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

[Daniel Julius]

Hey Daniel I just read yr fine review, and while I don't really have the
time right now to respond to it w/ the depth I'd like to, I just wanted to
quickly state that I think yr contention that Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack "is
among the best scores ever composed," is in absolutely no way overstated.  I
was in a vicehold because of it.  When we left I said to my date that I
wanted to find out who did it, and she thought I was joking.  I avoided all
press about this film until I saw it, and I really had no idea it was
Greenwood who wrote it.  But from the very first swelling drone during the
blackscreen fade into the mountainside, I was enthralled, and put on edge,
and completely enveloped.  Utterly, utterly masterful
--
Dan


On Jan 27, 2008 9:22 AM, Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com> wrote:

> If anyone is interested, I have reviewed both the book and the movie on my
> blog.
>
> The book: http://danielharper.blogspot.com/2008/01/booklog-oil.html
>
> The movie:
> http://danielharper.blogspot.com/2008/01/movielog-there-will-be-blood.html
>
> I'm no professional reviewer, but comments are welcome!
>
> On Jan 14, 2008 9:51 AM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Sign me up. I can't recall looking forward to a Movie as much as "There
> > Will Be Blood."
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > 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.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:34:00 +0000
> > Subject: N(quite)P #2: There Will Be Blood
> >
> > 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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