Thanks for watching guys! In case you want to check out the purp channel www.twitch.com/RoanokeGames I stream at 7 on weekdays! Y'all have a good weekend!
@@MateusVarandas_ I suspect patreon. For some reason some youtubers have their patreon supporters view videos earlier. Which is like the most useless privilege in existence. But maybe that's not the case, who knows.
i joked near my family while we were watching [i was on the verge of tears but im a bad ass b1tch so i cant cry] "is robert shitting or what" but yeah it was sad
@@Hunter1-1 To a biologist like me, it's kinda sad and disappointing. I mean, I would never chose YT over science, no matter how much money and freedom it means. Or maybe I just like being a scientist and I can't relate to him somehow
@@Safarichromosomeslol how's it make him less of a scientist? He's doing a similar job. He's actually translating fictional ailments or diseases into a form that actually makes sense in reality. A lot of video games, movies, etc now make sense. Especially his Deadspace series. It's not like he can't go back to science at any time.
Personally, my favorite part of I Am Legend is the rapid level of seemingly de-evolution, then evolution by the Infected. At first, it's pretty clear the infection leads to rapid deterioration to regular 'sane' functions of the body, but after years and years, it's clear that one of two things happened. Either 1: The infected are regaining their basic human/animal instinct or 2:A new species of human all together have been created from the mutations that the virus created. It's super fascinating, honestly.
What if the mind couldn’t handle the mutation so it breaks down into sort of a feral state after time some start to gain back control and form relationships with others like in the movie. Idk it’s a interesting thought
read the book. (i'm not saying this to be pretentious i promise) its so much worse LOL, and so much better in regard to the points you made. i really dont want to spoil the ending but its totally different then either ending of the movie. like I LOVED the movie. and it was decently true to the book. and i dont mind the ending change cause it works better for a movie. but the plot twist at the end of the book... dear god. it completely changes everything.
When i was a child i always thought the city was the only place with infected and the rest of the world was alright. I was confused on why nobody helped him or why he didnt flee.... I was too young... i actually got surprised when i rewatched it when i was a bit older...
@@adolphgracius9996 its hard to notice if you dont pay attention in the right moment. I think that you can hear it when the main character talks to the woman and at the end of the movie when the woman and the child get to the refugee. Other than that, i dont think the movie mentions it.
i thought because the scanning read false in that one scene that no one except the immune and like people underground lived since it was airborn. i really gotta stop watching people play fallout
The alternate ending for this film made it from just another horror film to an actual philosophical thriller. For those of you who dont know the alternative ending follows the book alot closer. the title I AM LEGEND is actually a self analysis of the character where instead of for us the view the cropping monsters are the creatures that come at night. Robert nevel is the single monster that comes during the day and unbeknown to Robert him killing the crispin monsters is actually seen as a crime as the monsters on the book have regained sentience and higher thinking even forming coherent speech. So the alternative ending leading to the final climax ending in understanding between the alpha and robert is so much better
Yo I watched this film when I was small. I got so confused when I rewatched it later in my teens because the one I watched didn't coincide with what I last watched so I just left it there and kept it in the back of my mind until I saw that there was an alternate ending. That thing still bugs me. I thought I was going crazy with how different the ending was on both the times I watched it.
One thing about the alternative ending if the female got cured how would she be accepted back into the group if they are hostile to everyone , that also starts the question how they calmed down and not kill Will Smith (guess i need to read the book or at least see the alternate ending)
@Elijah Feuerstein damn now i really need to read that sounds better than the movie ..... sadly it also sounds how most of the people react to me ........ thanks for the information.
@Elijah Feuerstein essentially. the ones he used to justify were like rabid/"dead" monsters that were more instinct than like higher thinking. and he talks earlier in the books about vampires and their legend and then it ends with him realizing he literally became that to them (attacking while they sleep for no apparent reason other than to kill)
I had medinjitis. What I experienced was different from what the doctors saw me experience. For me I was just lying down with terrible stomach pain, and I couldn't see. I just kept trying to sleep. It was like a dream. Everything was white, fuzzy, and I was in a small white room. When I woke up I was in a huge icu room, apparently I was there for 3 days and I was fighting doctors. So thats what it feels like to be turned. You just feel sick.
In the tie-in short stories we actually get a perspective from an infected. She leaves her family's shelter to find her bf but gets infected, and returns feeling really weak and sick. Her father refuses to let her into the shelter so she curls up and sleeps. She then wakes up feeling better and finds the shelter door is open, but when she goes in she only finds 'monsters' and no family. She proptly kills the monsters and heads back outside, later finding her bf and embracing him. However, what actually happened is that she was turned, her younger sister felt bad so opened the door, and the POV character comes in and kills them. Pretty interesting way for a virus to work. I'd guess it's supposed to be behaving like a rabies style infection through biting, but the measels is also airborn with a >90% infection rate so pretty overkill.
that reminds me a lot of the virus in the Left 4 Dead series, basically an extreme rabies that makes infected very aggressive and see non-infected as demons and monsters (for those that somehow don't know)
I still want a real modern adaption of I Am Legend. I enjoy this movie but story and themes wise it is not even close to the same thing as the book, even going with the alternate ending.
It isn't modern, but if you want a different take in movie form. Look up Omega Man. Movie from the sixties or seventies based off of the original book.
Richard Mathesson is a great author that has written some of my favorite horror stories. Omega man is good if you want something that follows the book close enough.
Showing is much more effective than listening, a channel with gaming in the name shows you stuff, schools are about listening to constant uninspired blabbering hence you learn nothing.
Dude, I literally found FilmComicsExplained AND Roanoke on the same day 2ish years ago and have been listening to them both since. That would be a dream come true.
Maybe it’s the score, maybe the story. I Am Legend, no matter what critics may say, will always be such an endearing movie to me. From the infected people with the glint of humanity left in their eyes, to the unrelenting efforts of Robert Neville, you can always see the end of that desolation, just over the horizon.
When I saw the film my theory was people with cancer became carriers & those that showed infection never had cancer so the virus reacted differently in their bodies.
