Daily Dialogue — June 29, 2010

Plainview: They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother’s teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy’s sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It’s gone. It’s had. You lose.
Eli Sunday: If you would just take this lease, Daniel…
Plainview: Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I’m so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake… I… drink… your… milkshake!
[sucking sound]
Plainview: I drink it up!
Eli Sunday: Don’t bully me, Daniel!
[Daniel roars and throws Eli across the room]
Plainview: Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen!

 — Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), There Will Be Blood (2007), screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on a novel by Upton Sinclair

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is favorite dialogue from favorite movies of GITS readers. There Will Be Blood suggested by Matisse.

Trivia: Paul Thomas Anderson stated that he watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) every night before filming this movie. 


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