Talk:There Will Be Blood

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the There Will Be Blood article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1, 2: 2 years

Film: American

	Film portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Film. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines.FilmWikipedia:WikiProject FilmTemplate:WikiProject Filmfilm articles
	This article is supported by the American cinema task force.

United States: Cinema / Texas Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Film portal This article is supported by WikiProject Film - American cinema task force.
	Texas portal This article is supported by WikiProject Texas (assessed as Low-importance).

Commercial success

Was this movie a commercial success given all the costs? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.223.71.224 (talk) 06:42, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Synopsis length

The movie is 158 minutes long, there are many scenes and details to include in a proper synopsis. I disagree that the plot synopsis is too long. Critical Chris (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

”PLOT"　This reads like a book report. Plots are actually a lot simpler than this. A plot can usually be summed up in a few sentences, if not one. I know this is going to come as a shock to some contributors.

Whenever you start adding details, "kills him with a bowling pin", for example, you are listing particulars of the story's implementation, details of the writer or director's vision, often a detail of casting or the art department. These details have nothing at all to do with plot, even if they are in some way symbolic. So we wouldn't have to worry so much about "spoilers" if contributors knew how to write an intelligent plot or synopsis, rather than merely doing a ubiquitous rendition of "Star Wars according to a three year old". --APDEF (talk) 08:55, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution

Text and references copied from Krzysztof Penderecki to There Will Be Blood, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]