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News & ArtsThursday, January 14, 2010
Film This Week in Film: The Book of Eli
Posted by Lindy West on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Approved! Charles Mudede writes:
The Hughes brothers' latest film, The Book of Eli, stars the second most successful black actor in America, Denzel Washington, and cost an astounding $80 million. The film is set in a world that was decimated by some massive object that probably came from the mysterious Oort Cloud. After the impact, the earth lost all of its lovely colors (they went up with the dust and never fell down again), and what remained was an eternity of sepia. The film opens with a man hunting a hairless, thin cat. The cat is killed by an arrow that's almost as big as it is. The cat is cooked on a fire and eaten with no enjoyment by Eli, a man on a mission.
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