This is somewhat late to the party, but three years later I still haven’t seen this argument made anywhere else, so here goes. Many critics have noted that Daniel Day-Lewis‘s performance in There Will Be Blood (2007) drew heavily from his fellow Irishman John Huston‘s turn in Chinatown (1974). See, for instance, here, here, here, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chinatown’
There Will Be 2001
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Burning Star Core, Chinatown, Daniel Day-Lewis, György Ligeti, John Huston, Jonny Greenwood, Milton, Oil!, Paradise Lost, Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, There Will Be Blood, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Upton Sinclair on July 26, 2010 | 16 Comments »
A Sentence about a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Al Pacino, Chinatown, Cronus, Francis Ford Coppala, John Cazale, Mario Puzo, Roman Polanski, The Godfather II on May 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“It’s the way Pop wanted it.” – from The Godfather Part II, screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo