Wise Blood (1979)
Directed by John Huston
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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(Movie mavens might recognize the spirit of John Huston hovering over the entire enterprise, from Day-Lewis's seeming impression of the late actor and Eli Sunday's resemblance to the religious hustler in Huston's "Wise Blood," to "Chinatown," in which Huston played one of the swindlers, showmen and speculators who bullied California into being.)
A subplot out of Elmer Gantry by way of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood pits Plainview’s godless Nietzschean corporatist against an evangelical zealot and confidence man named Eli Sunday (played with a superbly oleaginous buoyancy by Little Miss Sunshine ’s Paul Dano).
Amy Wright, that wonderful oddball from Wise Blood and The Accidental Tourist , sells a burning house with Almodóvar wallpaper and its own, low-contrast lighting scheme to auburn-haired Samantha Morton, who coos about the property's virtues before confessing, "I'm a little concerned about the fire."
The film is technically well-made, and carefully constructed by screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (who previously adapted Flannery O’Connor’s stunning evangelical rage novel, Wise Blood, for John Huston).