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The real fire’s environmental damage, Miramax branding, and the oil state’s global damage are the only candidates.

Either the travel to inspect Paul Sunday’s claim or the Bandy-tract pipeline survey is the suggested break.

No additional scene is needed; deleted screenplay material already made Daniel impotent and limited him to oral sex at the brothel.

“I have a competition in me” wins one preference; “I drink your milkshake,” “I’ve abandoned my boy,” the economic-panic line, and Eli’s threats remain competing choices.

“Yes, I do” is the selected line reading, with Eli’s teeth-and-gums sermon material also praised.

Three takes argue Daniel may be sexually attracted to Henry, the film is much better and more important than No Country, and Day-Lewis cannot be greatest without a mass-audience movie.

Kel O’Neill’s removal after three weeks forced Paul Dano into both Sunday roles; Philip Seymour Hoffman was originally imagined for Telford.

Paul Dano’s exorcism wins, while Day-Lewis is declared ineligible despite the climactic pantomime.

Legendary SNL writer Jim Downey wins for his small real-estate role.

Bandy wins for two compact, forceful scenes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Henry is the favored improvement; recasting Eli ultimately returns to Dano after considering Gosling, DiCaprio, Ledger, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Hirsch, Plemons, Foster, and Grenier.

Research traces the milkshake metaphor to Albert Fall’s Teapot Dome testimony, the adjacent No Country fire disruption, difficult financing, Day-Lewis’s laborer letters, Greystone Mansion, and Edward Doheny parallels.