The movie There Will Be Blood was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson who was also the screen writer for the movie. The movie was based on a novel by Upton Sinclair. The movie was released on December 26, 2007. The two main actors in the movie are Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview and Paul Dano as Eli Sunday (“There Will Be Blood”). The movie was about an oilman and his son searching for land that might have oil on it, so that they can buy the land and drill for oil to make themselves rich. This movie is recommended for viewers over the age of 17 who would be more interested in a slower moving drama rather than an action movie or comedy. The main topic of the movie seems to be about how too much power can corrupt people.
In the movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel-Day Lewis plays a money-hungry oilman named Daniel
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Plainview who travels across the United States in search of oil so he can become rich. This movie would be in the drama category with a running time of two hours and thirty-eight minutes. In the movie Daniel Plainview meets a preacher named Eli Sunday. Throughout the movie Daniel and Eli are at each other’s throats because Daniel wants to pay as little money as possible to drill oil on land that was owned by Eli’s family. Daniel is supposed to make a donation of 5000 dollars to Eli’s church to help it, but he never pays the money. The movie was to inform the viewers about what happened in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the oil fields of America. It also informs viewers of how oilmen became so powerful and rich that they could do whatever they wanted and no one was strong enough to stop them. The story also entertained the viewer by showing the relationship between Daniel and his son, HW, and Daniel and Eli. While There Will Be Blood lost Best Picture, it did win Oscars for two of its most prominent features: Daniel Day-Lewis’s unforgettable performance and the film’s stunning, sweeping cinematography.
That award went to the film’s DP, Robert Elswit, an American journeyman who has shot dozens of films in his career (“The Best Cinematography”). The camera work throughout the movie was excellent at showing all of the different points of view. The camera would be behind the actor and show the viewer what the actor is looking at, or what is happening to the actor. The sound effects of the movie were also great. The way that Daniel slapped Eli and the sound it made is an example of how the camera work and the sound effects combined to make the movie seem so realistic. Another example of this combination of camera work and sound that was great was the part in the movie where the gas shot out from the ground and burned down the tower that Daniel and his workers built. The music in the movie was phenomenal. The way the music slowly began as either Daniel or Eli were confronting each other, or when there was a silent scene with only the music
playing. Daniel-Day Lewis was a fantastic actor in this movie. The way he portrayed Daniel in the movie felt like he really was the oilman in the story, who only wants the money and the power for himself. I remember him from The Crucible movie earlier in the year where he was also great. I believe that only Daniel-Day Lewis could’ve played the part of Daniel because nobody else could match his acting, and speaking skills in the movie. Since he won the Academy Award for Best Actor other people must agree. His character really never changes from the beginning of the story to the end. He maintains the same power hungry traits of the oilman who doesn’t care about anyone, not even his son. Daniel-Day Lewis’s character is just basically greedy and a rude person in general. I enjoyed the movie very much. I believe that it was one of the best movies that I have seen in a long time. One of my favorite scenes in the movie was the near the end where Daniel kills Eli with a bowling pin after making fun of him. Then Daniel says that he is “finished” which could mean that he is done with Eli or that his life is finished. I do believe that this movie deserves a better score than the 8.1 stars it was given on the IMDb website. This movie should be watched when you have nothing better to do on a Friday or Saturday night and when you have a lot of time because it is a long movie. This movie is for older teens and adults because of the “R” rating. I would watch this movie even if it was not the last form of entertainment left on earth.
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