Great year for films, especially Cannes 2007. Silent Light, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Secret Sunshine, Import/Export, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. All Masterpieces. Then some rare, great American films like No Country and Zodiac.
Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't believe his son comes back to ask Daniel for money - he returns to inform Daniel that he's setting up his own oil drilling company in Mexico. Daniel then disowns him for becoming his "competitor"
@@matthewpryor8283 yeah and he dragged himself for miles over jagged rocks and desert to take his little silver nugget into town and sell it. That is a metaphor for ambition if I've ever seen it.
I read it as he owed it to his partner(or worker, or whoever died in that hole), and there was also this thought that it could have easily been him instead that died. He raised the kid out of a sense of duty, and maybe he did exploit it, but I don't think that was ever the root of it. He truly came to love him as a son, and he represented his humanity. That's why when he sends him off because he's damaged and too much to handle(alongside his work), that was his big turn into the darkness. He broke a promise in many aspects, and almost literally sold his soul in that moment
@@petepetroff946it’s more than that. He does love him, but it’s true he also uses HW for his own purposes to some degree. I mean, he raises him from a baby, you can’t say he would think to do that, for the years of effort it takes, to only have him as a prop
As an adult, who was an adult when I saw it in 2007, I just cringed reading this. Not because I don’t relate; simply because it reminds me how mindcrushingly old I am. 🤣🤣
this is in my top 5 films of all time and I've been into films for over 30 years. Something about it went beyond explanation for me, I sat there mesmerized. The music was awe inspiring
Louie went OFF on this one. There Will Be Blood collapses on itself like an infinite Russian doll. Every viewing unveils a new level of complexity and richness. And after each viewing, I could be scrolling the front page of the NYT and see so many stories that remind me of this movie and how it’s deep commentary on current events that happen today are so accurate. Gets to the core of the dark side of humanity.👌🏿 Fucking brilliant!
Vladimir Putin Plays Global Poker While Sitting On A Phallic Symbol Nuclear War - - Head // Elon Musk - - Colonies On Mars (( s u u u u u r r r e )) // Jeff Bezos // Steve Jobs // Mark Zuckerberg // E G O T I S T - - I C A L D E L U S I O N S Of Grandeur Everywhere . Y E T . . . I Contradict Myself . Yes . . . indeed . They Have - All - Achieved - Suprisingly Impressive Milestones . - Least I Forget . . . Trump . That " A - Hole " has // & // continues to cause me High Anx - - iety because I see him as being a V E R Y D A N G E R O U S Person To Ignore . Most Annoying People . . . I ignore . The Donald . . . h i m . . . I Watch With D I L I G E N C E - (( unfortunately )) .
I saw this at the Alamo ritz back in 2007. I was 18. It was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. I also ran into Crispin Glover in the empty lobby which sealed the memory forever.
I didn't even realize that there was no talking for the first 14 minutes until someone spoke. I was like oh damn, I've just been watching this. It's just a great damn movie
It’s mind boggling. I always also recommend The Unbearable Lightness of Being to people and his performance in that. He’s phenomenal. And the movie itself changed my fuckin life. Very few movies equate in terms of depth of feeling
He is a dirtbag, not because what he agreed to pretend he did, but because he agreed to fool the idiots. Maybe he is actually cool for that, you guys are everywhere.
The character Daniel Plainview and the movie was based on Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!, and in part on Edward Doheny's life, an early American oil tycoon. Without Lewis' performance, nobody would be talking about this movie.
My favorite part of this movie is the ambiguity of the final line. "I'm finished!" Was the implication that he wasn't going to be able to get away with the murder he just commited, or was he just informing his butler that he should clean the mess up so he could get back to his day. Just a complete sociopath you can't read.
Also he was finished eating his dinner. I always saw it as a fundamentally broken man who turned into a megalomaniacal animal who sought to destroy all in his path. When he killed Eli, there was nothing left for him to destroy.
I think this movie is the greatest film of all time. I just can't get enough. I must have seen it 12 times and I love it every single time. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is almost as good.
I absolutely adore Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Watched There Will be Blood for the first time last night and I'm honestly a little underwhelmed. Maybe I was building it up too much because of how great I was expecting it to be, maybe the cinematics were revolutionary at the time and now it's just been copied to death... Idk. It was beautiful and the music was incredible. Acting was phenomenal. But story-wise, I think the murder at the end was pretty unrealistic. Daniel seems like a pretty amoral businessman, I wouldn't expect that kind of snap from him because it ruins all that he's built. All of a sudden he's supposed to go full-on American Psycho because he had a falling out with his adopted son (who he loved).
thank you for editing everyone else out of this conversation. i listened to these film critique talks when they were originally uploaded and wished it was just louie, the other guys had so little interesting to contribute
I felt that the child was like a cog in the machine; if anything happened to the child, he knew it would be harder for him to gain the trust of the townspeople. He cared for the child as much as a man cares about the lights on his Rolls-Royce.
