The younger Washington, 25, shows a lot of promise. He convinced his father to do “Training Day,” a provocative police drama in which he played a dirty cop (winning an Oscar in the process), and the acclaimed crime drama, “American Gangster,” in which he depicted a drug kingpin. John David also convinced his dad to sign on to Allen and Albert Hughes’ post-apocalyptic “The Book of Eli,” in which he plays a lone traveler carrying a sacred book across the country in a lawless and dangerous world.
“This has to do with him coming of age,” says Denzel Washington about his son. “I wanted him to read more, so I started giving him scripts to read. All my children are movie buffs.”
Set in the not-too-distant future, “The Book of Eli” is about a solitary man who walks across the wasteland that was once America. Empty cities, broken highways and seared earth are all that remain following an unspecified catastrophe. There is no civilization and no law. The roads belong to bands of thieves who will murder a man for his shoes or a sip of water.
Eli (Washington) is a warrior not by choice but necessity. He wants only peace but if challenged he will cut down his attackers (with a handy machete) before they realize their mistake. It’s not his life he guards so fiercely, it’s his hope for the future – a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years. The only man who understands the power Eli holds is Carnegie, the self-appointed despot of a makeshift town of thieves and gunmen, and he is determined to get what he wants no matter the cost.
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