History Headscratchers / IAmLegend

* From the book: Why does Neville have such a hard time (no pun intended) finding a way to deal with the women who strip and pose suggestively to entice him out of his house? It's emphasized that this is one of the most difficult things he has to deal with, and that he has no way to combat "the feeling". Uh, Neville.... you do. Has this man ''honestly'' never heard of masturbation before? He can even peep out at the vampire girls while he does it!
** Most men would probably say that actual women are far more satisfying than a solo adventure, as it were. Plus, given his situation... can you really blame him for at least feeling the temptation?
** Those weren't living women outside his house flashing him, etc. Those were basically reanimated corpses. So he'd essentially be wanking off to dead, reanimated zombie!women. I think we can understand why he may consider doing that to be absolutely wrong and disgusting.
*** The movie got a few things wrong. Neville was not at the south street seaport during the night attack, when he was rescued by the woman and child. In this scene, he was on the west side of manhattan, facing New Jersey. Also, it does not seem likely that the GW Bridge would've been left in tact(alt ending), if the gov/military decided to blow all other bridges, and flood all tunnels. Also, in terms of theatrical ending, the GW bridge is not seen by the audience, so how did the woman and child drive to Vermont if manhattan was completely cut off? The film made a point of telling us that manhattan was quarantined and effectively cut off. Lastly, how did the zombies know about Neville's manaquins? The movie led us to believe that Neville only saw the manaquins during the day, in the video store. If we are to believe this, it means that the zombies would not have known about the video store or the manaquins inside the video store, because they don't come out during the day. Yet, somehow the zombies knew about Neville's visits to the video store, and his relationship to Fred. So, they decided to grab Fred, place him near grand central station, and set a trap for Neville? Question - if the zombies knew about neville and the video store, why not just wait inside and capture/trap him, why go with setting Fred up on a street and setting a trap? This is a case of a movie that does not follow the rules of the world it created, not cool. Lastly, I must reiterate my earlier point. we have been been led to believe that the zombies do not come out during the day. If this is the case, how did they know about Neville, the video store, and Fred?
*** Why didn't he cure his maddening sex drive by jerking off?

* How did Anna and Ethan get to NY City proper not only in time to save Will Smith's character but when every bridge to Manhattan was wiped out? Also, how did one woman and a small boy manage to fend off an enormous hoard of zombie/monster/vampires?

*** It sounds to this troper like the point that was being made was, if there is a small town full of survivors up in the mountinas, wouldn't thye have fliped on the AM radio once in a while? this guy isn't saying that neville never tried to contact people, but that no one tried to contact him back

* From the book: Why does Neville have such a hard time (no pun intended) finding a way to deal with the women who strip and pose suggestively to entice him out of his house? It's emphasized that this is one of the most difficult things he has to deal with, and that he has no way to combat "the feeling". Uh, Neville....[[ADateWithRosiePalms you do.]] Has this man ''honestly'' never heard of masturbation before? He can even peep out at the vampire girls while he does it!

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*** there have been several "still alive" zombie movies before, it makes for both a more "realistic" approach in that there is no virus bring the dead to life but is instead a virus that makes people flesh hungry and insane. but also give cause to have "running" zombies that are fast and dangerous, but can be killed with any means a normal human would die. It helps with the whole action thing. just look at "zombie land" and "28 days later"

*** The movie got a few things wrong. Neville was not at the south street seaport during the night attack, when he was rescued by the woman and child. In this scene, he was on the west side of manhattan, facing New Jersey. Also, it does not seem likely that the GW Bridge would've been left in tact(alt ending), if the gov/military decided to blow all other bridges, and flood all tunnels. Also, in terms of theatrical ending, the GW bridge is not seen by the audience, so how did the woman and child drive to Vermont if manhattan was completely cut off? The film made a point of telling us that manhattan was quarantined and effectively cut off. Lastly, how did the zombies know about Neville's manaquins? The movie led us to believe that Neville only saw the manaquins during the day, in the video store. If we are to believe this, it means that the zombies would not have known about the video store or the manaquins inside the video store, because they don't come out during the day. Yet, somehow the zombies knew about Neville's visits to the video store, and his relationship to Fred. So, they decided to grab Fred, place him near grand central station, and set a trap for Neville? Question - if the zombies knew about neville and the video store, why not just wait inside and capture/trap him, why go with setting Fred up on a street and setting a trap? This is a case of a movie that does not follow the rules of the world it created, not cool. Lastly, I must reiterate my earlier point. we have been been led to believe that the zombies do not come out during the day. If this is the case, how did they know about Neville, the video store, and Fred?
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** Or Neville drained those tanks of their original gas before it went bad, but recently re-stocked them from a stabilized supply so he'd have a refueling site apart from his home.

** The movie was based on a book written in 1954. Serenity was made in 2005. Firefly started in 2002. It may be more accurate to say that Reavers seemed a lot like the vampire/zombie things from the novel I Am Legend.
*** On the other hand, the book ones weren't extra fast, and spoke coherent english. They weren't much like reavers at all.
*** Both the Reavers from Firefly and the "Darkseekers" in this movie are at the end of a long path of evolution that probably starts with I Am Legend and wends through the various zombie films started by Night of the Living Dead. This variant of "fast zombie" or "crazy zombie" has a long pedigree, including the Resident Evil games, 28 Days Later, etc.

* If the blood of the woman who they cured of dark seekerism is a vaccine, why didn't they hide her as well instead of blowing her up?
** Because she's strapped down to the table and connected to a bunch of tubes and probably isn't fully cured yet?