@@MikeNapoli1989 You know how it is when you have the latest miracle cure, can't waste time doing silly things like comprehensive testing for side effects.
@@formorianify yeah like why show us his entire shit and past just to pointlessly kilö him off at the end and have some woman nobody cared about be the hero
@@harlannguyen4048 That's not a reason. That's an excuse. A corporate excuse, which is the worst kind of excuse. Ergo, not valid and we can blame them for it
The Vampires/Infected shown and depicted much *differentiated* between the Novel and the Movie Both depictions are being unique (the Novel was much more mythological psychological horror) Awesome upload!
@@m3rl1on There are Multiple Variants some second generation of vampires are both human in intelligence and are able to withstand against the ultraviolet Lights for a time in the novels Meanwhile the others literally vampires rise from the graves
@@thedoruk6324 It all is dependent upon persons own mind as human intelligence or at least their beliefs stay with them well after they become infected. Such is why some fear mirrors and others the cross. Put enough high caliber rounds in any of them and the mucus won't keep the outside air out long enough and they'll stay down but come at them with two pistols. This, of course, begs the question as to whether or not only those immune where the ones to "truly" survive. Also, they should have clint east would direct a true adaptation for the book and play Neville.
It's interesting, in the end it doesn't really matter if their still intelligent. Their condition and their lifestyle isn't sustainable, and nothing about their condition implies they are immortal. While they may have mates there no reason to assume they can make more of themselves all that well. They would probably die out eventually.
@@allykayalltheway6631 In the book there are 2 kinds of the vampires. The first kind are undead and are legitimately monsters. The second kind are still alive and have retained their intelligence. Neville doesn’t realize the difference until pretty late in the book, at which point he’s basically a murderer and the intelligent vampires want him dead for his crimes.
My uncle is a doctor and shortly after this came out I can remember him telling me that the darkseekers would have had a metabolism that was 4-5x that of a normal human. He based it on the high body temperature and their heart rate, which was a little over 3x that of a normal person.
5:57 dude what was crazy is one of them somehow somewhere they had to have been watching Will take to the mannequin multiple times like out of all the mannequins they pick the one he talks to the most, that lets you know someone had to have been spying on him or something like that right?
...you know what, I NEVER considered that the infected set that trap for Robert. Am I just an idiot? I always thought that he set the trap himself and just forgot because he's kinda going insane, figured that's what the whole scene was meant to highlight.
im pretty sure there's a book that makes it more clear, in that the monsters are actually more intelligent than once thought and see the protagonist as a psychopath who indiscrimately murders them. haven't actually read it though, just heard about it from a friend
I'm pretty sure he set the trap but the Darkseekers moved Fred out to it to bait him. They were watching him and realized what he was doing, so they baited him into his own trap
@@arefallout But he falls in the trap long before they show up, it's not like they were sitting there ready the whole time he's knocked out for a while with no hint of the infected around.
The alternate ending is so beautiful.. It shows that the world has changed and the tables have turned on humanity.. Krippin is now the outcast and the creatures are the dominant species now..and
@@NoESanity Both sucked. These creatures are still by all accounts heading for extermination. Plus, they never made it clear they were intelligent. They could've tried communicating with him, but no.
@@arrownoir The movie shows that they can communicate. Otherwise the Leader wouldn't have been able to convince the rest of them into a coordinated attack. And in the alternate the leader and female are making sounds and gestures to each other. Just because they aren't using words as we know them doesn't mean communication is being expressed. As for why they don't try to talk to the main character specifically? Its well established that he is a threat to them, and heavily implied that he has captured several of them to experiment on. Leading to even more deaths. To them he is a monster who kills them and kidnaps them. There is nothing there to communicate. They come to an understanding in the alternate ending, but there isn't really anything he can say to them that would make what he has done better. The book goes into even more detail. In the movie it shows him as a "legend" because he is a survivor. In the book, its not because he is a survivor, its because all the others see him as a legendary monster. He, to them, is the bad guy of the story.
Still remember this movie, the dogs death was really sad and was done in a really meaning full way. The ending they picked was good imo as it was full of hope Instead of the other one. Thank you for another breakdown. Please tackle silent hill monsters.
The grenade ending? Why? The entire movie has been giving us hints that they are both intelligent and sentient, that they have emotions, so the action packed ending was in fact the inferior one, while the alternate gives us a resolution to the ideas the movie presented us
I was 8 when I watched this movie, and I wasn't really scared but I was just very sad when the Sam died. I had a dog just like her and it broke my heart to watch her die.
I just want to clarify cause it’s bothering me, Anna isn’t returning to the survivors camp in Vermont, she had been heading there after her survivor camp boat off São Paulo was destroyed where there were 5 immune people on the boat, but they had died from being eaten by darkseekers. She was heading to Vermont and taking Ethan and when traveling to, she heard Dr. Neville’s broadcast and made her way to him. That’s why she brought up the camp because that was her end goal, and was now wanting Neville to come so he can have an even better life than what he was living
The Volatiles from Dying Light really reminded me of the infected from I am Legend. Bald and Athletic people with hatred for UV Rays minus the overgrown ribs and open jaws.
Never had the flu in my life and only had fever three times in my 36 years and never thought it could be due to my genetics/immune system. I learned something new today. thanks, random TH-camr!
Roanoke, can I just say I can't appreciate you enough, because you choose to spend your time and brain cells to dissect fictional viruses for our entertainment, despite you having spent probably way too long in education in order to become a scientist and technically not follow up on that career.
This was one of my favourite post apocalyptic movies and I have now only known that there exists an alternate ending without Will Smith dying heroically
I'd like to see you talk about the novel version of this virus. The author goes into a layman making it his post apocalypse hobby to teach himself virology and understand what's happened to the world.
