I'll never not be impressed at how well Louis can articulate very specific feelings.

@ivegotnoselfesteem506

Жыл бұрын

Comedians are pretty good at that though. Their views on other art forms often are pretty entertaining to listen to.

@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

Oh come on he's not exceptionally great at articulating

@ronnieDaking

Жыл бұрын

Louis is a f-cking loser

@adamjackson4544

Жыл бұрын

@@DrJones20 its subjective of course but.. he is regarded as one of the best stand up comedians in a generation, they articulate for a living.

@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

@@adamjackson4544 That does not mean they articulate particularly well

Louis CK is an insanely good film critic

@ewoknroll

Жыл бұрын

although it was a book, so PTA had nothing to do with the ending

@trevorhowitt9029

Жыл бұрын

​@@ewoknroll the book was more of a jumping off point for the movie, the two are actually quite dissimilar, especially as the story progresses. The ending of the movie is 100% PTA, not Sinclair.

@timmasters1195

Жыл бұрын

And a creepy wanker

@romana8203

Жыл бұрын

@@ewoknroll Did you read the book? The movie is clearly its own thing here

@juniorjames7076

Жыл бұрын

Comedians are actually great critics, as they are constantly analyzing our society.

I'm not the deepest person and I've read a lot of analysis about TWBB, but Louie put it in such a way that made you truly feel the movie envelop you. I can't wait to watch it again.

@ronnieDaking

Жыл бұрын

Louis is a fucking loser

@Dapryor

Жыл бұрын

That might be the most self-aware comment I’ve ever read online.

@Graceisbad

Жыл бұрын

@@Dapryorbaha rude

@roberts1572

Жыл бұрын

@@Dapryore will go to heaven

@MrJoelymon

8 ай бұрын

Definitely watch it again! I remember after the first time seeing it feeling like something I couldn't pinpoint had happened to me, but it was kind of haunting and I knew there was more. I watched it again a few years later and it completely blew my socks off. In other words: second time's a charm 😉 Come to think of it, it's probably time for a third round pretty soon here.

I agree, imo it's the greatest downward character arc in film history. Daniel starts out gaining our respect for how much he had to go through just to live and then gradually builds this callus against people the more money and power he accumulates. He's not a bad guy at the beginning, but his base instincts that got him his fortune rise to the surface and completely replace his humanity until he becomes essentially a caveman clubbing his enemy to death.

@judbaker5752

Жыл бұрын

@@owlculet’s calm down

@kevhead1525

Жыл бұрын

Citizen Kane.

@poopamultimatepoopy

Жыл бұрын

@@judbaker5752 Let's not. It's a really fucking good movie, and really hard to find things wrong with. He's right about the dehumanization angle and this film is ripe for interpretation

@judbaker5752

Жыл бұрын

@@poopamultimatepoopy look at the name of the person who wrote the original comment. Now take two seconds to look at the name of the person I was replying to. Not your brightest moment.

@YoursThatWas

Жыл бұрын

let’s calm down 😂

The hardest scene for me is when Daniel reads his brothers diary after killing the imposter. The overwhelming sadness, anger and despair he’s going through is one of the most haunting moments ever.

@SenorAlejandro

Жыл бұрын

The only thing that could save his humanity, made him become even worse.

@MajorAALAN

Жыл бұрын

he probably thought the imposter killed his real brother

@tokenblack7983

11 ай бұрын

It’s was absolutely gut wrenching watching that scene…the rage the haunting despair…on another level

@Widderic

7 ай бұрын

Impossible without that music score composed by Jonny Greenwood, the lead guitarist from Radio Head.

@pachucodreams

6 ай бұрын

Not even his son could save him from being lonely and distrustful. The imposter brother is a wonderful metaphor and tragic.

This is literally my favorite movie. I love how Daniel is just a shark. A force of nature that just wants and consumes almost mindlessly. It pushes him to do whatever is necessary, the only way he knows how to survive. He's just energy and raw drive to succeed at any cost, and it destroys him physically and socially. He has no one and nothing at the end but a big brick house, a grudge against a certain preacher, and some cold lamb chops. Excellent character-focused storytelling. What does it mean? Up to interpretation but it has so much to say.

