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There Will Be Blood
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: De_El on 25 Jan 2008, 21:08 ---Very Citizen Kane.
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Only apt comparison. Fucking phenomenal movie.
KvP:
***SPOILARDS****
--- Quote from: De_El on 25 Jan 2008, 21:08 ---Very Citizen Kane.
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That's what I thought as well.
I didn't like the ending, not that I take issue with the content, I just think it was unnecessary. His last scene with H.W. would have made a far better ending. The thing is that Eli was never even close to being an equal to Plainview. It's sort of odd that the movie is being sold as a struggle between Eli and Daniel, when Eli never had any sort of chance to foil Plainview's plans. You know he's a charlatan from the outset, just as Plainview knows it. The ending sort of assumes we didn't. I found it gratuitous.
Overall, though, I think it's the best movie of '07. I think that might be because I was ridiculously hyped for No Country for Old Men and wasn't totally prepared for how restrained and methodical that movie was (I was expecting more thriller than noir, and got more noir than thriller) and wasn't hyped at all for this film going in.
PT Anderson has proven that he's not chained to the ensemble. Of course, he couldn't have chosen a better anchor for the film. Daniel Day Lewis shows once again that he might be the best actor of his generation.
Johnny C:
*HERE BE SPOILERS - DUNNA READ IF YE NAE SEEN THE FILM*
I thought the ending was perfect for showing how completely he'd lost himself to greed and power. I don't think the movie assumed we didn't think Eli was a charlatan; rather, I think it assumed we still thought there was a man behind Plainview's callousness. Instead, the movie reveals that by the end there is naught but a ruthless beast. He knows Eli is no match for him - that's what makes the murder so shocking.
I dunno. I'll have to watch it one more time, probably, just like I had to watch No Country twice.
SevenPinkerton:
SPOILERIFIC
I don't think the ending assumed that we didn't know about Eli. I thought the entire ending was for watching the two finally come together in all honesty of who they truly are, rather than showing the audience what we already knew from the get go. I thought it was one of the best scenes in the movie. Strangely enough, it was the only death that didn't much bother me as it seemed so inevitable. The conflict wasn't so much in physical terms of halting the business of Daniel or in Daniel halting Eli's Church, but in that they both knew the other's truth because they were both so very alike. Neither really won, in the end, but I wasn't sure if either really understood what it was they wanted.
Wasn't Eli the kid from Little Miss Sunshine?
KvP:
Paul Dano, yes. I was a little confused by the appearance of Paul at the beginning of the movie. Was he Eli's twin brother? Because if he wasn't, damn, whoever they got to play Eli looked exactly like Paul Dano.
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