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Article: THICKER THAN WATER
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- Santa Fe Reporter
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- January 23, 2008
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THICKER THAN WATER
Paul Thomas Anderson brings out the devil in Daniel Day-Lewis.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson band on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair
With Daniel DayLewis, Paul Dane and David Willis
UA DeVargas
158 min.
R
BY AARON MESH
"Ladies and gentlemen, when I say I'm an oilman, you will agree."
These are some of the first words to come rumbling up from the throat of Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. The proclamation doesn't arrive until nearly 25 minutes into the picture, but it makes up for lost time, and says a lot about the man we've begun to meet. Day-Lewis portrays oilman Daniel Plainview, and by the time he's ...