I think you're completely wrong. I think he definitely loved HW, but didn't have a real understanding of how to truly show or receive love and things just got worse as HW got older and Daniel didn't know what he should be doing or made choices to stay and tend to work rather than devote time to him-stuff that wouldn't have been too unusual in the time period anyway. Resentment then just progressively filled the space between. [SPOILER] I think there's a reason Daniel finally loses it and murders Sunday right after HW finally breaks ties with him, with Daniel's final line being "I'm finished."
I'm a recovering alcoholic, and I saw Plainview's character as one descending into the nightmare spiritual reality that takes the soul of many alcoholics and drug addicts when they don't or can't process their emotions properly and build nasty resentments that no human power can relieve. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but that's what I took away from the character. I actually felt bad for him. Kinda like the guy who gained the world at the expense of his soul...
@@Meladjusted You're 100% right. Daniel cared very much about HW and just had no idea how to express it in a healthy way. He was lying to himself when he said that HW was nothing more than a cute face to help him buy land.
Hell, he sent him away coldly as soon as he had his "brother", & only brought him back after a guy in a bar talked shit about it. He figured he could choose his family, if he had to have a partner, & this little one would never betray him. But he was a piece of shit, so even the purehearted could only stand him for so long.
Saw it once, liked it. Saw it a second time, noticed so much more, fell in love with it. I can watch it anytime it’s on from any point in the movie now. It’s so good.
Both movies have terrific acting and were incredibly well-made cinematically. But I guess those things aren't my primary measuring stick, because both of the stories underwhelmed me. I would pick There Will Be Blood over No Country because it was more engaging, but I wouldn't consider either among the best movies of all time. I don't really get the moral lesson of either movie, they seem very matter-of-fact.
@@jmeds94 I wouldn't say they're good because they have a moral lesson or even follow a standard movie arc. It's more about the feeling they evoke, the execution of the performances and themes of both films.
@@brettbewley5798 Yeah, I don't think good acting and good editing is enough to make a good movie. Ultimately, you're following a story and the writing in it has to resonate with you. Whatever There Will Be Blood is trying to comment about capitalism and religion... I don't get it.
@@brettbewley5798 I mean I appreciate ambiguity and multiple interpretations in storytelling. Just seems unrealistic to me that Plainview goes into such a Walter White type of moral descent, which seems to be true of the story no matter how you cut it.
this is actually a good clip idea, non-clickbait, straight to the point and something that doesn't recycle old shit for clicks but actually has worth. In this case for movie nuts, like Louis. Great stuff.
I basically watched this whole movie with my mouth open in pure awe... for me at the age of 52 at the time, I had never seen anything like this. So mesmerizing, confusing, painful...yet I couldn't look away. I had to watch it another 2 or 3 times to get the full gist of it....Daniel Day Lewis is just that rare thing.
'Dream-like movie with discipline.' I wouldn't have thought of that. Spot on. I do wonder if the director was surprised by DDL and let the character almost become a hero despite the book and script, through sheer force of acting.
Talk about a human with the capacity to articulate a thing, a happening, or another person is without a doubt Louis CK. How can you not enjoy listening to him speak on a subject. Yeah….he’s definitely that guy you want to have around.
Such a perfect analysis of this film from Louis. It's NOT a period piece. It's an insane dream, if I could add, ABOUT and DURING an insane time in human history. It defies explanation.
I heard from Jim Norton, say that Louis is probably one of the best storytellers of his time... And I really couldn't agree more. Louis broke it down so well.
I always took it that Daniel Plainview wanted to have a son/family, but didn’t know how to do so because of how he was wired. I think it explains the deep affection after the injury, and the total disappointment when his own son wants to compete with him.
I think Daniel initially used H.W. to help secure contracts and like Louis said have someone he could clone to continue his business, and at one point did actually love him, but when he lost his hearing Daniel grew impatient with him. That's why he sent him away, and the only reason he brought him back was because of the shame others gave him for abandoning his son. But by that point he didn't need H.W.'s help to garner sympathy for bids, and came to resent himself for failing to complete one of his plans (which was grooming H.W. to be his protege).
I think the scene where he is showing love to the son is one of the only parts in the film where he allows himself to show true emotion. The other scene being where Paul Dano compells him to admit to abandoning his son. The emotion is there underneath but he has so much personal discipline that he almost never cracks. He thinks maintaining personal discipline is the most important thing in his life.
hahaha dude the guy who edited this.. i love it... the whole "some films use tracking shots and its not believable" and 20 seconds later it shows a trackin shot from there will be blood. Dont know if that was intentional but it was brilliant
This is my second favorite movie after Taxi Driver. De Niro as Travis Bickle is the standard for me as method acting before the new millennium. Daniel Plainview blew my mind away. It's just amazing acting, flawless.
It is a tremendous film, and I only slightly give the edge to No Country in a fight over best film of the 21st century. I can re-watch both at any time, and catch just a single scene and be transported by just that scene. That was the end of great filmmaking, but we got two amazing treasures.
I have been running my own business for 10 years (not oil obviously) but this character has really pushed me to understand the certain things I do in a twisted way.
It's a very "Citizen Kane" movie, except that the main character still comes out with no redemption or humanization heh. It's something in the vein of a Shakespearean tragedy, and it had my full attention from moment zero to moment infinity. Anybody who's not senile will never forget this movie.
