4. "If You Want To Win The Lottery, You Have To Make The Money To Buy A Ticket." - Nightcrawler
Here's enterprising media man Lou Bloom's (Jake Gyllenhaal) entire worldview summarised in one witty maxim, about putting in the leg-work in order to reach the big leagues. The trailers made an easy punchline out of Bloom's quote, featuring it three times, such that it was quite surprising that Bloom only says it once in the final cut of the movie, rather disappointing given how deliciously Gyllenhaal delivered it in the trailer. Still, it is a perfect snapshot of his personality throughout the movie, of wide-eyed ambition that basically borders on terrifying.
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Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes).
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