There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is an intense and beautifully crafted film from start to finish. The cinematography is stunning, the atmosphere is gripping, and the pacing builds tension in a way that keeps you fully invested. Daniel Day Lewis delivers an incredible performance that completely carries the film. His portrayal is layered, commanding, and unforgettable. The soundtrack and overall direction add to the unsettling tone in the best possible way. This is not a light or casual movie, but it is absolutely worth watching. A powerful story with outstanding acting and direction that stays with you long after it ends. Definitely a five star film.

This movie is as good as it gets in modern moviemaking. Daniel Day-Lewis, our greatest living actor, adds his greatest character portrayal yet to a seemingly unlimited range of characters past. He plays Daniel Plainview an oil wildcatter during the age of the post-Reconstruction "Robber Barons." Not all of the Robber Barons were financial wizards like Jay Gould or conniving accounting monopolists like John D. Rockefeller, unethically stealing the profits of the hard working entrepreneurs who made the great oil and mineral discoveries of the time. Daniel represents the driven, rugged individualist who resisted and defeated Rockefeller and the railroads' attempts to reap the fortune of his almost literally back-breaking efforts. But in his quest, struggle and ultimate financial success Plainview pays a heavy price. The brutal, ruthless life he leads to attain his ambition for wealth leaves him resembling more a denizen of nature than a resident of the human race. Whether he lost his soul in his childhood, in his quest, or never had one in the first place, is for the viewer to decide. The scene with his "brother", Henry, is truly chilling when Daniel first reveals his brutal, misanthropic nature. Only Daniel Day-Lewis could deliver such blood curdling dialogue in that scene; slowly, in a philosophical manner explaining to Henry his hateful feelings toward all others with a fatalistic smile on his face. He is a man comfortable in a skin in which many others would not be. Kevin J. O'Connor's portrayal of Henry is outstanding as a desperate soul who never betrays Daniel, and is as loyal as a brother, but dies at Daniel's hand. Daniel, as is shown throughout the movie, has a very perverse view of family and loyalty. The development of his relationship with his adoptive son, H.W., is the clearest view into Daniel's character and ultimately renders the final verdict on Daniel's lifelong quest for wealth. Daniel's hardened and embittered nature is never shown more pointedly, and brutally, than in his final scene with H.W. ("a [...]in a basket!"). It is the savagely destructive psychological counterpart to the physical destruction Daniel wreaks in the final scene with Eli Sunday, the "false prophet". Paul Dano as Eli Sunday, the greedy charismatic preacher, has received many accolades for his performance. It is good, though not as good as O'Connor's "Henry" or the young H.W. (Dillon Freasier). The main problem is not so much Dano's performance as his character's physical appearance. Day-Lewis ages slowly but markedly through the thirty-five year period of the movie. Dano, however, looks exactly the same age in the final confrontation in the bowling alley as he does when he first encounters Daniel at Eli's family dinner table. There is also a scene later in the movie, some time after the scene at the family dinner table, in which Daniel beats and humiliates Eli in front of others. It is almost a cinematic non-sequitur since the tension and rivalry between the two has not built to the point to justify the scene. Regardless, those two items of criticism are slight in the context of a truly great movie. The cinematography and the musical score lend greatly to its dark atmospherics. It is encouraging to see that it was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson whose previous undistinguished work includes the voyeuristically juvenile "Boogie Nights" and the embarrassing attempt at romantic comedy, "Punch Drunk Love". It does shows that an artist can grow beyond the exploitative and immature sides of Hollywood cinema as he matures. It undoubtedly helped Thomas to have Daniel Day-Lewis as the star, rather than an Adam Sandler. This is Day-Lewis's movie and he is the best. I have used the word "brutal" on a number of occasions in this review. The era of the Robber Barons was just that. This movie effectively conveys the history you may read about the era and the unforgiving state of nature that produced men like Daniel Plainview. As has been mentioned by other reviewers, the Plainview character is "loosely" based on a character named Vern Roscoe in the novel "Oil," written by Upton Sinclair. Sinclair's fictional character, in turn, was "loosely" based on a real person, named Edward L. Doheny. He is profiled in Wikipedia if you would like more information about him. All such "loose" associations are irrelevant in a great movie. Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis have produced a cinematic masterpiece. It will be considered a classic in due time because of the timelessness of its theme and the greatness of its performances. I'm finished.

