![]() The ‘oil’ theme is married to what I would call the Aimée Macpherson plot, ‘old time religion’ and some sort of scandal. Daniel Day-Lewis’s Plainview gets rich by ‘cheating’ ordinary landholders. There Will Be Blood eschews any romance and has an unusual powerful focus on the exploitative aspects of the industry. Closest to the recent film is Giant where James Dean’s rise to oil tycoon leads to a bitter and destructive climax. Tulsa has Susan Hayward building a female run oil empire. M.G.M.’s Boom Town mixes drama, romance and comedy as Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy strike it rich. ![]() This suggests the narrative thrust of such films. Time Out lists a range of earlier films under Oil Prospecting. The S & S review references Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane and then suggests that “Anderson’s film defies the conventions of both breeds of American epics.” Despite this there are also sorts of familiar patters being worked out in the movie. Critics have tended to see the film as offering a distinctive vision of the early C20th USA. It is an epic tale and epic viewing, running two and half-hours, with impressive staging and cinematography, filmed in Panavision. This 2008 release garnered very positive critical reviews as well as Oscar success. Scripted and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based in part on Upton Sinclair’s Oil. Paramount Vantage and Miramax Film Corporations. Servants / Sluzobníci, Slovakia, Romania, Czech, Republic Ireland, 2020.Jean-Luc Godard, December 3rd 1930 to September 13th September 2022.All Quiet on the Western Front Germany / USA / Britain 2022.Eleven Days in May, Gaza / Britain 2022. ![]()
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