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#513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« on: November 07, 2014, 03:11:02 PM »
Vampires aren't the only crazies who come out at night. Josh and Adam stay up late to share their Top 5 Nocturnal Movies, and discuss Jake Gyllenhaal's creepy turn in writer/director Dan Gilroy's NIGHTCRAWLER.
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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2014, 03:59:38 PM »
Re- the music; I think this is the music playing in Lou's head. Lou is succeeding on his own terms, living the dream. Obviously when Lou says he doesn't like people that's very reminiscent of Daniel Plainview. Both men are fulfilling their dreams; being all they can be. What they want to be appears to be externally (to the other characters who see them in the film) successful, but internally (to anyone watching the film) repellant. If this was the intent of the creator that's ambitious and impressive.

Great line when he says something like; "If you see me, it's the worst day of your life".
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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2014, 01:04:08 PM »
Re- the music; I think this is the music playing in Lou's head. Lou is succeeding on his own terms, living the dream.
I think we're basically saying the same thing... just that filmmakers can obviously do things to make it clear a character might be hearing something nobody else is, as if this is 'actually' what he's hearing. Gilroy doesn't do anything like that. Not for better or for worse, he just doesn't. Not that I recall.
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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2014, 10:17:51 PM »
I just rewatched Sweet Smell of Success. That film lives and breathes in the night time air. The characters thrive in it and suffocate on it. I know you were avoiding films that take place in one night and (like Talk Radio, which would be in my Top 5), it's a two-nighter with a lengthy break of daytime in the middle.

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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2014, 01:57:41 AM »
La Dolce Vita got a brief mention by Josh but it seems like the definitive film for this list.  All seven sequences start in the afternoon and end at dawn.  It's a live-by-night world filled with parties and excess, but always with a hangover in the morning.
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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2014, 07:21:58 AM »
Kind of sad that Light Sleeper wasn't even mentioned.

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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2014, 08:01:45 AM »
Re- the music; I think this is the music playing in Lou's head. Lou is succeeding on his own terms, living the dream.
I think we're basically saying the same thing... just that filmmakers can obviously do things to make it clear a character might be hearing something nobody else is, as if this is 'actually' what he's hearing. Gilroy doesn't do anything like that. Not for better or for worse, he just doesn't. Not that I recall.
Yes I agree. If the creator doesn't signal his intent, if only in some small way; then it is vague and can harm the film instead of enhancing it. I think I let my enthusiasm for the film carry me away into giving it extra credit. Next time there's an American Dream top 5 is this too hideous a perversion of that ideal for it to appear? So on the nose that it's more like a punch to the proboscis!
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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2014, 08:20:14 PM »
I agree with Josh & Adam's take on Nightcrawler. I thought the movie was good, I especially liked the suspense. But found the media theme way outdated. My partner kept comparing it to the movie Fifteen Minutes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179626/ (Which she watched the week before)

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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2014, 04:55:16 PM »
Kind of sad that Light Sleeper wasn't even mentioned.
Never seen it, not sure I've heard of it...
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Re: #513: Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2014, 06:35:11 PM »
Kind of sad that Light Sleeper wasn't even mentioned.
Never seen it, not sure I've heard of it...

Its a film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/light-sleeper-1992

 

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