Description

With Natalie Marlin!

Just like the earth he exploits, there’s something roiling under the surface of the wheel-and-dealing Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis): A devilish, almost cartoonishly villainous veneer conceals a deep self-hatred. And like all good capitalists, he uses it to fuel the next great pain he can inflict on the people and world around him, from the local preacher of a podunk town to his specious, long-lost brother to his own adopted son.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD kicked off a hell of a run for Paul Thomas Anderson, so for our last episode on his films, we’re happily welcoming Natalie back to the mic for a bit of show-and-tell on when this movie entered our lives, the impact of seeing it as a teen film lover in the mid-aughts, and the crusty layers it reveals more than a decade later.

Plus, why THERE WILL BE BLOOD would be a great 4DX movie, the inevitable porn parody jokes, and say doesn’t Jason’s moustache look a little familiar now?

Find Natalie…

• On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt
• On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
• In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
• On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966)

References:

• “Death Grips’ ‘The Powers That B’ Turns 10” by Natalie Marlin for Stereogum
• “Unsex Me Here” by Aurora Mattia at Night Boat Books, for which Trylove guest Abbie Phelps did design and layout work
• Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices!
• Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets
• Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Proven Lands" by Jonny Greenwood from the THERE WILL BE BLOOD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 324: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)

3:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:39 - Our histories with this movie (or lack thereof)

21:51 - Daniel Plainview, the cartoon villain afraid of his own insides

28:30 - Daniel Plainview, the cartoon villain afraid of his own insides

43:02 - How Daniel reflects the fragile human systems of the era

49:23 - The performative relationships Daniel has with H.W. (and everyone)

54:52 - Eli Sunday and the fraught relationship between organized faith and capital

1:03:30 - “Pathetic” depictions of violence

1:14:13 - The language of Jonny Greenwood’s score

1:20:36 - The Junk Drawer

1:27:04 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2007

1:33:15 - Cody’s Noteys: When Will There Be Blood? (trivia about when blood first appears in the runtime of various films)