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

[Daniel Harper]

Definitely looking forward to this one. PTA is one of my favorite directors,
and I'm reading _Oil!_ now. Unfortunately, it hasn't been released in
Huntsville yet...

On Jan 14, 2008 8:25 AM, Monte Davis < monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:

>  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.
>



-- 
...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
words...
--Daniel Harper
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