| Posted by: Monotreme at May 31, 2008, 4:05 pm | | Topic: There Will Be Blood Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by cuddleworthy I get how a lot of people make Citizen Kane comparisons, but Kane had a heart from the start. The downward spiral began until he became a bastard. Plainview's character didn't cut it for me. He was rotten from the start (although that time period had a different set of values and moral system), so the downward spiral was nothing surprising. I'd like to linger on this point for a moment, and express my disagreement. The film begins with Plainview as nothing more than an extremely devoted silver miner. His determination and willing to stop at nothing until he finds what he is looking for down in that shaft completely alone is nothing short of impressive. I also believe that his adopting H.W. was never meant to be in order to take advantage of him but because he genuinely felt bad that the baby was left alone after his father died in teh shaft; and when he presents his work as a family business and H.W. as his partner, I at least really got the feeling that it was genuine, as seen in the scene when the two discuss Plainview's plans to build the pipeline to the sea and H.W. is really intentive and asks questions and understands what Daniel is talking about. If his fatherhood is a sham, then why would he be so open with H.W. even when they are in private? I definitely think Plainview starts at the top and just gets sucked into a downward spiral as Eli's church gets on his nerves and in his way, and as more and more people - the oil company representatives, his "brother", etc - try to leech off of him. |
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