Are you still fascinated by Last Man fantasies?

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I always thought that Last Man on Earth fantasies were a direct product of the Cold War, such as 'I Am Legend,' 'Z for Zachariah,''Alas, Babylon,' the various Twilight Zone episodes on the subject, 'The Omega Man,''On The Beach,' etc. The theme has been been in decline since the 80's, notwithstanding Kevin Costner's illfated attempts at the reviving the genre... and of course, 28 Days.

Are you still hung up on this, as I am? And will today's kids feel the same about it?

Do Last Man / Apocalypse works rely on the promise of nuclear annihilation? Or will biological fears keep the genre alive (as in 28 Days)? I ask this because I'm rereading MP Shiel's The Purple Cloud right now which is from the 1890's, far before nuclear fission was imagined, yet eerily predicts what fallout would do to society.

― andy --, Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Damn, another ILCer got here first.

There's going to be a another film version of I Am legend out in 2007.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I heard that! Lindsey Lohan as Vincent Price?

― andy --, Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's the word "fantasies" but I thought this was gonna be a thread about like Planet of the Amazons type stuff where in a cheaply-shot, poorly-decorated, Mad-Maxlike future radical shifts in the supply of penis have created a MONOCOCKOPLY, tickling both male fantasies of endless sexual attention and male curiosities and anxieties about table-turning sexual predation. Like there's this great one where a woman meets the Last Man Left and freaks out and kicks him in the nuts, but then after he passes out she's all like "Oh shit, I hope I didn't break him!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

And that, friends, that is speculative filmmaking at its monocockopolistic finest.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I feel like Y: The Last Man dwells on this somewhat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

As does A Boy and His Dog, to a degree.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 18 November 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Hell Comes to Frogtown!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

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