Hellou

Aka... Getting to know Lou

In an piece in the NY Times we are finding out more about Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler.

Louis Bloom was based on the real life independent journalists who cover the dark side of the night in LA,  but Lou has a touch of New York to him.  Gilroy told the times  that "he had become fascinated years ago with Arthur Fellig, the New York news photographer, known as Weegee, who in the mid-20th century perfected the art of chasing emergency calls in pursuit of stark and timely images."

Gilroy went on to say that Fellig's LA contemporaries would  "range nightly through hundreds of square miles in the Los Angeles area, shooting video for television outlets."

"Howard Raishbrook, whose RMG News was once featured on the reality television show “Stringers: LA,” is one of those; and he eventually became Mr. Gilroy’s guide and technical adviser."

 Gilroy told the paper that he chose not to judge Lou but  treat him "like a creature in “an animal documentary, where animals are struggling in the wilderness to survive.”

Some of the descriptions of Lou include, intense, driven, off-kiltered, odd, hungry even feral,  for many the word sociopath might come to mind. But not to Jake.

“People could call him a sociopath, but I wouldn’t at all. I would call it the birth of an artist. It’s poetry to him.”

That poetry is how Lou "works his way into the heart of television news and crime journalism with little worry about the rights and wrongs of his hunt."

 “If you see me, you’re having the worst day of your life.” 

Nightcrawler premieres this Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival.