There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is based on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil.

It tells the story of a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California’s oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The star cast includes Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.

It is 1898. In the New Mexico wilderness, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) works his silver mine. He finds some silver ore while picking at the bottom of the mine shaft. He then places a stick of dynamite where he found the ore and ascends the ladder
up the shaft to avoid the blast.

On his way back down, the ladder breaks and he falls several feet. He’s left at the bottom of the shaft with a broken leg. He manages to drag himself up the shaft and then all the way to town to sell the ore.

He hires a crew, including a man caring for an infant son. When the silver mine plays out in 1902, Plainview discovers oil in the mine. He builds a pump and recreates himself as an oil man. The young father dies in a drilling accident.

Plainview adopts the young boy as his own and names him H.W. Nine years later in 1911, Plainview is a successful if still somewhat minor oil man.

He has several productive wells around New Mexico and, with H.W. (Dillon Freasier), travels the state to buy the drilling rights to private property.

At a meeting with local people of an unidentified town, Plainview lectures them on his business plan: he claims he does all the work himself, only hires men he can trust to complete the work and will eliminate the need for a "contractor", a middleman of
sorts that will collect more money from the community that Daniel believes should go back to the landowners themselves.

He also introduces his son as his partner and claims that his business is a family-run operation. When the people begin to question him rigorously and argue loudly among themselves, Daniel turns down the offer and leaves, knowing the community is a bit too
smart to be taken advantage of.

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