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  • Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dillon Freasier, Paul Dano
  • Directors: Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Jul 2008
  • Run Time: 152 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00181NF0C
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 675 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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If there's a screen performance in 2008 that comes anywhere near to matching Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning turn in There Will Be Blood, then we've come nowhere near to seeing it. A tour-de-force of acting and a career high for Day-Lewis, it's the highlight of an extraordinary, really quite daring piece of cinema.

That said, we've come to expect nothing less from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, the man who previously brought us Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love. However, he's really topped himself in terms of ambition with There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's book, Oil! It follows Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) who, when we first meet him in the film's silent opening is attempting to mine silver, before he discovers oil and slowly builds up an empire off the back of it. There Will Be Blood then follows his rise to power, given the vast riches that his oil brings him, concurrently exploring his relationship with his son. It proves to be a long, complex, stunning piece of work.

There's little room in There Will Be Blood for much more than the sheer power of Day-Lewis' performance, but credit Paul Dano (last seen saying an awful lot less in Little Miss Sunshine) for attempting to go toe-to-toe with the leading man. He's a foil of sorts for Plainview, playing a man as troubled and torn as Day-Lewis' character, and it's a career high to date for the young actor. The film, too, is a match for anything Paul Thomas Anderson has done to date, and that's some achievement.

With no easy resolution, and a degree of complexity in its characters that we all-too-rarely see from modern American films, There Will Be Blood is a challenging, at times breathtaking piece of cinema. It won't be to all tastes, and it adamantly refuses to give easy answers, but it's as daring as anything you’ll see on screen all year. And Day-Lewis' performance ranks next to any of the all-time greats that you'd care to mention. --Simon Brew



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Director Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is a masterly, unflinching examination of a consummately evil man. Daniel Plainview (via a transcendent performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis) is, as he likes to remind those around him, an oil man: he finds it, he drills for it, and he makes money from it. Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday, whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil, Plainview travels to the town of New Boston, California, with his young son. Sunday's preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview's ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church. As Plainview's plans come to fruition, a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself, pitting Plainview against Sunday and forcing him to become even more vindictive and ruthless. Anderson proved with Boogie Nights and Magnolia that he was adept at handling expansive storylines and layered plots; however, he stakes out a claim here as a new master of the cinematic epic. The film is visually stunning, and alternates between lush widescreen shots of the desert and meticulously composed, darkly lit close-up of his actors, presenting complex images of the American landscape and the souls that dot it. As a narrative, There Will Be Blood is told with a sense of economy, yet never at the expense of the film's inherently grand scope. It's difficult to determine precisely what Anderson wants his viewers to take from the experience: the film is, in the end, appropriately complex and ambiguous. There Will Be Blood forces us to confront Plainville, who seems to be a larger-than-life personification of evil; that we don't entirely understand him at the film's conclusion is not a shortcoming, but rather a tribute to the depths of this most vile creature and this most brilliant film.

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44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars No doubt one of the greatest films ever made, 14 Sep 2008
By D. Jackson "DJ" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Before watching films that critics have hailed as 'a classic', I always prepare myself for slight disappointment- the critics' new favorite The Dark Knight, while still being a masterpiece, I found did not quite live up to the hype. 5 star reviews for There Will Be Blood were absolutely everywhere, so instead I read through the 1 and 2 star reviews, to try and spot some of the possible flaws. What I saw was 'boring', 'dull', 'overrated' and even 'cringe-worthy'.

After finally watching it a few days ago, I realized that, amazingly, There Will Be Blood lives up to the hype... and actually surpasses it.

There Will Be Blood is a fascinating character-study of how money and greed can infect the human mind, and ultimately destroy it. Daniel Day Lewis packs in a truly sensational performance as Daniel Plainview: businessman; father; monster. It doesn't matter at all if you've no interest whatsoever in the oil business- that's just the trunk to a tree with many branches. The plot has been explained perfectly in other reviews, but even if it doesn't sound like `your kind of thing', you're still able to enjoy it as much as I did.

I'm not sure where the film was shot, but the sets and the landscapes are breathtaking- a beautiful and ragged cross between the Australian Outback and the American Deep South. The film is visually stunning all the way through, owning a unique dirty, sweaty and -ironically- oily look- similar in tone to The Coen Brothers' Oscar rival No Country For Old Men.

The constant use of the most unnerving of music and sounds reminded me somewhat of early Stanley Kubrick with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Director Paul Thomas Anderson creates the most eerie and frightening of atmospheres from the most basic and simple of situations- something once mastered by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village).

The film goes on for an incredible 2 and a half hours, but in some strange way, you remain absolutely gripped from beginning to end. The whole experience is weirdly hypnotic- being consistently terrifying, provocative, and above all, heart-breaking: One particular scene comes to mind involving a boy and a train, but you'll have to watch it to find out what happens. Much of the film is structured around Daniel's relationship with his son- I wouldn't be surprised if the lad on screen is actually Daniel Day Lewis's son, as the drama and emotions passed between them are so real and convincing.

Also, remember Abigail Breslin's older brother in Little Miss Sunshine? He's in here, too, brilliantly portraying a very arrogant young man who's completely devout to his church, and who eventually gets what he deserves in the terrifying-but-powerful final scene. He's definitely one to watch in future.

There Will Be Blood is a staggering, 2 and a half hour journey into the mind of a man who knows no limits for money and success. Daniel Day Lewis's performance secures him as one of the world's greatest acting talents and is worth the DVD price alone. It's a film about passion, greed, manipulation, and an unbearably down-to-earth portrayal of how people's lives were some time ago- and still are. Watch it for the acting, watch it for the scenery, watch it for the concept, or even watch it to see what all the twinkling 5 star reviews are talking about, just make sure you watch the thing! It's an emotionally draining experience, but like Empire stated, (with only a couple of exceptions) no finer American film was made last year.