Since Roanoke mentioned smallpox only being present in a few places, I think that should be clarified. Smallpox is extinct in nature, and the permissible locations of the remaining research samples are restricted by international treaty to two: the CDC in Atlanta and the Vector Institute in Novosibirsk. That’s not to say that these are the only actual remaining smallpox repositories; it’s entirely possible some countries squirrelled away samples for a rainy day (by which I mean for a bioweapons programme, should they decide to implement one in the future). More worryingly, laboratory practices could be really gung-ho in the past, so there’s no telling what kind of shit is cluttering around various labs. A couple of years ago still-viable but long-forgotten smallpox samples were discovered in a US lab and transported in a secure convoy to Atlanta. Someone decided to check that really old cardboard box in the back of the fridge and promptly needed new underwear. The lab’s location? Bethesda, Maryland. So your town, too, might be blessed with smallpox and not know it! Sleep tight! And don’t try to clean that dodgy freezer. Link: www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/six-vials-smallpox-discovered-us-lab
@@praetorianrex5571Book reference. The vampires can speak in the book. One was Robert Neville’s best friend named Ben Cortman. He would stand outside of Neville’s house every night and taunt him to come outside so the vampires could eat him.
This movie scared the fuck out of me as a kid. I watched the depressing end and fell asleep on the couch, only to wake up in terror in the middle of the night by myself.
I am a firm believer that the reason some people don’t take Measles seriously is because it has a cute name. Seriously it sounds like a name for kitten, yet it’s deadly as all hell. Meanwhile something that’s pretty harmless and very easy to treat gets the supremely scary sounding name of Toxoplasmosis, based on that name you’d think it’d make blood acidic and melt you from the inside
@@exillens nowadays we got pretty good treatments and cures, and it’s been almost eradicated by proper vaccination, but if left untreated it is a very deadly disease which commonly leave fatalities especially in young children, chances of living without medical help are quite low But u gotta admit the name does sound kinda cute
@@exillens most kids have been getting vaccinated since the late 1960s, like I said we’ve been dealing with it for long time and we’ve figured out the best ways, but the disease itself has the potential to kill quite easily. We can treat the symptoms now , even if we can’t directly treat the infection, and that usually allows most to survive. The biggest problem with measles is that it is extremely contagious and very easy to spread in a population which leaves those more likely to perish from the disease in far greater risk. And there will always be some ignorant people (sometimes through no great fault of their just their circumstances) won’t know enough to identify or treat the disease, or will misdiagnose it, and the infected can very likely end up dead. It’s not like measles is some superflu monstrosity it isn’t, but it is a serious disease one should take seriously and I feel like the name “measles” doesn’t really carry the gravitas for that
@@AverageAwesomeDude All I'm saying is measles was something every kid got just like chicken pox and the only treatment was staying inside and calamine lotion. I don't recall kids dropping like flies or everyone in a panic over chicken pox or measles
Man, your expertise is top-notch. I'm glad you found a way to disprove bs stories and pseudoscience in your own way even if it's lost on most of your audience. I know you can't say that, but i absolutely will.
Roanoke, I've recently found your channel and I've been binging your vids like crazy - I LOVE IT - and woop woop, here we have one of my fav movies being covered by you! Cheers!
omg this was such perfect timing! I just got home from the store with my snacks and now im fully ready to watch Roanoke Gaming (also I am legend is a great movie imo)
I really wished they would've gone with the alternative where he releases the female and lives so it sets up a a sequel or at least have other survivors.
Dude imagine being a terminal cancer patient, death's door, you accept your fate... Then you are suddenly and miraculously cured of your incurable cancer. New life is ahead of you, and you're thankful for this new chance at living. Then the fucking apocalypse happens, and you're on the run from vampires wanting to eat you.
I like the alternate ending. So creepy that they showed they could set up traps. In that ending, Richard could possibly continue his research elsewhere.
I'd really like to know what he has to say about the "Blacklight virus" that's introduced in the Prototype games. Many channels covered what it does so far, but very little has anything to say about how or why it does it's things.
yeah , the the Prototype Games have been reccomended to Roanoke before but eh never tackled it , i believe you can find him hearting a comment of it on the Las Plagas Ogre video he did.
The woman and her son were not from a survivor camp they were from a ship that had been used as a temporary quarantine shelter and they had come to the mainland to find a survivor settlement they had heard about.
My parents watched this when I was 9 years old, and their biggest mistake was letting me watch it with them. It got to poor Sam's death, and I didn't talk to my parents for nearly a week because I was so upset.
as someone who's favorite book is I Am Legend. I am obligated to say that the book is better, but the movie is really good too. defiantly give the original by Richard Matheson a read.
I was always curious to hear someone like you give possible explanations to something that happened to me in college. Mumps is kind of a dead disease for the most part, but randomly there was a small outbreak in Ohio. Im from Southern Illinois and have never been to Ohio, but somehow, even tho I had my vaccines, I caught the mumps and was the first case in like a decade in my area. I was no where near the people in Ohio either. I've always wondered how I possibly got it, and the doctors trying to figure it out were so certain it was impossible for me to get mumps that they spent days trying to figure out what i possibly had. Those were a rough few days, aside from how bad the swelling in my face was.
one does not simply stop being a Scientist to become a TH-camr. one would rather embrace being a Scientist, but using that trait to be a Successfull TH-camr.
If you haven't see the bonus stories for this movie, they are worth a watch. One of them is from the perspective of an infected and it is interesting to see how they see the world.
I would like to blame @Roanoke Gaming for increasing my understanding of medical science to the point of impressing my medico friends. You sir are a great learning resource.
*Creating* the Kreppin Virus would be possible in Real Life ? (Asking for scientific reasons only) The scene where the doggo has put down was *saddening* but in a meaningful way - unlike the LastofUs2
Joel was literally treated like a random side character, and that’s just horrible. Everyone who played the first game knows he deserved to play a bigger role than that.
Been with you since the beginning of the channel. It's been great to watch your content adapt over time. This is by far one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
Whew, you kept me on my toes there for a sec. We went from Measles to Meningitis. Had to think on that one for a sec but Meningitis is just the name of the condition after the brain tissues swell. Not directly correlated to bacterial meningitis. This is one of the best explanation videos I have ever seen of any subject or movie genre. Thank you!