The back of the case is hard to read so here are the audio options: English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital. There is no Dolby Atmos or DTS alternative.

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There Will Be Blood There Will be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 classic "There Will be Blood" is a searing portrayal of ambition, greed, and betrayal set in Southern California in the early 20th century. It is the story of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a silver miner-turned oil wildcatter and his climb from poverty to great wealth. Along the way it examines the cult of evangelism, the strength of family relationships, and the emotional toll exacted by gaining success at any price. Thematically, the movie is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's Novel "Oil!, which in turn is based partly on the life of Edward L. Doheny, of Teapot Dome infamy. In the movie, Plainview's son H.W. becomes deaf when the big gusher comes in. In real life, Doheny's son Ned was killed in a murder-suicide involving his male secretary and purported lover. The killings took place at Greystone Mansion, the enormous house the elder Doheny built for his son. The mansion is the setting for the final scene of the movie, which I won't divulge. The cast is uniformly excellent, especially Paul Dano as Eli Sunday who also plays his brother Paul. Eli is an ambitious evangelist, intent on growing his church with Plainview's money, which comes from the oil from the Sunday family's ranch. One element of the movie that didn't work for me was the introduction of a drifter, who shows up one day claiming to be Plainview's half-brother. Inconsistencies show up in his story, and in a fit of rage Plainview takes his revenge. I've purposely held off discussing Daniel Day- Lewis's performance until last. There is no disputing the intensity of Day-Lewis's acting, but for me, it was too over-the-top. Day-Lewis is notoriously avoidant of interviews and self-explanation, so we are dependent on the performance alone to determine his character's motivation. I give the movie four and a half stars... taking off one star for the poor packaging the CD comes in. It's a cheap piece of cardboard like you find in supermarket discount "dollar DVD's" and a lousy way to market a product.

Fantastic, एपिक movie, Danielle de Luis as usual is great

Oh my goodness what a performance by Daniel Day-Lewis my god this guy is good with his acting skills hands bloody down.Wow you got to see this movie which is a true story by the way.i just can't believe there is only seventeen reviews of this movie man what ashamed.. "This is one epic American classic that should not be missed" Daniel Day-Lewis, gives the Academy Award Winning performance of his life, Daniel Plainview [Day-Lewis] and his son are independent oil men, prospecting through California at the turn of the 20th century, who was challenged by a young preacher, Eli Sunday played by [Paul Dano] which both men lives turn into an abyss, and a darkly-journey of madness, I have watched this movie So many Times, that the first time he meet the people to pitch his prospecting ideas, I think I can recite every word that was said, here's what was said,word for word, "Ladies and gentlemen, I traveled over Jist about half our state to get here this evenin'. I couldn't get away sooner, because my new well was a-comin' in at Lobos River, and I had to see about it.That well is now flowin' four thousand barrel, and payin' me an income of five thousand dollars a day, I got two others drilling', and I got sixteen producin' at Antelope. So, ladies and gentlemen if I say I'm an oil man, you got to agree, "You got a great chanct here, ladies and gentlemen; but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you ain't carful, out of all the fellers that beg you for a chanct to drill your land, maybe one in twenty will be oil men; the rest will be speculators, fellers tryin' to get between you and the oil men. to get some of the money that ought by rights come to you, Even if you find one that has money, and the means to drill, he'll maybe know nothin' about drillin', and have to hire out the job on contract- and then you're trying to rush the job through, so as to get to another contract jist as quick as he can. But, ladies and gentlemen, I do my own drillin', and the fellers that work for me are fellers I know, I make it my business to be there and to see to their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole, and spend months a-fishin'; I don't botch the cementin' off, and let water into the hole, and ruin the whole lease, And let me tell you, I'm fixed right now like no other man or company in this field, Because my Lobos River well has jist come in, I got a string of tools all ready to put to work, I can load a rig onto trucks, and have them here in a week, I've got business connections, so I can get the lumber for the derrick-- such things go by friendship,in a rush like this, That's why I can guarantee to start drillin'; and put up the cash to back my work, I assure you whatever the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won't be there. Runtime 158 Minutes. Widescreen 2.40:1 5.1 Surround Master Audio.

