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@Subhumanoidal forgot to mention is where the Book of Eli was about Islam? Hmmm humanoidal?
I don't like the fake Bibles any more than the Quran. They masquerade as the Authentic and many people are deceived into thinking they are all God's Word. My first gut reaction was that Quran should be tossed into the sea. Then I thought it through without trying to read so much into it, between the lines, like so many do with Bible interpretation. There's always some hidden meaning people like to superimpose.
You might want to write an email to the>
Set Director< or person head of the Props department if you want to complain. I've read a script or two. They contain dialog and stage directions. There's not much else. You mentioned how I said that Denzil changed the script to reflect a Christian perspective. It's not perfect, and I never said you had to like it.
I'm involved with more important things like catching a fly that got past me in the way in the house.
If you ever get around to reading a script, believe it or not, a production involves more than just one actor for the whole show. The lead actor doesn't normally direct, make the set, put props on shelves, etc.
Those are the technical departments. I can only guess that some props person took a picture of a library shelf, at best, to put the Bible placement in a realistic context in the movie set of a library.
I don't even know for sure if Denzel Washington is a believer any more than I know if you are. I asked for an opportunity to witness to him.
I did however enjoye the theme of the doctrine of the miraculous preservation of the>
Holy Bible <.
That has been a theme throughout history, starting in the Beginning..
That's where Mr. Washington paid more respect for the doctrine of preservation in a post apocalyptic fictional action movie than half the pulpiteers who go by the title Reverend and Father on Sundays.
Then there's the underdog background theme of a blind kid, who God gives a brail Bible to protect as he travels during WW3 from coast to coast through untold perils. God miraculously provides him food, shoes and he actually thanks Him for them in scene 3.
As Eli travels, he's memorizing and quoting Scripture. (Correct me if I'm wrong. Was the Quran quoted?)
At the end he's dying a slow Martyr's death from a gut shot wound as he quotes the Bible he memorized, so that the word can be printed in mass on an old mechanical printing press. This happy ending shows that God made sure His Word would be shared to the desolate world once more.
That's not your liking humanoid, but was my kind of movie.
I preferred it over the Jesus movies that portray Christ as an effeminate looking non-biblical character. I'm not a fan of the movies that portray my masculine Savior like one of the homo renaissance artists' models.
The movie is far from perfect, if there is such a thing as a perfect movie. However, I liked the theme and some of the best hand to hand combat choreography. But that's my thing. Literally my martial art system uses the same fighting techniques against multiple attackers.
My techniques were tested in real scenarios.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight.
Psalm 144:1