How to Beat the DARKSEEKERS in "I AM LEGEND" 

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As you can see, Doggo's are needed in life. He survived 3 years with a doggo and when the dog died, he didnt last a day.

“ I don’t know how much Willpower he has at this point” I see what you did there

If I remember correctly, the reason he doesn’t set his watch alarm to a nice time like 5:25 is because he references the farmers almanac to determine the exact time that the sun is supposed to set, which is different every single day. So he most likely sets the alarm 30 minutes to an hour prior to the actual sunset time.

Usually deers are vigilant towards the end of the hunting season after they learn to fear humans, but they forget quickly. Since he's the only human in NYC I think he could realistically get that close

If the Darkseekers were a bit smarter, they would be suspicious about the only house entrance in Manhattan with a strong vinegar smell.

"100 terabyte storage device" "might be able to fit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" lmao

This will forever be one of my favourite apocalypse films, almost solely for Will Smiths performance, he sells every ounce of fear, anger and sadness and it’s actually impressive

Sam carried this movie on her back. What an awesome dog.

"He's using a 4x sight called an ACOG, which isn't a ideal for urban environments where you're room clearing most of the time." Yeah try to tell this to R6S players

Idc about what anyone says about the alternate endings, someone make an alternate ending where the Dog lives then I'll be happy.

The book is pretty different. They know where his house is and taunt him regularly to come out, which he sometimes does to blast them and retreat back inside. He uparmored his home and burned down the next door houses

I was always surprised his madness didn't lead him to develop a virus to end the dark seekers. Instead of trying to "cure" them.

"His alarm is set to 5 : 23 why not a nicer number like 5 : 25? He's clearly losing it mentally." That's a telltale sign that someone is going crazy.

Fun fact: "I was saving that bacon." was supposed to be a reference to the fact that Neville always saves some human food for Sam, but of course he forgot that Sam was gone, so by then his saving food for Sam had just became a habit.

Still bums me out that they made him a “legend” because he successfully created a cure. In the book he was legend because he had become the monster. Vampires inherited the world and he was just this evil force murdering them and their children for no reason. And he finally comes to understand this as they publicly execute him. It’s a very dark, non-hollywood ending so I guess I get it, but the original text is sompowerful

Easy answer: get to Alaska asap, you get months of daylight at a time to prepare for your long night, plus it's got an incredibly low population density..... Which means less darkseekers in the area making it significantly safer than an area like New York city

This guy is a professional biologist, survivalist, story teller and everything else

Me: **Sees a dog in a zombie apocalypse** "Oh no"

I really do wish that the film made reflected the book, the dark seekers are incredibly smart and they talk. Communicates with Robert every night, yelling his name at night to prevent him from sleeping. The dog is definitely a crucial part of the story but not like the film. The ending absolutely abysmal, the book ending is extraordinary. Please read it. Will Smith did play Robert very well and his character qualities in trying to determine to study them and his slow decent into madness.

Something that really adds to the movie is that in the scene where we see how Nevilles family died right as the helicopter takes off his daughter hands puppy sam to Neville saying "sam protect daddy" which just makes sams death hit harder because not only was sam the only thing keeping him sane but also that sam died doing exactly what Nevilles daughter asked sam to do God this movie is so underrated

I have a better way to survive Just be the cameraman

The end cut didn’t actually show the reason it was named “I am legend”. Nevil wasn’t “legend” because he cured the virus. He was supposed to be the boogeyman of the darkseekers. Their “legend”. The original cut of this film showed it. He originally thinks they’re just crazy vampire zombies, but it turns out they fear and resent him. I mean think about it, this thing is hunting you all. Setting up traps. Killing you with what looks like loud explosive powers. All during the day, the time when going outside will literally blind and burn you to death. Then at night, when you can actually see and defend yourselves it just *disappears*. No scent. No tracks. No sounds. Nothing. Pretty fuckin’ scary from their perspective.

this was a good movie. - Good main character. Really showed us how he survived so long. Erasing his scent, setting up multiple alarms based on a morning book, fortified base, locks the dvd store so he knows whether someone has broken in or not. He is also a genius, not just someone who has a ton of weapons. - Showed us what isolation can do to a person. He was desperate. Talking to manequins. Made me even think that it was he who put Fred there and not the darkseekers. Even after he met people he was still super awkward because he hadn't been talking to people for 3 years. - scary monsters with intelligence. Made the traps and set dogs to chase him. Also liked the restriction that they couldn't go out at sunlight. Made it more suspensefull.

