There Will Be Blood: what came before
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
... apparently sexless Daniel Plainview has no real family, only surrogates: the adoptive orphan H.W. (Dillon Freasier), whom he pretends is his son (he needs "a sweet face to buy land", as he brutally says); the haunting, gentle stranger (Kevin J. O'Connor) who pretends to him that he is his long-lost half-brother Henry; and then Eli (Paul Dano), the charismatic young preacher whose...
