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• A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business concern.

• The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Dominicus in early on twentieth century California is presented. Miner plow oilman Daniel Plainview is a driven man who will exercise whatsoever information technology takes to attain his goals. He works hard but he also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if demand be. His business partner is his son H.Westward., who in reality he "acquired" when H.W.'s biological single father, who worked on one of Daniel's rigs, got killed in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is i in a pair of twins, whose family unit farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, the local preacher and a self-proclaimed organized religion healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a pipeline to the coast, and every bit Eli tries to build his ain religious empire.

• Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-homo image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable backdrop for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainviews motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

• The film follows the ascension to ability of Daniel Plainview - a charismatic and ruthless oil prospector, driven to succeed by his intense hatred of others and desperate demand to run across any and all competitors fail. When he learns of oil-rich country in California that can be bought cheaply, he moves his operation there and begins manipulating and exploiting the local landowners into selling him their property. Using his young adopted son H.Westward. to projection the epitome of a caring family unit man, Plainview gains the cooperation of almost all the locals with lofty promises to build schools and cultivate the land to brand their community flourish. Over fourth dimension, Plainview'southward gradual accumulation of wealth and power causes his truthful cocky to surface, and he begins to slowly amerce himself from everyone in his life.

• Daniel Plainview is an oil man and spends his days harvesting the coin from discovered oil. When Paul Sunday asks Plainview to dig for the oil at his family home, he finds information technology too hard to resist. Soon, he is up in Little Boston, California. Not everyone is pleased to run across him as tension builds between Daniel and preacher, Eli Sunday likewise as the greed.

• In the early on years of the 20th century, Daniel Plainview is an oil prospector. Based on information sold to him by Paul Sunday, he travels to Little Boston, California and begins to buy country, starting with the Sunday'south farm. Wanting to buy up all of the land in the area, he polish-talks the locals into selling past promising to build roads, schools and churches. He has no intention of doing and then, of course. His but purpose is to make money. Over the course of his endeavors, men dice, the locals get zilch, and Plainview gets rich. In his life he makes few friends and many enemies and fifty-fifty his adopted son H.W. is eventually alienated.

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• The story opens in 1898 in the New Mexico wilderness. A man named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Solar day-Lewis) works his argent mine. After blasting out the small mine with dynamite, Plainview falls and breaks his leg. Later finding the silver ore, he drags himself out of the mine and into town to sell it. He hires a crew, including a homo caring for an infant son. When the silverish lode plays out, Plainview discovers oil in the mine. He designs and builds a pump and recreates himself every bit an oil homo. The young father dies in a drilling accident, Planview adopts the young boy as his own and names him H.W. Ix years later, Plainview is a successful if still somewhat minor oil man. He has several productive wells around New United mexican states and, with H.Due west. (Dillon Freasier), travels the country to buy the drilling rights to private property.

  At a meeting with local people of an unidentified boondocks, Plainview lectures them on his business plan: he claims he does all the piece of work himself, just hires men he can trust to complete the work and will eliminate the need for a "contractor", a middleman of sorts that will collect more than money from the community that Daniel believes should become back to the landowners themselves. He also introduces his son as his partner and claims that his business concern is a family-run operation. When the people begin to question him rigorously and fence loudly among themselves, Daniel turns downwardly the offer and leaves, knowing the customs is a flake too smart to be taken advantage of.

  Daniel later meets with a husband and wife and draws up a contract to drill on their country. The couple are reluctant but Daniel appeals to them by talking about their children. The well comes in every bit a gusher some time later.

  I night, a young human being named Paul Sunday (Paul Dano) visits Plainview'due south camp. Paul sells to Plainview data well-nigh his family's ranch in Piddling Boston, California, which he says has an ocean of oil underneath information technology. Plainview and H.W. travel to the Sunday Ranch and, while pretending to hunt quail, confirm what Paul told them. That night, Plainview negotiates with the Lord's day patriarch, Abel (David Willis) and Paul'south twin brother, Eli (Paul Dano). The price is $x,000, which volition become to the building of a new parish, the Church building of the Third Revelation; Eli is a bland but ambitious preacher and organized religion healer. Daniel agrees to pay Eli half of the coin at first and volition pay the rest when the derrick produces. Eli wants to pray to conclude the deal but Plainview refuses.

