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* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: HW's caring father dies while he's an infant and he's taken to be raised by a sociopath who claims he only took him to gain sympathy from people he intended to swindle. He then loses his hearing in an explosion, gets sent to a boarding school against his will, and has it revealed after he's grown that the man he thought was his father in fact is not. However there are some subversions to this as well. After all it's up to interpretation as to whether or not Daniel really just used HW or if they were genuinely close as scenes of them together before he lost his hearing clearly show them to be. Also he learns sign language and becomes a successful member of society, not an easy task for an individual with a disability in the 1910's. Finally he also meets the love of his life when he's young and all indications are they are a very happy couple.]]
** Mary is nice to everyone but gets beaten by her father for not praying. This is also a subversion since it's shown that she and HW are obviously soulmates.
** HM Tilford shows genuine concern about HW, offers Daniel a very fair business deal, and Daniel threatens to cut his throat in the middle of the night! His obvious WTF reaction to all of this almost makes him an AudienceSurrogate. Then later he happens to see Daniel and HW at a restaurant, is friendly and polite to both, and Daniel mocks him in front of his associates for no reason other than to be an asshole.
** Mary is nice to everyone but gets beaten by her father for not praying. This is also a subversion since it's shown that she and HW are obviously soulmates.
** HM Tilford shows genuine concern about HW, offers Daniel a very fair business deal, and Daniel threatens to cut his throat in the middle of the night! His obvious WTF reaction to all of this almost makes him an AudienceSurrogate. Then later he happens to see Daniel and HW at a restaurant, is friendly and polite to both, and Daniel mocks him in front of his associates for no reason other than to be an asshole.
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* RonTheDeathEater: While [[EgocentricallyReligious Eli]] is indeed a slimy, hypocrite bastard, many people demonize him to the point of considering ''worse'' than Daniel, despite Daniel being equally as exploitative, on top of being [[spoiler:an AbusiveParent and a double murderer by the end of the film, whose killing of Eli is a clear case of DisproportionateRetribution]].
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* DracoInLeatherPants: [[VillainProtagonist Daniel Plainview]] is generally regarded as a reprehensible human being. However, there are still a number of fans who claim he’s not nearly as bad as he seems. See AlternateCharacterInterpretation above.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: [[VillainProtagonist Daniel Plainview]] is generally regarded as a reprehensible human being. However, there are still a number of fans who claim he’s not nearly as bad as he seems. See AlternateCharacterInterpretation above.
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* EvilIsSexy: Daniel and Eli are both awful people, but handsome, with Eli's youthful appearance and Daniel's huggedly handsome look.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/PaulDano plays a character who [[spoiler: gets killed by being hit in the head repeatedly]]. He would [[spoiler: kill somebody the same way]] in ''Film/TheBatman2022''.
* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Daniel drains the oil from under the entire area without Eli's knowledge, then mockingly reveals it to him (years after the fact, when Eli finally caves and tries to sell him the properties he doesn't already own) by likening it to drinking a milkshake with a giant straw.]] Though that speech is the only thing about the film that many people know, it's actually a big revelation that comes out in the very last scene.
* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Daniel drains the oil from under the entire area without Eli's knowledge, then mockingly reveals it to him (years after the fact, when Eli finally caves and tries to sell him the properties he doesn't already own) by likening it to drinking a milkshake with a giant straw.]] Though that speech is the only thing about the film that many people know, it's actually a big revelation that comes out in the very last scene.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/PaulDano plays a character who [[spoiler: gets killed by being hit in the head repeatedly]]. He would [[spoiler: kill [[spoiler:kill somebody the same way]] in ''Film/TheBatman2022''.
* ItWasHisSled:[[spoiler: Daniel [[spoiler:Daniel drains the oil from under the entire area without Eli's knowledge, then mockingly reveals it to him (years after the fact, when Eli finally caves and tries to sell him the properties he doesn't already own) by likening it to drinking a milkshake with a giant straw.]] Though that speech is the only thing about the film that many people know, it's actually a big revelation that comes out in the very last scene.