Little known facts but the zombie he took was actually one of the first dark seekers, along with the one who burned his face in the sun. He had multiple subjects but this time he took "the queen" instead of a random grunt which caused the backlash. I had the dvd since it came out and love the easter eggs. With that context, the part with the darkseeker desperately breaking glass makes more sense.

Imagine your panicking and trying to save you and your family and you see someone flying in a para motor in the air

Sam’s death had me in tears so Neville probably decided to blow himself up and not get in the thing just to end it all. Like you said his will to survive must’ve been all gone and the only thing pushing him was getting the other two and the cure out of danger.

Getting that close to a dear is very possible, to effectively bow hunt you need to, and with a small game rifle like the ar-15 you need to be precise to get a clean kill. Also deer traps are rare if you can even find one, and are rarely effective.

3 years with a dog: flourishing 1 day with a woman: death

"I'm gonna go hug my dog now." I feel you, man. That scene got to me too.

That scene where he's looking for his dog in the dark building is such an intense scene, so well done. Tbh I always really liked this movie. Kind of wished it was longer. Has a great build up then it rushes a towards the end

Millitary Families being evacuated has always been an interesting concept to me. It's very likely that a lot of those Soldiers in the Flashback had family in New York City. Imagine being activated in an Emergency like this and being told to abandon your family. It's one thing if your family is safe on a base or stuck across the Country where you can't reach them anyway, but the idea that National Guard and Reserve Forces would just up and leave their families at home during something like a Zombie Outbreak is insane to me.

I wish this could’ve been turned into a series. I love this “last man on Earth” concept. It would be fascinating to see how an intelligent person survives, just going about doing every day things. Maybe he has some close run-ins with Darkseekers, maybe he takes in some survivors, starts a relationship, leaves Manhattan, etc.

dude the scene where he has to kill his dog is enough to make a grown man cry

“If the threat is that severe you wouldn’t be using a low accuracy testing tool” I’m in the navy and we use a Walmart thermometer to check if people have a fever before the board the boat. Those things suck. You’re giving the military too much credit lmao

For me, a strange part about this movie is that there weren't any stray dogs or cats for Robert to adopt. Maybe the reason why there weren't any is because the darkseekers either ate them or turned them into darkseeker dogs, but there were plenty of deer and even the lions (You actually see the lion family in the alternate ending, fun fact) Or maybe lots of the pet dogs like Sam couldn't survive on their own, without their owner.

As a hunter I’ve seen deer pick out my group from over 300 meters away visually. Perhaps they don’t recognize him as a predator, but his body language would totally reveal he was a threat and put them on edge. It is possible to get this close to a deer, it’s just really hard. Practically impossible when there are any more than a handful.

one thing i noticed: what was nevils plan at the begining? why would the military work on a cure inside nyc?

fun fact: they actually created 3 different endings to the movie. One where Neville throws the grenade through the broken glass, this one, and one where we find out the darkseeker in Neville's lab is the alpha's daughter, and give her back so they leave him alone. This is the only ending where Neville dies.

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3:57 Too be fair, most corpses/bones would be in mass graves of the early stages of the pandemic, clustered in battlefields of the middles stages and inside buildings (darkseekers) from the later stages where Will Smith and other -rappers- survivors fought and killed them. Also continuously calling out the lack of a dedicated safe room is quite hilarious. Building a safe room of steel and concrete by yourself with no heavy machinery or experience in construction is the epitome of "easier said than done".

"Where are the 8 million skeletons? The PG13 Gods must've lifted them up." 12 yr old me watching this video just assumed that the Darkseekers ate bones.

Dog: *exist* Zombie movies: *sniff* *sniff* u know the rules and so do i

I truly appreciate the homework you always do on firearms and accessories.

I like the alternate ending where the female 'zombie' is the leader's girlfriend and when he gives the leader the girlfriend back they all were able to travel to the survivor camp.

"If the virus was that severe they wouldn't use such a faulty testing method" but its just like in real life....

Did you just say “stop by the zoo and see what animals escaped?” Nah fam that’s how you get ambushed by another lion

I really admire the analysis on this channel. Well done.

This is one of my favorite movies and to how Neville could have been smarter and possibly survived is entertaining and I like the bases of this channel and it’s content

I have the DVD of this movie and it came with a second ending where he takes the blood, undoes the healing process on the darkseeker and opens the door to give her back to the alpha. When the darkseekers see that he is returning her, they dont attack. Then the 3 survivors go to the camp.

The darkseekers bother me because they’re not just zombies, or animal like. They can actually rig up traps, train animals, and just generally solve problems. I like my threats to be numerous, slow, shambling, and stupid. Kinda like Detroit Lions fans.

