3:00 Wow, I never thought about the size difference between the braille and printed versions of the bible. It makes sense but that thought just never occurred to me before.
Have one on ... 2 and a half shelves of a book shelf. something like 25 volumes, all of which are larger than Eli's book. Eli's book might be a single gospel, I suppose, but watching the movie it has always made me roll my eyes, having a basic premise like this, but no one involved even bothering to maybe talk to a blind person first.
@@johngaltline9933that twist felt so shoved in i wouldn't be surprised if it turned out it was originally just supposed to be a normal bible If it had been a known thing from the start it would have made an interesting source of excitement, but with the way its revealed it just kind of confuses you for a minute cause the clues were very easy to miss
I think it’s hard to believe that’s actually the last bible. Maybe it’s the last "known" they have but it’s statistically almost impossible that not a single one is left in some basement, car wreck, etc.
Plus, a pretty large chunk of the US still identifies as Christian, at least. It's likely the number of practicing Christians is far lower than the 60% reported, but it can reasonably be assumed that at least a fifth of the population would be actively trying to hide and preserve their Bibles, and the overlap of practicing Christians and people who own firearms are pretty high these days.
Especially with all the Bible nuts with persecution complexes who literally fantasize about fighting apocalyptic religious persecution. There’s gotta be a few peepers with their own Bible of printing Pressing waiting for this exact situation right now,
Think of all the gideon bibles in all the countless lonely burned out hotel rooms in that immediate area, let alone all the other hotel rooms, and all the schools, all the libraries, all the homes.
Did you see the film? The villain was well aware of the existence of bibles somewhere. He had his henchmen searching for and bringing back every book they could find.
I love the bit at the end about 'what if he's just a grifter'. "Yeah I have the whole bible memorized. In the beginning, god made the Blockade Runner and cast Darth Vader out of Heaven."
I don't know how anyone can become a gunslinger with no eyes, the most important sense, especially for something like this. It's like a blacksmith with no arms, or a singer that is mute.
Isn't there more or less a Christian Terminator movie? I can't remember the title, but Islamic Terrorists trick a scientist into building a time machine for them, so they can travel back in time to assassinate Jesus. The Writers of said movie are seemingly unaware that Islam is also an Abrahamic faith and that John Conner-ing Jesus out of existence would also remove Islam from existence too
@@Isthisjoebiden He is mentioned a bit though, fun fact: He's also mentioned in the Torah; described as "boiling in a pot of human excrement for all eternity" Ahhh yes... I genuinely get a giggle when people refer to "Judeo-Christian" as if they're not completely opposed to one another.
I’m pretty sure the unnecessary long journey is a reference to the Israelites wandering for 40 years after the exodus, also it would that long to memorize a Bible verbatim.
Agree on the reference to the Israelites, but memorizing the bible doesn't take anywhere near that long. In fact, memorizing the entire Quran (from a religion where memorizing the entire book verbatim is something people actually do regularly) takes only 3-5 years according to most schools. Maybe Eli would take a little bit longer due to also have to wander the desert all day, but surely not ten times longer.
@@wanderhillen2435 Maybe under ideal conditions, but he had to negotiate the apocalypse in the meantime. That would probably add some time especially since he has to study by hand and not by sight.
to be honest he could've memorized that way back and was just wandering around doing GOD's will until the end of the movie, its never stated he took 30 years to memorize it.....if it does I dont remember it xP
"I can't find any bibles to control people with, I can't think of the idea to start fresh with my own religion to control people, so I guess I'll just fuck with this blind guy." Like if all the bibles were destroyed after this 'apocalypse', you'd think someone would remember that because the world has only been in this state for like 20 years. But my biggest takeaway from this film is RIP Ray Stevenson. Too young. Also this is 100,000% the closest we've come to a Fallout film so far. This whole fucking movie just feels like a New Vegas side mission. They even got the 'no one cleans up the debris in town after years of walking past it' part correct.
you should watch A Boy and His Dog (1975) pretty sure this is where they got the idea of fallout. you gotta watch it theirs canibals , scavangers and bunkers whole worlds in the bunkers.
@@pandaberserk3390 Oh I adore that movie and you should be taken to the farm, immediately, for suggesting otherwise :) But I still contend that this movie was made because someone played Fallout NV and just wanted to make a movie based on it but didn't want to pay for the IP and be expected to do all of the more visually intensive stuff it would've required. I would flip it around and say that Fallout built the entire 'vault' concept based on Blood & Vic. Also worthy of mention; Six String Samurai. I remember thinking it was the closest thing to Fallout at the time around when 2 came out.
@@ErikN1982 Absolutely. There's just something about this particular film that really feels like something Bethesda would've written. It's slightly cartoonish in a very specific way. Like Michael Gambon and Madame Maxine and their house are like one of those waypoints that show up on your map and lure you in and give you a little unique experience. It's a movie with actual side quests in it lol. But 100% the idea of Fallout was largely inspired by ABAHD.
One of the many things about Carnegie that made no sense to me (although quite small in scale compared to his many other screwups) is his complete lack of viable succession. He controls people through his charisma and knowledge, but has taken no steps to ensure that methodology can be inherited by a successor (unless making Eli his successor was his plan). Maybe he was so selfish and egotistical that it didn't matter what happened after he died, because he would be dead and wouldn't care anyway.
Right? They are doing a fairly decent job until a player character comes along with the one thing more durable than power armor: plot armor. The brotherhood in all three 1st/3rd person Bethesda Fallouts was actually on a path to success (at least in terms of their goals). In NV they are in the middle of a lockdown so protocols are working, it is only through player meddling that anything goes bad for them (if that is the route you take). In 4 they have a massive airship which only crashes if the player intervenes and otherwise they are clearly quite successful if they are able to keep that thing operational it would vastly expand their reach over the wastelands meaning they would be able to exploit far more resources than any other faction (plus a platform where you can fire down or drop ordinance without fear of return fire).@@AKUJIVALDO
It would've been hilarious if at the end it wasn't a bible at all but instead it was Wealth of Nations and Gideon just wanted to learn about free market trade principles to elevate his society out of mercantilism.
Carnegie as a young kid had his background partially revealed, it was his most early origins from what I remember on some versions of the DVD release. Forgot to mention how Solara basically had the "torch" passed to her after Eli passed away. He DID ask for her protection, blessing and guidance after he was gone. An showed her setting out presumably to return after her mother an other loved ones. Assuming she didnt strike out to be some sorta desert, post apocalypse, self appointed, law an order enforcer of the wasteland that used to apparently be the continental US. Leaving the possibility of maybe a sequel movie someday.
I love this film; I watched it again the other day. A cautionary tale in not overextending yourself and squandering your resources in pursuit of your goals, among other things.
The thing about "Bill Carnegie could just invent his own religion" is, well, that is something that would take a great deal of time and imagination, something that he wouldn't have. He's not a young man, and in a world without television or radio, spreading a new gospel would take an immense amount of time and resources, both of which are in minimal supply for him. Building a religion with the kind of motivational power he wants takes multiple lifetimes, so he wanted to take a shortcut.
Yeah but the thing is he should remember what it is. There's no instructions in the bible, and churches are institutions he would've been familiar with. Just do what churches do; finding a bible isn't going to make that job easier. Appoint a high priest and whatever he says is law. Boom you've distilled the mind control part of religion down to its bare essence. I can't imagine a literate man would need a copy of a King James Bible to parse that.
