Analogies don't come better than in Paul Thomas Anderson's oil-thriller, There Will Be Blood. Centered around the oil-boom of early 20th century America, the film follows Daniel Day Lewis' business tycoon, Daniel Plainview, in his takeover of land in Southern California. One such area of land belongs to the Sunday family, where son Eli is a minister at the local church. Plainview and Sunday lock horns over the course of the film, resulting in a decisive conflict during the film's final scene. Eli comes to Plainview playing his final card - offering up the little land he has left and the oil that dwells beneath it. However, the oil baron breaks the news that he has already taken the oil from Sunday's land through pipes. Having gone a little crazy, Plainview doesn't just tell him this though; choosing instead to reenact the process through the metaphor of milkshakes. The irrelevance of such a metaphor in such an intense scene has left it the victim of parody after parody - including a SNL Sketch where Bill Hader and Amy Poehler (as Plainview, and son H.W respectively) go from county to county in search of the perfect 'shake.
