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There Will Be Blood (2007) 8.1
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8.1/10 from 228,943 users
Metascore: 92/100
Reviews: 1,015 user | 373 critic | 39 from Metacritic.com A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. Director:Paul Thomas Anderson |
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Cast
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The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California is presented. Miner turn oilman Daniel Plainview is a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but he also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if need be. His business partner is his son H.W., who in reality he "acquired" when H.W.'s biological single father, who worked on one of Daniel's rigs, got killed in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is one in a pair of twins, whose family farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, the local preacher and a self-proclaimed faith healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a ... Written by Huggo
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Country:
USARelease Date:
25 January 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Oil! See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£215,490 (UK) (8 February 2008)Gross:
$40,218,903 (USA) (25 April 2008)Company Credits
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Composed by Arvo Pärt
Performed by I Fiamminghi, The Orchestra of Flanders
Conducted by Rudolf Werthen
Courtesy of Telarc International Corporation
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Dillon Freasier (who plays H.W. Plainview, the son of the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis) was not an actor; he was an elementary student near the film's West Texas shooting location. On the radio program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," Paul Thomas Anderson told Gross that when the production was trying to convince Dillon's mother to allow Dillon to be in the movie, his mother wanted to figure out who Day-Lewis was, so she rented a copy of Gangs of New York (in which Day-Lewis plays a murderous gang leader nicknamed "The Butcher"). She panicked at the idea of her son spending time with the man she saw in that movie, so the 'There Will Be Blood' casting department rushed to her a copy of The Age of Innocence, in which Day-Lewis plays a civilized and gentle man. See more »Goofs
In the bowling alley scene, Eli is clearly visible placing Daniel's refused drink above the central panel on the paneled divider. After the cut-away to Daniel, the drink is not above the central panel, but above the panel adjacent to the central one. See more »Crazy Credits
There are no opening credits, except for the title See more »Soundtracks
"Fratres for Cello and Piano"Composed by Arvo Pärt
Performed by I Fiamminghi, The Orchestra of Flanders
Conducted by Rudolf Werthen
Courtesy of Telarc International Corporation
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This film raises the game for everyone out there. I have loved all of Paul Thomas Anderson's work, including his greatly underrated Punch-Drunk Love, but this is a huge leap from any of the previous movies into a realm, as others have said, inhabited by classics such as Treasure of the Sierra Madre - and then some. Every element of this film is astonishing, from the opening twenty minutes, which feature virtually no dialog, to Jonny Greenwood's score, which I have heard criticized as too imposing but which seems just about perfect to me (and brings to mind the non-Blue Danube elements of 2001 at its most experimental). Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is in a league of its own: his voice, his mannerisms, his physical movement, his stunted emotions, are flesh and blood, and hauntingly so, in a way that even Tommy Lee Jones in In The Valley of Elah (which I thought was a pretty staggering performance) can't quite attain. I will watch this film again and again simply to see something so raw and so moving and so gut-wrenching. This is why I love movies; this is what made me want to make movies when I was fourteen years old.