New York was still very cold in February. Standing on the bank of the East River in New York, a sea breeze blew, Phyllis Berreta quickly shrank his head, trying to put the exposed parts in the air into her clothes as much as possible, but she had just rushed from Los Angeles to Manhattan, and she was wearing a little thin dress, and she had to hold up a poster supporting Matthew. This subconscious action did not bring any effect.

But standing on this high ground and seeing the place closest to the river bank, Matthew was standing there filming, and suddenly she felt that it wasn't that cold.

Where there is Matthew, there is sunshine and warmth.

Phyllis Bereta took the poster before he started shooting, took out the camera, pointed the lens at the river bank, and repeatedly pressed the camera lens to take many photos.

Because she had to raise money to buy air tickets, she came to New York two days later than the crew, and had missed Matthew's two days of shooting.

"The filming is going to start! The filming is going to start soon!" A crew member came over and reminded loudly, "Please put away the camera! Please put away the camera! Thank you for your cooperation!"

Hearing this, Phyllis Bereta let go of the shutter hand and put away the camera. She is also a senior frontline fan and knows that continuing to take photos will affect the normal work of the crew.

Both fans and entertainment reporters around them cooperated to put away the camera. Then she saw Matthew and a girl with big breasts sitting on a bench by the river bank. The camera moved across the slide rail to opposite them, and the camera was aimed at them.

The sea breeze blew in front of him, and it was a little cold. Matthew seemed to be unconscious, sitting on the same cold bench, staring at the Brooklyn Bridge in front of the left, staring at the Brooklyn Bridge in a daze, Alexandra Dadario was quietly by his side, without saying a word.

"I'm Robert Neville, I'm a survivor living in New York..."

The radio sound came from a short distance, and it seemed that it never stopped. "I am now broadcasting all the frequencies of am. I will wait at the dock on the South Street at noon every day at noon, at noon, and if you hear, anyone hears, I can provide food, I can provide accommodation, I can provide safety, if anyone hears, anyone..."

Just as the radio sounded, Matthew showed pain and sadness, pointed to the Brooklyn Bridge, and suddenly said, "It's here that I saw an accident in the helicopter my wife and daughter were riding in, right in front of me!"

Alexandra Dadario looked along his fingers, as if he had seen the broken Brooklyn Bridge.

Matthew sat motionless until director Gilmore Del Toro called for a stop to film.

This announcement was passed, and all the scenes on the East River in New York ended. Gilmo Del Toro shouted, "Redirect now and go to Washington Square! Set out on time in twenty minutes."

After taking the coat handed over by Bella Anderson, Matthew put it on and entered the warm trailer, and Alexandra Dadario followed.

As a supporting actress with few roles, she could not have received such good treatment as Matthew on the crew.

"Sit as you like, Anna." Matthew came to the coffee machine and picked up a cup of coffee to Alexandra Dadario, saying, "Do you need to add milk?"

Alexandra Dadario shook his head, "No need."

Matthew placed the magnetic coffee cup on the metal table in front of Alexandra Dadario, and made another cup of tea for himself. He touched the slightly hot cup, and his slightly stiff hands felt a little better.

Perhaps the guy first lived in Texas, and later he lived in Los Angeles. Matthew found himself a little afraid of the cold and his tolerance to low temperatures was much worse than the time he once lived on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Originally, he had the idea of ​​buying a luxury apartment on New York's Upper East Side or Long Island. He completely gave up on this idea since filming a week of night scenes at the Brooklyn Bridge last winter.

Amanda and Helen Hermann both said that in New York, especially in Manhattan, it is very unwise to invest in luxury homes. The extremely high property tax in New York often outperforms the rate of house appreciation...

"I recently read the original work of Richard Matherson," Alexandra Dadario said at this time. "The version we shot is very different from the original work."

Matthew took a sip of hot tea and nodded, "The changes are very big. This film basically only borrows the world view of the original work. The film needs to adapt to the development of the times. I guess Aziva Gossman probably had this idea when he wrote this version of the script."

He also read the original work before, and it can be said that the plot and the original work were completely different.

