Re: [scifinoir2] I am Legend

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Peeples and Lollobrigida of course

Astromancer wrote:
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> Come on, Keith, this is Martin you're talking to!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: 
> ha! good one!
> Nia Peeples or Nia Long?
> Gina Torres or Gina Lollobrigida?
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> From: Martin
> Easy for me.
>
> If her name is Gina, Gabrielle or Nia, there's a dead man on the ground...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote:
> Harry Belafonte was in another movie "The World, The Flesh, and the 
> Devil". In it, he's a miner trapped in a cave in Pennysylvania, who 
> escapes after several days underground. No one's left alive. He 
> travels to NYC to find it a literal ghost town (no bodies, just no 
> people). Far as he can tell, he's the only survivor. Later he finds a 
> white lady who survived, and they become friends. There's all sorts of 
> issues of the white lady falling in love with Belafonte, but he can't 
> bring himself to cross the color barrier, having been subjected to so 
> many years of racist society he just can't bring himself to really 
> trust the lady. and then when you think he *might* kinda sorta think 
> about it, another survivor-a white guy-- shows up to become a rival. 
> Belafonte moves aside to let the white folk get together, but the 
> lady's in love with him, and in time, the white man decides to kill 
> Belafonte's character. But in the end the Brother realizes violence 
> isn't the way, and his example
> makes th
> e white guy also regret his actions.
>
> The ending sucks: they literally walk away all friendly and stuff, 
> with no clear understanding of which man won the lady's heart. She 
> wants the black man, the white guy was ready to kill same for the 
> lady, but the Brother is better than that. Hence, the "they lived 
> happily ever after" ending. The idea is that in the end race doesn't 
> matter, that good and evil, violence, etc., exist in all of us.
>
> Which, if you think about it--two men, one woman--could conjure up all 
> sorts of freaky future scenarios!
>
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> From: Astromancer
> I have a question: Was Harry Belafonte in the 1964 version? If not, 
> there's possibly a fifth version of that story floating around...
>
> Martin wrote: I have, Keith. It was on TCM during Hallowe'en week. Not 
> bad, really, but I didn't see it from the start, so I came out thrown 
> by the ending.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: 
> I'll check it out because i'm a sucker for scifi films. Tired of Will 
> Smith getting so many "blockbuster" roles, but won't keep me from 
> seeing it. I'm curious as to how it will compare to Charleton Heston's 
> "The Omega Man", which I enjoyed. I'm *really* curious to see if, 
> given modern studios' desires to give the people what they want, and 
> Will Smith's popularity, the movie will end the same way as the book 
> and the previous two movies?
>
> Speaking of movies, i've never seen the Vincent Price version, "The 
> Last Man on Earth". I found a quick synopsis below. Evidently book 
> author Matheson didn't like this one. Anyone ever seen it?
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_%281964_film%29 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_%281964_film%29>
> The Last Man on Earth (originally titled L'Ultimo uomo della Terra) is 
> a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. The 
> film was directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and starred 
> Vincent Price. The script was written in part by Matheson, but he was 
> dissatisfied with the result and was therefore credited as "Logan 
> Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona were 
> the other writers.
> It was originally filmed in Italy, and was later released theatrically 
> in the United States by American International Pictures in. It has 
> since fallen into the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current 
> owners of the AIP film catalog released a digitally remastered 
> widescreen print in September 2005.
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)"
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> > I'm a big fans of the old versions of Omega Man and I am Legend. Anyone
> > interested in seeing the Will Smith version?
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