There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

More than an epic tale of an early 20th Century oilman, this is a fascinating study of the greed for power and what it does to a man. We meet Daniel Plainview down the bottom of a mine, exerting himself in mind-numbingly monotonous and backbreaking work, looking for gold or silver. He is a man willing to endure pain and humiliation to grasp more money, or more power. As he quickly moves from gold to black gold, he becomes more powerful, and his ruthlessness and underhandedness become more and more apparent, combined with the charisma required to persuade landowners to part with the mineral rights of their property. We learn about how he sees other people when he adopts a boy who he finds useful to put a kind face on his activities, and how he treats a man appears claiming to be his half brother. The movie kicks into gear though when he meets an equally power hungry man in the unlikely form of the young faith healer and preacher, to whom he takes a seemingly instant dislike. With the relationships with these three characters, we see his dilemna- his power is only something if he can pass it on, but when he sees only the worst in other people, how can he? Who will be worthy of the three to take on his mantle..? The style of the movie has some stunning direction which tells us much of the story through scenes and images, rather than words, yet this is married with an intelligent, absorbing and uncompromising script. The music is daringly inventive, although with me the jury is out whether it is a success or a distraction. Daniel Day-Lewis turns in yet another 100% authentic and believable performance, creating a chilling and yet at times charismatic character, and Paul Dano is remarkable as the young preacher. Sure, women are given little to no role in the story, and it is unremitting in its bleakness, at times feeling like it has been designed to within an inch of its cinematic life. It's not going to be to everyone's taste.. However the authenticity, stunning performances and script that demands the viewer engage in some thought, have created what might just be a bona fide masterpiece, even with its flaws.

When reviewing a film featuring a performance as powerful as that of Daniel Day Lewis, one can easily make the mistake of devoting too much attention to Day Lewis, and not on the rest of the film. There is no question that Daniel Day Lewis absolutely dominates the screen as the cunning, cynical and utterly greedy Daniel Plainview. However, the film itself has many masterstrokes of its own. The opening itself, without any dialogue for the first 15 minutes, is a strangely intriguing introduction as we are drawn into the intriguing world of early twentieth century California. The very set design, and period recreation are a total immersion in their selves, and give the viewer the feeling that they really are back in the early twentieth century. Regardless of the subject matter, even if one is undecided as to whether a drama surrounding the ambitions of an oil man is necessarily their cup of tea, the story pace, characters, and underlying score are enough to keep one completely engrossed. The story has many interesting turns and developments, and the films title can be understood in a number of ways, however leaving the viewer to form their own opinion is the best approach, as unraveling the title is part of the films enjoyment. The Blu Ray is an entirely appropriate format for the film, as it has some excellent cinematography that are a fine exhibit of Blu Ray's advantages. In short, a mesmerizing, unsettling, and in many ways darkly comic drama that is truly unforgettable.

The film is completely character driven, but wow what characters, amazing from the 2 main protagonists, a must watch.

It's a very good movie

I bought this dvd like 10 years ago, and I did not watch it completely. The reason was that I found it too long, two and half hours, with not much interesting scenes and dialogues. But somehow, Daniel character clung on my head. And in recent years my interest in Psychology grow huge. Then I wanted to re-watch it. And that was a perfect judgement. The reason for that is that Daniel character represents the modern personality sickness in a so subtle form. - He wants to be rich more than anyone around him, and he does not want to deal with anybody. - He does not give a damn about people. They are just tools, means for him to reach his own goals. - He hates everyone. - He is angry inside. - He is envious inside. - He believes everyone can be manipulated. - He does not have a faith, but he can be Christian, can be Muslim, or a Jew at a finger snap, no problem. - Same goes in politics, he can be leftist, rightist, feminist, environmentalist, communist, BLMist, racist.. you name it.. Bottom line is that whatever he choose to be should be serving his grandiosity among others. - But in the mean time he wants to love people, and to be loved. Deep inside he is empty, longing for all those feelings. He wants to fill his emptiness with a normal human being, but that is something he can not do it. That is not his nature, so he is in a continues suffering state. Another great sphere of the movie is that you hardly notice these personality traits on Daniel for the first half of the movie. And this is exactly about these psychos in reality; deception. In the first half of the movie, Daniel appears like a poor countryman man striving to be a self made millionaire. But his dialogues, his facial gestures, his body language are so subtle in presenting the modern psychopath I described above. Daniel starts his own oil drilling adventures in late 19th century in New Mexico. One of his workers dies in an accident. And he adapts his son, H. W. Daniel is also single. Viewer feels the oddness of this adaptation because Daniel is not type of man who has empathy, care for anyone. I think this is one of the best part of the story, because viewer is always kept in a suspicion on true character of Daniel. And answer to this adaptation comes at the end of the movie, may be in the best scene, and dialogue of the movie. It is the best articulation of the Daniel's psychopath. Movie goes on with Daniels rising about his Oil business together H. W. by buying some poor and religious farmers' land in California. Although movie concentrated on Daniel, in my view, it takes a twist after half of it concentrating on preacher of the village church, Eli. Eli is the son of the farmer from whom Daniel bought the land. Eli asks for money for the church, he wants to have a bigger, better church. Though Daniel hates Eli's money ripping of him for Church, he still does all those payments. Even in in his dealings with Christian farmers, he comes to a point he gets baptised and confesses his sins. Deception is his normal part of life. But movie, portrays the Eli no less deceptive and sick than Daniel. This Paradoxical appearance of sick minds of Daniel, and the Preacher is so captivating.. It is a social paradox between "good" and "evil". And both are suffering inside themselves, their paradoxical sick personalities. Both characters of Daniel, and Eli dominates the movie. Daniel Day-Lewis, and Paul Dano casting these characters are magnificent.

I drink YOUR milkshake, I drink it up

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.

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Il blu-ray è arrivato in perfette condizioni ed esteticamente è ben fatto. Riguardo al film, beh... mi son trovato di fronte ad un capolavoro del regista Paul Thomas Anderson. Un affresco della nascita del capitalismo americano e una potente dimostrazione di come il "Dio denaro" possa corrompere il cuore delle persone, fino a renderle marcie, dalla testa ai piedi. Consigliatissimo!