@jacobp8294

Жыл бұрын

I think that you can learn many lessons from the same story. Films which don't outwardly present their thesis and conclusion can be much more engaging as an audience member. I felt the same about the Lighthouse.

@skyhunter2816

Жыл бұрын

It seems pretty clear that it is a heavy metaphor for the evils of capitalism, especially during the oil rush.

@ShoNuff3K

Жыл бұрын

When Daniel drops to his knees in order to get his property from that guy and he has to go through the church and then he says "I've abandon my boy" is he telling the truth is he feeling something there?

@phoenixzappa7366

Жыл бұрын

The film would have been better if he was jacking off in front of people like Louis CK

@rhysmartin6967

Жыл бұрын

​@@ShoNuff3Kgood question

Lewis is phenomenally talented actor and “there will be blood” is one of the best movies ever made.

@draketoto3576

11 ай бұрын

Really groundbreaking stuff there, champ

@chriscrosbymusic

10 ай бұрын

@@draketoto3576😂

I think it's pretty cool how the beginning of the film has no dialogue. I always thought that was PTA evoking the Kubrick apes or summarizing the ascent of man. Daniel begins alone and very primitive, literally in the dirt. He gradually learns the profession (the scene where he crudely sketches the derrick and transmits this idea, again wordlessly) to his partner. Raising his oily hand to show his tribe his power, his mastery. It's a promethean moment. It's like watching primates. Then he arrives in civilization, having developed his language skills in order to facilitate his ambitions. But he's still a primitive. He sleeps on the floor.

@awakenedtarot7306

Жыл бұрын

Great take man

@markr8690

Жыл бұрын

Tarantino also has an interesting set of comments about the beginning. I think he says,that opening sequence could have been made into a movie.

@adamant5906

Жыл бұрын

@@awakenedtarot7306 Thank you. That's the neat thing about art. We can interpret things in multiple ways.

@adamant5906

Жыл бұрын

@@markr8690 I agree with that. The storytelling in that sequence is done expertly.

@robtomben

Жыл бұрын

Very nice.

Daniel Day-Lewis is like the radiohead of actors, you don't always feel good watching his stuff, but youre always captivated

@adamdix9125

Жыл бұрын

Funny cuz the guitarist for radiohead did the score for there will be blood

@jasoncora1

11 ай бұрын

Interesting analogy

@andrewwilliams4283

11 ай бұрын

Very good analogy

@davidr2421

11 ай бұрын

@@adamdix9125 Another Paul Thomas Anderson + Daniel Day-Lewis + Johnny Greenwood combo in Phantom Thread, also.

@submissivelover

11 ай бұрын

Radiohead of actors? Daniel Day -Lewis didn't steal the hollies riff lol

He's right. Daniel's character is trying to break free from human connection because he finds it so difficult. And at the end he finds freedom. Probably in prison.

@stevem7192

Жыл бұрын

He was far too wealthy to end up in prison. You bury Eli in the backyard and nobody will ever ask questions.

@mmclaurin8035

Жыл бұрын

Nah. He got away with it. Billionaire oil man in Texas during the early 1900s? He had his butler bury him in the garden and went back to drinking.

@mattweems7842

Жыл бұрын

@@mmclaurin8035 The film-maker says he ruined himself in that moment, I think. But yeah - he could maybe have covered it up just as plausibly.

@PoorlyDrawnSmileyFace

Жыл бұрын

@@mattweems7842 He ruined himself in that his humanity is now well and truly gone, but in terms of the practical things like being convicted of murder he will never have to deal with again. It ends on that moment because what happens after is inconsequential in that regard.

@mattweems7842

Жыл бұрын

@@PoorlyDrawnSmileyFace I don't think that is the whole story. But it is true to a large extent.

Absolutely is a film that grips you and rewards repeat viewing. Both central performances are outstanding. To me it's the Citizen Kane of the early 21st century.

@ebrahimmusleh

Жыл бұрын

Unpopular opinion here citizen Kane was boring AF

@sensorycircuits1338

11 ай бұрын

To me it's about the end of the religious era and the beginning of the oil era.

