There Will Be Blood BSR

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Throughout the film, the music and the lighting help the viewer to understand how Daniel Plainview feels towards others in the movie. In one of the beginning scenes, Daniel is seen mining alone in a dark hole. At this point little sound is played beyond him striking the wall searching for silver. After a short time, Daniel leaves the mine shaft and then returns. On the way back in, he falls down the shaft, breaking his leg. While attempting to leave, he picks up some of the rocks which are silver. This begins precedence throughout the film of Daniel caring more about money than about himself or anything else. At this point a dull, low sound begins to play in the background. As the camera begins to pan out starting from Daniel’s side to the wide open countryside of the Western landscape, the sound grows louder and higher in pitch. At every point in the film where something important happens, the same sound is heard again and again. Each time we hear this sound, or any sound played by a string instrument, we know that something important is about to happen.

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In the film, there is an overriding camera angle that represents how Daniel views others around him, the angle is nearly always from below head level. Nearly all of the light during the film is of darker areas, with an even darker overtone from Daniel himself for most of the movie. In many of the most crucial times in the film, the lighting becomes darker, until the only light is cast from flame, making the darkness “come alive” on the faces of the actors; at times this brings the actors fear to life on their faces. After Daniel’s “conversion” in Eli’s church, the lighting becomes a little brighter, but the camera angles never change. Only in the last scene does the camera angle change, right before the final scene comes to the screen, "There Will Be Blood".