In Reply to: Ebert says he's imitating... posted by mkuller on January 28, 2008 at 12:15:03:
I was just thinking of Chinatown as a movie with similar themes. Huston was the bad guy in that film trying to steal another valuable California resource (water, not oil).
Certainly Daniel Day Lewis' performance, whether over-the-top or not, was interesting. He certainly was not as ridiculous as James Dean was playing Jett Rink in Giant, but is he a match for Orson Welles doing Foster Kane?
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Follow Ups
- Wow, strange coincidence - Larry I 14:49:06 01/28/08 (2)
- Dean's performance, his take on the aging roughneck, - tinear 04:56:20 01/29/08 (0)
- Funny, Plainview and Eli put me a bit in mind of Col. Saito Col. Nicholson from TBOTRK. - Tony D. 17:07:10 01/28/08 (0)