@bOmBAsTiK

11 ай бұрын

​@@ebrahimmuslehKane was boring but still a classic about a self-destructive capitalist shark so I would say it's a very apt comparison imo

I have never seen a better actor.Ever.The movie makes such an impact that you carry it for days internally digesting it which in my opinion is the ultimate achievement a film can make and leaves an impression that becomes permanent.

I saw this movie in theaters mistaking it for a runoff of the saw movies with a girl I was dating. At first I was embarrassed for my mistake and apologized to the girl and started to leave but decided to just sit and watch it even though she hated it. That movie has been my favorite movie since then, I loved everything about it.

@QuasiMonkey

Жыл бұрын

I hope you decided not to see her again after she said she hated 'There Will be Blood' cause clearly she has doesn't know a great film when she sees it & has terrible taste in movies!

@vonjuan5549

Жыл бұрын

Did you lose the girl?

@reverandleroyjenkems

11 ай бұрын

How I met your mother

@A91367

10 ай бұрын

Hahaha awesome

@Dibbz_TV

10 ай бұрын

Are you still together?

It's no surprise at all to hear Louis Ck have such well thought out opinions on movies and what their purpose is. His FX show "Louie", which I love, was a lot like that. There's moments in that show that to this day I still have in my head and whenever they pop up I think about them during any menial task throughout my day.

@dallasspiller6950

8 ай бұрын

Have you thought about having a “bang bang” for dinner like me?

@WoahLookAtThatFreak

8 ай бұрын

@@dallasspiller6950 Absolutely

@nevermindgames

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. I remember the one where he took Parker Posey to eat some fish and hung out at a the roof of a building. What a feeling.

It's like you watch him in Gangs of New York, and that's the bar. Amazing. Then you see him in TWBB, and it's just a whole other level. That's his acting plus the writing. It's really powerful. I can't deny that it still haunts me...that slow, angry murder. I couldn't believe he actually killed the guy.

@billium99

Жыл бұрын

Lest we forget My Left Foot. Even his role in In the Name of the Father was incredible.

I watch this movie once every summer. I’m not sure what it is about the summer time that resonates with this movie, but I have watched this movie once a year since first seeing it in summer of 2015

@lukewilliam3601

Жыл бұрын

Same (not summer, but every year). There's just so much to find in this movie, between the lines. So many great scenes, too.

@Graceisbad

Жыл бұрын

I Watch it every thanksgiving to recalibrate and remember the American dream myth for what it is and prevent slipping into the numbing gluttonous festivity stupor, which I do enjoy, in all fairness

@nodnarB14

11 ай бұрын

That's odd bc I thought this was a Christmas movie

In some way, I feel that Eli represents Daniel's conscience, which is nothing but an irritant to him throughout the story, and which he finally kills, hence why he's finished after killing Eli.

@jmsmith6

Жыл бұрын

Interesting point, I felt the child was his humanity, and when he went deaf it was the beginning of the end for Plainview.

@aikighost

Жыл бұрын

and Eli is not even a good person he is just a opportunistic charlatan but he is not as powerful a beast as Daniels pure drive makes him.

@Stereotype23

Жыл бұрын

I interpret the movie as being about capitalism. Eli is the church/traditional society and Daniel is capitalism. Their clash in the movie represents the clash between capitalism and tradition.

@cattysplat

Жыл бұрын

@@Stereotype23 Religion trying to lift everyone up despite their background whilst capitalism grinding everyone down until you are so damaged you are broken.

@dlmsarge8329

Жыл бұрын

@@Stereotype23 Then does that mean that church/traditional society is also a fraud? As Eli was? And that the aggressive, violent, compassionless striving of Plainview will triumph?

I don’t know if Dan Day-Lewis gave the greatest performance in movie history as Daniel Plainview. But I know you cannot have that discussion without him. It was a Mount Rushmore performance.

@HEAVYDIAPER

Жыл бұрын

Al Pacino in The Godfather 2 is the greatest performance in cinema.

@awakenedtarot7306

Жыл бұрын

@@HEAVYDIAPER NO it's not.

@g8le

Жыл бұрын

@@HEAVYDIAPER lol

@HEAVYDIAPER

Жыл бұрын

@@awakenedtarot7306 yes, it is.

