Daniel Plainview is the Third Revelation

[alexmrhalter]

IM DONE!!!

[alexmrhalter]

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[TheDoctorsnooze]

i try to watch this once a day.

[iptik]

I always took this as a metaphor for the GOP. Eli is a stand-in for the religious-right, as he, in essence, is selling his soul to the fiscal-conservatives (Plainview, or arguably Satan?), and after the sale, everything is taken from Eli (his life), just as everything is being taken from the religious-right in real life.

[626718]

Eli reminds me of Rick Santorum.

[Forestbender1114]

The best, most satisfying ending of any movie of any era.

[welcometotheshack]

1 dislike from eli

[AdamR702]

DDL and Paul Dano gave epic performances. Nothing short of a masterpiece from everyone who worked on this film.

[dg92808]

Daniel Day Lewis is a bigger Bad Ass than Stallone, Statham, Li, Willis and Schwarzenagger ever were and are.

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

BASTARD FROMA BASKET!!!!

[Mercury12000]

Epic pwnage.

[Sundsly]

Why did eli make 3 drinks?

[Tkraemer81]

@miaopurrington

In the end, I don't feel that Daniel found his salvation by killing Eli. I think it can be concluded that it lead to his ultimate demise, allowing him to continue living his dream of being a recluse, ultimately being dead himself.

I found the closing line to be ironic.

[Tkraemer81]

@miaopurrington

Your comments are insightful, but I disagree with you. I feel that we're dealing with two characters who are morally deficient in the same fundamental ways. Their greed, lack of moral fiber, and thirst for power dehumanize them from the start. Daniel establishes this by exploiting his adopted son to obtain business, and Eli does by brutally dishonoring his father at the dinner table. I found the ending to be brilliant. In the end, they both died. Eli got off easy.

[Tkraemer81]

@jokesterr119

Feel that this could happen to any man who allows their thirst for power and money to compromise their morals.

[MohnJcIntyre]

Truly some of the best acting i have EVER seen!!

[jokesterr119]

Or other of their personal needs instead of using that money on the church, giving to charity, or others that are in need.

[jokesterr119]

@EssenceTelevised

I don't believe this movie make us Christians as a whole look bad, but I do think Eli represent those that gives us a bad name such as the pastor that used the offerings to buy a new car and house.

[TheBlackPigeon]

I wanna be The Third Revelation when I grow up.

[BloodEagle729]

Sir, thank you for putting this video on here.

You are fucking amazing.

[rainbowIchigo]

this movie went from a western oil plot to American Psycho.

best fucking ending transition EVER

[ninuxy]

Top 5 movies of all time; the acting will be studied and studied for generations to come.

[WildWestSamurai]

"You're just the afterbirth that slithered out of your mother's filth. They should've put you in a glass jar on the mantelpiece."

Ouch. To call that harsh would be an understatement.

[hery011490]

Epic!!

[Mowglieboy69]

11:57-12:07 is too epic for words.

[jferkfjkj]

DDL gave what I'd consider to be the BEST performance of the 2000s.

[carlosrullan1]

@jferkfjkj

Hell yes

[colt2237]

8:59 "Yes, he does-aaaa"

[Zooroonies]

some of the best acting in a movie ive ever seen

[Akilleez82]

an outstanding movie

[runningbul1]

Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano have SO MUCH chemistry.

[DWLyle1]

My take on this is that Daniel has been waiting for this moment for a long time. The murder with the bowling pin isn't so extreme when you consider that Daniel is cut-throat, has killed before, and has been waiting to savor the end of Eli for years. Anyway, dmontez11333, I agree with you, this is why movies can be great. What a moment, what a film.

[HoOGenghisB]

Coup de grace. Best ending ever. He turns Eli's scheme on himself and then finishes him off with a bowling pin, perhaps symbolic of how Daniel was hit like a bowling pin and just took it earlier in the movie. Amazing smack on religion and its stupidity.

[Drew00621]

So when Daniel is chasing him he says "I told you I would eat you." This is what he must have whispered in Eli's ear after the baptism.

