{"id":3462,"date":"2015-02-05T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:48:18","slug":"movienight-thursday-february-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"Nightcrawler: Bad news travels fast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nc.jpg\" alt=\"nc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nc.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nc-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it bleeds, it leads.&#8221; This adage concerning newsworthiness proved inspirational for Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the bottom-feeding sociopath lead (it just doesn&#8217;t seem right to call him the protagonist, somehow) of <em>Nightcrawler<\/em>. It seems that this was one of those movies that people hadn&#8217;t quite gotten around to seeing. &#8220;Under the radar&#8221;, as Norris noted in making yet another <a title=\"Successful Suggesters page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=12\">successful recommendation<\/a>. When I first watched it, I felt a bit like I&#8217;d been punched in the gut, and was disinclined to show it to you gentle folk, for fear that you might squeam out. Ha! No such thing. Even on a brutally cold evening, you came, you stayed, you loved it. Gyllenhaal was magnificently creepy, and creepily skinny. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230; I&#8217;m not one to be easily fascinated by a car chase (there have been few on our screen) but this one was really effective and unusual. Perhaps we need to have a classroom deconstruction some day. ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2872718\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If it bleeds, it leads.&#8221; This adage concerning newsworthiness proved inspirational for Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the bottom-feeding sociopath lead (it just doesn&#8217;t seem right to call him the protagonist, somehow) of Nightcrawler. It seems that this was one of those movies that people hadn&#8217;t quite gotten around to seeing. &#8220;Under the radar&#8221;, as Norris &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nightcrawler: Bad news travels fast.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}