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- Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal) explains to Rick (Riz Ahmed) that he wants to wait for an optimal time to alert the police of the location of the triple homicide murderers. Rick realizes that Lou is setting up a situation that provides him with plenty of content to sell to the news.
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Nov 29, 2014 · But his role as creepy TV news cameraman Lou Bloom in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler might be his most powerful work to date. Gyllenhaal describes the character as a “human coyote.”
Apr 27, 2022 · Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal) explains to Rick (Riz Ahmed) that he wants to wait for an optimal time to alert the police of the location of the triple homicide murderers.
Nightcrawler is a 2014 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy in his directorial debut. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an unhinged stringer who seeks out violent and morbid events late at night in Los Angeles so he can film them and sell the exclusive footage to a local television news station.
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Like so many other famous antiheroes, whether they're Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr. Ripley or Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood, Lou isn't who he claims to be starting out. Far from an experienced photojournalist and reputable professional, he's nothing more than a common criminal with no qualms about doing what it takes to get ahead. Yet,...
For years, there's been a fan theory arguing the ending of Nightcrawler takes place in Lou's mind, beginning with him tricking Rick (who, by that point, has threatened to turn Lou over to the police for his criminal behavior unless he pays him more for their latest job) into getting shot and killed by a wounded gunman the pair had been tracking sin...
Fake News might be a loaded term nowadays, but Nightcrawler does an excellent job of showing was Fake News actually looks like, e.g. sensationalized headlines and stories that are reported on not because they're of great importance to the general public, but because they're huge ratings draws, and often reinforce what people want to believe about t...
There's a specific development towards the end of Nightcrawler that really drives home the movie's points about how the media and general public both portray and perceive the world, particularly when it comes to class. When the KWLA 6 news team learns the home invasion that drives much of the action during the film's second half was actually about ...
Purely from a storytelling perspective, the thing that makes Nightcrawler so effective is its willingness to acknowledge the problem goes beyond Lou as a person and a profit-driven news media, all the way to the structures that allow them to thrive in the first place. As the film demonstrates, the American Dream is all about attaining power in what...
- Sandy Schaefer
2 days ago · Enter Lou, a wayward conman and petty thief who finds a twisted talent and pride in nightcrawling, late-night video journalism covering Los Angeles’ gruesome crimes, and plans to make as much ...
Oct 31, 2014 · Gyllenhaal lost between 20 and 30 pounds for the movie—another echo of young De Niro—in an effort to physically substantiate the animal that he and director Gilroy say inspired Bloom’s ...
Oct 30, 2014 · When Nightcrawler begins, Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is stealing scrap metal and struggling to get by. He lands a job as a stringer — a freelance cameraman for a local news station.
