What if there is a well and there is a group of happy frogs living under it, and one of the frogs on the well thinks that their life is too poor and tries to pull them up to what it thinks is a good world, is this salvation or self-righteousness?

This is a question that Wang Yang has been thinking about for a long time, all kinds of ideas, all kinds of forms, starting before "Firefly", and will continue to "I Am Legend", Neville is the frog, and the group of frogs in the well used to live in the well.

The infected in the original book I Am Legend (1954) have not changed their appearance or IQ, except for vampire-like symptoms, and this is a group of "new humans". Neville, a virus immunizer, is researching a vaccine to cure the virus, and his fear and hatred make him constantly destroy the vampires' efforts to rebuild society, thus becoming the most hated person of the new humans.

One day, he catches a woman he thinks is uninfected, "Ruth", but after getting along, he finds that she is suspicious, and Ruth finally reluctantly agrees to let him take a blood sample for testing, but knocks him unconscious, and he also realizes that she is an infected vampire. When Neville woke up, he found a note in which she said that the infected were slowly overcoming their illness, that they had been able to stay in the sun for a short time, and that they hated him, and that she warned Neville that her men would come and grab him, that he should leave his house, and escape.

However, Neville ignored her warnings and was captured, after which he saw Ruth again. Ruth tells him that she is a high-ranking officer in the New Society, but unlike the others, she does not hate her, and she admits that it was a capture operation she orchestrated. Feeling badly hurt, Neville accepts his fate and only begs Ruth not to let that new society become cruel and unforgiving, and Ruth kisses him and his hair.

When he was executed, looking at all the vampires, all of a sudden, Neville understood that these new humans, they have their own morals and pursuits, they have their own new world, they don't need to be treated or saved by anyone, he is just a remnant of an old human being! ”

Yes, Neville would probably be an evil figure in the mythological tales of the new civilization, like Satan. This is a redemption and anti-redemption, this is a discussion of human struggle and the concept of racial civilization, no racial civilization is superior to anyone, life will find its own way out, this is the original intention of "I Am Legend".

"The Last Man on Earth" (1964) features a frail and stupid vampire as well as a mutated and blood-sucking new human, with the appearance of "Dog", a stray dog that Morgan fails to catch when they first meet, and some time later, when it reappears with the virus, dies quickly, and Morgan buries it.

Morgan (Neville) fell in love with Ruth at first sight, persuaded her to go home with him, and cured her immediately with a vaccine, and he saw hope! Despite Ruth's begging to be kept alive by his companions, he was nailed to the altar with a spear, and before dying, Morgan called them "Freaks" and declared that he was the last real man on earth!

This premiere version has already misinterpreted "I Am Legend", and the ending of the story means nothing other than to show loyalty to human audiences.

Richard Matheson, the original author of the co-written screenplay at the time, was very unhappy, but in order to maintain the subsequent dividends from the film, he signed his name with the vest "Logens Wanson", which is a combination of his wife's mother's name and his mother's last name. "I'm disappointed that even though they are more or less following my story, it's a superficial barren direction and I just don't like it," Matheson said back then. ”

"I'm looking forward to it. The 80-year-old Matheson said this in an interview with the New York Times before, because the adaptation rights used to belong to B and now belong to FF, and he has no right to ask how to adapt it. But for Wang Yang's remake, the old man is very looking forward to and optimistic: "Maybe before I die, I can see a real "I Am Legend", the real Neville." ”

"The Last Man on Earth" has its story, but its significance is more important than the creation of the zombie genre (the vampires and zombies in the film are almost the same), and the connotation of the film, the box office, etc., are not the object of its praise.

In The Last Man (1971), hundreds of albinism mutant survivors in Los Angeles form an organization called "The-Family", which believes that science is responsible for this tragedy and that all signs of science should be eliminated, that they do not use guns and other high-tech products, and even imitate medieval dress, at most flashlights and slingshot carts, and that Neville, "the last remnant of an ancient culture", is hostile to family relations.

One day, the family captured Neville in a wine cellar, and after a trial, the family convicted him of a guilty demon and sentenced him to be burned at the stake in the center of the stadium.

