Origin: U.S. (Ghoulardi Film Company, Paramount Vantage, Mirimax Films) 2007Length: 158 minutes
Format: Color
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producer: Paul Thomas Anderson, JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi
Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson
Photography: Robert Elswit
Music: Jonny Greenwood
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Kevin Breznahan
Oscars: Daniel Day-Lewis(best actor), Robert Elswit(best cinematography)
Oscar nominations: Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson(best picture), Paul Thomas Anderson(best director), Paul Thomas Anderson(best adapted screenplay), Jack Fisk, Jim Erickson(best art direction), Dylan Tichenor(best film editing), Matthew Wood, Christopher Scarabosio(best sound editing).
Links: There Will Be Blood Trailer, There Will Be Blood Wiki, Oil! Wiki
Paul Thomas Anderson's excoriating study of greed and the both constructive and destructive powers of competitiveness and ambition is a stunning achievement by the still young writer-director. Using Upton Sinclair's muckraking 1927 novel Oil! as a jumping-off point, Anderson creates a vastly cinematic, darkly personal tale of one man seemingly without a single redemptive characteristic. The nuance of the storytelling, concentrating on long, almost silent passages and huge, open panoramas, There Will Be Blood delves to the most painful depths of a man who, by many measures, would have been considered both a success and a genius, but in Anderson's hands is painted as a charismatic sociopath.
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