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There Will Be Blood
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Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value commanding performances, psychological character studies, and austere dramas about power consuming every human bond.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, epic
- Payoff
- catharsis, unease
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, greed, capitalism, religious fanaticism, moral corruption
- Setting
- turn-of-the-century American West, oil fields and emerging industrial towns
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