There will be blood [videorecording] / Ghoulardi Film Company ; Paramount Vantage ; Miramax Films ; produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar ; screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson ; directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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FilmPublisher number: 34792 | Paramount Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Summary language: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2008]Description: 1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1415738939
- 9781415738931
- There will be blood (Motion picture).
- Director of photography, Robert Elswit ; editor, Dylan Tichenor ; music, Jonny Greenwood ; costume designer, Mark Bridges ; production designer, Jack Fisk ; visual effects supervisors, Grady Cofer, Paul Graff.
- Golden Globes, USA, 2008: Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Daniel Day-Lewis)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man -- an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling himself up from the bowels of the earth, both literally and metaphorically, Plainview embarks on a systematic and steadfast approach to mastering the oil business. Using plain-spoken and straightforward language, Plainview launches a campaign to convince small-town property owners they should let him drill their land. Without him, they won't have the equipment to access the profit beneath their feet. He builds an empire this way -- and gradually becomes obsessed with the intrinsic value of power, growing increasingly irascible and paranoid in the process. Plainview meets his match in Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a teenage preacher in the small California town of Little Boston, whose brother tipped Plainview off to the town's plentiful supply of untapped oil. To fully reap the benefits of the land, Plainview must suffer the opposing whims of this "prophet," whose legitimacy is questionable at best. And it's unclear if either man is prepared to pay the humiliating price the other wants to exact. There Will Be Blood features an anachronistic soundtrack by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, and it was shot in the same town where the James Dean epic Giant was filmed. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
Based on the novel "Oil" by Upton Sinclair.
Title from container.
Director of photography, Robert Elswit ; editor, Dylan Tichenor ; music, Jonny Greenwood ; costume designer, Mark Bridges ; production designer, Jack Fisk ; visual effects supervisors, Grady Cofer, Paul Graff.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Barry Del Sherman, Paul F. Tompkins.
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing involvement of Plainview's poker-faced adoptive son, and Plainview's rivalry with Eli Sunday, the local preacher.
MPAA rating: R; for some violence.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Golden Globes, USA, 2008: Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Daniel Day-Lewis)