On the subject of reactivity of viruses: I’m genetically predisposed to have a biological shitfit over respiratory illnesses. The flu knocks me right out for upwards of two weeks, and I get laryngitis, bronchitis *and* tonsillitis ALL THE TIME. It’s been a nightmare trying to dodge the big cough going around- and as of right now I have laryngitis! I’ve had respiratory issues so often my voice is permanently messed up and my lung capacity is utterly catastrophic. That’s just genetics baybee
Thanks for watching guys! In case you want to check out the purp channel www.twitch.com/RoanokeGames I stream at 7 on weekdays! Y'all have a good weekend!
The video came out 20 seconds ago, how's this comment here for 14 hours?!
@@MateusVarandas_
I suspect patreon. For some reason some youtubers have their patreon supporters view videos earlier. Which is like the most useless privilege in existence. But maybe that's not the case, who knows.
Hell yeah! i'll come watch definately!
for movies have you seen the film Invasion Of The Body Snatchers?
Hello
Sam dying has to be the most saddest scene ever.
The bite was the saddest scene because we all knew what would come next
i joked near my family while we were watching [i was on the verge of tears but im a bad ass b1tch so i cant cry] "is robert shitting or what" but yeah it was sad
Yep. "Old Yeller" and "Of Mice and Men" vibes all over that one. Classic tear-jerkers because sh^t like that we can all relate to.
I was crying my eyes out when he was singing that song to Sam.
It's just a dog.
I like how he basically said “I stopped being a scientist to become a youtuber”
It's kinda sad though
@@Safarichromosomeslol If he's enjoying youtube more then that's not sad surely :P
@@Safarichromosomeslol nah he's making bank probably even more
@@Hunter1-1 To a biologist like me, it's kinda sad and disappointing. I mean, I would never chose YT over science, no matter how much money and freedom it means. Or maybe I just like being a scientist and I can't relate to him somehow
@@Safarichromosomeslol how's it make him less of a scientist? He's doing a similar job. He's actually translating fictional ailments or diseases into a form that actually makes sense in reality.
A lot of video games, movies, etc now make sense. Especially his Deadspace series.
It's not like he can't go back to science at any time.
Personally, my favorite part of I Am Legend is the rapid level of seemingly de-evolution, then evolution by the Infected. At first, it's pretty clear the infection leads to rapid deterioration to regular 'sane' functions of the body, but after years and years, it's clear that one of two things happened. Either 1: The infected are regaining their basic human/animal instinct or 2:A new species of human all together have been created from the mutations that the virus created. It's super fascinating, honestly.
What if the mind couldn’t handle the mutation so it breaks down into sort of a feral state after time some start to gain back control and form relationships with others like in the movie. Idk it’s a interesting thought
@@mikeslime2143interesting insight 👍🏿
Sounds quite basic
read the book. (i'm not saying this to be pretentious i promise) its so much worse LOL, and so much better in regard to the points you made. i really dont want to spoil the ending but its totally different then either ending of the movie. like I LOVED the movie. and it was decently true to the book. and i dont mind the ending change cause it works better for a movie. but the plot twist at the end of the book... dear god. it completely changes everything.
There's no doubt that everyone would love a collab between you and FilmComicsExplained
Dude yes!!!
That would be great
@@jamesdaviesanswers8751 bet you weren't expecting a comment 1 min after your comment!
yes!!!!
Big facts
When i was a child i always thought the city was the only place with infected and the rest of the world was alright.
I was confused on why nobody helped him or why he didnt flee....
I was too young... i actually got surprised when i rewatched it when i was a bit older...
well, i am not as young anymore but i was under the impression that it was that city only 👀
@@adolphgracius9996 its hard to notice if you dont pay attention in the right moment. I think that you can hear it when the main character talks to the woman and at the end of the movie when the woman and the child get to the refugee. Other than that, i dont think the movie mentions it.
Honestly with this kind of virus living far from a town or city would be the safest place to live
i thought because the scanning read false in that one scene that no one except the immune and like people underground lived since it was airborn. i really gotta stop watching people play fallout
yeah i thought that to i thought the military succeeded to quarantine the island
If Roanoke was a coroner instead of a scientist/youtuber, he probably would still start with the feet.
Not sure detectives but Starting with the feet
Toe Tags, I'd start with the feet too
@@jacobpdeleon2747 not sure why but I immediately associated that with Ducky talking to Jethro in NCIS.
Yes then analyze it😂
The alternate ending for this film made it from just another horror film to an actual philosophical thriller.
For those of you who dont know the alternative ending follows the book alot closer.
the title I AM LEGEND is actually a self analysis of the character where instead of for us the view the cropping monsters are the creatures that come at night. Robert nevel is the single monster that comes during the day and unbeknown to Robert him killing the crispin monsters is actually seen as a crime as the monsters on the book have regained sentience and higher thinking even forming coherent speech. So the alternative ending leading to the final climax ending in understanding between the alpha and robert is so much better
Yo I watched this film when I was small. I got so confused when I rewatched it later in my teens because the one I watched didn't coincide with what I last watched so I just left it there and kept it in the back of my mind until I saw that there was an alternate ending. That thing still bugs me. I thought I was going crazy with how different the ending was on both the times I watched it.
Elijah Feuerstein sad but true
One thing about the alternative ending if the female got cured how would she be accepted back into the group if they are hostile to everyone , that also starts the question how they calmed down and not kill Will Smith (guess i need to read the book or at least see the alternate ending)
@Elijah Feuerstein damn now i really need to read that sounds better than the movie ..... sadly it also sounds how most of the people react to me ........ thanks for the information.
@Elijah Feuerstein essentially. the ones he used to justify were like rabid/"dead" monsters that were more instinct than like higher thinking. and he talks earlier in the books about vampires and their legend and then it ends with him realizing he literally became that to them (attacking while they sleep for no apparent reason other than to kill)
bad guys kill dog. Owner goes after bad guys who killed dog. hmmmm sounds like another wholesome fellow i know
A breathtaking wholesome fella
Spare him Jonathan
That sounds wicked.
