Paul Thomas Anderson ascends to another level as a filmmaker with There Will Be Blood.
Inspired by the first 150 pages of Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, Oil, and The Dark Side of Fortune, a biography of oil tycoon Edward Doheny, Paul Thomas Anderson continues his examination of the state of California with his look back at the oil boom at the turn of the twentieth century. Daniel Plainview is a struggling silver miner who…