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[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It gave the illusion of following the book.

Have you actually read the short story? Because I am baffled as to how anyone who has read the story would say that.

The movie was in no way an adaptation of the short story at all. It never even pretended to follow the short story.

Just like iRobot the only thing I Am Legend has in common with it’s written work is the title.

He is then executed.

No he wasn’t. He committed suicide.

[-] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Have you actually read the short story?

Yes I did, probably 10 years before that 2007 movie. Let me recommend you to check an encyclopaedia if you want precision instead of reading a random forum online.

He is then executed.

No he wasn’t. He committed suicide.

For what I remember he was in a jail cell ready to be executed and they offered him a pill. Anyway, that was not the point of the story.

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

As I recall it, he is locked in a room awaiting execution at the end of the book and while he is there he observes the vampires creating a spectacle out of his death which causes him to realize that he has been the boogeyman of their society - that he has become the stuff of legends.

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