At this point, he knows hes dying, but perhaps still wants the best for her. In the bible, the high priest eli was blind, and some might say that there are several scenes which may indicate that. Redridge entreats eli to surrender the book and eli tells redridge where he hid it. Eli is the main protagonist in the 2010 dystopian postapocalyptic thrillerdrama film the book of eli he is played by actor denzel washington, who also portrayed lincoln rhyme, john creasy and robert mccall biography thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, eli travels on foot toward the west coast of the former united states. The book of eli denzel washington interview youtube. The book of eli has a seed of originality, but it is planted in a worn out world. Im sure the ending to book of eli will raise a lot of issues and debate, so well be curious to hear your thoughts on it. Its this prayerwhen solara tries to repeat it with her mother over breakfastthat tips carnegie off to the fact that eli must be carrying the book. The plot of the book of eli is now a familiar script on the screenthe end.
So, eli is journeying by a drifting, wandering path into the western half of the former united states, on a mission from god. The story eli, played by denzel washington, is a man who can best be. The book of eli has the potential to be a great film or complete rubbish depending on your expectations of what is to come. The book of eli, starring denzel washington and gary oldman, is the kind of movie that can only be fully appreciated by first seeing it as a whole and then peeling back its layers and examining them one at a time.
Claudia jennifer beals, whom he abuses, has a daughter, solara. The book of eli is a 2010 american postapocalyptic neo western action film directed by the hughes brothers, written by gary whitta, and starring denzel washington, gary oldman, mila kunis, ray stevenson, and jennifer beals. In the morning carnegie hears solara try and do the prayer but misses some lines. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Carnegie hires thugs to look for the bible and wants to hire eli. The book of eli is a 2010 american postapocalyptic neowestern action film directed by the hughes brothers, written by gary whitta, and starring denzel washington, gary oldman, mila kunis, ray stevenson, and jennifer beals. He told solara that hes been reading the bible everyday. Alternate ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. In the nottoodistant future, some 30 years after the final war, a solitary man w. The book of eli fallout 3 the something awful forums. Carnegie threatens to kill solara, to the dismay of redridge. The image of elis still form held solaras inner eye for many miles.
The book of eli continues hollywoods obsession with postapocalyptic tales, and in many ways feels like it belongs in the same world as the road with its ashladen wastelands and crazed cannibals. Redridge recovers the book, with a locked flap, and gives it to carnegie, who releases solara. The book of eli centers on a lone hero named eli washington who must fight his way across the wasteland of post apocalyptic america to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving the. Solara sees eli has a book, and he offers to share his food, saying. Some claim that god gave eli his sight until the very end of his journey, but i chose to accept that, while his physical sight was gone, god did indeed provide eli with a different set of eyes. For the third time in four months, after 2012 and the road, the end of the world as we now know it is up on the bigscreen, in the book of eli. Solara wants to travel the journey that eli is on, so against his wishes, she follows him. After missing the movie we wanted to see, we ended up watching the book.
A few observations about the book of eli welcome to. Mila kunis interview the book of eli collider collider. Oct 19, 2014 my best film opening the book of eli 1. If you are looking for a film with some deeper meaning then i would not recommend it. The story revolves around eli, a nomad in a postapocalyptic world, who is told by a voice to deliver his copy of a. We hear a baby crying in the background and redridge lifts his pistol to make a third shot, but then slightly tilts his head and doesnt fire. There are several examples throughout the film of him looking at things and people at the very beginning of the film he looks out and around to observe his environment, he aims with his gun, he is able to block incoming swings of silent objects, he looks into the eyes of people hes talking to. The verse of shadow kindle edition by hairston, charles. So i just finished watching the book of eli, and at the end of the movie, solara mila kunis says that she is going back home. My chosen movie for that saturday afternoon was the book of eli, directed by the.
Beals to send her daughter, solara mila kunis, to at least convince eli to spend the night by sleeping with him. Of course im a little confused on what happened at the end because i have an idea of my own, but im not sure if its right. This story is a fantold expansion of the original 2010 movie the book of eli starring denzel washington eli and mila kunis solara. From classics to contemporary masterpieces, explore and watch a library full of extraordinary, stirring, and provocative entertainment that goes. It was even more enjoyable to watch the book of eli a second time, knowing now that the main character was blind for the entire story. By the second act, solara leaves her town with eli. Their next work, uncensored videos was broadcast on. We are to live as close to christlike as we can and we are to tell others the gospel so they can make the decision to follow god also. The legend of solara walker afalstein the book of eli. Eli starts heading west again only to find solara following him. In the scene where solara hijacks the car, why does the man who had elis sword in. Aug 17, 2010 cut solara trying to take the book from eli while hes sleeping cut redridge pleading with eli to help save solara trimmed eli and solara at museumlibrary primarily shortening the shot revealing the twist tweaked overall ending so elis voice over extends over footage of carnegie. The book of eli was directed by twins, albert and allen hughes. If eli were to reveal his blindness, he would then fall victim as the predators would know how to defeat him.
