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There Will Be Blood (2007) 8.1
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Metascore: 92/100
Reviews: 1,016 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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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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Abel Sunday: I followed His word, Eli. I tried.
Eli Sunday: You didn't do anything but sit down. You're lazy, and you're stupid. Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel.
[Eli jumps across the table and slams Abel to the ground]
Eli Sunday: Look what you've done, you stupid man! How did he come here, do you want to ...
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Written by Lewis E. Jones
Performed by Church of the Third Revelation
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Director Paul Thomas Anderson owns a vintage 1910 Pathe camera which contains a special forty-three millimetre lens. The lens was specially modified to be used in the film as it has very low resolution and can shift colors at corners. Only certain shots of the film used this lens; for example a shot of Plainview sleeping in the train with an infant H.W. See more »Goofs
When Daniel digs grave to bury Henry, water is seen in grave but soil which is removed is not wet. See more »Quotes
Eli Sunday: You are a stupid man, Abel. You let some come in here and walk all over us. You let him in, and do his work here, and you are a stupid man for what we could have had.Abel Sunday: I followed His word, Eli. I tried.
Eli Sunday: You didn't do anything but sit down. You're lazy, and you're stupid. Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel.
[Eli jumps across the table and slams Abel to the ground]
Eli Sunday: Look what you've done, you stupid man! How did he come here, do you want to ...
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There are no opening credits, except for the title See more »Soundtracks
"There Is Power in the Blood"Written by Lewis E. Jones
Performed by Church of the Third Revelation
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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.