Character Development: There Will Be Blood

            Throughout the movie, Daniel Plainsiville’s character progresses in a variety of ways. He becomes, bitter, violent, and increasingly deprived of his sanity.  The movie starts out with a soft-spoken, “family oriented”, Daniel. He looks out for H.W., he is relatively kind, laidback, and decent. Once the movie picks up and Eli is introduced, Daniel starts to become sassy and blatantly driven by money and image as the movie picks up, death is a setback, a broken leg won’t stop him from selling silver, H.W. becoming deaf is just a minor inconvenience. When H.W. gets in the way of his money making, he just sends him away. His changes become more apparent through his interactions with Eli. In one scene he goes so far as to smack him around and rub him in the mud all the while mocking him for his belief in God. The end of Daniel’s sanity is marked at the end of the movie as he delivers a fatal beating with a bowling pin.