Dennis Denby, critiquing Daniel Day-Lewis’ enunciation in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, collapses under the weight of his own brilliance:
“He lowers his chin slightly, and his dark eyes dance with merriment as he speaks in coarse yet rounded tones, the syllables precisely articulated but with a lengthening of the vowels and final consonants that gives the talk a singing, almost caressing quality.”
Mr. Denby, like Mr. Anderson, fancies that he is exposing the fallacies and crimes of capitalism. Both men are apparently unaware that the fruit of their labors is collected by vast, multi-billion, multi-national corporations. O the Irony!