I much prefer the alternative ending where the seekers communicate and decide to let Neville live it really adds depth and suspense

Watched several of your videos by now and feel like I shouldn't watch another one till I've subscribed :D Keep up the good work! Also, when you do research for these videos I'm assuming that you learn a lot fx about viruses in this videos case, pretty cool :)

If we ever get into an apocalypse, I'm running to this guy

Short answer: if the government actually felt you were that important, you'd have been evacuated before anyone even knew anything was wrong.

Grown men cry when Sam died 😭, I skipped the hell out of that scene in this video, I ain’t trying to catch those feelings 😂

"I'm gonna go hug my dog now..." man you are a cool guy. Totally felt that.

He lost the “will” to smith I’ll be seeing myself out

They aren't zombies. They're mutants. And technically they're closer to vampires than zombies. Plus in the 1954 original I am legend they literally were vampires

Such a good video! First one I’ve seen but not the last for this channel.

My thoughts on the "Neville should have moved his lab to a Navy ship." -- Neville was confident that he could find a cure within two weeks, and up until the end of the flashbacks the fall of society hadn't began. Before the airstrikes, the evacuating crowds weren't hostile. Hindsight is 20/20, but with zero warning, there was no hindsight. By the time of the airstrikes, it was already too late to relocate his lab (and himself) off of Manhattan. -- The other issues are the statistics Neville pointed out. 5.4 billion people (out of 6 billion) died immediately. "Crashed and bled out." 588 million turned into Darkseekers. 12 million immune. Its unknown what percentage of these three categories were military, law enforcement, pilots, government leadership, and what percentage were non-essential personnel or civilians. Going by the appearance of post-apocalypse Manhattan, the only damage from bombs and missiles appear to be the bridges. No collapsed buildings, burnt out windows, bullet holes, no bomb craters, napalm, no bodies even. -- I can only that the immune military forces in and around Manhattan didn't last very long. We see that the Darkseekers can organize, plan, set traps, which makes them far more of a threat than the fast zombies. If there were any surviving Navy battlegroups that got the warning to stay away from any population centers or anywhere the airborne virus was present...they wouldn't come anywhere close to Manhattan. As they would lose 99% of their crews. -- Anna said she was on a cruise ship for a while, with Neville agreeing that they would eventually need to resupply (and become exposed). Just my thoughts. Not meaning to argue, I liked this movie for what it was and enjoy questions that make me think about what happened and why.

And by transmitting his SOS at night, he’s more likely to reach other survivors. Broadcasting at night, when everyone is in their shelters is better than doing it when everyone is out during the day.

>sets alarm to 5:23 "He's clearly losing it."

I think an good idea would be to deploy cameras across the city so at night you can witness and study Darkseeker behaviours. Another idea would be to renovate Warehouses that have UV lights across the walls and ceiling with a speaker system at the center. You could also place explosives all around the location. At night remotely turn on the sound, drawings dozens of Darkseekers there. Once enough are inside, turn on the lights, killing dozens in the process. The hundreds outside will also die when you activate the explosives outside. Keep creating more and more traps across the city to cull down their numbers.

I wish school was like this. Real knowledge and facts all within the universe of our favorite films. Great vid bro!

He didn’t need the grenade blast to be big he’s in a lab with chemicals which is most likely what caused that huge explosion

*describing a 100 terabyte drive* “You could store enough movies on it to last a lifetime... Or maybe you could download call of duty modern warfare...” 😂😂😂

I believe the Darkseekers trapping Neville with Fred, proves the darkseekers always knew Neville was around. Because this proves there was some sort of previous surveillance of his routine.

The barrels of gas are called Fougasse(foo gas). It is a improvised napalm used in perimeter defense. The fuel has styrofoam or detergent added to it to make sticky and thick. You use it so besides burning some dudes it also illuminates the kill zone/blast zone. It also denies that area to attackers as most people don't like to crawl through fire. He could also have claymore mines set up but their explosion was masked by the Fougasse. Eotec holographic sights are great but he may not have had batteries for them. The Acog uses sun light or tritium so no batteries needed. This was a excellent analysis and video. I'm kinda blown away by it actually. I don't know if anyone else has considered this but I am fascinated with what led up to the point where he has the family tragedy and what happens in the years leading up to where we encounter Dr Nevell. What happens to his security detachment and how do things fall apart around him and the country. Anyway keep up the good work

