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2010 American post-apocalyptic action film starring Denzel Washington as the eponymous nomad travelling through a post-apocalyptic desert world and guarding a mysterious book.

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How did the camera pass through the window (and then back out) in The Book of Eli?

During The Book of Eli (2010) there is an extended gunfight scene where the camera passed through a window, pans around, and then goes back out the window. How was this achieved technically? If this ...
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Why did The Book of Eli have so many pages?

In the final scenes of The Book of Eli (2010), Eli is dictating whole bible to Lombardi. This scene showed Bible to have so many pages, more than you expect a single book to have: Why did The Book ...
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Why doesn't Redridge kill Eli at the end of the first shootout?

In The Book of Eli, after Eli (Denzel Washington) has shot most of Carnegie's (Gary Oldman) henchmen and Redridge (Ray Stevenson) has already missed killing him twice, Eli and Redridge are facing each ...
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How could Eli do all those things?

At the end of The Book of Eli it is revealed that the eponymous bible that Eli used to read (and learn by heart) is actually written in Braille. Yet I'm not sure what further conclusions to draw from ...
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Verifying Contents of the Book in "The Book of Eli"?

In the Movie, "The Book of Eli", after getting the book in his hands, why did he (the town's mayor or whatever) not ask Eli for the key on the spot to verify the contents of the book?
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