There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!
No 144 - There Will be Blood Director - Paul Thomas Anderson This is a tense film. It deals not only with the difficulties of getting oil out of t'ground , but also with the heavy theme of manipulating people for your own personal goals. In case you have any doubts, the film paints its tension thick and plainly. The films near wordless introduction shows just how difficult and dangerous oil prospecting can be, but also racks up the tension with Jonny Greenwood's marvellous score . At its simplest , this is a battle between two men. Daniel Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview , an oil tycoon and Paul Dano's minister Eli Sunday. The two certainly do spa, but really it is about a lot more than that. It is about greed, it is about obsession, it is about cruelty and isolation. It is also about the worrying similarities between Plainview's cruelty and narrow mindedness and that of Sunday. It is also superbly acted. Much has been said about Daniel Day-Lewis. He is well known for...