Eli's age
Just curious, does anyone know Eli's actual age? (for those of you who've read the novel).
share"Just curious, does anyone know Eli's actual age? (for those of you who've read the novel)." - The Robert Jordan
In 1982 Eli tells Oskar the he "was born about two hundred and twenty years ago", and that he hasn't had a "normal friendship in two hundred years".
Hope this helps.
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Cool, thank you Jameron.
"He?" I'm confused. I know Eli says "I'm not a girl," but assumed she meant this in terms of the years she's lived. There's also a brief shot when she's putting on Oskar's mother's dress that reveals that she's female?
shareNo. Eli is male.
If you're referring to the shot where we see Eli's groin, then you didn't see what you thought you saw. Don't worry, I missed it the first time too. What was shown was a ragged horizontal scar above the remains of a scrotum, definitely not female anatomy.
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Thanks. Definitely missed that, but did wonder at an underage actress being shown on film in that way. Does the book explain how and/or why he was castrated? And, um . . . so his penis was also removed (surgically?)
"Thanks. Definitely missed that, but did wonder at an underage actress being shown on film in that way" - SaliceMcD
Not to worry, it's just a mannequin (sorry to destroy any film magic, lol).
" Does the book explain how and/or why he was castrated? And, um . . . so his penis was also removed (surgically?)" - SaliceMcD
Yes, the book has quite a graphic description of Eli's emasculation but there is a fair bit of ambiguity as to why. There was a knife involved but it was anything but surgical.
If you read at all, and I'm sure you do, I urge you to read this book. A lot was jettisoned due to time restriction, you get more story but you also get the inner thoughts of the characters. It is by far my favourite version of the three.
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I somehow missed this reply before.
I assumed it was a dummy/mannequin, but with the U.S. being so annoyingly Puritan about such things . . .
"of the *three*??"
"of the *three*??" - SaliceMcD
There are three versions of the story;
Let The Right One in: the novel,
Let The Right One in: the first film, and
Let Me In: the remake aimed at the American market.
If I want to be pedantic, I could include the novel in it's original Swedish Låt den rätte komma in. Apparently the English translation looses some nuance, but not enough to be a huge problem.
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There are three versions of the story;
Let The Right One in: the novel,
Let The Right One in: the first film, and
Let Me In: the remake aimed at the American market.
Well, Jammer, should we count Jack Thorne's script of the highly successful play and call it four?
Gyah...What about the amazing fan fics that either retell the story or create whole new worlds for Oskar and Eli to play in?
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"Well, Jammer, should we count Jack Thorne's script of the highly successful play and call it four?" - dongregg
I didn't include the play because I was thinking along the lines of readily available versions, of which, the play itself is not one. But I must admit, I hadn't considered the script of the play. Good catch.
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I would count in Jakob Hultcrantz' stage play as well, played at Uppsala Stadsteater back in 2011, and several places in Trøndelag Norway in 2012. I saw it in Norway, and was impressed by how well the power balance between paedophile Håkan and Eli was turned. Both the Eli/Oskar and Eli/Håkan relationships had the mixture of tenderness and brutality which makes the story so good. The high school students who thought they watched another vampire show were in for a shocking experience.
An interesting detail: Hultcrantz' play ends with Eli and Oskar mixing blood, just like in LTODD, and he wrote the play before LTODD was published (my guess is that they were written about simultaneously).
For the heart life is simple. It beats as long as it can.
Thanks, Drakkar. Good to learn that.
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