Friday, December 28, 2007

Still waiting for There Will be Blood

I read this in the NY Times about Daniel Day-Lewis's performance. I cannot wait to see this. It appears he's playing it even bigger than in Gangs of New York, and he was huge in that one.

"Mr. Day-Lewis’s outsize performance, with its footnote references to John Huston and strange, contorted Kabuki-like grimaces, occasionally breaks the skin of the film’s surface like a dangerous undertow. The actor seems to have invaded Plainview’s every atom, filling an otherwise empty vessel with so much rage and purpose you wait for him to blow. It’s a thrilling performance, among the greatest I’ve seen, purposefully alienating and brilliantly located at the juncture between cinematic realism and theatrical spectacle. "

Yum.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw a preview of this the other day - looks interesting, to say the least.

Went to see 'No Country for Old Men" - those Coen Brothers!!

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

That cattle-killing weapon of Javier Bardem's is really scary and nasty.

Anonymous said...

So is the hairdo!!!! What is the body count in that movie? The first 5 minutes alone......

Anonymous said...

DD-L's movie won't be here til February.