by Tdarcos » Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:25 am
pinback wrote:To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, if Richard Dutcher could have made Nightcrawler, he would have made Nightcrawler.
The Wachowski Brothers had to make
Bound first, because
The Matrix was too complicated a movie for two untested directors to make on their first try.
I watched
Nightcrawler, and it reminded me of movies about the "good old days" of reporting, where reporters did anything to get the story.
The Front Page and
His Girl Friday, where they sometimes committed crimes themselves or covered up some in order to get the story, or
Se7en, where John Doe admits that if you claim to be a reporter and offer bribes you can get a lot of information out of (underpaid) cops, probably more information than you can get if you merely claim to be a reporter.
[quote="pinback"]To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg in [i]The Social Network[/i], if Richard Dutcher could have made Nightcrawler, he would have made Nightcrawler.[/quote]
The Wachowski Brothers had to make [i]Bound[/i] first, because [i]The Matrix[/i] was too complicated a movie for two untested directors to make on their first try.
I watched [i]Nightcrawler[/i], and it reminded me of movies about the "good old days" of reporting, where reporters did anything to get the story. [i]The Front Page[/i] and [i]His Girl Friday[/i], where they sometimes committed crimes themselves or covered up some in order to get the story, or [i]Se7en[/i], where John Doe admits that if you claim to be a reporter and offer bribes you can get a lot of information out of (underpaid) cops, probably more information than you can get if you merely claim to be a reporter.