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Wondered why they didn't show much of the monster in the puffy headed giant salamander shakycam movie? Here's the reason why. It looks really silly seen close up and motionless.

I was just watching At The Movies and David Stratton had the same insight into There Will Be Blood that I did when Jamie, SarahE and treehouseworld saw the trailer with me. Daniel Day-Lewis is doing a verbal impersonation of John Huston's Noah Cross from Chinatown It goes back to one of my main ideas about film-viewing. The more you know about movies, the more you get from viewing them. Resonances, nuances, influences and homages filigree cinema, but we can't perceive them until we learn how to.