“This is my son and partner, H.W” Bet you can’t read that without hearing Daniel Plainview’s voice in your head

"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" - two masterpieces from the same year. 2007

He didn’t care about his bloodline/legacy when he adopted the boy. He got the boy to make him seem more trustworthy to potential customers.

Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't believe his son comes back to ask Daniel for money - he returns to inform Daniel that he's setting up his own oil drilling company in Mexico. Daniel then disowns him for becoming his "competitor"

Honestly, I don't think I've seen such a perfectly made movie since.

This and No Country came out in the same year. Honestly its hard to decide if one is better. What an amazing surprise 2007 was for cinema.

Louis was the Daniel Plainview of this conversation.

0:43 I got the sense he wasn’t a billionaire or even rich at that point.

Louie went OFF on this one. There Will Be Blood collapses on itself like an infinite Russian doll. Every viewing unveils a new level of complexity and richness. And after each viewing, I could be scrolling the front page of the NYT and see so many stories that remind me of this movie and how it’s deep commentary on current events that happen today are so accurate. Gets to the core of the dark side of humanity.👌🏿 Fucking brilliant!

I saw this at the Alamo ritz back in 2007. I was 18. It was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. I also ran into Crispin Glover in the empty lobby which sealed the memory forever.

this is in my top 5 films of all time and I've been into films for over 30 years. Something about it went beyond explanation for me, I sat there mesmerized. The music was awe inspiring

Brilliant score by the genius Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead

"You're just a BASTARD in a BASKET! ........a BASTARD in a BASKET! Just a BASTARD in a BASKET!" 🖤

"you have none of me in you" "I thank God I have none of you in me"

Watching this as a kid when it came out: “this is boooooooring!” Watching it again as an adult: “This might be the best movie I’ve ever seen.”

This is my favorite movie 🍿/ film of all time. I saw it in the theater and it changed my life.

This just brought me a whole new appreciation for the film. Thank you Louis.

Lol the edit makes it sound like Louis won’t let the dude get 2 words in

I felt the same. Mesmerized from the very first moment of the very first sequence.

The character Daniel Plainview and the movie was based on Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!, and in part on Edward Doheny's life, an early American oil tycoon. Without Lewis' performance, nobody would be talking about this movie.

I drink your milk shake, I drink it up

I would pay money to see Louis CK discuss this film with PTA. Lots of money

I felt that the child was like a cog in the machine; if anything happened to the child, he knew it would be harder for him to gain the trust of the townspeople. He cared for the child as much as a man cares about the lights on his Rolls-Royce.

I need more videos of Louis ck talking about movies!!

If you want to really appreciate how diverse DDL is as an actor, watch Phantom Thread and remember this is the same human that plays Daniel Plainview.

This was a great clip.

Right...Right...I think th--....right

My favorite part of this movie is the ambiguity of the final line. "I'm finished!" Was the implication that he wasn't going to be able to get away with the murder he just commited, or was he just informing his butler that he should clean the mess up so he could get back to his day. Just a complete sociopath you can't read.

Not a word is spoken for 30 minutes. So fantastic.

I think this movie is the greatest film of all time. I just can't get enough. I must have seen it 12 times and I love it every single time. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is almost as good.

Read the book "Oil" by Upton Sinclair. It was used as the basis for this movie.

Undoubtedly the best acting in a movie i have ever seen. By DDL and by Dano. And prob top 5 movie of all time.

I always took it that Daniel Plainview wanted to have a son/family, but didn’t know how to do so because of how he was wired. I think it explains the deep affection after the injury, and the total disappointment when his own son wants to compete with him.

I believe the scene with him and his son signifies loss more than it depicts love between the characters

This video, I DRINK IT UP

Louis is such an incredible critic. I could listen to him talk about pretty much anything

I loved the music in the film what a great score.

CK louis, the comedian.

I have two copies of this movie...one to watch and one just for show...fkn ❤️ it

1:45 SO WELL DESCRIBED, exactly 💯

I'm so happy that Louis CK was able to pivot after what happened. He should do movie analysis full time and I'd listen to them all.

Its loosely based on Edward Doheny. If you've ever been to LA, Doheny Dr & Doheny Rd, Greystone Mansion that he donated to the city of Beverly Hills. Its not a dream, its an exploration. I love Louis CK, he has the mind to write these types of stories.

I think the scene where he is showing love to the son is one of the only parts in the film where he allows himself to show true emotion. The other scene being where Paul Dano compells him to admit to abandoning his son. The emotion is there underneath but he has so much personal discipline that he almost never cracks. He thinks maintaining personal discipline is the most important thing in his life.

