There Will Be Cinematic Supremacy!

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2008)

There will be numerous mastery achievements for you when you view the P.T. Anderson masterpiece "There Will Be Blood". Let's take a look:
There will be an exceptional screenplay- Master Anderson struck oil when he loosely adapted Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil" into "There Will Be Blood". Anderson extended Sinclair's fable into a deeper obsession piece. Anderson's scribe focuses on Daniel Plainview, a coalman turned oilman in the early 1900's who is obsessively determined to drill oil lands and richly succeed at whatever humane price. Plainview travels with his child named H.W. who he also considers his business partner. Plainview encounters a proposition to drill for oil in the hill lands occupied by the Sunday family. Plainview's nemesis in the film comes in the form of Eli Sunday, the preacher Sunday son who is suspicious of Plainview's antics. The questions are: How intense does this rivalry lurks itself into? Is there going to be a "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in "There Will Be Blood"? I will not spoil it for you or else there will be blood from the author of this review by its readers. Speaking of authoring, Anderson's script is articulately creative and intuitive. I am confident there will be a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination for P.T.'s libretto effort of "There Will Be Blood".
There will be breathtaking cinematography and art direction- The picturesque cinematography and exquisite art direction of "There Will Be Blood" efficiently signifies in epic proportions the oil lands of America as being tranquil fertile grounds of potential richness and self-indulgence. Kudos goes out to Blood's "witty" cinematographer Robert Elswitt and "uncranky" art director David Crank for their supreme visions. There will be Oscar nominations for these two in their respected categories and hopefully also wins.
There will be auditory brilliance in the film's music- Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood is definitely not no airhead. His powerful score of "There Will Be Blood" profoundly guides the film and is an integral part of the storytelling process. There will be an Oscar win for Greenwood for Best Score. Are you keeping score?
There will be precise film editing- Long-time Anderson collaborator Dylan Tichenor's design and cuts of Blood was bloody perfecto. I will have a tick if Tichenor is not nominated for a Best Editing Oscar nom. However, I am confident that there will be one for Dylan.
There will be crème-a-la-crop acting ensemble thespian efforts- Let's lead with the lead= Mr. Daniel Day-Lewis! His performance as Daniel Plainview was not of plain material. It ranks as one of the best of all time. The power, greed, ego, charisma, and darkness he invokes in the character were of tour-de-force quality. There will be another Best Actor Oscar boy in Mr. Day-Lewis residence! Day-Lewis also won a bald golden boy back in 1996 for his touching performance in "My Left Foot". But I will give my left foot or my right one for that matter and guarantee that Daniel will be prized with another Best Actor Oscar for his startling performance in "There Will Be Blood". Paul Dano, who played the angst mute teenage son in "Little Miss Sunshine", performance as young preacher Eli Sunday spoke volumes. I did "dunno" know that Dano had it in him. Paulie, want an Oscar? Hopefully, there will be a Best Supporting Actor nomination for him. Other worthy bloody acting players included Kevin J. O' Connor as Daniel Plainview's "brother from another mother" Henry, Ciaran Hinds as Plainview's right hand man Fletcher Hamilton, and of course Dillon Freasier as Mini-Plainview or in other words Daniel's son H.W. Plainview.
There will be prototypical idiosyncratic Paul Thomas Anderson direction- And there is nothing wrong with that! P.T. Anderson is one of the mastermind directors of our generation and he incorporates his typical P.T. directorial themes also in "There Will Be Blood". He cerebrally integrates such themes which have been typical of P.T. Anderson films as obsession, egocentricity, dysfunction, greed, love, and plight for freedom in "There Will Be Blood" just as he has in his past masterpieces "Magnolia", "Boogie Nights", "Punch Drunk Love", and "Hard Eight". P.T.'s direction of blood was its centrifugal force of separating the aforementioned themes in the film's various narrative elements. P.T. definitely does not give it p.t. (part-time) to his devotion in directing films. He is the best in the business! There will be a well-deserved Best Director Oscar for the man!
There will be a Best Picture Oscar for "There Will Be Blood"- Hopefully, that will occur! But obviously there is stiff competition from other selected worthy films that were released in 2007. But there will be prayers that "There Will Be Blood" slices up to being selected as the best of the clan!
***** Excellent