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    One Scene: Camera Decisions and Sound Design of Nightcrawler A “nightcrawler” is someone that listens to police scanners and follows the calls to the location to get footage of the situation and sells the clips to news broadcasting stations. The movie, Nightcrawler is about a specific nightcrawler named, Louis Bloom, and he doesn’t follow the rules like most; he will trustpass just to get a better angle, or perspective that he could sell. The movie starts out with Louis stealing copper and steel

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    Nightcrawler Through The Homeric Perspective Have you ever been stuck in a bad mood that causes everything to happen in your day to seem bad? Have you ever had a good day with the opposite effect? Mood changes perspective on everything. You are always in a mood. Throughout different ages of the world, mood is there always influencing the day to day choices. Hero’s are portrayed in modern day society to be someone who is willing to risk their lives for others, would you consider a hero to be someone

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    As of 2015, my favorite movie was Nightcrawler. The reason why this movie appeals to me so much is because of how the film portrays the power of ones will to achieve a goal and ultimately, reach success. Furthermore, veryaspect of the film unveils its core theme. The movie is quite dark and gritty with a subtle feel of thrill. Not only does the movie evoke thrill at times, but also anticipation and a sullen sense of cruel, but cool adventure. The main character Louis Bloom drives home when he encounters

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    Ghazal Al Awad Professor Brownell English 103 06 December 2016 Nightcrawler: “If It Bleeds, It Leads” It is said that “perfection is unattainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence” (“Vince Lombardi”). Lombardi is saying that people are always encouraged to do the best they can, but they can never be perfect. However, excellence can be attained if someone keeps up the hard and stays motivated. When people are not good enough, vicious, bad, or even worse, they seem to want

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    It was a pleasant surprise seeing that NightCrawler was one of the film choices for this psychopathy paper, I saw it in theaters when it was originally released and it has been one of my all-time favorites ever since. Even after rewatching it countless times since, the movie still never fails to keep my attention. One thing is for sure, Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Louis Bloom, is a bona fide psychopath. I will go into greater detail about the reasoning for this later, after discussing what exactly

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    Nightcrawler Through The Homeric Perspective Have you ever been stuck in a bad mood that causes everything to happen in your day to seem bad? Have you ever had a good day with the opposite effect? Mood changes perspective on everything. You are always in a mood. Throughout different ages of the world, mood has always been there influencing the day to day choices. Hero’s are portrayed in modern day society to be someone who is willing to risk their lives for others, would you consider a hero to be

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    evil, there can be no good. Is being a good person all about the things one does or is it about the reason one does the things they do? There 's good and bad in everyone. Humanity isn 't perfect, and our lives are so complex. In the film titled Nightcrawler, Louis Bloom shows viewers first-hand what it is like to be a journalist in the fast pace city of Los Angeles. Throughout the film, Louis attempts to manipulate the other characters and uses their weakness against them to get whatever he desires

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    Nightcrawler: Dan Gilroy

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    Nightcrawler, a movie from a directorial debut of Dan Gilroy, whom which written and directed this modern masterpiece. It gives you a sense of unsettling and tense feel as the film starts introducing us to the main character, Louis Bloom(Jake Gyllenhaal). He is a person who is well educated, appreciated, however, one who is professional acting nice and showing signals of appreciation, as it differs in the inside of himself. He lives an unusual life, a thief who always wonders to find a career to

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    but no real development? Do you crave a more intriguing character who is not like the typical main protagonist? If so I have a movie that is worth watching it well leaving you questioning how society runs. The movie that I suggest you watch is Nightcrawler written and directed by Don Gilroy. In this movie we are introduced to Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is a petty thief just trying to make ends meet. His life is changed when he sees a cameraman filming a burning car. This leads him on a journey

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    Ethics in the Digital Age The movie Nightcrawler focuses on the ups and downs that occur with contemporary journalism in the digital age. In the movie, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a sociopathic cameraman who goes by the name of Lou Bloom. Throughout the movie, Bloom bends the rules to gather information in order to discover the best breaking news. From breaking and entering to tampering with crime scenes, Bloom does everything in his power to get the content he strives for. One could say he is driven by

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