Paul Thomas Anderson and Elvis Mitchell on "There will be blood" (The Treatment)

[Kickthebaby01]

2007 was such a good year for movies.

[moviemanwill]

punch drunk love > there will be blood

[ECHALE2000]

paul thomas anderson is a brilliant director. there will be blood is the best movie of the decade

[gustovo134]

Memento > Inception

[qazwsx913]

i think nolan is a little more than an alright director,i thought inception was amazing, how was inception dumbed down? inception could have only been made as a blockbuster, how would he have been able to pull that movie off with a 15 million dollar budget? it wouldnt have been possible

[rhbangert]

@WoodsUlmann, I think they were talking about Daniel's motivation with this child he's just become the caretaker of ... just my opinion though

[And8But]

paul thomas anderson interview



[mabryzealand]

PTA is so much calmer now. Back during the Magnolia days he was all over the place. Rumor is he was still doing a lot of Coke in those days. Who knows, he's a master regardless.

[jakespick]

@mabryzealand I don't believe he ever did cocaine... -_-

[Tubesploitation]

He's maturing as a filmmaker, and also as a person. He was so young back then, but he still made superb films like Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

With PDL we saw how he was evolving, and with There Will Be Blood it's more apparent. He and Aronofsky are two directors to look out for; its history in the making.

[JesusCristo2002]

@Tubesploitation don't forget about Christopher Nolan (filmmaker behind "Memento", Batman Begins", The Prestige", The Dark Knight" and the upcoming picture "Inception) and David Fincher (filmmaker behind "Seven", "The Game", "Fight Club", and recently "Zodiac" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button").

[malows1234]

@JesusCristo2002 oh nolan is an alrite director, dont really admire directors who make mainstream blockbuster, not a lot of courage involved. thats why i didn't like inception, it was dumbed down. but memento prestige very well made. but nolan needs to stop with the batman bullshit, and go back to the indie films where he shined his true genius. he is probly only doing batman 3 for the money. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh its sad wat hollywood does to a talented man i tell you sir.

[BrideAndGroomFilmsHD]

@malows1234 "he is probly only doing batman 3 for the money." Yeah, millionaire directors make films for money. What, he needs to pay his electricity bill?

[malows1234]

@BrideAndGroomFilmsHD lol he got 70 million dollars for inception, i think we can agree that with 70 million you can pay microsoft's powerbill for 1000000 years. he doesn't need the money period. there is nothing you can do with 200 million dollars that you can't do with 70. nobody needs to be that greedy about it. i mean filmmaking is not a bussiness like a microsoft. filmmaking is a art.

[BlowDeBloodyDoorsOff]

@Tubesploitation I couldn't agree with you more. PT is the most exciting director making films at the moment. I love Christopher Nolan too, but I think Anderson is just more 'out there'. He's developing a real craft too. The scene right before HW& Mary marry, the two jump off the platform and the films cuts to a beautiful shot of Mary's hands, signing her vows. It's a beautiful cut. He's a legend in the making. I was convinced of his genius while watching Magnolia, this film assures me further.

[haribo687]

@mabryzealand I dont know much about PTAs biography, but I always thought of Boogie Nights as an anti-drug movie... weird to think of him being a coke-head round that time

[ned262626]

@haribo687 was pt a coke head?

[sellout87]

@ned262626 who gives a shit? its irrelevent to everything

[trulysarcastic]

very good interview, thank you fro the upload. Daniel day-lewis is one of the best actors and PTA is one of the best writers/directors around. Sorry if I'm not real original in that assessment

[WoodsUlmann]

I love critics... 'we don't know early on what his motivation is'. Why, because he didn't SAY what it is? The motivation was pretty clear - FIND OIL... MAKE MONEY SELLING OIL.

[JesusCristo2002]

There's much more to Daniel Plainview as a protagonist and a character as a whole. Within the last quarter of the film you see a cold, bitter, detached miserable old man shut off from the world. Yet, there are scenes in the film that signify that Plainview is after something much more then just 'money'. He's greedy, but for the labor aspect of his profession, I recall his response to excepting money: "What would I do with myself."

[jswinder]

Note: When Eli Sunday was leaving the train station for his "mission", it is clear to see that Daniel Plainview is upset about his departure. This to me goes hand in hand with what you're saying. It's not about the money, but the competition and his utter destruction of it. He wants nothing to escape his wrath. He only survives under the pressure of his enemies. When Eli leaves, it leaves him with less competition and less of a will. He feels Eli is escaping him for something better.

[Nu63]

@WoodsUlmann We all want to make money, but less than half of us feel motivated enough to actually go for it, less than that actually succeed at it. He's talking about DDL's unconscious motivation; yes he is greedy and wants money, but why is that his top motivation? Why does he put people and his own personal health second to making money? It seems simple and obvious because greed is something everyone can relate to, but not to the degree of Daniel Plainview.

[WoodsUlmann]

@Nu63 Good question... my opinion is that he wanted two things in life: 1) Security and 2) Family. I don't think he always put family after money... I think he wanted it both ways and that his behavior was a lot more complex and full of conflicts (aren't we all?), like most people that reach that stature (Rockefeller was ruthless AND extremely religious, and he seemed to have no problem squaring the two). The problem is that critics who don't understand it blame the movie instead of themselves.

[WoodsUlmann]

@Nu63 And by the way, I'm not saying you don't understand it, clearly you do, but I think most critics want someone to explain it to them for fear of putting their own opinions out there. Cause then they're staking a claim on their interpretation, just like an artist must do, and many critics have egos far too fragile (even Pauline Kael was often like this) to risk in such a way. In real life, the type of person who'd become a critic could never understand a D. Plainview, much less in a film.

[thisNewFoundLand]

...thanks to the uploader.

certainly one of the most powerful films ever made --- and paul thomas is yet so young!! daniel day lewis seems capable of bursting out of every frame and spilling over, and into, this world. i have never seen such acting ... and the best soundtrack in ages. comments could roll on and on: bravo! encore!

[dan564891]

Thanks for uploading - great interview

[Nimnoms]

That makes perfect sense. Daniel had nothing left after he cracked open the ground. So what does he do? He cracks open a head.

[rkullberg]

Paul Thomas Anderson is such a legend. Glad to see he's not on crack this time.