'There Will Be Blood'...But No Frogs This Time
MADISON, WI - Turning into a busy day for movie posts, but with the great crop of films on the horizon this is not a bad thing.
Check out the latest from P.T. Anderson: There Will Be Blood.
Check out the latest from P.T. Anderson: There Will Be Blood.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/therewillbeblood/
Summary cut and pasted from Apple.com's movie trailers section:
"A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value – love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son – is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil."
Paul Thomas Anderson is part of a handful of directors whose films vary in degrees of greatness. He's never released just a 'good' film. I'm anxious as all hell to check this one out. Judging from the trailer, the Academy will be able to rectify Daniel Day-Lewis' lost Oscar for his portrayal of Bill the Butcher in Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
Summary cut and pasted from Apple.com's movie trailers section:
"A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value – love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son – is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil."
Paul Thomas Anderson is part of a handful of directors whose films vary in degrees of greatness. He's never released just a 'good' film. I'm anxious as all hell to check this one out. Judging from the trailer, the Academy will be able to rectify Daniel Day-Lewis' lost Oscar for his portrayal of Bill the Butcher in Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
4 comments:
This movie sounds interesting. I dig me some P.T. Anderson, even if he was once considered a "blowjob hack."
Another in a long line of things I wish I had never said.
The top of that list? "Nathan Lueptow is my best friend."
...a close second:
"You can have her."
Don't worry, I've always pretended I never heard those words on the top of your list.
No. 2 on the other hand will be with me in my grave.
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