He has so many books to choose from. Just use Harry Potter or something, make some adaptations for the apocalypse and you are ready to go. Because in the end, the Bible is just a collection of stories.
If I survive the apocalypse and have to rebuild society, I'm basing my religion on 40k lore: "gather round children to hear the tale of the four chaos God Vs our savior on his Golden Throne"
Alright, outta curiosity cause that hasn't killed this cat yet; have you fleshed out your post-apocalypse 40k religion or is this comment just a simple throw-away idea? I'm perfectly fine with either option, trust me, I really am just curious. =) And as a semi-side note, I'm honestly surprised that next to possibly none of the post-apocalypse stories we've had sense it's inception/population ever used a game, or really any popular pre-apocalypse entertainment, as a basis for a survivor camp religion. I mean yes there's the obvious problem of copyright infringement for the story, but still.
@@tommyfox854 The closest I've seen to the second part was in Reign of Fire, where they reenact Star Wars, but as regular knights, for the kids. My guess is going further would seem a little contrived or comedic, even if it's as likely as anything else to happen. As to the first part, I have actually put a little thought into it ^^. Because the basic structure works pretty well as a traditional religion, i.e., moral stories designed to help keep a community cohesive so it can survive: "The God Emperor protects us from the Chaos Gods, but also from ourselves. For while aggression is good for protecting His People, mindless violence and revenge simply gives power to Khorne. Honest competition and success is to be commended, but scheming and trickery empowers Tzeentch. We should take pleasure in the Emperor's world, but excess is wasteful and corrupting and leads to Slaanesh. And while death must come for us all, it is not for us to give into the despair of Nurgle when salvation with the Emperor awaits. The paths of extremes can feel good in the moment, but it corrupts ourselves, our community and prevents us following the Emperor's plan. And while our worship of the Emperor empowers him to protect us from the chaotic powers, we help him ourselves by never empowering the ruinous powers ourselves". Good way of dampening down the behaviours that tend to fracture communities (feuds, cheating, insults, greed etc). I'm sure you could all some more myths in there too (not much else to do after the apocalypse), how the God-Emperor and his sons liberated the world from the ruinous powers so man could live, but his favored son turned to evil and was struck down. Individual stories similar to the Norse or Greek myths.
@@tommyfox854 [I posted this and then it disappeared. Hopefully the previous one doesn’t come back!] For the second part, probably the closest I’ve seen was in Reign of Fire where they’re acting out Star Wars but as medieval knights for some children. My thoughts would be if in a story we came across someone actually (say) practicing a Tolkien religion or worshiping Harry Potter it it’d seem too contrived or comedic, even if it could probably happen. But now you mention it, I have put a little thought into it ^^ as the 40k lore does work quite well as a traditional religion, i.e., morality tales to keep a community cohesive to ensure its survival. “The God-Emperor not only protects us from the ruinous powers in the other world, but teaches us how to protect ourselves from them in this one. For violence to defends one home is sometimes needed, but feuding and a love of fighting simple feeds Khorne. Competition and success should be commended, but scheming and trickery empower Tzeentch. We should take pleasure in the world the God-Emperor created for us but excess dulls the senses, wastes and corrupts his gifts and draws us to Slaanesh. And while no man avoid death, we should not let despair lead us to Nurgle when salvation with the Emperor awaits all who hold faith in Him. If we give into the excesses, we allow gateways for he ruinous powers to unleash their corruption into the world. As the Emperor protects us from within the other world, we pray for strength so that we may protect ourselves in this one”. Or something like that ^^ So yes, to me it works well as a moral guide to take the edges off the sort of excesses (anger, desire for power, lust, greed etc) that can easily cause social fractures that a community already on the edge of survival couldn’t cope with. While removing a lot of the sci-fi elements for our post apocalyptic followers. Could definitely have stand alone stories like the Norse or Greek mythology; how the Emperor and his sons rid the world of Chaos so humanity might live in a great crusade, the fall from paradise as a result of Horus' corruption, stories of his angels (Astartes) fighting along side men when the world was new and such. Not much else to do in the cold (nuclear) winter nights but make up stories!
Atomic war wipes out most of civilization, first thing the survivors do is burn all the holy books, second thing preserve all the sunglasses and cool duster coats, third find some water I guess.
If you pay close attention, almost every amazing feat he does is explained, subtly, on screen. E.g. when he stop before walking off the destroyed overpass he kicks some pebbles which he hears fall. When he approaches stairs he kicks the bottom step to know where it is. etc...
@@Alexander59059thats a good point but i always took it as the miraculous or supernatural power of him to do these things was still grounded in material events. It may just be my own head cannon though.
To be fair, Eli is named after, I assume, the biblical Eli from the book of Judges. The Judges were often quite violent and less than morally perfect (That's the book where someone gets a tent peg through the head while sleeping). The bible, like the world, is full of humans who fall short of the ideals we hope to live up to.
Excellent work. The Book of Eli is one of the few DVDs I own, and Carnegie's stubborn refusal to explore the verdant hills of the nearby Bay Area always annoyed the shit out of me.
The fact that the guy was reading Mussolini kinda makes it clear what kind of person he is and why he couldn't do anything more imaginative than try to use the methods of the past. He's a dictator, and people of that cloth lack imagination. All the indicators are there: He looks to use an old blueprint from the past to obtain power instead of building a better future, greedily hordes all resources for himself including information, and his go-to solution for problems is bribery and violence. Even his statement that there's nothing west falls under that heading: Any dictatorship worth its jackboots will lie about conditions outside of their sphere of influence, so as to prevent anyone from leaving. If anyone knew that just a few days walk from his town, there were verdant green fields ripe for settlement, everyone would leave because Carnegie's stranglehold on water and resources and the belief that there's nothing better anywhere else is the only thing that maintains his power. That's ultimately why he needs the book so badly: Without some kind of religious indoctrination to ensure blind fanatical loyalty to his regime, the moment anyone sets foot outside his sphere of influence they'll see that there's plenty of places to live that are blatantly superior and then immediately immigrate. The only solution he can imagine for the problem of "Everywhere outside of where I control is better" is to try and make everyone blind to that fact, instead of doing anything to improve the region he controls. Again, that's common for dictatorships in the modern age. The most important thing to note is that he can't seem to realize that violence isn't the best answer to his problems. He wanted full, sole possession of the bible, never once even thinking to ask Eli if he could stay for a few days so that he could make a copy of the book. Even just a few good quotes would be enough to set up the foundation for a new state religion. There's no real reason why Eli wouldn't say yes to something like that, especially given that in the end that is exactly what Eli does. However, that would mean making a compromise, being willing to share information, and believing that violence isn't the best solution to any problem and best response to any disagreement, all of which are completely foreign to a dictator. The only solution that a dictator can think of to deal with problems that violence can't solve is to escalate the violence. Finally, there's the fact that he throws away all of his resources and manpower on his personal pet project, rather than using it for anything meaningful. Adam Something has a video series about the many, many overly wasteful vanity projects common among dictatorships, throwing away billions, if not trillions, of dollars away on vanity projects while everyone not part of the regime lives in squalor. In Adam Something's own words: Smoothbrain dictator + construction project = Dumb Sh!t. Instead of using all of his resources to make his city a better place to live, Carnegie uses all of his resources to pursue something that even if he possessed it wouldn't be likely to grant him the results he wanted within his lifetime, given the world's state and the notable lack of radio, television, and internet. He'd have to rely on missionaries to spread "the word", and that's a lengthy process that can take generations to see any results from. Carnegie is ultimately just a repeat of the same kind of dictator we've seen over and over again through history, just this time stuck in a small city because he lacks any imagination for expanding his power that isn't built on lies or violence.
