How Does Richard Matheson Use Cgi In Modern Disaster Films

When one hears the title I Am Legend being mentioned, they usually associate it with Will Smith and the terrific job he did in portraying the protagonist of the story Robert Neville. However, what they typically leave out is the equally terrific job done by author Richard Matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. While Richard Matheson’s post-apocalyptic science fiction book, I Am Legend, and Francis Lawrence’s post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, I Am Legend, both have similarities and differences, in the end, the original book version prevails mainly because the movie version alters the original storyline too much.

The French novelist, Jules Verne stated; “solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.” Here, Verne notes that being confined to isolation is an experience that humans are incapable of performing. Humans are social creatures, who need company and interactions with others. In Richard Matheson’s dystopian fiction, I Am

This section of I am Legend is about a boy named Neville who is scared and does not want to execute what the man is telling him to do and feels pressured to do it. Richard Matheson uses the rhetorical devices: simile and personification, along with his sentence structure to reinforce the scary, dark, and overwhelmed emotions of Neville throughout his writing.

Richard Matheson, the most prominent American author in the horror genre, who published the preeminent horror novel, I Am Legend in 1954, renders Robert Neville as the hero of the novel as he struggles to overcome a constant battle against the vampires and his subconscious mind. At the end of the novel, Robert Neville can be interpreted to finally have the ability to see the world through the perspective of the vampires which, ultimately, leads him to be able to understand them. Matheson reveals the true monster to be not the vampires nor Robert Neville, but prejudice. However, Matheson first establishes a connection between Robert Neville and the audience. This connection allows the message, that prejudice is capable of being the darkest

I Am Legend depicts morality as derived from the beliefs of one man. The novel takes place following the end of society caused by war, drought, and widespread disease. In the pre-apocalyptic society morals are formed through a general consensus reinforced through traditions that are centuries old. However, the society that once was no longer remains in I Am Legend. Following the collapse of human civilization and the death of almost every human, morality becomes a completely egocentric principle. Robert Neville is the only human to be immune to the vampiric disease. As such, he believes that he is the only sentient being. He is the last surviving person, the last relic of an era. With a loss of society, there is no one

A key element of the fantasy / horror / gothic genres is to fascinate and intrigue readers through stories that pose the “what if” questions, thereby teaching us something new about the society we live in. Sometimes these stories are helpful in explaining difficult concepts of good and evil, science

In Richard Matheson's passage, “I Am Legend”, he uses an array of rhetorical devices to emphasize Neville's perspective of his current situation.

I Am Legend and Life of Pi are two dramatic tragedies that center around the main characters Dr. Robert Neville and Piscine “Pi” Patel while they attempt to survive in the devastating world around them. In I Am Legend, Dr. Krippin finds a cure for Cancer by modifying the measles virus into a vaccine. For years, one hundred percent of the patients are cancer-free, thankful that they get a second chance at life. All of a sudden, the cure rapidly mutates into an extremely deadly virus that is equivalent to the highest level of rabies, the KV virus. Dr. Robert Neville devotes himself to finding a cure for the devastation of humanity and must make the ultimate sacrifice for its sake. Piscine Patel lives with his family in a small town in India. While visiting his family’s zoo, Pi falls in love with a beautiful bengal tiger that he names Richard Parker. As Pi grows, he falls in love and fascinates himself with many different religions. The extreme political unrest in his country forces Pi and his family to depart from the place they call home. This event begins the unfortunate, dreadful adventure that causes Pi to lose his entire family. While viewing, evaluating, and juxtaposing I Am Legend and Life of Pi, there is a vast array of emotions, logical and illogical circumstances, and vivid imagery through memories, graphics, imagination, and utter desperation.

The vampire is an embodiment of society 's deepest fears. Throughout literary history, the vampire has always been characterised as a vile figure of pure evil. However the depiction of the vampire is affected by the social, historical and political context of the time. As context shifts, so does the

The film, I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It was released on December 14th, 2007. This film is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name from 1954. Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who lives in New York City in 2012, which is inhabited by animalistic victims of the virus. He is immune to a vicious man-made virus originally created to cure cancer and works to

In 1954, American writer, Richard Matheson, wrote a piece of horror fiction so powerful and influential that Hollywood still capitalizes on it today. 10 years after the publication date of I Am Legend, Vincent Price starred as the last lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world over run by zombie vampires in The Last Man on Earth. Advancing 10 more years, and it became really interesting in part because the 70’s ensue where love, politics, sex, war, and drugs were predominant themes. Some monumental events took place in the late 60’s, and the deep-rooted effects of them are represented in the next adaptation of Matheson’s novel, The Omega Man. More dynamic and thrilling then The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man adds more to the narrative then

The film Tron is celebrated and held as a triumph today, but back in the 1980s, the film suffered from lack of appeal to a wider audience, geared toward more teenage video-game buffs and computer nerds, with a juvenile story, laced with simple dialogue, and unsophisticated costumes. Without a doubt, the major appeal in Tron is the minimal use of CGI and spectacular animation that was used to create its computer enhance landscape. However, “in spite of its groundbreaking use of computer-generated effects, this costly, somewhat embarrassing box-office failure soon developed a growing fan base of nostalgically minded computer geeks who ended up bestowing a reputation upon it that it barely deserves” (Schneider 245). The homage is due in part

Throughout I Am Legend, the novel written by Richard Matherson, Robert Neville, who is believed to be the last man on Earth, shuts himself in his picturesque suburban home, where he is tortured with memories of his dead wife and daughter. He continues to eat frozen foods and listen to Schonberg and Beethoven, all while the monsters lurk in his yard, taunting him and throwing projectiles at his home. The vampires threaten Neville’s suburban bubble and peaceful nuclear family. The society under siege is an entirely white community, as developers and residents of suburban areas actively excluded African-Americans and other racial minorities. In the 1950s, where fears of African-American crime and riots were commonplace, the threat to

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is a compelling tribute to its predecessors, but George Miller intensifies the madness of this sequel to a whole other level. The thirty-year gap in the original Mad Max trilogy to this new sequel allowed for Miller to create a thrilling action movie with very little CGI. Computer-generated imagery, CGI, is commonly used in many sci-fi and action films but Miller brought in cinematographer John Seale to contribute to making this film authentic. Together Miller and Seale brought to life a desolate waste land created by mankind’s own greediness and thirst for power. This type of post-apocalyptic genre has been done before involving zombies and aliens, but the fear that this movie gives the viewer is not one of fiction,

Rashomon and Blowup: A Study of Truth In a story, things are often not quite what they seem to be. Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and Michaelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up are good examples of stories that are not what they first appear to be. Through the medium of film, these stories unfold in different and exiting ways that give us interesting arguments on the nature of truth and reality.