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There Will Be Blood (2007) More at IMDb Pro »

• Continuity: When Eli enters Daniel's office to ask about the blessing, as he starts to sit down his hands are starting to tent together, but when the camera changes his hands are at his side and when only after he sits down does he tent his fingers.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the tracking shot from the train tracks that follows the car of Daniel Plainview, you can see the dolly track for a moment when the camera pulls back, just before the camera pans to the right.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Daniel Day-Lewis' pierced earlobes are apparent in close-up profile shots.
  
  

• Anachronisms: A bright modern warning light is visible under the dash of one of the cars when a door is opened early in the movie. Several vehicles also display number-plates incorrect for the period.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bowling alley scene, Eli is clearly visible placing Daniel's refused drink above the center panel on the paneled divider. After the cutaway to Daniel, the drink is not above the center panel, but above the panel adjacent to the center one.
  
  
• Anachronisms: After H.W. returns, when he and his girlfriend are playing, in a close up you can clearly see that she has two, maybe three pierced earing holes.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Eli Sunday lists the towns he will be visiting on his mission, he includes Taft, which would have been named Moron until the 1920s.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Daniel Plainview's brother states that they are from Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin he mispronounces the name of the town. It is pronounced Fond Du Lack and not Fond Du Lay.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the early scenes where the two miners are hauling buckets up the wells, a modern day "bow" shackle is used to hold the bucket to the rope.
  
  

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