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I AM LEGEND: THE BOOK AND THE FILM

Recently, watched I am legend. A good+bad film. Those who have not read the original novel by Richard Matheson can find the film good. But I have read the book. So I found the film little dissatisfying.

The makers have taken lots of cinematic liberties that they have changed premise and changed characters. Why filmmakers can do anything in the name of cinematic liberty?

The novel dealt more with psychological status of Robert Neville. While the film is more concentrated on special effects and showing empty Newyork city. What was the need of showing lions and deers in Newyork city?

Also the novel explains some scientific as well as super natural reasons for people being infacted and being zombies’ type of creatures. Here there is no satisfying reason for infection. I also missed the Courtman and his signature line ‘Robert Naville, come …

Cinema has reached in to the weird territories also but still human emotions can not be taken away from the cinema and still films are made and will be made which basically cover human life and human emotions in quite ordinary sense as they are meant to be.

We, the human, laugh and cry along with the characters shown in the cinema and that is the success of such humane stories and cinema. Cinema which covers the lives of human beings touches a chord with the audiences and if cinematic effort is sincere then it penetrates audiences deeply and makes a place in their heart.

The Pursuit of Happiness is also such a film which shows us human emotions and life of struggling ordinary human being, whose life is at the verge of destruction.

This man is living on the …

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(Kolkata, India)
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Title: HANCOCK: Super Yawn

When the chips are down, things not going all right and trips to the theatre are neither SUPER or HAPPENING in anyway you can always count on the alien fighting, robot smashing rapper to turn things around. And WILL SMITH almost does just that, or at least he gives his best shot at doing so. Over the years WILL SMITH has an impeccable record at the box office, come-on nine straight block busters!! Every movie gaining more than a 100 million at the box office, that’s some record. And if someone calls him the greatest star in Hollywood today well you have got to say that he earned it.

And then comes 2008, the year of the super heroes. Frankly I cannot take it any more, iron man, hulk, and now …