This scene inspired me to abandon my child

The way DDL delivers the “yes I do” as his head goes back kills me every time hahah

I love this scene. DDL chose not to use tears here and, instead, chose to let Plainview's anger carry him through the scene.

He only ever really feels something when says I've abandoned my child. The rest is an act. But that line really hurts him.

I know everyone is talking about DDL, but God Paul Dano fucking killed this.

"I abandoned my child", "You're a bastard in a basket" and the "Milk-shake" scene WAS INCREDIBLE

1:38 “where’s the lord, eli? have you found him? where is he? where is he? where is he?! oh, there he is.”

Idk why but the "yes I do" at the end makes me laugh so hard

"Daniel looks hard at Eli"...That look DDL gives Eli never ceases to chill. Such menace.

This guy drank my milkshake.

This scene is so terrifying because of the way the actors make it feel so authentic

I love how the scene shifts from it apparently exposing Daniel's flawed nature to the world to exposing Eli's. You see Daniel momentarily break his composure when his son is brought up, but once Eli crosses the line and oversteps, his entire attitude changes and he begins to smile and goad him on because he knows he's won. He says, "There it is!" as Eli finally breaks character and reveals the malice and narcissism beneath the surface motivating his prophetic performance. I think one power-hungry psychopath recognizes another and it sets up Daniel's instant recognition of the situation when Eli finally comes to him in the bowling ally, as if Daniel had, in a way, a prophetic understanding that one day it would come to this. He then proceeds to beat him to death with a bowling pin.

You can see Paul Dano is his peer. They change and react to each other as one. This is perfection acting. Nothing more or less

That subtle eye raise around 0:12 is everything great about this scene. Props to DDL the best of our time

Fun fact: The day before this they filmed the scene were Daniel slaps and pushes Eli into the mud over and over again, so they filmed this right after so Paul could have his revenge and slap Daniel back.

The most important thing here is the following line as DDL raises his head back up and says "There's a pipeline." He now has all he needs to take it all.

“I abandoned my child” with his forehead veins popping out you know he really felt and that broke me as a father

This is what we call as extraordinary acting

That slap was hilarious. Nicely acted by the legend Daniel Day-Lewis.