Wahnsinnig betörende, faszinierende aber auch ganz dreckige Kinobilder, die so nachhaltig wirken dürften, wie die unvergessenen Bilder in Malicks "Glut des Südens" : Der Oscarprämierte Kameramann Robert Elswitt zeigt dem Zuschauer ein noch unerschlossenes, weites und erhabenes Land nach dem Sieg gegen die Ureinwohner: Trockene Öde, steinige Prärie, herbstliche Wälder. Die zweite Teil der Eroberung wird eingeleitet. Inmitten dieser wunderbaren, teils sehr spröden Landschaft agiert der Ölmann Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis). Reiner Zufall, denn er hat 1898 nach Silber gegraben und stösst überraschend auf Öl. Er kann Geld damit machen und betätigt sich fortan mit seinem kleinen Sohn (Dillon Freasier) als kleines Familienunternehmen in Sachen Ölbohrungen. Als ein Farmerjunge ihm von einer noch unerschlossenen Ölquelle im Hinterland der USA berichtet, kauft er Grundstück um Gründstück zu Spottpreisen von den vielen armen und extrem religiösen Farmerfamilien auf und beginnt mit den Bohrungen. Dies wird der Sprung vom Unternehmen zum Grosskapitalisten....mit allen Begleiterscheinungen. Paul Thomas Andersons oscarprämierter Film ist eine gallige und morbide Abhandlung über diese erstrebenswerten Ziele des Menschen, Reichtum und Macht, der die Menschen auf diesem Weg dorthin natürlich verändert und sie gierig werden lässt. Demgegenüber stellt er den um 1900 bis heute ständig erstarkten christlichen Fundamentalismus im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten mit einem jungen, charsmatischen Prediger, Eli Sunday (Paul Franklin Dano, bekannt aus Little Miss Sunshine), der sich vom unscheinbaren, gottesfürchtigen Farmerjungen zum bigotten, demagogischen Hassprediger ebenso wie Plainview wandelt. Der Film spukt auf die Verklärung der Gründerjahre und lässt diese zwei amerikanischen Werte "Money and God" aufeinanderprallen, führt sie in Kombination als verlogene und unglückmachende Zweckgemeinschaft vor. Durch die heutigen Ereignisse um Öl, Terror, Wirtschaftskrisen, Börsencrash und dem Fehlen von wahrhaftigen moralischen Instanzen ein hochaktuelles und spannendes Thema. Andersons Film zeigt uns die Anfänge des Kapitalismus ab 1900. Als die Bodenschätze gierig erschlossen wurden und der Grundstein gelegt wurde, dass die USA zur grössten und reichsten Weltmacht mit "Gottes Segen" werden konnte. Einer der grossen Filme des Jahres, in der epischen und suggestiven Machart ein bisschen mit "die Ermordung des Jesse James" verwandt - lediglich einen Tick näher am Puls der Zeit. Nach "Last Exit Reno", "Boogie Nights" und "Magnolia" ein weiteres, grandioses Kino des jetzt schon legendären Directors. Vielleicht sogar sein Meisterwerk.

Una película ,que todavía no la he visto,pero la he chequeado capítulo a capítulo.y se ve y de olle de fábula .una copia muy buena sin grano aparente,ni siquiera en las sombras

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