"I'm finished!"
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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pouring oil on troubled waters, 20 Dec 2008
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews
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Daniel Day Lewis ,s towering performance as Daniel Plainview oils( pun intended) the wheels of Paul Thomas Andersons epic film of mendacity , cruelty and greed. The film about the rise to power and wealth ( which has been compared to Citizen Kane [1942] for it depiction of an ruthless man undone buy his ambition ) of one man needed a great actor at the top of his game to make it really resonate and by gum it gets one. Day Lewis fully deserves his Oscar for he is again truly magnetically compelling as Plainview , a man who says "I want no one else to succeed," and "Hates most people".
We first see Plainview , in an audacious dialogue free fifteen minutes as a silver miner in 1898 , even after suffering from a badly injured leg from a fall staking in his claim. He is clearly a single minded determined individual. Next in 1902 he is drilling for oil where success leads to another accident the outcome of which , plays a major part in the films narrative.
Cut to 1911 , and Plainview in tow with his son H.W.( Dillon Freasier- it says a lot about Plainview that he gives his son initials instead of a name) is now a successful oil speculator buying up leases for land to drill on. Paul Sunday ,the son of a family of goat farmers brings Plainview's attention to the fact that their land has oil "Seepage" . On checking it out with H.W. in tow the Plainview operation descends on the small town of Little Boston.
Here, as he talks to the townsfolk eloquently explaining how wonderful the discovery of oil will be for their community , and what wonders it will bring -school's , roads , churches , irrigation, bread- we see how truly duplicitous and conniving Plainview really is. We know he's lying and so it would seems does Eli Sunday( Paul Dano who also played Paul which makes it bit confusing at first ) , eldest son of the family and head preacher of the church who Plainview has pledged $5000 to but clearly doesn't think he will get it.
The moment when they actually strike oil also leaves H.W. deaf . The kid is now clearly as burden and Plainview callously packs him off to a home somewhere, even going as far as to trick the poor lad into going with one of his men. He has more important things to do. Like finally lose his rag with the pompous Eli and discovering he's made an uncharacteristic oversight in his buying of the land around his wells.
Plainview ends up a bitter alcoholic rattling around in a big mansion sleeping where he drops ,still glorying in the moments where he can get one over a rival or a perceived enemy. The film , adapted from Upton Sinclair's "Oil" is multi-layered yet singular in it's message. Nothing corrupts like money and power. Even if it doesn't involve corruption in it's normal forms it corrupts the mind.... It corrupts the soul. Plainview is a man rancid with it and so good is Daniel Day Lewis( he based his character and vocal inflections on old recordings of film director John Huston) his every sleazy nuances radiates from the screen .
Even more impressively the film has great cinematography , great locations ( it was filmed in Marfa Texas with No Country For Old Men [2007] as the neighbouring production) and a startling soundtrack by Johnny Greenwood of RadioheadThere Will Be Blood OST which often sounds like something for a horror movie but at other times is stately and elegiac.
Less impressive on the single disc are the extras which basically amount to a fifteen show of stills explaining the historical backdrop to the early days of oil drilling in the U.S. Still if you want all that kind of stuff they will be available on the two disc version .As with any DVD the real draw should be the film. Modern film-making certainly doesn't get much better than There Will Be Blood.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A slow-moving character driven film on human greed., 15 Sep 2008
Borrowed this DVD from the library, since I didn't see it at the cinema earlier in the year. While I think, like No Country For Old Men, it's a very good film, the two are different in terms of the different audiences they might attract but similar cause they both are Western-set. This isn't a film for everyone, and if you want a thriller more than a character-driven drama, choose No Country For Old Men. This isn't an easy watch, at the very least.

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The acting is very good all round, especially a tour de force from Daniel Day Lewis. His character Plainview is a prime example of ambition turned sour. Dano is also quite good ( considering he didn't have long to prepare for the role), if overshadowed by Lewis as Sunday - his high-pitched screaming did grate quite a bit, but his character's supposed to be annoying. Even a much overlooked natural performance by the child actor Freasier is convincing.

However, since this drama is quite slow-moving, some would complain it's boring since they probably feel not much happens in it. I see it as a slow and quite long but interesting eventful insight into how someone turns so bitter and twisted because of an ambition to produce oil. It's not your typical Hollywood film and actually raises quite alot of questions and ends in a odd 'I didn't expect it to end on that note' almost offbeat way.

The cinematography is beautiful. To my eyes, it looks like the time spent to research for this period drama has paid off as it feels like I'm there in the early 1900s. It just has a sort of epic look and feel to it that fits the film well.

Another of my problems with it is the loud ear-assaulting sound heard at the beginning and at intervals throughout the film. It's probably a stark reminder than this won't be an easy watch, but it annoys me all the same. The score is very good, apart from that loud noise, like a loud crescendo aforementioned.

Overall: An absorbing and uneasy watch depicting ambition turned sour and dangerous with a first class turn from it's lead star, and some very good cinematography. It's long and slow, but if your preserver and stick with it, even when the lead character isn't the most sympathetic alot of the time, it's still a well-made film I reckon.


Extras:
There Will Be Blood - Pics, Research, etc.: A 15 min slideshow of old pictures and clips from back then with clips from the film showing the amazing attention to detail to transport the viewer back to that time period of the early 1900s. Even actors look frighteningly similar to some of these old pictures and locations and scenery too.

For more extras, I think it's quite obvious that the two-disc is the way to go.
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