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Slate Money: Movies: There Will Be Blood

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies. This week, Felix and Anna are joined by Niala Boodhoo of Axios to discuss the Paul Thomas Anderson oil epic, There Will Be Blood. They’ll delve into the religious symbolism in the film, analyze Daniel Plainview’s family values and get into some of the history behind the story. Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the There Will Be Blood episode of Slate Money Goes To The Movies.

0:20.2

I'm Felix Amin of Axios, I'm here with Anishimansky, and I'm also here with my multi-talented

0:28.7

colleague Nyla Budu. Nyla, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Tell us about yourself.

0:35.5

So I have a morning news podcast called Axios Today, which everyone who pays any attention

0:41.2

to Axios knows we are all about smart brevity, so it's a 10-minute morning news show that

0:45.9

comes out every weekday morning. And my background is is You Know Felix. I am also a Lama

0:52.4

Reuters and started in the business world and spent years as a business reporter before

0:56.9

I moved into audio and public broadcasting and now podcasting. Wow, all three of us have

1:02.9

worked for Reuters. All three of us have a background in business journalism. All three

1:07.4

of us have watched There Will Be Blood, the 2007 Bull Thomas Anderson movie, which we are

1:12.8

about to talk about. Spoiler alert, we didn't love it, but it isn't an interesting movie

1:18.0

all the same. Stay tuned for that, and especially for Anishimansky teaching us all about Christian

1:24.5

iconography, who knew the depths that she had. All of that coming up on Slate Money goes

1:31.3

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2:02.9

Okay, so Nile and most of our guests on this mini season of Slate Money have picked a film

2:10.8

that was dear to their hearts and that they saw in their childhood and that has lived in their

2:16.2

soul for decades. This is not the case with you. This is not trading places.

2:23.2

So, had you ever even seen this movie before like this week? I had not seen this before two days

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