[TheSchmitzrunner]

i still don't understand why he killed him

[ZakaTF2R]

@TheSchmitzrunner He hates people, he hates Eli greatly, especially for the humiliating baptism, and Mr. Plainview is also REALLY FUCKIN' CRAZY at this point.

[420bluntsmokerxXx]

Love this scene. Every single thing Eli says buries him even deeper.

[AllisterSpade]

IAM THE #RD REVELATION I AM THE THIRD REVILATION!!!!!!!! lmao

[kmtb1991]

what movie beat this for best picture?

[es80es]

@kmtb1991 It won best picture in 2007.

[Mowglieboy69]

@kmtb1991 No Country For Old Men. Great flick in its own right, but this is the masterpiece of our generation.

[TiggahG]

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS NOT WIN BEST PICTURE???

[EssenceTelevised]

@TiggahG cuz it makes christians look bad...

[ummagumma00]

@TiggahG Because there's no sexy women (ergo no sex), no people getting killed left and right, the camera doesn't cut to a new angle every half second, and the dialogue is sparse. It's like a Kubrick film. A film for filmmakers and those who care what they watch.

[Drew00621]

@TiggahG It should have won. No Country for Old Men won that year.

[oblivion476]

Such a scene. Love it. One of my favorites.

[jetdude77]

Daniel Plainview should be a spokesperson for Dairy Queen.

[nanotech2006]

wtf hes eating? looks delicious

[ShaneRBeacham]

Absolutely fantastic scene.

[JHolmes17]

One of the greatest scenes ever.

[VJelectro]

This has to be one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history.

[essanance]

I bow down to the GOD that is DDL

[EnzoFuturistic]

ZERO dislikes.

[EnzoFuturistic]

@EnzoFuturistic

Dammit, now there's going to be a troll that's going to hit the dislike button. SHIT.

[majin2912]

I agree mindsabrewin but I'd also offer that the film is drawing parallels between the two as far as a lack of morality is concerned. The only difference is that Plainview accepts that he's a monster while Eli is deluded and exploits people using Gods name. I think Anderson is vilifying evangelists more than religion itself. But any film that can create good discourse and varying views is okay with me!

[mindstormsabrewin]

I love how he savors Eli's torment! This fraud. This fool. He actually tries to throw his religious jibberish at a MAN like Plainview! Who has seen through him and used him from the beginning. It's pure joy watching Eli crumble. Eli imagined himself to be a Machiavellian power broker. But his hustle only works on the weak. When confronted with a MAN like Plainview, he rightly trembles and cowers.

[majin2912]

Capitalism destroys religion. One of the best films ever made IMO. Technically superior to anything that came out in the past decade. Dark as hell but life ain't pretty sometimes.

[mindstormsabrewin]

@majin2912 Capitalism NEEDS religion because it provides a steady supply of broken minded weaklings to exploit. An entire population with all their self respect and survival instincts bred OUT of them. People that will accept any situation no matter how degrading or confining because they were brainwashed to believe that it's "god's will". Religion..... where would the powers of the Earth be without it?

[ShaneRBeacham]

@mindstormsabrewin Religion has nothing to do with it. It's the people who abuse religion and use it to get what they want that has to do with it. That's the point of this scene.

[mindstormsabrewin]

@ShaneRBeacham Religion has EVERYTHING to do with it. People don't "abuse religion". Religion abuses people. It is a toxic mind control mechanism that enslaves most of humanity for the benefit of the leaders. It creates an entire population of broken minds. Easily controlled and dominated. Don't try to defend religion. Humanity must be defended FROM religion... before it destroys us all. One day it will be purged from the Earth once and for all.

[Drew00621]

@mindstormsabrewin I agree. More people have died in the name of god than for any reason. People base their lives on these fairy tales that cant be proven

[shkdbsahbdlabf1]

Fantastic movie. I can't believe this was all in one take. I mean wow just wow.

[charlieDetroit]

this is so crazy. what an amazing movie, so unsettling

[MichaelSirois]

Three glasses are poured - one for Daniel, one for Eli and one for Paul. All three characters appear in this scene, but only one is alive when the film ends...

