I love movies about trade tycoons and Paramount Vantage’s (NYSE: VIA.B) latest one, There Will Be Blood, is no exception. Daniel Day-Lewis solidifies his title as the world’s best actor in a tour de force performance of the cruel oilman, Daniel Plainview and director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) proves to be capable of tackling new genres with surprising deftness.

With surprisingly little violence or blood and a very worthy supporting cast, the film details Plainview’s rise to oil royalty and his not so gradual descent into insanity by the course of 30 years. Yup, very Citizen Kane-esque, another superior biographical

epic I wholeheartedly urge you watch on DVD, now remastered courtesy of Warner Brothers Video (NYSE: TWX).

From the opening scene, you will understand Plainview’s utter devotion to that craft, that being finding oil and getting rich off it. The starkness of the environment combines with some truly memorable cinematography to paint a rather complex portrait of ambition, greed and the beginnings of the oil drilling industry.

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