At least he was able to be with his dog again. I cried when the dog died

6:07 - Okay, the watch beeping at 5;23pm could make perfect sense. I'll explain: First, some facts: - He's in NYC - The movie is set in 2012 - The grass is tall and brown, a hint that it's late summer or early autumn - He's wearing a leather jacket and not heavily sweating. I.e., it's not hot, and it's not super cold. - Lions typically give birth to young in May/June. The cubs shown are quite small, but walking well... they appear to be roughly 3 months old. - When he turns to look at the sun, it's about 15° above the horizon, more or less (seen at 6:12 in the video), consistent with about an hour before sunset. - His watch actually says 5;22 when we see it, not 5;23 as the narrator says (I'm using semicolons so RU-vid won't convert to video timestamps) Now, some reasonable speculations: - Dr. Neville is a smart guy. He understands that the time the sun actually sets varies widely throughout the year, especially in the more northern latitudes. - It makes sense that he would have located a sunrise/sunset calendar, or has simply noted the times the sun sets from surviving for 3 years. (EDIT: Indeed, as @elteescat notes below, "At the beginning of the movie we see him consult a Farmer's Almanac then set his watch. I always thought he was checking the sunset time. Then, when his alarm beeps and he turns to look at the sun, it reaffirms the idea.") - He knows the Darkseekers come out at night (mostly), but they seem to tolerate SOME light okay. Finally, some less reasonable (but still logical) speculation: - His drop-dead "cutoff" for being outside is probably the moment the sun disappears below the horizon. This is the end of official daylight and the beginning of civil twilight. Even though it's still pretty easy to see during civil twilight, there is no direct sunlight, so he'd probably consider it unacceptably risky. - He'd want to maximize his useful time outside, so giving himself a 1 hour warning before official sunset to get home would make sense. - He's probably not bothered with Daylight Saving Time (DST) since civilization is gone and using it serves no purpose otherwise. Given the above, I posit that his alarm went off exactly one hour before official sunset on *September 4th, 2012* (which occurred in NYC at 7;22pm, or critically, 6;22pm if we ignore DST). Further, the historical average high/low temperature in NYC on September 4th is 80°F/66°F, respectively, so his attire would also make sense for the season. Notes: - There is an alternative scenario where it could be October 10th if he was in fact on DST - the sun did set at 6;22pm (DST) on that date. Also, the weather is still reasonable at 67°/53° historically on that date, so it all fits. Actually, I liked this date first because I remembered his radio broadcasts referring to "noon", making DST calculations mandatory. However, I when I re-listened, I realized he doesn't refer to noon at all. Instead he says "I will be at the South Street Seaport at mid-day, when the sun is highest in the sky". This changed my mind about him using DST. - This whole exercise almost came crashing down on me because there was NO date (at least in 2012) that the sun set at exactly 6;23pm as the narrator says. It was either 6;22 or 6;24. I abandoned it until I went back to re-watch and noticed his watch actually said 6;22! :) - Yes, it's entirely possible he set is watch to beep forty-five minutes before sunset, or an hour and fifteen minutes before sunset, but an hour seems an obvious and rational choice. I really don't think it would be 2 hours, because the sun doesn't appear high enough to me. However... - My theory could be proven/disproven by someone smarter than me, or by a NYC local by figuring out his exact location and using the buildings, landmarks, and other contextual clues to calculate the exact azimuth and elevation of the sun to determine the precise date, time, and how long before sunset it actually was. Of course, for this to work, we'd have to assume that either the movie was shot exactly on the date and time in question, or the CGI folks are gods and paid extraordinary attention to detail. - This video was uploaded on September 4th, 2020, exactly 8 years after my theorized date. The coincidence is too cool NOT to be true! Yes, I know this comment is super long. Sorry if you died of old age from reading it. It was a fun exercise for me, though :)

I just learned more biology than school from 1 “how to beat” ggwp

The 5:23 thing, is him adjusting his alarm with the time of dusk. I imagine it is exactly 3 hours before technical sundown. He changes it daily. A lot of work, but if you alone and bored and nighttime is life or death......

Human: dies Average Joes: eh not very sad Dog: dies Average Joes: cries 1L amount of tears

Come for the How to Beat, stay for the TED talk on interesting cancer treatment trials. Great video as always!

I like the alternate ending more, it gives a whole new perspective of things!

