“Book of Eli” Is “Mad Max” For the Twenty-First Century

The Hughes Bros are back with a promising , post - revelatory movie called Book of Eli . At Comic - Con , we find some footage of Denzel Washington as poor boy - with - a - past Eli , kick major atomic number 33 and fighting Gary Oldman .

The Hughes Bros antecedently directed Menace II Society and From Hell , among other project . Albert Hughes said the movie takes billet 30 years in the future after a serial publication of wars have left the major planet environmentally devastated . The human universe has gotten incredibly small , and they live sick Max style in let on down metropolis that seem to have part reverted to an almost chivalric style of life .

Visually , the movie look something like The Matrix crossed with Road Warrior , with silvered , smoky melody and stylized fights . In a word at Comic - Con after the clip aired , Washington allege that he ’d done almost all the fight scenes in the movie himself , after training with two masses who had worked with Bruce Lee . In accession we construe the “ motion graphical novel preview ” of the moving picture . It was pure and intense , done entirely in everlasting animation . We see Eli pulsate by his drunk pappa , and then watch as Eli ’s parents give their money to a televangelist ’s ministry . Eli finally steals and sting his parent ’ checks to the ministry , after waiting until the two of them are asleep with boozing in manus . Then he kills his parents in a blaze of fire . “ And I ’ve been cuckold ever since , ” he suppose . This is backstory for his character that helps us understand his badassery in the picture show .

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Allen Hughes said he and his brother were pull in to the project because it was “ uniquely different . ” He added :

[ The taradiddle ] reminded us of what we liked about the original Planet of the Apes . It ’s an adventure - journeying with something to say about society .

Gary Oldman plays Eli ’s nemesis , who wants a rarefied rule book that Eli carries . Oldman elaborated :

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[ It ’s ] An old important book . I want this because it ’s a mean to absolute formula and office for me . With this book I can guide , lead and control , and manipulate .

After seeing the motion graphic novel backstory of Eli ’s life , I could n’t help but wonder if the al-Qur’an is the Bible .

The movie appear very bright – a gracious antidote to the usual post - apocalyptic menu . And with weighty batsman like Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman tearing it up on filmdom , it ’s certain to be acute .

Lesdilley