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Daniel Day Lewis’s acting in the real estate scene makes me want to carry around a pocket notepad and pencil, and just start asking people random shit, like a boss, and just start taking notes on what they tell me. For no fucking reason other than Day Lewis made it look really cool.
"Don't be THICK in front of me, Al," is such a great line, and it's a perfect bookend to Paul Sunday's "I would like it better if you didn't think I was stupid" in the early Signal Hill scene. Such beautiful structure in this script.
The sign of world class writing - there are a hundred ways to say what he said but we got a unique choice of words that expressed more of Plainview than a simple "don't be stupid". Magic.
I figure he's just buying up absolutely everything. He overestimated his ability to do so via money alone, and so the Bandy tract became a problem leading to Eli's one real victory over him, but at this point he's not making moves. He's creating a monopoly, because that's his business style.
Not sure if this has anything to do with Eli at this point. He’s ensuring he owns the ocean of oil underneath/securing pipeline route by purchasing the surrounding land.
@@DaveDexterMusic And it turned out not to be a victory, as Plainview explained to Eli with the "milkshake" metaphor. Pumping all the oil out of the surrounding area caused the rest of the oil under the holdout to drain into land that Plainview owned.
I love how he says "in front of me" instead of just "thick". It's like he knows he's hopelessly dull, he just wants him to hide it the best he can when he's in doing business with him lol!
That background music in the second scene is incredible at creating an unnerving emotion, it gives the feeling of anxiety like at any moment vicious violence could just break out.
The “thick” line is great but it reveals Daniels shortcomings not Al Rose’s. Rose is a real estate man not an oil man. What would he know about pipelines?
A real estate man would be expected to understand the details of the real estate he's dealing. He should know it would be terribly hard to build anything around fifty miles of mountainous country whether its pipeline, railroad tracks or telegraph. Any fool that spent time in country would know that.
@@adamschaeffer4057 Plainview is such an art-of-the-deal bigshot, yet he only has himself to blame for not reaching out to Bandy when the opportunity first presented itself. Instead, Plainview has erroneously wagered that by playing it cool Bandy would eventually be rendered simple to deal with on favorable terms. But Bandy is not interested in worldly lucre. If he is to be bargained with at all, it will be for the sake God's kingdom, Eli's church, and Plainview's soul.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Did I say that? No, I said he got what was coming to him. He had no idea who he was up against when it came to Daniel Plainview.
I think he's on that level of the best of the best , and you can certainly make a solid argument for DDL but it's hard to pinpoint one single greatest among greats like Pacino, Tom Hardy, DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Joaquin Phoenix, De Niro, Cruise and Pitt. They've all pretty much achieved perfection of the craft at one point or another in their respective careers.
In the script Al Rose has a larger part and is basically Plainview's manservant for a lot of the movie and is present in many scenes. He was also going to be the butler who enters the bowling alley at the end where Plainview tells him "I'm finished!".
Thank You for that remark, i have never read movie scripts and never even had a thought to do so. You gave me idea and i just downloaded TWBB script to read. I have read Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" though
To me, this scene always lended to showing the start of his unraveling while caught up in doing whatever it took to finish his great work. As with the last scene of the movie, when he leaves HW for the oil derrick, something that made him happy vs something that made him money/fortune. He’s just dumped HW here and is set on moving his company forward after he believes he’s made all the perfect moves. However, he realizes that even though he’s used the advantage of drainage, he hadn’t taken into account that he was still going to need Bandy’s land for the pipeline, and thus, lashes out at Al for what he knows is his own mistake.
Well as he told his "brother" he hates most people and his "brother" is sitting right there too so he's maintaining his image also for his behalf until of course it's revealed his actual brother is dead and that guy played him for a fool that's why he kills him and has to be baptized which he also resents because Eli is one of the many people he hates also seems to only like his little sister Mary that marries his "son" HW.
He probably dunked himself in a Vat of Oil for 24 hours When his personal assistant came back the next day to see if he's ok he's just floating there with a big smile on his face and says ' I'M FINISHED !'
Trivia: If you're wondering how it even occurred to PTA that he should hire this famous SNL writer as an actor... Jim Downey is actually the half-brother of Robert Downey Sr., cult director, dad of RDJ, and good friend of PTA.
Jim Downey was on Conan's podcast today talking about this scene. This is not correct. He met PTA through Ernie Anderson (PTA's dad) when he was doing voiceover work.
I don't think I could have an actual conversation with Daniel Day Lewis. Too fucking intense. If he was being a normal person I'd be expecting it to go south at any second.
You can't say a bad thing about this movie. Flawless. Just imagine though, when Lewis said the line "Can everything here, be got?" Instead of looking at Plainview, he looked out the window, followed by Plainview turning to look as he said, "Sure" .. Nothing was gonna stop this man, even repenting in front of a false prophet..
And that's how you level everything and everyone in front of you as you build an empire which ultimately creates a vacuum in your soul. class dismissed.
The aspect that I enjoyed was how at first, Plainview said he would wait and that Bandy would come around... (which he didn't).. But now Plainview telling Al not to be thick? Hmm, I thought Plainview was overcompensating.. at this point in the film he's long past starting to lose his shit. Fine film.
The Bandy Tract was originally said to be 600 acres which is about a square mile, Why TF does he need 50 miles to go around? Don't be thick with me movie! I've always loved this movie but this is the one major nitpick I've always had with it.
If the 600 acres in question occupies the pass, that could explain its indispensability. We either need a topographical map inserted here or we can just take Plainview's word for it. (What he ends up with appears to be an easement.)
