There, in a moment before the chaos continues, they discover that Neville's antidote is finally working. The Darkseekers make their way to the lab, with one taking lead and smashing himself into a glass partition behind which Neville, Anna, and her son have sought safety. When the leader smashes himself into the glass, the cracks resemble a butterfly, leading to a moment of clarity for Neville.
Taking notice of the butterfly tattoo on Anna's neck, he has a realization that this might indeed be divine intervention. This connects to a gesture from daughter Marley earlier in the film where she says "Look Daddy, a butterfly," forming her hands into a butterfly shape. Neville understands this is no coincidence. He regains his faith in God and His plan. After a moment of realization, Neville takes action.
He draws blood containing the cure from the Darkseeker test subject and gives it to Anna and her son, telling them to take refuge in a coal chute. Neville doesn't join them. Achieving validation for the death of his family—in the signs he's seen—Neville is now comfortable paying the ultimate hero's sacrifice to ensure the cure will not be forever lost. He takes a moment to look at a picture of Zoe and Marley—and smiles. Then Neville charges into the onslaught of Darkseekers with a grenade in his hand.
Neville's explosive death fits the religious theme that underpins the film. Choosing to end his life for the greater good echoes passages from the Bible, including John , which states , "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Additionally, in the Bible, followers of Jesus are asked to sacrifice themselves engulfed in the Holy Spirit, which is represented by fire—much as Neville was engulfed by the explosion, another possible link to the character's Christian faith.
After Neville's selfless final act, Anna and Ethan make it to the colony and hand over the vial containing the cure.
Neville is now the titular legend. In an alternate ending of I Am Legend , some themes and the story's trajectory are drastically changed. Rather than glass cracking in the form of a butterfly, the Darkseeker alpha wipes his own blood onto the glass in the shape of a butterfly.
Neville then turns to the Darkseeker test subject on his table, the one he's cured, and notices a butterfly tattoo on her neck. Neville takes a leap of faith and opens the glass partition, risking his life to reunite the Darkseekers. Once Neville's awakened the female, the two Darkseekers embrace in a moment of surprise humanity. Smith's character realizes that the mutants, though far from human, are able to express love. From the Darkseekers' perspective, Neville preyed on them , kidnapping and experimenting on their friends, family, and loved ones.
He's a legend, but for the wrong reasons—in line with Richard Matheson's book, he is an entity the Darkseekers fear. Neville doesn't die in this version. Showing remorse for the experiments he has undertaken over the years, Neville, Anna, and Ethan are spared by the Darkseekers. They drive away together, not knowing if a colony exists, but they understand there has been a fundamental shift in humanity.
The Darkseekers are now the dominant force. I Am Legend Ending Explained. A cure for cancer turned deadly. Isolated in New York. The flashbacks. As such, it's no surprise that the book has been adapted for the big screen, in this case three different times.
The first adaptation came a decade after I Am Legend 's publication, in Finally, in , Will Smith fronted I Am Legend, the most critically and commercially successful adaptation of Matheson's book yet. Oddly enough though, none of the three films is really a satisfying adaptation of the text, as each differs greatly from the source material.
For one, while Robert Neville in the book is far from an expert on the plague that's destroyed humanity, the Neville in every film version has been a genius scientist capable of devising a cure. Another big part of the I Am Legend book that's never been adapted faithfully is its ending, which sees Neville die by suicide rather than be executed for his apparent crimes.
It turns out those changed into vampire-like creatures by the plague have formed their own society and are still mostly intelligent, and view Neville as a monster, a kind of boogeyman they fear and loathe due to his killing of their species.
The Will Smith I Am Legend once again fails to replicate this ending, but its alternate conclusion is much closer to the book's message. I Am Legend 's ending in the theatrical cut sees Will Smith's character holed up in his laboratory as he attempts to find a cure for the vampire-like mutants.
As he finally discovers a solution to their condition, the creatures storm his house and are shut out on the other side of some sturdy glass where he can see them waiting for him. However, it is a lot more than that. The reprogrammed virus spares no one and almost the entire population of the world either ends up dead or simply mutates into aggressive zombie-like creatures known as Darkseekers. However, despite knowing that he could possibly be the last human on the planet, Dr.
Robert holds on to his hope and fights against what has become of the world. With what seems like a military designed security system, Dr. Robert shuts himself in his home during the darker hours and only leaves when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.
Determined to find a cure for the illness that has taken over the world, he desperately goes trawling around the city, looking for medicines.
In his basement, he uses a lab to test his vaccines on rats first and then on the Darkseekers. Although the movie does not make it obvious, his last bit of hope and sanity seems to be resting onto his dog, Samantha. Robert lives a very routined life where he spends his morning watching old news videotapes, working out, having breakfast with his dog, and then working in his lab. He then often goes out to hunt, plays golf on massive aircraft carriers and of course, sends out a distress signal on all AM frequencies.
We can assume that he has been transmitting this signal for the past three years as that marks the length of his quarantine. On his birthday, as he makes his way back home with Sam, his world comes crashing down and so does his sanity. In the middle of a street, he sees one of the mannequins from the store, who he had earlier named Fred. As soon as he gets close to it, he finds himself dangling upside in what looks like one of his own traps. So how did Fred end up there?
And more importantly, who set that trap? A plausible theory for this world is that the Zombies, or should I say the Darkseekers, set it up at night after Robert trapped one of them for conducting his experiments. This goes way back to the scene where Robert crushes a tube that holds his blood in a blanket to lure one of the Darkseekers and then traps her.
This scene perfectly establishes that the Darkseekers have a very strong sense of smell. So it is a possibility that just to seek revenge, the Darkseeker set up the trap and even kept Fred there to lure Robert towards the trap. But this theory also suggests that Robert might have left all of his equipment behind when he had first captured the other Darkseeker.
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