Daily Dialogue — March 20, 2012
Eli Sunday: We have a sinner with us here, who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner?
Plainview: Yes.
Eli Sunday: The Lord can’t hear you, Daniel. Say it to him. Go ahead and speak to him, it’s alright.
Plainview: Yes.
Eli Sunday: Down on your knees and up to him. Look up to the sky and say it.
Plainview: What do you want me to say?
Eli Sunday: Daniel, you have come here and you have brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You’ve lusted after women, and you have abandoned your child. Your child that you raised, you have abandoned all because he was sick and you have sinned. So say it now- I am a sinner.
Plainview: I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday: Say it louder — I am a sinner!
Plainview: I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday: Louder, Daniel. I am a sinner!
Plainview: I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday: I am sorry Lord!
Plainview: I am sorry Lord.
Eli Sunday: I want the blood!
Plainview: I want the blood.
Eli Sunday: You have abandoned your child!
Plainview: I have abandoned my child.
Eli Sunday: I will never backslide!
Plainview: I will never backslide.
Eli Sunday: I was lost, but now I am found!
Plainview: I was lost but now I’m found.
Eli Sunday: I have abandoned my child!
[Plainview glares at him]
Eli Sunday: Say it… say it!
[Plainview mumbles]
Eli Sunday: Say it louder… say it louder!
Plainview: I’ve abandoned my child! I’ve abandoned my child! I’ve abandoned my boy!
— Eli (Paul Dano), Planview (Daniel Day Lewis), There Will Be Blood (2007), screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on a novel by Upton Sinclair
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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is apology, suggested by John Arends. Today’s suggestion is by Teddy Pasternak.
Trivia: The first line of dialogue occurs more than fourteen and a half minutes into the film.
Dialogue On Dialogue: That is one intense scene and can be considered a set-up for the payoff of the famous “I will drink your milk shake” scene at the end.