Jack Fisk as Production Designer and David Crank as Art Director have worked on several films together. This scene is from "There Will Be Blood", but they also worked on "Tree of Life" and "Water for Elephants" together.
It seems in the parts of the movie that are period specific that they do a great job of designing the look and feel of the scenes. The locations are amazing and particularly in "There Will Be Blood" they do a great job of creating the feeling for each scene. The entire film, whether night or day, seems to have a very old fashioned look, like it was filmed on older film or filtered to look that way. The colors are bland. Whether it's night or day, you don't sense much happiness in the film. This last scene is perfect, though. Everything looks perfectly placed. I have a minor heart attack every time the bowling ball hits the bucket. I don't know if that was planned or how many times they had to do that scene, but the long alley with Daniel Day Lewis marching at you is a brilliant way to convey how scary that would look. That's also the only scene that has a panning camera I think. The rest are stationary shots. I just love the look and feel of this whole movie because it basically hollows you out and takes away any hope you might have for this character.
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