I Am Legend Film Analysis

The post-apocalyptic film genre came into existence with the film The End of the World, which made its debut in the early 19th century, and became prevalent in the American film industry in the mid to late 19th century. This film genre arose out of a desire for people to escape from the disappointments in their lives to an alternative world (Harris 11). More recently, there has been an increased interest in this genre, particularly in the zombie area of the category. Post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction which is set in a civilization after some sort of general disaster and focuses on a group of people coming together to survive and in the end realize that there is some hope to move past and overcome the disaster they

I am Legend is a film which follows a scientist and his quest for survival through a disease-ridden world where it seems that he is the only one who is immune to the illness. In the beginning, you learn that a plague struck and nearly wiped out the human population of New York before spreading on to the rest of the world and almost eliminating humanity altogether. However, instead of simply killing humankind the disease mutated them into a form of semi-intelligent zombie. Somewhere along his journey, the scientist meets two children who are also immune and they form a group. While the children did miraculously manage to survive several years, they are innocent and need direction which makes it the scientists responsibility to be the leader and protector of the group. Eventually they decide to search for this mysterious safe community that was created to protect the humans from the zombies where the people can live peacefully. The children make it to this community but the scientist sacrifices himself to save the children and give them what he thinks might be a cure. This film contains all the elements required for a post-apocalyptic movie: there was the disaster in the beginning which damaged the world and turned most of its occupants into zombie creatures, the group which manages to join together and persevere despite the difficult times, and the hope of a cure and a safe community protected against the zombies that have taken over the