There Will Be Blood (SPOILERS!)

[Bloo]

I just spent a nice Friday night smoking a cigar getting loaded and watching There Will Be Blood for the fifth time in its entirety. What a fucking masterpiece, it's just at that level that I don't even have any expectations for what PT Anderson will do next because I've totally written off him topping this ever or any other film topping this within the next decade.

Holy shit.

nice way to spend a night, although i have to say that I've yet to see TWBB

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Advance movie proposal of intended remake of this film, but setting the themes in the rail industry. A timeless story it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBfcOYu ... re=related

I think you know of this one already, it never got off the ground yet, but a movie proposal filmed for the execs for an intended take set in a sci-fi setting. Sorry, if you've seen it before, but I've been away a while. I'm sorry Mr President. I'll never let you down again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drp7o39mekM

[Chris a.k.a StuntMike]

Predator VS. Plainview.
Whoever wins, we win.

[Ribbons]

I assume Plainview's weapon of choice would be a wooden bowling pin

[caruso_stalker217]

Loving the new avatar, Ribbons.

[Ribbons]

[Fried Gold]

Went to a screening of it tonight. It is still a masterpiece.

The final words... When I first saw it I wasn't sure if he was saying "I've killed a guy, I'm going to get sent down" or "I'm done screwing around in the alley, Jeeves, come and tidy up." Now I'm more inclined to believe the latter.

Also, having since read more about the history of the oil trade at the time, there was an added extra layer knowing about dealings of companies like Standard Oil.

[minstrel]

Went to a screening of it tonight. It is still a masterpiece.

The final words... When I first saw it I wasn't sure if he was saying "I've killed a guy, I'm going to get sent down" or "I'm done screwing around in the alley, Jeeves, come and tidy up." Now I'm more inclined to believe the latter.

Also, having since read more about the history of the oil trade at the time, there was an added extra layer knowing about dealings of companies like Standard Oil.

I think you're right. "I'm finished!" means "I'm done with killing this guy; come and clean up the mess." And maybe in those days, no servant would ever testify against his employer. Plainview murders and gets away with it without even facing trial.

[Fried Gold]

Went to a screening of it tonight. It is still a masterpiece.

The final words... When I first saw it I wasn't sure if he was saying "I've killed a guy, I'm going to get sent down" or "I'm done screwing around in the alley, Jeeves, come and tidy up." Now I'm more inclined to believe the latter.

Also, having since read more about the history of the oil trade at the time, there was an added extra layer knowing about dealings of companies like Standard Oil.

I think you're right. "I'm finished!" means "I'm done with killing this guy; come and clean up the mess." And maybe in those days, no servant would ever testify against his employer. Plainview murders and gets away with it without even facing trial.

Plainview essentially beats everyone. On the porch, when he's speaking to FakeHenry, he says "I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone." And he does it. Against Eli telling him he's doing evil. Against Standard Oil with his pipeline. And eventually by distancing himself from HW.

But, as the small cut back to his time in Little Boston shows, his best times were probably with HW out in the field.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Sometimes dialogue in scripts has deeper meanings. When these lines are written, especially such a short line at the end of a movie, I reckon the writers were considering that some significance is gonna be present or recognised in it. Therefore I believe that "I'm finished" does have some meaning. Look into that what you will. Could be that he is gonna get done for this and be jailed, maybe his quest is done and he has made it to the top of the mountain, beaten everyone and finally achieved his overall victory in life, he is finished in his fight and won.

Then again, when I was 26, and I was learning going to number 2s on my own to the toilet, I would always shout down to my Mum to let her know that I did everything, OK, "I'M - FIINIIISHED!!"

Only NEXT TIME!!!!!! - I'll shout it down to her in a Daniel Plainview voice.

[Ribbons]

Kirks and FG, I think you're both right!!!

When Plainview said "I'm finished" he probably meant (as FG alluded to) the fact that he was finally able to separate himself from everyone in his life that bothered him and enjoy his hard-earned wealth in peace. But I also think it meant that he felt trapped, either because he was about to be jailed (which seems like a pretty real possibility to me, but I don't know that much about Standard Oil) or because all he had left in his life was a big empty house, in which he drunkenly wandered around playing skeet with the fine china.

[TheBaxter]

Sometimes dialogue in scripts has deeper meanings. When these lines are written, especially such a short line at the end of a movie, I reckon the writers were considering that some significance is gonna be present or recognised in it. Therefore I believe that "I'm finished" does have some meaning. Look into that what you will. Could be that he is gonna get done for this and be jailed, maybe his quest is done and he has made it to the top of the mountain, beaten everyone and finally achieved his overall victory in life, he is finished in his fight and won.

Then again, when I was 26, and I was learning going to number 2s on my own to the toilet, I would always shout down to my Mum to let her know that I did everything, OK, "I'M - FIINIIISHED!!"

Only NEXT TIME!!!!!! - I'll shout it down to her in a Daniel Plainview voice.

just don't shout out "i drink your milkshake" after your poo.

[Fried Gold]

hen Plainview said "I'm finished" he probably meant (as FG alluded to) the fact that he was finally able to separate himself from everyone in his life that bothered him and enjoy his hard-earned wealth in peace. But I also think it meant that he felt trapped, either because he was about to be jailed (which seems like a pretty real possibility to me, but I don't know that much about Standard Oil) or because all he had left in his life was a big empty house, in which he drunkenly wandered around playing skeet with the fine china.

I'm thinking with the wealth Plainview has (and associated power that came with it) he would have had the means to clean up such a mess. It was late at night and the house was probably isolated. Easy to cover up. And Plainview was clearly playing games with Eli the whole time, so perhaps he'd planned such a scenario in advance.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I feel sorry for my next girlfriend - as it is this scene that I can't wait to act out with her. Oooooooh how a chair can look like a bowling ball sometimes...

[Tyrone_Shoelaces]

Or, by "I'm finished" he meant he was done with his milkshake.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Finished shaking something that made milk? And I don't mean me on the toilet either.

[Al Shut]

Caught up with it

I don't get it

I don't mean the movie, although that argument could surely be made, but the praise it gets.

All I saw was an completely unengaging drama with the constant non communication and the THX violins getting on my nerves.