Elias
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I love Let the Right One in but it makes me sad to see how
the film kept out the most important message of the book.
That Oskar had a tougher problem accepting that Eli(as) is a boy than that he is a vampire.
That tells so much about us humans and the fears implemented by our society.
(Worry not, Oskars last message to Eli in the film is .- -. ..- … …)
about 1 year ago
hear my voice
it’s telling stories
telling just the truth
about some men
who don’t excuse
only praying for you
it must be a starving man
who likes to hear
these crippled minds talk
greetings from me
following the wind
i don’t want to forget …
… to regret
… to remember all the time
… everything
… all these years
hear my voice
it’s telling stories
telling just the truth
about the innocent elias
lying next to you
innocent elias
blood red messiahs
never coming home
greetings from me
following the wind
about 1 year ago
OMG i saw the movie and love it but i didnt know eli was a boy, in the movie is a girl an when eli ask oscar if he will like her even if shes not a girl i thought it was cause is a vampire but know im confuse, in the book eli is a boy? and whats the message?
p.s. is the book translate in english?
about 1 year ago
Yup, Eli is a boy (Elias) and yes, when he said “I’m not a girl” he meant “I’m a boy” but most people who didn’t read the book thought he means “I’m a vampire” :(
The book was translated, yes :)
http://www.amazon.com/Let-Right-John-Ajvide-Lindqvist/dp/0312355297
The book is way better than the film so don’t hesitate to get it!
about 1 year ago
Hi!!!!, I will check the book out and see this movie too looks cool.
about 1 year ago
I recently saw this movie and loved it… I have the book on order, but it’ll be another couple of weeks before it comes in :(
I read that Eli was actually a guy before I watched the film and kinda just followed that he was despite the Actress being a girl. Though, the only thing that kinda ruined that, was the scene where Eli was getting dressed…
But like I’ve heard, the book is different and a lot better, so I’m quite excited while I wait for my copy to come in :)
about 1 year ago
Josh:
I too wish more Oskar-&-Eli moments in the book had made it to the screen… the horsing around, the conversations.
Hmmmm…. I myself thought the point of LDRKI was: boy finds out the girl he’s fallen in love with was born a boy, doesn’t care, continues to love her/him anyway. I think Oskar accepted Eli’s thing rather quickly and with less drama that one might expect (which I love, btw). I mean, he was, Err… you’re… what? for a little bit, then it became a non-issue pretty fast.
p.s. Is Wolfsheim psychic?
@Stephen: That particular scene was too quick for most people, but if you watch it again, and closely, you will see that instead of ruin, it supports it. That is NOT a girl’s crotch.
about 1 year ago
I also am awaiting my book to arrive from Amazon… any day now!
Thanks for translating the morse code! That makes the ending so much more special. ^^
about 1 year ago
@Declan: Oh wow… never noticed that before. :o
Thanks. Kinda gives me a different look on the movie ^^
about 1 year ago
Puss?
about 1 year ago
Here’s the not-puss :)
http://i40.tinypic.com/ftpjqx.jpg
about 1 year ago
thanks josh and everyone i alredy order da book, suck a little cause i love the movie but who cares movies based on books doesn’t need to be a transcription of the book to the screen most of times books are better or richer.
about 1 year ago
@Alan
Puss is Swedish for Kiss :)
about 1 year ago
I may get the book and see what it is like.
about 1 year ago
@jay thanks for the not-puss tinypic. This seems to show a girl, definitely not a boy. Is this scene quite different in the book, or what?
about 1 year ago
@BoyMagnet
Nope, it shows a boy but [SPOILER FOLLOWS; MARK THE TEXT TO READ IT]
he was castrated and what you see is the scar.
about 1 year ago
Well, there’s the scar and the “not a girl”-message from Eli in the film, so it’s not kept out. But to be honest, I indeed thought he/she meant “vampire”, and the crotch, well, I just thought vampires looked that way. ;) For me Eli appeared as a rather sexless being, neither a boy nor a girl but a vampire. I haven’t read the book so I don’t know if it was intended that way or if it’s really that important that he/she used to be a boy.
about 1 year ago
@S: You only thought that because you knew you were watching a movie about a boy and a vampire. (I thought that’s what she meant too when I first saw it, to be honest.) But if you REALLY think about it, if it were you, if you were falling in love with a girl and she’s in bed with you and she says, “I’m not a girl,” I don’t think you’d think she meant she’s a vampire, right? Why would you? I think you’d be like, “Not a girl? OMG… a boy!”
