| Posted by: Milo at February 10, 2008, 10:32 am | | Topic: There Will Be Blood - discuss it Forum: Film Hobbit | | This is a classic Greek Tragedy (tragedy, from Gr.,=goat song :--maybe that explains the music) which has been a favorite vehicle for actors and playwrights ever since. It does often induce great performances, as in this case, but it also feeds the need for gratuitous voyeurism in the audience, watching (enjoying?) the tragic flaws in the powerful and influential play themselves out. And here we get two for the price of one with Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday. I expect that it was an expression of Plainview's character as well as a political statement that he is made to say that he wants everyone else to fail. I don't think you need to look any further than to say that his fatal flaw is his self-hatred that he projects it on everyone else. Beyond that, it's all performance, and wondering if his latest erratic action was pertinent or just something to keep the plot moving. Casting Hans Howes to play Mr. Bandy was great. That face! And the scene between Plainview and him was a high point. I suppose it doesn't help that I'm not a P.T. Anderson fan, except for Magnolia, which is a magnificent keeper. Guess I keep hoping for another. I don't think its similarity to Kubrick's stuff is anything but superficial as in the use of extended closeups to magnify the intensity. And since the tragic form goes back to the Greeks and beyond, likening it to Kubrick on that basis would be weak, especially since the only tragedy among his classics is Barry Lyndon. 7/10 |
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