*** The movie got a few things wrong. Neville was not at the south street seaport during the night attack, when he was rescued by the woman and child. In this scene, he was on the west side of manhattan, facing New Jersey. Also, it does not seem likely that the GW Bridge would've been left in tact(alt ending), if the gov/military decided to blow all other bridges, and flood all tunnels. Also, in terms of theatrical ending, the GW bridge is not seen by the audience, so how did the woman and child drive to Vermont if manhattan was completely cut off? The film made a point of telling us that manhattan was quarantined and effectively cut off. Lastly, how did the zombies know about Neville's manaquins? The movie led us to believe that Neville only saw the manaquins during the day, in the video store. If we are to believe this, it means that the zombies would not have known about the video store or the manaquins inside the video store, because they don't come out during the day. Yet, somehow the zombies knew about Neville's visits to the video store, and his relationship to Fred. So, they decided to grab Fred, place him near grand central station, and set a trap for Neville? Question - if the zombies knew about neville and the video store, why not just wait inside and capture/trap him, why go with setting Fred up on a street and setting a trap? This is a case of a movie that does not follow the rules of the world it created, not cool. Lastly, I must reiterate my earlier point. we have been been led to believe that the zombies do not come out during the day. If this is the case, how did they know about Neville, the video store, and Fred?

*** I think it's evident that they've only been trying to kill Neville because he's been kidnapping and (inadvertantly) killing their own. It's also possible that, like in the novel and VincentPrice film, there are two types of monsters, ones who are mindless creatures killing anything they come across, and the civilised ones who have maintained their humanity. Neville has been wantonly killing any he finds.

*** The movie got a few things wrong. Neville was not at the south street seaport during the night attack, when he was rescued by the woman and child. In this scene, he was on the west side of manhattan, facing New Jersey. Also, it does not seem likely that the GW Bridge would've been left in tact(alt ending), if the gov/military decided to blow all other bridges, and flood all tunnels. Also, in terms of theatrical ending, the GW bridge is not seen by the audience, so how did the woman and child drive to Vermont if manhattan was completely cut off? The film made a point of telling us that manhattan was quarantined and effectively cut off. Lastly, how did the zombies know about Neville's manaquins? The movie led us to believe that Neville only saw the manaquins during the day, in the video store. If we are to believe this, it means that the zombies would not have know about the video store or the manaquins inside the video store, because they don't come out during the day. Yet, somehow the zombies knew about the video store, grabbed Fred, placed him near grand central station, and set a trap for Neville? Question - if the zombies knew about neville and the video store, why not just wait inside and kill him, why go with setting Fred up on a street and setting a trap? This is a case of a movie that does not follow the rules of the world it created, not cool. :)

*** The movie got a few things wrong. Neville was not at the south street seaport during the night attack, when he was rescued by the woman and child. In this scene, he was on the west side of manhattan, facing New Jersey. Also, it does not seem likely that the GW Bridge would've been left in tact(alt ending), if the gov/military decided to blow all other bridges, and flood all tunnels. Also, in terms of theatrical ending, the same holds true, how did the woman and child drive to ermine if manhattan was completely cut off? The film made a point of telling us that manhattan was quarantined and effectively cut off. This is a case of a movie that does not follow the rules of the world it created.

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** It's either in one of his flashbacks or on one of those recorded television broadcasts he watches, but at some point you hear some news reporter or announcer say that he's basically the lead figure assigned to deal with the once-promising Krippen virus. The ''Time'' cover supplements that. What that means is that before the Crash, he was probably a reknowned and genius virologist (which actually makes sense, since the US military plays an important role in dealing with anti-biological warfare efforts) who was given the task of trying to deal with the mutated Krippen virus (up until the destruction of the bridge, the virus seems to have only been spread by blood-to-blood contact, hence his wife's remark "is it airborne?".

*** The "less than one percent" already had an immunity when the disease broke out, probably from a preexisting genetic trait (they lacked receptor sites, had a certain protein or something that inhibits the activity of the virus, etc.). There are several examples of this in real life. A few people have a genetic immunity to AIDs. Sickle cell anemia providing immunity to malaria is an extreme example. The 10% that got turned into dark seekers may have a similar but less potent trait, one that fights off the virus enough to stay alive, but not enough to destroy it completely and prevent various symptoms. Once the virus is cured, their body can start to repair the damage.

** Since it's a drug created for a patient population working with a limited time frame for medical intervention, it's likely the drug was "fast-tracked." In that situation, the FDA can allow drugs to bypass the more exhaustive testing period if they show promise in early human trials with no serious side effects. It's not generally the rule for most medications, but for populations dealing with chronic or terminal conditions (AIDS, cancer, Parkinson's, etc.), it can and does happen. Once it hit the general patient population (and cancer is no obscure disease), it was probably a matter of time before it began mutating. It's possible that some of the early mutations were harmless and therefore overlooked, which gave it time to become the plague that wiped out humanity.

I'm not buying that the second trap could work. It's setup all wrong, are we supposed to believe that the infected rigged a whole convoluted series of pulleys as well? How is it we can't see any cables yet Will Smith is lifted straight up?
What makes the car teeter off the bridge? Where is the cable from the car?

Completely faked by Hollywood that second trap.

*** IMHO the animals are from [[{{Madagascar}} Central Park Zoo]], so it's more a case of escaped animals rather than ones migrating in. Other observations on this page have established that Manhattan Isalnd had been cut-off and subways would have flooded.