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Symbolism In There Will Be Blood

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Paul Thomas Anderson's film, There will be Blood and is the best film of 2007. This is the best film released in the 21st Century. They are using the tools for oil trade in late 19th and 20th century United States. They are murdered. When they murder their workers and then their blood mix with the oil they exact from the earth. In this film Denial Plainview is an oil man. He is also the miasma that brings death, heartbreak or ruin to everyone. The difficulty of Daniel Plainview that makes him far more interesting and complex. The American Dream is available to anyone who works hard for it. Plainview is hard work and checking everything on the top before dealing with the company. He is clever of doing work required to pump oil from under the …show more content…

The main reason is to tell the audience about symbolizing is the difference between good vs. evil. The symbolism is marked in the names of the characters in the film. Daniel Plainview is very dreamer, and he is representative of capitalism. On the other hand of the spectrum is Eli Sunday, whose last name can be related to religion is that Sunday. In the beginning, denial is finding oil across the country. The boy that he take care of years when his father died in an accident. This shows of the goodness of denial heart. But this is not true because he took the boy to only support himself, and he succeeds in the oil business. The reality is coming out when his son H.W. goes deaf in the accident. Then, Daniel not deals with his son problem, and sent him away. This kind of things shows that denial is not the good heart person. He just cares about his business. In the end of the movie, Daniel is shows as a very heartless man who not cares about anyone else. He just cared about himself and making his money. When oil becomes exploded, and burning the huge oil structure. Also, injuring his son H.W. But Daniel sits and watched the flaming oil. This showed that he is very cruel and …show more content…

It is the close portrait of a businessman who is pushed by to seen look haters and believes in money. There Will Be Blood well explores the themes of capitalism and religion in our country. As the short film shows that results are ugly based on the religion and capitalism. The themes are related to many things in every person lives. When Eli comes to meet Daniel in his house at the end of the film, and their final fight ends with Daniel. He is beating Eli and gave to death with a bowling pin. In this time a symbolic initiation is blood. These symbolic is fight that takes place between good vs. and evil. He shouting and Daniel’s servant coming to the bowling lane to see what’s going on. Daniel very cooling

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