I Am Legend: Adaptation Showdown PART 2

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@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

Check out Soy Leyenda here archive.org/details/1749783497 and I Am Omega here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYGwi4KDacithJY and the new Hot Ones episode featuring Will Smith at 8:39 where he talks about the dog from I Am Legend kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYekdY2onb95Z6c

@Bruthole 6 ай бұрын

More movies should end with the main character saying the title of the film. "Is this war of yours finally over?...Yes, now it's Godzilla Minus One."

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

"Wow... I truly am... an American Psycho"

@loganmatthews5956 6 ай бұрын

"This really was a Star Wars episode 5 Empire Strikes Back"

@Cosmicshambler 5 ай бұрын

The more out of place the better.

@YUJIRO 5 ай бұрын

I am Spartacus

@b0xman935 5 ай бұрын

"what are you?" "We are cybernetic organisms from the planet Cybertron,we transform to disguise ourselves from humanity". "So... transformers?"

@vasglorious 6 ай бұрын

So a 36 minute Spanish film is more faithful then any movie, I'm cool with that.

@SCP_O5_7 6 ай бұрын

Spanish speaker here! The scene at 5:00 where you wanna know what it says, it says in Spanish “Es posible que el germen que mata a los vivos anime a los muertos? Hoy han llegado a las seis y veintecuatro, dos minutos que antes que ayer.” Which in English, translates to: “Is it possible the germ that kills the living reanimates the dead? Today they arrived at six twenty-four, two minutes earlier than yesterday.”

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias!

@Thenewbagman 5 ай бұрын

Spanish translation for the text on minute 5 is "Is it possible that the same germ that kills the living will reanimate the death? Today they came at 6.24 Two minutes earlier than yesterday."

@rykerblade_snb 5 ай бұрын

“THERE IS NO PHONE RINGING DAMNIT!”

@TheBS1000 5 ай бұрын

That's what I have to tell myself every time I feel a phantom vibration.

@JonathanRossRogers 5 ай бұрын

14:18 I like how I Am Omega switches between an MP5 in Renchard's hands and some kind of AR in the tight shots.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

I know right? That scene’s montage had the sloppiest editing.

@vickdisco 5 ай бұрын

Exactly! I remember watching The Omega Man on cable TV late at night. It's a guilty pleasure...I mean, who wouldn't enjoy Chuck Heston kicking ass with a machine gun?

@KamikazeCash 6 ай бұрын

I am a huge fan of this comparison method. I am looking forward to the comparison between neoliberal anti-bourgeoise socialism and post-classic Marxist manifest-communism. Should be a banger.

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

That would be a great method with which to analyze Kung Pow

@Los90stv 6 ай бұрын

I give you one point for going back and acknowledging errors... but i remove two points for not sticking to your guns.

@the_rocs_roost 6 ай бұрын

To me, it just isn't a good adaptation of the book (a separate question of being a good film), if they don't put in the twist in the end. It's literally the title, after all, and the twist made the book a classic. The idea that no matter how right we think we are, we might just be a monster to someone, is a compelling and worthy thought. Point of view is a powerful thing. Yes, that includes the final line, "I am legend."

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

Totally agree. It doesn’t negate all the other movie versions, but it is a really important part lol

@the_rocs_roost 6 ай бұрын

By the way, I really enjoyed both of your videos on this subject. I should have mentioned that before.

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

@@the_rocs_roost thank you so much 🙏🏻

@TheVvolfpredator 5 ай бұрын

This was amazing, great follow up! I hope you do more of these, like maybe for the book "Who Goes There?" and its adaptations The Thing(1982) & The Thing from Another World(1951) but it's your channel so I understand if you want to do other things instead.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

That one's already on my to-do list!

@davidthorson2036 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 There's a loose adaptation of that you might not know about called Horror Express. Thought I'd save you the trouble of doing a follow up ahead of time.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

@@davidthorson2036 100% thank you

@billcoleman7058 5 ай бұрын

at 16:31 reminds me of the Geico commercial "Why can't we just get in the running car?"

