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. The story revolves around eli, a nomad in a postapocalyptic world, who is told by a voice to deliver his copy of a. Myself being legal blind, not 100% blind, i do not believe that eli was 100% blind, but he cold have been definatly visually impaired. Hollywoods sporadic attempts to reach out to christian viewers with fi lms like the blind side, the book of eli, and soul surfer will continue. Until this thread, i wasnt aware that there was even a debate over whether or not eli is blind, the movie literally goes out of its way over a dozen times to shove it down your throat, as listed out by the op. According to imdb faq, yes he was possibly partially blind.
When eli refuses to give up the book, carnegie orders him killed. Spoilers every clue in the book of eli that explains the ending. 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. In the movie the book of eli, was the character played by. For that reason, i went into eli completely blind, expected to enjoy it of off of. The book of eli is a sequel to fahrenheit 451 spoilers fahrenheit 451 ends with the protagonist, a former fireman, going on a exodus after his city gets decimated by a nuclear detonation of some kind. No scientific evidence needs to exist in order to get the masses to still follow it, it seems like the ultimate con. The goal is to show the construction of identity in a world destroyed.
Hulu is out with its list of everything thats coming and going from the streaming service in april, which should come in handy assuming were all still in isolation next month due to coronavirus. When eli finally gets the book where it is going they just file it. My church youth minister and i had the debate on if eli was blind or not. The story revolves around eli, a nomad in a postapocalyptic world, who is told by a voice to deliver his copy of a mysterious book to a safe location on the west coast of. After eli refuses carnegies entreaties to give him the book, and takes down a squad of his nastiest gorillas in the bargain, the two become deadly enemies, but not in the complex and complicit. Spoilers every clue in the book of eli that explains the. In the movie the book of eli was eli blind the entire. In the bible, the high priest eli was blind, and some might say that there are several scenes which may indicate that in the. Does this imply that he is blind and has been living completely by faith his entire life or is the punchline of the movie that he is the simply the last living man on earth who can read braille. H ard though it may be to believe, i often get things spectacularly wrong, particularly when it comes to predicting future success or failure within the film. 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. The book of eli is a sequel to fahrenheit 451 spoilers. In the movie the book of eli we discover at the end that the bible eli has been carrying the entire movie is written in braille.
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