Thorns experimental procedures, eli charlie shotwell discovers the secret files on her previous patients. Solara sees eli has a book, and he offers to share his food, saying grace before they. Denzel washington in the book of eli denzel washington at an event for. Thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, eli travels on foot across. The woman that was blind was bound to servitude and used as leverage against her daughter. Eli and solara are surrounded and dragged out of the house. The book of eli stars denzel washington in a postapocalyptic thriller set 30 years after a final war has turned much of earth into an ashy wasteland. Carnegie needs eli because eli has maybe the last remaining copy of a book that eli believes will allow him to expand and rule many more towns. The ending to this movie contains some sort of hamhanded message about the power of faith and hope, but upon eli and solara s arrival at alcatraz the movie devolves into a completely over the top, maudlin messagepiece and abandons its grittiness for voiceovers and slow fades. In the movie the book of eli, was the character played by denzel. Carnegie finds out about the book and sends his henchman, redridge to get it but eli has already gone. She puts the earphones in her ears and is dressed like eli. In trying to persuade eli to stay, as he can see the value of a man who can fight like him, he sends solara to his room and she discovers the book. He was wellarmed and welltrained, but even so he was surprised to meet her, solara walker, as people had begun to call her.
Carnegie gary oldman threatens solara s mila kunis mother, claudia jennifer beals, to gain information about eli s bible. Elis mission became solaras mission because of elis sacrifice for her giving away the location of the book to avoid solara being killed. The film that i have decided to use is the book of eli i have chose this film because of the amount of enigma in the opening scene. Eli reads the book and solara asks eli to read it to him. The way they approach it is the surprise at the end that it turns out he is blind, not that he had gone blind again. Eli bumps the bottom step with his foot before going up the porch steps of the couples house, presumably to gauge where. He asks eli to give it to him, telling eli that its words are meant to be shared.
Most likely, redridge is giving solara a chance to escape carnegies regime. The book of eli is a sequel to fahrenheit 451 spoilers. Deliver us direct from the set of the book of eli, this is solara s mila kunis screen worn, hero, dirty, tan with chocolate brown, tan, yellow, and blue plaid flannel, button front, long sleeve, two chest pockets with flaps, hood, arizona jeans shirt, size m slightly dirty dark blue paige denim jeans with patch on the left knee, size 26 dark green plastic band with plastic bubble. Do not proceed if you dont want to find out the ending of the movie. After a shootout at a house in the middle of nowhere, solara and the book are captured and eli is wounded. My best answer to this is that redridge did not take that shot to kill eli after the first shoot out because he knew that carnegie had control over solara mika kunis and he figured that he could use this as a bargaining chip to get solara as promised by carnegie that was proposed by redridge soon after the first fire fight. Eli may not have had the power to make claudia gain her sight but he had the power to make her smile. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid.
Carnegie presses his blind lover claudia jennifer beals to send her daughter, solara mila kunis, to at least convince eli to spend the night by sleeping with. In the other van, redridge puts elis machete on the dashboard and chuckles to himself now that eli is gone. She reached the end of the land, where only the crashing salt sea remained, and yet the voice urged her on. Why doesnt redridge kill eli at the end of the first shootout.
When eli denzel washington is ambushed by a gang of thugs in a bar, he beats them all up. Eli wears dark sunglasses, as blind people often do. They made their first short film, how to be a burglar shortly after freshman year. In the movie the book of eli, what is solaras mission. It was, i was carrying and reading it everyday, got so caught up in protecting it, i forgot to live by what id learnt from it solara. Solara uses the wire from eli s bow that she had in her pocket and chokes the driver until the car flips over. The book of eli is a film ruled by its religious conviction. The book of eli opens with denzel washingtons eli murdering a cat, but by the end its the film that has really screwed the pooch. Of course, the ending would be completely made up, possibly after the person had to drop their bible for some reason or another. In his sack were many copies of elis book, and of others. The book of eli is a 2010 american postapocalyptic neowestern action film directed by the. Eli and solara sleep by an old nuclear plant cooling tower. Eli does not notice the car with the skeleton until he hears the sound of rattling metal. Book of eli 2 2021 rumors, plot, cast, and release date.
The driver is killed and carnegies men turn around to go to the accident site. As she passed the useless vehicle she remembered beveridge and the look on his face when the sun reached his unprotected eyes. Denzel washington in the book of eli 2010 denzel washington and evan jones. The book of eli is, for good or ill, a perfect, complete knockoff of fallout 3 the video game.
She walked and refused her desire to drink to save water. Now, the stakes could not be higher, eli has both the book and solara with him. Solara roots through eli s pack, just wanted to see the book. The book of eli is rated r for some brutal violence and language. The faq items below may give away important plot points. Garry whitta, the screenwriter of the book of eli, was the editor in chief of pc gamer in the 90s.
