20 Things You Somehow Missed In There Will Be Blood

20. Daniel Day-Lewis IS The Film. Well, Almost

During his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, cinematographer Robert Elswitt quipped: "Thank you Paul (referring to Anderson). But we're really standing here on the shoulders of Daniel Day-Lewis".

As magnificent as the film is, it cannot be denied that without Day-Lewis, the show wouldn't have gone on. And it certainly didn't - almost.

The actor is present in every scene of the film except for two instances. In almost 143 minutes, we do not see him for just under 9 minutes. That number in itself is staggering, given how epic TWBB is on all technical fronts.

The first scene in question is when we see H.W. and Mary grow up and marry in a small continuation from childhood to adulthood. Plainview wouldn't have even wanted to be present after the "derrick" incident. The other one involves Eli Sunday, just after he is rolled in the mud by Plainview when he asks for money for the church. Eli sits at the dining table with his father, Abel, and climbs on him in anger for "letting the Devil in".