You do know that the vast majority of human advancement was made by people led by authoritarians, right? Every king, emperor, sultan, etc in history was a dictator, and America, the “great bastion of democracy”, is currently falling apart.
Well, my comment got deleted, but do you understand that we were led by dictators for the vast majority of human history? And they were fine? Many men loved their kings.
@@jakemocci3953 sorry to say, but many abused woman love their abuser, most even ask the police to not jail them when the neighbors call the cops, being "loved" is not the same as being a good person.
@@themodernfrontiersmen Genuinely, but... why? He's supposed to be your father in heaven. So a daddy in the sky. So, sky daddy. Sure, it's obviously meant to be a term of mockery, but besides that, it's as accurate as it can be. Like, "sky daddy" is _much more_ accurate as a term of mockery for what Christians believe in than "you believe humans came from moist rocks" is the other way around. And considering it's a term of mockery, the mocked finding it cringe is... uh... task completed successfully, I'd say?
@@themodernfrontiersmen Hold up, *we* need new material? XD Not the people clinging to an ancient story book? That's rich. Also, as the other guy pointed out, "sky daddy" is actually very accurate.
@tjarkschweizer You're quite similar to Jehovah's witnesses' and fundamental Christians at this point, just pushing a lack of belief, instead of having one.
they must have edited out scene where eli got echolocation powers from toxic waste getting splashed in his face. that would have explained his Daredevil skillset.
My theory is he's one of the last surviving assassins in the John Wick universe after Wick escalated his fight against the council to a full-on nuclear war.
The funniest part is that I *recognize* that edition of the Tanakh - it's a Hebrew-English parallel translation! With commentary in English! The spine even says "translated and annotated"... The only thing missing for a Christian are the Christian-specific texts, they already have most of it in English right there even if they don't have any Hebrew-speakers...
the reason his journey took so long was because his destination (the printing press) took that long to be fixed/created. He was invulnerable, and could see, only as long as he followed the will of God. as soon as his journey was over (he reached the printing press) his eyes clouded back over and he was blind again (he was blind to start with, but God restored his sight and protected him so he could carry our God's plan).
I feel like these series is extremely misguided; all the villains aren't stupid at all; it is just that the protagonist has absurd levels of plot armor. Then this TH-cam channel rags on all the stupid villains and makes fun of their absurd plans. Guess what? If this TH-cam was the 'villain' in the movies, he would lose just as bad, with all his 'improvements and suggestions,' because he wouldn't have the plot armor. This series should actually be called "Villains far too smart to lose! Yet they lose anyway due to standard narrative structure causing the 'hero to (nearly) always win!" If he did this, it would actually be an intelligent analysis, because it would envision behind the extremely obvious of "lol, villain lost because dumb." That is just a dumb take, I am surprised this series is as popular as it is; I honestly thought people realized the villains tend to lose only because the story demands it.
@@pyropulseIXXI plot armor doesn't correlate to villain intelligence. A protag can have plot armor and villains can be smart at the same time, just look at 80% of all anime. Mary Sues are the ones that induce convenient stupidity on villains (and everyone else if need be). If your mastermind villain is unrealistically moronic, the story will be boring as well, and the hero defeating them will be seen as a boring walk in the boring park, no matter how big the stakes are, or how likeable the mc is. Besides, "villains that are very smart but since the story needs to advance they have to give some unfair lucky immunity to the mc because if they die early on (which is, in fact, what would realistically happen), it's a boring tasteless slop of a story #59" doesn't really sound like a good title. Though, a series called "characters with plot armor too thick" could work.
6:04 wow I just noticed that one of the books over there is a (surprisingly pristine?) US army survival manual...which he told his goons to fucking burn, LMAO. Doubt most of the information would be helpful in the new world, but I also doubt anyone living in it knows to even wash their hands.
It's only been 20 years (like in Metro) so the goons Carnegie hired were just little kids when the world ended. In fact, I think only a small part in Carnegie's town like Solara were born post war.
I once read a script that Garry Witta had developed but couldn't get made into a movie (he shared it on twitter I believe). It was a sci fi story .. and I remember thinking, yeah no wonder no one wanted to make this into a movie. It's got more holes that swiss cheese. He also wrote after earth. So yeah, take from that what you will. I do enjoying watching book of Eli however. But I was also high as a kite and it's been .. whenever it released since I last saw it.
0:45 my house has 2 bibles. I'm not religious but I got them as gifts from people who are important to me. My parents house has more than 10 the last time I counted. There's 0 chance of the fictitious crusade of persecution Christians have invented leaving Christians dead and no copy of the Bible remaining.
You’re right it’s literally insane to think about, most houses in the southern United States would probably have more than one and within 30 years at least 1 would have made its way west.
If it is hated so much that this insane number of copies is deleted, it might be not a good idea to base your national religion on anything even associated to it.
Atheistic regimes have attempted to persecute Christianity out of existence many times, and some Christisns denominations are targeted more so than otgers. It's functionally impossible, there are Christians even in North Korea, where they absolutely will kill you for your faith, but it's been tried plenty.
I really like subtle mysticism with tangible payoffs in movies. A trope that really suits the post apocalyptic genre where belief structures have been wiped out with everything else and survivors create or learn different understanding of things. Like in Fury Road, where Max's cryptic visions early in the movie return later to help him save himself.
Ooh! This is also why I love the directors cut of Riddick, The mysticiism of the furions that binds him and that furion that joined the necromongers, revealed before taht other one walks into the deadly storm. Also makes more sense for him doing that.
That's what I thought at first, like he could read braille, which would be something of a lost language at this point. And the blind woman being the only exception.
The movie does a terrible job of (everything) conveying that he is blind, rather than that the braille bible is simply the last bible in existence. But then, religious people tend to write terrible, unbelievable stories.
@@oxymoron02 self-respecting, right... Writers write stories. Maybe it's just compelling to imagine some divine intervention at play. Maybe it has to do with the Christian market being so easy. Maybe they aren't atheist, and just don't care. This wasn't a faithful project, more like Jesus man dare devil.
He didn't even need a bible. It'd be so easy to bs up a cult religion, especially in a post apocalypse. Mormonism started with a guy reading "the word of God" out of a hat with no one else being allowed to see for themselves.
Civilizations Too Stupid to Exist: The Galactic Republic (Star Wars)- outsources their entire military to one planet in the outer rim (that they apparently had no knowledge of just because Dooku erased it from the Jedi Temple archives, and there were no records of its existence anywhere else????). This military consisting entirely of the clones of one man: an infamous galactic criminal, wanted for the attempted assassination of a Senator, and no other kinds of clones, who was also last seen in the employ of the CIS- the people his clones are to be used against. Using clones is understandable since a draft might trigger more on-the-fence planets to secede, but you could at least build some factories and shipyards on more than one planet in the outer rim. You could also have a volunteer army, and choose the most loyal and capable amongst them to be cloned, instead of drastically shrinking the Galactic gene pool by cloning billions of copies of the same imfamous murderer.
