CLASSIC SCENE
There Will Be Blood
THE BOWLING ALLEY
CHOSEN BY JOSH O’CONNOR (ACTOR)
JOSH O’CONNOR: “I just love it. Daniel DayLewis’ performance is fantastic, as always, but there’s something frenetic about the violence of it. It’s a kind of playful violence. That final line, the greatest final line of any film, is, ‘I’m finished.’ Like, ‘I’m finished with my food, I’m finished with this relationship, and also, I’m finished. I’m done. I’ve just murdered a man.’ The delivery is perfect.”
Eli Sunday’s (Paul Dano) visit to Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) has not gone well. In the bowling alley of Plainview’s mansion, the latter reveals that the oil-rich land Sunday is proffering has been sold to him by Sunday’s twin, Paul. Sunday starts to sob.