Thread: I AM LEGEND alternative Ending

Dreamhope11, that ending makes so much more sense (I mean even I knew the guy wanted his girl back). This is a much better ending.. thanks for up loading it!

No problem clarity

Ugh this ending sucked.

It didn't leave you with a sense of winder and make you think.

Plus the lack of sound...?

In the ending in the book he kills himself to prevent himself from being publicly executed by the vampires(A group of them can think rationally), who see him as a sort of boogeyman.

The title makes much more sense that way.

Originally Posted by Liquidnine

The title makes much more sense that way.

This is true.

Dont really matter about the sound becuase you get the idea whats he saying------
I can save you like 3 times then thats it, they dont say anything new

This ending didn't make sense either. If the zombies are that human, then surely they simply are humans, but bigger and better and faster. Admittedly the real ending made even less sense, but there must be a better alternative.

This ending was still fairly meh.

How did the first one not make sense?

He got the cure, saved some people to transport it, and then got rid of the Night runners by blowing them to hell.

Plus it had sound.

Theres nothing i can do about the sound the disk has some sort of security thing encrypted in it which wont rip sound

Yeah this ending made no sense. As if blood thirsty vampires were capable of love.

Well that, I also disagree with. Read the book, even watch the original with Vincent Price called the Last Man on Earth. The whole point is that they're a society, not just a bunch of rabid beasts. I mean, tigers of blood thristy but they still love their mates and offspring. That's the only thing I didn't like about the original ending, the most they showed when it comes to intelligence is an incredibly embittered yell when one's girlfriend is kidnapped and a little trap they set. I feel like both endings are missing some very integral, though. If the writers knew what they were doing, they would have combined them.

I don't think the movie was intent depicting the vampires as a society. So that ending just doesn't set well with me. The other ending was better, but for some reason it still felt incomplete. If it was the intent of the writer to show intelligence, then clearly they didn't do a good job because I'm missing something. In which case, I'd agree with you.

I do want to read the book now though. It sounds pretty interesting.

Originally Posted by Black_Eagle

I don't think the movie was intent depicting the vampires as a society.

Then you need to watch the movie again.

Remember this scene?


I rest my case.

Hmmm... I'm not really sure, but I think I prefer the original ending. Both have good points, though. The alternative does a good job in showing the intelligence of the nightwalkers that we saw when the trap was laid out for Will, but I still think it was a little cheesy. I think the desperation of the last scene in his lab is better followed up by his sacrifice and a "humanity is saved but at a cost", rather than a "oh we're all absolutely fine, and humanity is saved" ending. I think Will's death in the original ending was pretty timely, since he lost his dog - his only companion - and his family. His death sorta wraps it up nicely. He's got nothing left to live for except the antidote, and he sacrifices himself for it. So yeah, the original ending packs more punch, and makes the movie seem like it takes itself more seriously.

Ok guys i have done it again in sound with some software i found over the tinternet check out my channel for it

alternate ending or not i still didn't like the show!

Originally Posted by Omnius Deus

Then you need to watch the movie again.

Remember this scene?


I rest my case.

I thought that was when he sawe the mannequin outside?

What does that have to do with them being a society? He had been isolated from any kind of human contact for three years, and talked to mannequins so he didn't forget how to.

I thought that seeing one outside would just make him go nuts because he's been so isolated for so long and such.

The book was supposed to be about how one's perspective is everything...

To Will Smith's character, he was trying to save them from a plague that he thought ravaged their intellect and made them less than human...

When in actuality, they were more of an evolution and communicated in a higher form of telepathy and a different sense of belonging which made their needless want of distraction with our so-called "technology" obsolete. When he realized an actual structure to their society, he found they weren't exactly less than human as he thought.

And, on the other side of the coin, the "night walkers" viewed him as a day version of Dracula who wandered around like a phantom who reversely woke during their night, which was day for him and kidnapped and murdered unsuspecting members of their albeit different, yet highly structured society. That's why they focus on the number of I.D.'s on the wall in horror...

I didn't read the book but I heard the book's intent was to try and blur the lines of black and white of what we consider "advanced" civilization. So, while we may think those cultures that don't type on the internet and distract themselves with cell phones and entertainment as savages, if we had a better sense of communication and community then those "technologies" essentially become as obsolete as BETA tapes.

So, the real ending of book was Will Smith's character killing himself because he realizes they aren't savages and in that new society he is actually feared and considered the bad guy...

This ending stays a little truer to the book by blurring the lines of black and white, which I feel is better. Of course the average joe might disagree.

Ah.

Still, against the movie it seemed pretty... Clashing...

You can't depict something on one end of the spectrum for the whole movie and then at the end depict it on the other suddenly.

That's why book to movie conversions generally suck.

They have to hollywood it up and make it a simple story with a happy ending for the mindless masses or it doesn't do well in theaters. The book is supposed to be much more of a mind fuck about who's right and who's wrong.

Take the movie Fight Club for example, the book has the main character Jack shoot himself in the head right as project mayhem commences as the one selfless act from his old self to symbolize completeness and the death of ego... dead... the end... Fade to black... just the way I like it... bitter sweet.

No... Instead, Hollywood makes him somehow survive a shot to the dome in order to be able to hold hands with the person who was supposed to be the antagonist and catalyst that he used to propel mankind into the new age leaving all old ideas of deluded happiness behind.

A complete contradiction to what the entire book/movie stood for... I still liked everything up until he stood up from the shot.

Your very, cool, solskye. Anyways, I kindal iked the original ending, it was more of an epic finish.

Yeah movies are not books. One should never compare the ending of a movie to the plot of the book. In that respect the original ending sat better with me. But really, the problem the movie had was not the ending at all, and so any attempt to end it differently would be fruitless. It simply wasn't a well explored or presented plot. You can't make it all fit into place if the foundations are shaky.