This is what makes makes Oskar’s reply “But do you want to go steady or not?” so beautiful. He knew Eli was a boy and it didn’t matter.
about 1 year ago
no one else amazed by the fact how this song (its lyrics) fits the picture? xD
about 1 year ago
Why did they change Eli from a boy in the book to a girl in the film? It seems to me the producer was too uncomfortable with showing two boys being so intimate. It was OK to show a boy sleeping with a vampire as long as its a girl, but not two boys. Society is certainly screwed up.
about 1 year ago
I am!!! And it was written ~10 years before Lindqvist’s book, so I’m doubly amazed.
@David: They didn’t change Eli. But s/he is played by a girl though… because I guess they couldn’t find a suitable boy to play him. Hopefully s/he will be played by an actual boy in the dreaded American remake.
about 1 year ago
@David
He was a boy in the film, I wouldn’t doubt that. They actually looked for boys AND girls as cast for Eli, it just happended to be a girl ’cause she looked pretty androgynous and had a deep voice for a lil girl.
@Declan
No way, I bet they will make the story completely straight -__-
about 1 year ago
Respectfully Josh, me thinks this is a non-issue with the film. I saw the film first already knowing from spoilers that Eli was really a boy. Remembering that every movie adapted from a book interprets the story I don’t think there is any effort to cover up the fact. In fact, I don’t think the book dwells on it either. Eli charades as a girl because it’s easier in society where her true identity must be kept secret. There were parts of the book I’m quite glad were left out of the movie such as her keeper’s fate where I thought the movie had a better idea. All in all, it’s a great story, a story of love between two people on the fringes of society, I don’t think it was ever intended to be a “gay” parable. If you think the Swedish film minimized the gay angle, I’m betting the American remake will not touch on it at all.
about 1 year ago
The American version might yet surprise us all with two 11 year-old boys and with 2x the romance and sweetness of the original between them. Yes, I’m an optimist ;)
about 1 year ago
Sorry, baby, but I’m not so confident. Just see what the americans does to Asian “horror” movies. They transform them in just “horror” movies, and in the original version, they have a lot o drama on it.
about 1 year ago
In comparison between book and movie I prefer the movie cause it left me with the feeling that it focuses more on the love between Oscar and Eli.
Sure there is a much deeper level of understanding in the novel (e.g. a lot more background for Eli, his powers, his physical & mental status etc:), but the movie focuses on the romance between the two boys – and it is quite nice to see that Oscar takes his feeling of love for Eli as it is. He feels love for a ‘boy’ and is ok with it.
I think the movie is about romance.
The novel is about two outcasts, a lot of problems, and finally about romance.
Btw in the novel there is not the cute ending where Eli knocks ‘puss’…
about 1 year ago
Oh god, I doubt the American re-make will be any good. I also agree with what Archie said about what they do to Asian Horror movies.
I wish people payed more attention to this than Twilight.
about 10 months ago
@Declan
Could be the poem was partial inspiration to the author?
I agree that any America re-make will be crap.
about 10 months ago
@john03
It *could* be possible but chances are not to high since the song is German and the author of the book Swedish. But you never know ^^
about 9 months ago
I loved the movie and now that I hear how good the book is I am ordering it tonight! Oh, nice music too. (;
about 9 months ago
I’m glad to hear that, thanks :)
about 8 months ago
After having read the book (in swedish), the movie was quite a dissappointment. Pretty actors – well… but it felt all in all more than a long trailer. Maybe the Hollywood-Remake was already on the minds when this movie was taken.
The ending of the film – as well als in the book is interesting. I ask myself how it would continue on the long run. Maybe Eli is (as describede in the book) infact not loving/caring but just a sweet looking calculating monster. A monster which needs a human beeing to be its servant. Just like the hunchback in Polankis vampire-movie.
The pedofile Håkan (who in the book even turns out to some kind of hunchback after acid and accidents) was almost the perfect servant. But it became clear that Håkan would not go on that way – not without getting the sex he was from the very beginning going for.
Maybe the story was placed for a good reason in the 80ies. This gives the cance to have a look later again on Oscar and Eli. Maybe an Oscar who finds himself (without beeing a pedofile) in a situation comparable to Håkan´s.