There Will Be Blood

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:19 pm

I must possess this.

Also, we're now less than 1200 messages away. Let's go people! Embrace your inner BOT!

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hygraed wrote:"Bastard from a basket! Bastard from a basket! BASTARD FROM A BASKET!"

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"Bastard from a basket! Bastard from a basket! BASTARD FROM A BASKET!"

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1 package (small) cocktail wieners
1/2 cup shredded colby-jack cheese
2 packages crescent rolls (can substitute frozen pizza dough)

Directions:

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Sprinkle shredded colby-jack cheese over triangles.
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Repeat with the remaining dough and hot dogs.
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by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 14, 2008 4:16 pm

ICJ: So, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I've abandoned my boy, you will agree.

Ben: HAHAHhahahah

Ben: So, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I repeat myself and crumple paper on the air, you will agree.
ICJ: hahahahha

ICJ: So, ladies and gentlemen, if I say that I leave lengthy pauses in my radio show, as I refuse to allow the other people I work with to be heard over the air, but nevertheless devote my entire attention span to them, wasting you -- the listener's time, you will agree.

ICJ: So, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I make terrible movies about videogames and fight my critics in a boxing ring, you will agree.

Ben's new status message - So, Ladies And Gentlemen, If I Say I'm A Gmail Status Message, You Will Agree 5:14 PM

ICJ: hahahaha

by **pinback** » Wed May 14, 2008 11:39 am

"What else would I do with myself?"

"I told you I would eat you!"

"I'm going to bury you underground."

"That's good. That's a good one."

"That was one goddamn hell of a show."

And I like this one, because it's phrased just oddly enough that you know you're listening to the work of Paul "Thomas" Anderson:

"How could you figure out that?"

by **pinback** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:36 am

To be fair to yourself (which you should be), I did not notice the "he doesn't wake up until someone says Eli" thing until the second, or perhaps third time I watched the movie.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:30 am

It sounds like it, doesn't it? But I pride myself on being able to read, very well, the emotions of people and situations in real life (well, real life and on message forums), so I may just be movie-spergin'.

But there is something that lets two people watch the same movie and only one of them realizes that Daniel Day-Lewis can only be roused by the name of the priest he hates, and the other thinks that he just woke up naturally because the manservant was yellin' at him for so long that he just woke that way.

by **Casual Observer** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:44 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:3) I have a hard time reading into the performance of an actor when they are not specifically communicating, with words, what I need to know.

hmmm. . . Aspergers?

by **hygraed** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:30 am

Double post! Damn Internal Configuration errors.

This just gets us closer to 50,000, though! Aspiring for giant purple glittery greatness!

by **hygraed** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:30 am

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:41 pm

It makes me wish I had a boy so I could "get into the theme of things" and--

You know what, I do hope to one day have children, and I don't want them reading this filth, even in jest.

I'll instead shift gears to the arcade game I am trying to sell. They're sort of like children.

"I have abandoned my Xeno! I have ABANDONED my XENO! I have ABANDONED MY XENO! AAAAAAAAAAGG!"

by **hygraed** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:28 pm

"Bastard from a basket! Bastard from a basket! BASTARD FROM A BASKET!"

by **pinback** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:06 pm

I assumed that he was telling him he'd give him the $5000 bonus, in another display of faux acquiescence. Right afterward, Eli announces that Daniel has agreed to donate $5000 to the church.

Of course, he doesn't give it to him. We know that because 16 years later, Eli is still begging for the $5000 ("$100,000, plus the $5000 which is still owed...")

Though Eli's face after the secret conversation does look a bit disquieted.

I do like the "I'm going to eat you" theory, though.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:23 pm

http://defamer.com/359795/overthinking- ... w-tell-eli

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:20 pm

"I have abandoned my boy!"

by **pinback** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:45 pm

Hmm. No, I think we've covered all the subtexts and subtleties. Maybe we can just list some of the wonderful quotes from the movie which you should sprinkle liberally into your daily conversations!

"So, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I'm an oil man, you will agree." (Please replace "oil man" with whatever you're trying to get across, as I've done in this post)

"Let's talk about bread!"

"You look like a ffffool, don't you?"

"I say, get liquored up and take 'em to the peach tree dance!"

"Yesshheshheshheshheshhh."

"No, thank you so much."

"Give me the blood, Lord!"

"Yes I do!"

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:34 pm

No. You can mention other things that I, a simpleton for film, would have missed.

I can gain two levels, is what I am sayin'.

by **pinback** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:33 pm

Hmm. Does that mean the thread is over?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:32 pm

Well. WELL!

I can honestly say that I understand the movie BETTER thanks to the posts of pinback, hygraed and Casual Observer.

In reading these posts, I have learned a little about myself as a movie-goer:

1) I don't pick much up on subtleties. That's for sure.

2) I do seem to require that every movie follows the plot arc of a caper flick or something.

3) I have a hard time reading into the performance of an actor when they are not specifically communicating, with words, what I need to know.

This does sort of leave me utterly unqualified to ever direct films, but you can say that about half the people who have directed films for money anyway.

I did not pick up on the fact that DDL only woke up when Eli was mentioned. Or that he wanted to destroy all egos within 500 miles. Or many other things. But in my defense, a movie suddenly talking about milkshakes is like when a conversation in real life goes towards Java, but in COMPLETE REVERSE. So there's that.

Thank you, friends. I have gained a level.

by **pinback** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:02 pm

I think it's important to note that, as hygraed says, at some point there are shreds of decency, and I think it's safe to say that he does have some affection for the boy, at least up until 1911.

Otherwise:

1. He wouldn't get so freaked out about "I abandoned my boy!"
2. He wouldn't use the faith-healer argument when he's slapping around Eli.
3. He wouldn't have that goofy, strained, guilty look as he walks away from the train that's taking H. W. away.

Of course, no matter how close he gets, his ego-domination always wins out:

1. He tells the Standard Oil guy he's going to cut his throat for telling him how to run his family, but he's only using that as an excuse to attack him.

2. Again in the steakhouse, he's trying to reconcile with his kid, but then Standard Oil walks in, and once again he's overtaken by the need to destroy them. Ironically, he uses his supposed caretaking of his kid ("Look over there! What do you see?") in his attack.

Now, in 1927, as I've said, he is so crazed and obsessed by greed and hatred that all bets are off, and anyone who gets past the gate into the mansion is fair game.

by **hygraed** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:55 pm

Plainview came right out and said

1. "I hate most people." (to Henry)
2. "I took you for no other reason than I needed a sweet face to buy land." (to H.W.)

He doesn't care about H.W. In fact, he probably doesn't care about anyone in the entire world except for himself. The audience is left to decide for themselves exactly why this is; there are hints at some shred of humanity left inside Daniel, so we can assume that at one time he was something resembling a decent human being. Perhaps some tragedy, some awful freak occurrence, happened to someone very close to him, destroying his faith in the good of the world. I think Daniel has been hurt very deeply in the past, and his behavior as a complete and utter piece of shit is his way of getting back at the world at large, which he blames for his own past misfortunes.

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