But the film is above all a consummate work of art, one that transcends the historically fraught context of its making, and its pleasures are unapologetically aesthetic. In brief, There Will Be Blood is the story of Daniel Plainview, a self-made oil millionaire who fights all his life to get everything he wantsoil, money, powerand in the process, breaks all. The opening images of desert hills and a droning electronic chord allude to the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey, whose murderous apes are part of a Darwinian continuum with Daniel Plainview. It’s timeless and topical, general and specific, abstract and as plain as the name of its fiery oilman. “With a story of and for our times, There Will Be Blood can certainly be viewed through the smeary window that looks onto the larger world. There Will Be Blood Based on Upton Sinclairs 1927 novel Oil, about a clash of capitalism and religion at the turn of the last century, this sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a. 24, 2008 The best moments in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood and in Oil, the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair on which it is loosely based, are. Day-Lewis won a richly deserved Oscar for his portrayal of the deeply flawed Plainview, a prototypical and primitive American capitalist who worships only the money and power gained from black gold. The story chronicles the life of Daniel Plainview, who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner into a self-made oil tycoon. Loosely based on Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel Oil!, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood tells the epic story of Daniel Plainview, a failed silver miner who strikes it rich as an oilman, his adopted son H.W., and a charismatic, oily preacher. There will be actual blood, but for now oil is its symbolic doppelganger.
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