Know why I never post on fandomsecrets? I like sharing my shame.

[amanuensis1]

From the trailer, I wanted rather badly to see this film:



...and then I learned the one on the right is not a boy. Now I'm no longer interested.

Migod, could I get any more shallow.

Comments

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

According to the book this based on, the one on the right is a boy. In the film, this is never stated directly, but the one on the right explains several times to the other that "I am not a girl."

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I'm starting to get interested again! Why do all the summaries of this film say the character's a girl?

[ladysorka]

A lot of the reviews seem to have interpreted the "I'm not a girl" to mean "I'm a vampire."

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I could see how that could happen. Is Eli a female name in Swedish?

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

It would most usually be a swedish name for a male (Eli from Elias) but according to the almighty Wiki, Eli in Norway is a female name. and it could be short for Elisabeth or whatever, so it's not really gendered. And unusual enough that people can't ping male/female with 100% certainity if they just hear the name

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Probably because they haven't read the book and are relying on the clothing that the character, Eli, wears as well as the fact that the character is being portrayed, I think, by a female.

I just saw this film last week, and I think it's quite easy to see Eli as a long-haired unkempt boy in cast-off clothing, some of which may be rather unusual for a boy to wear. But he is a rather unusual boy.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Watching the trailer I never though for a moment it was anything except two boys, which is why the summaries startled me.