Comments on: There Will Be Blood http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/ Smart Mouth Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:07:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Christina Waters http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4551 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:58:42 +0000 http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4551 Joe - your comment is interesting. The casting of one actor to play the two characters - the good brother and the "bad" brother - might be simply the obvious. To show the double nature of all human nature. But I also think it was done to confuse us, something self-righteous directors love to do. Certainly by the end of the film we do get the message that Eli/Paul are at least as manipulative as Obama, uh, Plainview. Thanks for the email C Joe - your comment is interesting. The casting of one actor to play the two characters - the good brother and the “bad” brother - might be simply the obvious. To show the double nature of all human nature.

But I also think it was done to confuse us, something self-righteous directors love to do.

Certainly by the end of the film we do get the message that Eli/Paul are at least as manipulative as Obama, uh, Plainview.

Thanks for the email

C

]]> by: joe cowan http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4523 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:26:00 +0000 http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4523 I just saw the movie and I know Paul & Eli were played by the same actor... are they the same person.. is the idea to make it more of a mystery or to show that Eli/Paul are as complex and manipulative as Plainview? I just saw the movie and I know Paul & Eli were played by the same actor… are they the same person.. is the idea to make it more of a mystery or to show that Eli/Paul are as complex and manipulative as Plainview?

]]> by: simon kelly http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4061 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:34:41 +0000 http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4061 You missed the channeling of the voice and delivery of John Huston's Noah Cross character in "Chinatown" who seems to be a later incarnation of Plainfield to me. Also the visciousnes of the murder of the Kid at the end seemed to spring from the previousl humiliation visited by the preacher upon Plainfield in the "conversion" scene and who knows? that event may have touched a chord of true repentance that he felt weakened him as a proper American Man of the time, something he could not forgive. And too much story couldn't be delivered with time jumps hoping the audience could fill it in.which I did ,but then I'm a sophisticated veiwer, You missed the channeling of the voice and delivery of John Huston’s Noah Cross character in “Chinatown” who seems to be a later incarnation of Plainfield to me. Also the visciousnes of the murder of the Kid at the end seemed to spring from the previousl humiliation visited by the preacher upon Plainfield in the “conversion” scene and who knows? that event may have touched a chord of true repentance that he felt weakened him as a proper American Man of the time, something he could not forgive. And too much story couldn’t be delivered with time jumps hoping the audience could fill it in.which I did ,but then I’m a sophisticated veiwer,

]]> by: Laura http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4025 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:40:54 +0000 http://christinawaters.com/2008/01/29/there-will-be-blood/#comment-4025 Totally agree on this one, including that I'm in the camp of those let down by the ending. What a bummer that the score was disqualified for Oscar contention. Totally agree on this one, including that I’m in the camp of those let down by the ending. What a bummer that the score was disqualified for Oscar contention.

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