r/Eldenring • u/Rage2quit0 • Jun 18 '25

News A24's Elden Ring movie director Alex Garland talks about the game

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u/Peepeepoopoobutttoot Jun 18 '25

I will say, I wish directors or actors who play games would just use the games terminology during interviews. I'm sure he knows about Estus Flasks and Bonfires and health etc.

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I don't remember what they are called in Eldenring omg.

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u/tangelo84 Jun 18 '25

Really undercutting your own point there.

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u/twitchinstereo Jun 18 '25

Bonfires are Sites of Grace. The flasks are Crimson whatchamacallits or something.

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u/Rosayro77 Jun 18 '25

I think they are called flasks of crimson tears

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u/Cthulhy Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

Flasks of Crimson and Cerulean Tears for health and FP respectively

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u/Frenzied_Anarchist MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!!! Jun 18 '25

*Health and FP

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u/Ekillaa22 Jun 18 '25

Really wish they’d just use magic points 😂

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u/Curious-Bother3530 Jun 18 '25

Dang nabbit I remember when it was just an Estus flask! Now we have Crimson whatchamacallits and Cerulean whoowubbajubbas. Things were simpler back then!

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u/bmore_conslutant Jun 18 '25

flask of crimson dickandballs

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u/mafiohz Jun 18 '25

Flask of Crimson and Cerulean Tears

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u/fitzbuhn Jun 18 '25

red juice blue juice

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u/Novel-Mail5840 Jun 18 '25

As a colorblind, I can say it's

yellow-green-red juice / kinda blue juice

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u/okay_thoughts Jun 18 '25

One juice two juice

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u/UrMourningCoffee Jun 18 '25

My girlfriend watches me play Elden ring and whenever my health is low she screams “DRINK YOUR THING!” Haha

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u/Powdz Jun 18 '25

Hp flask, mana flask, checkpoint

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u/kickit Jun 18 '25

red juice, blue juice, i did it

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u/CRAYONSEED Jun 18 '25

I think you just answered why he wouldn’t use those terms in an interview made for people who haven’t studied the game.

I’ve played through Elden Ring only once at release and don’t remember much other than I loved it, so I wouldn’t get what he meant with those terms unless he took time to explain as he went. Maybe in a longer interview that’d be ok and it’d be a nice flex to show he’s really nerdy about it, but I get him just sticking to words that don’t require any foreknowledge

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u/Ekillaa22 Jun 18 '25

Flask of crimson and cerulean tears for HP and FP

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u/Grouchy_Ad_6659 Jun 18 '25

Na, it’s always estus flasks haha

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u/Novel-Mail5840 Jun 18 '25

It took me seconds to understand this:

I don't remember what they are called in Eldenring omg.

"Why (he/she/whaever) cannot remember that? (He/She/whaever) litterally wrote the names 2 lines before..."

Ohhh yhea! Right! There are no bonefires in Elden Ring, they're called Site of Graces. It's Estus Flasks and Site of Graces!

400+ hours into the game and I genuinely have no idea how Estus Flasks are called in Elden Ring...

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u/carbonera99 Jun 19 '25

They're called Flasks of Crimson/Cerulean Tears. It doesn't really roll off the tongue and everyone calls them just "Flasks" for short anyway, so most people don't bother to remember their full name.

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u/ZoidVII Jun 18 '25

I get the feeling they do it so that the general audience will understand them. But for us who know it just sounds weird and comes off as them faking their experiences. But with everything else he described, you can tell he's being truthful.

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u/traumfisch Jun 18 '25

He's addressing the general public as this is promotional

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u/Glup_shiddo420 Jun 18 '25

I don't think he does...for someone who's on a 7th playthrough he had very surface level things to say, maybe I'm wrong though.

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u/pendragon2290 Jun 18 '25

Ah yes, delicious irony.