There Will Be Blood is one of those films you watch early on in your exploration of cinema and go: "Man, that's incredible." And then, once you become more experienced, knowledgeable, your taste becomes more refined, once you disregard 95% of the stuff you considered "great" back in the day, you go back to it and still go: "Man, that's incredible."

Do you like the smell of your own s@it?

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This happened to me in 2016. Came across the movie on Netflix and it lit me up. Made me appreciate high art in film, changed my life

I really enjoy PTA films but found There Will Be Blood, just okay. I don't really want to rewatch it. But can rewatch Boogie Nights over and over.

I think it's a Panama Hat

Exactly what I was thinking. A DD-Lewis like performance from his character would somehow diminish both characters

Yeah really weird for him to call it out and immediately couch it as if he's not slandering the man unprompted

Agreed. I've never seen Paul Dano before and his performance blew me away. I've been a massive fan ever since.

He did say he has nothing against the performance (would be very strange indeed, since Dano is great). How I understood it's more about the "heavyweightness" of the actor in the sense of being perceived more menacing, cunning, "evil" if you will. Somebody like Michael Shannon, if he were a bit younger?.. Otherwise instead of worthy opponent DDL's character got someone he will obviously overcome without any real challenge. But hey, then again, maybe it was PTA's intent! Who can say.

Tarantino didn't say it was a bad performance, he's basically saying Paul's character should have been more on the same level as Daniel's. I agree, I didn't see Eli as a threat to Daniel at all.

Dano was great, lewis was just perfect

Tarantino talks about this beginning at ~@3:00. You should watch the video. You'd probably find it interesting. :-)

Johnny Greenwood!!

That's the interesting thing about Johhny Greenwood having been the composer. You can pick basically any Radiohead song at random, and it would fit into a soundtrack.

Greenwood is astonishing. His work on phantom thread was divine. Thom yorke did very well with Suspiria as well

He is tremendous but claiming he was DDL's equal in this film when DDL gave us, perhaps, the single greatest performance in cinematic history is a step too far

@@fingfangfoom2399 A step too far? Are you going to punish them for saying that? Hilarious comment.

@@tzt1182thems fightin’ words mister

Dano was very good. One of the best to act across from DDL in a movie, but nah.

He was probably distracted

I think there was maybe a lot of other nuanced aspects that Tarantino was absorbing, he didn’t pay close attention to the obvious

What is the significant of a "set-piece" in a movie?

@@vincentmanion7990 According to Wikipedia, " a scene or sequence of scenes whose execution requires complex logistical planning and considerable expenditure of money".

@@mikellenicolaikrochinyepez1778 Thank you!

I don't know much about his score composition, but he is one of my favourite guitarists. He's amazing.

Yessir he’s one of the greatest musicians to ever live. Talk about range and always experimenting, he never loses steam.

Radiohead's music is almost all suitable for a film score.

The great thing about film is how it combines all the elements. David Lynch said the music for a film has to be just right,its of the utmost importance.

I also have the record but unfortunately it doesn't come with the derrick explosion scene music. I think Johnny borrowed from his own music (the percussion part I think) from another film he contributed to. I believe it's from Body Song.

It's called "Convergence" from soundtrack to Body song kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJmTa8Wj0LCWY2w.htmlsi=DqB8JDyY5756n1uV

I think people’s criticisms of his performance are derived from an assumption that the two characters are supposed to be equals. They’re clearly not equals though and looked at through that lens Dano’s performance is perfect in this film!

I thought he was kinda trying too hard to level with Lewis

just not that good of an actor!

@@spazzriff_appreciator I never realised he was criticised for the role. While watching, I felt he played the weasel sell-out character well in the film. He's definitely not on Daniel Day-Lewis's level, but not many are.

*I saw

@@KonaLife Woodwork?

This year I read Oil!, the book it is based on. It is very different but also excellent

Pulp Fiction too

@@craigrussell3062 Boogie Nights is up there with Pulp Fiction. There Will be Blood is on a whole nother level.

@@scottystcloud7086 Well, There Will Be Blood is up there with Citizen Kane, 2001, Bonnie and Clyde, and Star Wars as films that just saw what movies could be in a completely different way, and gave audiences something so different, it's kind of hard not to be obsessed with rewatching the film for the rest of your life. But as someone old enough to remember Pulp Fiction coming out, and how movies were before and after it, I think you could make a fair argument that it belongs in the same category. But maybe you're talking in terms of pure aesthetics. As I look over my list, all the other movies I named set out to give the audience a whole new audiovisual experience. Filmmaking is artifice, playing a whole bunch of tricks to create the illusion of reality out of flickering light. Part of the history of film is the history of filmmakers who discovered new ways to make that reality realer, and TWBB is part of that category. It basically rejects everything about how a story should be told, how images should be accentuated with music, the way plot elements should be signposted - Boogie Nights stuff. And it's centered around the performance of an actor so obsessive, you feel uncannily like you're not watching a performance, no matter how over-the-top he is. Meanwhile Tarantino is such an encyclopedic fan of film, every directoral choice he makes self-consciously positions the film within the canon of film through allusion and quotation. He's innovative as a writer - there's something about the "what do they call a Big Mac in France?" scene that ups the level of verisimilitude in a similar way - but you never feel like you're seeing something on film that you haven't seen before. In a way, it's a question of whether you value sincerity or self-awareness. PTA is utterly sincere, QT is utterly self-aware. But neither has ever made a film I wouldn't rewatch.

