| Posted by: cuddleworthy at June 2, 2008, 10:52 pm | | Topic: There Will Be Blood Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Monotreme 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. I could instantly pick up Plainview's crookedness when he introduced his work as a family business. Also, keep in mind that Eli's church gets on his nerves due to the fact that he was drilling on their land. The oil company representatives were shrewd businessmen, just like him. What fueled his anger was that "he didn't want to see anyone succeed but him". Charles Foster Kane had at least a heart at the start, until he got sucked into egotistical opportunities and eventually politics. I still think your review on the movie was a good one, like your many others on this board, despite our differences. In today's dismal movie market, I see this movie scale high above the others. However, I just don't see it as PTA's best. Cheers. |
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