What happens to solara at the end of the book of eli. In the book of eli, after eli denzel washington has shot most of carnegies gary oldman henchmen and redridge ray stevenson has already missed killing him twice, eli and redridge are facing each other in the street. Solara too recognizes that there is a kindness to eli and she quickly takes to him. The book of eli 2010 hurting mother scene scene 410. Carnegie, whom eli shot in the leg before leaving town, exults over his triumph in stealing the book from the walker eli, but his triumph ends in tragedy.
Mar 30, 2010 book of eli is a wake up call for originality in both secular and christian movies. With denzel washington, mila kunis, ray stevenson, gary oldman. Eli leaves and kills a bunch of carnegies men in a shoot out. On book of eli, the main antagonist believes he could dominate other cities and people with a certain book, and has some sort of devotion for them, just as someone that would hoard books on fahrenheit 451. As they go to eli s room to get the book they see that eli is gone. And the ending, however interesting, is a bit much to swallow. Caregie ends with a amen and beats claudia in front of solara to know if eli has the book he has been searching for, the bible. Now by the time of the movie, books are extremely rare and eli has the last copy of the bible, that happens to be written on braille. Carnegie gets the book, which is the bible, and eli s been blind all along. It is sad denzel wasted his time on this and lowers my appreciation of him as it could only have been for the cash. I feel like she has a mission and a goal to fulfill, but im not 100% sure what it is. According to the script, yes she found out at the end he removed his goggles, though.
Solara uses the wire from elis bow that she had in her pocket and chokes the driver until the car flips over. Eli bumps the car door with his bag to gauge exactly where it is. The book of eli 2010 frequently asked questions imdb. Furthermore, just before the first act is finished eli meets solara. Heads up morons, this script was a ripoff of an authentically good book, which carried the warning against religious zealotry carrying humanity into never ending cycles of nuclear war. Carnegie and his thugs go in search of eli with an arsenal of weapons and 3 makeshift tanks pieced together with old car and truck parts. When eli first meets solara, nearly the first thing he does is teach her how to pray over a meal. In the world scenario of book of eli, the same would be true. Their parents divorced when they were two years old, and they began making movies at age 12. Eli and solara survive as promised, and the pair end their journey in san francisco, or rather just west of thereon a rocky island.
However, if you are looking for a film with beautiful cinematography, solid acting and a little bit of fun action then you will be pleased. Thank you lord for a warm bed to sleep on, thank you for the food we are about to eat, thank you for a roof over our heads on cold nights such as this, thank you for companionship in hard times like. I just watched the denzel washington movie the book of eli and thought it was great. Jan, 2010 the book of eli centers on a lone hero named eli washington who must fight his way across the wasteland of post apocalyptic america to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving the. How is it that redridge didnt hit eli when shooting at him in the town shoot out. He recites a bit of it and then puts the book away. She asks him to teach her how to read it but eli doesnt respond.
I didnt think youd ever give up the book, i thought it was too important to you eli. In the other van, redridge puts eli s machete on the dashboard and chuckles to himself now that eli is gone. When she thinks hes asleep she goes to take a look at the book in his bag. Amidst the crumbling buildings of toronto, in the loosely scattered townspeople collected there, she met a man from alcatraz. The person simply has a mod that gave a bible to his character.
The book of eli solara chapter 1, a book of eli fanfic. So were led to believe at the end that eli is blind. So in the opinion of a secular critic such as myself, its hard not to consider elements of the film to be laughably ridiculous. The verse of shadow, is the story of solara and her mission to save her blind mother from carnegie. New lands she visited, where men spoke strange tongues, but still she spoke the words of eli to any who could understand her. By the end of its opening fourday holiday weekend it grossed. The book of eli and the road to redemption catholic stand. The book of eli 2010 solara makes a stand scene 810 movieclips duration. Why doesnt redridge kill eli at the end of the first. We can see the details of his expression through the close up shots near the end. Eli invites solara to pray with himsomething she has never done. I am forbidden by the critics little rule book from naming the volume, but if youve made a guess after seeing numerous billboards stating religion is power. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the book of eli solara.
A lone wanderer travels the wastes, carrying with him the secret to restoring a postapocalyptic world to its former splendor, and a vast assortment of killing implements, all of which he wields with unerring accuracy. Now in my defense, there are films about religion andor faith that ive enjoyed immensely example. Washington plays eli, a laconic man journeying westward across america to carry a sacred book to safety, hoping that it will restore mankind and bring a better future. Spoilers every clue in the book of eli that explains the. The plot of the book of eli is now a familiar script on the screenthe end of the world and its few survivors. As for the plot, it is still being worked out amongst a few of the people involved but you can expect that it will feature her going from san francisco to new york to deliver some of the special news and information that they had gathered. These themes and the story line of the movie that eli has gone through both physical and emotional, inner journey as he finishes his mission. As the ending approaches it is clear for us to see that he feels relieved not to be fighting for his life and to find peace. The world is now a wasteland after the nuclear war of the end of fahrenheit 451 and elimontag has been traveling.
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