@@alexconnor9884 lol
LMAO
“Ends the poor quadrupled” such a Roanoke thing to say
I had medinjitis. What I experienced was different from what the doctors saw me experience. For me I was just lying down with terrible stomach pain, and I couldn't see. I just kept trying to sleep. It was like a dream. Everything was white, fuzzy, and I was in a small white room. When I woke up I was in a huge icu room, apparently I was there for 3 days and I was fighting doctors. So thats what it feels like to be turned. You just feel sick.
You mean meningitis? When I had it at 18 I also fought the drs, had to bring my mom in to approve treatment for my delirious ass
@@alexischavez3238 yea I sent that like a year ago lmfao
@@nayoti5567 I know haha I was just not sure if that's what you meant I thought it was another actual disease😅
@@alexischavez3238 nah I didn't know how to spell it at the time
I always figured that first vamp died so quickly not because of the sunlight but due to the pain of the light it just kinda bashed it's own brains in
And that's about what cluster headaches feel like.
In the tie-in short stories we actually get a perspective from an infected. She leaves her family's shelter to find her bf but gets infected, and returns feeling really weak and sick. Her father refuses to let her into the shelter so she curls up and sleeps. She then wakes up feeling better and finds the shelter door is open, but when she goes in she only finds 'monsters' and no family. She proptly kills the monsters and heads back outside, later finding her bf and embracing him. However, what actually happened is that she was turned, her younger sister felt bad so opened the door, and the POV character comes in and kills them.
Pretty interesting way for a virus to work. I'd guess it's supposed to be behaving like a rabies style infection through biting, but the measels is also airborn with a >90% infection rate so pretty overkill.
that reminds me a lot of the virus in the Left 4 Dead series, basically an extreme rabies that makes infected very aggressive and see non-infected as demons and monsters (for those that somehow don't know)
Do you happen to know what the story is called?
@@TheLostLamb I am legend animated comic 3: shelter
K all real fans know that already
@@crow_g1639 pointless comment
I still want a real modern adaption of I Am Legend. I enjoy this movie but story and themes wise it is not even close to the same thing as the book, even going with the alternate ending.
It isn't modern, but if you want a different take in movie form. Look up Omega Man. Movie from the sixties or seventies based off of the original book.
The Last man on earth is also based off of the original book. I believe it's a 60s black n white movie.
@@safeplace8564 Starring the late great Vincent Price. Well worth a watch for that alone.
Omega man is a awesome movie. Everyone should see it.
Richard Mathesson is a great author that has written some of my favorite horror stories. Omega man is good if you want something that follows the book close enough.
Damn, I really didn't expect a channel with "Gaming" in the name to trach me more about virology in a single video than school ever did.
Showing is much more effective than listening, a channel with gaming in the name shows you stuff, schools are about listening to constant uninspired blabbering hence you learn nothing.
@@al-imranadore1182 man, you went to a terrible school then. Or were just a terrible student.
@@disbeafakename167 How about both, me a terrible student and a terrible school making things even worse!!!!!
He’s actually a scientist that’s the best part about Roanoke lmao.
I would love to see a collaboration of you and FilmComicsExplained on a virus
Definitely
Same that would be awesome, and doing a collab with frederick knudson too
Perfekt idea
That would be amazing
Dude, I literally found FilmComicsExplained AND Roanoke on the same day 2ish years ago and have been listening to them both since. That would be a dream come true.
Maybe it’s the score, maybe the story. I Am Legend, no matter what critics may say, will always be such an endearing movie to me. From the infected people with the glint of humanity left in their eyes, to the unrelenting efforts of Robert Neville, you can always see the end of that desolation, just over the horizon.
When I saw the film my theory was people with cancer became carriers & those that showed infection never had cancer so the virus reacted differently in their bodies.
Ahh I like this explanation way better
The thing that got me is how did it even become a cure they test these on White Mice first and you think they would have shown what it did.
@@charliemartin-k7m not testing it long enough.
@@MikeNapoli1989 You know how it is when you have the latest miracle cure, can't waste time doing silly things like comprehensive testing for side effects.
@@T3HR3PP4 😂
I just love the part in the movie where will Smith starts yelling at fred aka a mannequin yelling get inside
If you look closely at that part fred's head actually turns a little bit
How did you get out here?! 🤣🤣🤣
The alternate ending was actually the ending in the book, so really the grenade ending shouldnt be considered canon imo
I always thought the ending was dumb.
@@formorianify yeah like why show us his entire shit and past just to pointlessly kilö him off at the end and have some woman nobody cared about be the hero
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti Reminds me of TLOUII
The reason why the grenade ending was used was because the original ending tested poorly with test audiences.
@@harlannguyen4048
That's not a reason. That's an excuse. A corporate excuse, which is the worst kind of excuse. Ergo, not valid and we can blame them for it
The Vampires/Infected shown and depicted much *differentiated* between the Novel and the Movie
Both depictions are being unique (the Novel was much more mythological psychological horror)
Awesome upload!
Zombie + Vampire = Zompire
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@@hydrogenone6866 Zompire in Movie :]
Quite the mythological vamp in the novels
@@thedoruk6324 so they are still pretty much human level intelligence, but just can't stand the sun?
@@m3rl1on There are Multiple Variants some second generation of vampires are both human in intelligence and are able to withstand against the ultraviolet Lights for a time in the novels
Meanwhile the others literally vampires rise from the graves
@@thedoruk6324 It all is dependent upon persons own mind as human intelligence or at least their beliefs stay with them well after they become infected. Such is why some fear mirrors and others the cross. Put enough high caliber rounds in any of them and the mucus won't keep the outside air out long enough and they'll stay down but come at them with two pistols. This, of course, begs the question as to whether or not only those immune where the ones to "truly" survive. Also, they should have clint east would direct a true adaptation for the book and play Neville.
It's interesting, in the end it doesn't really matter if their still intelligent. Their condition and their lifestyle isn't sustainable, and nothing about their condition implies they are immortal. While they may have mates there no reason to assume they can make more of themselves all that well. They would probably die out eventually.