@HEAVYDIAPER

Жыл бұрын

@@g8le ;)

The only thing I'll add to that is the scene in the train when Daniel sheds a single tear over sending his boy off to the school for the hearing impaired. He showed something in that scene, not sure if it was love or if it was losing his child's face as something that creates compassion from his potential clients to appeal to their senses so that he could drill on their land.

One of the greatest movies of all time. I watch it every year.

Daniel Day-Lewis has never been in a bad movie and he nails all of his roles.

@williammccormick984

8 ай бұрын

Nine was pitifully bad. He's been in quite a few bad movies. What are you even talking about?

@engage3085

8 ай бұрын

@williammccormick984 my love for Daniel day-lewis. Never heard of nine so I will stay blissfully unaware of any bad movies he's been in

@williammccormick984

8 ай бұрын

@@engage3085 So your entire comment is bullshit and you're just going to knowingly stay that way? Do you enjoy wasting your life and time or......?

@swisscheeseplease97

6 ай бұрын

Yeah and for my money he’s the best actor to ever act , period.

One of my top 20 favorite movies

Daniel Day-Lewis is just amazing. Not two ways about it. His ending in the crucible was also just astonishing. When he chose to be hanged. “Leave me my name!” he exclaims as the church has him completely humiliated, and willing to say anything to get out of trouble. He just couldn’t continue to sully his name on paper and have it paraded around. That ending in particular I go back to, and rewatch frequently. And the whole of “There Will be Blood“ I watch as well every so often.

Brilliantly put.

"sags under the weight of everything he accumulates" beautifully put!

If anyone's wondering this is from a podcast episode where Louie and comedian Joe List are talking about Paul Thomas Anderson movies

@DemocracyJones

Жыл бұрын

What's the name of the podcast?

@connormcgarry5231

Жыл бұрын

Joe and Raanan talk movies

It did require digestion and, then, re-viewing. Initially I was taken with how much this made me think of what John Ford would be making today, in all the best respect. It will remain a film I revisit again and again...

100% agree with Louis, I loved this film from day 1. No Country for Old Men, which was being filmed just a few miles away at the same time (that film actually had to halt production for a day because the oil fires from this film clouded the skies), seemed to get much more publicity, and also praise from critics, which it deserves, yet I think this is the superior film. Plainview is such a captivating character, and although he's an absolutely despicable person, it's impossible to take your eyes off him. It reminds me a bit of Scarface, where the central character is an equally unlikeable psychopath who is also fascinating for his sheer drive, ambition, propensity for violence, and complete and utter lack of morals. Both men were perhaps molded by tough upbringings, yet no doubt had an innate potential for violent behaviour. A masterpiece, a true 10/10 work of art.

@smartyjonez5470

Жыл бұрын

No country for old men was still a better movie

@christianbrix4311

Жыл бұрын

@@smartyjonez5470 I think most people agree with you. But it's probably too subjective for there to be a definitive answer

@gughunterx437

Жыл бұрын

Good comment, but I would add Tony Montana wasn't completely and utterly without morals. (If you were talking about the 1930's Scarface, sorry, my mistake.) Tony signed his own death warrant by refusing to carry out an assassination because it would have killed innocent kids.

@billium99

Жыл бұрын

@@gughunterx437 Montana was just misunderstood. 😇

@DarranKern

11 ай бұрын

2007 was a god year for movies. Check out *Michael Clayton.* My top 3 favorite movies are Michael Clayton, There Will be Blood, and No Country, all in the same year

I love this format

I feel like this film is above all of his other films. It's definitely mesmerizing. I feel like The Pawnbroker is like this. The character doesn't change and magically become a better happier person. Nothing in the film gets better, it seems to get worse for the main character.

@Davidsworldtravels

Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely by far his best. However, The Master has some of the mesmerizing aspects and Boogie Nights also does an excellent treatise on the darkness of the American Dream. Those are his top 3 imo.

A bastard from a basket. Best line in the movie

Phenomenal film and awesome commentary by the great Louis CK!

