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Here’s a trailer that popped up (or should I say gushed gushed?) out of nowhere. There Will Be Blood is the latest film from P.T. (T for Time-taking) Anderson, his first since 2002’s odd Punch-Drunk Love. This film is a rather curious adaptation of the little known (and difficult to find) Upton Sinclair novel ‘Oil!’, published in 1927.
The trailer, as you can see, is a little monologue from leading actor Daniel Day-Lewis, a man, in my opinion, who is terrific in every role he picks, even if the movie pales in comparison to his performance. As Day-Lewis delivers his misanthropic lines, we get glimpses of the film’s setting, the oil boom in the deserted regions of the USA in the early 20th Century. There is no doubt that Anderson is a talented director, with each image of this trailer being as powerful and rich in colours, as Sergio Leone, for example. And while the topic of oil in the 1920s hardly interests me from the outset, one gets the feeling that Anderson may be jumping on the bandwagon of Bush-hating, and using this film, and the “obsession” and “envy” of his protagonist to represent modern America. It’s a little late for this kind of allegorical criticism, but it may work if Anderson understands the complexity of such a situation, and doesn’t use the film as a heavy-handed blasting of his life and country.
There Will Be Blood is set for a November release in the USA.
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