There Will Be Blood
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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- Cast：
- Daniel Day-Lewis , Paul Dano , Kevin J. O'Connor , Ciarán Hinds , Dillon Freasier , Hope Elizabeth Reeves , Colleen Foy
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Thanks for the memories!
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The movie was bad enough, slow, plodding and populated with unpleasant characters, but it is accompanied by the worst score in history. The music never matches the action and whoever did it had a tin ear. Then a couple of classical pieces are misplaced and are completely out of context; i.e. Brahms Violin Concerto at the end. This so detracts from the rest of the film that its few virtues get buried. Sure, there is Daniel Day Lewis performance, but despite 2 hrs and 38 minutes we don't learn much about his character or why he's doing what he's doing. I had looked forward to this with anticipation but was deeply disappointed. The treatment is just terrible and watching it is a very unsatisfying experience.
Loosely based on a true story. Tragic and ironic...as is the oil industry. Never knew a thing about this person until I saw this movie and looked it up. Well worth the watch.Daniel Day Lewis delivers, once again!
Parts of the movie are so abstract you miss part of the "action" ( I use that term loosely) trying to figure out what just happened. The score is grating to say the least and the storyline is like a patchwork quilt that is coming apart. It was 2 and 1/2 hours of my life I will never get back and I'm sad.
Basically we all know that Daniel Plainview is a slick man. He's a businessman, greed was in that man's nature. We all saw it when the rig exploded and he didn't care about HW at all. The fire represent the bad in him, the devil that made himself him. And hypocrites do live in this world, just like Eli Sunday. You don't mix religion with economy. I disagree to Eli Sunday's point of view. But after all, greed is in one man's nature and it destroy humanity just like the whole movie showed us through Daniel Plainview.
