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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 20 ‘The Book of Eli’ Chicago Passes With Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman
CHICAGO – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 20 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “The Book of Eli” with Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis!
“The Book of Eli” also stars Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits and Chris Browning from co-directors Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes. The film opens on Jan. 15, 2010.
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Here is the “The Book of Eli” plot description:
In the not-too-distant future some 30 years after the final war, a solitary man walks across the wasteland that was once America. Empty cities, broken highways and a seared Earth all around him are the marks of catastrophic destruction. There is no civilization here and no law. The roads belong to gangs that would murder a man for his shoes, an ounce of water or for nothing at all.
But they’re no match for this traveler.
A warrior not by choice but necessity, Eli (Denzel Washington) seeks only peace. If challenged, though, he will cut his attackers down before they realize their fatal mistake. It’s not his life he guards so fiercely but his hope for the future. It’s a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years and is determined to realize. Driven by this commitment and guided by his belief in something greater than himself, Eli does what he must to survive and continue.
Only one other man in this ruined world understands the power Eli holds and is determined to make it his own: Carnegie (Gary Oldman), who is the self-appointed despot of a makeshift town of thieves and gunmen. Meanwhile, Carnegie’s adopted daughter, Solara (Mila Kunis), is fascinated by Eli for another reason: the glimpse he offers of what may exist beyond her stepfather’s domain.
But neither will find it easy to deter him. Nothing and no one can stand in his way. Eli must keep moving to fulfill his destiny and bring help to a ravaged humanity.
Alcon Entertainment presents a Silver Pictures production and a Hughes brothers film. The film stars two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington (“Training Day,” “Glory”), Gary Oldman (“The Dark Knight,” the “Harry Potter” films), Mila Kunis (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall”), Ray Stevenson (“Punisher: War Zone”), Jennifer Beals (Showtime’s “The L Word”), Frances de la Tour and Michael Gambon (both of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”).
“The Book of Eli” trailer can be watched now below.
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By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Survival Instinct
My main instinct is to AVOID “downer” people in life…
By overcoming obstacles and
By overcoming obstacles and vowing not to let them stop me.
My survival skills were put to test...
…when I was 10 years old. My cousin punched and broke my nose. I fought back.
Survival Instincts
It’s been put into action because it’s my automatic fight or flight reaction.
once in my pre-teen my
once in my pre-teen my survival instinct were put to good use,and might have save my friend life. My friend I attended a concert. When the concert was over my parent were going to pick us up. while we waited a security guard (he around 30 years old)who claim he was in a band offer to drive us home. He told my friend and I that my parent were probably came and left because the concert let out late. he kept insisting he would take us home, when I kept saying no, he said that he would just take my friend home than. She wanted to go,and was about to leave, than I told her that I think I spotted my Dad and I point to some random older man. The guy just took off as soon as I said that. We found later out that he didn’t work at the concert arena.
Book of Eli
Clinging to a tree trunk after my deer stand fell 15 feet to the ground.
book of eli
swallowed my pride and took the high road even though i really did not want to.
survival instinct
I kept my mouth shut when I thought I was going to get yelled at.
Survival Instinct
Driving in a snowstorm in the Rocky Mountains in winter.
SURVIVAL
LEARNING TO BE ON YOUR OWN AFTER YEARS OF MARRIAGE DEFINATELY CALLS FOR SURVIVAL SKILLS.