Eli's different faces (eyes)

[Bruise]

I was wondering, what is Eli's actual eye colour, Isn't it specified in the book?

[ofelia]

I was wondering, what is Eli's actual eye colour, Isn't it specified in the book?

In the book his eyes are always referred to as dark or black. I didn't like the blue contacts at all, although they do help highlight the cat pupil that wouldn't show up if the iris was black too.

[metoo]

Yes, they are said to be dark. I've thought that Lina's own eye colour would better fit the book than the contact lenses she wore. However, the weird greyish-blue colour made her appearance as Eli more mysterious.

[mackousko]

No, crank up the volume real high and listen. You can hear some sound coming from Eli's mouth, like teeth gritting against each other. So it's not only Eli's eyes that are vamping out, also Eli's teeth are growing, and that's why she keep saying Oskar repeatedly - she's afraid she might attack him. Then at last Oskar turn on the light, Eli composing herself back to normal, turns around and says "hurra" as if nothing had happened.
It was wolfie who found this, but I cannot find the thread about it right now.

Ha This forum really is a treasure. Thanx
These details are great. And how could poor Reeves come close to this if even a infected one after years is not aware about everything ?
Yeah! So is only fair Tomas Alfredson got Oskar and Reeves only Owen.

[Nightshift]

If she was afraid of killing Oskar in the dark of the basement, why then did she not have that same concern when she crawled into bed with him? Maybe in the bedroom scene she was already full from Hakan? Or is this transformation an uncontrollable reflex?

[metoo]

If she was afraid of killing Oskar in the dark of the basement, why then did she not have that same concern when she crawled into bed with him? Maybe in the bedroom scene she was already full from Hakan? Or is this transformation an uncontrollable reflex?

The novel hints that it is a hard to resist urge rather than a completely unavoidable reflex. However, Virginia experience that her self is pushed back and something else takes command, which sounds as something else altogether.

Eli was well fed when he went to bed with Oskar, but in three occasions was about to feed on him when hungry, before aborting it (in the novel). The basement scene was the hardest, likely because of the appearance of blood.