"There Will Be Blood"

After watching a good portion of the movie “There Will Be Blood” I am able to relate a lot of what I saw, to the things that I have read about in the book “The Prize”. The main character, Daniel, really reminds me of Rockefeller from the book because he seems so dead set on getting his oil that he doesn’t care who else it hurts. Also, I think the main character is greatly focused on making his fortune versus actually being concerned about what good he can do with the oil, just like Rockefeller was. A similarity I saw between the movie and book was the economic status of the total population. In both movie and book, you have a few select people who are wealthy beyond belief, while the rest of the population is scraping to get by. Also, the men who are set on finding oil, don’t really seem to care that much about family and love, whereas the rest of the men who don’t have the money or oil, care deeply about family and the few possessions they do have.
When it came to how the movie made me feel, I was really just shocked at how conniving and evil some people can be. I hated the fact that H.W. was hurt and lost his hearing in the movie and for what, some extra cash and more fame for his father? I think it’s terrible that Daniel will even put his family’s well-being at risk, just to get a little more oil and money. Another concern of mine was how dirty of a job finding oil was. I didn’t exactly expect it to be a clean job but there were several times when men were completely covered with oil and the only part of them that was visible was their eyes. After seeing the filth of finding oil, it is no wonder so many people died at a young age during this time, because their lungs had to have been filled with horrible, dark “gunk” from mining oil for so many years. Another part of the movie that really caught my eye was the danger involved in trying to find oil. One of the very first scenes of the movie shows a man falling to the bottom of a hole as he was looking for oil. That man was very lucky he survived the fall, especially since he was working all by himself. Further into the movie, we saw a man die from having a huge oil pump fall on his head when he was down in the oil hole. The tools these men used and the way they used them were very dangerous and it seemed that very few, if any, precautions were taken to prevent accidents from happening.