Mar 07 2008
There Will Be Blood
Dir & Writ: Paul Thomas Anderson
Based on book by Upton Sinclair
- Daniel Day-Lewis … Daniel Plainview
- Ciarán Hinds … Fletcher Hamilton
- Dillon Freasier … H.W. Plainview
- Paul Dano … Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday
- Sydney McCallister … Mary Sunday
It is hard to know how to describe this film. It is more of a character study than a story. Of course there is some plot, an oilman and his desire to suceed, but the story isn’t too important. What is important is the character of Daniel Plainview, as played by Oscar winning Daniel Day-Lewis.
The opening scenes show just how driven Daniel is. We watch him, working on his own, in a mine. No dialogue at all for around 15 minutes, just this man in a hole, digging, dynamiting up the earth, falling down the hole, injured and yet still having the drive to pull himself out of that hole and struggle back into town to get his bit of dirt evaluated.
Tags: 9 Stars, based on book, character study, Ciarán Hinds, cinematography, Daniel Day-Lewis, dialogue, Dillon Freasier, Oscar winner, Paul Dano, Paul Thomas Anderson, R15A, Sydney McCallister, There Will Be Blood, Upton Sinclair, weird