So I guess we can survive if we gather enough people in one place ?
@@Nothing-1w3 Yep, sometimes solutions to difficult problems are just that simple.
I just find it hilarious that in the book they view Neville as the monster but he doesn't go around eating them.
@@allykayalltheway6631 In the book there are 2 kinds of the vampires. The first kind are undead and are legitimately monsters. The second kind are still alive and have retained their intelligence. Neville doesn’t realize the difference until pretty late in the book, at which point he’s basically a murderer and the intelligent vampires want him dead for his crimes.
@@allykayalltheway6631 no, but he goes around kidnapping and experimentating on them. To them, he's a monster for this.
My uncle is a doctor and shortly after this came out I can remember him telling me that the darkseekers would have had a metabolism that was 4-5x that of a normal human. He based it on the high body temperature and their heart rate, which was a little over 3x that of a normal person.
That could also make sense for why they seems to hunt so aggressively and turn to cannibalism. They are probably constantly starving
i thought Robert stepped in his own trap and the scene was intended to show how he's losing touch because of loneliness.
Also the darkseekers using his insanity against him.
Nope
Nope it was eye for an eye. They knew he talked to mannequins so they used it as bait.
He used the same trap on them and they learned
5:57 dude what was crazy is one of them somehow somewhere they had to have been watching Will take to the mannequin multiple times like out of all the mannequins they pick the one he talks to the most, that lets you know someone had to have been spying on him or something like that right?
Not the only option it could have been a coincidence but i don't think it's likely.
If you notice, the mannequin's head moves too.
This was one of the best movies ever it was scary and beautiful and sad when the pupper died
I came to learn about a fake virus and left learning a ton about real viruses. I love this!
Glad you enjoyed it man!
...you know what, I NEVER considered that the infected set that trap for Robert.
Am I just an idiot?
I always thought that he set the trap himself and just forgot because he's kinda going insane, figured that's what the whole scene was meant to highlight.
im pretty sure there's a book that makes it more clear, in that the monsters are actually more intelligent than once thought and see the protagonist as a psychopath who indiscrimately murders them. haven't actually read it though, just heard about it from a friend
@@delicioustoast123 That's the book the movie is based on. That's why he's legend. In the new society, theirs, he is a legendary murderer.
I mean the dude was waitijg for him with the dogs.... You think he was just out walking them?
I'm pretty sure he set the trap but the Darkseekers moved Fred out to it to bait him. They were watching him and realized what he was doing, so they baited him into his own trap
@@arefallout But he falls in the trap long before they show up, it's not like they were sitting there ready the whole time he's knocked out for a while with no hint of the infected around.
The alternate ending is so beautiful.. It shows that the world has changed and the tables have turned on humanity.. Krippin is now the outcast and the creatures are the dominant species now..and
The book ending is better
@@NoESanity Both sucked. These creatures are still by all accounts heading for extermination. Plus, they never made it clear they were intelligent. They could've tried communicating with him, but no.
@@arrownoir The movie shows that they can communicate. Otherwise the Leader wouldn't have been able to convince the rest of them into a coordinated attack. And in the alternate the leader and female are making sounds and gestures to each other. Just because they aren't using words as we know them doesn't mean communication is being expressed. As for why they don't try to talk to the main character specifically? Its well established that he is a threat to them, and heavily implied that he has captured several of them to experiment on. Leading to even more deaths. To them he is a monster who kills them and kidnaps them. There is nothing there to communicate. They come to an understanding in the alternate ending, but there isn't really anything he can say to them that would make what he has done better.
The book goes into even more detail. In the movie it shows him as a "legend" because he is a survivor. In the book, its not because he is a survivor, its because all the others see him as a legendary monster. He, to them, is the bad guy of the story.
I for one, can't wait for Roanoke Gaming to get rich enough and fund "I am Legend 2: Electric Boogaloo"
That would be the movie I'll bury with me corpse
Still remember this movie, the dogs death was really sad and was done in a really meaning full way. The ending they picked was good imo as it was full of hope Instead of the other one. Thank you for another breakdown. Please tackle silent hill monsters.
Piramid head and the boogeyman should be fun, it would be great if he collabs with a psycologist
The grenade ending? Why? The entire movie has been giving us hints that they are both intelligent and sentient, that they have emotions, so the action packed ending was in fact the inferior one, while the alternate gives us a resolution to the ideas the movie presented us
@M. Sami will smith realises that to them he was the monster, they're very intelligent beings and allows them to take the woman that he kidnapped
@@FPrimusUnicron And the alternate ending at least bares a tiny resemblance to the book instead of the generic main ending.
I was 8 when I watched this movie, and I wasn't really scared but I was just very sad when the Sam died. I had a dog just like her and it broke my heart to watch her die.
I just want to clarify cause it’s bothering me, Anna isn’t returning to the survivors camp in Vermont, she had been heading there after her survivor camp boat off São Paulo was destroyed where there were 5 immune people on the boat, but they had died from being eaten by darkseekers. She was heading to Vermont and taking Ethan and when traveling to, she heard Dr. Neville’s broadcast and made her way to him. That’s why she brought up the camp because that was her end goal, and was now wanting Neville to come so he can have an even better life than what he was living
It's not her son?
I was brushing my teeth when you made that woman catching joke, almost died, would have gone laughing at least
Someone: *tries to cure cancer with a virus*
Virus: imma bout to end this man's whole career
Women’s whole career
mankind’s *
2020 : interesting
Can we still talk about how freaky it is that Fred's head moves
Thank god someone else noticed
Haven't watched the movie in a while but maybe a continuity error?
Robert was hallucinating.
I've watched this movie religiously my entire life and never noticed
The Volatiles from Dying Light really reminded me of the infected from I am Legend. Bald and Athletic people with hatred for UV Rays minus the overgrown ribs and open jaws.
true
I cried when the dog died
The dog was the main character.