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the most heartbreaking moment in movie history. Sam's death

20:56 i remember when I watched this movie back then this is literally the only scene i still remember from it and we stopped watching the movie after the scene :C poor doggo being choked off screen was too terrible

Awesome video man, keep it up

Why does this guy sound like chills but he isnt on every single drug and drunk

Cannot believe that in those years, Neville never tried to install any UV light system around his house or in any room

21:11 willpower....or WILLpower? srry just wanted to lighten the mood.....that scene was so heart breaking to me and i dint want it wo happen to anyone else

To understand why his watch was set for 5:23 and not 5:25, you have to step in the shoes of someone taking every second/minute into account. That 2 minutes could be saved for, 1 minute to find/regroup with Sam or 1 minute to wrap up anything and everything hes doing and head out, OR flat out 2 minutes to get clear and back to vehicle, all while taking into account the sunsets (assuming its spring/summer) at 6:55 p.m. So that gives him exactly 1 hour 32 minutes to get back to base, check all traps, store all used/found supplies, make sure sam is good and lockdown his entire place before these John Carpenter's rejects surface and make him their human apocalyptic canned ration.

"There's no greater danger than underestimating your opponent" *Well said.*

How to Survive: *Just don’t exist.*

Well, i’m not sure if its a different type of ACOG, but i am pretty sure that its a 3 through 9x sight, and the eotechs are 1 through 4 or 5 times multiplier. Not a fault on you, just something i was thinking of. I really enjoy these, too. They’re pretty fun to watch

imagine sitting in your doomsday bunker with food that can last you till death and watching movies and end up just having a mental breakdown because of how much you can remember from the old world

I like the alternate ending better. Were the Alpha Draws a butterfly on the glass and the woman he was curing had a butterfly tattoo on her neck and after he turns her over they all leave showing that they arnt mindless

“They mostly come out at night. *mostly* i love this aliens reference

Man this reminds me that people tend to leave out the early 2000s when it comes to good media. The music and movies from the 90s and before are talked about alot but I think the early 2000s had some great entertainment

dude, he could've just slapped the darkseekers to submission.

I didn’t listen, I watched free movie in just 28 minutes

It's all about location, in this case Liberty Island that for one is island with short distance to all central location in NY. It has freaking fortress and is relatively small so it would be easy place to totally clear out and manage. Fortress that statue stands on is pretty much impossible to breach for dark seekers as long as some door are reinforced/blocked properly. As long as the couple other buildings on the island are cleared out and boarded up, there would be no places for dark seekers to hide. Though I think there would barely be any people there as it's not residential island and there's not much food. It will also solve many smell and sound problems, you will have almost unlimited options to land on NY and dark seekers can't locate him by smell to his actual home. Due to thick stone walls you could probably arrange an rave inside the fort and it wouldn't be heard outside. There's also plenty of space on the island to set up something like greenhouse for example. And because it's so close to land, you could even use boat without motor to get there. It's literally the ideal place for zombie apocalypse. It's big enough to do whatever you want, but it's also compact and has only few buildings. As far as I know there's also raised stone wall and fence that surrounds whole island, if you can get enough razor wire you could make even landing in the island extremely hard. And in case dark seekers invade the island, he could just stay on top of the fort walls and shoot them. Or just stay inside, they wouldn't get in :D If he employs those uv lamps on top of the walls it would be an massacre.

I really like how much lore this movie has with the alternative ending and the creatures having there own lore and part of there inner human instincts still

18:27 making you the most bad ass person

“You could download a whole lifetime’s worth of movies, or you could download modern warfare” Not both🤣

Sam's death was the only zombie movie to ever make me actually cry

funny you brought up the panic room, I remember watching this in theatres and like everyone I'm sure I began internally asking myself what I would do, and I was thinking safest place would be a working submarine no? few scenes later he's hitting a driver off a naval vessel I thought the studio had the same idea, nope he went back to his house.

About Bethel...its 275 miles away and only a few degrees colder. What I can't understand is how Anna would know about the safe zone there, but not Neville. -- Anyway, so when Anna and son reach Bethel, there's some kind of beeping sound then the gate unlocks and opens. It was my impression that they scanned both of them, tested negative, and the gates were then opened. -- If that was not the case (the beeping just being the gate being unlocked)... we know that the Krippin virus either outright kills the host or makes them otherwise fatally vulnerable to UV rays. They are in broad daylight, no symptoms, no signs of discomfort, no bite marks, no indicators of infection. Lastly, we don't know anything about the persons living within the Bethel safe zone to know whether there was a virologist living there or not. I don't recall Neville stating that he was the last one living, and even if he believed that, he had no way to be certain. He didn't even know there was a safe zone in Bethel, and didn't believe Anna when she informed him. -- If there were no virologists in Bethel, it stands to reason there are other safe zones, further north in Maine or in Canada. (If the cold weather is a deterrent against the spread of the virus...I can't see how they would suffer the same 99% casualties as the warmer climates, but I digress.