[Spider1775]

I like that this murder takes place in what looks like Stanley Kubrick's bowling alley

[Mowglieboy69]

Do you understand, Eli? That's more to the point, do you understand? I drink your water. I drink it up! Every day, I drink the blood of lamb from Bandy's tract........you can sit down now.

[BackwurdzMan]

I absolutely love the way Daniel psychologically manipulates Eli from the very start, how he tricks him into saying God is a superstition and revealing Eli's greed and true nature, and then breaks him down.

Daniel Plainview is the definition of a magnificent bastard.

[SoleCitizen33]

I get a feeling this scene is a dream sequence. Any thoughts on this?

[SolidusScott87]

This scene is legendary.

[Nelak91]

DRAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNN IT!!!!

[skateposeur12]

@Nelak91 He's saying "drainage".

[Nelak91]

"Stop crying you sniffling ass! " rofl xD

[DylanBobD]

It would have been so funny if he said: My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,And they're like, It's better than yours, Damn right it's better than yours

[Bradylama]

YYYESSS HEEE DUUUUUUZZZZZZZ

[Bradylama]

SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT

[NiceHatVeton]

YES HE DOESAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[RYANL22]

NO ONE saw thar ending coming. This movie is awesome

[MiaoPurrington]

How else was this movie supposed to end? All that posturing and it amount to nothing but a melodramatic display of feigned emotion (on Dano's part) and Daniel Day-Lewis' spell-binding but equally deficient performance. He assigned to the role of a sociopathic oil's man who had no regard for human life, morality or integrity. There's no room for even a drop of humanity to be portrayed here. In the end when he declares "I'm finished" is particularly empty-- he just killed a man. Pointless.

[yolandaBcool]

@MiaoPurrington You are absolutely wrong! You completely mis-interpreted the film. When he declares "I'm finnished" that is when he finds salvation. Think about the baptism scene. There at least 5 references to blood being the thing that leads you to salvation. Even the name of the film "There will be Blood" points to this. Also he is not a one dimensional sociopath. He was a good simple man (hence the name PlainView) who becomes bad when bad shit happens to him.

[Mowglieboy69]

@yolandaBcool That is GARBAGE.

[scientist1200]

@yolandaBcool

When was he ever good? The whole movie he was a manipulative, misanthropic person who didn't care about anyone else but himself and with only one goal: becoming rich. He didn't even care about his adopted son whom he largely used as a prop so that people would trust him. He seemed pretty one track to me throughout the entire film.

[Mowglieboy69]

@scientist1200 He ABSOLUTELY cared about his son, regardless of what happened later in the film.

[blubirdTN]

@yolandaBcool Daniel isn't a good and simple man.Did you actually watch the movie?

[Mowglieboy69]

@MiaoPurrington If there was a hell I'd hope you would be assigned to the 7th circle.

[MiaoPurrington]

@Mowglieboy69 *Sigh* The typical overstatement. Just because I expressed an apparently unpopular opinion about your beloved movie, does not give you the right to say such things.

[Mowglieboy69]

@MiaoPurrington I'll say whatever I feel, thank you. His hatred for Eli had been built up throughout the entire movie. This was his chance to get his vengeance. He took it. In GRAND fashion. If you disagree with the "morals" of the scene, fair enough. This obviously isn't your type of movie.

[MiaoPurrington]

@Mowglieboy69 I am interested in these type of films. I was basically stating that the was no other way this film could have ended. And I am far from a moralist, I just don't appreciate the nihilism in this film. Excuse me... VENGEANCE? He just bludgeoned him with a bowling ball, which is the most improbable method of murder imaginable. It's not believable to me. The strength of the film collapsed into conceit at the end. I felt betrayed. If you enjoy it by all means, proceed.

[Mowglieboy69]

@MiaoPurrington *bowling PIN

I'm sure there are more improbable methods. Anyways, it's not the method, rather how it's played out. I think you're looking a bit too much into that particular point. I saw nothing wrong with it. Sure, the ending was extreme, but it left you with something equally extraordinary. A very evenly paced movie with a mind-bending climax, P.T. Anderson style.

