This week in The Q we drill deep into an instant classic. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world to explore a very different dysfunctional man â an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition THERE WILL BE BLOOD is Andersonâs loose adaptation of the novel âOil!â by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg⦠Pulling himself up from the bowels of the earth (both literally and metaphorically), Plainview embarks on a systematic and steadfast approach to mastering the oil business. Using plain-speak and straightforward language, Plainview launches a campaign to convince small-town property owners they should let him drill their land. Without him, they wonât have the equipment to access the profit beneath their feet. He builds an empire this way â and gradually becomes obsessed with the intrinsic value of power â growing increasingly fierce and paranoid in the process, but Plainview meets his match in Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a teenage preacher and soul wrangler in the small California town of Little Boston who is more than satisfied to make him squirm for the bounty that flows below them. Plainview must suffer the opposing whims of this âprophet,â whose legitimacy is questionable at best. And itâs unclear if either man is prepared to pay the humiliating price the other wants to exact. We reviewed this one from Acrooooossss the room! Grab a milkshake, check it out.
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