This is the best movie i have ever seen . The master piece of all master pieces. Absolutely and without a doubt the best acting ive seen. DDL is a master
Everyone should listen to Louis’s two appearances on a movie podcast with comedians Joe List and Ranaan Hirschberg. He has a wealth of insight and a very open mind.
This movie corresponds to the story of the early Industrialist, the Expansionist VS. Anti-expansionist academics that go along with Gilded Age America and the Spanish American War.
@@apachesurvival5440 Hatred. Yum. Sometimes, I can be a little incoherent. Overwritten, because I'm wandering or a bit enthusiastic. It doesn't make what I said wrong. I don't care about you or your opinion. I did the reading independently. It was just some corresponding themes. No need to get in a twist. Calm down...
This movie was created with intentional ambiguity. It's meant to engage, it's meant for you to have your own interpretation, it's meant to stimulate and have you reflect. No matter what you take away is from this movie, you are correct. That was the intent of this film.
I do love that about this film, ambiguity in art is always welcome in my book. I just... don't really have any takeaways from it lol. It's so matter-of-fact.
I think Daniel Plainview cared very deeply about HW. When HW complained to him about how the girl's dad was beating her for not praying, Daniel intervened in some way that we don't see. But if he was solely interested in using HW for financial gain, it doesn't make sense to potentially cause a rift between him and the dad. It's also telling how when Daniel sent HW to the deaf school, he actually couldn't do it himself. For how tough and resilient he was, he needed someone else to actually bring HW to the school because it hurt too much to abandon his kid. Plus, when Daniel and the guy pretending to be his brother made it to the coast, Daniel starts to express how sick this business is making him, and he's talking about his childhood and his wishes. And then to find out that the first time he ever was comfortable enough to be vulnerable with someone was a total lie, and that he'd also robbed him of sharing that moment with HW, irreparably broke Daniel. It also makes sense why Plainview hated Paul Dano's character so much because they were complete opposites. Plainview was, very deep in his heart a caring person for people who weren't able to defend themselves, but pushed that deeper and deeper any time he had to make a choice for business. Paul Dano pretended to be caring for victims in order to make money off of them, and Daniel hated him for it.
I always looked at DDL as the hero of this movie and Dano as the villain. Dano's character Eli has no real moral base and uses religion as a smoke screen for his cowardice greed and wrath. DDL's character is equally dispicable but makes no attempt to hide it, so you find yourself rooting for him in the end because at there's honesty in him.
I think DDLs character really loved his son. I think he was just so disappointed that his Son didn't want to stay with him and his business he created a defensive wall and therefore said the stuff he said at the end of the movie. I think that explains his genuine affection for his Son when he was injured.
I think he truly loved his son. Maybe the only person he ever loved. But his personality had a contempt for that too. So when his son wants to go off on his own, he saw it as a chance to cut out his last weakness, as he saw it. And possibly he was angry because the one person he gave his love to wants to leave him. I dunno. It’s so hard to pinpoint things in this movie. But it’s all so good.
This is a cinematic masterpiece. Acting, story, musical score, cinematography, directing all masterful. "I look at people and see nothing worth liking"
This is probably my favorite movie, but I had no idea that other people loved it so deeply until reading these comments. And now I’m confused because people are arguing about what their different interpretations of the movie are, which is making me second guess my own interpretation😵💫.
Its loosely based on Edward Doheny. If you've ever been to LA, Doheny Dr & Doheny Rd, Greystone Mansion that he donated to the city of Beverly Hills. Its not a dream, its an exploration. I love Louis CK, he has the mind to write these types of stories.
I have a bit more empathy for the main character. I don't know if it's greed so much as purpose. He is hell bent on accomplishing something truly and singularly great, and something he has done completely on his own merit, guile, labor or craftiness. I don't think he hates women so much as he feels he doesn't have time for them. He only has the child because his partner dies, and he didn't want the baby to starve to death. It was after taking care of the baby that he thought he could use the child to his advantage. Funnily enough, despite not being blood related, the child proved to have similar tendencies, such as when he tried to light the cabin his "father" was sleeping in on fire and kill him in cold blood. It was only then did he send the child away to a boarding school, as he was afraid of him.
The moments where he treated his son with love, was trying to show the viewer that even evil people have divinity buried very deep within, but he never embraced it or changed
I'd like to add that he really seemed to love the Sunday's daughter even protecting her from her father. The scene when Plainview is forced into getting saved and the little girl hugs him showed their connection as well. He even seemed to like his brother until he found out he wasn't his brother. At several points in the movie I was pulling for Plainview to show mercy but most times he said or did the worst thing possible.
This movie really should be watched in conjunction with Andrei Rublev. A similar character in Andrei but Andrei sought and found love after years of wandering without it.