One of the best directors of all time, with the best actor of all time, makes for one of the best movies of all time

All tattered ends like an arm was torn off… Indeed. Unsettling. Uncomfortable. Upsetting. Yes like black mirror. There’s no closure because the filmmaker respects the audience enough to draw our own conclusions. What a gift! Thank you for this reflection

Louie is an incredible speaker. Just watched this movie twice, and Louie is my favorite comic. Was excited to see what he said about PTA and his great films with Daniel D. Lewis

This summary is a treat.. really. I love your intellect Louis.

One of the few movies I can watch start to finish, then start it all over again start to finish. 10/10.

man louie is way smarter than me. this was already my pick for best movie of the 21st century and this video made me see it in a totally new light

Louis CK is by far my favorite comic. And I have now learned that he does amazing movie analysis. I heard this and him talking about Kubrick and now I need MORE.

Great EDit!

At work we were discussing favorite movie villains. A lot were predictable, like Hannibal Lecter. I blew everybody’s mind a little when I said Daniel from TWBB.

I've seen this once a year since it came out.

Incredible articulation of this film. I personally felt that There Will Be Blood was the closest I’ve ever come to being transported into another time by a film. It’s the most believable period film ever made in my opinion, and DDL ‘s performance really secures it.

This is one of those movies I enjoy watching annually. Brilliant filmmaking.

The key about a movie character shouldn't be that they learn something, it should be that we learn from them about ourselves

@TheHatman.

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly the same

I love that Film

Louis CK gives a disturbing commentary on a disturbing movie, and that enhances my respect for both.

You've introduced me to multiple dope podcasts and the editing aint bad either 😉 - thanks algo for suggesting the bake sale And thanks James!

Dayum...Louis said it all right there!

"It's like a severed arm, with blood in the wind." Alright, will you relax, Mr. Rockalbumtitlefromthe80's? Jezus. And he was on a roll too.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person completely obsessed with this movie

There is a case to be made that There Will Be Blood joins that very rare club in American art of which possibly only Cormac McCarthy’s Bood Meridian, Melville’s Moby Dick, Faulkner’s As ILay Dying, and a few short stories by Flannery O’Connor are the other members. It is one of the greatest films ever made by an American-in the company of The Godfather and Citizen Kane.

@10rrtyyssx769

4 ай бұрын

Kubrick has a few films in this club.

The movie isn't even an allegory! It's exactly what it shows: an early-stage-capitalist resources-devouring, wealth accumulating American par excellence who has very little, if at all, moral inhibitions, achieving his goal and losing whatever humanity he ever had in the way. It's not that he was an angel at the beginning, but you respect his motives and achievements at the beginning. Then, he inevitably becomes a monster. He's not the only one having this mentality. Almost everybody in his surroundings works under the same paradigm, he's just better at it and he's willing to go all the way. The movie just shows step by step what the essence of American value system is about , including of course the religious hypocrisy, and who is destined to win in the end!

Anderson makes films this like a painter. If you were to see an oil painting of Eli today, you wouldn’t be jealous of or envy him, you’d have a curiosity of his demise, his fractured story.

because CK understands human nature, which in turn makes his insights so good, he's so right about how this movie will make every person feel a different emotion

I don't know who the other guy was, but when he spoke that one time and said "right" he really carried this excerpt for me. Kudos to that unsung hero.

@nodnarB14

11 ай бұрын

He added more insight with 1 word than most do in their entire lives

Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal, was big inspiration for Dutch in Red Dead Redemption 2. They make us like & respect him before his inevitable downward spiral.

Daniel Day-Lewis is the one actor I have never seen fail. I can't think of any other actors I can say that about.

@A91367

10 ай бұрын

Anthony Hopkins

I was physically sick from watching this movie. I will never watch it again. And it's also my favorite film of all times.

Once in a while a movie pops up that, although I'll never want to watch again, I still appreciate as great art. This is one of those movies. Really glad I saw it though. Somehow.

This movie was so hard to digest. It absolutely amazed me. One of the all time best actors with one of his best performances.

This isn’t my favorite movie of all time, but I always say it’s the best movie I’ve ever seen. Lewis’s performance, which I hesitate to even use performance to describe it because he simply….is Daniel Plainview, is for my money the single greatest ever put to film, nobody will ever convince me otherwise.

@choirrevolution

11 ай бұрын

I second this

@Legnica148

11 ай бұрын

I've never seen any other "performance" as you say as his in this movie. It's just the most amazing use of the acting craft in any any media, in my view. So totally agree.

