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Dec 26, 2007 · Movie Reviews 'There Will Be Blood' December 26, 2007 5:43 PM ET. Bob Mondello Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood, a film based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil.
There Will Be Blood: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Jacob Stringer. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
The blood in There Will Be Blood refers to kin, killing and Christ’s work on Calvary. But most importantly, it evokes oil—the dark, powerful blood of the earth, pumped from the ground via the low, loud pulse of Daniel’s wells. It’s this blood, bubbling underneath the desolate land above, that powers this film and forms the natural ...
Jan 23, 2008 · The final scene in particular, while certainly rivetting, is an odd fit. There Will Be Blood is a film with a few more problems too, but it’s also a fascinating, if bleak, piece of cinema ...
Jan 1, 2008 · There Will Be Blood Review. Dec 26, 2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson makes a film as distinctive and important as those by the directors who inspired him. There Will Be Blood Todd Gilchrist.
Dec 12, 2007 · Review: There Will Be Blood. It’s ultimately Jonny Greenwood’s score that gives There Will Be Blood its throbbing, pulsating soul. Paul Thomas Anderson’s prodigious filmmaking talents have always been somewhat compromised by his more show-offy tendencies, as his gift with both the camera and actors has at times been hindered by a self ...
Jan 17, 2008 · He is, literally, something we have witnessed crawl up out of a hole. There Will Be Blood is by far the most ambitious film Paul Thomas Anderson has yet attempted, spare in its vision yet rich ...
