2007 was a massive year for cinema. From Superbad, Ratatouille, and Atonement to Gone Baby Gone, Eastern Promises, and Once, movies across all genres were firing on all cylinders. But few left quite the same mark as There Will Be Blood.
A masterful period epic with a cast at the top of its game, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film has now been named the best movie of the 21st century by Rolling Stone.
“Paul Thomas Anderson’s origin story of American avarice towers like a derrick over our new millennium, its shadow as imposing as the silhouette mad oil baron Daniel Plainview casts upon his own era,” the magazine wrote. “Right from a primeval opening stretch in the bowels of New Mexico, it’s clear that the writer-director means to connect one turn of the century to another, building a long pipeline across cinema history.”
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Loosely adapted from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 doorstop novel Oil!, There Will Be Blood is the story of a ruthless oil prospector whose pursuit of wealth and power turns him into an increasingly isolated and brutal oil tycoon around the turn of the century. A silver miner who evolves into an independent oil driller, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Plainview moves his crew from site to site before homing in on the oil beneath a man’s family ranch in Little Boston, California.
There, Daniel meets local preacher Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano, setting off a psychological war between oil and religion and an internal battle between greed and humanity.
“The wordless determination of a man carving his destiny from the rock evokes the majesty of early movies, as do the expressive close-ups of Plainview’s furious face—which is to say, of the magnificently mustached and stony countenance of a different, driven Daniel (Day-Lewis),” Rolling Stone wrote, comparing the film to the work of Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick.
They added, “Even the vindictive ramble through an old manor that ends the movie brings to mind Charles Foster Kane. That you can mention Plainview in the same breath as that composite Great Man is a testament to how close Anderson came, in his own wild entrepreneurial ambition, to achieving the fabled ideal of the Great American Movie.”
While the film’s performances and behind-the-camera work earned much of the praise, its music was just as essential to its unsettling power. Anderson recruited Jonny Greenwood to compose his musical score. The lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of Radiohead, Greenwood incorporated material from his earlier orchestral piece, “Popcorn Superhet Receiver,” into the score, alongside newly written music and other preexisting works.
Relying heavily on 20th-century avant-garde classical techniques, he drew inspiration from modernist composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Olivier Messiaen, per Entertainment Weekly.
“Yes, Blood has the scale of an Old or New Hollywood epic, precious to a present not exactly gushing with grand visions,” Rolling Stone wrote. “But it also has a jagged modern soul, bursting free in the form of [Jonny] Greenwood’s atonally clicking score or whenever Day-Lewis is spewing contempt in pressurized, shockingly funny, Oscar-winning geysers of invective.”
Released in December 2007, There Will Be Blood turned a respectable box-office profit, grossing more than $76 million worldwide against a reported $25 million budget. Its slow-burn theatrical release eventually gave way to a major awards-season run, earning eight Academy Award nominations and two wins, with Day-Lewis winning best actor and Robert Elswit winning best cinematography.
Over the years, however, its legacy has only ballooned.
“Maybe the movie truly endures because its portrait of way back then has twisted, with disturbing inevitability, into a prophecy of right now,” Rolling Stone concluded. “What could be more relevant to the 21st century than a drama about a vampiric capitalist, coming as a creator and leaving as a destroyer?”
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