Its still a good movie. Its just that, a movie. When he fought those guys in the tunnel and the bar fight were some of the best fight scenes I had scene when I was a kid. I mean Denzel Washington isn't really an action star so him at his age tear through goons was enjoyable. Mila Kunis was so miscasted in that role. She is entirely too pretty for the apocalypse. I was able to believe peek Washington murdering rift raft than anything that has come out of Hollywood lately. Outside of a few gems. Watch Northman, its a treat.
its a good movie, and carnegie is an accurate representation of the dictator personality type. the kind of person who seeks despotism will generally have these same character flaws, because their lack of imagination inherently leads them down that path
The inclusion of other religious text at the end is a good touch. I'm a Christian, but I do not condemn the practice of other religions unless it's an outright evil practice against it's own people. The whole point of faith is that it's a choice you willingly make. I will not be a hypocrite and act like I am better than anyone else.
This movie now makes me wonder what kind of world the original place was where not only Religion was mostly blamed, but then all of their books are quickly destroyed and then forgotten immediately before they want it back. It’s like a combination of a 18th Century Atheist with a Protestant Christian belief with a heavy touch of Rambo American. It’s like this one RTS where it’s basically Christian guerilla fighters battling this one world order. (Said game was heavily panned from both sides with it not helping that it was around the time of the War on Terror)
I love this movie. Carnage knew religion, if manipulated properly, could be used to get people to do his will. His mother and father were religious nuts who sent excessive amounts of money to television. 30 years of wandering isn't so bad. The Children Of Israel were 40 years in the wilderness.
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18:30 To be fair to the smokers I think they were designed to fail muh gapitalism.
Not only that but Alcatraz is in the middle of a freshwater river no I'm 100% sure you couldn't drink that water directly but with enough filtering and boiling I'm sure the water would be just as good as an aquifer not only that you can use it for irrigation
I don't know if you get this enough, but these are great. The editing and the writing are really good. You stand far apart from those EXPLAINED channels that simply recap the plot. Keep it up.
I watch both for different reasons. Yeah, the "Explained" channels don't actually explain much, but they're a great way of watching shitty movies and horror movies* without actually wasting an hour and a half of your limited time. *All of the best horror I've seen in the last ten years have been short films on youtube, around 20 - 30 minutes.
I always thought that Carnegie DID consider himself a real Christian but after being so far removed from reality by the nuclear war he associated the power of Christianity as coming from the book itself and not from God. That's why I thought he was so desperate to get it, in his warped mind he thought he could perform miracles if only he had the book as an instruction guide.
The movie shows us miracles. The thin braille bible, the handgun that multiplies its bullets like bread and fishes etc 😂
3:00 Wow, I never thought about the size difference between the braille and printed versions of the bible. It makes sense but that thought just never occurred to me before.
I guess Eli's bible was the pocket version.
Have one on ... 2 and a half shelves of a book shelf. something like 25 volumes, all of which are larger than Eli's book. Eli's book might be a single gospel, I suppose, but watching the movie it has always made me roll my eyes, having a basic premise like this, but no one involved even bothering to maybe talk to a blind person first.
@@johngaltline9933that twist felt so shoved in i wouldn't be surprised if it turned out it was originally just supposed to be a normal bible
If it had been a known thing from the start it would have made an interesting source of excitement, but with the way its revealed it just kind of confuses you for a minute cause the clues were very easy to miss
@@Batchall_Accepted as I understand it it’s based on a comic with roughly the same plot and “twist”.
I think it’s hard to believe that’s actually the last bible. Maybe it’s the last "known" they have but it’s statistically almost impossible that not a single one is left in some basement, car wreck, etc.
Most printed book of all time probably exists in thousands of other locations lmao
Plus, a pretty large chunk of the US still identifies as Christian, at least. It's likely the number of practicing Christians is far lower than the 60% reported, but it can reasonably be assumed that at least a fifth of the population would be actively trying to hide and preserve their Bibles, and the overlap of practicing Christians and people who own firearms are pretty high these days.
Especially with all the Bible nuts with persecution complexes who literally fantasize about fighting apocalyptic religious persecution. There’s gotta be a few peepers with their own Bible of printing Pressing waiting for this exact situation right now,
Think of all the gideon bibles in all the countless lonely burned out hotel rooms in that immediate area, let alone all the other hotel rooms, and all the schools, all the libraries, all the homes.
Did you see the film? The villain was well aware of the existence of bibles somewhere. He had his henchmen searching for and bringing back every book they could find.
Tuvok's appearances are nothing short of genius. lmfao
I like to imagine the matrix of Tuvok quotes with season, episode and timestamps.
I love the bit at the end about 'what if he's just a grifter'. "Yeah I have the whole bible memorized. In the beginning, god made the Blockade Runner and cast Darth Vader out of Heaven."
Eli: A man with poor sight, but great vision.
Carnegie: A man with great sight, but poor vision.
I don't know how anyone can become a gunslinger with no eyes, the most important sense, especially for something like this.
It's like a blacksmith with no arms, or a singer that is mute.
I see what you were doing, but practically that doesn't make sense lol
@@Silvvrninja8 "One who can't see, but has great visions. Other that can see, but has a poor vision"
@@schizophrenic_rambler"God" guided his hand
"a spiritual terminator sent in a mission by sky..God" fucking destroyed me
Isn't there more or less a Christian Terminator movie? I can't remember the title, but Islamic Terrorists trick a scientist into building a time machine for them, so they can travel back in time to assassinate Jesus. The Writers of said movie are seemingly unaware that Islam is also an Abrahamic faith and that John Conner-ing Jesus out of existence would also remove Islam from existence too
@@weldonwinLol yeah whoever wrote that is wholly ignorant of Islam.
@@weldonwin this is one of the most unhinged arraignment of words that I have ever read. It does sounds like a fun drunk watch
@@weldonwinJesus is the most mentioned name in the Quran, who TF wrote that😂
@@Isthisjoebiden He is mentioned a bit though, fun fact: He's also mentioned in the Torah; described as "boiling in a pot of human excrement for all eternity"
Ahhh yes... I genuinely get a giggle when people refer to "Judeo-Christian" as if they're not completely opposed to one another.
Media Zealot is the closest thing to a father I've ever had.
As a blind guy, "Book of Eli," is totally my jam.
Please tell me some idiot has asked how a blind man can watch a movie. It's always hilarious when people think disabilities are all or nothing.
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Please stop. Get help
MZ is Mother, MZ is father.
15:20 The book was locked. He had that merchant dude unlock it when he got back to town
Oh shit it's a wild allstar
I’m pretty sure the unnecessary long journey is a reference to the Israelites wandering for 40 years after the exodus, also it would that long to memorize a Bible verbatim.
Agree on the reference to the Israelites, but memorizing the bible doesn't take anywhere near that long. In fact, memorizing the entire Quran (from a religion where memorizing the entire book verbatim is something people actually do regularly) takes only 3-5 years according to most schools. Maybe Eli would take a little bit longer due to also have to wander the desert all day, but surely not ten times longer.