It was the last thing hes daughter gave him second before the accident
It gave me *Kripplin Depression* seeing the dog die
@@that1dudewhoplayz843 *[insert laugh track here]*
Cure4Living I don’t think they included it just to kill it off
Never had the flu in my life and only had fever three times in my 36 years and never thought it could be due to my genetics/immune system. I learned something new today. thanks, random TH-camr!
Roanoke, can I just say I can't appreciate you enough, because you choose to spend your time and brain cells to dissect fictional viruses for our entertainment, despite you having spent probably way too long in education in order to become a scientist and technically not follow up on that career.
This was one of my favourite post apocalyptic movies and I have now only known that there exists an alternate ending without Will Smith dying heroically
I'd like to see you talk about the novel version of this virus. The author goes into a layman making it his post apocalypse hobby to teach himself virology and understand what's happened to the world.
Not a virus in the book. Bacterial based
These are some if the coolest videos that I've ever watched. I love how in depth you go into the virology of these fictional diseases
Since Roanoke mentioned smallpox only being present in a few places, I think that should be clarified. Smallpox is extinct in nature, and the permissible locations of the remaining research samples are restricted by international treaty to two: the CDC in Atlanta and the Vector Institute in Novosibirsk.
That’s not to say that these are the only actual remaining smallpox repositories; it’s entirely possible some countries squirrelled away samples for a rainy day (by which I mean for a bioweapons programme, should they decide to implement one in the future).
More worryingly, laboratory practices could be really gung-ho in the past, so there’s no telling what kind of shit is cluttering around various labs. A couple of years ago still-viable but long-forgotten smallpox samples were discovered in a US lab and transported in a secure convoy to Atlanta. Someone decided to check that really old cardboard box in the back of the fridge and promptly needed new underwear.
The lab’s location? Bethesda, Maryland. So your town, too, might be blessed with smallpox and not know it! Sleep tight! And don’t try to clean that dodgy freezer.
Link: www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/six-vials-smallpox-discovered-us-lab
Novosibirsk, eh? Makes you wonder what that medicine was made of..
@Joseph Douek I think he just meant nanomachines.
@Joseph Douek no, son, I meant nanomachines.
You want a horror story read about Arlask 7 and the soviets clean up of it post colapse. Or rather complete lack of cleanup
The Krippin virus sounds like the Rabies virus from Dying Light.
I have almost finished binging all of the videos I’ve missed,love you Roan and your vids bro
I'm so disappointed the alpha seeker never screamed "Come out, Neville!"
That wouldve been amazing
Or just shouted neville in a broken language so we know they have higher brain function just not in a way we would thin
iCarly reference?
@@praetorianrex5571Book reference. The vampires can speak in the book. One was Robert Neville’s best friend named Ben Cortman. He would stand outside of Neville’s house every night and taunt him to come outside so the vampires could eat him.
Wew! More viruses! Any idea on what other diseases you'll have a look at? Maybe something like the dreaded Blacklight virus? >cO
i second this
Blacklight is absolutely nutso and I'd LOVE to see Roanoke cover it! Let's make this comment visible!
From prototype ?
Thanks for the summary! I couldn’t watch this even though I tried back when it came out; I left when the dog started making scared sounds 😂
Been waiting for this since I found this channel.
This movie scared the fuck out of me as a kid. I watched the depressing end and fell asleep on the couch, only to wake up in terror in the middle of the night by myself.
I am a firm believer that the reason some people don’t take Measles seriously is because it has a cute name. Seriously it sounds like a name for kitten, yet it’s deadly as all hell. Meanwhile something that’s pretty harmless and very easy to treat gets the supremely scary sounding name of Toxoplasmosis, based on that name you’d think it’d make blood acidic and melt you from the inside
Measles is "deadly as hell"?
@@exillens nowadays we got pretty good treatments and cures, and it’s been almost eradicated by proper vaccination, but if left untreated it is a very deadly disease which commonly leave fatalities especially in young children, chances of living without medical help are quite low
But u gotta admit the name does sound kinda cute
@@AverageAwesomeDude kids in the 80s got measles all the time. It was no different than getting chicken pox. Just something you got
@@exillens most kids have been getting vaccinated since the late 1960s, like I said we’ve been dealing with it for long time and we’ve figured out the best ways, but the disease itself has the potential to kill quite easily. We can treat the symptoms now
, even if we can’t directly treat the infection, and that usually allows most to survive. The biggest problem with measles is that it is extremely contagious and very easy to spread in a population which leaves those more likely to perish from the disease in far greater risk. And there will always be some ignorant people (sometimes through no great fault of their just their circumstances) won’t know enough to identify or treat the disease, or will misdiagnose it, and the infected can very likely end up dead. It’s not like measles is some superflu monstrosity it isn’t, but it is a serious disease one should take seriously and I feel like the name “measles” doesn’t really carry the gravitas for that
@@AverageAwesomeDude All I'm saying is measles was something every kid got just like chicken pox and the only treatment was staying inside and calamine lotion. I don't recall kids dropping like flies or everyone in a panic over chicken pox or measles
Man, your expertise is top-notch. I'm glad you found a way to disprove bs stories and pseudoscience in your own way even if it's lost on most of your audience. I know you can't say that, but i absolutely will.
Roanoke, I've recently found your channel and I've been binging your vids like crazy - I LOVE IT - and woop woop, here we have one of my fav movies being covered by you! Cheers!
Glad you are enjoying the channel!
did anyone else forget they just watched a recap of "I am Legend" I did but will continue to learn!
omg this was such perfect timing! I just got home from the store with my snacks and now im fully ready to watch Roanoke Gaming (also I am legend is a great movie imo)
Not sure what the thumping in the background was but i kept getting up to check the door thinking someone was knocking.
2:12
"I really hate [The Last of Us Part 2]." -The words of a wise man or some shit.
Will smith was always in movies back in early 2000’s that 4 year old me woudl absolutely fear like I am robot
I really wished they would've gone with the alternative where he releases the female and lives so it sets up a a sequel or at least have other survivors.
Dude imagine being a terminal cancer patient, death's door, you accept your fate... Then you are suddenly and miraculously cured of your incurable cancer. New life is ahead of you, and you're thankful for this new chance at living.
