I Am Legend

For our annual school Christmas activity we went to see I Am Legend. All I could say was bravo, this movie was great. The first thing that I would like to talk about with this movie is the shots and angles that were moved. In the beginning of the movie it has a long shot of New York Cities skyline. This is to show all of the change that happened over the three years of everyone being dead. Then all of the sudden you see a mustang driving down the streets and the camera then begins to follow it. Then the shots start to get closer and closer until you see Will Smith driving the car. These kinds of shots really get you involved into the movie. There are also a lot of low angle shots that gives you the sense of being lost and alone in this big city. I also love the fact that they used cultural events and placed it into the movie. As you may know one of the biggest things today is cancer and coming up with a cure. In the movie it tells a story of how a lady found the cure for cancer and then everything went horribly wrong. It used the worst case scenario and made a movie out of it. I believe that this method was a great choice for making one of the best movies of the decade.