There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson is getting some great reviews for his new film There Will be Blood, with his lead actor Daniel Day Lewis attracting a fair amount of Oscar buzz for a typically intense performance. It’s a departure from Anderson previous films such as Boogie Night and Magnolia being a period piece, adapted from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil. Set in Southern California in the early 1900’s the film follows the fortunes of Day Lewis character, Daniel Plainview, an oil prospector who will stop at nothing to find success and riches. From the film’s trailer it looks pretty dark intense stuff gaining comparisons with Welles Citizen Kane and John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre with their stories of the destructive corruptive power of capitalist greed.

There Will Be Blood trailer

Radiohead’s Johny Greenwood has written a brooding soundtrack to the film. It’s worth checking out his previous soundtrack work scoring Simon Pummell’s 2003 documentary Bodysong. A epic dialogue free film made up entirely from archive footage depicting life through the 20th century. Below is the opening piece from There Will Be Blood titled Open Spaces and a trailer for Body Song.


Open Spaces - Johny Greenwood

Bodysong trailer

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