I am legend ****SPOILERS****

[tranceport]

Need some clarification...

When his dog gets bitten it's night time almost. They go home and he treats the dog..


When he is on the pier trying to kill as many as he can and himself included it's night time.

The girl resuces him and he says they don't know where I live.



Questions

1. How would they not know where he lives from when he went home when the dog was bitten. But they do know when she drives? Did he just take the long way?

2. When his family dies in the helicopter.. Was that an "infected/turned" human that messed up the flight of the black helicopter?

3. The weapon he grabbed at the bottom of the stairs, was that his M4/AR15?

4. The manican (sp?) in the street. The monsters set a trap?

 

[mugs]

1. He went home during the day, didn't he?
3. Yeah
4. I think he set a trap for the monsters, but he was mentally messed up and got confused.

 

[Howard]

1. Not sure
2. Seemed to me like somebody was clinging onto the helicopter and imbbalanced it
3. Don't remember
4. Yes

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: mugs
1. He went home during the day, didn't he?
3. Yeah
4. I think he set a trap for the monsters, but he was mentally messed up and got confused.

4. I thought that they were trying to show that the monsters were more organized than originally thought, and they made it. I mean the movie has next to nothing in common with the book but in the book they were more organized... I think that part of them bled over a bit into the movie

 

[BradT]

1.) A couple reasons. Firstly, being applicable in just about any picture...It is a movie, and not everything makes sense. It just made the plot work better. The reason it didn't bother me was because when she rescued him, it was well into the night and they were all swarmed around them so they could easily track. When his dog was hurt, it was much less dark, and the number of vampires was much less.

2.) Been too long since I've seen it, but I was under the impression that it was by how unnaturally the moved when they jumped on it.

3.) In the last scene? Yes.

4.) Yep. They are vampires, not stupid zombies like you see in other movies. Also, they learned from his trap.

 

[soccerballtux]

I, for one, loved this movie. It was full of creepy crazy stuff like when they moved the manikin and set the trap, or the delighted look of success on the face of the guy at the end as he's ramming his head into the glass, as he sees it break further and further he grows more and more excited.

The movies that just try to gross you out aren't exciting...the ones that try to do things to get inside your head, the type that keep you on the edge of your seat trying to find out what's around the next corner (kinda like Resident Evil); those are really great.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I enjoyed it. I have a love/hate relationship with movies where you're always waiting for something to jump out and waylay the hero though. Through the whole dying dog scene I was too worried about when the dog was going to turn on him to really get into the intended sadness of the moment. Guess I'm a pansy like that though.

1.) and 4.) I also attributed this to the vampire dog attack happening very early in the evening before the majority of the vampires had come out. It also makes sense for the leader vampire to be there before any other vampires were out and about because he had obviously set the trap and had been waiting patiently with his dogs at the ready for the day to darken enough to attack. In fact I think the vampire was forced to rush his intended attack somewhat when he saw Neville escaping.

Neville's bout of temporary insanity upon finding the mannequin was because finding it posed when the only thing that could have done it was a vampire made him totally rearrange how he viewed the vampires in general. It was a show of intelligence, when he had previously stated in his camera log that all remnants of human behavior appeared to have departed from the vampires. Ironically even in that statement he had misinterpreted a display of grief by the lead vampire because of losing his mate for a breakdown in basic survival instinct. Suddenly he had to deal with the concept that he had been killing thinking creatures instead of mindless animals, something I think he had used as an excuse before to help ease his conscience when he had to experiment on them and kill them.

2.) Yes I believe so.

3.)Dunno, I guess that was answered earlier.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

1 - Gasoline or something flammable I'd say.

2 - I was confused about that part too. Just giving it to the lady and saying the cure was in the blood and then expecting whoever she takes it to be able to extract the antibodies from it? Idk, it seems like a lot of work on whoevers' part that is.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

The compound that he used to cure her was in the blood.

 

[Soundmanred]

I could have sworn we already had an I Am Legend thread...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?

I assumed it was essence of garlic. In the novel garlic worked as a repellent, but I don't remember anyone explicitly stating that it worked in the movie.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

The compound that he used to cure her was in the blood.

so why not give the compound? why the blood?

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?

I assumed it was essence of garlic. In the novel garlic worked as a repellent, but I don't remember anyone explicitly stating that it worked in the movie.

in his closet you see jugs of vinegar.

he's probably spraying vinegar or ethanol over his tracks to mask his scent

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?

I assumed it was essence of garlic. In the novel garlic worked as a repellent, but I don't remember anyone explicitly stating that it worked in the movie.

