Well I just watched the film "I am legend"
There's just a few things that have stuck in my head. And I was just wondering if anyone that has seen it thinks the same or has answers

1. Why where the animals there? (I was thinking from a zoo or something but not sure) and also what was the significance of them being there, from the adverts I thought they would have had a bigger role in the film.
   
2. Had Robert (will smith) gone kind of insane, talking to the manakins as if they were real people. The part where the manakin is part of the trap he talks to it as if he were real.
   
3. Was it the monster people that set the trap for him? Robert said something about them having no basic human instinct left at all so I don't get how they could watch him set a trap and set one themselves.
   
4. At the point in the film where Robert has just got out of the trap, the monster dogs can come out into the shade but not pass the line of light. Near the beginning in the scene under the bridge when Robert captures one of the monster people, another comes out slightly but can't (but they're in the shade under the bridge) so how come he can't
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   I thought it was overall an okay film, but it seemed to drag on slightly and then suddenly end.
   
   Also the bit where he knows all the words to shrek kinda made me laugh
   
   One more thing , at the very end where the woman and her son get into the safe, he could of got into the safe aswell and left the grenade on the floor or something.
   
   Okay another one more thing, the whole "Look daddy its a butterfly" I think is kinda pointless. The woman in the safe could of taken the blood without being the one that "had to do it".
   
   

1. Because the city had been abandoned for a few years?
2. Yes.
3. Yes - the male (leader?) seems to be exhibiting some form of intelligence and clearly is upset that his mate was kidnapped.
4. Because it's a movie, and because it wasn't completely dark under the bridge?

It was an interesting movie during viewing, but in retrospect it was pretty crumby...

1) Well theres 2 ways to ask this question. You could mean why were they there in general or you could mean why havent they been infected. Ill answer them both. After 3 years of there cages in a zoo (presuming thats where there from) there cages have bin through 3 years of rain and other types of precipitation. So I imagine that there cages would be weak. Also they might not of been infected because they might be immune to the virus.

2) I wouldnt describe him as 'insane' but when you think he had spent about 1000 days, with his only companion a dog. So he may just be talking to them for emotional re-assurement that there are people out there.

3) Yes. If you notice when he kidnapps one of the infected thereis another one present who runs out and goes back in because of the light. Then at dark I am guessing they went out, and copied his trap. Then set it up the same way after observing him for 3 years.

4) there is a line of light. That is why when the inected is kidnapped it is covered by a black sheet. It is like at the door it is dark, then over the cars it is light, then where will smith is it is dark again.

Great film. I dont see why Will Smith stayed inside that glass room at the end. Why didnt he go through that tunnel with the others with the blood. Then he could of got all the credit for saving the world.

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Originally posted by Ashley_H
After 3 years of there cages in a zoo (presuming thats where there from) there cages have bin through 3 years of rain and other types of precipitation. So I imagine that there cages would be weak

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

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Originally posted by Ashley_H
After 3 years of there cages in a zoo (presuming thats where there from) there cages have bin through 3 years of rain and other types of precipitation. So I imagine that there cages would be weak

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I'd be worried if that was all it took to weaken a cage seeing as cages have been in zoos for years without being replaced

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After 3 years of there cages in a zoo (presuming thats where there from) there cages have bin through 3 years of rain and other types of precipitation. So I imagine that there cages would be weak

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I'd be worried if that was all it took to weaken a cage seeing as cages have been in zoos for years without being replaced

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Originally posted by -dt-
also remember the animals would have been pretty hungry too + crazy zombie creatures.... so the animals would have been trying to get out and probably hurting themselves (blood ;o) and then the zombies would break down the bars. animals escape

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Originally posted by Volv
PS: Your signature is good

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

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Originally posted by -dt-
also remember the animals would have been pretty hungry too + crazy zombie creatures.... so the animals would have been trying to get out and probably hurting themselves (blood ;o) and then the zombies would break down the bars. animals escape

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Can't we just say they're wild animals that entered the city, which would coincidentally make me right?

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Now go watch

Omega Man
The Last Man On Earth

Both originals

At the end he says "they're not gonna stop", so basically, he had to kill himself and them to save the girl and her son and the cure. Leaving the grenade then getting into the tunnel wouldn't have worked, there would've been time for the monsters to run away, and he had to wait for the glass to break so that the grenade actually got where it was supposed to go.

Thought it was a good film, not one I'd watch over and over, but it was good, even though I found it depressing.

excellent film

i watched it at IMAX last saturday

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even though I found it depressing.

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i wanna see it!

* Discrate downloads.

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Originally posted by Ashley_H
After 3 years of there cages in a zoo (presuming thats where there from) there cages have bin through 3 years of rain and other types of precipitation. So I imagine that there cages would be weak

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I'd be worried if that was all it took to weaken a cage seeing as cages have been in zoos for years without being replaced

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Originally posted by Ashley_H
Also after 3 years of being trapped alone, with no affection they could start trying to escape. Large animals like lions etc could start bashing their cages.

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Also after 3 years of being trapped alone, with no affection they could start trying to escape. Large animals like lions etc could start bashing their cages.

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And what was stopping these animals from dying of starvation meanwhile?

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1. The animals are there because central park has a massive zoo in it, I assume that they all escaped from there after becoming so hungry because their 'zoo-keepers' would've abandoned the city, died or became somewhat rabied.

2. He isn't insane, but because humans are sociable beings, we find it difficult to function correctly if we're alone for such a long amount of time (hence the reason why solitary confinement is incredibly unethical), so we will try and compensate for the fact that we're alone. Just like someone would talk to a teddy, and if it fell to the floor, go 'what did you do that for?' jokingly. But if you woke up one day and it was somewhere completely random where it couldn't possibly be, you'd probably question the fact, is it real? Because you can tell by the way he shoots him there is some desperation for him to spend time with people.

3. The 'creatures' are just people who are carrying the virus without death, acting as if they're rabied, they need food and are desperate for it, acting in inhumane ways to do it, the virus (I assume) kills off brain cells or something, so they will not be able to function and act like we to. But I'm sure it'll put them in a primitive state enough to set a trap, especially if they copy another persons behaviour. By the way, when they were talking about basic human instincts, he was meaning survival skills, for example their natural instinct to not go out in the sun.

4. Because the shade under the bridge is shade during the day, whereas at that point in the film, it is sunset, so it isn't getting shady, it's actually going dark. (The monster person there is the 'leader' throughout the film btw).

I thought the film was absolutely amazing, the creators have made anyone who watches it feel so solitary, there isn't even a soundtrack to it, only some diegetic content (Bob Marley). It only had anything in it that was completely necessary, the reason he didn't want to get into the safe is because he missed his family and saw the butterfly and remembered it, especially after the woman was telling him 'God told me to come here', his mission was over. It was his ground zero, and he'd finished his job that he was hanging around to do, he actually had nothing left. Everyone that he loved was gone, so what's the point in hanging on?

I hope there isn't too much conjecture in there, I was just trying to explain as best as I could what I thought the best answers to your question were, and I may have only read a couple of other peoples answers before answering myself, so sorry if i've repeated myself.

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Great film. I dont see why Will Smith stayed inside that glass room at the end. Why didnt he go through that tunnel with the others with the blood. Then he could of got all the credit for saving the world.

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Originally posted by Volv
And what was stopping these animals from dying of starvation meanwhile?

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