This is a text supplement to the video that can be found here.
I have to say, The Last Man on Earth is an extremely good movie, but is also probably one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. I would still suggest seeing it. The Omega Man, though I’m not spelling the title correctly as they spell it with an omega, is also a good movie too as Charlton Heston is always good when you put him at the end of the world. I Am Legend may have actually been the superior film to it, though, if it wasn’t given the new ending.
That brings up one of the obvious changes that was left in. When Neville puts his daughter on the helicopter, she makes a hand gesture telling him to remember the butterfly. It is weird even in the actual movie, but it does absolutely nothing in the theatrical version. In the real movie, he remembers it when the lead infected makes the butterfly on the window and they have a moment of connection between them.
On the note of his daughter, I am serious that you should all be thanking me for not putting “Whip My Hair” in the video. It is one of the most irritating songs I’ve heard in awhile. To be fair, that’s partially because it’s been awhile since I head “I Kissed A Girl” which is probably the most annoying song I’ve ever heard, at least to my personal taste. But, back to “Whip My Hair”, she manages to say “I whip my hair back and forth” at least 6.8 googol times in the course of a three minute song.
It is quite annoying.
Back on topic, an interesting note about the book I Am Legend is that is considered to be an influence on Romero in creating Night of the Living Dead as it includes many of the same plot threads and themes.
See, you can’t say you don’t learn anything from reading these things… unless you already knew that. In which case, did you know that William Shakespeare died on the same date as Miguel de Cervantes, author of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, but they actually died weeks apart because England hadn’t yet changed their calendars.
Already knew that too? Oh well. Maybe next week.