One of my favorite movies of all time.

It is a tremendous film, and I only slightly give the edge to No Country in a fight over best film of the 21st century. I can re-watch both at any time, and catch just a single scene and be transported by just that scene. That was the end of great filmmaking, but we got two amazing treasures.

Grampa told me stories of 'oil men' he knew, the Wildcatters. It made me think of the California Gold Rush, the feral nature of it all. History books make light of it but it was brutal, both era...

My favorite movie

Louis CK is also one of my top favorite stand up comedians, he is amazing

God, I love this film!

My favourite movie.

My number one film. Its perfect

I think Daniel Plainview cared very deeply about HW. When HW complained to him about how the girl's dad was beating her for not praying, Daniel intervened in some way that we don't see. But if he was solely interested in using HW for financial gain, it doesn't make sense to potentially cause a rift between him and the dad. It's also telling how when Daniel sent HW to the deaf school, he actually couldn't do it himself. For how tough and resilient he was, he needed someone else to actually bring HW to the school because it hurt too much to abandon his kid. Plus, when Daniel and the guy pretending to be his brother made it to the coast, Daniel starts to express how sick this business is making him, and he's talking about his childhood and his wishes. And then to find out that the first time he ever was comfortable enough to be vulnerable with someone was a total lie, and that he'd also robbed him of sharing that moment with HW, irreparably broke Daniel. It also makes sense why Plainview hated Paul Dano's character so much because they were complete opposites. Plainview was, very deep in his heart a caring person for people who weren't able to defend themselves, but pushed that deeper and deeper any time he had to make a choice for business. Paul Dano pretended to be caring for victims in order to make money off of them, and Daniel hated him for it.

This is a cinematic masterpiece. Acting, story, musical score, cinematography, directing all masterful. "I look at people and see nothing worth liking"

Pretty much, yeah. Anderson is a master. The film knocks me out for all the reasons Louis said.

I was floored when I saw this movie in theaters. You could not take your eyes off of Daniel Day Lewis.

I always looked at DDL as the hero of this movie and Dano as the villain. Dano's character Eli has no real moral base and uses religion as a smoke screen for his cowardice greed and wrath. DDL's character is equally dispicable but makes no attempt to hide it, so you find yourself rooting for him in the end because at there's honesty in him.

Once again, Louie casually shits out one of the purest analyses of a movie ever

7:04 Has anyone here who's seen There Will Be Blood read its putative source material, Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!"??

Love CK’s honest take.

only artists can talk about art like that. louis ck is a very intelligent artist.

DDL and PTA ought to work together on an adaptation of Blood Meridian.

This movie feels like black silk with the sensation of watching a house fire , listening to an entire symphony.

This is probably my favorite movie, but I had no idea that other people loved it so deeply until reading these comments. And now I’m confused because people are arguing about what their different interpretations of the movie are, which is making me second guess my own interpretation😵‍💫.

This is my second favorite movie after Taxi Driver. De Niro as Travis Bickle is the standard for me as method acting before the new millennium. Daniel Plainview blew my mind away. It's just amazing acting, flawless.

TWBB is right up there with godfather in terms of perfection and quality in every aspect of film craft

Did Louis ck just start a random channel to review movies? I'm here for it

Easily the most believable period film ever made.

I don't think Plainview was a billionaire when he was mining by himself. The next scene he finally has enough money to hire out. Minor nitpick, but it's great to hear his thoughts

I love the way louis’ mind works

Everyone should listen to Louis’s two appearances on a movie podcast with comedians Joe List and Ranaan Hirschberg. He has a wealth of insight and a very open mind.

If I had access to some weird kind of Make-a-Wish Foundation, I'd ask for a bunch of weekends with Louis CK to watch movies & hang 💞

This might be the best short analysis of this film I’ve heard yet.

A real meeting of the mind

Da best!!

I have a bit more empathy for the main character. I don't know if it's greed so much as purpose. He is hell bent on accomplishing something truly and singularly great, and something he has done completely on his own merit, guile, labor or craftiness. I don't think he hates women so much as he feels he doesn't have time for them. He only has the child because his partner dies, and he didn't want the baby to starve to death. It was after taking care of the baby that he thought he could use the child to his advantage. Funnily enough, despite not being blood related, the child proved to have similar tendencies, such as when he tried to light the cabin his "father" was sleeping in on fire and kill him in cold blood. It was only then did he send the child away to a boarding school, as he was afraid of him.

