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Hard Life.('The Kite Runner,' 'Juno,' and 'There Will Be Blood')(Movie review)
Early in "There Will Be Blood," an enthralling and powerfully eccentric American epic (opening on December 26th), Daniel Plainview climbs down a ladder at his small silver mine. A rung breaks, and Daniel (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls to the base of the shaft and smashes his leg. He's filthy, miserable, gasping for breath and life. The year is 1898. Two and a half hours later (and more than thirty years later in the time span of the film), he's on the floor again, this time sitting on a polished bowling lane in the basement of an enormous mansion that he has built on the Pacific Coast. Having abandoned silver mining for oil, Daniel has become one of the wealthiest tycoons in ...
- The outsider: themes from the work of Daniel Day-Lewis.
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Hedden, Andrew March 22, 2008 700+ words
...final scene of There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis drools. Just once for a moment...follows Day-Lewis in the life of Daniel Plainview, a self-described "oil man" running...end of the film. The character of Daniel Plainview is the sort of physical transformation...
- Can worthy rivals stop Day-Lewis coronation?(HOW WE GOT HERE: ACTOR)(Daniel...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Levine, Stuart February 14, 2008 700+ words
...ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] To see Daniel Day-Lewis is to marvel at the craft...His manic turn as oil magnate Daniel Plainview in Paul Thomas Anderson's...s just a procession --see Daniel Day-Lewis' road to nomination...
- Making A Killing In Oil.(Movies; Annual Holiday Preview)(working with Daniel...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Ansen, David December 17, 2007 700+ words
...everything else. I PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE SHOT the movie if Daniel Day-Lewis had turned me down," says director Paul Thomas...a character -- he's playing a ravenous oil baron named Daniel Plainview in "Blood" -- I'm guessing he won't want to talk to...
- Film Choice
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London July 8, 2009 700+ words
...Played with awesome single-mindedness by Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Plainview is an oil man who digs deep and unleashes forces...well-observed kitchen-sink British realism. Daniel Day-Lewis made his mark as a former skinhead whose...
- Gender divide and conquer: last year's films yielded distinct male- and...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Chang, Justin February 14, 2008 700+ words
...knowledge, power or revenge. No actor absorbed these qualities more completely or ferociously than Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood," itself a vicious parable of the moral and physical toll exacte
- Motion picture: lead actor.(V PLUS: GOLDEN GLOBES)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety January 11, 2008 700+ words
...DRAMA George Clooney, "Michael Clayton" Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood" James...dominate this category, none bigger than Daniel Day-Lewis' epic rendering of Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood." Compared by...
- Paul Thomas Anderson: There Will Be Blood.(V PLUS: EYE ON THE OSCAR: THE...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Kaufman, Anthony February 6, 2008 700+ words
...Vegas burnouts to L.A. porn stars, San Fernando Valley moguls and self-help gurus, to Daniel Day-Lewis' greedy oil baron Daniel Plainview in "Blood" to a relationship-challenged Adam Sandler in "Punch Drunk Love," Anderson continues...
- There Will Be Blood.(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McCarthy, Todd November 2, 2007 700+ words
...2007. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 158 MIN. Daniel Plainview Daniel Day-Lewis Eli Sunday Paul Dano Henry Kevin J. O...conventional commercial considerations. Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview is a profoundly antisocial fellow, malevolently...