The ending is so perfectly bizarre and yet oddly perfect in capturing the essence of the film - a real masterpiece of modern cinema.

An absolute all time great film

The best movie of all time imo. Glad louis likes it

I never thought too much about what I loved about that movie but this is really at the core of it. That same year, I felt No Country for Old Men was another example of characters who are too authentic to have some kind of character arc with the exception of them dying or maybe the sheriff 'and then I woke up' coming to the realization it never stops, he can just be finished with it, a compliment to the permanence of anton chigur as a force larger than life.

It has a partial antecedent in Nicholas Roeg's "Eureka" (1983)

my favorite movie of all time

Fantastic review

Sounds like I actually need to go back and rewatch this one. I don't much remember it.

This film is a masterpiece. One of my favorites.

i knew this vid was gonna hit. lious ck is so smart and there will be blood is such a good movie.. match made in heaven

There are few movies in the past two decades I'm personally comfortable calling a masterpiece, but this is unquestionably one of them.

I felt love for "The Master" in the same way. Louis describes it perfectly when he speaks about the tattered ends, and the amputated arm with blood squirting in the wind. PTA doesn't write a movie that you seamlessly fall into then remove yourself from. It's more abstract than that. What he writes has all the details it needs for a perfectly layered, complete picture. It's left for you to pick up on them. Some people don't have patience for movies like that, though.

@bertusbrutus2121

Жыл бұрын

The Master, for me, was not that good. TWBB was better, even Punch, Drunk, Love was better vs The Master. Good acting tho, but the movie has no direction what so ever.

@AJ1990.

Жыл бұрын

@@bertusbrutus2121 yeah. It went over some people's head and it made them throw it in the trash. It's easily one of my all time favorites.

@zyrrhos

11 ай бұрын

@@bertusbrutus2121 I urge you watch it again, and if it doesn't stick, watch it again. The Master is a masterpiece that rewards upon repeated viewings. I prefer it to TWBB. Much more nuanced psychologically. The first time I watched it, I thought it didn't go anywhere. I compared it to a motorcycle doing a doughnut. But when I watched it again, I realized I couldn't have been more wrong. The story is in the characters.

Yup. Fantastic film, easily one of the best ever.

Great movie

Incredible editing to only have Raanan interrupt once😂

great director and actor team Phantom thread was great to0 they should do 1 more even though Daniel Day-Lewis said he quit Acting

It's the relentless pursuit of more that is fascinating to people because there is only a small percentage of the population who can actually discard emotions like that. It's why athletes like Michael Jordan are such alluring figures. They can't switch off that competitive drive, even if they win everything all the time, even if they retire.

Mr. Therewillbeblood was an important man and did a lot of stuff.

Great analysis

The great achievement indeed the only metric of achievement in art is to elicit emotion, & contemplation.

shoutout to who edited this and put it on youtube

Fabulous critique..I concur.

So true Louie - about this Movie!!!

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, five easy pieces, Missouri breaks, the indian runner, killer of sheep... Some films that come to mind that did a nice job with the tattered edges...

@JasonEversJohnson

11 ай бұрын

Easy rider

first time i watched this I fell asleep after 30 minutes and woke up at the ending scene. I was in awe of Daniel Day Lewis, and couldnt believe how intense the ending was. I had to rewatch it immedietly afterwards...twice lol.

@staei7457

6 ай бұрын

@@CompanyGhost it was a nice lazy Sunday, one of the best kinds of days!

If you pause this video at 0:33 And just look at his face: *Everything* about his Life and his Character-is conveyed in a single image.

Love this movie.

This was a great movie 🍿

I worked in the oilfield for about 15 years, and they are some wild boys

I wanna see it now

One of the best movies

Cain and Abel on steroids and both without any true redeeming characteristics. amazing movie and performances.

I love this move too it & a most violent year

Couldn't agree more

Nice review jizzanthepus!

From which podcast is this fragment taken?

I think Daniel is a metaphor for America and it's rise to power. His son, the citizens. The preacher, religion.

It's not lack of love. It's progress over everything else, including religion and humanity. It's the true American spirit.