Episode 85: Nightcrawler

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Nightcrawler's heightened sense of reality, how the unconventional direction contributes to the film's voyeuristic feel, and why Lou Bloom's story satirizes success in a bloodthirsty society.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.1	Today we are talking about Nightcrawler, the 2014 film written and directed by Dan Gilroy.
0:18.5	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Ravan.
0:21.0	Hello, everyone.
0:21.9	Brian Bittner.
0:22.7	Hello, hello.
0:23.7	And Alex Coyanos.
0:25.0	Hi.
0:25.7	It's fun to be talking about Nightcrawler because this was a very early video on lessons from the screenplay.
0:31.0	And I distinctly remember it was the video that came after the dark night.
0:35.7	Oh.
0:36.8	It's a tough act to follow.
0:38.4	And so I remember, right, that video going viral and then having this like wave of anxiety
0:45.6	of like, well, how do you follow that up?
0:47.2	Like, everyone on the internet is surely waiting to see what I'm going to do next.
0:51.3	So what do I do?
0:52.6	And so I decided to do a hard left turn and go completely the opposite direction from a big
0:58.4	budget thing and do this kind of smaller indie movie that I feel like at the time,
1:02.4	not a lot of people had seen, which was Nightcrawler.
1:05.1	It was fun.
1:05.8	I feel like revisiting the video, I feel like I sum up a lot of my feelings about the movie
1:10.0	that I still have upon
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