@manlystranger4973 6 ай бұрын

Maybe you should include the Heston movie Beneath The Planet Of The Apes in this comparison. Basically, its the same movie. Heston is the "last man" on Earth (except maybe that other Johnny-come-lately Heston looking guy), gets captured by the vampires/zombies/mutants/whatever, listens to their twisted logic, then everything ends in a cataclysm. Nova is kind of the Ruth part, not a mutant, not a human in the same sense as Heston, not an ape. The apes are a differentiated kind of vampire/zombie/mutant/whatever. I am also thinking Bride of Frankenstein might be on this list. The monster is the "last man" or only man on Earth, the regular humans are the vampires/zombies/mutants/whatever, and the bride is Ruth, somewhere in between the monster and humans. Everything ends in a cataclysm. Sure, these movies are not based on the novel at all, but they tell the same story.

@tedparkinson2033 6 ай бұрын

The King returns for the second showdown.

@MrAlsachti 6 ай бұрын

Maybe the difference between the poll results and the comments is due to the fact that more people have seen I am Legend, compared to TLMOE an TΩM. People who voted have not necessarily seen the three films.

@Tman2bard 5 ай бұрын

not even needing to see most of it. Omega Man doesn't feel as great as the other 2, and the newest one felt the most impactful overall when I looked at all of these versions. Now the most recent 2 brought up? I got no real idea

@joserratv 4 ай бұрын

At 15:05 its not Giant lakes (Lagos), It says Langostas Spanish for Lobster and Locust, which within the context I'm inclined to think its the latter

@roryscott2941 5 ай бұрын

Awesome vid! I never heard of Soy Leyenda before, reminds me of the Spanish versions of the Universal Monsters movies back in the day

@SDWNJ 4 ай бұрын

I think the plot point of Neville being a scientist in most of the movies was a sort of shortcut to advance the plot with out having to explain or depict him learning what a scientist would already know.

@couchbumkino5423 4 ай бұрын

@@SDWNJ great point here!

@darkservantofheaven 5 ай бұрын

Fun fact.....Blade II was originally gonna be similar to I am Legend, the (vamps win in the tomr between the original film and the sequel, a desolate world, Blade must rescue human survivors while the vamps tell stories of the daywalker like hes the boogey man.....

@andrewdau1299 5 ай бұрын

That could make a cool alternate universe story.

@CaelumTheWolf 5 ай бұрын

Though I don’t speak Spanish my only experience being an elementary school class often times foreign studios tend to make their movies more one to one with the source material that I’ve noticed especially back in the day

@karimmiteff3211 5 ай бұрын

Thanka for the nice breakdown offering a fun chance to go down memory lane (although I am Omega might be best forgotten!). How did you get "Giant Lakes" from "Langostas Gigantes?" Not that "Giant Lobsters" makes any more sense... Oh, and Soy Leyenda, the protagonist is writing in the journal something like, "Is it possible that the germs that kills the living animate the dead?" And "Today they arrived at 6:44, two minutes earlier than yesterday." Not exactly super-scientific, but the kind of notes and observations a science-minded person would make. The Omega Man is far and away my favorite of these films that i have seen (yet tonsee Soy Leyenda), despite its flaws. It is a very inventive adaptation and avoided the re-use of the hackneyed vampire trope, while riding the at-the-time popular "bacteriological warfare" trope. I am eager to see Soy Lelenda version. Thanks again for turning me on to it.

@RichardEKranz 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heads up on Soy Leyenda (1967), being a fan of Last Man and Omega Man, id like to give this a spin. Just like I watched the Spanish version of Dracula. Maybe there will be a resurgence with it and become more widely known and a proper blu ray release can happen.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! I would love a copy of Soy Leyenda for my collection

@YUJIRO 5 ай бұрын

Smith's version actually touches on a lot of this, just, a lot of them were kind of vague. For example, the other hallucinations were him shooting Frank because he got outside and he thought the other one waved at him. The girl unintentionally betrayed him by bringing him to his house during the night time. He doesn't have a pit, but he indirectly but directly burns them by jumping out the window for most of them to be burned by the sun. He is technically captured when his SUV flips after he gives up on trying to save them (suicide pill?) before the woman shines her UV lights. I feel like there was a garlic scene when she was cooking breakfast after Shrek, but, Im not sure. I could be confusing it with Hancock.

