The Hidden Story of I Am Legend's Ending(s) 

Bi%(hes. Am I right?😂😂😂

Can't live with them or without them

And steals his Bacon

Yep it all can be blamed on a woman lol 🤣🤣🤣

Funny fact this movie is actually a remake the original movie is called omega man in that movie they are vampires

Can’t remember the name of it but the movie that actually followed the book was good

Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price.@@Swampdonkey796

@@Swampdonkey796 Kinda like how John Carpenter's The Thing was awesome because it followed Campbell's "Who Goes There?" story pretty closely, unlike its predecessor. The main difference there was that the ending was less ambiguous and more of a "near miss" feeling with the Thing very nearly building itself a jetpack to escape, while Carpenter's Thing left it a bit more up in the air what happens.

@@Swampdonkey796 You're thinking of Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth. Charlton Heston also starred in an adaption of the book called The Omega Man.

@@WynneL Too bad Carpenter didn't similarly follow the book when he made John Carpenter's Vampires. The book behind it, Vampire$ by John Steakley is really good (with some slow parts).

Most were intelligent. There was a leader and a massive group that sat outside of his house every night. (He had UV lights set up so they couldn't attack him) They would taunt him, tempt him with females, and basically did anything to make him fall apart.

yeah I'll be honest, the movie to me is a poor adaptation of the original story.

​@@ephasmwdym poor adaptation? They didn't even tried to adapt it 🤣

Also pretty sure the female vampires tried seducing him and flashed him constantly from his front yard

One thing I don't get, why would the night seekers survive if humans are there to feed em

That is sure a bittersweet story and I'm glad you got to be back with your mom completely at the end. I wish you the best in life

@@adityakashyap9283 W

That was a moving story, well told. Ever thought of writing as a career? The pay is awful (except for a tiny minority) but the personal rewards are vast. You convey your truth with perfect pacing, avoiding mawkish sentimentality which, ironically, is what makes it all the more touching. I’m glad it had a happy ending, for you and your mom. Having worked as a Residential Social Worker (in the UK) for 6 years, in a previous life, I know that there were those who were bad at their jobs and not quite as many who were good at it. I wouldn’t wish the care system, fostering or care homes, on any child. I spent the next 6 years of my life as a Family Therapist, dedicated to preventing children being taken into care in all situations possible, where the child’s interests could be protected. That involved everything from family sessions to court appearances and mountains of paperwork. Trying to fix the impossible for a living, whilst neglecting my own loved ones, lead to my having a breakdown and being hospitalised. I learned that the only people who last in those kinds of jobs are sociopaths and those who just don’t really care. But, my story has a happy ending too, as it gave me a lot to write about and live comfortably on thereafter. I know this is not about me, and I’ve really gone on a bit, but I just wanted to share the fact that there are people out there who really do care about people like you. We rarely got the chance to see what became of the adults we left behind as children. People like you, who write so well and affectingly about your experience, are needed and give people like me hope. Not a day goes by when I don’t think about the kids we worked with and the emotions are always bitter, if not bittersweet. But, the system was reckless and indifferent back then. Now, I don’t know to be honest. It’s clear from the way you express yourself that some people made it okay. Thank you for sharing that intimacy with the world. And all good things to you and yours. God bless.

Why you make me cry like that 🥹

My parents were foster parents. So I'm a foster brother. The only reason you were taken away was your mom was in a bad way at the time. People can and do get better. I'm happy for you that your momma came out of it. God bless my friend.

Exactly backup.

Waiting to hunt for food when you're out of food is a sure way to starve to death, or die from making mistakes while hunting because of lack of nutrition.

@@jjones503So, running out of food is a good way to starve. Good to know.

Well not only that, fresh meat is nice, and it's not like he has anything better to do

Exactly!!

This makes way more sense than them constantly killing people and then suddenly in the end it's "Oh we're just a little different, we do no harm frl frl"

I forgot about Vincent Price's version. I grew up on Charlton Heston version in the 70s

It's the King and the poisoned well fable. I agree Vincent Price's Version is better. Price starred in some fantastic roles during his career. An all time great actor. A Legend!

