For anyone who has seen the movie 'There Will Be Blood'?!
Question: I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, so please don't read this if you haven't already seen this movie.
I thought the movie was pretty good overall but there were a few parts that seemed a bit confusing. Like is his son really his or was he just saying that to him? And I'm still not sure why he kills Eli Sunday at the end.
Answers: I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, so please don't read this if you haven't already seen this movie.
I thought the movie was pretty good overall but there were a few parts that seemed a bit confusing. Like is his son really his or was he just saying that to him? And I'm still not sure why he kills Eli Sunday at the end.
HW wasn't his real son, he was the son of one of Daniel's workers that died at the beginning of the movie. Baby HW was in a basket which is why Daniel told him that he was just a "bastard from a basket" (or whatever the exact line was).
There are different theories as to why Daniel killed Eli. Here's one that was written by "bretlipowmixes" on the IMDB message boards. (It won't let me post the link)
"Daniel Plainview saw Eli Sunday as a reflection of himself. He saw him as a charlatan, and a hustler, but mostly, he saw Eli as a power-hungry despot bent on controlling people and wealth- exactly like himself. To Plainview, his son, his "brother", the people of Little Boston, even Abel's young daughter Mary were just tools he could use to get what he wanted. To Eli, his tools were his congregation. Instead of using oil as the source of his power, Eli Sunday used religion. It was Daniel Plainview's recognition of this duality combined with his hatred of all people, including himself, that drove him to murder Eli. Confronted with Eli's greed and failure, he was forced to confront his own incapacity for compassion, empathy, love, or any kind of genuine humanity. Eli was his final conquest, if you will, and in that confrontation, by condemning Eli, he was condemned himself. "I am finished", he says ..."
It isn't his son, it's the guy who died in the well's son. He needed to "finish" his life and killing Eli did that.