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Originally Posted by evenodds
One of the more interesting changes in the movie adaptations of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend was the switch of the "other" from vampire to zombie. In the book and the original adaptation The Last Man on Earth, they were clearly vampiric. By the time we got to the Will Smith movie, they were more zombie than vampire, less thinking and societal.
Vampires essentially create a community living within and upon a larger society, while zombies signal the end of community and society.
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No, no, no. Vampires are lonely individuals who continually long for society from which they are isolated but on which they must feed. They are heart-wrenchingly sad and tragic figures, constantly longing for the unobtainable. That's while Herzog has such long steady pans and slow zooms all through his Nosferatu. There is no community of vampires.
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