Good stuff, a correction though: at the beginning of the movie he is definitely not a billionaire. He's scravenging for silver and then accidentally discovers oil, setting him on the path to be a billionaire.
this is the result when day lewis, Anderson and greenwood come together!! ( and of course couple of other geniuses) this GOD'S only movie with GOD'S only actor. the purest and highest form of art!!! to me this movie is like when I stay infont of a Caravaggio for hours and hours and never get tired or bored. it is like Darkside of the Moon, even though I've heard it more than 1000 times, I keep discovering new things. I watched this movie at least more than 30 times if not more b and I can keep watch it and watch it. my #1 movie in my top ten list of all times. pushed fritz lang's metropolis and copola's apokalypse now t0 #2 and #3. is ridiculous to find the right words to describe this EPOS!!!
What a great review. So spot on. I love this film. One thing I disagree with here. In the beginning of a film, Daniel Plainview is not rich or successful when he is down in that hole. He is just starting out...a diligent, hard working man obsessed with becoming successful and rich.
Grampa told me stories of 'oil men' he knew, the Wildcatters. It made me think of the California Gold Rush, the feral nature of it all. History books make light of it but it was brutal, both era...
“This is my son and partner, H.W”
Bet you can’t read that without hearing Daniel Plainview’s voice in your head
Dude.. Fuck
IMMMMMM FINNNNISHHHEEEEDDDDD
Points to him with his thumb because the rest of his fingers are holding a pipe.
"I don’t wanna talk about those things.“
Not a chance, it's Daniel Plainviews voice all the way
"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" - two masterpieces from the same year. 2007
Also they were filmed in almost the same location!
The assassination of….
@@ernestojmenendezyup! That famous oil scene caused the coen bros to stop production because the smoke was so THICK!
Great year for films, especially Cannes 2007. Silent Light, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Secret Sunshine, Import/Export, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. All Masterpieces. Then some rare, great American films like No Country and Zodiac.
Michael Clayton
Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't believe his son comes back to ask Daniel for money - he returns to inform Daniel that he's setting up his own oil drilling company in Mexico. Daniel then disowns him for becoming his "competitor"
Getting aspects of a movie wrong is something Louis does a lot I’ve noticed. Multiple in just this video alone.
You’re right
Well to be fair, be was probably too busy jerking off to pay attention to the movie.
@Spitsworthhe was a silver prospector, but close enough.
@@matthewpryor8283 yeah and he dragged himself for miles over jagged rocks and desert to take his little silver nugget into town and sell it. That is a metaphor for ambition if I've ever seen it.
He didn’t care about his bloodline/legacy when he adopted the boy. He got the boy to make him seem more trustworthy to potential customers.
Yeah that’s how I saw it too. He was just exploiting him for his own image.
there was some affection there, or at least some closeness. the accident changes everything though
I believe he loved his son. If he didn't have a falling out with his son he probably wouldn't have gotten depressed and kiIIed Eli
I read it as he owed it to his partner(or worker, or whoever died in that hole), and there was also this thought that it could have easily been him instead that died. He raised the kid out of a sense of duty, and maybe he did exploit it, but I don't think that was ever the root of it. He truly came to love him as a son, and he represented his humanity. That's why when he sends him off because he's damaged and too much to handle(alongside his work), that was his big turn into the darkness. He broke a promise in many aspects, and almost literally sold his soul in that moment
@@petepetroff946it’s more than that. He does love him, but it’s true he also uses HW for his own purposes to some degree. I mean, he raises him from a baby, you can’t say he would think to do that, for the years of effort it takes, to only have him as a prop
Watching this as a kid when it came out: “this is boooooooring!”
Watching it again as an adult: “This might be the best movie I’ve ever seen.”
Me watching this for the first time at age 27 high; this is the best movie ever made. Me at 44: This is still the best movie ever made.
As an adult, who was an adult when I saw it in 2007, I just cringed reading this. Not because I don’t relate; simply because it reminds me how mindcrushingly old I am. 🤣🤣
U were a pretty dumb kid.
@@mycatisromeothe math is not mathing
The best movie and acting performance ever.
Honestly, I don't think I've seen such a perfectly made movie since.
Except for all of PTA’s other films made since
yorgos lanthimos
Movie is not even top 3 PTA
@@marinogod84 lol, always gotta be that one clown
It is next-level filmmaking, seldom seen in any year, but increasingly rare nowadays.
this is in my top 5 films of all time and I've been into films for over 30 years. Something about it went beyond explanation for me, I sat there mesmerized. The music was awe inspiring
And American Beauty
@@qrious786 ROFL. WTF?
Louie went OFF on this one. There Will Be Blood collapses on itself like an infinite Russian doll. Every viewing unveils a new level of complexity and richness. And after each viewing, I could be scrolling the front page of the NYT and see so many stories that remind me of this movie and how it’s deep commentary on current events that happen today are so accurate. Gets to the core of the dark side of humanity.👌🏿 Fucking brilliant!
Vladimir Putin Plays Global Poker While
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Everywhere . Y E T . . . I Contradict Myself .
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Least I Forget . . . Trump . That " A - Hole "
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Well said cousin
Well said
Louis was the Daniel Plainview of this conversation.
Well said!😄👍
Is this taken from Joe List’s podcast?
Couldn’t get a word in.
Total bastard in a basket
He drank the interviewer’s milkshake for sure
0:43 I got the sense he wasn’t a billionaire or even rich at that point.