@poisonshift78 5 ай бұрын

yay, I'm famous! good videos though man. killed it hard with the red dragon one. I picked up Cari Mora yesterday. interested to see what Harris does outside of the universe we're familiar with

@reversecolin1256788 5 ай бұрын

could you do a video game version of this its really well done

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

Imagine a horror survival game where it's scary as hell at nighttime when the monsters are out and in daytime you've got to be as quiet as possible when stalking them or else they wake up and go nuts?

@ICEWALRUS 6 ай бұрын

Amazing as always, love this content. Excited to see where you take it next!

@Christian_H3rnand3z 5 ай бұрын

For the 2007 "I Am Legend" film, they released these animated shorts that are Canon to the universe. One of them revealed that when the virus was spreading at a scary rate, the American government or United Nations ordered Black Ops teams to invade medical camps with infected and possibly infected people in poor neighborhoods and villages. When they were done shooting them all dead, they burned all the corpses with incinerator type hand grenades. It might be a reference to "the Pit" in the original book and a few of the movies. But either way, it wouldn't make it to this list, since they never mentioned these in the movie. At best, the flashback scene when they denied the infected people access to the city's exit. But I don't think symbolism counts here. I have a small theory that Keanu Reeves' character for the sequel might be one of, or at least used to be, one of the Black Ops soldiers who committed such atrocities. I would like them to reference classic Vampire killing weapons in the sequel. Like these soldiers having belts of stakes, like Marvel's Blade. Burning corpses of the infected. And very unlikely but the infected avoiding garlic. Sorry if I ended up muttering.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

@@Christian_H3rnand3z Keanu’s in the sequel?!?

@Christian_H3rnand3z 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 There's a good chance he's going to be. The movie is still in early development but Warner Bros, Will Smith, and Michael B. Jordan are really committed to this movie.

@charlespfaff6585 5 ай бұрын

My main head scratch of all versions is why does he stay in the same house he lived in before the plague? Especially when the vamps know where he lives.

@LochNessHamster 6 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, was the format of this video inspired by James Rolfe's video about the most accurate Dracula film? The way you assign points for specific details and plot beats is very similar. I love that video, and it's a good way to formulate this kind of thesis.

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

Honest answer is no I have never heard of him or seen that video.

@phantom-crow 6 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 you might not know his real name but on KZbin he's know as the angry video game nerd

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

@@phantom-crow Did not know his real name. Have heard of him, but do not watch him, and have not seen the video in question.

@Gamer_Guy_123 5 ай бұрын

I personally like the Vincent Prices and Will Smith Movies. That scene with Vincent breaking, might look like over acting to some, but I rather feel that hysterical break drown, is much more realistic than perhaps many realize. I prefer the alternate Will Smith Ending. I think "Chuck's" film is most likely a cash in, from his sci-fi fame in Planet of the Apes. Which is a masterpiece, and probably shows Charlton at his best. That said, I strongly agree with the point given to Omega man for the loneliness. That scene playing chess, is actually one that stuck with me. The TV Series: "The Last Ship" follows a very similar plot. One might argue the Film: "28 Days Later" is a variant of this story as well. If not "War World Z", which has striking similarities in characters and story arc. The actually titled TV Series comedy "Last Man on Earth" (Will Forte and Kristen Schaal), also appears inspired by the story, though more in the first series. (Though it forgoes the "Zombies"). I think it could be argued, that Series 1 of the Walking Dead, stems from "I am Legend", and that "The Last of Us", is a further evolution of this story in many ways.