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Maybe under ideal conditions, but he had to negotiate the apocalypse in the meantime. That would probably add some time especially since he has to study by hand and not by sight.
to be honest he could've memorized that way back and was just wandering around doing GOD's will until the end of the movie, its never stated he took 30 years to memorize it.....if it does I dont remember it xP
"I can't find any bibles to control people with, I can't think of the idea to start fresh with my own religion to control people, so I guess I'll just fuck with this blind guy."
Like if all the bibles were destroyed after this 'apocalypse', you'd think someone would remember that because the world has only been in this state for like 20 years.
But my biggest takeaway from this film is RIP Ray Stevenson. Too young.
Also this is 100,000% the closest we've come to a Fallout film so far. This whole fucking movie just feels like a New Vegas side mission. They even got the 'no one cleans up the debris in town after years of walking past it' part correct.
you should watch A Boy and His Dog (1975) pretty sure this is where they got the idea of fallout. you gotta watch it theirs canibals , scavangers and bunkers whole worlds in the bunkers.
@@pandaberserk3390 Oh I adore that movie and you should be taken to the farm, immediately, for suggesting otherwise :)
But I still contend that this movie was made because someone played Fallout NV and just wanted to make a movie based on it but didn't want to pay for the IP and be expected to do all of the more visually intensive stuff it would've required. I would flip it around and say that Fallout built the entire 'vault' concept based on Blood & Vic.
Also worthy of mention; Six String Samurai. I remember thinking it was the closest thing to Fallout at the time around when 2 came out.
But have you never seen "A Boy and his Dog"? Several Fallout games "Borrow" quite a few concepts from that movie.
@@ErikN1982 Absolutely. There's just something about this particular film that really feels like something Bethesda would've written. It's slightly cartoonish in a very specific way. Like Michael Gambon and Madame Maxine and their house are like one of those waypoints that show up on your map and lure you in and give you a little unique experience. It's a movie with actual side quests in it lol.
But 100% the idea of Fallout was largely inspired by ABAHD.
Idk if I agree, he seemed pretty intent on destroying the book or keeping for personal reasons.
One of the many things about Carnegie that made no sense to me (although quite small in scale compared to his many other screwups) is his complete lack of viable succession. He controls people through his charisma and knowledge, but has taken no steps to ensure that methodology can be inherited by a successor (unless making Eli his successor was his plan). Maybe he was so selfish and egotistical that it didn't matter what happened after he died, because he would be dead and wouldn't care anyway.
Yeah, that's pretty normal for tyrants.
Speaking of Brotherhood of Steel, sounds like a good contender for Advanced Sci-Fi civilizations too stupid to exist.
Enclave would be a better start
@@Alexander59059Yeah the brotherhood doesn't seem to fumble the ball badly enough.
@@SiriusSphynxgive them a break, they are literally fighting against MCs... LOL
Right? They are doing a fairly decent job until a player character comes along with the one thing more durable than power armor: plot armor. The brotherhood in all three 1st/3rd person Bethesda Fallouts was actually on a path to success (at least in terms of their goals). In NV they are in the middle of a lockdown so protocols are working, it is only through player meddling that anything goes bad for them (if that is the route you take). In 4 they have a massive airship which only crashes if the player intervenes and otherwise they are clearly quite successful if they are able to keep that thing operational it would vastly expand their reach over the wastelands meaning they would be able to exploit far more resources than any other faction (plus a platform where you can fire down or drop ordinance without fear of return fire).@@AKUJIVALDO
Question here is about which Fallout game you're talking about, coz it's different in every single game, only wearing a coat of it predecessor.
Lol. The idea that there wouldn't even be a pair of Gideons freebies on hand after the apocalypse is the textbook example of an "idiot plot".
Apparently that universes god REALLY aspires to the King James Version...concerning
It would've been hilarious if at the end it wasn't a bible at all but instead it was Wealth of Nations and Gideon just wanted to learn about free market trade principles to elevate his society out of mercantilism.
If the pandemic taught me anything people will do anything for TP.
@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Controlit would’ve been Atlas Shrugged 😂
Yeah they couldn't check the various motels along the road? The book purge wouldn't have gotten to all of them.
"They're like a nicer, less insane Brotherhood of Steel." So... basically The Followers of the Apocalypse?
Carnegie as a young kid had his background partially revealed, it was his most early origins from what I remember on some versions of the DVD release.
Forgot to mention how Solara basically had the "torch" passed to her after Eli passed away. He DID ask for her protection, blessing and guidance after he was gone. An showed her setting out presumably to return after her mother an other loved ones. Assuming she didnt strike out to be some sorta desert, post apocalypse, self appointed, law an order enforcer of the wasteland that used to apparently be the continental US. Leaving the possibility of maybe a sequel movie someday.
Yeah the animated video where it shows his mother caving in to giving money to the church. It shows the influence it has over people.
Im wondering how many times media zealot has watched star trek voyager with so many flashes of tuvok clips lmao
I love this film; I watched it again the other day.
A cautionary tale in not overextending yourself and squandering your resources in pursuit of your goals, among other things.
This film has the same dusty brown color palette as a military shooter from the 2010s.
That over-exposure grey-out you see it as brown? Interesting
The thing about "Bill Carnegie could just invent his own religion" is, well, that is something that would take a great deal of time and imagination, something that he wouldn't have. He's not a young man, and in a world without television or radio, spreading a new gospel would take an immense amount of time and resources, both of which are in minimal supply for him. Building a religion with the kind of motivational power he wants takes multiple lifetimes, so he wanted to take a shortcut.
Yeah but the thing is he should remember what it is. There's no instructions in the bible, and churches are institutions he would've been familiar with. Just do what churches do; finding a bible isn't going to make that job easier.
Appoint a high priest and whatever he says is law. Boom you've distilled the mind control part of religion down to its bare essence. I can't imagine a literate man would need a copy of a King James Bible to parse that.
It really does boil down to him lacking imagination and wanting a shortcut.
Anybody wanna join a cult?
He has so many books to choose from. Just use Harry Potter or something, make some adaptations for the apocalypse and you are ready to go. Because in the end, the Bible is just a collection of stories.
@@garrettgsf8849 If he really wanted to do what he said he wanted to do, 'The Prince' by Machiavelli was the book he should've been looking for.
Marvel’s lawyers: Eli is Daredevil.
Marvel’s execs: Let em cook.
That bit at the end about the Torah translation KILLED 😂😂😂
If I survive the apocalypse and have to rebuild society, I'm basing my religion on 40k lore: "gather round children to hear the tale of the four chaos God Vs our savior on his Golden Throne"
As long as Erebus more hated than horus
Even Slanesh is more just than Yahweh.
Alright, outta curiosity cause that hasn't killed this cat yet; have you fleshed out your post-apocalypse 40k religion or is this comment just a simple throw-away idea? I'm perfectly fine with either option, trust me, I really am just curious. =)
And as a semi-side note, I'm honestly surprised that next to possibly none of the post-apocalypse stories we've had sense it's inception/population ever used a game, or really any popular pre-apocalypse entertainment, as a basis for a survivor camp religion. I mean yes there's the obvious problem of copyright infringement for the story, but still.
@@tommyfox854 The closest I've seen to the second part was in Reign of Fire, where they reenact Star Wars, but as regular knights, for the kids. My guess is going further would seem a little contrived or comedic, even if it's as likely as anything else to happen.
