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- Caption: There Will Be Blood (2007)
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Director Paul Thomas Anderson�s THERE WILL BE BLOOD is a masterly, unflinching examination of a consummately evil man. Daniel Plainview (via a transcendent performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis) is, as he likes to remind those around him, an oil man: he finds it, he drills for it, and he makes money from it. Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday, whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil, Plainview travels to the town of New Boston, California, with his young son. Sunday�s preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview�s ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church. As Plainview�s plans come to fruition, a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself, pitting Plainview against Sunday and forcing him to become even more vindictive and ruthless. Anderson proved with BOOGIE NIGHTS and MAGNOLIA that he was adept at handling expansive storylines and layered plots; however, he stakes out a claim here as a new master of the cinematic epic. The film is visually stunning, and alternates between lush widescreen shots of the desert and meticulously composed, darkly lit close-up of his actors, presenting complex images of the American landscape and the souls that dot it. As a narrative, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is told with a sense of economy, yet never at the expense of the film�s inherently grand scope. It�s difficult to determine precisely what Anderson wants his viewers to take from the experience: the film is, in the end, appropriately complex and ambiguous. THERE WILL BE BLOOD forces us to confront Plainville, who seems to be a larger-than-life personification of evil; that we don�t entirely understand him at the film�s conclusion is not a shortcoming, but rather a tribute to the depths of this most vile creature and this most brilliant film.
Directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
Writing credits
(WGA)
Paul Thomas Anderson (screenplay)
Upton Sinclair (novel "Oil!")
Cast (in credits order)
Daniel Day-Lewis ... Daniel Plainview
Martin Stringer ... Silver Assay Worker #1
Kevin J. O'Connor ... Henry Brands
Jacob Stringer ... Silver Assay Worker #3
Matthew Braden Stringer ... Silver Assay Worker #2
Ciarán Hinds ... Fletcher Hamilton
Dillon Freasier ... H.W. Plainview
Joseph Mussey ... Silver Assay Worker #4
Barry Del Sherman ... H.B. Ailman
Russell Harvard ... H.W. Plainview - Older
Harrison Taylor ... Baby HW
Stockton Taylor ... Baby HW
Paul F. Tompkins ... Prescott
Kevin Breznahan ... Signal Hill Man
Jim Meskimen ... Signal Hill Married Man
Erica Sullivan ... Signal Hill Woman
Randall Carver ... Mr. Bankside
Coco Leigh ... Mrs. Bankside
Paul Dano ... Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday
Sydney McCallister ... Mary Sunday
David Willis ... Abel Sunday
Christine Olejniczak ... Mother Sunday
Kellie Hill ... Ruth Sunday
James Downey ... Al Rose
Dan Swallow ... Gene Blaize
Robert Arber ... Charlie Wrightsman
Bob Bell ... Geologist
David Williams ... Ben Blaut
Joy Rawls ... Eli Follower #1
Louise Gregg ... Eli Follower #2
Amber Roberts ... Eli Follower #3
Robert Caroline ... Oil Worker #2
John W. Watts ... Oil Worker #1
Barry Bruce ... Oil Worker #3
Irene G. Hunter ... Mrs. Hunter
Hope Elizabeth Reeves ... Elizabeth
John Chitwood ... Little Boston Doctor
David Warshofsky ... H.M. Tilford
Tom Doyle ... J.J. Carter
Colton Woodward ... William Bandy
John Burton ... L.P. Clair
Hans Howes ... Bandy
Robert Barge ... Bartender
Ronald Krut ... Standard Oil Man #1
Huey Rhudy ... Standard Oil Man #2
Steven Barr ... Standard Oil Man #3
Robert Hills ... HW's Interpreter
Colleen Foy ... Adult Mary Sunday
Rev. Bob Bock ... Priest
Vince Froio ... Plainview Servant #1
Phil Shelly ... Plainview Servant #2 - Actor/Actress/Director:
- Movie: There Will Be Blood
- Id: 10891959
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