Eli's posessions

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And that little doll guy looks like a little Chinaman and he has got a wire stick of some kind in one hand.

If that's the case, looks like he's lost his hat. I thought this was a sort of monk.

PS: Lina sure looks skinny in that top frame capture.

Sure does Skinny and really small, too. You can imagine if you discount the fact that camera is really low to the floor, making them appear big.

[N.R. Gasan]

When I was a kid these dolls were everywhere ... but we used to call them "Wishniks"

Yes! Thank you Outsider. And they had the double-horseshoe design on their foot. Later, these were rereleased as "Trolls," without the double-horseshoe. Whenever I tell people about "Wishniks," they look at me like I have two heads (which some of the Wishniks did LOL). In fact, the one I got as a kid had two heads...I should say has, since I have it to this day. :)

[Harls]

[That is a Japanese netsuke (pron. netski), which was a toggle button for Japanese purses.

Have you seen similar ones? It does not look much like netsuke...

Believe me, in my job I've seen thousands - they come in all shapes and sizes and some of them are quite beautiful (and expensive). They aren't all depictions of people either - animals feature quite prominently in the designs too!

[Wolfchild]

The Egg, however, is clearly custom-made for the movie. On the last screenshot it is not seen, probably the box it is standing on in the first shot is meant to be its container.

If I recall correctly, the egg was 100% CGI. It would have been expensive to put it into shots other than the one in which it was featured.

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The Egg, however, is clearly custom-made for the movie. On the last screenshot it is not seen, probably the box it is standing on in the first shot is meant to be its container.

If I recall correctly, the egg was 100% CGI. It would have been expensive to put it into shots other than the one in which it was featured.

Wow, really? Just to think of it, I had a whole theory that the egg in the movie was much simpler than the one described in the book precisely because making real egg as complex as in the book was impossible and CGI was too expensive.

[sauvin]

The Egg, however, is clearly custom-made for the movie. On the last screenshot it is not seen, probably the box it is standing on in the first shot is meant to be its container.

If I recall correctly, the egg was 100% CGI. It would have been expensive to put it into shots other than the one in which it was featured.

Wow, really? Just to think of it, I had a whole theory that the egg in the movie was much simpler than the one described in the book precisely because making real egg as complex as in the book was impossible and CGI was too expensive.

Even the coarse, blocky egg shown in the movie would have been expensive enough to make for real on a per-piece basis if not mass-produced. The manufacturing processes involved in making just one[i/] as a prototype or a one-off is hurting my machinist's imagination. It never occurred to me it might be CGI, but I had wondered where such an egg might have been obtained. I remember seeing puzzles around of similar intent and design, but never of a metallic egg.

[TΛPETRVE]

Technically, it would have been easier to model an egg as it was in the book, since with all the tiny shards, they wouldn't have had to deal so much with accurate reflection of light and environment. However, the egg may have looked as if it was made of sand and moreover, Eli not caring about her egg being reduced to dust in the wind would have felt rather unbelievable on screen.

[intrige]

She also has a smurf, like Oskar!

Those trolldolls are called "Lykketroll" Lucktroll/s. Mabye for bringing luck? I tryed to fint something about it on Norwegian and English wikipedia, and google in general. Nothing, sorry..

[ColBlair]

Looking at that picture of all that cool stuff on the table, something tells me that Eli's been around the world.

[Ash]

This seemed like an opportune time to bump this topic.

from ACL in Goof & Gaffs thread.

I don't think the bunny on the table is made of wax. It looks like a tin bunny toy with fur stuck on the outside (note the legs).
And perhaps Eli hadn't traveled around the world, but the people she met had.
Which makes me wonder about the type of people who took her in. The rural community were probably to busy farming and too poor to want an unproductive house guest around. So IMO they were probably educated and/or wealthy people who befriended Eli, out of kindness or "....for very different reasons."
Which might explain the origin of the egg - a gift rather than stolen.
In Eli's box on the train, what do you think she took with her?
Or was it just her, and they had plans to return and pick up her stuff later?