But another group of survivors, Lisa (the woman he had seen on patrol) and Detz (a former medical student who was familiar with Neville's work), came to his rescue, and Neville thought that since he was immune, he might be able to cure them by making serum from his own plasma (he had only searched for food and clothing during the day, hunting down family members), and if the serum worked, they were ready to leave Los Angeles and start a new life in the wilderness without their families.

Lisa's brother Richie was successfully cured, and out of sympathy for the family, Richie went to try to convince them to be treated, but the leader, Matthias, refused to believe and killed Richie. A big battle ensued when Neville arrived, and when the gun was blocked, he was mortally wounded by a spear thrown by Matthias!

Meanwhile, several survivors, led by Detz, were fleeing Los Angeles in a Land Rover SUV when they found the dying Neville by a fountain and handed Detz a serum vial representing the hope of restoring humanity, and died shortly after, leaving the survivors on an unknown journey.

In 1971, Neville "I am a legend" was because he developed a serum that restored humanity and sacrificed his life to bring hope to mankind, and he was a heroic legend, not a demon. Still far from the original meaning, it's no wonder Matheson thinks he hasn't seen the real "I Am Legend" yet.

However, Heroic Legend did not win much praise and box office for it, and its results were even worse than "The Last Man on Earth". However, it has a shining highlight, which is the appearance of Neville's leisure "shopping", "puppet modeling" and other elements, Tim Burton once said: "If I were alone on a desert island, I would probably pick things, I might talk to myself, like 'The Last Man', I don't know why it's one of my favorite movies, but it is." ”

Originally, the theme of the B version of "I Am Legend" continued to be a big hero saving mankind, and it absorbed and integrated some of the acclaimed elements of the first two scripts, the stray dog became Sam, and the first half of the story focused on depicting Neville's loneliness and apocalyptic atmosphere through daily life, and finally he died at the cost of his life and the infected who broke through the last line of defense, protecting Anna's mother and son from leaving, his serum became the hope of redeeming mankind, and his struggle became a legend (the ending of the public version).

On the other hand, there are two huge changes in this version, the infected have become physically strong, mentally retarded, predatory, rampaging, ugly Darkseekers, only the boss has a good intelligence, just like the current Marauders of Firefly, and it doesn't have any new human organization, but it has a legendary survivor camp, "Ruth" and Richie become Anna's mother and son, they bring hope and successfully bring "hope" to the survivor camp.

It can be said that the three versions and all walk on different tracks, because of business, because of political correctness, because of beauty and hope.

"NOT-ME, COCO IS. Wang Yang doesn't know if Matheson can see "the real "I Am Legend", he will not let Neville be a stubborn person, nor a hero who saves mankind, now in 2006, he is one of the most box office appealing directors today, Will Smith is one of the most box office appealing superstars, still tiptoeing like a few decades ago? What are you kidding!

But he won't let a female character like "Ruth" appear, there is no room for negotiation, no! The appearance of a woman will completely destroy those loneliness, depression, and despair, and Sam's death will then become meaningless, she destroys everything!

When the bright moon is in the sky, the night is gradually getting deeper and deeper, in the bright study, Wang Yang shook his head, and those words and images were suddenly swept away, don't care about the three versions of "I Am Legend", don't care about the original work, what does he want?

I want Neville to die as the last human! I want him to be the legendary demon! Wang Yang has thought about it for a long time, a lot, but in fact, what he wants most is loneliness, a post-apocalyptic wasteland world!

He knows why the mediocre "The Last Man" is one of Tim Burton's favorite movies, because he had a similar idea, because it depicts Neville's loneliness, depicts some of the appearance of the wasteland world, and his goal this time is to give his all in these two aspects!

Most people who don't like it will say that they are dull and boring, smashing rotten eggs on rotten tomatoes, but those who like it will devote themselves to it, be moved and tangled, and then include it as one of their favorite movies, "I Am Legend" is destined to be a CULT film.