Then the fucking apocalypse happens, and you're on the run from vampires wanting to eat you.
I remember in my high school biology class we saw this movie when we were covering the spread of diseases.
Your school must've been fun.
The cgi on the monsters looked wonky when the movie was new, now they look down right hilarious with those stupid elongated rubber jaws.
2009 CGI for ya
I like the alternate ending. So creepy that they showed they could set up traps. In that ending, Richard could possibly continue his research elsewhere.
3:47 Sam is pup here and pup is nice
I'd really like to know what he has to say about the "Blacklight virus" that's introduced in the Prototype games. Many channels covered what it does so far, but very little has anything to say about how or why it does it's things.
yeah , the the Prototype Games have been reccomended to Roanoke before but eh never tackled it , i believe you can find him hearting a comment of it on the Las Plagas Ogre video he did.
here after hearing part 2 is coming out great vid
I appreciate u so much bro, jus so entertaining and it’s my type of video,
glad you enjoyed it man and thank you!
@@RoanokeGaming I know that you hate the last of us 2 but i would've an explanation on the Rat king and the spore pods on the Shambler
"we went from demons to knowing its creatures we cannot see with our eyes". Sounds like we already knew that.
The woman and her son were not from a survivor camp they were from a ship that had been used as a temporary quarantine shelter and they had come to the mainland to find a survivor settlement they had heard about.
My parents watched this when I was 9 years old, and their biggest mistake was letting me watch it with them. It got to poor Sam's death, and I didn't talk to my parents for nearly a week because I was so upset.
😂
Pointing out that you hate the Last of Us Part 2 while music from the first, and actually GOOD game plays in the background. I like it.
I could never watch this movie in 2023 after c19. So I appreciate that you recapped it for me so I wouldn't have to endure such intense emotions.
as someone who's favorite book is I Am Legend. I am obligated to say that the book is better, but the movie is really good too. defiantly give the original by Richard Matheson a read.
I like how you're using the near end game soundtrack for the Last Of Us part 1, when joel and ellie were staring at giraffes
I was always curious to hear someone like you give possible explanations to something that happened to me in college. Mumps is kind of a dead disease for the most part, but randomly there was a small outbreak in Ohio. Im from Southern Illinois and have never been to Ohio, but somehow, even tho I had my vaccines, I caught the mumps and was the first case in like a decade in my area. I was no where near the people in Ohio either. I've always wondered how I possibly got it, and the doctors trying to figure it out were so certain it was impossible for me to get mumps that they spent days trying to figure out what i possibly had. Those were a rough few days, aside from how bad the swelling in my face was.
one does not simply stop being a Scientist to become a TH-camr.
one would rather embrace being a Scientist, but using that trait to be a Successfull TH-camr.
I know your going to love looking at the biology of the fireborn barons and tyrants
I am legend 2 electric boogaloo confirmed.
I remember watching this movie and crying when Sam the dog has been infected.
If you haven't see the bonus stories for this movie, they are worth a watch. One of them is from the perspective of an infected and it is interesting to see how they see the world.
I like the ending of the book where it turns out that main character has become the monster that the infected fear
I never thought I'd find a movie ending with the MC reuniting a vampire with their beloved, but holy crap I did and I LOVE this!
"viruses are my jam" I thought it was starting with the feet.
Facts Og Roanoke fans know this
I would like to blame @Roanoke Gaming for increasing my understanding of medical science to the point of impressing my medico friends. You sir are a great learning resource.
I recommend the book guys. There’s audiobooks on TH-cam and it’s an absolutely amazing book. Best ending I’ve ever read.
I love studying diseases and viruses, they absolutely terrify me because my immune system works really bad, but I still love studying them :D
*Creating* the Kreppin Virus would be possible in Real Life ? (Asking for scientific reasons only)
The scene where the doggo has put down was *saddening* but in a meaningful way - unlike the LastofUs2
Joel was literally treated like a random side character, and that’s just horrible. Everyone who played the first game knows he deserved to play a bigger role than that.
@Cure4Living What do you think virus' do? They inject their own RNA and hijack the cells making them produce more of the virus.
@Cure4Living Viruses have been rewriting our genetic code for a while now.
Been with you since the beginning of the channel. It's been great to watch your content adapt over time. This is by far one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
Your audio has really sharp sibilance. I would consider a De-Esser. It hurts to listen to this with headphones.
Great video other than that
De-esser would help a lot.
5:48 did Fred just move his head?! 😲
I have a suggestion: The Virus from the Quarantine/REC movies. 👌🏿 Would make a good video.
P.S
Love the use of TLOU music in the background.
I'm so happy someone else noticed the TLOU music!
i noticed it too lol
The REC movie virus is basically weaponized rabies, it's rabies with insanely fast infection speed.
Whew, you kept me on my toes there for a sec. We went from Measles to Meningitis. Had to think on that one for a sec but Meningitis is just the name of the condition after the brain tissues swell. Not directly correlated to bacterial meningitis. This is one of the best explanation videos I have ever seen of any subject or movie genre. Thank you!
I had no idea so much thought on our physiology was put into this story. Incredible
It Looks like that mannequin Fred turns his head a little from left to facing straight at dude, kinda creepy.
Who’s here after the announcement of I am legend 2 ?!?
On the subject of reactivity of viruses: I’m genetically predisposed to have a biological shitfit over respiratory illnesses. The flu knocks me right out for upwards of two weeks, and I get laryngitis, bronchitis *and* tonsillitis ALL THE TIME. It’s been a nightmare trying to dodge the big cough going around- and as of right now I have laryngitis! I’ve had respiratory issues so often my voice is permanently messed up and my lung capacity is utterly catastrophic. That’s just genetics baybee
The two viruses that are able to infect doggos, T virus and Krippin virus!
Love your channel dude. Thanks for what you do!
has anyone ever noticed that Roanoke uses The last of us theme song in the background. I like that
Damn that kid is watching Shrek even during the apocalypse Shrek saves lives