There Will Be Blood (DVD)

There Will Be Blood (DVD): American Gothic (584 words)
by l-m-n-o-p - written on 03.07.08 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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Sitting here listening to the soundtrack as I write this, looking back on my experiences of watching this film, I'm wondering how I can possibly keep my review from simply turning into an undiluted rant of superlatives and non-stop praise. But then again why should I? I'm in awe of everything about this film. If you're prepared to accept its eccentricities and wild ambitions, Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel, Oil!, is a work of genius in so many areas. Chronicling the career of oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis), the film begins with a fantastic 15 minute-long dialogue-free exercise in economical exposition, ...

Black desert streams (1307 words)
by harlequin21 - written on 16.02.08 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Recent months have proved to be interesting in cinema. There has been an unexpected explosion of artistic freedom in many films, and in this time there seems to have been a revival of the Western genre. The revival, however, has been unconventional, since the "Westerns" in question arguably don't constitute as westerns, namely the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. The latter particularly challenges the genre it apparently represents, and in this way, Paul Thomas Anderson has painted a picture that is totally unique, a rarity that is entirely in a league of its own. It pushes these genre ...

There Will Be Blood (DVD): There Will Be Blood (200 words)
by jane08 - written on 08.07.08 (Useful, 8 readings)
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Daniel Day Lewis certainly deserved the best actor Oscar in 2008 for his portrayal of oil tycoon Daniel Plainview. Set in the last 19th and early 20th century Plainview begins his career as a struggling silver miner who manages to find his riches through oil with his adoptive son H W. When a young man comes to Plainview with knowledge of land saturated with oil on the ranch of the Sunday family. The eldest child of the family, Eli Sunday is an outlandish young reverend out to gain profit by whatever means. There are many key relationships of interest throughout There Will be Blood. Plainview uses his adoptive son H W to put across a family man appearance ...