  Plainview assembles his crew at the Sun Ranch and builds the kickoff derrick. He too buys almost all of the land surrounding the Dominicus Ranch and so he will take not only those drilling rights but as well the correct to build a pipeline to the ocean to circumvent the railroads and their aircraft costs. Just a man named William Bandy refuses to sell. Eli wants to anoint the derrick earlier drilling begins only Plainview rebuffs him and instead has Eli'due south little sister, Mary (Sydney McAllister), dedicate the new endeavor. Mary and H.West. become playmates and Plainview buys her a new wearing apparel. At dinner one dark, he tells Mary in forepart of Abel that her father will never hit her again for refusing to pray. Eli and Plainview continue to irritate i another: Plainview resents that Eli solicits his workers to come to daily prayer services bc they demand rest, and Eli complains to him almost workers drinking. But when a worker dies while trying to gratis the drill, Plainview has Eli arrange for the funeral. When meeting with Eli near the funeral at his ramshackle church, he watches Eli evangelize a fiery sermon about casting out the Devil from a elderly woman with severe arthritis. After mass, Eli agrees to speak at the funeral and tells Daniel that, had he been permitted to bless the well, the accident might never have happened. Eli eventually collects enough money to build himself a larger church, naming it the Church building of the Third Revelation.

  A few days later on, the drill finally strikes oil. The escaping gases crusade an explosion. H.Westward., who was watching the drill from the derrick, is deaf. He becomes sullen and mistrusting. Soon Plainview has three thriving oil wells in the Little Boston expanse. Eli goes to Daniel and demands the $5000 that Daniel promised him and his church building. Daniel immediately attacks him, slapping him and dragging him to a puddle of mud, which he smears all over Eli. Daniel as well mocks Eli'south supposed power of faith healing, proverb that Eli did nothing to restore H.West.'due south hearing.

  Shortly thereafter, a human being named Henry (Kevin O'Connor) appears on Plainview'southward doorstep, challenge to be Plainview's half brother. Considering he knows details about Plainview's family and hometown of Addicted du Lac, Wisconsin, Plainview trusts him and takes him on as a worker. Plainview admits to Henry that he holds most people in contempt and uses them simply to further his ain goals. "I have a competition in me," he tells him. "I want no i else to succeed." He also admits that he can't do his work alone anymore. H.W. snoops through Henry's belongings and, jealous that Plainview has someone new in his life, attempts to burn downward the business firm with Henry and Plainview in it. Plainview doesn't discipline H.Due west., but instead concludes he tin can't control him anymore and sends him away to a boarding school in San Francisco, abruptly leaving him on the train with his assistant, Fletcher, who accompanies him there.

  Competitors try to buy Daniel'due south wells for $one million but Plainview rejects the offer and their patronizing sympathy for H.West. When ane competitor suggests Plainview should retire to take intendance of H.Due west., Plainview threatens his life. He and Henry become to the Bandy property to enquire nigh leasing the state to build the pipeline. After surveying the land, they swim in the ocean. When Henry doesn't seem to understand a reference about Addicted du Lac, Plainview grows suspicious. That nighttime, Plainview, brandishing a pistol, forces Henry to confess: Henry isn't his brother, just knew his brother in Kansas. When the existent blood brother died, Henry assumed his identity and fabricated his way to California and establish Daniel. Plainview kills Henry and buries him in a shallow grave on the Bandy belongings. The adjacent morning, Bandy (Hans Howes) wakes Plainview and tells him that he can charter the land if he allows himself to be baptized at the Church of the Tertiary Revelation. When Swap reveals that he knows Plainview killed Henry, Plainview has no choice but to concord. He is baptized after he publicly and loudly announces that he is a sinner and abandoned H.W., is violently slapped several times by Eli on the dais and is warmly embraced by the church building. Eli also announces to the church that Daniel has given them $5000, the original corporeality he owed Eli.

  H.Westward. returns from the boarding school and Plainview warmly greets him. H.W. now knows sign language and speaks through an interpreter. He and Mary play together, and she learns sign linguistic communication too. When they are married in the late 1920s, she signs the minister'southward sermon and matrimony rites to him. Plainview has become a drunkard, even more misanthropic and isolated than ever, living lone in a big mansion and shooting his valuables with a pistol. When H.Westward. announces his intention to move to Mexico and begin his own oil business, Plainview immediately becomes more than despondent and reveals that H.W. was never his biological son and insultingly disowns him. Quondam later, Eli visits him in the mansion'south bowling alley, finding Daniel passed out on the floor. As Plainview, similar a beast, gnaws the cold steak leftover from his dinner, Eli reveals that old Bandy has died and that his grandson wants to sell the oil drilling rights to his grandfather's state in order to fund his goal of condign a movie star -- with Eli as the broker for the bargain. Plainview agrees simply merely if Eli will say that he is a "false prophet and God is a superstition." When Eli does so several times, Plainview reveals that, having owned all the wells around the Bandy ranch, he has already taken the oil from the Bandy holding through drainage. Eli reveals that, despite a successful radio preaching career, he is bankrupt due to bad investments. Plainview chases him around the bowling aisle then bludgeons him to expiry with a bowling pin. When the butler comes to come across what the commotion has been, Plainview announces, "I'one thousand finished" .

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