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

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Sign me up. I can't recall looking forward to a Movie as much as "There Will Be Blood."
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From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
> 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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