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** The "I drink your milkshake!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]When Daniel reveals that [[spoiler:he secretly drained all the oil from Eli's land, leaving the preacher destitute]], he likens the act to stealing his milkshake using an absurdly long straw that reaches across the room. The bizarre nature of the metaphor combined with Creator/DanielDayLewis' hammy delivery already made the dialogue notable enough, but the inherent silliness of this particular line again.when taken out of context resulted in it becoming a widespread subject for parody, inspiring photoshops and modifications of the line.[[/labelnote]]
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**Splits the opinions of the The moment where [[spoiler:Daniel reveals that he stole Eli's oil]] and likens it to stealing his milkshake lines with a giant straw is memetically popular for how bizarre it is even further.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Daniel is a greedy, manipulative monster who abandons his own disabled son. But more people resented Eli for being a smug, hypocritical, and utterly pathetic fundamentalist.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Daniel is a greedy, manipulative monster who abandons his own disabled son. But more people resented Eli for being a smug, hypocritical, cowardly, and utterly pathetic fundamentalist.
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** Daniel Plainview is a rotten-to-the-core, but Lewis' captivating and magnetic performance makes him a joy to watch.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The film can fall into this for some given its lack of sympathetic characters (HW being the exception). With the main character a vicious, amoral, stop-at-nothing sociopath, the main villain is a smug, cowardly, hypocritical religious zealot, and the background characters being no saints themselves, it can be difficult to find someone to root for.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The film can fall into this for some given its lack of sympathetic characters (HW being the exception). With the main character a vicious, amoral, stop-at-nothing sociopath, the main villain is a smug, cowardly, hypocritical religious zealot, and the background characters being no saints themselves, it can be difficult to find someone to root for.
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** The third movement of Brahm's "Violin Concerto in D" is used twice in the film. The second time it serves as the music for the credits, which obviously occur right after the ending. The SoundtrackDissonance alone makes it excellent.
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** The third movement of Brahm's "Violin Music/JohannesBrahms' Violin Concerto in D" D major is used twice in the film. The second time it serves as the music for the credits, which obviously occur right after the ending. The SoundtrackDissonance alone makes it excellent.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Admit it, you only know of Uptin Sinclair's ''Oil!'' because it was the basis for this movie.
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** The use of Arvo Pärt's ''Fratres'' is good, but it's all about [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Jonny Greenwood's]] ''Convergence'', a cacophonous, arrhythmic dirge that plays over the oilwell fire sequence.
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** The use of Arvo Pärt's ''Fratres'' is good, but it's all about [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Jonny Greenwood's]] ''Convergence'', a cacophonous, arrhythmic dirge that plays over the oilwell oil-well fire sequence.
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*** Killing Henry? He'd just conned him into thinking he was his brother, and it was because of him that he sent H.W. away.
*** "Bastard in a basket"? His adopted son is walking out to be his competition. For all we know, it could have been said out of hurt. (And the scenes intercut with H.W. walking out are the two in better times, suggesting Daniel was simply angry and didn't mean it...but felt that his love of H.W. was a liability now that he was a competitor.)
*** Killing Eli? Eli was an evil bastard who humiliated him.
*** "Bastard in a basket"? His adopted son is walking out to be his competition. For all we know, it could have been said out of hurt. (And the scenes intercut with H.W. walking out are the two in better times, suggesting Daniel was simply angry and didn't mean it...but felt that his love of H.W. was a liability now that he was a competitor.)
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*** [[spoiler: "Bastard in a basket"? His adopted son is walking out to be his competition. For all we know, it could have been said out of hurt. (And the scenes intercut with H.W. walking out are the two in better times, suggesting Daniel was simply angry and didn't mean it...but felt that his love of H.W. was a liability now that he was a competitor.)
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*** [[spoiler: Killing Eli? Eli was an evil bastard who humiliated him.]]
