The movie I am Legend by Francis Lawrence it is set in a dystopian society and it is a post- apocalyptic movie. It is about a military scientist named Robert Neville who thought he was the sole survivor in the world.

The central themes of dystopian novels generally fall under these topics:

• Government control.
• Environmental destruction.
• Technological control.
• Survival.
• Loss of individualism.

Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control.

Faced with an overwhelming onslaught, Neville sacrifices himself to save fellow survivors Anna and Ethan, along with a sample of his cure. This goes directly against the book’s idea of Neville having unknowingly become a villain.

These were vampires that had pretty much overrun the entire planet. Modern zombies, in some respect, take some of their inspiration from Matheson’s story. That said, yes. They were intelligent creatures with minds of their own.

This genetically engineered measles virus is the reason for the plague and the zombie-like creatures in the fictional film. It was not a vaccination but a modified virus used to treat cancer (cancer is not caused by a virus, as can be read in more detail in a Reuters Fact Check here ).

I Am Legend is based on the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. It’s a 1950s era book when the zombies as we know them today didn’t even exist. In the book they are basically vampires, he uses mirrors, crosses, garlic, stakes and the like to ward them off. He researches their symptoms as if they are vampires.

The film doesn’t give a clear explanation as to why Neville is immune and it is assumes it is due to his genetics, as with the other immune survivors. In the book, he believes that a bat bite he had received while he was in the army (which made him ill for weeks) is what gave him immunity.

The ending to the Alternate Theatrical Version varies from the original ending. Instead of blowing himself and the hemocytes up with a grenade, Neville discovers that the hemocytes actually came for the female he captured earlier in the movie.

When a member of a scavenging party was infected, the ship was slowly wiped out by the virus. The remaining immune docked the ship, and Anna, Ethan, and three other people on board who were unaffected scaped. However, the other three survivors were eventually killed by Darkseekers.