As to the first part, I have actually put a little thought into it ^^. Because the basic structure works pretty well as a traditional religion, i.e., moral stories designed to help keep a community cohesive so it can survive: "The God Emperor protects us from the Chaos Gods, but also from ourselves. For while aggression is good for protecting His People, mindless violence and revenge simply gives power to Khorne. Honest competition and success is to be commended, but scheming and trickery empowers Tzeentch. We should take pleasure in the Emperor's world, but excess is wasteful and corrupting and leads to Slaanesh. And while death must come for us all, it is not for us to give into the despair of Nurgle when salvation with the Emperor awaits. The paths of extremes can feel good in the moment, but it corrupts ourselves, our community and prevents us following the Emperor's plan. And while our worship of the Emperor empowers him to protect us from the chaotic powers, we help him ourselves by never empowering the ruinous powers ourselves". Good way of dampening down the behaviours that tend to fracture communities (feuds, cheating, insults, greed etc).
I'm sure you could all some more myths in there too (not much else to do after the apocalypse), how the God-Emperor and his sons liberated the world from the ruinous powers so man could live, but his favored son turned to evil and was struck down. Individual stories similar to the Norse or Greek myths.
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For the second part, probably the closest I’ve seen was in Reign of Fire where they’re acting out Star Wars but as medieval knights for some children. My thoughts would be if in a story we came across someone actually (say) practicing a Tolkien religion or worshiping Harry Potter it it’d seem too contrived or comedic, even if it could probably happen.
But now you mention it, I have put a little thought into it ^^ as the 40k lore does work quite well as a traditional religion, i.e., morality tales to keep a community cohesive to ensure its survival.
“The God-Emperor not only protects us from the ruinous powers in the other world, but teaches us how to protect ourselves from them in this one. For violence to defends one home is sometimes needed, but feuding and a love of fighting simple feeds Khorne. Competition and success should be commended, but scheming and trickery empower Tzeentch. We should take pleasure in the world the God-Emperor created for us but excess dulls the senses, wastes and corrupts his gifts and draws us to Slaanesh. And while no man avoid death, we should not let despair lead us to Nurgle when salvation with the Emperor awaits all who hold faith in Him. If we give into the excesses, we allow gateways for he ruinous powers to unleash their corruption into the world. As the Emperor protects us from within the other world, we pray for strength so that we may protect ourselves in this one”. Or something like that ^^
So yes, to me it works well as a moral guide to take the edges off the sort of excesses (anger, desire for power, lust, greed etc) that can easily cause social fractures that a community already on the edge of survival couldn’t cope with. While removing a lot of the sci-fi elements for our post apocalyptic followers.
Could definitely have stand alone stories like the Norse or Greek mythology; how the Emperor and his sons rid the world of Chaos so humanity might live in a great crusade, the fall from paradise as a result of Horus' corruption, stories of his angels (Astartes) fighting along side men when the world was new and such. Not much else to do in the cold (nuclear) winter nights but make up stories!
The fact that it's a King James edition makes the accuracy of Eli's memory irrelevant.
That’s a damn good one
Facts
Going away from KJV might be an improvement
My favorite is the "New My Neighbor, Bob's Neice Version" (NMNBNV). Way better than the original MNBNV Bible
Any chance of a new series sometime in the future? Villains who deserve a win. Well written villains who are foiled by plot armour.
Atomic war wipes out most of civilization, first thing the survivors do is burn all the holy books, second thing preserve all the sunglasses and cool duster coats, third find some water I guess.
That brail Bible, that had me laughing. You need a 50s cadillac or truck to move that.
The fight scenes are so good.
I love when the guy doesn't realize his hand is gone.
Amen to that. Him luring those raiders under the overpass was quite a treat. Not to mention being a sound strategy for someone who was blind.
It seems like he gets possessed by Batman every now and then
If you pay close attention, almost every amazing feat he does is explained, subtly, on screen. E.g. when he stop before walking off the destroyed overpass he kicks some pebbles which he hears fall. When he approaches stairs he kicks the bottom step to know where it is. etc...
And his near 100% accuracy with ranged weapons?
@@Alexander59059thats a good point but i always took it as the miraculous or supernatural power of him to do these things was still grounded in material events. It may just be my own head cannon though.
It´s enough for me that,
he looks people in the eyes
to ruin the illusion
To be fair, Eli is named after, I assume, the biblical Eli from the book of Judges. The Judges were often quite violent and less than morally perfect (That's the book where someone gets a tent peg through the head while sleeping). The bible, like the world, is full of humans who fall short of the ideals we hope to live up to.
Poor Gary Oldman. He gets type-cast as a hopeless villain every time. Great actor though.
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@@wpenicheGordon is the dumbest villain hes ever played, hes such an incompetent antagonist he actually ends up helping the good guy
Lol jk
Excellent work. The Book of Eli is one of the few DVDs I own, and Carnegie's stubborn refusal to explore the verdant hills of the nearby Bay Area always annoyed the shit out of me.
I'd love to see you work your magic to the Institute from Fallout 4. Truly one of the villain factions of all time.
Putting Tuvok in all you're videos convinced me to finally watch Voyager. Thanks
Still waiting on the Kazon video. Or any more star trek would be cool
The fact that the guy was reading Mussolini kinda makes it clear what kind of person he is and why he couldn't do anything more imaginative than try to use the methods of the past. He's a dictator, and people of that cloth lack imagination. All the indicators are there: He looks to use an old blueprint from the past to obtain power instead of building a better future, greedily hordes all resources for himself including information, and his go-to solution for problems is bribery and violence.
Even his statement that there's nothing west falls under that heading: Any dictatorship worth its jackboots will lie about conditions outside of their sphere of influence, so as to prevent anyone from leaving. If anyone knew that just a few days walk from his town, there were verdant green fields ripe for settlement, everyone would leave because Carnegie's stranglehold on water and resources and the belief that there's nothing better anywhere else is the only thing that maintains his power.
That's ultimately why he needs the book so badly: Without some kind of religious indoctrination to ensure blind fanatical loyalty to his regime, the moment anyone sets foot outside his sphere of influence they'll see that there's plenty of places to live that are blatantly superior and then immediately immigrate. The only solution he can imagine for the problem of "Everywhere outside of where I control is better" is to try and make everyone blind to that fact, instead of doing anything to improve the region he controls. Again, that's common for dictatorships in the modern age.
The most important thing to note is that he can't seem to realize that violence isn't the best answer to his problems. He wanted full, sole possession of the bible, never once even thinking to ask Eli if he could stay for a few days so that he could make a copy of the book. Even just a few good quotes would be enough to set up the foundation for a new state religion. There's no real reason why Eli wouldn't say yes to something like that, especially given that in the end that is exactly what Eli does. However, that would mean making a compromise, being willing to share information, and believing that violence isn't the best solution to any problem and best response to any disagreement, all of which are completely foreign to a dictator. The only solution that a dictator can think of to deal with problems that violence can't solve is to escalate the violence.
Finally, there's the fact that he throws away all of his resources and manpower on his personal pet project, rather than using it for anything meaningful. Adam Something has a video series about the many, many overly wasteful vanity projects common among dictatorships, throwing away billions, if not trillions, of dollars away on vanity projects while everyone not part of the regime lives in squalor. In Adam Something's own words: Smoothbrain dictator + construction project = Dumb Sh!t. Instead of using all of his resources to make his city a better place to live, Carnegie uses all of his resources to pursue something that even if he possessed it wouldn't be likely to grant him the results he wanted within his lifetime, given the world's state and the notable lack of radio, television, and internet. He'd have to rely on missionaries to spread "the word", and that's a lengthy process that can take generations to see any results from.