He wants to create the atmosphere, appearance, and details of the apocalyptic world, and portray the loneliness and depression of the remnants of hope, but in fact the world has long been bleak (the family is dead), the better! He wants to perfectly show the apocalyptic wasteland world, so that the audience in front of the big screen can feel the wasteland atmosphere most realistically, and substitute Neville in that world, and then they will have some thoughts and feelings, because the gloom, impact, shock, feeling, and thinking brought by that time are all open.

If this is a horror movie, then the most terrifying thing is not zombies, not darkness and danger, but loneliness.

"Whew!" Wang Yang slowly closed his eyes, leaned on the back of the chair, and felt the uncomfortable loneliness, this is what he wants, what he wants to give to the audience!

In the darkness, there seemed to be a little light ahead, and a moth kept flapping its wings and trying to fly over...... Standing and flying to the light, it found that there was still darkness around it, and the era of light had passed, when people were used to sleeping during the day and moving at night, was there any difference? Darkness is light, light is darkness, human beings have just "evolved" from diurnal animals to nocturnal animals, maybe they will still call themselves diurnal, the word Daytime has changed to mean that there is no sun, and Night has become the sun and comes out, is there any difference?

Does the moth want to set the whole world on fire and bring the world back to light, regardless of the tragedy of the separation of wives and deaths, or to extinguish that little flame and turn the world to darkness and tranquility?

Or have you forgotten that it is actually a nocturnal animal, but it is just a little "deformed". When it realizes that its will, strength, and faith are only stumbling blocks that the new civilization hates, that is the loneliness that penetrates into the heart.

Aziva Gosman is a big fan of "The Last Man", so although the rewritten script of "I Am Legend" introduces some elements of Mark Prutosevich, the main framework of the story is full of "The Last Man" By the time the 40-page outline of the movie scene was handed over to Wang Yang, he had undergone many major transformations, and the revised lines were expected to run throughout the filming period, one to match Will Smith's improvisation, and the other was to judge and decide what scene to be silent and not say a word, and then use sound effects to meet the auditory needs.

The amount of Will Smith's improvisation will affect Neville's portrayal, affecting him to play the lonely "Will Smith" or someone else, but Neville does not have any outward personality traits, Wang Yang knows that it is not a bad thing to make the big screen full of "Smith charm", and the audience loves the fresh prince.

But the work of the script is not without waves, and of course it has not been upgraded to the level of William Joyce in "Robot Adventure", although Wang Yang is the boss and magical BABY, and Gosman is also the winner of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, even if he can't get the right to speak, he can leave in style, without worrying about having no home.

Compared with where the story takes place, the bigger difference between the two is the theme of the film, Gosman's two "I Am Legend" endings are all good, Neville survives a more Hollywood-style ending, will, strength, perseverance, redemption of others and self-redemption...... Wang Yang's direction is a great rebellion, worthy of the "good name" of anti-human dark and magical Yang, what's wrong with being close to the original work? So depressed and so sad, can the audience bear it? "District Nine" still has a hope of "three years later", this time ...... Not to mention the audience, the film critics will not necessarily support the extinction of mankind! Which sci-fi horror movie, more accurately speaking, will the post-apocalyptic era movies have such a situation? Human extinction!

Now the top of the box office list in the history of film history in the post-apocalyptic era is "Future Water World" (175 million production cost, 1995) with a box office of 88.24 million/264 million, Kevin Costner's Eternal Nightmare, followed by "Dawn of the Living Dead" with 59 million/102 million, and "28 Days of Shock" with 45 million/82.71 million, their production costs are only 26 million and 8 million respectively, all of which are big profits, and the problem is as cruel as George A. Romero, "Dawn of the Living Dead" In the end, it was not clear whether the protagonists would die or not, leaving a glimmer of hope and aftertaste of suspense.

and "I Am Legend", which has a production cost of 200 million at any time...... Wang Yang bluntly said that there is no need to think about business, and who else stipulates that if you can't be a savior, you won't be a commercial film? Is there anyone? Gosman is not a pure commercial film screenwriter, so this big problem has finally been solved, and Wang Yangsheng has won! However, Gosman revealed the tidbits in an interview with the media, showing that the theme was Magic Yang's idea, and the script has been changed beyond recognition.