Price's version is probably closest to the short story, that is, "I am Legend," but I kind of secretly enjoy the camp of Heston's "Omega Man."

​@@michaellatta7699 The Omega man! Loved it😊

I remember those. The one that real made me sad was the one of the girl in Japan or Korea who finds herself all alone. Real depressing haha

I like the one where we get to see from the point of view of the creatures. The one where the girl disregards her parent's orders to stay in the bunker with them but instead she decides to go out and see her boyfriend which leads to her getting infected. Then the infection warps her reality and causes her to think that her family are monsters which leads to her killing and consuming them.

And I get the exact same feeling absolute nostalgia from this, used to have me absolutely on the edge of my seat

exactly i thought man that's some powerful statement that night seeker is making.

That's what he SHOULD have realized, but it isn't what he thought at the time. I just watched it and thought Neville was really dumb with his analysis. He says, _"*an infected male exposed himself to sunlight today. Now, it's possible decreased brain function or growing scarcity of food is causing them to ignore their basic survival instincts. Social de-evolution appears complete."_ The alternate ending makes him realize they aren't just brainless, emotionless infected. I think you might have been referring to that in your comment. I just thought it was so goofy for such a brilliant scientist to completely miss the mark SO bad; clearly they weren't socially devolved. *Edit for formatting

*vampire

They're not zombies lol

Oh yea that makes sense. He tried to catch one of these darkseekers before and probably pit Fred as a bait for the darkseekers. Man I remember watching this scene it had so uncanny vibe to it.

i also thought the same thing when i was watching the movie for the first time, that he was just splitting, and thought again that he got into his early set trap that he forgets about.

SAAAAMMMEEEE as a kid I always thought it was a trap he set for the monsters he forgot about since he was going crazy n sheit

EXACTLY! And especially the "conversation" with Fred underlined just how far gone he really was at that point.

same

It was like that at the start cause majority of the initial vampires weren't smart enough for advance cognitive actions, eventually though some vampires started to become more human and less animalistic.

Yes, of course they are monsters, they are vampires. But the point of the book was that after it was all over, and the vampires took over, there was one human left, who would come and kill them in their sleep. Hence the title, "I am legend". Because now that vampires rule the world, they will forever tell the story of that human who hunts them when they are at their weakest. As if to say, it's all cyclical, just as we have legends of vampires, vampires would have their own monster stories.

@@hohenzollern6025 the video is trying to paint humanity as the bad guy which is what I’m saying is objectively false.

@@michaelguernsey1206 He is the bad guy, to the vampires. So no, it's SUBjective.

​@@hohenzollern6025the vampires are objectively the bad guys they killed the entirety of humanity and would do it again because they are a predator species of humanity, so yes humanity is the good guy and the vampires can eat shit in hell were they all belong

I'm ecstatic either way, but I totally agree; it'd be better if they did a "refresher" of sorts.

Watch Omega man fair better

This isn’t a big hurdle because most were mad at ending anyway and wanted a sequel regardless even if it meant a retcon of ending which is why they released the alternate cut immediately with DVD.

I have only seen the grenade ending so watching this video really blew my mind 😅

they have been working on I am legend sequel for nearly two decades. it always starts and gets canceled for some reason or another. I dont hold any hope.

i’ve been crying since (23 years old) 😂

We're only men sir, not machines, only men

Bro same exactly I saw it in the theaters too

I couldn't watch it because of that until I was 13

Y'all sweet as hell

Yes you been living under a rock ?

​@@pnuttyinthacuttyCommon knowledge to you=/= common knowledge to everyone.

I had no idea either.... I always thought he blew himself up??? Huh, how about that.

Yea, I was like "THERE'S A BETTER ENDING!?"

Yup, there’s also the book ending as well

Yeah the book did a better job at depicting the night seekers as actual civilized group, they're more like a group of wolves in the movie

@@steel749they’re like wolves but they have dogs too ☠️ so they can’t be that much like wolves they’re smarter

They’d have to relearn self control having a new primary motive in life. It would take awhile to redevelop that skill set. That’s my guess 🤷 It could also be the general nature of the ever changing human personality.

