TMDB 8.2 2007 USA 158 min

There Will Be Blood

Directed by P. T. Anderson

When ambition meets faith.

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

Starring
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Source novel

Oil!

Upton Sinclair

Anderson took the first hundred pages and abandoned the rest. Sinclair's politics did not survive the trip.

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02 Companion Against the Day Pynchon on the same decades: capital arriving, and everything it touches becoming property. → 03 Soundtrack There Will Be Blood OST Jonny Greenwood →

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