The Q Filmcast

The Q Filmcast


Episode 63 : There Will Be Blood / Top 3 Favorite Milkshakes!

October 12, 2014


This week in The Q we drill deep into an instant classic. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world to explore a very different dysfunctional man - an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition  THERE WILL BE BLOOD is Anderson’s loose adaptation of the novel “Oil!†by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg… Pulling himself up from the bowels of the earth (both literally and metaphorically), Plainview embarks on a systematic and steadfast approach to mastering the oil business. Using plain-speak and straightforward language, Plainview launches a campaign to convince small-town property owners they should let him drill their land. Without him, they won’t have the equipment to access the profit beneath their feet. He builds an empire this way - and gradually becomes obsessed with the intrinsic value of power - growing increasingly fierce and paranoid in the process, but Plainview meets his match in Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a teenage preacher and soul wrangler in the small California town of Little Boston who is more than satisfied to make him squirm for the bounty that flows below them. Plainview must suffer the opposing whims of this “prophet,†whose legitimacy is questionable at best. And it’s unclear if either man is prepared to pay the humiliating price the other wants to exact. We reviewed this one from Acrooooossss the room! Grab a milkshake, check it out.


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