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There Will Be Blood
Anderson's portrait of American capitalism and religion as parallel venalities.
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There Will Be Blood
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Plainview and Eli Sunday — the duality of American power
→ Citizen Kane (1941)
Anderson has cited Kane's opening as the template: the magnate in old age, the reporter as inverse detective. Plainview's rise-and-ruin arc is the oil-field translation of Welles's media baron.
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