He was rich. He wasnt a billionaire yet.
@gitzcrazyboy no, he wasn't. He was a struggling businessman about to go bankrupt.
He is saying that he is always in that hole…always in that mindset.
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I think Louis meant it in a
" " Destined " " context . Such Was
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@@reubennichols644 I think you’re right
"you have none of me in you"
"I thank God I have none of you in me"
That's what I said to the priest that one time in sunday school
Basterd in a basket!
#pause
"You're just a BASTARD in a BASKET!
........a BASTARD in a BASKET!
Just a BASTARD in a BASKET!" 🖤
*They should've put you in a glass jar.*
*from
What we witnessed watching this was why the medium was ever created. Complete dedication to a narrative in every way with every tool.
Lol the edit makes it sound like Louis won’t let the dude get 2 words in
Wouldn’t be far off from how he usually is.. no offense to him but he wants to be the one speaking.
I think that's on purpose 😅
I figured that as well. You’d have to hate the person, to overtalk them like that
@@ljdude123I wish it was like that, usually these podcasts are near unbearable because most of the time its not louie speaking
I saw this at the Alamo ritz back in 2007. I was 18. It was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. I also ran into Crispin Glover in the empty lobby which sealed the memory forever.
This video, I DRINK IT UP
I didn't even realize that there was no talking for the first 14 minutes until someone spoke. I was like oh damn, I've just been watching this. It's just a great damn movie
I drink your milk shake, I drink it up
☝️
*milk steak
@@Garrett1240 denim chicken?
DRRRAAAIINNNNAAGGGEEEEEE!
DID YOU THINK YOUR SONG AND DANCE AND SUPERSTITION WOULD HELP YOOOOUUU
If you want to really appreciate how diverse DDL is as an actor, watch Phantom Thread and remember this is the same human that plays Daniel Plainview.
And Gangs of New York, and My Left Foot, and the list goes on. He is a once in a generation acting talent.
I haven't seen Phantom Thread; but in The Age of Innocence it is also hard to believe that is the same human who played D. Plainview.
Phantom Thread is incredible in its own right. Paul Thomas Anderson is a master filmmaker.
It’s mind boggling. I always also recommend The Unbearable Lightness of Being to people and his performance in that. He’s phenomenal. And the movie itself changed my fuckin life. Very few movies equate in terms of depth of feeling
I'm so happy that Louis CK was able to pivot after what happened. He should do movie analysis full time and I'd listen to them all.
He is a dirtbag, not because what he agreed to pretend he did, but because he agreed to fool the idiots. Maybe he is actually cool for that, you guys are everywhere.
I felt the same. Mesmerized from the very first moment of the very first sequence.
This is my favorite movie 🍿/ film of all time. I saw it in the theater and it changed my life.
How so?
Daniel Plainview, 50 years from now, will be as influential on cinema as Vito Corleone. DDL graced us with the finest performance ever.
The character Daniel Plainview and the movie was based on Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!, and in part on Edward Doheny's life, an early American oil tycoon. Without Lewis' performance, nobody would be talking about this movie.
Great novel BTW. But totally different in tone to There will be blood
I agree. Cinematics were great too. The story of it just doesn't do much for me. Very matter-of-fact.
I need more videos of Louis ck talking about movies!!
My favorite part of this movie is the ambiguity of the final line.
"I'm finished!"
Was the implication that he wasn't going to be able to get away with the murder he just commited, or was he just informing his butler that he should clean the mess up so he could get back to his day. Just a complete sociopath you can't read.
Also he was finished eating his dinner.
I always saw it as a fundamentally broken man who turned into a megalomaniacal animal who sought to destroy all in his path. When he killed Eli, there was nothing left for him to destroy.
Paraquoting the last words of Jesus Christ, to whom he had just compared himself: "IT IS FINISHED."
Brilliant score by the genius Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead
I think this movie is the greatest film of all time. I just can't get enough. I must have seen it 12 times and I love it every single time. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is almost as good.
You have good taste
100%
I add Wind River to this list, I completely agree though.
Stalker, Barry Lyndon, Post Tenebres Lux
I absolutely adore Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Watched There Will be Blood for the first time last night and I'm honestly a little underwhelmed. Maybe I was building it up too much because of how great I was expecting it to be, maybe the cinematics were revolutionary at the time and now it's just been copied to death... Idk. It was beautiful and the music was incredible. Acting was phenomenal.
But story-wise, I think the murder at the end was pretty unrealistic. Daniel seems like a pretty amoral businessman, I wouldn't expect that kind of snap from him because it ruins all that he's built. All of a sudden he's supposed to go full-on American Psycho because he had a falling out with his adopted son (who he loved).
Louis is such an incredible critic. I could listen to him talk about pretty much anything
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thank you for editing everyone else out of this conversation. i listened to these film critique talks when they were originally uploaded and wished it was just louie, the other guys had so little interesting to contribute
My favorite comedian talking about my favorite movie! Love it ❤
I have two copies of this movie...one to watch and one just for show...fkn ❤️ it
I felt that the child was like a cog in the machine; if anything happened to the child, he knew it would be harder for him to gain the trust of the townspeople. He cared for the child as much as a man cares about the lights on his Rolls-Royce.
