“There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.” LooksCharacterBloodMissingDevelopmentDramaFocusedOpeningStorytellingImpulseEpicIntuitiveSequenceTerrificCharacter Development Author:Stephanie Zacharek
“The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” WantLittlesArtAudienceBloodStageDramaEntertainmentFleshCinemaPredictionsFadsFlesh And BloodPredicting The Future Author:Charlie Chaplin
“In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.” WayMadeSometimesSuccessBusinessSunBloodFeetAdventureDramaSceneFilledOilObsessionOne WayExcitementPairsBad ThingsWearyExit Author:Sue Sanders
“the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.” MenHas BeensStillsHumanityWomenAbilityHalfBloodMonthsDramaDiseaseFemaleInjuryPrimitiveGoreBleedingPhoenixEach Month Author:Estelle Ramey
“We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It's a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill.” WayI CanCharacterStoriesFilmYoungValuesFourBloodDramaBest WayUsaShockYou AgainSlateTime To KillBayouShock ValuePelicans Author:Drew Waters
“I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.” ThinkingWorldWritingRealMatterPlayUnderstandingAliveBloodDramaExtremesTragicEntertainingPlaywrightObservant Author:William Monahan
“My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.” FirstsChildrenPassionSidesChurchReligiousViolenceBloodDramaLandscapeVisualsFascinatingAestheticEngagingBaroqueGaudyIconographyOld Churches Author:Florence Welch
“I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.” FeelsI CanBitsCuttingBloodDramaCalmMedievalBleedingSelf InjuryMedieval Times Author:Russell Brand
“We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —” MenDreamEyeAgeDiesNamesHurtMistakeBloodDyingDramaProveSurpriseHarmPhrasesAwakeCautiousJarsEgyptianGranite Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson