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The Book of Eli

PhillyB

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It was mediocre. I thought they set a good scene and vibe for the post apocolyptic movie. But it had your typical recycled hero archetypes (following Jesus paradigms) where he gets shot and dies and rises again to finish his quest. I thought like almost every hero movie I see lately, the plot was tired and the quest achieved through huge leaps in movie subsidary. Usually you should only give a movie one "okay if I give you this ONE thing, I'll go with the rest of what you're saying" but there was like 4 or 5 things you had to just "accept" for his quest to be completed.

-Eli being blind. Yes you have to believe in God giving him the quest and guiding him to complete it, but that should have been the only "gimme" the movie got.

-All the bibles in the world are gone? There are millions of copies of the bible in the US alone. I mean this was the entire premise for the movie, but I just can't accept this, especially with how many people died versus how many books probably survived.

-How long would it really take to walk across the US? If God really wanted him to complete his quest, just bless another person with a car and just have him drive there. Which leads me to my next point.

-How the hell are cars still running after 30 years? No way there is still oil refinerys pumping out fuel. Seems like the FIRST resource to go after an apocolypse. How do they still have gas after so much time?

I ranted a little hard but that's how I felt about that movie.

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Way off topic, but I didn't feel like giving this its own thread...

But, I finally started watching "The Great White Hype" last night before bed (I DVRd it a while back, and still haven't finished watching it yet)...

My head almost exploded when Samuel L. Jackson was playing a character named Sultan... It was like a paradox of epic greatness...

That is all...

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Where do you get that Eli is blind?

There is nothing that would preclude a sighted person from learning braille. Especially if the person was a devout (bible passage quoting) person who was very familiar with portions of the text to begin with.

Its been months since I saw it and I'm anxious to watch it again but I don't remember anything other than the book that suggests he is blind.

It is eluded to several times. He never sees anything. He has heightened sense of hearing and smell. Hence why he could hear the wings of a bird (when Mila Kunis first joins him...). Also, his glasses stay on throughout (at least, I dont remember him taking them off). Even in buildings. Coincidence? I think not. It's not a question that is directly answered, but it is eluded to. Really, there is no point in writing a book in braille unless you are blind. It just doesn't add up.

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^^^ it's all about faith...

The only time the camera got close to him, was at the end when he was reciting the Bible and you could see his eyes were milky. I also assumed he was probably blind before the bombs went off. That's why God chose him to find a braille Bible and memorize it.

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Where do you get that Eli is blind?

There is nothing that would preclude a sighted person from learning braille. Especially if the person was a devout (bible passage quoting) person who was very familiar with portions of the text to begin with.

Its been months since I saw it and I'm anxious to watch it again but I don't remember anything other than the book that suggests he is blind.

It was pretty much implied at the end, in a way that made you look back at the things that would make it even more obvious... Off the top of my head:

He could smell the girls mom's hair, and commented on her perfume... She corrected him saying it was shampoo...

He could sense the other people in the ambush attempt, and knew they were there...

He could smell the ocean as they were getting closer to it...

He slept with his eyes open...

After he got shot up, he didn't have his shades on anymore, and had no obvious need for them while everyone else did...

He asked the girls mom how she lost her sight... if it was during the war/flash/whatever he called it, or if she was born that way...

I think the fact that he was able to do so much was supposed to be attributed to the faith aspect... It would be feasible to believe that he could pinpoint a shooter's location enough to fire in that direction though... especially if he was blind for a long time...

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