Codice Genesi

Titolo originale: The Book of Eli
Regia: Albert Hughes | Allen Hughes |
Anno: 2010
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Thriller Fantascienza
Tag: faith | chaos | dystopia | post-apocalyptic future | bible | survival | gunfight | blind | brutality | cannibal | combat | 2040s | carnage |
Cast: Denzel Washington | Gary Oldman | Mila Kunis | Ray Stevenson | Jennifer Beals | Michael Gambon | Tom Waits | Frances de la Tour | Evan Jones | Joe Pingue | Chris Browning | Richard Cetrone | Lateef Crowder | Keith Splinter Davis | Don Thai Theerathada | Thom Khoury Williams | Lora Martinez-Cunningham | Scott Wilder | Heidi Pascoe | Jennifer Caputo | Spencer Sano | Eddie Perez | Karin Silvestri | Mike Gunther | John Koyama | Mike McCarty | Scott Michael Morgan | Sala Baker | Arron Shiver | Justin Tade | Mike Seal | Richard A. Smith | Paul Crawford | Ed Duran | David Wald | Jermaine Washington | Kofi Elam | Clay Donahue Fontenot | Al Goto | Brad Martin | Tim Rigby | Luis Bordonada | Robert Powell | Angelique Midthunder | Todd Schneider | Darrin Prescott | Laurence Chavez | Brian Neal Lucero | David Midthunder | Josiah D. Lee | Malcolm McDowell |

In un futuro, circa 30 anni dopo l'ultima guerra, un uomo attraversa in solitudine la terra desolata che un tempo era l'America. Intorno a lui città abbandonate, autostrade interrotte, campi inariditi: i segni di una catastrofica distruzione. Non c'è civiltà, né legge. Le strade sono in mano a bande che ucciderebbero un uomo pur di togliergli le scarpe. Ma non possono far nulla contro questo viaggiatore. Guerriero non per scelta ma per necessità, Eli cerca solo la pace, ma se viene sfidato elimina gli avversari prima ancora che si accorgano dell'errore fatale che hanno commesso. Solo un altro uomo in quel mondo in rovina comprende il potere che Eli detiene, ed è deciso a impadronirsene: Carnegie il despota di una precaria città di ladri e killer. Ma la figlia adottiva di Carnegie, Solara è affascinata da Eli per un altro motivo, la visione che lui offre di qualcosa che può esistere oltre i confini del territorio dominato dal patrigno.

Approfondimenti

The quote that Eli takes from Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is from "Greystone Chapel", the last trac [...] D
Denzel Washington shed about fifty pounds in preparation for the role. D
Eli is only identified by name three times in the film: first, when it appears on a Kmart name tag i [...] D
The King James Bible is roughly 789,000 words long. To write it out longhand, at twenty to thirty wo [...] D
When Eli encounters a group of road bandits, behind them is a tunnel structure with a bold 14:6 writ [...] D
There is a person in the Bible named Eli; he is a highly-devoted priest and, like the movie's main c [...] D
Lil' Wayne mentions The Book of Eli in his song "Drip". D
Kristen Stewart turned down the role of Solara due to scheduling conflicts with The Twilight Saga: N [...] D
At the beginning of the film, the leader of the gang that attacks Eli (Denzel Washington) and has hi [...] D
At the moment Eli is shot a bolt of lightning is seen in the background. D
The headphones used by Denzel Washington are Beats by Dr. Dre. D
The Al Green track playing on the iPod that Eli is listening to is in fact a song by the band Incubu [...] D
In the cave scene with Eli explains to Solara that the sun came through the sky to the Earth, refere [...] D
Eli worked at K-Mart when the nuclear war hit. D
Hints to Eli's (Denzel Washington's) condition are shown throughout the movie: 1. In the opening fig [...] D
Eli carries a King James Bible that he reads every day, and this is known when he quotes Psalm 23. A [...] D
The antagonist, Carnegie, seeks books. Andrew Carnegie, an industrial philanthropist in the early tw [...] D
When Eli (Denzel Washington) first sits in the room in which Carnegie (Gary Oldman) imprisons him, a [...] D
A couple of times during the film Redridge can be heard whistling "Cockeye's Theme" from Once Upon a [...] D
For the movie, Denzel Washington studied martial arts under Bruce Lee's protégé Dan Inosanto. D
Throughout the movie, Eli shows similarities to a fictional, blind, Japanese swordsman, Zatoichi. He [...] D
As of 2021, this is the last movie that brothers Allen and Albert Hughes have worked on together. D
Eli's final voiceover is a prayer monologue, where he paraphrases the King James Version of 2nd Timo [...] D
The tenth movie released in selected D-BOX enabled cinemas, located in the U.S and Canada. In D-BOX' [...] D
The vehicle, behind which Eli takes cover during the gun battle, is a Rover P6. D
When Eli encounters the thugs in the beginning of the movie, one thug points out that Eli is carryin [...] D
Throughout this movie, it is said that Eli's Bible is the only one remaining. After the newly printe [...] D
In Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic, Eli can be a variant on the name of God. The suffix "i" indicates fi [...] D
The cannibals' hands shake because they suffer from Kuru disease--a form of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease [...] D
The eyes of the Biblical Eli, according to 1 Samuel 3:2, "...were becoming so weak that he could bar [...] D
After the bar fight, Carnegie appears. When Eli looks up at him, there's a bloodstain in the shape o [...] D
Given the travel time before they reach the Golden Gate Bridge, the cooling towers where Eli (Denzel [...] D
British-born actors Gary Oldman and Malcolm McDowell have appeared in science fiction movies with se [...] D
This movie didn't explicitly mention that the apocalypse was because of a nuclear war. Screenwriter [...] D
As Eli enters Carnegie's town, A gunman on the roof is holding a Mannlicher rifle. The same type car [...] D
The screenplay for this movie was featured on the 2007 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade [...] D
Link to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: three actors appear in both films. Gary Oldman plays Si [...] D
Keeping with this movie's ideas of religious faith and belief, there is symbolism in the scene where [...] D
The names of the characters George and Martha are a direct reference to the play, "Who's Afraid of V [...] D
The first line of dialogue isn't spoken until almost eight minutes in. D
Gary Oldman was cast at the suggestion of Denzel Washington. D
Denzel Washington performed all of his own stunts in the hand-to-hand fight sequences. D
Eli's speech before he fights Carnegie's men in the bar is taken from Genesis 3:17-19, where God exp [...] D
The title of the movie seems to suggest that, like books of the bible, this is the book about Eli (i [...] D
This movie has many parallels to the Fallout video games, in particular Fallout 3 (2008). In the gam [...] D