What?? You liked it UP UNTIL the milkshake part?! Oh my dear, no, I totally disagree, I think that scene was the perfect culmination of his character and relationship with Eli. That was his utter and total PWNED moment. How did he "turn on you?"
Also, the milkshake line is based in real-life! Found via google:
"I must admit to you where that came from," Anderson says giddily, noting that the eccentric metaphor comes straight from the congressional transcripts of the 1920s "Teapot Dome" scandal, in which New Mexico Republican Senator Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for the oil-drilling rights to public lands in California and Wyoming from several oil-industry fat cats (including Edward Doheny).
"I think it was Albert Fall, who was asked to describe drainage before Congress," Anderson continues. "And his way of describing it was, 'If you have a milk shake and I have a milk shake, and my straw reaches across the room...' I'm sure I embellished it and changed it around and made it more Plainview. But Fall used the word 'milk shake,' and I thought it was so great. It was mad to see that word among all this official testimony and terminology — a fucking milk shake. I get so happy every time I hear that word."
So no, I urge you to check it out again. I actually needed to see TWBB a couple times before it really sank in. The first time, it was like, "... what the FUCK did I just see??"
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Date: 2009-01-27 06:15 pm (UTC)What?? You liked it UP UNTIL the milkshake part?! Oh my dear, no, I totally disagree, I think that scene was the perfect culmination of his character and relationship with Eli. That was his utter and total PWNED moment. How did he "turn on you?"
Also, the milkshake line is based in real-life! Found via google:
"I must admit to you where that came from," Anderson says giddily, noting that the eccentric metaphor comes straight from the congressional transcripts of the 1920s "Teapot Dome" scandal, in which New Mexico Republican Senator Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for the oil-drilling rights to public lands in California and Wyoming from several oil-industry fat cats (including Edward Doheny).
"I think it was Albert Fall, who was asked to describe drainage before Congress," Anderson continues. "And his way of describing it was, 'If you have a milk shake and I have a milk shake, and my straw reaches across the room...' I'm sure I embellished it and changed it around and made it more Plainview. But Fall used the word 'milk shake,' and I thought it was so great. It was mad to see that word among all this official testimony and terminology — a fucking milk shake. I get so happy every time I hear that word."
So no, I urge you to check it out again. I actually needed to see TWBB a couple times before it really sank in. The first time, it was like, "... what the FUCK did I just see??"