20 Things You Somehow Missed In There Will Be Blood

This is one thing that you can only realize in hindsight. It is when you start looking for these little things, they speak out to you in the ingenious way they're planted there. In the burning oil derrick scene, we see H.W. has lost his hearing. He is hurt and Plainview immediately brings him to safety in his cabin. After a while, though, he asks Fletcher to look after him and goes out to stop the fire from spreading.

He does the needful but does not come back. Maybe because he is with his real baby. Daniel sits in the chair all night. Imagine that. He does not move from the precious sight to go check on his son, although it is completely possible that he might have gone back in the middle. But it is the same as the opening sequence when he fractures his leg. All PTA does is to show us the ominous mountains Daniel would have to overcome in that condition to get to a place of safety.

There is a reason we see him planted in the chair in the same position first, at night, and then in the morning. It is PTA's way of showing what really mattered to Plainview.