It was also where he met his friend and fellow Caribbean-American trailblazer, Sidney Poitier, who went on to become an Oscar-winning actor. Enamored of what he saw, Belafonte volunteered there and eventually landed his first acting roles at the theater. However, both had drastic changes to the story and not even the first and most faithful adaptation of the novel, the 1964 Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth, truly captured the full breadth of the book or the vampiric element to the story.Describing his decision not to reenlist, Belafonte wrote in his 2011 memoir, “My Song,” “I’d had enough of military service: not just the numbing routine and the mortal risks with munitions but the all-too-frequent incidents of prejudice that kept me in an almost constant state of simmering rage.”Īs a young adult working as a janitor following his military service, Belafonte stumbled upon his love for acting when a tenant in the building where he worked provided him a ticket to attend a play at the American Negro Theater in Harlem. This novel has been made into film three times, most recently as the 2007 Will Smith film, I Am Legend, and the 1971 Charlton Heston film, The Omega Man. You may find yourself wondering how you would survive in Neville’s placeĪnd Matheson does a great job of setting the stakes (pun intended) of Neville’s Scary moments and surprises through to the end.
There is a lot of introspective character development mixed with Looking for supplies, and answers to his immunity to the disease. This novel is equal parts, horror novel, political commentary,Īnd detective tale, as Neville traverses the remnants of the American dream, Home and travels only by day, as each night his house is besieged by theīlood-thirsty population of his town, trying to break in. Survivor of a pandemic that has turned the Earth’s human population into In I Am Legend, Matheson shows us Robert Neville, a lone
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