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'There Will Be Blood' Trailer Spews Dramatic Oil

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If you're going to wait five years between projects, you'd better have a good excuse. And if it isn't that you were busy destroying your career, ending your marriage, endangering your children, and consuming huge amounts of snack food, the second best justification just might be filming Daniel Day-Lewis as a despicable oil tycoon.

Paul Thomas Anderson has done just that (the latter) with There Will Be Blood, and in this new trailer it looks phenomenal. Never in my memory has someone describing why they're a huge asshole looked so entertaining. Denis Leary should be worried.

There Will Be Blood Trailer [Apple]

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