Movie Title: There Will be Blood (2007)
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Barry Sherman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Language: English
Studio: Ghoulardi Film Company
Runtime: 158 min
Movie Description
There Will be Blood is a story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.
Movie Review
Having only seen the trailer for this film on an excursion to see "no country for old men", I bear intense anticipation for this film, and it's analogous relevance. An all-American, conservative, free-market oil-barren at odds with a religious figure seems all-too-relevant today, especially considering the fact that - in my understanding - neither comes out the winner. The film - quite intelligently - forms it's stance on one side of a political argument, strategically more powerful, relevant and intrinsically more affecting here than within any stale form of two-sided, played-out, democrat vs. republican narrative, as is most common in a plot such as this. It is this that provides an unpolitical guise, while continuing to lend insight into the negative results of a culture that exists primarily on a take-what-one-can mentality. I truly cannot wait to see what happens, and i am quite pleased to have an advanced screening pass. The plot-line and development seems confidently complex and critical, and will hopefully have every side asking questions at film's end. One only has to view the trailer to see that this FILM is amongst the most brilliantly constructed testaments within the u.s.-based industry in the past number of years. The sheerly chilling beauty in the pairing of the ice-y, stalking music to the absolutely beautiful, equally chilling imagery lends credence to the impact that the film ought to have. if nothing else, the film will look great. If as visually impactful as it appears, it should transcend the conscious presence of political narrative and rhetoric, and deeply affect the viewer as to the complexities of the ruling, powerful class that arose in the united states within the focused time period. This - through the observance of other reviews - seems to have been achieved. A true GOLDEN EAGLE, if you will, of American film, as it appears. To hell with Scorsese and his hinderingly vague nouvelle appropriations. On a scale of 1 to APOCALYPTO, this movie will surely be at least a 27. -- halfropuff from Canada
Plot Synopsis
There Will Be Blood is a movie "loosely " adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson from the 1927 novel OIL! by Upton Sinclair. The movie centers on a character Daniel Plainview, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, who starts out as a simple silver miner, that happens upon oil in his silver efforts.
Fast forward a few years and he's made himself a pretty rich man, a wise and shrewd business/oil man, that gets to the point to where he'll step over anyone to get what he wants. You see, Daniel Plainview is not a very decent person, who constantly wrestles with his demons. He is a borderline nihilist, who doesn't like people and thinks most humans are lazy and ignorant. You understand the only reason that he has people in his life is because he couldn't benefit financially if he didn't. Otherwise he could care less. It's all about finding new oil spots with him, and nothing will get in his way and derail his goals. He may not be a good man, but you cannot deny his desire and work ethic. He risks his life more than once setting up oil derricks.
But, he almost meets his match in the form of a young man of the word of God in Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano. This is not a good relationship. You see, Plainview wants to drill for oil on the Sunday's property. And he wants to do so in a not so honest way, by chiseling them out of their share of money. He thinks the Sunday family are hicks. Ignorant with absolutely no business sense, which is somewhat true. But Eli knows they are in for more than Plainview tells them.
Essentially, Plainview will be ripping off the Sunday family. Things start to happen that aren't good. Plainview seeths for Eli. You get the idea that if he could kill Eli, and get away with it then he would. Eli, for his own merit, is a blow hard, and Plainview knows this. But for all of the hard work Daniel has done over the years, little things begin to perculate mentally with him. The demons begin to really get to him as he tries to hide and ignore them. Though he becomes rich beyond his imagination, there is a price to pay. Nobody ends up the true winner. Almost every human emotion is displayed in There Will Be Blood. Love, hate, passion, greed, jealousy, pettiness, paranoia, trust and sadness.
Morality really becomes the true issues in this story. As for the script, there is much material for the thesp Day Lewis to sink his teeth into as Plainview. In reading, you can relate to why he accepted the role. Any actor would have. It's a impressive script that should adapt well to the movie screen.
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