Sunday, December 23, 2007

New Yorker Review of There Will be Blood.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/12/17/071217crci_cinema_denby

It's interesting how the movie adaptation, a loose one, focuses on character -- and it's disintegration, and "loses" the socialist literalism of Upton Sinclair's original.

The director and the actor revealed very little plot, but analysed character a lot in a recent interview with Charlie Rose.

I haven't seen the film yet, but think the screenplay -- leaked by Paramount, is masterful.

Kyi May Kaung.

I don't think my hero has a religion--I don't think he's a Christian--he's certainly non-conformist and his family

made their fortune in South Asia-- a very famous family with a castle --some relationship to Clive of India, but he changed his surname-- h...