Saturday, February 22, 2020

Script review - "Nightcrawler" by Dan Gilroy

I held off seeing/reading this in part because it was Dan Gilroy not Tony (Tony helped produce it) and also I wasn't that thrilled about another "ooh the media is out of control" story. But really it's not so much about the media as the story of a sociopath who finds a niche, uses modern business speak to construct this thoughts, and follows everything logically to its end result.

The script is done in sparse haiku-ish style not far from Tony Gilroy's. It's a memorable character study - no wonder Jake Gyllenhaul went for it in a big way, with some excellent support parts.

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