Not really if the vampires saw an innocent person doing no harm to them then they would definitely kill it and eat him, he was doing everything he could to survive

This is the I am legend I know

Thats bollocks They kill and eat people, THEY started this and now THEY should get their own society? Fuck that, when they decide to stop chomping hands and faces, Then we can have aconversation about civilizations

​@pavy415 that's the whole point, the movie is BS. it makes no sense. The story actually had a point.

That's dumb, though. As far as I'm concerned, they're not innocent if their very existence is part if the reason why my friends are dead.

That’s why I made the comparison to getting abducted by aliens 👽

@@thethriftytypewriter I missed that part. I was mostly listening to it omw to work.

@@thethriftytypewriter But that comparison leaves out the infected killing people so it's not applicable. Maybe if you killed some aliens a few years ago and then later got abducted.

@@thethriftytypewriter Except the darkseekers aren't comparable to people abducted by aliens in my book. They woke up and immediatly started murdering everyone. I get that it was a food source for them, so in that sense, one could argue that it is justified. But that doesn't make Neville the monster anymore than a buffalo is for killing a lion that is hunting it. Neville was defending himself against a predatory species, that would have killed him without hesitation, whether he was trying to hurt them or not. The darkseekers aren't evil for hunting for their food, but neither are humans for defending themselves against a predator. I think the "natural order" comparison was apt, since nature is notoriously violent while simultainiously morally neutral.

​@@TheTMschannel I'd argue that Neville is as much of a monster as people who use animals as test subjects for all sorts of products, many of which lead to their death.

That’s an incredible story 😂😂😂 it’s hard not to imitate that scene it’s so great

@@thethriftytypewriter - Be carefull as i don't really think you want a slap.

We named a pet after his daughter.

And then everyone clapped

This was a tad bit mean sory but I still find your comment dubious

The butterfly was the symbolism of hope. His daughter was the hope of his current life, then after she died the butterfly tattoo and the hand smear butterfly are symbols of hope for his current life. This is what makes it more difficult for him afterward to use the cure.

The butterfly was a symbol of the evolution we go through when we connect jumper cables to our nips. The writer had been shocked this way many times and he just wanted to show that he is now the butterfly he was meant to be after a lot of jumper cable sessions.

:o i never put that together!

They are good movies, but both absolutely butcher the original story, unfortunately.

​@@jjones503I've heard a little about the original story of I am legend but not about irobot

​@@jjones503the people who haven't read the book don't mind that though. And most haven't

​@@ath477I think I robot was a clever mystery novel while the movie turned it into a more generic action flick

@@rishiy6183 oh ok got take care

Yeah. The whole “the darkseekers aren’t monsters” idea goes out the window once you realize they still consume peoples blood/eat them. The motion comic special feature on the BluRay even show how the darkseekers once infected eat their family members. Petty monstrous.

If they were all killed then what made the darkseekers? use you brain

@@stellviahohenheimwhat are you on about. You can get lucky and escape but you see in the movie how they go after nevills blood. Theyre still monsters to humans. Like just because a gazelle sees that the lion has a cute family and little cubs doesnt mean that to the gazelle its any less of a monster wtf.

@@stellviahohenheim Human Corpses made the darkseekers.

Well, in their minds they probably aren’t eating people they’re curing them or something idk lol, they def don’t fully eat anyone since there are other darkseekers, they suck their blood, or if they’re mad at you they’ll fully murder you and tear you apart In the book, it kinda came off to me like they woke up as new people? Like, they showed the society aspects a bit more of the vampires or implied it at least, it’s been a bit since I read, but they had names, they dressed a lot nicer than darkseekers, had lives n shit, so idk if like, they die and wake up and adopt new lives or if they remember their previous lives and miss them or feel as if it’s just a continuation of the same life, like, idk, the vampire life and society was talked about so bluntly by the end it read as (not literally tho) “this dude Neville is a human, he’s a human and he’s being like, pretty fuckin rude, we gotta bring him before a circuit judge he keeps messing up our block parties” Old school vampires didn’t just drink human blood btw, they drank animal blood, so to me it felt like in this story once all humans are gone, even just in the area, if everyone forgets their previous life, a society arises, they eat animals at night and literally never see humans because humans are either all gone besides this rude dude Neville up the block killing vampire junkies after they pass out in the street drunk or they aren’t in the area anymore, stay in small groups and don’t come out at night, they become a legend, Neville is a legend, yada yada And with the context of the short story you can read the movie the same way, they’re probably eating those same deer, Neville is the outlier, the peeps that save him are one of those not so small groups separated from the city(ies) the darkseekers have taken over , they just made the vampires more silicone zombie lookin wearing tattered clothes and only showing how they act during the day or during scenes of them chasing after people in a horde, we don’t see any of them casually hanging out at night, roaming the street without a care, they may be a lot more normal than we know because all we see through is Neville’s and other humans lenses during times of chaos lol