Carnegie is ultimately just a repeat of the same kind of dictator we've seen over and over again through history, just this time stuck in a small city because he lacks any imagination for expanding his power that isn't built on lies or violence.
Very good breakdown.
You do know that the vast majority of human advancement was made by people led by authoritarians, right? Every king, emperor, sultan, etc in history was a dictator, and America, the “great bastion of democracy”, is currently falling apart.
Nah he's based
Well, my comment got deleted, but do you understand that we were led by dictators for the vast majority of human history? And they were fine? Many men loved their kings.
@@jakemocci3953 sorry to say, but many abused woman love their abuser, most even ask the police to not jail them when the neighbors call the cops, being "loved" is not the same as being a good person.
9:50 That cat isn't actually starving or irradiated, it's a Cornish/Devon Rex and they naturally look like that
So hes just a kitty murderer. Well, false prophets abound in the apocalypse
"a spiritual terminator sent in a mission by sky..God"
Be honest bro - you almost said "Sky Daddy".
That is one of the most cringe things atheists say. Honestly ya'll need some new material.
@@themodernfrontiersmen Genuinely, but... why?
He's supposed to be your father in heaven. So a daddy in the sky. So, sky daddy.
Sure, it's obviously meant to be a term of mockery, but besides that, it's as accurate as it can be.
Like, "sky daddy" is _much more_ accurate as a term of mockery for what Christians believe in than "you believe humans came from moist rocks" is the other way around.
And considering it's a term of mockery, the mocked finding it cringe is... uh... task completed successfully, I'd say?
@@themodernfrontiersmen Hold up, *we* need new material? XD
Not the people clinging to an ancient story book?
That's rich.
Also, as the other guy pointed out, "sky daddy" is actually very accurate.
@tjarkschweizer You're quite similar to Jehovah's witnesses' and fundamental Christians at this point, just pushing a lack of belief, instead of having one.
@@Isthisjoebiden How exactly am I pushing for anything? I just find it funny that a theist is daring to ask atheists for new material.
you already know its a good day when media zealot posts a new video
they must have edited out scene where eli got echolocation powers from toxic waste getting splashed in his face. that would have explained his Daredevil skillset.
It'd be funny seeing him screaming randomly to "see" where he is
My theory is he's one of the last surviving assassins in the John Wick universe after Wick escalated his fight against the council to a full-on nuclear war.
General Mandible from Antz.
EDIT: Or Lord Farquaad from Shrek.
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Why Mandible? if zeek had died his plan would've worked flawlessly.
Holy crap I completly missed, that they already sort of had the old testement.
What Eli didn't anticipate is, killing so many innocent kitty cats is a one way trip to hell :(
The funniest part is that I *recognize* that edition of the Tanakh - it's a Hebrew-English parallel translation! With commentary in English!
The spine even says "translated and annotated"...
The only thing missing for a Christian are the Christian-specific texts, they already have most of it in English right there even if they don't have any Hebrew-speakers...
This is one of my favouite movies ever
the reason his journey took so long was because his destination (the printing press) took that long to be fixed/created. He was invulnerable, and could see, only as long as he followed the will of God. as soon as his journey was over (he reached the printing press) his eyes clouded back over and he was blind again (he was blind to start with, but God restored his sight and protected him so he could carry our God's plan).
If Carnegie was somewhat competent, he wouldn't have lost to a blind guy, who's basically post-aocalyptic Daredevil.
but there was no way to stop eli. he has the literal power of god
Dollar Store Blade is a Gary Stu, but this is the "turn your brain off" type of movie so it doesn't really matter.
@@sirisrex7542you underestimate the power of some planks and nails
I feel like these series is extremely misguided; all the villains aren't stupid at all; it is just that the protagonist has absurd levels of plot armor. Then this TH-cam channel rags on all the stupid villains and makes fun of their absurd plans. Guess what? If this TH-cam was the 'villain' in the movies, he would lose just as bad, with all his 'improvements and suggestions,' because he wouldn't have the plot armor.
This series should actually be called "Villains far too smart to lose! Yet they lose anyway due to standard narrative structure causing the 'hero to (nearly) always win!"
If he did this, it would actually be an intelligent analysis, because it would envision behind the extremely obvious of "lol, villain lost because dumb." That is just a dumb take, I am surprised this series is as popular as it is; I honestly thought people realized the villains tend to lose only because the story demands it.
@@pyropulseIXXI plot armor doesn't correlate to villain intelligence. A protag can have plot armor and villains can be smart at the same time, just look at 80% of all anime. Mary Sues are the ones that induce convenient stupidity on villains (and everyone else if need be).
If your mastermind villain is unrealistically moronic, the story will be boring as well, and the hero defeating them will be seen as a boring walk in the boring park, no matter how big the stakes are, or how likeable the mc is.
Besides, "villains that are very smart but since the story needs to advance they have to give some unfair lucky immunity to the mc because if they die early on (which is, in fact, what would realistically happen), it's a boring tasteless slop of a story #59" doesn't really sound like a good title.
Though, a series called "characters with plot armor too thick" could work.
It makes sense now I think about it but just look at the size of that braille bible!
I'm so curious about the nature of your collection of Tuvok clips. Is there a tagging system?
If the cover has "TORAH" written on it then the text inside is probably not Hebrew. Hebrew has its own alphabet.
6:04 wow I just noticed that one of the books over there is a (surprisingly pristine?) US army survival manual...which he told his goons to fucking burn, LMAO. Doubt most of the information would be helpful in the new world, but I also doubt anyone living in it knows to even wash their hands.
It's only been 20 years (like in Metro) so the goons Carnegie hired were just little kids when the world ended. In fact, I think only a small part in Carnegie's town like Solara were born post war.
What a wonderful surprise as I get to work in the snow. A new video from my favorite creator now my day is perfect
Ima need a Villains that were too smart to lose series.
I once read a script that Garry Witta had developed but couldn't get made into a movie (he shared it on twitter I believe). It was a sci fi story .. and I remember thinking, yeah no wonder no one wanted to make this into a movie. It's got more holes that swiss cheese. He also wrote after earth. So yeah, take from that what you will. I do enjoying watching book of Eli however. But I was also high as a kite and it's been .. whenever it released since I last saw it.
Always good to see one of your videos. Worth the wait.
0:45 my house has 2 bibles. I'm not religious but I got them as gifts from people who are important to me.
My parents house has more than 10 the last time I counted.
There's 0 chance of the fictitious crusade of persecution Christians have invented leaving Christians dead and no copy of the Bible remaining.
You’re right it’s literally insane to think about, most houses in the southern United States would probably have more than one and within 30 years at least 1 would have made its way west.
If it is hated so much that this insane number of copies is deleted, it might be not a good idea to base your national religion on anything even associated to it.
Atheistic regimes have attempted to persecute Christianity out of existence many times, and some Christisns denominations are targeted more so than otgers. It's functionally impossible, there are Christians even in North Korea, where they absolutely will kill you for your faith, but it's been tried plenty.