@petermeyer6873 5 ай бұрын

A suggestion for further film adaptions showdowns, especcially some, where the film adaptation is far better than the book, just like it is with I am legend.: - Let the right one in (two movies by now, as far as I know) - American psycho - La jetee (not really an adaption of a book, but then the original wasnt referred to as a movie but as a photographic story) Also with various adaptions: - Ghost in the shell (based on a comic) - Appleseed (based on a comic)

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

1) Let the right one in - Never heard of it 2) American psycho - Yes! I've been reading through all Bret Easton Ellis' books this year and plan on doing a big adaptation showdown in the future on his books because his first 4 novels were turned into moves. 3) La jetee - Never heard of this one either 4) Ghost in the shell - Would include this in a future series "where the matrix came from" or something like that 5) Appleseed - Also never heard of!

@petermeyer6873 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 1) Let the right one in is a (dont wanna spoil it by telling the genre) story on friendship. The first film was made in scandinavia, the remake (Let me in) is from america. Both are good, but I like the first one more because of the brilliant acting and choices of actors. Unfortunately, the english dubbing of the scandinavian version allmost ruins it. Like with american psycho, the films focus on the story essentials and leave out the disturbing stuff from the book. 3) La jetee was an SF short film. The story was later expanded heavily into the movie Twelve Monkeys. 5) Appleseed has a twisted story on ethics, that has in the end both the protagonists and the viewer asking themselves whether it really has a happy ending, as the failing antagonists may all have had a better goal to team up for even though for very different reasons.

@petermeyer6873 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 La jetee is here on YT: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5DLiZKfe7aobrs

@srstriker6420 6 ай бұрын

I don’t know if they make another but who do you think should direct it, Tim Burton? It’s too bad that Ridley Scott’s I am Legend never got made because the creatures look very realistic as why they couldn’t keep them like the original green goblin mask from the first Spider-Man movie,John Carpenter’s Creature from the Black Lagoon and Snake face Voldemort.

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

Great question. I would always love to see Tarantino's take on something like this, but that'll never happen seeing as how he only wants to make 1 more movie. I think a newer director like Robert Eggers could have a really cool version (also starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as lighthouse keepers)

@srstriker6420 6 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423right because for Tim Burton I really like him to have the Actor Daniel Bruhl in a movie of his.

@MrAlsachti 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I can definitely see a Tim Burton version, inspired by the 60's film, a lot of the story's elements fits with the common themes and aesthetics of his movies. I can also see a Robert Eggers version, a man slowly being driven into madness by solitude.

@2DopeKicks 5 ай бұрын

Should include if the Protagonist fortifies their house.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

Good point! I think they all did, no?

@billypph.d4434 6 ай бұрын

really enjoyed this keep it up. i agree with your analysis. For me it's a toss up between Price and Heston

@yourdashingheroidol7909 5 ай бұрын

How can you agree w/his analysis if he picked rhe Smith one and basically said the Heston one wasn't even close? Lol

@billypph.d4434 5 ай бұрын

@@yourdashingheroidol7909 ok i should have said i agree with SOME of your analysis but for me it's a toss between Price and Heston

@yourdashingheroidol7909 5 ай бұрын

@@billypph.d4434 .......okay, I have decided to let you off the hook on this one, buckaroo! But you better believe I'll be keeping a close eye on you from now on, you little devil! Now go on, get out of here, you rascal!

@JohnnyRingo3645 4 ай бұрын

I was just being a dickhead! No need to give what I said.......most things I say, a second thought!

@TheBS1000 6 ай бұрын

The Will Smith I Am Legend is the most recent and most popular mainstream adaptation, so it's no wonder it won that poll. The overwhelming majority of that movie's audience never read the book or watched the other adaptations. Your poll isn't measuring audience favorite, it's measuring biggest audience.

@ectoplasm 5 ай бұрын

Romero considered Night of the Living Dead a "rip off" of I Am Legend, and I think even Matheson himself saw the similarities. Would be interesting to see it compared with the others.

