Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood is an epic turn-of-the-century drama about a soulless oil tycoon, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), whose greedy ambitions are challenged by a young preacher, Eli Sunday (Paul Dano).

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An oil man

The film opens with some masterful visual storytelling, not a word of dialogue being spoken in the first fourteen and a half minutes. Here it is established that striking oil is Plainview's foremost, albeit sole priority. All this changes, however, when Plainview adopts the baby boy of a deceased worker. A new priority is born, and Plainview becomes a character who must decide what is most important to him.

The story resumes ten years later, with Plainview as a travelling "oil man", offering a share of the wealth to families allowing him to drill their land. With his son HW tagging along as a silent mascot, Plainview assumes the role of caring patriarch. The struggling townsfolk aren't buying his act, but his promises of food, work and education are too good to pass up.

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