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Grady 2022-04-20 09:01:04

What is this film trying to convey? How did the capitalists make their fortunes? First rely on your own efforts, and then constantly look for opportunities. It will never rely on equal cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results, but deceive and strengthen power, which means a bit of carrot and stick.

From the perspective of sympathy, the earliest capitalists also started from scratch. Take the protagonist of this film, for example, who single-handedly panned for gold and discovered oil by accident. The child has lost his mother since he was a child, and many times he has to hold the child in one hand and work with the other, which is indeed not easy. It can be said that being a father and a mother, the child shares all the achievements with him, and he also feels great satisfaction. But when the child became deaf because of an accident, although his career was getting better and better, he was increasingly unhappy. I can't even live a normal life and lose the joy of life.

It's still better to be happy.

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  • Gardner 2021-10-20 18:59:12

    The character is so civic Kane, the ending is so Michael Haneke, but the spirit is unique and exclusive to Paul Thomas Anderson. Solitude and freedom have always been the best partners who can be terrible and can kill at will.

  • Destini 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    What a great movie. The narrative poems are delicate and in-depth all the way through, 158 minutes without exception, every frame is a treasure, DDL is the most soulful performer, and PTA has only begun to work inwardly from this part. Advance, this is also his first masterpiece.

There Will Be Blood quotes

  • Plainview: Mr. Bankside, I'm not going to waste your time; I'd certainly appreciate it if you didn't waste mine. Now, if you wish to sign with me, we can have a well drilling within ten days, but your lot is further north from the discovery well up here, and so... Well, that means we'll probably have to dig deeper. And if there's as much oil here as I think there is, it'll be harder to reach, but once we find it, we can take it right out. You have to act quickly, because very soon these fields will be dry. Now... I need you to know what you want to do. Now, because of the distance from the discovery well, I'll pay you a smaller royalty than you'd get down there, but I'm prepared to give you a thousand dollar bonus on your lot.

    Mr. Bankside: What kind of royalty are you talking about?

    Plainview: 1/6th, plus a guarantee to start drilling within ten days. Now, that's something you won't find anywhere else.

    [long silence]

    Plainview: What age your children, ma'am?

    Mrs. Bankside: 10 and 12. Mr. Plainview, a question, sir. Where is your wife?

    Plainview: She died in childbirth, Mrs. Bankside, so I... so... Well, it's just me and my son now.

  • Paul Sunday: Mr. Plainview?

    Plainview: Yes?

    Paul Sunday: Are you Daniel Plainview?

    Plainview: Yes. What can I do for you?

    Paul Sunday: You look for oil.

    Plainview: That's right.

    Paul Sunday: What do you pay for a place that has it?

    Plainview: Well, that depends.

    Paul Sunday: What does it depend on?

    Plainview: On a lot of things.

    Paul Sunday: If I told you I knew a place that had oil, where land could be bought cheaply, what do you think that would be worth?

    Plainview: Oh, I think that, uh... you should let me know what you know, and, uh, and then we'll try and work something out.

    Paul Sunday: Can I sit down?

    Plainview: Please.

    Paul Sunday: [Paul sits] What church do you belong to?

    Plainview: I, um... I enjoy all faiths. I don't belong to one church in particular. I... I like them all. I like everything. Where are you from?

    Paul Sunday: That would be telling you. That's what I want to sell you.

    Plainview: What are you doing in Signal Hill?

    Paul Sunday: We have oil and it seeps through the ground. Do you want to pay me to know where it is...

    Plainview: Well, just because there's something on the ground doesn't mean there's anything beneath it.

    Paul Sunday: Why did Standard Oil buy up land?

    Plainview: Is it in California?

    Paul Sunday: Maybe.

    Plainview: How much land they buy?

    Paul Sunday: I'd like it better if you didn't think I was stupid.