American Cinematographer - February 2008 - (Page 26) Lost Souls In I Am Legend, shot by Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS, the survivor of a worldwide plague battles night-stalking mutants amid the ruins of Manhattan. by Simon Gray Unit photography by Barry Wetcher, SMPSP 26 February 2008 Island of anhattan, the most densely populated borough of New York City, is empty. Weeds grow through cracks in Fifth Avenue, wild deer inhabit Times Square, and in “the city that never sleeps,” the silence is deafening. Within this deserted urban wasteland exist virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith), who is seemingly the only human survivor of a man-made biological disaster that occurred three years earlier, and his sole companion, a German shepherd. Neville’s days are filled with the routine of transmitting distress signals, tending his vegetable garden in Central Park, and practicing golf from the tail-fin of an SR71 spy plane. When night falls, he barricades himself inside a specially fortified brownstone on Washington Square Park. Clutching his gun, he and the dog fall into an uneasy sleep in an empty bathtub. Neville might be the last human alive, but he knows he’s not the only survivor. I Am Legend was originally a novel written by Richard Matheson and published in 1954. The author’s vision of a post-pandemic California M
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