I thought the bottle said vinegar

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

The compound that he used to cure her was in the blood.

so why not give the compound? why the blood?

He was locked in a room that was presumably separate from his stores of serum. Besides I thought that the sample of actual blood from a cured victim would, in addition to containing the curing compound, be useful in that the exact mechanism by which the cure worked might be more evident in it.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

The compound that he used to cure her was in the blood.

so why not give the compound? why the blood?

he kept the compounds in one area, and was stuck in a room with a body...that was better...and full of blood, and was in a hurry. at least...im pretty sure he was in a hurry.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
question -


1 - what was the liquid he poured on the steps before he went into his house?
2 - what did he mean the cure was in the blood? was it because he cured her and now he was going to use the blood from that candidate to cure the others?

The compound that he used to cure her was in the blood.

so why not give the compound? why the blood?

he kept the compounds in one area, and was stuck in a room with a body...that was better...and full of blood, and was in a hurry. at least...im pretty sure he was in a hurry.

ah yes thats right i forgot he was behind the glass door.

 

[ktehmok]

4) The vampires (Or whatever) did not set the trap. If they did, they would have been there to get him as soon as light faded. Not just a bunch of infected dogs. Think about it: They show no cognitive behavior whatsoever except for hiding from bright light, and suddenly they concoct an elaborate trap out of the blue to catch one person? Get real.

He set the trap himself & forgot. Then he got caught in it. That is why he was stuck there for some time and nothing bothered him afterwards. Because no one was looking for him. Remember, he lost his mind right before stepping into it and emptied a whole magazine at nothing? That & yelling at the mannequin about why it was in the wrong place...

 

[Gunslinger08]

It really bothered me that the guy unleashed his dogs on Will Smith, but didn't go himself.

I was very disappointed by the movie.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: ktehmok
4) The vampires (Or whatever) did not set the trap. If they did, they would have been there to get him as soon as light faded. Not just a bunch of infected dogs. Think about it: They show no cognitive behavior whatsoever except for hiding from bright light, and suddenly they concoct an elaborate trap out of the blue to catch one person? Get real.

He set the trap himself & forgot. Then he got caught in it. That is why he was stuck there for some time and nothing bothered him afterwards. Because no one was looking for him. Remember, he lost his mind right before stepping into it and emptied a whole magazine at nothing? That & yelling at the mannequin about why it was in the wrong place...

The "leader" of the vampires was waiting there as soon as the sun went down. He even had his dogs with him.....

 

[natep]

Originally posted by: ktehmok
4) The vampires (Or whatever) did not set the trap. If they did, they would have been there to get him as soon as light faded. Not just a bunch of infected dogs. Think about it: They show no cognitive behavior whatsoever except for hiding from bright light, and suddenly they concoct an elaborate trap out of the blue to catch one person? Get real.

He set the trap himself & forgot. Then he got caught in it. That is why he was stuck there for some time and nothing bothered him afterwards. Because no one was looking for him. Remember, he lost his mind right before stepping into it and emptied a whole magazine at nothing? That & yelling at the mannequin about why it was in the wrong place...

Well, they are smart enough to train vampire dogs.

 

[RESmonkey]

Why didn't the leader go after Will Smith? He could have easily won.

So like, reverse-engineering a measles virus had turned people into vampires/zombies?

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: ktehmok
4) The vampires (Or whatever) did not set the trap. If they did, they would have been there to get him as soon as light faded. Not just a bunch of infected dogs. Think about it: They show no cognitive behavior whatsoever except for hiding from bright light, and suddenly they concoct an elaborate trap out of the blue to catch one person? Get real.

He set the trap himself & forgot. Then he got caught in it. That is why he was stuck there for some time and nothing bothered him afterwards. Because no one was looking for him. Remember, he lost his mind right before stepping into it and emptied a whole magazine at nothing? That & yelling at the mannequin about why it was in the wrong place...

It was daylight when he was caught, and the sun was just starting to set when he woke up and cut himself down. As soon as he did, the guy was there with the dogs. He didn't use a mannequin in the first trap so why would he in another one? He didn't set it and forget it, the fact that the mannequin wasn't where he was supposed to be is what helped make him snap.

 

[purbeast0]

1. it wasn't night time. it was dusk. earlier on in the movie there is a scene when he's going through cabinets in a house and when he opens the cabinet the camera is focused on a news paper article that is taped to the cabinet that says "INFECTED DOGS CAN COME OUT AT DUSK - BE CAREFUL". so that explains why the dogs could attack when it was dusk but the infected humans still couldn't come out. so the humans could not follow him back to his home.