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Well, when I watched it again ... I was suprised to realize IT'S A COMEDY.
Seriously, I laughed all the way through it. Not AT it. With it. The final scene when Plainview is an adle-brained, drunken old coot is only overacting if you don't see his behaviour when he's younger and more sane.
Every scene with him and Paul Dano is a laugh riot. The scene in the restaurant with his son and the guys from Union Oil has me in stitches. And the bowling scene finale is simply icing on an already preposterious character's cake (or milkshake, as the case may be).
Comedy, Comedy, Comedy .... looked at from that angle, There Will Be Blood is pure black gold ... and Daniel Day deserved the Oscar he got (before they were warned how he'd dress for the ceremony).
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