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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #264 - All That's Solid...

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55508789 Our Superdelegate patrons have selected Paul Thomas Anderson's much-loved parable about American capitalism, THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007), and we drank it up. PLUS: the state of the Canadian election, and memories of eccentric characters from our university days.

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0:00.0

I drink your milkshake.

0:06.0

I drink it up!

0:08.0

But I would venture the theory that there are in fact two Sunday brothers.

0:12.0

Or at any rate, Paul and Eli are supposed to represent alternative possibilities for this character,

0:18.0

who is simultaneously kind of one character and also two.

0:21.3

Eli decides to become kind of religious entrepreneur.

0:24.8

You know, he's right from when he starts the church.

0:27.3

You know, when we first see him, he's just this modest kind of farm boy living on a ranch.

0:31.4

And he's clearly able to kind of get enough money together for his church, you know,

0:36.3

that he's able to make himself a community

0:38.5

leader. And it seems like in the intervening time between 1911 and the late 20s, he's gone national

0:44.7

in some way or he's gone state, you know, he's, uh, he's on the radio. He's, you know, he's some

0:49.4

kind of religious entrepreneur. And of course, we learn very quickly in this scene that he's actually suffering. His

0:55.3

initial, you know, pitch, it's all bullshit, you know, and he refers to the chaos in our

1:00.8

economy or something like that, referring to the Great Depression. And he's basically just there to

1:05.4

beg Daniel Plainview for money. Now, it seems like the other brother, Paul, he's astewed this religious route. He's

1:12.3

astewed any kind of pretense to being a, you know, a good or moral person. Eli wants to be,

1:19.0

you know, he's, he clearly is very similar to Plainview in many ways and that he wants to be

1:23.4

rich and successful, but he won't admit that to himself. He wants to be thought of as a moral

1:28.0

leader. He doesn't want to be thought of as a capitalist, whereas Plainview is very much

1:32.1

embraced that side. That's how he's kind of presented himself, although of course he's also

1:35.9

tried to be a sort of community figure as well. But I think Plainview is more honest with himself

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