[essanance]

@MiaoPurrington everyone on earth has the right to kill you for being a jack ass

[MiaoPurrington]

@essanance Trollol. 

[moeron271]

12:00 keeps me laughing my ass off....

[Aftershines]

For econ junior year we watched this film, then had an assignment to write Plainview's obit. When I got mine back, my teacher had written "This it the Third Revelation" on it. Made my life.

[ummagumma00]

Wake up drunk to a plate full of cold steak??? that's the real American Dream!

[AllisterSpade]

@ummagumma00 FUCK YEAH you said it duder

[VirusVescichetta]

10:24 is probably one of the best insults ever.

[ENJager]

This scene is just win! One of the best acting performances of all-time by DDL, so many memorable quotes from this scene: "draaaainaggggggge!!!" "I told you I would eat you" "I am the third revolution" "they should have put you in a glass jaaaar..on a mantlepiece." Also, the actor that plays Eli (Paul Dano?) also deserves tremendous praise for his acting, he was really incredible too and had guts working with DDL who intimidated the first actor playing Eli into quiting because of his intensity.

[Blacaca180]

"I AM A FALSE PROPHET, GOD IS A SUPERSTITION!"

"Those areas have been drilled..."

*continues eating cookies*

[AllisterSpade]

@Blacaca180 he is eating beef jerky retard.

[ummagumma00]

I watch this scene 20 times a day because it knocks out any scene in fucking history!!! Murder in the bowling alley. EPIC!

[TheDocserge]

"Yes he DOESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS UHHHHHHH" lmaooooooooooooooooooooooo that part always get's me.

[JACKOTACO]

Nothing like waking up from a drunken nap and having a plate of food ready for you.

[switchdownn]

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!

[mandabean08]

"My straw reaches.....acrOoOoOoOoOssss the room...." lmfao fantastic

[mandabean08]

I'd beat him to death with a bowling pin too the fuckin twat....go Plainview, getcha bludgeon on!

[JDT093]

I just saw this movie in-full a couple days ago. Movies that are so intense and indepth and have so much symbolism remind me of a good book. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Day-Lewis makes this scene PERFECT!

[PimpingRice]

wait is does his twin actually exists?

[JDT093]

@PimpingRice There are some that speculate they are one in the same

[PimpingRice]

@JDT093 Thanks but I just researched this movie and they made him play both of the characters because the other guywho was suppose to play Paul left the scene and made the same guy who play Eli play the other as his twin brother because the movie already started shooting.

[JDT093]

@PimpingRice Yeah, my brother told me that too, kinda cooler if he was a scitzo

[SuperDeepRoller]

Eli is so crazy rude not only is he a twerp who screams at a sleeping man/the homeowner no less but he invites himself to the guy's booze to which the far more naturally courteous homeowner declines to share!

[SuperDeepRoller]

Eli Sunday is not a low grade simmering problem - he's a travesty too weak to do as much damage as he would like. The world is well rid of him and every one of his kind. A kinder, friendlier, prettier world of Daniel Plainviews.

[slapohapo826]

"they should have put you in a glass jaaaaaaar...on the mantelpiece"

makes me crack up EVERY time

[CRAZYMANNVIDEOS]

Thumbs up if filmriot sent you!

[n00bTub3R182]

@CRAZYMANNVIDEOS No.. Just no...

[bizel78]

the bucket of water splashing directly into the camera...i mean come on...best scene EVER.

[amnm12]

I wonder what would happen if Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, and Daniel Day-Lewis would have all made a movie together.

[charleshoskinson]

@amnm12 Called A film so awesome your face will melt off like the nazis in Raiders of the Lost Arc

[KingKushBlunted]

@charleshoskinson Damn this comment made me laught hard. thank you for sharing this comment with us. lol

[Mowglieboy69]

@amnm12 The universe would collapse in on itself.

[SoundCheckSuburbia]

FILM RIOT!

[plasticweapon]

kudos for posting the whole scene.

[subtletiger]

If I say I am a pizza cook, you would agree...!

[Styx1992]

@subtletiger I want you to stroke your manhood. Gently at first and then with a vigor.

[MrBWB]

Told you I would eat you..

