> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:23 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: "I Am Legend" Book vs Movie: FIGHT! > > From wikipedia, I found a link to a version staring Vincent Price. It > was > made in the 60's and according to the article is the most accurate. > > You can download the movie for free from: > > http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth
I watched it this afternoon. Unfortunately the transfer was really poor, but the movie was watchable - but there were a lot of artifacts and wash outs and such. Still, it was MUCH more faithful to the source story than the current film. I'm still not sure why they bothered to change the main character's name (they didn't change any others) but it was a small price to pay I suppose. The movie did throw in few simplifications - I presume for pacing. The main character starts out a scientist (cutting out all of the "how did he learn this stuff" stuff). To simplify his home they just had him maintain a generator at a supermarket. One thing that did bug me tho': damn were home defenses crappy! ;^) Loose boards with huge gaps between them covering the windows. It just didn't seem to be the home of a survivor. They also threw in a (slightly) new ending which I didn't mind so much. It didn't (unlike the current film's ending) change the message of the story. If anything it enhanced it. The new movie just chucks the book out the window about 5 minutes in. It is harder to watch the old movie... I do LIKE old movies but damn, we've learned a lot since then. Pacing and staging and so forth. Watching the original "Dracula" (one of my favorite movies) feels almost like work. ;^) Still, if you can stand to sit through a 90 minute fuzzy, black and white movie this is a MUCH better version overall than the current one (if you care at all about the message of the source material). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249378 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