@SaishiYT 4 ай бұрын

I think that Omega Man should have gotten a point for labeling Neville as a monster

@ChicagoFaucet.etc. 5 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: It is doubtful that Bram Stoker even knew about Vlad the Impaler, so it is unlikely that his rendition of vampires was based on Vlad, and it probably was just a coincidence that Bram's story took place in Transylvania. It is believed that Bram chose Transylvania simply because of its reclusiveness, name, and mystery. It is believed that Bram's vampire creation instead came from old Scottish, Nordic, or Druidic fairytales.

@Trencher1375 5 ай бұрын

The version of Will Smiths movie had him as a chosen one the ultimate savior of humanity. The version of the movie where the super zombies went to get their pack member back he is still not a monster to them just a rival. They are never afraid of him.

@jameskerr8091 5 ай бұрын

Very good video! Personally I have always enjoyed the Omega Man. I like Vincent Price but the Last Man on Earth (being an Italian production) is not very entertaining. I would watch Soy Landa if it was dubbed or with subtitles as it looks in line with the book. Don't care for the remaining versions. This was a really interesting video.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, really glad you enjoyed it

@JonathanRossRogers 5 ай бұрын

15:02 BTW, I think it's "giant lobsters," not "giant lakes."

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

🤔 interesting thank you. The real question is what do either of those mean?

@JonathanRossRogers 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 I assume the bioweapons mutated the lobsters, but maybe I've been playing too much Fallout.

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

@@JonathanRossRogers this is some new I Am Legend lore here

@eddiehauckreads4731 6 ай бұрын

LETS GOOOO

@calvinmann5773 6 ай бұрын

So does Neville actually lose in Soy Leyenda?

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

Pretty much. He dies in every version except the alternate ending of Will Smith’s version (which I heard they are considering canon and making a sequel from)

@calvinmann5773 6 ай бұрын

@couchbumkino5423 but like does he not make a cure like in all the other ones or does he still do it?

@couchbumkino5423 6 ай бұрын

@@calvinmann5773 That answer would best come from a native Spanish speaker. I don't think he did make a cure, but I couldn't 100% tell from watching without subtitles or dubs.

@calvinmann5773 6 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 👍

@DudleyKetsukane 5 ай бұрын

I can't believe you left out the simpson tree house of horror adaptation of the omega man the homega man

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

I love The Simpsons holy cow how did that slip lol

@DudleyKetsukane 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 you need to make a part 3 in order to pay for this heinous mistake

@couchbumkino5423 5 ай бұрын

@@DudleyKetsukane How many adaptations are there?!?!?

@DudleyKetsukane 5 ай бұрын

@@couchbumkino5423 there's apparently a comic series based on I am legend

@DudleyKetsukane 5 ай бұрын

Also there's a gta iv machima that's based off of I I legend

@tenimeartstudios 5 ай бұрын

The I Am Legend CG *is* terrible, especially since IIRC the director wanted to go with practical makeup effects, but the studio forced CG? I could be wrong, I usually am. Anyway, I haven't seen any of the rest, but I *ADORE* I Am Legend. Especially the alternate ending where Smith's Neville survives & realizes he was the monster all along.

@harlannguyen4048 5 ай бұрын

They chose CGI because the practical effects and makeup didn't look right. You might be confusing it with the 2011 The Thing movie. At least one of the studio heads admitted that it was a bad call in hindsight.

@tenimeartstudios 5 ай бұрын

@@harlannguyen4048 No, the 2011 Thing used practical during filming, and then they covered all the makeup & animatronics with the CG in post. I Am Legend never filmed any makeup, but I swear SOMEone involved with production said the makeup TEST looked better than the final CG. If I could find the source, I wouldn't be able to share it as Y T deletes comments with l i n k s.

@Ocelot-ng2jb 4 ай бұрын

Wait what is the difference really between last of us and I am Omega, now I need to see the movie.

@couchbumkino5423 4 ай бұрын

I thought about mentioning it, but seems like The Last Of Us is one of of the long list of things influenced by this story

@elsoldadomarquez 5 ай бұрын

Robert Neville, ¿porque no Roberto Villanueva? Vamos tio que se vea la gallardía española, de hombre arrojado, aventurero, y temerario, que esos zombies veyan sabiendo con quien se han liado.