![]() I believe this speech justifies Daniels job. The moment i believe that is most important is when he gives his speech to the town where the Sunday family resides. But it not only affects him, but like the invisible hand theory, affects everyone around him. But if there was a lot of oil, he would have ignored the talking and tried to reassure them of how good a drilling could be. Daniel is an entrepreneur, he took his money and invested it in something that he knows can make him a lot of money. In the scene where he declines the town’s offer, i believe that there wasn’t much oil in the ground, thats why he didn’t bother with the towns differentiating views about whether they want to drill or not. Oil or industrialization, is Daniel’s business, it is his life.ĭaniel bases his life on finding oil, if he thinks that there is a substantial amount in the ground, he will take his resources and drill it out. In There will Be Blood, it skips a substantial amount of time and the time that is skipped is time where daniel is building his empire. If they have the right spot, the risk versus reward leans towards reward. During the early 1900’s oil became the real goldmine for Americans who were to put in the money. Posted in: There Will Be Blood | “I’m an oilman”ĭaniel Plainview considers himself an oilman, a true oilman. Indeed, throughout the film, the main character will loose his sense and he will be discovered as a man who pursues a life of wealthy solitude. The history of industrialization is depicted as a social destruction. “I like to think myself as an oilman” He is a man of conquest and feels powerful to be part of this industrialization. In Plainview’s speech to the Little Boston people, he stresses on the importance of family, and promises education, cultivation, agriculture and a new road to the Church.Īlthough, he appears loyal, wise and thoughtful, the truth is that he only tells them what they want to hear to gain land and make profit. It is also recognizable with the way it is filmed the first seconds, while D.P speaks, you see the emptiness of the land and then slowly you discover the oil industry and its organization. In this scene, the industrialization is well illustrated by the images of the large amount of labor workers, the transportation, the technical arrangement around a natural resource which in this case is the oil. ![]() He does not have any limits to reach his goals: finding oil and becoming rich. Daniel Plainview is a profit-oriented man who is obsessed with oil.
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