Compared with the theme, the cause of the virus outbreak is obviously very insignificant, anyway, Wang Yang can't use "The Last Man" in the early 70s of the 20th century to think like "China and the Soviet Union are fighting a biological weapons war" as funny, and it is good to cause "K-Virus" (KV) to treat cancer.

KV was originally developed as a genetically modified virus to treat cancer, but after a period of human clinical trials, it began to have unexpected side effects similar to rabies, and it went out of control and caused large-scale infection. In addition to killing 90% of the world's population, it also turned about 9% of the population into dark hunters.

In addition to the common points of madness, violence, nocturnal and fear of light, in the middle of it, the vampire is fast, athletic and climbing, but it is still human, "The Last Man on Earth" has weak and stupid vampires and new humans, "The Last Man" is a crazy "family", and in the B version of "I Am Legend", it is the violent and ugly dark hunter.

The image and ability of these infected people are very critical and important, affecting the whole film, whether CGI technology is used, affecting the cost budget and post-production cycle.

In fact, the B version has reaped a mixed reputation, which cannot be called popular, and the reason for the controversy is that on the one hand, due to the poor level of special effects, the dark hunters do not have much realism; on the other hand, this is a subversive setting, "I Am Legend" has never been a dead or dead, zombie or anything, it is similar to a vampire!

As for the concept behind those mutations, the adrenaline rush causes humans to become stronger and uglier, and they breathe too fast and overventilate, so they make screams, howls, and other sounds that are somewhat human-like, but not standard...... AND SO ON, EXCEPT FOR MOVIE FANS AND CULT FANS, NOT MANY PEOPLE WILL CARE.

During the previous vacation, Wang Yang also thought a lot about this, and finally decided to adopt this setting! The Dark Hunter, who is almost beyond the scope of humans, can bring a stronger sense of oppression, and the savage image without intelligence also deepens Neville's loneliness, which is a good change, provided that the CGI special effects are well made, and he is not worried about this. But he wants to make it clear in the film that Dark Hunters can evolve and evolve every day, and the story takes place just as the boss is about to break through an important stage...... "Haha, Jan!"

Just as Wang Yang closed his eyes and immersed himself in the whole lonely world, he walked farther and farther in the darkness, farther and farther...... Suddenly, a crisp laugh interrupted his train of thought, making him tremble, and the whole person jumped up in fright, he naturally opened his eyes wide, who else was not Jessica? She had a playful smile on her face, and when she saw that the success scared him, she suddenly laughed even more happily: "Hit you! Haha!" Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders before he could fully recover, Jessica looked at the empty water cup on the desk, and looked at other drawing paper and other things, while stopping laughing, and said softly: "You fell asleep just now? Be careful of catching a cold, go to bed? It's not early." ”

"No, just thinking about something. Wang Yang rubbed his tired eyes, Jessica knew that he had just come out of the world of "I Am Legend", and his mood would be low for a while, so he was unimpressed with his coldness, but found that his eyes were a little moist, and he couldn't help asking: "What are you thinking? Why are you crying?" Facing her beautiful eyes full of care and love, Wang Yang suddenly laughed, shook his head and said: "So, you can't let a woman appear!

Jessica blinked a little puzzled: "What do you mean?" Wang Yang stood up, stretched his waist with his hands raised high, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, women are the best antidote to loneliness, how about Keke?"

"Slept. Jessica smiled proudly, since they had made up their minds to teach Keco a lesson, the little one was now less inclined to play with his temper, and slept more soundly. Wang Yang nodded, and while packing up the computer, documents and other things, he asked with interest: "Let me ask you a question." Jessica looked at him: "Say!" Wang Yang told her about the ending of "I Am Legend" and asked, "How will you feel after watching it?"

"Well, I guess......" Jessica rolled her eyes and said, "Sad, depressed, can't figure it out, I'm going crazy, I want to hit you......" Listening to these comments, Wang Yang laughed: "That's right, that's right!"

Looking at his back as he walked out laughing, Jessica followed amusedly, jumped a few steps, and punched him, what bad!

(To be continued)