I think you're completely wrong. I think he definitely loved HW, but didn't have a real understanding of how to truly show or receive love and things just got worse as HW got older and Daniel didn't know what he should be doing or made choices to stay and tend to work rather than devote time to him-stuff that wouldn't have been too unusual in the time period anyway. Resentment then just progressively filled the space between.
[SPOILER]
I think there's a reason Daniel finally loses it and murders Sunday right after HW finally breaks ties with him, with Daniel's final line being "I'm finished."
@@Meladjustedexactly
I'm a recovering alcoholic, and I saw Plainview's character as one descending into the nightmare spiritual reality that takes the soul of many alcoholics and drug addicts when they don't or can't process their emotions properly and build nasty resentments that no human power can relieve.
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but that's what I took away from the character. I actually felt bad for him. Kinda like the guy who gained the world at the expense of his soul...
@@Meladjusted You're 100% right. Daniel cared very much about HW and just had no idea how to express it in a healthy way. He was lying to himself when he said that HW was nothing more than a cute face to help him buy land.
Hell, he sent him away coldly as soon as he had his "brother", & only brought him back after a guy in a bar talked shit about it. He figured he could choose his family, if he had to have a partner, & this little one would never betray him. But he was a piece of shit, so even the purehearted could only stand him for so long.
Saw it once, liked it. Saw it a second time, noticed so much more, fell in love with it. I can watch it anytime it’s on from any point in the movie now. It’s so good.
This and No Country came out in the same year. Honestly its hard to decide if one is better. What an amazing surprise 2007 was for cinema.
Both movies have terrific acting and were incredibly well-made cinematically.
But I guess those things aren't my primary measuring stick, because both of the stories underwhelmed me. I would pick There Will Be Blood over No Country because it was more engaging, but I wouldn't consider either among the best movies of all time. I don't really get the moral lesson of either movie, they seem very matter-of-fact.
@@jmeds94 I wouldn't say they're good because they have a moral lesson or even follow a standard movie arc. It's more about the feeling they evoke, the execution of the performances and themes of both films.
@@brettbewley5798 Yeah, I don't think good acting and good editing is enough to make a good movie. Ultimately, you're following a story and the writing in it has to resonate with you.
Whatever There Will Be Blood is trying to comment about capitalism and religion... I don't get it.
@@jmeds94 a lot of good movies aren't blunt and deliberately try to leave themselves open to interpretation. But it might not be your thing.
@@brettbewley5798 I mean I appreciate ambiguity and multiple interpretations in storytelling.
Just seems unrealistic to me that Plainview goes into such a Walter White type of moral descent, which seems to be true of the story no matter how you cut it.
Not a word is spoken for 30 minutes. So fantastic.
First , very little dialogue comes at 15 minutes
Undoubtedly the best acting in a movie i have ever seen. By DDL and by Dano. And prob top 5 movie of all time.
this is actually a good clip idea, non-clickbait, straight to the point and something that doesn't recycle old shit for clicks but actually has worth. In this case for movie nuts, like Louis. Great stuff.
I basically watched this whole movie with my mouth open in pure awe... for me at the age of 52 at the time, I had never seen anything like this. So mesmerizing, confusing, painful...yet I couldn't look away. I had to watch it another 2 or 3 times to get the full gist of it....Daniel Day Lewis is just that rare thing.
This just brought me a whole new appreciation for the film. Thank you Louis.
'Dream-like movie with discipline.' I wouldn't have thought of that. Spot on. I do wonder if the director was surprised by DDL and let the character almost become a hero despite the book and script, through sheer force of acting.
I fell asleep at the theatre watching this, best use of time I could think of.
I was floored when I saw this movie in theaters. You could not take your eyes off of Daniel Day Lewis.
7:04
Has anyone here who's seen There Will Be Blood read its putative source material, Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!"??
Yes. It’s enjoyable. Very much of its time so that may affect your opinion on it.
Its a little more commy
Would love to, but never been translated to my first language. As far as I know.
Talk about a human with the capacity to articulate a thing, a happening, or another person is without a doubt Louis CK. How can you not enjoy listening to him speak on a subject. Yeah….he’s definitely that guy you want to have around.
Such a perfect analysis of this film from Louis. It's NOT a period piece. It's an insane dream, if I could add, ABOUT and DURING an insane time in human history. It defies explanation.
This movie feels like black silk with the sensation of watching a house fire , listening to an entire symphony.
I heard from Jim Norton, say that Louis is probably one of the best storytellers of his time... And I really couldn't agree more. Louis broke it down so well.
Did Louis ck just start a random channel to review movies? I'm here for it
he should be alone in it as the way he cuts off people constantly is annoying
@@hotdog9262 these appear to be edits to show louie's thoughts specifically, from "Joe & Raanan Talk Movies"
@@hotdog9262 I think this video was edited to remove the other guy's part of the conversation.
