The Book of Eli: Difference between revisions

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* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: The woman Carnegie has been abusing for years can read {{spoiler|braille.}} But she doesn't much want to...

* [[The Drifter]]: Eli. At a certain point, Solara asks him if he is sure of where he's going. Made funnier with the last scene's Reveal.

* [[The Extremist Was Right]]: Say what you will about [[Evil Overlord|Carnegie]], but he carved out order from the desolate, inhumane wastes. Had it not been for [[Deus Ex Machina|Alcatraz]], Eli's acts would have been something of a [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]].

* [[The Extremist Was Right]]: Say what you will about [[Evil Overlord|Carnegie]], but he carved out order from the desolate, inhumane wastes. Had it not been for [[Deus Ex Machina|Alcatraz]], Eli's acts would have been something of a [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].

* [[Fake American]]: A good portion of the cast, including Gary Oldman and Michael Gambon. Ray Stevenson, much as we love him, [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|was not fooling anyone]].

* [[Foreshadowing]]: There's actually quite a few hints that {{spoiler|Eli was blind before you actually know for sure.}} For example, when he stops Solara from taking the book, telling her that ''"You'd probably have no idea how to read it anyway."'' This could mean that either she's illiterate, or that Eli guessed that she wouldn't have known how to {{spoiler|read Braille}}.

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** Remember how desperate she was to get Solara to leave? And the fact that all of her (onscreen) guys were chopped up, and yet she appeared again, in a different location (the whole directional thing after Eli left town is really weird) with the same guys. Oh, and they die, and she's left around with no way to civilization. She might be blind.

** Although she's pulling the same scam with an entirely different group of people...was the whole ruse [[Fridge Brilliance|actually her idea?]]

* [[Karmic Death]]: See [[Laser Guided Karma]] below.

* [[Karmic Death]]: See [[Laser-Guided Karma]] below.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Carnegie likes abusing Solara's mother.

** Redridge shoots a random mook because Eli escaped his room and he happened to be the guard that night.

* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: Eli, in every way possible.

* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: The raider who shoots a random wastelander and rapes another is beaten to death, {{spoiler|Carnegie dies from a festering shotgun wound while watching his "kingdom" fall apart}}, and {{spoiler|Eli, failing to fight the rapist gang on the road, has to fight them at the bar later, which brings him to the attention of Carnegie.}}

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: The raider who shoots a random wastelander and rapes another is beaten to death, {{spoiler|Carnegie dies from a festering shotgun wound while watching his "kingdom" fall apart}}, and {{spoiler|Eli, failing to fight the rapist gang on the road, has to fight them at the bar later, which brings him to the attention of Carnegie.}}

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] when you remember who's supposed to be running the show.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Eli gets fucking ''gut-shot,'' then patches himself up with duct tape {{spoiler|and survives long enough to recite the entire Bible aloud. From memory}}.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Carnegie.

* [[Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane]]: Is Eli supernaturally protected or just really ''really'' lucky? ''We don't know''!

* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Is Eli supernaturally protected or just really ''really'' lucky? ''We don't know''!

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Eli was one of the Hebrew names for God.

** It's also a shortened version of Elijah, a prophet of the Old Testament who brought Judaism back to Samaria and drove out believe in the pagan God Baal.

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* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Carnegie wants the Bible for this reason. As it is, he needs to use force to keep the people in line. He believes having a higher power to believe in (and, more importantly, work for), will allow him to control them much easier. He also doesn't have the manpower to expand, which wouldn't be a problem if he had the Bible.

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: And how!

* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: A tandem one for Eli and Solara, though they couldn't have known better. Eli recites a typical prayer of thanks while Solara is his guest, and Solara mimics it the next morning at breakfast with Carnegie, which clues him in to Eli's possession of a Bible.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: A tandem one for Eli and Solara, though they couldn't have known better. Eli recites a typical prayer of thanks while Solara is his guest, and Solara mimics it the next morning at breakfast with Carnegie, which clues him in to Eli's possession of a Bible.

* [[One Man Army]]: Eli yet again.

* [[One-Man Army]]: Eli yet again.

* [[Only One Name]]: Everyone. How many families even still exist? The comic back-story gives Carnegie's name as Billy.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: At first it seems like Redridge only wants Solara for one thing, but he does show some genuine concern for her well-being later in the movie. See below.

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