Do you know what the real parallel between H1N1 and I'm Legend is? Both are fiction and both were created by mankind.

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The part I find funny is that the movie was once more faithful to the book. The ending did not have Will Smith going out in a grenade suicide mission to kill all the mutants. The pay-offs of the pensive and empathetic scenes previous was there, as it was in the book, and the "monsters" were fully formed and cultural. Will Smith was the Monster of THEIR Legends and they feared him as the Monster that he feared they were. And that was the point.

But no, it went to an audience for testing and they did not like this. So we got what we have now. As much as I see parallels between movies and goings on(and have heard and consider them when I hear them), I feel "I Am Legend" might be an example worth passing considering the garbage process that created it. "The Road" is potentially facing the same end it seems. Even if the villainous factors weren't there, I fear we would be doing enough to damage ourselves in our current mindset that scapegoating onto a giant evil(that is unwise at the best of times and inept at the worst) is only to our detriment. I wonder sometimes, really, to Swine Flu and to TPTB... if you ignore them do they go away?

[edit on 2-11-2009 by Crane4]

[edit on 2-11-2009 by Crane4]