Jake has watched The Book of Eli 12 times now. It's a bible-pilled, ultra-violent 80-million-dollar post-apocalyptic movie written by the guy who went on to pen Star Wars: Rogue One. Unique storyteller Jake Rockatansky takes us through The Book of Eli (2010) and the road immediately gets rocky.
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Okay, yes, so this is after he's looted like the guys that he's just killed.
Searching bodies.
Oh, he finds a lighter.
He finds a lighter.
Hell yeah, I'll trade that later.
And then look.
Boom.
Pray for their souls.
Like, silhouette.
Fucking says a prayer for their fucking enemies.
This is a man of God.
The woman who is handcuffed to the cart is bait.
She's never seen anything like it.
Where's your water?
They don't have none.
They were gonna take yours.
And then eat you.
It's true.
Wow.
So yeah, yeah, they do.
Anytime the movie is just in black and white, basically with like a silhouette, it approaches some semblance of good cinematography and then ruins it immediately after by some like- It's like they watched- Homeland style shot that they fucking destroyed with bleach.
It's like they watched the Sin City movies that came out in like the early thousands and were like, oh, like we want to like kind of bite that style.
As Eli's walking along, he witnesses this motorcycle gang murder this guy and rape and murder the woman that he's walking with.
Just like, with reckless abandon.
There's no reason.
This motorcycle gang basically just, you know.
This is how Christian movies do it.
They have to show you that man is a dirty, filthy pig who needs Jesus.
This is the extent of how depraved the world is.
Sickos.
I didn't include it.
I wonder why they always need to traumatize you as a jumping off point for any of this shit to like pill you.
But are you still thinking about what they did to her though?
Now that I'm like seeking retribution by like massacring 15 people with a machete?
Are you thinking about how it's for God?
What this movie does, though, in the scene that we're discussing, this rape scene, is they play a lot with single takes, where they'll let the camera roll as an entire sort of action scene folds out, either far away from the action, and Eli's kind of an observer, or, you know, you're in the middle of it.
It actually, I think, is one of the better things about the movie.
I don't know, it doesn't make any sense.
Because it's longer tracking shots.
There's all those like kind of existential considerations that were so well expressed in the road.
And he doesn't express like any of them.
He just has one mantra, which is like, don't pay attention, keep walking or some shit like that.
Like, what is it?
Oh, that's it.
And so, and so he's supposed to, so wait, God is literally telling him basically to like, let this woman be raped.
Yeah.
And these people be murdered horribly and not because he has a greater purpose.
Even though we literally just saw him like easily take out a whole gang of guys.
He's got guns like there's no reason that he could not have saved those people.
He also does not detach this woman from the shopping cart.
Like there's so many things where you're like, wait.
They basically wanted to write a movie about a guy killing like a million people in the wasteland and then they shoved in religion and it makes no fucking sense.
He doesn't act godly in any way in any stage of the story.
It expresses the idea that a person that is like marching for God or that is like on a path by God has the moral authority to ignore these hellish things because Specifically, they decide to use rape as an example, which is great.
Just great right off the bat to pick that one to make your point.
It'd be like, see how he has to walk by to continue on his great path, which by the end, you're totally going to realize was worth it.
Yeah.
So after completely ignoring the rape and murder of this young couple, Denzel Washington finds himself in a small outpost.
It's a place where a wary traveler can sort of, you know, rest their heels and maybe even, you know, get their iPod charged.
Is that Tom Waits?
Holy shit, I just realized that's Tom Waits.
So Eli immediately takes the gun that the shopkeeper or owner pulled on him.
Yeah, but this is, this is another one of those, like, being a Christian badass operator thing.
Yeah.
Where he, okay, so he flips the shotgun on him.
Yeah.
Just for, like, two seconds.
Just to show him, I could kill you if you try to kill me.
Then flips it back to give him the power to kill him again and be like, see, I'm actually a gracious and good man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he does it all very quickly, like an operator would.
Very badass.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It rules.
And it's Tom Waits.
And it's Tom Waits.
He puts his hands up.
I'm sorry, I gotta see the hands.
Okay so this is a thing in this world as well.
So they're constantly checking people's hands because if your hands are shaking it means you've eaten too much human meat.
There are cannibals in this world.
So there are like three sort of like factions.
You're either Eli who like kind of belongs to like God or you're like man who belongs to kind of like civilization like technology and advancement.
Or you're fucking, like, eating humans and, like, civilization doesn't even want anything to do with you because you got fucking shaky hands.
Yeah.
This is good because it's like, actually, it's okay to do mass murder for God if, if they did it first.
Then it's okay.
Everyone he meets, they did it first and they were bad.
And so, inevitably, his fucking, like, katana fucking, like, creates a sushi.
Well, it's like a machete.
It's like a fucking, like, machete that you put into a workbench and upgraded it to, like, a serrated edge.
It's pretty badass.
While we're on the topic, Eli's outfit in this movie is fucking awesome.
I gotta say.
He looks really cool.
He's got this crew neck sweatshirt with this military style raincoat over it.
I think he looks really cool.
I think they just should have chosen different glasses.
If I were to give my personal aesthetic choice, it's just a different pair of sunglasses.
You know what?
I think that's fair criticism.
I think it's a 2010 sunglasses pair, and so it aged badly.
The rest of his outfit, I approve of heartily.
Alright, let's listen to the following scene where he barters a charge of his iPad for KFC moist towelettes.
from Tom Waits.
Yeah.
Strict dad.
Oh, sweet.
That's a Fathom 900, man.
Is it?
I haven't seen one of those since the 90s.
Yeah, I got it back east.
Still work?
Yeah, yeah, just need a charge.
Can you do that for me?
Give me a charge.
I got, uh, cables.
I don't need the cables.
I can put a truck of charger on it.
I mean, if you got the coin.
Oh, yes, sir.
Yes I do.
That's all there is.
Oh shit, a Zippo.
Mm-hmm.
It's American made.
American made and it has an American flag on it, by the way.
Watch out, stick.
Watch out, stick.
And he's blind, by the way.
How the fuck would he know?
I love that chapstick is like... No, no.
It's good.
It's good for the look.
No chapstick?
No, it works the same way.
What about toys?
Got any toys?
No, I don't play.
Oh, I got... I don't play.
I don't play.
I don't play.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.
All right, now this.
With these.
Oh, absolutely.
Those are yours.
Okay.
Give me a couple hours.
So they just did a KFC product placement with Tom Waits.
KFC product placement with Tom Waits.
This is so incredible what they accomplished in this scene.
He wants toys.
That's what they want in the apocalypse.
Absolute madness.
He's like, got any toys?
Yeah, toys.
And he's like, I don't play.
I don't play, but I do use walnut sauce to moisturize.
While we're on the subject of toys, I do have these moist towelettes.
From KFC.
And you should see Tom Waits' face.
He's like, so excited.
Give me the good stuff.
He's like, I would love to have a sanitary napkin from KFC.
I get to wipe my face.
Yum, yum, yum.
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