There Will Be Blood

[highwind]

I couldn't find a topic for this film so I've made one.

Just saw it last night and was completely captivated by it. The tone, pace, message, soundscape, acting...oh everything was great.

Discuss.

[Kire]

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DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!

Having spoiled myself by seeing the final scene, I really wanna see the rest of the movie.

:wildhogs

[John Mora]

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It's one of my favorite movies of all time. By far, the best movie of last year (or technically this year since it didn't come out to my neck of the woods until 2008). Daniel Day Lewis is phenomenal, the cinematography is exquisite and the score is lonely and works so well in tandem with everything else to give the movie its own unique soul.

THIS is the movie people will be calling a classic 25+ years from now, not No Country for Old Men.

[DK]

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I made a topic when I saw it in January saying that the movie was boring as hell and I really didn't like it. My opinion has changed slightly over time but only because it's so fun to quote, I still think it's a pretty boring movie.

And I still say the siren soundtrack was retarded.

It is certainly a movie worthy of discussion, though....too bad I don't feel like discussing it right now~!

[John Mora]

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It's not a siren. It's strings.

[DK]

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Doesn't matter to me~!

[John Mora]

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Doesn't matter to me~!

:wildhogs

[Magus]

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This movie is a modern classic, it's always on my mind. It deserved every best picture award and I foresee a time when it will play at midnight screenings for Daniel Plainview fans to go and enjoy with fake mustaches and milkshakes. Er, maybe that's not such a great idea, but still - this movie haunts. It will last. With it on video now I think we'll see/hear a lot more about it.

It also serves as an excellent Idiot Litmus Tests in conversations.

yeah i said it \:3

Also: best ending ever.

[DK]

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Mora & Magus: Because you are wrong otherwise.

[Magus]

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We drink your milkshake. We drink it up.

[John Mora]

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I'll bury you underground, DK!

[highwind]

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I would actually love to open a discussion between There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.

While I admit I enjoyed myself much more during There Will Be Blood - I feel like the suspense, unconventional stylistic choices and necessary reflection that racked my brain during No Country For Old Men made it my favorite of the two.

Nevertheless, I was enamored throughout There Will Be Blood and am incredibly grateful to have seen two such fantastic films in the past year.

[Perversion]

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I've not seen it yet, but I'm STILL waiting for Paul Thomas Anderson to top Boogie Nights. From what I've heard/read, this might be the movie that does it, in my mind, at least. In any case, I've not seen a P.T. Anderson film yet that I've not enjoyed, and most of them, I enjoyed immensely. Maybe I need to see Hard Eight again, but I think that's the weakest of his films that I've seen (granting the fact that it was his debut). And even though I really dislike Adam Sandler, I still thought Punch Drunk Love was pretty great.

[Bon]

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I actually saw this movie two Fridays ago. I liked it overall, but I had a few quirks about it. The first being the beginning of the movie:

*** SPOILERS ***
It kind of drags, and for a 2 hour plus flick to do this in the beginning of the movie gets points taken off in my book.
*** END SPOILERS ***


The second quirk I had about the flick was Daniel Day Lewis' voice for his character. It seemed so...forced, so...weird, and I'm pondering as to whether people talked like this in the early 20th century.

What I liked most about this movie though was how:

*** SPOILERS ***
Lewis' character manages to swindle every person he encounters, with the exception of Paul/Eli Sunday, of the land so that he could reap the profits. Oh, and I really loved how he got Paul to reject God for money he was never going to get, only to get his brains splattered by a goddamn bowling pin. Wow!
*** END SPOILERS ***


Best movie of all-time? I can't really agree with the majority on this one. Best movie of 2007? One of the bests, but I have to give that credit to No Country. Sorry, John.

[Magus]

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The beginning of the movie is perfect, perfect, perfect. It captures the tone of the movie - bubbling, brooding, threatening. It's dark, dreary, there's filth everywhere, violence is right around the corner and you don't know when it's gonna happen until it does and you're ****in' shocked. Bludgeoned. Dialogue isn't even necessary, you can SEE how hellbent Daniel is on success. He breaks his leg in the shaft, crawls UP out of it, crawls who knows how many miles to the town and then lays there in the house, happy as a ****ing clam. He's not like normal men.

And the shot - that brilliant, beautiful shot - of his hand running across the pump and then reaching for the sky, his fingers dripping with the blood of the earth - that's the "Oil!" of the original title.

And that music. Hypnotic and scary.

As for Daniel's voice, Daniel Day-Lewis listened to recordings from the time period to get the cadences down and he also based his voice and some mannerisms on the actor/director John Huston - who directed and acted in Chinatown (another brilliant movie) and directed The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (another ****ing brilliant movie), which director P.T. Anderson reportedly watched every single night while shooting There Will Be Blood.

Watch John Huston in Chinatown and you'll see some Daniel Plainview in him for sure. Not that I consider Plainview anywhere near the ****ing evil John Huston is in Chinatown ... if anything, I sympathize with and pity Plainview. It's too bad he happens to be ****ing nuts.