*** [[spoiler: "Bastard in a basket"? His adopted son is walking out to be his competition. For all we know, it could have been said out of hurt. (And the scenes intercut with H.W. walking out are the two in better times, suggesting Daniel was simply angry and didn't mean it...but felt that his love of H.W. was a liability now that he was a competitor.
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** Eli is such a smug person, the audience can enjoy the times when Daniel humiliates, beats, [[spoiler:and finally kills him]].
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* AwardSnub: Paul Dano went surprisingly unlauded. Despite his acclaimed turn, his only major nomination was at Bafta.
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** Considered to be the best film of an already strong year for movies, yet it lost Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay to ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', which, while plenty acclaimed, did not receive as much reverence as this movie has.
** Paul Dano went surprisingly unlauded. Despite his acclaimed turn, his only major nomination was at Bafta.
** Considered to be the best film of an already strong year for movies, yet it lost Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay to ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', which, while plenty acclaimed, did not receive as much reverence as this movie has.
** Paul Dano went surprisingly unlauded. Despite his acclaimed turn, his only major nomination was at Bafta.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Mary and H.W.'s wedding, where she signs her vows to him.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Mary and H.W.'s wedding, where she signs her vows to him.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/PaulDano plays a character who [[spoiler: gets killed by being hit in the head repeatedly]]. He would [[spoiler: kill somebody the same way]] in ''Film/TheBatman2022''.
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** [[spoiler: H.W. cooly telling Daniel, "thank god I have none of you in me" before leaving with Daniel impotently yelling "bastard in a basket" at him is probably the only time anyone ever got under Daniel's skin and lived to tell the tale. ]]
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* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler: Eli is such a smug person, the audience can enjoy the times when Daniel humiliates, beats, and finally kills him]].
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** Eli is such a smug person, the audience can enjoy the times when Daniel humiliates, beats,and [[spoiler:and finally kills him]]. him]].
** [[spoiler: H.W. cooly telling Daniel, "thank god I have none of you in me" before leaving with Daniel impotently yelling "bastard in a basket" at him is probably the only time anyone ever got under Daniel's skin and lived to tell the tale.
** Eli is such a smug person, the audience can enjoy the times when Daniel humiliates, beats,
** [[spoiler: H.W. cooly telling Daniel, "thank god I have none of you in me" before leaving with Daniel impotently yelling "bastard in a basket" at him is probably the only time anyone ever got under Daniel's skin and lived to tell the tale.
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* LoveToHate: Daniel Plainview is a rotten-to-the-core, but Lewis' captivating and magnetic performance makes him a joy to watch.
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** Eli is a hypocritical, whiny, and cowardly wimp who whimpers over a single slap, making his suffering incredibly fun for the audience to watch.
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** Eli is a hypocritical, whiny, and cowardly wimp who whimpers over a single slap, making his suffering incredibly fun for the audience to watch.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Milkshakes aren't a random, unexpected example of AnachronismStew: Milkshakes (at least whiskey and whiskey cream-based ones) have been around by that name since [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake#History the early-to-mid 1880s]], and are appropriate for a metaphor by an alcoholic oil baron.
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** ''WebVideo/RenegadeCut'' suggest the film is an mediatation on the philosophy of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche Nietzsche]] whom Plainview strongly resembles.
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* EvilIsSexy: Daniel and Eli are both awful people, but handsome, with Eli's youthful appearance and Daniel's huggedly handsome look.
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* LoveToHate: Daniel Plainview is a rotten-to-the-core, but Lewis' captivating performance makes him a joy to watch.
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* EvilIsCool: Daniel is an evil businessman, but his sheer drive and ambition make him fun to watch.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Daniel is a greedy, manipulative monster who abandons his own disabled son. But more people resented Eli for being a smug, hypocritical, and utterly pathetic fundamentalist.
* LoveToHate: Daniel Plainview is a rotten-to-the-core, but Lewis' captivating performance makes him a joy to watch.
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* CryForTheDevil: Eli is a bastard, but [[spoiler: his defeat and murder]] is so utterly pathetic that you can be forgiven for pitying him.
