' about something like that. They hinted at his instability but he wasn't fucking dumb. Jesus, just because you're an idiot doesn't mean everyone else is.
>> Anonymous
Plus, you have to think where he sets his traps. Actually inside their hives so that he can capture them during the day, What the fuck good is a trap if its out only where the Dark Seekers can get it at night?
>> Anonymous
When he captures the female, and the alpha male goes nuts and comes out into the light...

Afterwards in his lab he says that maybe they're losing basic instincts, or starving, then says all human-like behavior is gone.

Does it not occur to him that the male was fucking pissed because Robert just stole his lady friend and is off to do experiments on her?

I understand if he's unaware they have a society, but it seems like he should have at least made note of the male/female connection.
>> Anonymous
>>944107
1. Maybe he needed the bag elsewhere so he left the trap for a sun-kill
2. Ground Zero -> Lots of zombies -> Alpha watches some of them because of basic tribe instinct or is tracking Neville (which is brought up when Neville's house gets raided) -> Naturally ends up at an opening to the outside
3. Apparently you didn't see the doll's head move. Neville went batty.
>> Anonymous
>>944115
They might still be in the bag or hanging upside down if the trap is tripped at night
>> Anonymous
>>944127
1. He doesn't hunt them to kill them.
2. No.
3. Insane not stupid.
>> Anonymous
>>944128
But there was no bag on this one. I don't think he'd go through the trouble to trap one just for a day kill, when they could probably rip themselves free before light came.

Also, so what if he saw the doll's head move? If he hadn't put it there, it would have messed with his head enough to see that.

Besides, he obviously knows fact from fiction, seeing as he knows that the doll in the video store won't say hello, even though he wishes she would.
>> yeah Mr. Kernel !MY2PepEdq2
movie was aight
>> Anonymous
are you kidding me?

you're trying to pass off some shit like Neville set the trap and forgot about moving Fred because he's so lonely? He the Fred's head move because seeing Fred in a different spot from which he obviously knows he didn't put him made him hallucinate and think Fred's head was moving. There's a lot of unexplained crap in the movie but it doesn't take a genius to realize that the vampires or dark seekers or zombies or whatever you want to call them set up that trap.
>> Anonymous
DAMN IT FRED!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
>>944137
I just call them dark seekers because that's what Neville called them in the movie.
>> Anonymous
>>944137
dude, the fucking head vampire/zombie thing laid the trap for him, the same way he saw him trap the zombie earlier.
>> Anonymous
>>944153
the zombie wore the sweater and moved! (yeah it wasnt in direct sunlight, and the fucking alpha zombie did that shit where he wouldnt go batshit insane in the light, but it would still hurt him)
>> Anonymous
>>944183
Huh?
>> Anonymous
DAMN IT FRED!!!!!
>> Anonymous
dad??
>> Anonymous
I think what's much more important to discuss about this movie is the scene where Smith is hunting. How did that much vegetation grow in three years? Especially with cement to contend with! Also, where did the gazelles and lions come from? Obviously they broke out of the zoo, but could they have bred to that number in only 3 years? Sloppy!

Also in the opening talk show interview scene the doctor says they reprogrammed the measles virus to combat cancer. While watching the movie with my (studying to be an) immunologist sister she said that that's plausible, but not with measles. Couldn't they have done a little research? Not that most people would know the difference (myself included), so I guess it's not that big a deal, but still. Lazy.
>> Anonymous
>>944250

movie reality > our reality

vegetation grows rather easily if it's not maintained

I have no idea how fast lions/gazelle's grow up, so I can't really respond on that

when you really think too much into the movie (like your sister) you're innevitably gonna ruin what may be a good movie for yourself, because you get caught up in too much "but in the real world" bullshit.

Movies are based in the real world, but they don't follow the same exact rules. There's plenty of "reality" based movies like that and I shouldn't have to provide examples.
>> Native New Yorker
>>944250

There's only one zoo in Manhattan, and it doesn't have any lions or gazelles in it. And since the armed forces are shown destroying the bridges, there's no way those animals could have gotten into Manhattan afterwards.
>> Anonymous
>>944377

How did the "Butterfly" woman and her kid go to the colony then? I have never been in NY so i don't know what its like there.
>> Anonymous
>>943796

"The whole point of I Am Legend is in the damn title. Neville is the last being in that city, and to the vampires he's a legend, just like the Boogeyman or some shit, because he continues to capture and torture/kill (in their eyes) all of their kind."

lol wut, put down your crack pipe. It's called I Am Legend, because he is remembered as having created the cure that went on to save mankind and he gave up his own life to do so.

fuck, did you even WATCH the film? Maybe the pretty explosions are more suitable to your IQ level.
>> Anonymous
THEY'RE NOT FUCKING ZOMBIES YOU THICK FUCKS!
>> don't ask me for the source
movie ending is WAY different from the book

in book, he's legend b/cit turns out he's the "bad guy"
in movie, he's legend b/c he found some cure

movie sucked, btw.
>> Anonymous
>>944630
No, indeed you are the one that sucks sir.
>> Anonymous
>>944632
facepalm.jpg
>> Anonymous
I thought that his character was just insane and the zombies he saw were only zombies to him. In reality they were regular people and he was on a killing spree.