@@RednaZela okay
The audio is from Joe and Ranaan Talk Movies: PT Anderson on TH-cam
I always took it that Daniel Plainview wanted to have a son/family, but didn’t know how to do so because of how he was wired. I think it explains the deep affection after the injury, and the total disappointment when his own son wants to compete with him.
Read the book "Oil" by Upton Sinclair. It was used as the basis for this movie.
Right...Right...I think th--....right
the guy literally didn't say any other word. Wtf lol
@@digitalsmithySometimes you gotta let the guest go on and on
I think this has been edited, just saying so Louis doesn’t sound like a total prick 😂
It’s almos …. It almost like the feeling … OR… so young … really… hmm … RIGHT RIGHT… RIGHT … RIGHT … RIGHT RIGHT… NO yeah righht…right…right…right…
Nah it's edited to just the Louis bits
I think Daniel initially used H.W. to help secure contracts and like Louis said have someone he could clone to continue his business, and at one point did actually love him, but when he lost his hearing Daniel grew impatient with him. That's why he sent him away, and the only reason he brought him back was because of the shame others gave him for abandoning his son. But by that point he didn't need H.W.'s help to garner sympathy for bids, and came to resent himself for failing to complete one of his plans (which was grooming H.W. to be his protege).
I would pay money to see Louis CK discuss this film with PTA. Lots of money
Same
This might be the best short analysis of this film I’ve heard yet.
This was a great clip.
Once again, Louie casually shits out one of the purest analyses of a movie ever
This performance arguably is the best acting in the history of cinema.
I think the scene where he is showing love to the son is one of the only parts in the film where he allows himself to show true emotion. The other scene being where Paul Dano compells him to admit to abandoning his son. The emotion is there underneath but he has so much personal discipline that he almost never cracks. He thinks maintaining personal discipline is the most important thing in his life.
hahaha dude the guy who edited this.. i love it... the whole "some films use tracking shots and its not believable" and 20 seconds later it shows a trackin shot from there will be blood. Dont know if that was intentional but it was brilliant
Louis CK is also one of my top favorite stand up comedians, he is amazing
This is my second favorite movie after Taxi Driver.
De Niro as Travis Bickle is the standard for me as method acting before the new millennium.
Daniel Plainview blew my mind away. It's just amazing acting, flawless.
It is a tremendous film, and I only slightly give the edge to No Country in a fight over best film of the 21st century. I can re-watch both at any time, and catch just a single scene and be transported by just that scene. That was the end of great filmmaking, but we got two amazing treasures.
No country is empty. This film is powerful.
only artists can talk about art like that. louis ck is a very intelligent artist.
I have been running my own business for 10 years (not oil obviously) but this character has really pushed me to understand the certain things I do in a twisted way.
My girlfriend hated the end of the movie, but I thought it was exactly what Plainview and Eli deserved
I believe the scene with him and his son signifies loss more than it depicts love between the characters
It's a very "Citizen Kane" movie, except that the main character still comes out with no redemption or humanization heh. It's something in the vein of a Shakespearean tragedy, and it had my full attention from moment zero to moment infinity. Anybody who's not senile will never forget this movie.
This is the best movie i have ever seen .
The master piece of all master pieces.
Absolutely and without a doubt the best acting ive seen.
DDL is a master
Everyone should listen to Louis’s two appearances on a movie podcast with comedians Joe List and Ranaan Hirschberg. He has a wealth of insight and a very open mind.
Louis true self was revealed, a typical lefty pervert.
What's the title of the podcast?
@@Pitcard Pervs on Film
@@Pitcard Joe and Ranaan talk movies
This movie corresponds to the story of the early Industrialist, the Expansionist VS. Anti-expansionist academics that go along with Gilded Age America and the Spanish American War.
You might have thought that was insightful but you literally just babbled about plots from the movie, while sounding incoherent.
@@apachesurvival5440 Hatred. Yum. Sometimes, I can be a little incoherent. Overwritten, because I'm wandering or a bit enthusiastic. It doesn't make what I said wrong. I don't care about you or your opinion. I did the reading independently.
It was just some corresponding themes. No need to get in a twist. Calm down...
This movie was created with intentional ambiguity. It's meant to engage, it's meant for you to have your own interpretation, it's meant to stimulate and have you reflect. No matter what you take away is from this movie, you are correct. That was the intent of this film.
I do love that about this film, ambiguity in art is always welcome in my book.
I just... don't really have any takeaways from it lol. It's so matter-of-fact.
1:45 SO WELL DESCRIBED, exactly 💯
I think Daniel Plainview cared very deeply about HW. When HW complained to him about how the girl's dad was beating her for not praying, Daniel intervened in some way that we don't see. But if he was solely interested in using HW for financial gain, it doesn't make sense to potentially cause a rift between him and the dad.
It's also telling how when Daniel sent HW to the deaf school, he actually couldn't do it himself. For how tough and resilient he was, he needed someone else to actually bring HW to the school because it hurt too much to abandon his kid.
Plus, when Daniel and the guy pretending to be his brother made it to the coast, Daniel starts to express how sick this business is making him, and he's talking about his childhood and his wishes. And then to find out that the first time he ever was comfortable enough to be vulnerable with someone was a total lie, and that he'd also robbed him of sharing that moment with HW, irreparably broke Daniel.
