Daily Dialogue — November 14, 2019

Detective Fronteiri: You filmed him dying.
Lou Bloom: That’s my job, that’s what I do, I’d like to think if you’re seeing me you’re having the worst day of your life.

— Nightcrawler (2014), written by Dan Gilroy

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Interrogation. Today’s suggestion by Ed Preston.

Trivia: Dan Gilroy considered a backstory that would help explain how Lou Bloom became the amoral and damaged “survivor” he was in the film. However, he ultimately cut the entire idea from his script because he didn’t want to either spend a lot of time on Lou’s origin or make him very sympathetic.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Since we know Lou is lying, his cool, calm demeanor makes his fabricated story even that much more frightening,