It's still cold in New York in February, standing on the bank of the East River in New York, a gust of sea breeze is blowing, Phyllis Beretta quickly shrunk her head, trying to shrink the exposed parts of the air as much as possible into her clothes, but she just rushed to Manhattan from Los Angeles, her clothes are a little thin, and she has to hold up a poster supporting Matthew, this knee-jerk action did not bring any effect.

But standing on this high ground and seeing the place closest to the river bank, Matthew was standing there filming, and she suddenly felt less cold.

Where there's Matthew, there's sunshine and warmth.

Phyllis Beretta took advantage of the fact that the shooting had not yet started, put away the poster, took out the camera, pointed the camera at the riverbank, pressed the camera lens again and again, and took a lot of photos.

Because she had to scrape together money to buy a plane ticket, she came to New York two days later than the crew, and she had already missed Matthew's two-day shooting.

"It's time to start filming! It's about to start!" A crew member came over and reminded loudly, "Please put away your camera! Please put away your camera! Thank you for your cooperation!"

Hearing this, Phyllis Beretta let go of her hand that pressed the shutter and put the camera away, she is also a veteran front-line fan, and she knows that continuing to take pictures will affect the normal work of the crew.

Both fans and entertainment reporters around her cooperated to put away the camera, and then she saw Matthew and a girl with big breasts sitting on a bench on the bank of the river, and the camera turned to them along the slide, and the camera was aimed at them.

The sea breeze was blowing in his face, a little cold, and Matthew seemed to be unconscious, sitting on the same cold bench, staring at the Brooklyn Bridge in front of him on the left, in a daze, Alexandra Daddario quietly by his side, not saying a word.

"I'm Robert Neville and I'm a survivor living in New York......"

Not far away came the sound of the radio, which never seemed to stop, "I now broadcast to all frequencies of AM, I will wait at noon every day at noon, when the sun is at its highest, on the pier on South Street, if you hear, anyone hears it, I can provide food, I can provide accommodation, I can provide security, if anyone hears it, anyone ......"

In the middle of the radio, Matthew looked pained and sad, pointed to the Brooklyn Bridge, and suddenly said, "Right here, I saw an accident in the helicopter that my wife and daughter were flying in, right in front of my eyes!"

Alexandra Daddario followed his finger as if she saw the broken Brooklyn Bridge.

Matthew sat motionless until director Guillermo del Toro called for filming to stop.

With this announcement passed, and all the scenes by the East River in New York were filmed, Guillermo del Toro shouted, "Now let's go to Washington Square!" ”

Taking the coat handed by Bella Anderson, Matthew put it on and entered the warm trailer, followed by Alexandra Daddario.

As a supporting actress with few scenes, she can't be treated as well as Matthew in the crew.

"Sit down, Anna. Matthew came over to the coffee machine, took a cup of coffee for Alexandra Daddario, and said, "Do you need milk?"

Alexandra Daddario shook her head, "No need. ”

Matthew placed the magnetic coffee cup on the metal table in front of Alexandra D'Addario, and made another cup of tea for himself, touching the slightly hot cup, and his somewhat stiff hands felt better.

Perhaps because the guy first lived in Texas and then in Los Angeles, Matthew found himself a little afraid of the cold, and his tolerance for low temperatures was much worse than when he lived on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Originally, he had the idea of buying a luxury apartment on New York's Upper East Side or Long Island, but since last winter, he shot a week-long night scene at the Brooklyn Bridge.

Both Amanda and Helen Herman have said that it is very unwise to buy a luxury home as an investment in New York, especially in Manhattan, where the ultra-high property tax often outpaces the appreciation of the house......

"I recently read the original book by Richard Matheson. Alexandra D'Addario said at this time, "The version we shot is very different from the original book." ”

Matthew took a sip of hot tea, nodded and said, "The changes are very big, this film basically only borrows the worldview of the original book, and the film must adapt to the development of the times, I guess Aziva Gosman probably had this idea when he wrote this version of the script." ”

He also read the original book before, and it can be said that the plot of the shooting and the original book are completely two works.

The original book is the same as the extinction of humanity, but it is not the virus vaccine that treats cancer that destroys humanity, but an ancient legend: vampires. Vampires are real, and by the time humans realize it, it's too late, and Robert Neville accidentally gains immunity after being bitten by a vampire bat.

