There will be greed. There will be vengeance.
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
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Grave, contemplative, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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- j4nion TMDB · Jul 2019
Great movie, not a spaghetti western. Very good story and atmosphere 10 stars.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Wuchakon TMDB · Aug 20195/10
***Weighty, morose period drama with complex characters and Daniel Day-Lewis*** In the early 20th century, an industrious prospector in Southern California, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), becomes a shrewd oil magnate, whose journey is paralleled with a dubious Pentecostal pastor of a remote church, Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). “There Will Be Blood” (2007) is a one-of-a-kind period drama with Western elements. It’s arty and the furthest thing from a conventional blockbuster. You have to be in the mode for a deep, slow-moving, epic flick like this in order to appreciate it. The contemporaneous “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and “No Country for Old Men” are good comparisons. Whilst the story and main characters are simple on the surface, they go deep and there are some things to mine: What good is success if you have no one to love and enjoy it with? Is Daniel a sociopath or a quality individual who acquires sociopathic tendencies because his choices put him on the road of madness? Was Eli a “false prophet”? If so, was he always a con or did he become one? Why is Eli paralleled with Daniel? Does Daniel have the capacity for genuine love? Does he mean wha
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20237/10
I remember reading about just how much money Rockefeller was making at the height of his prowess and the sums were eye watering. His Standard Oil company is referenced in this powerful drama with Daniel Day Lewis as “Plainview”. He’s a prospector looking for silver but who has a bit of a fall and discovers that there is something much more valuable and plentiful - if you know how to find it, He gradually buys up leases and together with his stalwart “Fletcher” (Ciarán Hinds) and young son “H.W.” (Dillon Freasier) starts to develop his business with a view to building a pipeline of over one hundred miles to reach the sea. Along the way, their lives are fraught with dangers and tough choices have to be made - especially when an accident at one of the wells renders the young boy deaf. It’s at this remote site that “Plainview”meets his nemesis. Not in a competitive, business, fashion - but in a puritanical Christian one. The son of a local homesteader is aspiring preacher “Eli” (Paul Dano) and the remainder of the film sees the one trying to humiliate and outmanoeuvre the other and disclaim each’s strongly held values. It’s a slow burn, this film, but DDL is on super form as a man stri
Read the whole review on TMDB - Jameson TMDB · Oct 202310/10
What the hell was in the air in 2007?
Read the whole review on TMDB - Jameson TMDB · Oct 202310/10
A hypnotic flight into the darkness of the soul and how people hide themselves away. A masterfully directed feat, There Will Be Blood shows the very limits of selfishness and greed which are further encapsulated by Day-Lewis’ mind-blowing and unique performance of which could be easily called the greatest of all time. Every person who worked on this seem as if they are masters of their crafts, even the child actors, whose performances are stunning. Day-Lewis has excellent chemistry with Paul Dano’s egoistical preacher, who was very much snubbed for the best actor category. With some of the best cinematography ever brought to film, this is truly one of the all time greats.
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Cast
- Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Plainview
- Paul DanoPaul Sunday / Eli Sunday
- Kevin J. O'ConnorHenry
- Ciarán HindsFletcher Hamilton
- Dillon FreasierH.W. Plainview
- Hope Elizabeth ReevesElizabeth
- Colleen FoyMary Sunday
- Barry Del ShermanH. B. Ailman
- David WillisAbel Sunday
- Hans HowesMr. Bandy
Crew
- Paul Thomas AndersonDirector
- Paul Thomas AndersonWriter
- Upton SinclairNovel
- Robert ElswitDirector of Photography
- Jonny GreenwoodOriginal Music Composer
- Dylan TichenorEditor
- Daniel LupiProducer
- Paul Thomas AndersonProducer
- JoAnne SellarProducer
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