I Am Legend was on television last week. Will Smith is depicted in a seemingly favorable light. However many readings regarding Smith's relationship with his dog, the "zombie-horror" film-esque genre, the fact that he's saving the world from a highly unlikely threat and his "self-sacrifice" at the end, might begin to put "equality skeptics" on edge. This film was a "block buster". I think I paid to see it in a theatre with my dad. He's black too. We both enjoyed it and accepted Smith's performance as heroic. I don't think he's contributing any transgressive dialogue in this role, but he certainly did a good job and made a lot of money...for himself and the box office, broadly. Gray and Guerrero's points about black male representation are apparent in the way mainstream consumer capital probably made Will Smith seem like the perfect candidate for I Am Legend. There are probably many symbolic points to be made about the films title even. What is Legend? Is Will Smith the " I " refers to? Pursuit of Happiness, which Smith also stars, was released about a year before "Legend". Both film's directors are white males. It seems too suspicious to say Will Smith is performing transformative social work for re/de/constructing the image of black males in cinema. But, he's out there, I guess...