The Book of Eli: Difference between revisions

* [[Bullet Time]]: Used with an arrow in the beginning, but the rest of the movie only uses regular slowmo.

* [[Cannibal Clan]]: These kinds of people are quite common to the inhabitants of the world of ''[[The Book of Eli]]'', even to the extent of people being able to tell that they are cannibals due to a quivering in their hands (caused by kuru, a disease spread only through cannibalism).

{{quote| '''Eli:''' Sorry, [[Chekhov's Gun|I didn't see it]].}}

* [[Captain Obvious]]: The commercials boast "[[Gary Oldman]] makes a great villain!" from the critics.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Eli, Solara, two old people, in a wood house, versus a huge-ass artillery piece. That'll go over well.

* [[Death By Pragmatism]]: Carnegie.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The colors are bleached to give a bleak, desolate, post-apocalyptic scenery. [[Justified Trope|Makes sense]] considering what's affected the environment -- damaged ozone and resultingly harsh sunlight, lack of rain, dust blowing everywhere, radiation, pollutants...

* [[Desert Punk]]: Most of the action takes place in the desert, later revealed to be Nevada.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|For Carnegie; he spends the entire movie hunting Eli to steal the bible. Carnegie feels that with the bible, he can use it to maintain his iron-grip on the town. At the climax of the film, he finally does get the book, but at the sacrifice of [[The Dragon|his dragon]], only to learn the book is in braille. And after putting so much effort into his manhunt, the towns people have finally turned against him and started rioting and looting his "kingdom."}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: When Carnegie puts Eli up for the night, the poster on the wall is for ''[[A Boy and His Dog]]'', another post-apocalyptic movie set in a desert.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: [[wikipedia:Kuru chr(28)diseasechr(29)|The cannibals' hands shake uncontrollably.]]

** There's also a frequent [[wikipedia:Human echolocation|clicking noise]] heard throughout the movie.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Redridge seems to consider Eli as one, since he lets him go after witnessing Eli slaughter a bunch of [[Mook|Mooks]] with his [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]. He also appears rather shocked when {{spoiler|Carnegie shoots and fatally wounds Eli}}.

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' with a [[Race Lift|Black Kenshiro]] or ''[[Fallout 3]]'' with Christianity.

 

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