The original work is also about human destruction, but it is not a virus vaccine to treat cancer, but an ancient legend: vampires. Vampires are real, and when humans realize it, it was too late. Robert Neville accidentally gained immunity because he was bitten by a vampire bat.

Most of the remaining humans died, and all the remaining people were infected. There are also two types of them: one is the living dead, who are dead, but driven by bacteria, and can still walk and attack. The only instinct is to suck blood. The other is infected, who is still alive, as bloodthirsty, but retains intelligence.

The latter vampires gathered around Robert Neville's house every night, hoping to catch him and suck his blood, including his former driver Ben.

According to legend, Robert Neville used a lot of garlic and crosses to protect his house. He had a gun, but the gun was ineffective against vampires.

Similarly, in the original work, Robert Neville's wife's fate was completely different. Her wife was infected and died. Robert Neville could not bear to throw her into the government-built corpse pit and secretly buried her. Soon, his wife came back and knocked on the door...

Like in the movie, Robert Neville goes out every day in the original book, but his purpose is to kill all the vampires he can find. They still live in the house and fall into a coma during the day. Robert Neville searches every house bit by bit, and according to legend, he uses wooden stakes to hit the vampires' hearts and kills them.

He went to the library to search and study, and used a microscope to find pathogens in the blood, and learned about the ways to spread bacteria, but could not find a treatment method.

As for the dog, there is indeed a dog in the original work, a injured dog that survived. Robert Neville caught it, but it was infected and died a week later.

There is indeed a woman, but it is a very different character from Alexandra Dadario. When a woman appears magically, Robert Neville also caught her and suspected that she was an infected person in various ways. However, after spending a night together, Robert Neville told women how to study and massacre vampires.

But the woman attacked him and left a message to tell him: She is indeed an infected person, and some infected people have found ways to continue to live, and they have organized into a new community.

Robert Neville killed too many infected people and was the demon in the mind of this community. She was sent to an undercover agent to get to know him and asked him to escape quickly.

However, Robert Neville is different from the movie. In the original work, he is more like a warrior than a doctor, so he did not escape. In the attack of the infected person being prepared, he was seriously injured by the gun and the woman appeared beside him. All she could do was give Robert Neville a suicide pill. Robert Neville took the pill and committed suicide with the last remaining self-esteem of human beings.

The last survivor in the world died...

Compared with the movie being filmed, the original work is even more cold and desperate. Robert Neville does not have the ambition to save all mankind. He does not have a cool and neat appearance, no perseverance to exercise every day, no leisure to play golf on the wings, and some black humor that occasionally flashes is also so desperate and gloomy.

But this is true for real life. There is no God, there is only germs, hostility, and destruction.

Sometimes Matthew also thinks that the effect may be good if filmed according to the original work, but Hollywood's commercial blockbuster mechanism decided that it would not be filmed based on the original work. After all, a film with a $150 million investment ended up being a cold and desperate film. It is estimated that Warner Brothers will directly find someone to rush Aziva Gossman.

Therefore, this kind of film will inevitably be the hero mode of Hollywood in the end. Even though the crew prepared two versions, Aziva Gosman, after considering and deliberating, still planned to use Robert Neville and the Night Demon leader to die together as the end of the theater version.

The reason is very simple. The ending of another version is too literary and does not meet the needs of Hollywood commercial films.

The end of the second version will only appear in later-released DVD discs, which can also become the selling point of DVD.

The crew soon came to Washington Square. Starting two days ago, a professional team had already arranged the outdoor scenes on Washington Square so that the crew could shoot directly when they came.

Just like the Brooklyn Bridge, even with Alexandra Dadario's father mediated, the New York City Hall would not give the crew too long to shoot, after all, this is Manhattan.

In the script, after the disaster, Robert Neville lived in a house in Washington Square. The two ending scenes were previously filmed in a studio in Los Angeles. Now they are shooting outdoor scenes on the square, and Matthew doesn't have many shots.

One day, the Night Devil went to Robert Neville's residence, one day, Matthew's outdoor scene and Alexandra Dadario's character took the little girl away from New York.

In just two days, the crew's outdoor scenes in Washington Square were filmed, and all the filming of "I Am a Legend" ended.
Chapter completed!