There's a sequel???

​@ravencarino6115 right? I had no idea.

@@ravencarino6115 supposedly yeah, only rumours so far though

also supposedly with michael b jordan, and will smith comes back as well

I'm definitely challenging u to the person who's seen this the most. I used to watch it everyday as well and I think I got u

Yo cool story bro 👍

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Wow dude... So sorry 😐

Where proof?

@@SirAlex- search it up he did said this

@@CaptainSalvi k

The only ending I ever saw was the one where he gave her a vial of his blood and blows himself up to save her and the boy. I didn’t know there was a version where he lived. Which version was he planning to make the sequel with?

@@notatheist the sequel is going to use the alternate ending whee he survives. The DVD & Blu-Ray should have the alternate ending in the special features if you have a copy of it.

The anime shorts were sick!

The one with the daughter and her family and her bf messed me up. Kinda sad.

Also, you mention the idea of the Nightseekers attacking humans because they feel lost. The visual comic based on the indian lovers.

Every single time, yeah, I own two german shepherds. Neither are trained as well but i’d lose a piece of my heart if anything happened to them.

Well you are nine who the heck let you watch such a movie at 9:00

@@Angelface11 my mom didnt care what i watched lmao. She totally should have

@@Angelface11I was 7 when I seen this movie (to be fair, my mom was with my shitty ex stepdad and he let me see it) but also my real dad has let me watch stuff too

Zombies

It emotionally destroyed you? That's a bit much but ok. It's rated pg 13. I suppose you should have waited till you were an adult just to be safe lol.

@@outofpowder hey, why don't you shut up if you don't have anything nice to say? Did you even read the comment?

@BuddyRIP oh man I'm super sorry. My bad for hurting your feelings. I'll get r8ght on keeping my mouth closed for you, just as soon as I'm not allowed to publicly reply to a public comment.

I completely relate to this even now after all these years I haven’t rewatched this movie in a long time because of that scene.

Yeah that was one of the dumbest things I have ever heard and then this guy says it twice as if he found a flaw in the movie or something.

The book & original movie was great! Love charlton Heston

Ima need some recommendations for post-apocalyptic books to read my fellow human

@@prelien4690Swan Song, Between Two Fires, The Girl with all the Gifts are all really good.

It was originally made in 1971 as The Omega Man.

This

@@RawNWigglin great movie....if there is going t be a last man on earth it's charlton heston, but it too was a remake of 'the last man on earth' with vincent price (1964)

He snuck it in real nice and smooth 😂

@@blion2225 I swear 🤣

The Omega Man (1971)starred Charlton Heston. The Last Man On Earth (1964) Starred Vincent Price. Think you got a bit mixed up😊

Thank you! Was thinking this the entire time

When I first saw this movie, I immediately thought that it was a remake of The Omega Man.

This guy spends the entire video going through the plot of the story and then in the end goes "I think the butterfly means that everyone should be loved" and you are SHOCKED he didnt do the basic little research analytic youtubers usually do?

It really, really isn’t. It was a really bad film and completely missed the point, which is all the more disappointing because the book is so, so good.

@@theincrediblefishsandwich2162 you're wrong

@@dinocollins720 sure, if you like cliched and predictable endings it was great I guess.

@@theincrediblefishsandwich2162 literally had two endings lol

@@dinocollins720 and you and I are talking about the theatrical release. Which had one cliched and predictable ending that you described as, “…absolutely incredible and so powerful!”

Lol I must have missed them. Timestamps?