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Kiley 2022-03-22 09:01:05
In the early 20th century, a rough and cruel epic film set against the backdrop of the American West, depicting relationships between characters in grand scenes. The scheduling of the oil well was awesome. Epic films are really difficult to shoot. I often don’t experience the sense of time and reality (even the four-hour American past), and the film’s narrative is cold enough (like Kubrick) to present one thing without showing the consequences. For example, when a child burns his home, it stops abruptly as soon as he catches his son, and it flashes back to a new segment rather than what has already been shown; the depiction of death and blood is also indifferent, and the characters are also indifferent. There is basically no role arc; primitive capital accumulation, primitive nature, hypocrisy is the most powerful weapon to plunder and the biggest lie among peers, and capitalists and missionaries also have conflicts of interest. In that environment, of course, capital has the most strength. PTA was only 37 when this film was made, so old-fashioned, really genius.
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Friedrich 2022-03-23 09:01:07
The tension is not only derived from the wonderful scheduling composed of panoramic view + moving lens-the collapse of a certain idol, the blowout oil and the blowout fire are the constantly erecting Phallus, reflecting Daniel's hideous and oily face, which also comes from The SM relationship between the new gods and the old gods, the new religion produced by the fascination with industry is not the vacant signifier of the devil, but a new god that truly threatens the status of the old “god”, the exit of Protestant ethics, 20 The spirit of capitalism of the century. PTA presents a kind of Double Bind. He always insists on looking for alternatives to religion, but believes that they do not exist religiously and pessimistically. The call for revenge for the HW Oedipus-style tragedy is a mystical appeal. The arrival of "God" is against religion, because the latter implies a sacred political norm.
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Dianna 2022-03-23 09:01:07
The Godfather in the 21st Century
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Fletcher Hamilton: H.W. okay?
Plainview: No, he isn't.
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Plainview: [Paul Sunday has offered to sell Plainview information] Why'd you come to me?
Paul Sunday: You just brought this well in?
Plainview: That's right.
Paul Sunday: Yes, so just give me five hundred dollars in cash, right now, and I'll tell you where it is.
Plainview: I'll tell you what I'll do, son. I'll give you a hundred dollars now and, if it proves to be a promising lease, then give a thousand dollar bonus...
Paul Sunday: Six hundred dollars.
Plainview: Just tell me one thing to help me decide. What else have you got up there. What do you grow?
Paul Sunday: We have a big ranch, but it's mostly rocks. We can plant things; nothing will grow but weeds. What makes you think it's up?
Fletcher Hamilton: Is there sulfur around, or alkali deposits?
Paul Sunday: Alkali, nearby. I don't know sulfur.
[notices H.W]
Paul Sunday: Is that your son?
Plainview: Yes.
Paul Sunday: [to H.W] Hi.
H.W. Plainview: Hi.
Paul Sunday: [to Fletcher] Who are you?
Fletcher Hamilton: I'm Fletcher Hamilton. Nice to meet you, son. What's your name?
Paul Sunday: What do you do?
Fletcher Hamilton: I work with Mr. Plainview.
Plainview: Here's five hundred dollars. You tell me something worth hearing, this money's yours.
Paul Sunday: I come from a town called Little Boston, in Isabella County.