"There Will Be Blood" and The Prize

"There Will Be Blood" is definitely an interesting movie! In the beginning, seeing how dangerous oil drilling was in the late 1800's early 1900's was intense. Many men lost their lives working down in the wells before there were actual mechanical drills. Daniel Plainview, the main character, is just another man searching for oil in order to compete with Standard Oil. He turned out to be portrayed as a very greedy man. It seemed as if the oil business had many greedy men in search for lots of money. They sure did get it though!!! We ended the movie in suspense only seeing the beginning of a very heated fight. That made me want to go out and rent it to see the rest!

The Prize and "There Will Be Blood" tied together well. In the movie and also the book we see the struggle to find oil in The United States. Once the oil is found we see the race at who gets to own and manage the wells. The biggest connection that I saw in the movie, as stated above, was the Plainview was trying to find land that Standard had not found yet, just like in the book with all the different oil companies trying to compete with Standard. Plainview and his son H.W. seemed like a deceiving pair, like many oil men in the book including Rockefeller. Plainview seems to not care much about anything other than the oil. That's how most of the oil men seem to be. Basically, if this movie were non-fiction, it would be a great example of how the oil business was early on.

I have not yet rented the movie, but once I do I would like to see if Plainview was successful in his business or if his failed like many others. At the rate that he is going in the movie I do not see him being very successful. He causes a lot of controversy and that does not help to have a successful business in any workplace.