This is a movie built by the characters, the main ones being Daniel and Eli. Although they are each seemingly incredibly
different, they go through a lot of
similar motions throughout the storyThis movie focuses on two incredibly
different yet powerfully similar characters,
who develop largely through each other. When
the negotiations and discussions of the land and oil drilling were going on, he was presented as a respectable and
well-versed man. At the end of the movie,
Daniel seems to have completely left behind his earlier performance. He pushes every connection he has away in
order to build his oil empire and eventually he has practically nothing left. For
the most part we see Eli as this slightly awkward,
devoted young man, who is very involved
in his church. Sometimes though, when Eli is incredibly angry, or very involved in his preaching, he seems to somewhat lose control, it almost looks like a tantrum or fit of
anger or passion. It’s a version of him
that’s very different from the quiet,
polite boy we’re used to.
Both characters come a long way from who they
started off as in the movie. Daniel, while presenting as a successful and composed
business man, deals with people in a
brute and forceful way, and by the end of
the movie has almost nothing dear to him left.
Eli also is viewed by many as a clam and good preacher for his church, but he does have a more passionate/angry side
around some and in his church. There Will
Be Blood portrays these two different characters and how they develop very
interestingly.
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