Sentences with phrase «demonic oil prospector»

Biographie, he comes across like the demonic oil prospector Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood when he writes, «The struggle for victory is fun, but I can't celebrate something once it's been won.»

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Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.