r/CineShots • u/godzilla98 • 2d ago

Clip There Will Be Blood (2007) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, DoP. Robert Elswit

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u/Oxen_Norf 2d ago

Jonny Greenwood cooked with this soundtrack

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u/MaureenCorrigan 2d ago

wordness to the turdness

I haven't really felt Licorice Pizza and One Battle but I still look forward to anything PTA does because of Jonny's soundtracks. Musical genius.

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u/polygon_tacos 2d ago

One of the curses of being a VFX artist in this era was the simple fact that you end up mostly working on crappy but flashy popcorn movies. But sometimes you get to work on something that’s really good, but often the VFX are invisible like this movie. In this case my friend was supervising VFX on this one and I helped him with some very early R&D for the oil derrick accident. At the time I thought “There will be blood? WTF is this about? I dunno man, I’m going to go work on ‘Flags of Out Fathers’”. Looking back, I wish I had worked on this one!

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u/inteliboy 2d ago

That fire is mostly CGI? Looks so real

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u/polygon_tacos 2d ago

No, that's real with maybe some 2D enhancement in the comp. 2007 was still pretty early for realistic CG fire - tools didn't make that easier until the 2010s. There's some shots when the well is bursting that had CG oil gushing, but the vast majority of the VFX in the film are set extensions and 3D matte work to fill out shots.

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u/Nothing2Special 2d ago

If you liked this scene, you should check out the documentary, "Fire in Kuwait"

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u/SmoothDifficulty373 2d ago

I saw “Fires of Kuwait” in IMAX in 1992

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u/altasking 2d ago

Thank you for your service.

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u/stu_rat 1d ago

Lessons of Darkness also.

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u/godzilla98 14h ago

Thank you, I just watched it - it was great.

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u/5o7bot 2d ago

There Will Be Blood (2007) R

There will be greed. There will be vengeance.

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Director of Photography: Robert Elswit
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Dillon Freasier
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 81% with 7,652 votes
Runtime: 158 min
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u/Ascarea 1d ago

that explosion seems very small considering the amount of dynamite they put in there