Daniel Day-Lewis has immortalized that line in one of the most memorable scenes from ‘There Will be Blood’, but it turns out that way before becoming an internet meme (what’s a meme? - click here) it was actually a line used in real life.

Over on ‘Observations of Film Art’, director Paul Thomas-Anderson lets on that the dialogue came from a US congressional hearing.

Its appears that it sort of ‘transmogrified’ into the movie, only to be committed to memory by Daniel Day-Lewis’ epic delivery:  

Anderson concedes that he’s puzzled by the phenomenon — particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California.

So - now you know, when you see Daniel Plainview screaming at Eli Sunday - its all just a rip-off from Senator Albert Fall - or was it Kelis?

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