Why did the one guy kill the other guy at the end of "There Will Be Blood?!


Question: The guy who got killed was already beaten and bankrupt and wasn't a threat to the other, so why not just let him go?


Answers: The guy who got killed was already beaten and bankrupt and wasn't a threat to the other, so why not just let him go?

I think its cos the whole movie is about this man who is the personification of evil, living in hell........it was the logical conclusion for a man who had already had '1 milkshake but whose straw reaches all the way across into your milkshake'. He had said previously that there was 'a competition' inside of him and he had demonstrated the whole way through that he doesn't just beat the competition.......he destroys them. Eli (the other guy) was the ultimate competition, he represented both his own corruption and God himself. By killing him, he killed the one thing Daniel Plainview hated most of all...God.

cos it was in the script that he would be killed

Not to over intellectualize, but Eli was just like Daniel Plainview, but weaker. By killing him, he killed a person who tried to threaten him and showed the audience a subtle form of self hate.

By the end of the movie, there's not much of a human being left in Daniel Plainview. He's been eaten up by greed and power. He has pushed his son away, and with all his money, all he is left with is a mansion and another person who's just as greedy by his side. It's seems to be his last act of destruction. Hence the last line.

PS--I would tag your question with a spoiler alert.



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