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Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:11 am
by a_contemplative_life
dongregg wrote:Ripped from 2014:
Dear Eli:
You smell like road kill.
You're not even a girl.
Then why, Valentine,
Is my heart all a-twirl?
Dear Oskar:
If you will be my Valentine,
I will be your…
Oh never mind—
I just won't kill you.
smell like road kill
Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:30 pm
by gkmoberg1
That is a great line! ... what a thing to say, but in this case true. Well, at times. Err, at least once.
Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:39 am
by a_contemplative_life
What exactly what that stuffed animal?
Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:48 am
by ltroifanatic
I thought it was a teddy bear.Is that blood where it's mouth is?This is the scene that really drove home that Eli was just a child.It's so sweet.And she purrs or something close to a purr/soft growl.One of my fav scenes.
Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:29 am
by PeteMork
ltroifanatic wrote:I thought it was a teddy bear.Is that blood where it's mouth is?This is the scene that really drove home that Eli was just a child.It's so sweet.And she purrs or something close to a purr/soft growl.One of my fav scenes.
Yep! One of mine too. Largely because this is where the 'legend of the purr' began. Both Don and I (and many others, I'm sure) have used it quite effectively, IMO, in our FF.
Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:48 am
by Vampyr5000
When I saw this topic, I just had to chime in. They truly are my favorite character. If I could meet one character from a work of fiction in real life, it'd be Eli. Well, as long as they aren't hungry that evening, anyway! Even if they were, I can think of worse ways to die.
To the poster a few posts above who pointed out the stuffed animal with Eli in the tub, thank you! I never did notice that before.
Re: I Love Eli!
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:16 am
by Ash
Hi again guys.
I've always found the concept of powerful child quite confronting (and intriguing) in films and novels as that runs counter to society's usual portrayal of child/adult power imbalance.... the unicorn wild beast that can only be tamed by a virgin etc. So films like The Bad Seed, Kick Ass, M3GAN, Orphan, and more recently Abigail are among my favourites. Eli in LTROI expands and further develops on that idea as Eli fully understands the power she is capable of but only employs it for her own survival rather than exerting power for power's sake, she would rather not have it.
https://youtu.be/YKuBiu6KTR8?si=p80Ij8R4hRl9xciK