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  1. Apr 11, 2022 · The title of There Will Be Blood gives an explicit promise of gore, yet blood is absent for almost the entire movie. The film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is inspired by the novel Oil!

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  2. Feb 10, 2024 · There Will Be Blood was initially inspired by the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. Doheny was the inspiration for one of Oil ’s main characters, James Arnold Ross. By having Daniel “live” in Doheny’s mansion, we can assume Daniel may have been as wealthy as the man himself.

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  4. Robert Elswit, ASC reteams with director Paul Thomas Anderson on There Will Be Blood, the saga of an unsociable oil prospector who strikes it rich but loses his soul. The following is an excerpt from American Cinematographer magazine, written by Stephen Pizzello, ‘Blood for Oil.’

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    The 2007 feature film There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is inspired by the novel, but the story is too different to be considered an adaptation. Unlike the novel, There Will Be Blood focused on the father, with his son being a supporting character. Paul Thomas Anderson said that he only incorporated the first 150 pages of ...

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    • 1927
  6. Sep 28, 2021 · In There Will Be Blood, the opening reveals Daniel Plainview mining, not for oil, but silver. That silver is then taken and used to start up his whole oil business that goes on to be the rest of the film's main premise. So, why did PTA have Daniel's break from humble beginnings be with silver?

  7. Jan 4, 2008 · Well-oiled machine: Daniel Day-Lewis dominates 'There Will Be Blood' as corrupt tycoon Daniel Plainview, a man prone to eruptions as violent as that of a flaming oil well. By Peter Rainer...

  8. Oil! There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. [5]

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