It's always nice when Zealot drops a video
AWSOME VIDEO! Love these, NICE JOB!
It's always a good day when one of your videos drop.
Being made by people who aren’t believers is impressive. They were respectful of the religion
This movie overall is kinda stupid, but the twist that it’s a brail Bible is sick. Banger twist
Hell yea man, I love these!
I really like subtle mysticism with tangible payoffs in movies. A trope that really suits the post apocalyptic genre where belief structures have been wiped out with everything else and survivors create or learn different understanding of things. Like in Fury Road, where Max's cryptic visions early in the movie return later to help him save himself.
Ooh! This is also why I love the directors cut of Riddick, The mysticiism of the furions that binds him and that furion that joined the necromongers, revealed before taht other one walks into the deadly storm. Also makes more sense for him doing that.
Excellent essay, thanks again Mr Zealot
Remember to read kids, you might be king in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the future
i thought eli could just read braille i didnt know he was really blind
That's what I thought at first, like he could read braille, which would be something of a lost language at this point. And the blind woman being the only exception.
The movie does a terrible job of (everything) conveying that he is blind, rather than that the braille bible is simply the last bible in existence. But then, religious people tend to write terrible, unbelievable stories.
@@oxymoron02 this wasn't written by religious people.
@@L.Pondera God literally exists in the story. No self-respecting Atheist would ever write that.
@@oxymoron02 self-respecting, right...
Writers write stories. Maybe it's just compelling to imagine some divine intervention at play. Maybe it has to do with the Christian market being so easy. Maybe they aren't atheist, and just don't care. This wasn't a faithful project, more like Jesus man dare devil.
Thank you for calling it a magazine instead of a clip. I'm going to sub just for that.
I love this movie. I'd love for you to do a breakdown of Phyrexia, either as a Villains Too Stupid or as an Advanced Civ Too Stupid.
I love these videos. They're so funny. Thanks for doing this.
Huzzah Zealot. Keep em comin
The real twist is that this is a sequel to Blues Brothers 2000
what?
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We're on a mission from god.
Oh, snap. Let me get my popcorn!
7:08 Sounds like he's taken some inspiration from Pol Pot as well.
22:16 Ah, so General Lyons.
Hello, Might I recommend Voldemort for next video?
Once again a fantastic episode. Im really waiting with excitement every time when the next one will drop.
He didn't even need a bible. It'd be so easy to bs up a cult religion, especially in a post apocalypse. Mormonism started with a guy reading "the word of God" out of a hat with no one else being allowed to see for themselves.
One of the most stupid movies I've ever seen. Dude is just pure plot armor.
Civilizations Too Stupid to Exist: The Galactic Republic (Star Wars)- outsources their entire military to one planet in the outer rim (that they apparently had no knowledge of just because Dooku erased it from the Jedi Temple archives, and there were no records of its existence anywhere else????). This military consisting entirely of the clones of one man: an infamous galactic criminal, wanted for the attempted assassination of a Senator, and no other kinds of clones, who was also last seen in the employ of the CIS- the people his clones are to be used against. Using clones is understandable since a draft might trigger more on-the-fence planets to secede, but you could at least build some factories and shipyards on more than one planet in the outer rim. You could also have a volunteer army, and choose the most loyal and capable amongst them to be cloned, instead of drastically shrinking the Galactic gene pool by cloning billions of copies of the same imfamous murderer.
Side Fail: There is no fresh water supply on Alcatraz. Maybe they ship it from the mainland but to me it looks like they live there.
I wanna see the brotherhood of steel in the bad guys too stupid to win now. 😂
I'd say do a video on Master Xehanort, but the lore of Kingdom Heaets has gotten so convoluted it might be impossible to analyze.
Seeing this as a teen I think was the first time I'd realized that Denzel Washington being in something didn't automatically make it good.
Denzel is nothing but a N
What in gods name
Its still a good movie. Its just that, a movie. When he fought those guys in the tunnel and the bar fight were some of the best fight scenes I had scene when I was a kid. I mean Denzel Washington isn't really an action star so him at his age tear through goons was enjoyable. Mila Kunis was so miscasted in that role. She is entirely too pretty for the apocalypse. I was able to believe peek Washington murdering rift raft than anything that has come out of Hollywood lately. Outside of a few gems. Watch Northman, its a treat.
its a good movie, and carnegie is an accurate representation of the dictator personality type. the kind of person who seeks despotism will generally have these same character flaws, because their lack of imagination inherently leads them down that path
Xtians have to say this movie is good because they have so few big-budget movies under their indoctrination umbrella.
The inclusion of other religious text at the end is a good touch. I'm a Christian, but I do not condemn the practice of other religions unless it's an outright evil practice against it's own people.
The whole point of faith is that it's a choice you willingly make. I will not be a hypocrite and act like I am better than anyone else.
Your comedic and sarcastic delivery totally killed me.
“He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy”: The Movie
Surely one of those stupid little pocket bibles is still kicking around in the wastes of Earth.
Most of them are printed on the cheapest paper imaginable. The pages basically shatter when you open them.
This movie now makes me wonder what kind of world the original place was where not only Religion was mostly blamed, but then all of their books are quickly destroyed and then forgotten immediately before they want it back.
It’s like a combination of a 18th Century Atheist with a Protestant Christian belief with a heavy touch of Rambo American.
It’s like this one RTS where it’s basically Christian guerilla fighters battling this one world order. (Said game was heavily panned from both sides with it not helping that it was around the time of the War on Terror)
Never understood how anything would be left alive in this worldafter all the plants died.
Apparently all the plants died in only select locations. I wouldn’t be surprised if some other country was just fine in comparison
I love this movie.
Carnage knew religion, if manipulated properly, could be used to get people to do his will.
His mother and father were religious nuts who sent excessive amounts of money to television.
30 years of wandering isn't so bad. The Children Of Israel were 40 years in the wilderness.
18:30 To be fair to the smokers I think they were designed to fail muh gapitalism.
It would have beena perfect ending if Eli arrived and they're like "The Bible? We've got crates of the things."
Not only that but Alcatraz is in the middle of a freshwater river no I'm 100% sure you couldn't drink that water directly but with enough filtering and boiling I'm sure the water would be just as good as an aquifer not only that you can use it for irrigation
The villain could have just made things up Mormon style
Being alone preaching on a street corner Lol 😆 funny af
V.A.T.S @ 3:33 - Beautiful...just beautiful.😁
that lombardi guy part sounds like the story being a version of a canticle for leibowitz but from the perspective of the wastelanders.
I love this channel, your a hoot brother
I don't know if you get this enough, but these are great. The editing and the writing are really good. You stand far apart from those EXPLAINED channels that simply recap the plot. Keep it up.
I watch both for different reasons. Yeah, the "Explained" channels don't actually explain much, but they're a great way of watching shitty movies and horror movies* without actually wasting an hour and a half of your limited time.
*All of the best horror I've seen in the last ten years have been short films on youtube, around 20 - 30 minutes.
Suddenly I want to watch veloci-pastor again
I always thought that Carnegie DID consider himself a real Christian but after being so far removed from reality by the nuclear war he associated the power of Christianity as coming from the book itself and not from God. That's why I thought he was so desperate to get it, in his warped mind he thought he could perform miracles if only he had the book as an instruction guide.
Great vid.
I absolutely love this movie.