While the rest of America drools over the Spiderman 3 and Simpsons trailers (whatev), I’ve been tracking the progress of P.T. Anderson’s (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love) latest film, “There Will Be Blood.” Slated to open in October/November 2007 (gawwdaaamn so far away), “There Will Be Blood” is loosely adapted from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, “Oil!”
I had never heard of this novel until a few years ago when – randomly bored and in search of something to read that had nothing to do with Russia – I raided my brother’s bookshelf for some literature. When I came across “Oil!”, I was like, hey, a book about my two favorite topics – oil and California! The novel focuses on “Bunny” Ross, a young man who is increasingly torn between a sense of loyalty to his oil baron father and his growing sympathy with the striking workers in his father’s SoCal oil fields. Sinclair seamlessly weaves a multitude of themes within this novel: the SoCal oil boom, big business and government corruption, evangelism, and the influence of the Russian revolution on American labor unions. This was a hard book to put down, and I’d definitely place it on my top ten list.
Anderson is a great director and it seems like he is truly passionate about this project, so I’m excited to see how he adapts one of my favorite novels (and plus, is that not one of the coolest movie names ever?). Only six months to go…
Yeah, I’ll be camping outside the theatre the night before it opens (obv, there will be a huge line)…just like those Star Wars geeks, dressed up as….wait, WTF would you dress up as for this movie?
From Cincysundevil:
You could dress up like Cheney or an Enron CEO with a fancy tux and money coming out of the pockets; then you could raise ticket prices at the door once the line started forming claiming that there was a “general concern” that was driving ticket prices up. Then you could have a preemptive strike in the popcorn line in order to liberate the Whoppers from their oppressive concessionaires!! Those bastards!
Or you could just dress like I would; shorts, t-shirt, sandals, and the requisite ball cap. Way more comfortable and easier to pull off. Plus, nobody gets hurt!
From El Capitan:
Lindsay,
you could wear a little oil rig on your head, made of popsicle sticks. Either that, or you can cover yourself in crude oil and wear a hard hat.
Maybe even dress up as a Saudi Noble. Then again you might get arrested and sent to GITMO.
From Lindsay:
These are all very good options. Hmmm, CEO or a proletariat rig-hand? I could go for either…or maybe I should start building that rig out of popsicle sticks…