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The Book of Eli is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic neo-Western [2] [3] action film directed by the Hughes brothers, written by Gary Whitta, and starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, and Jennifer Beals. The story revolves around Eli, a nomad in a post-apocalyptic world who seeks to deliver his copy of a mysterious ...
Anne-Marie Bird links Pullman's concept of "Dust" to "a conventional metaphor for human physicality inspired by God's judgment on humanity." [1] Writing in Children's Literature in Education, she suggests that the first trilogy develops John Milton's metaphor of "dark materials" from Paradise Lost "into a ‘substance’ in which good and evil, and spirit and matter – conceptual opposites ...
This is a list of characters from the two Philip Pullman trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Introduced in Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua Main article: Lyra Belacqua Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials and a key character in The Book of Dust. Together with her dæmon Pantalaimon, she is introduced in La Belle Sauvage ...
You may know him as Robert McCall, the no-nonsense vigilante with a troubled past in The Equalizer. Or maybe you’ve seen his quiet power in movies like Man on Fire, American Gangster and Safe House.
John Boyega will step into Denzel Washington’s shoes for a TV series based on The Book of Eli. The 2010 movie starred Washington as Eli, a nomad making his way across America 30 years after a ...
The Book of Dust is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman, which expands his trilogy His Dark Materials. The books further chronicle the adventures of Lyra Belacqua and her battle against the theocratic organisation known as the Magisterium, and shed more light on the mysterious substance called Dust .
The Washington Post was extremely positive, stating that "too few things in our own world are worth a 17-year-wait: The Book of Dust is one of them". [11] The A.V. Club said that "even without the deep well of context of those other books of Dust, La Belle Sauvage stands on its own as a singularly beguiling work of fantasy. It's sure to be ...
Along with Wool, the series consists of Shift, Dust, three short stories, and Wool: The Graphic Novel. [1] The series has also been adapted as a comic book and a television series on Apple TV+ . None of the stories are themselves named "Silo"; the stories take place in underground silos, and that is the author's name for the series as a whole.