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There Will Be Blood
So, this evening I watched there will be blood, and my hat is off to paul anderson. He has really proven himself a worthy director in my book. In case your not familiar, he also did magnolia and punch drunk love. I also have taken a liking to daniel day lewis. He's truly awesome. First time I've ever really enjoyed a western-type film, I can honestly say. If you looking for an awesome movie to watch over the weekend, I'd say download, rent, or buy that one.
Seach really needs to work again, because this has to been at least the third "There will be blood" thread. Not blaming you though because it wouldn't be worth it to dig through so many threads just to find one.
Also, a Western? I never thought of it like thatat all. The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford is a good artsy type western that I reccomend checking out.
Paul Thomas Anderson, not to be confused with Paul WS Anderson who made the resident evil shitty trilogy(allthough i do love event horizon). PT Anderson is one of the best non independent directors out there right now and should be blown by a million virgins from here until eternity.
Magnolia was and is an awful film.
magnolia is the least interesting, i wouldnt say an awful film...good if your in the right mood for something like that.
Punchdrunk Love, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight & There Will Be Blood more than make up for magnolia
i think magnolia is an awesome movie.
its my favorite behind there will be blood.
there will be blood is amazing. the first and only time i'll ever call anything "an instant classic". but it fits very well there.
i have strung wires from steeples to stars and tightroped across the sky
My film prof called it sueygenerous. Can't argue with that.
Personally, I didn't find TwillBB as enjoyable as No Country, but I'll allow it is certainly a more unique and cinematically important film than No Country. Both perfect for what they are, but TwillBB stands in a class of its own.
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Sui Generis? As in self-created, or self-arising? Hmm. I have never thought of a film in that way, because, well, they arent. But it carries the weight that the film just exerts itself in such a way that forces itself into the world, which is an appropriate description of There Will Be Blood. Interesting.
Yeah, the fact that I couldn't spell it further shows I wasn't going to argue with it. He hestitated before saying it, and I didn't know if the hesitation was cause he didn't think we'd know the word or he didn't think the film qualified. Maybe both, but it was thrown out there none the less.
I think he may have said something along the lines of it is beyond unique and goes to be something of its own, and is impossible to intentionally recreate. Which is interesting and along the lines of what you pointed out as well, that films are never self created, because the whole semester we studied the influence of older films on modern classics, focusing on Kubrick, Coppola, and Ridley Scott, or not Ridley Scott so much as just Blade Runner.
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
I think it is a really interesting way to describe some art, though. The term is most often used, at least in my experience, in discussing the concept of God (though this usually buffered with either "creatio ex nihilo" or creatio ex profundis"), religious experience and in other phenomenological explorations. Such as, are emotions self created? Is a state of mind self created? Is everything able to be understood by a concrete mental or physical chain of events back to some original source, or do some things just be? Is meaning sui generis? When reading something, is the meaning, the sentimentality, the intentionality, is it inherent in the words on the page? Or are there paratextual markers that signifiy and distinguish the experience?
Just because I have never heard it in reference to art or film, though, does not mean it is not used there and maybe with a different meaning (though it is latin for self-created). But assuming there is no other pre-determined meaning for the phrase in the art world, I kind of like it, it is positing a quality about the art that is not necessarily its content or its uniqueness or its construction even but the manner in which is exists in the world.
Seach really needs to work again, because this has to been at least the third "There will be blood" thread. Not blaming you though because it wouldn't be worth it to dig through so many threads just to find one.
Also, a Western? I never thought of it like thatat all. The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford is a good artsy type western that I reccomend checking out.
naw, i didn't mean a western, as in a shoot-em-up-action type western, I just like a progressional western........I guess I didn't explain clearly. my bad.
I only recently got around to seeing this movie, and aside from the fucking awesome camera work, I found very little to take from this movie...it was just kind of a dud I think, but I know everybody creamed their jeans over it, so maybe I missed the point, but it seemed to fit in with the rest of this dude's movies, beautifully shot, great acting, and absolutely nothing to say...who knows, perhaps I am just an idiot and am not smart enough, perhaps that's all it aims to be.
i don't understand why so many people hate Magnolia. Do you also hate Short Cuts? The idea behind these films is brilliant and extremely ambitious. Besides the fact that PT Anderson has single handedly created stardom for the awesome likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly, the film Magnolia is the reason why I became such a strong supporter of his craft. But it did happen...That still gives me goosebumps.
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