There Will Be Blood (2007)

There Will Be Blood (2007)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
== Plot Synopsis ==
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.
== Male Deaths ==
* Paul Dano [Paul Sunday/Eli Sunday]
* Hans Howes [William Bandy]
* Kevin J. O'Connor [Henry Brands]
== Female Deaths ==
* None
== Gallery ==
There-will-be-blood-2007--04-645-75.jpg|Paul Dano
File:Hans Howes in 'There Will Be Blood'.gif|Hans Howes before his offscreen death
File:There will be blood.png|Kevin J. O'Connor
== Trivia ==
# Dedicated to Robert Altman.
# Daniel Day-Lewis accepted the role of Daniel Plainview as he had been a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's previous film, Punch-Drunk Love (2002). According to ProducerJoAnne Sellar, the film might not even have been made at all if Day-Lewis declined the role.
# Daniel Day-Lewis improvised the speech he gives to the citizens of Little Boston, about building schools, bringing bread to the town, etc. Paul Thomas Anderson says of this, "It was delicious. It was Plainview on a platter."
# Daniel Day-Lewis based his voice for and characterization of Daniel Plainview in part on old recordings of the director, writer, and actor John Huston. An article by Christopher Goodwin in the Sunday Times (of London) revealed Paul Thomas Anderson sent Day-Lewis documentaries about Huston while Day-Lewis was preparing to play the role.
# While on location in Marfa, Texas, No Country for Old Men (2007) was the neighboring film production. One day, Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew tested the pyrotechnical effects of the oil derrick fire, causing an enormous billowing of smoke, intruding the shot that Joel Coen and Ethan Coen were shooting. This caused them to delay filming until the next day when the smoke dissipated. Both this film and No Country for Old Men (2007) would eventually become the leading contenders at the Academy Awards a year and a half later.
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