Yes, I think I was mistaken in saying Smith was responsibleDale wrote:Overall, I liked the movie.
Why was Will Smith immune? Was it just sheer coincidence?
Also, my daughter and I didn't understood that it was explicit that Smith's character was among those responsible for the plague, I thought it was implicit.
I thought that the CG zombies and animals were not entirely convincing, but were made up for by how completely convincing the empty-NYC was depicted.
Also, I thought that scene when he went into the dark building to find his dog was really, really scary.
for the plague. Here's wiki.
After the outbreak of a lethal virus, military virologist Lt. Colonel Robert Neville (Will Smith) is left as the last healthy human in New York City and possibly the world.
Opening in 2012, a series of flashbacks and recorded news programmes reveal that in 2009 a genetically re-engineered measles virus, originally created as a cure for cancer, mutated into a lethal strain which rapidly infected humans and animals. By the end of the year, over 90% of the planet's human population had been killed. Over 9% were infected, but did not die. These survivors degenerated into a primal state of aggression and began to react painfully to UV radiation, forcing them to hide in buildings and other dark places during the day. Less than 1% remained completely immune to the virus, but were hunted and killed by the infected, until Robert Neville is left as what he believes to be the last healthy human in the world.
Three years after the outbreak, Neville's daily routine includes experimentation to find a cure for the virus and trips through a Manhattan devoid of humanity to hunt for food and supplies. He also waits each day for a response to his continuous recorded radio broadcasts, which instruct any uninfected survivors to meet him at midday at the South Street Seaport. ... Neville's isolation is broken only by the companionship of his dog Samantha ("Sam"), interaction with mannequins that he has set up as patrons of a video store, and recordings of old news and entertainment broadcasts.
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