Book Of Eli Essay

Paper #1 Movie Review The Book of Eli Denzel Washington may have over a million Oscars and over a hundred leading roles, but even his greatness could not save the sad production that is “The Book of Eli.” “The Book of Eli” is the action/adventure of a man named Eli who is in the possession of the last Bible on Earth after the apocalypse. A voice tells Eli that he must carry the Bible to the west, but along his path he runs into a warlord who is in the hunt for a Bible so he can use it’s power to rule over people. The plot seems fairly simple, but the story dumps the audience into a pool of confusion on how Earth got to the way it is in the movie. “The Book of Eli” would have been a better movie if there was more background …show more content…
Whenever there is any type of religion incorporated into a movie there is always going to be some type of controversy because religion is one of those topics where everyone is going to have their own opinions. The controversial part is that Eli has been reading the Bible every night for thirty years, and he ruthlessly kills people. There is a difference between self-defense and being a murderer, but when Eli is surrounded in a battle he kills every single bandit; even if they are on the ground in pain with their hand chopped off. One would think that someone with a Bible would be more of a holy person and let people live, but according to “The Book of Eli” it is okay to carry around a Bible and quote scripture while killing people just because they threaten you. The Hughes brothers tried to avoid spiritual conflict by not specifically saying that the book that Eli is carrying is a Bible and that the voice that talks to Eli is God, but even a blind man can see through that scheme. The Hughes brothers would have came out better by making the book a dictionary or an encyclopedia, and instead of having an “imaginary voice” they should have incorporated a witch that tells Eli his