Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler 12th Anniversary

    by Capucine · old hollywood: Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler is marking its 12th anniversary, a milestone that brings focus to the intense preparation behind Lou Bloom. Jake Gyllenhaal shed roughly 30 pounds for the role, shaping his character's gaunt look after observing a starving coyote. Before production even started, he accompanied real Los Angeles crime photographers to study how they operated on the ground.

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    3,000. I got 3,000 for the food truck stabbings. There were more dead. Those were poor Mexican people in a roach coach. Two of them were illegals. These are three wealthy white people shot and killed in their mansion, including a suburban housewife shotgunned in her bed. I know you, Nina. I know your interest and excitement in this product is greater than the amount you're offering. 5,000. 30,000. 7,000. $8,000. $15,000. $9,000. $15,000. $10,000. $15,000. Give me a serious number. $15,000. Can't do it. Never happened. There's a matter of precedent. $10,000 is my last best offer. Okay. Really? Where are you going? Seven's approached me at least several times. The ND there gave me his number. They'll make me a better offer. It's a five-minute drive. Hold on! Twelve. Fifteen. I can't spend a month's budget on a single story. What if the story's not over? The people who did this escaped. They're still out there, walking around with the rest of us. If I had a family and I lived in a home, that might make me nervous. I'd want updates on what was going on. With this footage, people would turn to your channel for the story. Now I like you Nina And I look forward to our time together But you have to understand 15 isn all that I want From here on starting now I want my work to be credited by the anchors and on a burn The name of my company is Video Production News, a professional news gathering service. That's how it should be read and that's how it should be said. I also want to go to the next rung and meet your team, and the station manager and the director and the anchors, and start developing my own personal relationships. I'd like to start meeting them this morning. You'll take me around, you'll introduce me as the owner and president of Video Production News and remind them of some of my many other stories. I'm not done. I also want to stop our discussion over prices. This will save time. So when I say that a particular number is my lowest price, that's my lowest price. And you can be assured that I arrived at whatever that number is very carefully. Now, when I say that I want these things, I mean that I want them. And I don't want to have to ask again. And the last thing that I want, Nina, is for you to do the things that I ask you to do when we're alone together in your apartment. Not like the last time. So. I'll tell you what. I have the van crash on Moorpark tonight. There's a couple of stringers, actually. That could lead by itself on an average night. I'd be willing to throw that in for free. So what do you say? Do you have a deal? Lisa Mays, Ben Waterman, Lou Bloom.