American Rhetoric: Movie Speech

"There Will Be Blood" (2007)

Daniel Plainview Confesses His Sins and Is Baptized at the Church of the Third Revelation

Windows Media Video of Address delivered by Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano

Audio mp3 delivered by Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano

Eli Sunday: Is there a sinner here looking for God?

Daniel Plainview: Yes.

Eli Sunday: Thank you for coming, brother Daniel.

Daniel Plainview: Thanks, Eli.

Eli Sunday: We have a sinner with use here who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner?

Daniel Plainview: Yes.

Eli Sunday: Oh, the Lord can't hear you Daniel. Say it to Him. Go ahead and speak to Him. It's alright.

Daniel Plainview: Yes --

Eli Sunday: Down on your knees and do it.

[Plainview complies]

Eli Sunday: Look up to the sky and say it.

Daniel Plainview: What do you want me to say?

  Eli Sunday: Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you've brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women and you have abandoned your child -- your child, that you raised. You have abandoned all because he was sick and you have sinned. So, say it now: "I am a sinner."

Daniel Plainview: I am a sinner.

Eli Sunday: Say it louder: "I am a sinner."

Daniel Plainview: [a bit louder] I am a sinner.

Eli Sunday: Louder Daniel -- I am a sinner!

Daniel Plainview: [a bit louder still] I am a sinner.

Eli Sunday: I am sorry, Lord.

Daniel Plainview: "I am sorry, Lord."

Eli Sunday: I want the blood.

Daniel Plainview: "I want the blood."

Eli Sunday: You have abandoned your child.

Daniel Plainview: "I have abandoned my child."

Eli Sunday: I will never backslide.

Daniel Plainview: "I will never backslide."

Eli Sunday: I was lost, but now I am found.

Daniel Plainview: "I was lost, but now I'm found."

Eli Sunday: I have abandoned my child.

Eli Sunday: Say it. Say it....

Daniel Plainview: "I've abandoned my child. "

Eli Sunday: Say it louder. Say it louder!

Daniel Plainview: I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!

I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!

I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY!!

Eli Sunday: Beg for the blood!

Daniel Plainview: Just give me the blood, Eli. Let me get out of here. Give me the blood, Lord, and let me get away! 

Eli Sunday: Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?!

Daniel Plainview: Yes, I do.

Eli Sunday: Get out here devil!! [Strikes Plainview across the face]

Daniel Plainview: Can't feel that, Eli.

Eli Sunday: Get out, devil! Out, sin!

Daniel Plainview: Let me feel the power of the Lord, Eli!

Eli Sunday: Do you accept the Church of the Third Revelation as your spiritual guide?

Daniel Plainview: Yes, I do.

Eli Sunday: [Repeatedly striking Plainview in the face] Get out of here! Get out of here! Get out...!!!

Eli Sunday: [as he is being struck] Where is your Lord, Eli? Let me feel Him! Where is He? Where is He? There He is! Oh, there He is!

Eli Sunday: Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior?

Daniel Plainview: Yes, I do.

[Eli Sunday baptizes Daniel Plainview]