It also makes sense why Plainview hated Paul Dano's character so much because they were complete opposites. Plainview was, very deep in his heart a caring person for people who weren't able to defend themselves, but pushed that deeper and deeper any time he had to make a choice for business. Paul Dano pretended to be caring for victims in order to make money off of them, and Daniel hated him for it.
I love the way louis’ mind works
I always looked at DDL as the hero of this movie and Dano as the villain. Dano's character Eli has no real moral base and uses religion as a smoke screen for his cowardice greed and wrath. DDL's character is equally dispicable but makes no attempt to hide it, so you find yourself rooting for him in the end because at there's honesty in him.
I think DDLs character really loved his son. I think he was just so disappointed that his Son didn't want to stay with him and his business he created a defensive wall and therefore said the stuff he said at the end of the movie. I think that explains his genuine affection for his Son when he was injured.
IT BLEW MY MIND. NEVER SAW IT COMING.
1:24 damn this is so well put and is a HUGE problem with most major films these days
I think he truly loved his son. Maybe the only person he ever loved. But his personality had a contempt for that too. So when his son wants to go off on his own, he saw it as a chance to cut out his last weakness, as he saw it. And possibly he was angry because the one person he gave his love to wants to leave him. I dunno. It’s so hard to pinpoint things in this movie. But it’s all so good.
This is a cinematic masterpiece. Acting, story, musical score, cinematography, directing all masterful.
"I look at people and see nothing worth liking"
This is probably my favorite movie, but I had no idea that other people loved it so deeply until reading these comments. And now I’m confused because people are arguing about what their different interpretations of the movie are, which is making me second guess my own interpretation😵💫.
Question: are Paul and Eli twins or are they both Eli? Hmmmm…
PTA the best living filmmaker in Hollywood who's never getting his deserved recognition.
A soundtrack has never carried a movie more than this one.
A sick dream executed to perfection is such a perfect way to describe this movie lol
Its loosely based on Edward Doheny. If you've ever been to LA, Doheny Dr & Doheny Rd, Greystone Mansion that he donated to the city of Beverly Hills. Its not a dream, its an exploration. I love Louis CK, he has the mind to write these types of stories.
He wasn't a billionaire when he was down in the hole. The gold he found in the hole is where he got the money to invest in oil rigs.
I have a bit more empathy for the main character. I don't know if it's greed so much as purpose. He is hell bent on accomplishing something truly and singularly great, and something he has done completely on his own merit, guile, labor or craftiness. I don't think he hates women so much as he feels he doesn't have time for them. He only has the child because his partner dies, and he didn't want the baby to starve to death. It was after taking care of the baby that he thought he could use the child to his advantage. Funnily enough, despite not being blood related, the child proved to have similar tendencies, such as when he tried to light the cabin his "father" was sleeping in on fire and kill him in cold blood. It was only then did he send the child away to a boarding school, as he was afraid of him.
The moments where he treated his son with love, was trying to show the viewer that even evil people have divinity buried very deep within, but he never embraced it or changed
I'd like to add that he really seemed to love the Sunday's daughter even protecting her from her father. The scene when Plainview is forced into getting saved and the little girl hugs him showed their connection as well. He even seemed to like his brother until he found out he wasn't his brother. At several points in the movie I was pulling for Plainview to show mercy but most times he said or did the worst thing possible.
This movie really should be watched in conjunction with Andrei Rublev. A similar character in Andrei but Andrei sought and found love after years of wandering without it.
I loved the music in the film what a great score.
DDL is the greatest actor of our generation, and i really cant think of another actor that comes close
when the well blows, and H W gets hurt, that music was so loud and the drumming anxiety
Good stuff, a correction though: at the beginning of the movie he is definitely not a billionaire. He's scravenging for silver and then accidentally discovers oil, setting him on the path to be a billionaire.
this is the result when day lewis, Anderson and greenwood come together!! ( and of course couple of other geniuses) this GOD'S only movie with GOD'S only actor. the purest and highest form of art!!! to me this movie is like when I stay infont of a Caravaggio for hours and hours and never get tired or bored. it is like Darkside of the Moon, even though I've heard it more than 1000 times, I keep discovering new things. I watched this movie at least more than 30 times if not more b and I can keep watch it and watch it. my #1 movie in my top ten list of all times. pushed fritz lang's metropolis and copola's apokalypse now t0 #2 and #3. is ridiculous to find the right words to describe this EPOS!!!
What a great review. So spot on. I love this film. One thing I disagree with here. In the beginning of a film, Daniel Plainview is not rich or successful when he is down in that hole. He is just starting out...a diligent, hard working man obsessed with becoming successful and rich.
5:26 bro just let Louis spit.
Any movie with Daniel Day Lewis in it is worth watching, what an amazing actor
If I had access to some weird kind of Make-a-Wish Foundation, I'd ask for a bunch of weekends with Louis CK to watch movies & hang 💞
Grampa told me stories of 'oil men' he knew, the Wildcatters. It made me think of the California Gold Rush, the feral nature of it all. History books make light of it but it was brutal, both era...