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The Book of Eli is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic film directed by the Hughes brothers and starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis. The film is scheduled to be released on January 15, 2010.
Plot :
Thirty years after an apocalyptic event, Eli (Denzel Washington) is a drifter on a journey to the west coast of the United States. On his travels he runs in to many enemies but he ably dispatches them with his fighting skills.
Searching for a source of water he arrives in a ramshackle town which is overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Carnegie is a literate man, spending a great deal of time reading and employing gangs which he orders to bring him books. He explains to his henchmen that he is looking for a specific book, and though his underlings do not understand why he wants one book so badly, they do as he says due to his considerable influence.
After shooing away a cat in Carnegie’s bar, Eli is set upon by a gang of bikers; Eli kills them all. Realizing that Eli is a literate man like himself Carnegie asks Eli to stay, though it is made clear that the offer is not negotiable. After Carnegie’s blind wife Claudia (Jennifer Beals) gives Eli some food Carnegie asks Claudia’s daughter Solara (Mila Kunis) to seduce Eli. Eli turns her down but before they eat he says a prayer.
The following day Solara prays with her mother and Carnegie realizes that Eli has a copy of the Bible, the book he has been looking for, as all copies were destroyed after the apocalypse. Eli sneaks out of his room and goes to the stores across the street where he asked the Engineer (Tom Waits) to recharge his portable battery.
Carnegie attempts to stop Eli, having all his henchmen fire at him, but Eli appears to be invulnerable to bullets and he shoots most of Carnegie’s henchmen, and a ricochet shot grazes Carnegie’s leg. After Eli leaves, Solara follows and tracks him down; she takes him to the town’s water supply and Eli traps her there and continues on.
Solara later escapes and is seen wandering across the desert where she encounters a woman who is using herself as bait to trap male travelers. However, Solara inadvertently springs the trap and the two men attempt to rape her. Eli arrives just in time and kills both of the men with his bow. Shortly afterwards, the two of them camp out in the ruins of an old nuclear power plant, and the following day find a single house resting in the wasteland. Upon knocking at the door, the two fall into a trap door where they find themselves at the mercy of an elderly couple, Martha (Frances de la Tour) and George (Michael Gambon). George is initially hostile, but Martha invites Eli and Solara in for tea. During their visit, George shows the two travelers a graveyard where they buried others that have attempted to disturb their peace, but Eli immediately surmises, based on the fact that both of them exhibit very shaky hands, a sign of cannibalism, that they kill visitors and eat them.
Eli confronts them and demands to be released, drawing a gun on George and meeting little resistance. However, as they attempt to leave, Carnegie and his troops arrive, forcing the two elderly cannibals, Eli and Solara to defend themselves.
After a shoot-out which kills some of Carnegie’s men, George and Martha are killed, and Eli and Solara are captured. Carnegie threatens to kill Solara and Eli hands the Bible over to Carnegie. Carnegie shoots him in the stomach and leaves. While in transit Solara escapes and drives back to help Eli, Carnegie returns to the town as he has the Bible and is low on fuel.
Solara picks Eli up and they continue west until they reach the Golden Gate Bridge, then they row over to Alcatraz where they find a group of survivors dedicated to preserving pre-war knowledge. Eli tells the guard that he has a copy of the King James version of the Bible and they are allowed in. Inside they are introduced to Lombardi (Malcolm McDowell), who is the curator of a collection of things from before the apocalypse. When Lombardi asks to see the copy of the Bible that Eli carries, Eli explains that he will need writing paper, as he will have to dictate the entire Bible from memory. Meanwhile, Carnegie has the Engineer open the Bible but is distraught to find that it is in braille. Immediately afterwards, it is revealed that Eli is blind, and has been re-reading the Bible in its entirety throughout his 30-year journey. Distraught, Carnegie calls upon his wife to read the Bible to him, as she is blind and capable of reading braille. However, she reveals to him that he has fought too long and too hard for the Bible, and now all of the people that he has oppressively ruled over for so long are downstairs ransacking his property. She also informs him that she can smell the wound in his leg, and that he is feverish. Carnegie’s wound has become septic, and while it is not explicitly shown in the film, it is strongly implied that he is in the process of dying from sepsis. Eli manages to complete his dictation to Lombardi, but shortly afterwards, he dies of his wounds.
Solara decides that there is nothing more for her at Alcatraz, and so she takes up Eli’s weapons and prepares to make the long trip back home. Meanwhile, Lombardi places the first printed copy of the New King James Bible in the Alcatraz library.
Cast :
* Denzel Washington as Eli
* Gary Oldman as Carnegie, a corrupted mayor who wants to take possession of the Bible.
* Mila Kunis as Solara
* Ray Stevenson as Redridge, an enforcer dispatched to kill Eli
* Jennifer Beals as Claudia, the blind mother of Solara and the concubine of Carnegie
* Michael Gambon as George, a man who holds onto old traditions with his wife
* Evan Jones as the leader of a quartet of bikers
* Malcolm McDowell as Lombardi
* Frances de la Tour as Martha
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