What a great review. So spot on. I love this film. One thing I disagree with here. In the beginning of a film, Daniel Plainview is not rich or successful when he is down in that hole. He is just starting out...a diligent, hard working man obsessed with becoming successful and rich.

No. It wasnt about change in the modern sense. It was simply about losing ones humanity in pursuit of success. The more successful he became the more he literally had to defend it from others in pursuit of their own success. After so much success there will be blood. And despair.

I'm a bit surprised that CK doesn't know Upton Sinclair. The Jungle, also echoes a lot of literary terseness that PTA was able to do.

This movie corresponds to the story of the early Industrialist, the Expansionist VS. Anti-expansionist academics that go along with Gilded Age America and the Spanish American War. They couldn't stop these men with new surveying and scientific ability. They weren't going to respect religion because these men were reading "On The Origin Of Species" and religion was identifiable as someone who was uneducated. It was time for the sciences to send the country into an economic windfall. If you notice, Daniel Plainview worked in Kansas for Geological Survey before 1898. A real pioneer and they weren't going to put up with your religions and "False Profits". Paul Sunday was running from his brother Eli. And Daniel beats Eli publicly and says "I going to bury you underground". Why haven't you been to our house to heal my son's hearing yet, you're a vessel for the Holy Spirit? As he whips him and smothers Eli in oil and soil. He murders Henry his fake half brother and William Bandy catches him in the act. Next scene "Gimme the blood lord and let me get away! - - - Yes I do. (BAPTISM) Brrrrrrr, that's a pipeline". Daniel never says it, but he doesn't think much of people who are religious. He doesn't trample on their religions either. He knew not to do that. He was trying to make a community and that religion and the blessings turned into a conflict. A conflict America has had since this moment in scientific history. The theme of families breaking up is an excellent theme running through this film too. Daniel lost his family and was never able to create that warmth in his life. With all his money he could not get away from people he hated and have a loving family. He turns deeply alcoholic and somewhat disturbed at the end. His greed kills the relationship with his deafened son. Daniel saw HW as "Competition" going to Mexico. Mexico out produced the US for a few years after 1900.

It’s loosely based on the first third of Upton Sinclair’s, “Oil!.”

This movie really should be watched in conjunction with Andrei Rublev. A similar character in Andrei but Andrei sought and found love after years of wandering without it.

PTA films mostly stories about Los Angeles. Very much how M. Night films mostly stories about Pennsylvania. The story about 'There will be blood' is off of the Doheny's in La. Greystone Mansion, which fun fact is where the bowling alley scene takes place. The bowling alley is in the basement. The Doheny's were an oil family and came to La early on, drilled for oil, prospered but the family started falling apart when the money started flowing. One family member killed the other and staged it in the Greystone Mansion trying to blame someone else so they can be sol aire to the fortune. It's a crazy story, but it's mostly about a family in the late twentieth century becoming one of the richest families in the world because they were the first to drill for oil in Los Angeles.

This was the peak in cinema. Everything now has an agenda.

Perfect movie

God damn Louie knows his shit

I am the biggest Louie fan but he doesn’t let the other guy speak at all. Crazy haha

5:26 bro just let Louis spit.

Give me the blood, Eli, and let me get out of here.

i just like to watch

I'm glad the host agrees

The mad beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson

the greatest film of all time

It’s a great title for a film, You couldn’t have a better title for a film…except maybe There Will Be Tits. You could have a cinema that only showed, There Will Be Blood and There Will Be Tits and you don’t need any other films! That’s the end of cinema right there!

There Will Be Blood is fvcking awesome.

Right.

I happened to find a reprint of "Oil!", The Upton Sinclair book that 'There Will Be Blood' was allegedly based on, in a bargain bin @ Barnes N Noble. It only has the faintest resemblance to the film, I wouldn't recommend it, 'The Jungle" was a much (much) better piece of social commentary, and an engaging novel. 'Oil' was an attempt at shedding light on the many injustices of unregulated Capitalism, but the melodramatic story isn't all that interesting, and some of Sinclar's notions about Socialism are hopelessly naive (which is somewhat mitigated by the fact that this was published in 1926, years before Stalin or Mao.)

HW is so adorable

At least part of the story is based on the beginning of Oil! by Upton Sinclair.

Wow Lewis CK gives pretty eloquent review, I’ve never been very interested in this movie till hearing this, just was not impressed with PTAs past work, I know this will offend a lot of people but I thought Magnolia sucked, the part when everyone sings along to that song, crunchy🤣

I see a lot of similarities of that character with dutch van der linde. A person who can't stop fighting. But that also can't fight his own nature. A person that can't stop fighting. That's the paradox, you see?