Nightcrawler Analysis

It’s the beginning of the 1950’s. The citizens of Chicago are awaken by gunfires of mobsters of the “Chicago Outfit's,” lead by Al-Capone. Al-Capone was one of the best mobster kings in America, he got away with multiple murders, bootlegged alcohol during the prohibition era, along with numerous other court cases.

The media stirs up our sense of fear, because an equation "to implant a sense of fear, and to give the solution" (or it is lip service) is satisfied in the United States. We feel that what would really happen on" saying "you should take what kind of correspondence" and is glued to the TV program, newspapers or magazines, feeling a sense of uneasiness. As Glassner crimes that the articles and TV programs sometimes interpret events to suit themselves or give a distorted account of what happened, we have to know that we should not swallow whatever we read in newspapers and magazines or watch TV broadcast programs without thinking. We have to acknowledge what the articles and TV programs are, while we claim accurate information based on reliable data that the media should provide us. However, I think Glassner fails to address the positive effects of the journalism toward our lives.

People cannot think clearly when they are afraid. As numerous studies have shown, fear is the enemy of reason. It distorts emotions and perceptions, and often leads to poor decisions. Within a society motivated by fear, it leads to a solicitous of paranoia, hysteria, manipulation, and a lack of productivity. For people who have suffered trauma, fear messages can sometimes trigger uncontrollable flight-or-fight responses with dangerous consequences. Yet over time, many interlocking aspects of our society have become increasingly advanced at conversing messages and information that produce fear reactions. Advertising, political ads, news coverage, literature and social media all send the constant message that people should be afraid.

These aggressive words aren’t just printed on the screen but spoken by the reporter's; phrases like “desperate cries for help” continue to push for an empathetic and emotional response from the viewers. Words aren’t the only way NBC tries to forcefully shift a viewer's perspective, they do it with precise time coverage. Stories average, to a near exact second, 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds. Minute long coverage of highly controversial topics forces viewers to be rushed through a story without thinking or receiving more perspectives. Stories like terrorist attacks are have one of the shortest timestamps, averaging nearly 50 seconds each. NBC’s general method of news delivery is, quick, catchy, and controversial. All their topics covered, regardless of genre, followed their strict delivery framework. Reporters used emotionally charged words to push the theme of fear and danger throughout the newscast. Being backed by multi-billion dollar conglomerate investors like Soros, it doesn’t come as a surprise when the stories filled with fear to push for a more attentive viewer (Balan 2014).

In Cawelti’s piece, he talks about the “generic transformation” that appears in Chinatown. Most of all, he points at the “myth” of the hard-boiled detective, a well known noir character archetype that appears in both Chinatown and The Long Goodbye. According to Cawelti, the “hard-boiled” detective is an archetype that is meant to portray the “moral ambiguity” theme often seen in classical film noir. These types of characters are licensed by the state as private investigators, but are far from morally upright beings. They follow their own internal code of ethics, and if the law needs to be broken in order for the job to get done, that is just the way things have to go (Cawelti 499-500). Both Jake Gittes and Philip Marlowe are private investigators who do their own thing when it comes to enforcing the law. Mostly because they realize that the system is corrupt, so they invent their own form of justice. To Gittes, that means lying his way in and out of most situations; to Marlowe that means killing his friend who has committed murder.

The networks running these news programs are fashioning them like any other prime time TV show trying to grab some viewership, just instead of having to create an intricate plot about terrorist acts or political drama, they get that done for them in reality without the creativity, and usually the happy endings. They’re essentially giving you the Michael Bay version of what happened in the world today.

Upon First impression of Louis Bloom, he seems to be a very kind and charismatic person. The more you talk with him, however, the more you are exposed to his true personality. Bloom is a middle-aged man living in Los Angeles California. When we are introduced to Mr. Bloom, he is living just at the poverty line earning his money as a thief. At this time, he is stealing salvaged scrap metal and then selling it for cash. Over the course of the movie, Mr. Bloom moves away from his burglary career to a career working for local news stations selling live footage.

Nightcrawler is a film that released in late 2014. The movie was directed by Dan Gilroy and was also his directorial debut. Since the release, the movie has been a hit and has attracted many viewers across the globe. Nightcralwer stars Jake Gyllenhaal playing as Louis Bloom along with co-star, Rene Russo playing as Nina. The movie takes place in the busy streets of Los Angeles California where Bloom stumbles into a new career as a cameraman. After purchasing a cheap camera and a police scanner, Louis spends every night racing crime scene to crime scene to get a hold of the best footage in Los Angeles and creates a business by selling his footage to news channels. He later hires Rick, a young unemployed man to work with him. As the movie develops Louis’ character changes both physically and mentally.

In 2017, the minds of Americans are often occupied with thoughts of the ever-growing political divide between democrats and republicans and the influence of the media on their lives. Television networks and studios are uniquely positioned in such a way as to be easily able to modulate and change the political and moral views and values of our country’s citizens. For example, this position can include a news network that focuses on racial issues in anticipation of an upcoming piece of equal rights legislation in Congress, or a TV show about a group of fictional vigilantes that take on crime in their city and happens to secretly but aggressively emphasize the importance of citizens owning guns. To this end, some of this century’s most influential

Lastly, the dramatization by news programs today produces a glamorization of crime. News stories on crimes are extremely popular due to the fact audiences’ remembers bad news much easier than good news. Take history for example, much of history is filled with recounts of gruesome murders, wars, and scandals. An estimated 71 million viewers across the country tune in to their local news station’s broadcast (Yanich, 2004, p. 537). It can easily be

The immense audiences for local news show basic changes in television programming. All over the country today, local news programs air in the morning, afternoon, evening, prime time arid even late night. The weekly total of hours devoted to local news programming in Los Angeles and New York are 97

A majority of Americans believe that newspapers, radio and television are devoting too much space and time to covering the Watergate scandals (“53%,” 1974). Both Time and Newsweek reported that

The first mass media that developed came in the form of print media: newspapers. In addition to books and magazines, printed media traditionally tends to be more fact oriented. Print media can be more analytical in their reporting and can cover a story in more detail, and are less suited to emotional, visceral reporting than, say, television (Surette, 12). Newspapers contain only news and not the fictionalized crime drama presented on television. But that is not to say that print media is not capable of sensationalism all the same. A 1988 study found that newspapers in the mid – 1980s covered violent crimes (murder, robbery, rape, assault) four times more frequently than property crimes (burglary, larceny, theft), even though property crimes are nine times more prevalent (Krajicek, 98).

In a more better perspective of the movie Nightcrawler, Lou’s first big actual gig happened to start out by watching these individual reporters taking footage of live footage of for example, car crashes,violence and basically anything that would make news stations wanna buy your footage. So of course Lou being the go getter that he was, he took his stolen goods, and took it to the pawn shop for a microphone, and a video camera. When Lou first started out peoeple took him as kinda a joke, telling him to go find a different job, and basically telling him, that he was not cut out for the job what so ever. After everyone did not take Lou serious he made sure he was “A1” at his craft. He was litterally ranking in thousands of dollars selling his videos. And that did not happen to be from sportsmanship either. Like i said in the beginning, he is only trying to protect his investment. So when the

The story is set in the town of Lawless, Illinois during Prohibition era, where brewed liquor dominates the black market. Angelo Lagusa, a young man whose family was murdered in a mafia dispute, seeks revenge against the Vanetti Family and its don, Vincent Vanetti. Seven years after the murder, Angelo receives an anonymous letter from a self-proclaimed friend of his father's, prompting him to return to Lawless and exact his revenge.