Nightcrawler

In today’s society many people only care about fame and money instead of having moral principles. Watching the film Nightcrawler portrays how modern day media is covered because in the film it shows behind the scenes of how producers react when going on live and what is the process behind when purchasing a video from any type of video company. In the film the main point being made is how technology has changed the news industry and how producers only want the views. News stations such as Fox News,CNN, and MSNBC care about the community but mostly about the rankings, and the viewing. Nina Romina the morning news director states, “It’s a carjacking crime wave. That’s the banner. Call the victim’s family, get a quote, mic it. You know what to do.” This clearly indicates that violence is clearly what gets the rankings and the views which is why Nina is connecting the car jackings from another month with a recent one although it might not be true which isn’t illegal , but isn’t morally correct either. Murrow once stated, “ To be persuasive, we must be…

The movie Nightcrawler, directed by Dan Gilroy, begins with a Los Angelean thief, Louis Bloom, being denied employment. After seeing a career opportunity in filming and selling crime footage, Bloom pawns stolen items to purchase a camcorder and police scanner. With his new equipment, Bloom gets close-up, graphic footage of a shooting which he sells to Channel 6 News. The film editor, Nina, praises Bloom for his natural eye for the scene. Inspired to improve, Bloom learns the police code and…

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X-Men: Days of Future Past Imagine fighting against robots who are slowly eliminating your species, and the only way to stop them is time traveling into the past to interfere with an assassination that occurred. That situation is what takes place in X-Men: Days of Future Past. X-Men: Days of Future Past, was created in three different forms, a comic book, cartoon, and a movie. Each form includes the same reasoning for going into the past to save the future. Although they have a similarity for…

The Analysis of X-Men and how it relates to Disabilities The portrayal of many superheroes in movies, comic books, and TV shows are empowered by real world diseases, accidents, and disabilities inflicted upon them. X-Men is the apotheosis by which exceptional individuals, both heroes and villains, obtain their powers. These movie characters, who possess various extraordinary abilities, are comparable to the multiple individuals with disabilities, in that they both are regarded and viewed…

In Nightcrawler there are a few aspects of surveillance portrayed but they are very subtle. The first one is the use of diegetic sound that comes from the police scanner. Throughout the semester multiple films of the surveillance genre were viewed and many of them introduced a “bug” that was used to listen in on different characters of the film without them knowing. As Lou listens to the police scanner it is relatively the same as “bug”, except the police scanner only listens to police…

Huda R Mohammad Professor Jeff Ambrose Eng 112 20 November 2017 Nightcrawler- The Power of The Psychopath Entering into writer-director Dan Gilroy’s world of Nightcrawler, the audience has an uneasy feeling about its off-killer anti-hero. It is a thrilling movie that paints an image of “the world of crime journalism”, where every police siren is converted into an opportunity to earn cash. Lou Bloom, played by Jake Gyllenhaal in a performance of quirk and creepy smiles, speaks with a precise,…

There’s something beautiful about a film that has the power to upset you. ‘Nightcrawler’ is a dark, crime-action thriller about the news filming industry. These nocturnal videographers dubbed “Nightcrawlers” venture out into the streets of LA to capture the most riveting crime scene footage which they later sell to the highest paying news station. Although the film ends on an emotionally upsetting note, it’s dramatic escapade through LA’s landscape delivers great character development, an…

Nightcrawler exemplifies the surveillance film genre. Nightcrawler first exemplifies the surveillance film genre by having someone use equipment to film, listen, or spy on a person or event that is happening. In almost all of the movies or series that I have watched in this class, they all have had something to deal with a set of equipment. Louis Bloom, uses a hand held camera to shoot different crime scenes that he has hunted down to find. We have also seen in Rear Window, The Conversation,…

Death and Revenge: A Comparison Death, revenge, “accidents”… What causes silent insanity? “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about Montresor and Fortunado. Montresor and Fortunado are acquaintances, but one night Montresor asks Fortunado to sample his new cask of Amontillado. This leads them both down into Montresor’s catacombs, which leads to Fortunado’s demise by Montresor. The modern story, Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy, spotlights a struggling Lou Bloom who decides to start…