a.) reason for selection

I have chosen to do the movie "The Book of Eli" because it has a very cool story line and an unexpected ending which makes you question things that happened at the start and throughout the movie. It is a great story of friendship, survival and fighting for something you care about.

The opening of "The Book Of Eli" is set in some woods which have a very eerie feeling about them. We see a gun and then a dead body on the ground which is being sniffed and inspected by a hairless and very skeletal cat. Soon we see a person (Eli) wearing a gas mask and is heavily clothes, he is ready to shoot an arrow and ends up killing the cat with it.

The opening of the film makes you think that Eli is a good hunter and rather alone in this world set in the future which fits into the film because he moves around a lot by himself and only really trusts himself. It also really does not fit into the film because it makes you assume things which do not end up being true like the fact that Eli is completely blind and we only find this out right at the end.

It appeals to me because although it seems like the man is just hunting prey, the scene is very strange and creepy e.g. there are leaves falling everywhere in the woods, it is very foggy and you can't see a lot. Also the fact that Eli is wearing a gas mask made me think that there was something different about this movie and it makes you want to watch more to understand this.Once I had seen the whole movie I realised how amazing this first scene is because at the end we find out that Eli is blind so to kill the cat from a distance with an arrow takes a lot of skill.