The rest of humanity, for the most part, perished, and the rest were all infected. There are also two kinds of them: one is the living dead, who are dead, but driven by germs, can still walk and attack, and their only instinct is to suck blood. The other infected person is still alive, just as bloodthirsty, but retained intelligence.

The vampires of the latter kind, who gather around Robert Neville's house every night, hope to catch him and suck his blood, including his former driver, Ben.

According to legend, Robert Neville used a lot of garlic and crosses to protect his house, and he had a gun, but it didn't work against vampires.

Similarly, the fate of Robert Neville's wife in the original book is completely different, her wife was infected and died, Robert Neville could not bear to throw her into the large crematorium built by the government, secretly buried her, and soon, his wife came back and knocked on the door......

As in the movie, in the original book, Robert Neville goes out every day during the day, but his goal is to kill all the vampires he can find, they still live in the house and fall into a coma during the day, Robert Neville searches each house little by little, and according to legend, he kills them by driving a stake into the heart of the vampire.

He went to the library to check books and study, used a microscope to find pathogens in the blood, and understood how the germs spread, but he couldn't find a cure.

As for dogs, there is indeed a dog in the original book, an injured dog that survived, and Robert Neville caught it, but it was infected and died a week later.

There is also a woman, but it is very different from Alexandra D'Addario's character, the woman magically appears, Robert Neville also catches her, suspecting her in various ways that she is an infected, but after a night together, Robert Neville tells the woman about the practice of researching and slaughtering vampires.

But the woman attacked him, leaving a message telling him that she was indeed an infected person, and that some of the infected people had found a way to continue living, and that they had organized into a new community.

Robert Neville has killed too many infected and is a demon in the minds of the community, and she is sent to go undercover to get to know him and get him to escape.

However, Robert Neville is different from the movie, in the original book he is more of a warrior than a doctor, so he does not escape, in the attack of the infected who are prepared, he is seriously injured by gunfire, the woman appears next to him, all she can do is give Robert Neville a suicide pill, Robert Neville takes the pill and commits suicide with the last remaining human self-esteem.

The last survivor in the world also died......

Compared with the movie being filmed, the original book is more cold and desperate, Robert Neville has no ambition to save all mankind, no cool and neat appearance, no perseverance to exercise every day, no leisure and leisure of playing golf with wings, and some black humor that occasionally flashes is also so desperate and eerie.

But this is true of real life, there is no God, there are only germs, hostility, and destruction.

Sometimes Matthew also thinks that if it is shot according to the original book, it may also work well, but the Hollywood commercial blockbuster mechanism has decided that it will not be filmed with the plot of the original book, after all, the film with an investment of 150 million US dollars will finally be turned into a cold and desperate film, and it is estimated that the Warner Brothers will directly find someone to break out of Aziva Gosman.

Therefore, this kind of film will inevitably end up in Hollywood's hero mode, even if the crew prepared two versions, Aziva Gosman still planned to use Robert Neville and Daredevil Boss as the end of the theatrical version after deliberation and deliberation.

The reason is simple, the ending of the other version is too literary and does not meet the needs of Hollywood commercial films.

At the end of the second version, it will only appear on the DVD disc released in later stages, which can also be a selling point for DVDs.

The crew soon came to Washington Square, and since two days ago, a professional team has set up exterior locations on Washington Square so that the crew can shoot directly when they come.

Just like the Brooklyn Bridge, even with Alexandra D'Addario's father mediating it, New York City Hall couldn't have given the crew too much time to shoot, after all, this is Manhattan.

In the script, after the disaster, Robert Neville lived in a house in Washington Square, and the two ending scenes were all filmed in the Los Angeles studio before, and now they are all filming on location in the square, and Matthew does not have many shots.

One day filming Daredevil breaking into Robert Neville's residence, and one day filming Matthew's location scene and Alexandra D'Addario's character leaving New York with a little girl.

In just two days, the crew's location scenes in Washington Square were filmed, and all the filming of "I Am Legend" ended.

Matthew followed the crew back to Los Angeles, and just returned to the City of Angels when he received an invitation from the Oscar organizing committee.