Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Great movie, script and review -- There Will be Blood

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/movies/26bloo.html?th&emc=th

I read the script, leaked by Paramount on line, and it is masterly.

Daniel D. Lewis is one of those wonderful classically trained British actors.

He was scary also in Gangs of New York, as the Butcher -- I feel this role is played in the same way.

Strange no one picked that up.

I "watched" Gangs with my eyes half closed most of the time -- so much -- too much blood and graphic violence -- but the story was still mesmerizing.

In the end that is all that counts, the story.

Kyi May Kaung

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