I mean it’s a good read but best American Novel ever? Come on now dude

@@lon9047 Steinbeck said he got some of his inspiration for Grapes of Wrath from Oil.

It's good, sure, but have you read Twilight: Breaking Dawn? The vampires sparkle. They SPARKLE!!

@@TroubleToby3040 vampires SCARE me,or maybe it's just Kristen Stewart ..

Just in case you hadn't seen it yet, there's a decent conversation between the two of them from a few years back you can search for. I think possibly a TCM thing. If I remember correctly it's framed around promotion for Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and Licorice Pizza.

They did a video together for The Hateful Eight too.

@@DIOBrando-ij2bp that's what it was, goddamn time flies! Lol

@@brentulstad3275 They did also do the thing you were talking about... although it’s Anderson interviewing Tarantino about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It was a DGA podcast called: The Director's Cut. There’s a Tarantino and Scorsese one with DGA Quarterly too, (that one I think is to promote each other’s movies) but to the best of my knowledge there’s no audio for that conversation of them together.

Fiona Apple dated PTA back in the day, she said she gave up on doing coke after listening to the two of them bragging during a coke fueled session together, maybe they talk differently when they are not being recorded. :D I would have loved listening to it too though, coke or not.

Longview, Plainview....what's in a name 🤣

@@funforalgernon keepin an eye on that gold dust!

Both great films and it's difficult to choose between the two but I'm partial to There Will be Blood. It is probably one of my favorite movies and No Country for Old Men is not far behind and strangely both were made in the same year. It's a shame Hollywood makes less and less movies like these as each year passes.

That was a tough year

​@@cranekraken24they were also filmed a few miles from one another at the same time... In fact they had to coordinate scheduling because any sort of pyrotechnic or smoke would jeopardize shots in the other's frame

Yea to me it parallels with Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan. Not in subject matter but in substance as a film itself. SPR took home all the accolades and praise while Mallick and his film were largely disregarded. Any other year both There Will be Blood and Thin Red Line should have top best picture candidates.

DRAAAAAAAINAAAAAAAGE!!!!!

I'VE ABANDONNED MY BOY ! I'VE ABANDONNED MY CHILD !

My thoughts exactly

He also gives a tour-de-force performance as “Seminar Attendant” in Magnolia

And his two speeches. And the scene in the restaurant where he freaks out on Standard Oil. And the oil derek on fire scene. And the final destruction of Eli Sunday. This movie was absolutely brilliant. IMO, better than anything QTs ever made.

This one was more of a soliloquy.

Fr I kinda expected to like hate him but he seems like a nice enthusiastic smart person

Really?

And in Paul's defense, he is one hell of a good actor! But Lewis and Ali are the top of their craft, it's hard to stand with them.

Scary isn’t it..feels at most a decade old.

So true..

Totally agree 👍🏻

Yeah that’s one of my favorites of his too, the best acting of JP and PSH, top tier.

@@Urglerbob It's a stunning movie. Hypnotic performances. Interesting that PTA said it was his personal favorite.

That one was interesting.

Excellent, incredibly underrated film

PTA needs to rebound from his last picture though. I love him, he's my favorite but Licorice Pizza SUCKED ASS.

@@scottystcloud7086 Agreed. I tried 3 different times to watch that movie. The farthest I made it was an hour. It sucks.

I think Dano played the part that PTA asked him to play. He wasn't really ever an equal to Plainview, just a snivelling leach and a boy. He was always going to get gobbled up by the insatiable greed of the oil barron. Someone with more backbone like Joaquin Phoenix would have pulled focus too much I think. Dano was spot on in my opinion.

Not a fan of Bastards huh?

The Hateful Eight is Mike Tyson tho

@@chuckscott4661that’s not even in the top 5 of Tarantino’s best movies.

Completely agreed, all Tarantino has is outrageous violence and one liners, which comes off as juvenile after a while. Zed is dead baby, Zed is dead. A somewhat entertaining director who is nowhere near PTA.

Agreed

Yes. Well said. Better review than this whole 9 mins of geeking out by Quentin Tarantino.

Yeah no.. it all works in tandem. The cinematography, direction and score works just as hard to the themes and character of Daniel Plainview as DDLs masterful performance. To say it was all window dressing does the craft of filming this masterpiece a disservice.

@@woozyguy9 Perhaps not the best metaphor. I meant that it was built on the performance. DDL doing Plainview on a community theatre set would still be riveting. All the cinematography and set pieces and score wouldn't be able to make up for say, Mark Wahlberg being cast in the role.

Agree 100%. I can't imagine anyone else being able to pull off this character. Maybe 50 year old Clint Eastwood....