[DaveJ721]

Why does Daniel kill Eli at the end instead of just throwing him out of the house and letting him live the rest of his life as a failure and a "false prophet"?

[starwart2000]

@DaveJ721 because, he's drunk as a bastard. he didn't give a shit.

[DrCruel]

@DaveJ721 Because he is the Third Revelation. Because he told him he would eat him.

[tyrehd]

@DaveJ721 because there will be blood

[Mowglieboy69]

@DaveJ721 Because HE TOLD HIM HE WOULD EAT HIM!

[sanbell]

For some reason Daniel makes me think of Sean Connery in this scene

[whitewarrior12]

Every line Daniel says in this movie should be famous. They couldn't have picked a better actor than Daniel Day-Lewis.

[CaptainPommby]

Daniel is funny as hell!

[LeVonDanE]

I love how he screams to him in the beginning that his house was on fire to try and wake him up but he doesn't actually wake until Eli says his name calmly to him. Beast mode

[Notkeiran]

I can honestly say I loved every single part of this masterpiece of a film.

[tpauluchs]

I haven't seen the whole movie yet- is Eli really a fake Christian, or is Daniel just forcing him to say that he's a false prophet?

[BadassCeino]

@tpauluchs He is indeed a FALSE PREACHER. SIMPLY FOR HIS LOVE OF MONEY.

[hashamdoggy]

ive always wondered what happens after this scene. Does Daniel go to jail or does he bury Eli in his backyard with the butler?

[GP1940]

@hashamdoggy Definitely buries him. The tone of his voice was a sense of accomplishment.

[SpikeDubbs]

@hashamdoggy Sorry I know your post is like 2 weeks old. Probly buried him, got caught later on, then won the case and was acquitted because he has a shit storm of money to afford the best attorney money could by. Just my two cents. lol The way I'd like to see it.

[shortfuse41]

Anyone notice he lies about how much he paid Paul upfront, just to shove it in Eli's face. I think it was $500 cash, he says $10,000 lol.

[faintyful]

What is Daniel eating?

[SweatshirtAndHat]

What is in that jug..... Vodka or water

[alexanderrobertking]

@SweatshirtAndHat Neither. That's straight moonshine.

[wille35]

I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU

[matthew1373]

The best actor in the world by far!

[MrShadeviperx]

1:26 pretty much what I do everytime i wake up in the morning

[MultiMuchacho]

@MrShadeviperx Fuck. That makes 2 of us.

[MrShadeviperx]

@MultiMuchacho nothing like a few hard slaps on the back of your head and booze to start your day

[ummagumma00]

@MrShadeviperx You have a problem and need help. I'm not joking. AA worked for me and I haven't looked back. I hope you will too.

[MrShadeviperx]

@ummagumma00 what?

[BarefootArizona]

I can't believe the master is going to play Abraham Lincoln. I get chills just thinking about it...

[joesoap81]

That little dance Plainview does at 1.30 is the best,I do it all the time when hungover it works.

[joesoap81]

I believe this movie is about the futile search for both God(Eli) and money(Plainview) that in the end they both are empty promises and true happiness and fulfilment dont come from either or maybe I heard that somewhere but Im claiming it.

[sglasspool]

@joesoap81 Rich, drunk, and sleeping in a bowling alley sounds pretty good to me.

[joesoap81]

@sglasspool

Lol yeah good point.

[matthew1373]

@joesoap81 everyone in the move ends up miserable EXCEPT Daniels Son and Eli's sister. Daniel's Son is a victim of Gold (greed lead to explosion to made him deaf) and El'is sisters is a victim of God (abuse by religious father). The end up happy after both shunning those ways, although, he does go on to start his own firm....

[starjay31]

Greatest scene in cinema history..EVER.

[Laker34]

It's called drainage Eli. You see I own the land and that means I get whats under it

[Redwoodman12]

You're just the afterbirth who slithered out on mother's filth.

[william194113]

DRAINAGE!!!!! Eli you boy.......

[kfredneck]

Great scene w/ great acting. Thanks for posting.

[Zeberdee691]

@aidenthemjking

I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet

[gordog12]

Love it.