N(quite)P #2: There Will Be Blood

[Monte Davis]

1) See it on the big screen. It's the most PHYSICAL movie I've ever seen,
tensing and wringing out the audience, and would surely be diminished at
home.

2) AtD-ness: 
- 1898-1927
- a bit of hard-rock mining and then early oil in California (more like
mining than today's oil industry)
- a tycoon in the making -- although Vibe is a pussycat by comparison

3) un-AtDness:
-  up close and personal. Bigger social, political, economic contexts are
only lightly implied, quite unlike the nominal inspiration (Upton Sinclair's
_Oil_!) or Frank Norris, Dreiser, etc.   
- myth and magic are ever-present, but less articulate, more under the radar
than in TRP

4) why you should see it ASAP:
- Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is awesome and terrific in the full sense of
both, and will be talked about for a long long time.   
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