Cinema Science

Just got back from a second viewing of There Will Be Blood and I'm not exaggerating when I say I was ready to watch it again the second the film ended. I hadn't realized how funny the film is the first time around, I think I might have been a bit in awe of the whole spectacle. But here I was laughing out loud numerous times, only to bite my lip the very next scene from the intensity. There were quite a few other subtle changes in the story that I didn't recognize the first time through. Character reactions and tone changes that leads this story to its foregone conclusion. It is almost as if Paul Thomas Anderson was dropping little hints all along the way. I was also able to watch the other members of the audience to gauge some of their reactions throughout the movie. There were audible gasps during the final scene and a couple who talked all the way through the previews and into the movie were never made a peep after the moment Daniel Plainview begins to drag himself back to the town after breaking his leg in the silver mine.