american psycho ( film )
christian bale as patrick bateman in the film adaptation of american psycho. photograph: moviestore collection / rex feat
midnight movie review: halloween horror top 25, nr. 21: american psycho
kauffman, linda s. “ american psycho [ film review ]. ” film quarterly 54. 2 (winter 2000 - 2001): 41 - 45 .
featured in the making of' american psycho' (2000). see more »
ellis, bret easton. american psycho. london: macmillan - picador, 1991 .
mary harron narrates a sequence from her 2000 film “american psycho, ” which will screen as part of the woman is a genre series at film forum in manhattan .
tom cruise and christian bale in american psycho. photograph: yuriko nakao / reuters and pr
here’s a fan - favorite scene from the american psycho film. now if you’ll excuse me, i have to return some videotapes .
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american psycho, now in previews, opens on 21 april at the schoenfeld theatre on broadway .
american psycho (
end apartheid
speech) (ft. christian bale & guinevere turner )
fx is developing a tv - series sequel to bret easton ellis’ controversial modern classic american psycho .
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canadian press. “navy yanks american psycho. ” the globe and mail 17 may 1991: c1 .
benjamin walker is preparing to play patrick bateman in “american psycho” at the schoenfeld theater in new york .
[ read about benjamin walker, the star of the broadway musical adaptation of “american psycho. ” ]
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and
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then this page has got you covered .
this cast list of who was in american psycho includes both lead and minor roles. (16 items )
“ american psycho was conceived as a completely literary experience. no one saw it as a movie. ”
the cable network is developing a follow - up series to american psycho, the hollywood reporter has learned .
zaller, robert “ american psycho, american censorship and the dahmer case. ” revue francaise d’etudes americaines 16. 56 (1993): 317 - 25 .
here’s a favorite scene from the american psycho film that always sent chills up my spine and forever changed huey lewis’ hit “it’s hip to be square” for me .
the american psycho enhanced story presentation, with highlighted dialogue and over 100 screenshots placed in sync with the story .
' american psycho' is (at least for now) the pinnacle of bret easton ellis' s art .
kennedy, pagan. “generation gaffe: american psycho. ” the nation 1 april 1991: 426 - 8 .
american psycho cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of american psycho actors includes any american psycho actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view additional information about each american psycho actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of american psycho have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
portrait of a killer … tom cruise and christian bale in american psycho. photograph: yuriko nakao / reuters, pr
american psycho :
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( ft. christian bale & guinevere turner )
american psycho - a pretty sick guy (bateman' s confession) (ft. christian bale & guinevere turner )
direct to dvd sequel to american psycho, american psycho 2 is unrelated to the first; but is kind of easy to see why this film is viewed as a sequel. this one doesn' t deliver, and personally i think that it was pointless to make this film as it has nothing to offer. the film has poor acting, the cast is horrible, the story is bad and the directing is sloppy. american psycho 2 contains all the traditional elements of a straight to dvd title. the film also has miscast roles including william shatner as the professor and mila kunis. i felt that nothing really clicked, and the film was simply bizarre. as far as i' m concerned, american psycho was a perfect stand alone film that had plenty of unnerving and disturbing elements. the film is sloppy with no effort in trying to create something watchable. the film simply tried to cash in on the success of the first by using rehashed ideas, this film insults bret easton ellis who wrote the book. fans of american psycho should pass up on this at all costs as it is a poorly crafted film with no good payoff or story for that matter. while american psycho had great psychological horror elements that really made it a disturbing film to watch, this film lacks those elements and it just doesn' t deliver. this an awful train wreck of a film that will displease fans of american psycho. the film is one of the worst sequels that i' ve seen, and being straight to dvd it' s no mystery why. sequels like this should give film studio a clue not to invest money into garbage like this .
lionsgate had previously stirred up “ american psycho ” buzz when it announced in 2011 that it was planning a remake of the film for the big screen. the project, however, appears to have faded out of the running. the last sequel treatment that “ american psycho ” saw was a direct - to - video release of “ american psycho 2, ” which starred mila kunis and received mostly negative reviews .
harron, mary (dir .). american psycho [ film ]. edward r. pressman film corporation, lions gate films, muse productions, p. p. s. films, quadra entertainment, universal pictures, 2004 .
american psycho is a blackly comic psychological thriller in which a high - flying businessman secretly indulges in acts of sadistic violence .
yardley, jonathan. “ american psycho: essence of trash. ” the washington post 27 feb. 1991: b1 .
i read “american psycho” for the first time recently, and this is certain: this novel was ahead of its time .
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there is no official relationship whatsoever. american psycho ii: all american girl (2002) sees bateman (played by michael kremko) killed by a potential victim (mila kunis), who then becomes a serial killer herself. american psycho ii is an unofficial spin - off which is not considered canon. none of the people involved in either the original novel or the film had anything to do with the
sequel
, and bret easton ellis himself has condemned the film, distancing himself and the makers of american psycho from it and emphasizing that the film is not a part of the official bateman mythology .
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correct me if i’m wrong, but i’ve always heard that you weren’t happy with american psycho at first. is that true ?
knight - ridder news service. “vintage picks up ellis’ american psycho. ” los angeles daily news 17 november 1990: l10 .
bret easton ellis’ chilling modern classic american psycho will soon become the latest serial killer tv - series. it’s to air on fx .
johnson, brian d. “canadian cool meets american psycho. ” maclean’s 10 april 2000. 13 aug. 2006 < urltoken > .
players were given an opportunity to share in the box - office revenues with the promise of real cash for every imaginary american psycho share they purchased, should the film hit the $ 20m mark .
this short film, featuring scott disick and jonathan cheban (both of kardashian fame) closely parallels the american psycho scene in which patrick bateman, played by christian bale, hacks an associate to death .
the novelist also explains exactly how the idea of a sequel to american psycho came to be in the first place :
lions gate wanted to put a serial killer in rules of attraction [ the upcoming roger avary - directed adaptation of an earlier ellis novel ]. but avary said no, and that' s when they decided to make american psycho 2 .
ellis elaborates that
i' ve even heard that they were thinking about doing american psycho in l. a. , american psycho in las vegas and making a whole franchise out of it .
a preview screening at the sundance film festival might have been greeted with polite applause and shuffling of feet but the word on the web is that american psycho is going to be this year' s fight club .
[ … ] the film version of american psycho because it lacks the unreliability and ambiguity of the novel (and also because the director is a woman and falls subject to “emotionalism”–whatever, bee). i’d personally argue that the film did a pretty good job making bateman [ … ]
like all great films ,
american psycho
is one you can discover something new in regardless of how many times you' ve seen it .
pressman praised harron for her patience during the turnover and acknowledged how different
american psycho
could have been in the hands of a different director .
american psycho screens at the belcourt at midnight on friday, april 21, and saturday, april 22. go to urltoken for trailers and tickets .
“american psycho” (made at the turn of the 21 st century) is a significant connecting link between the ruthless culture of corporate greed revealed in oliver stone’s seminal film “wall street” and the ascendency of donald trump to the throne of united states president. it’s notable that stone was temporarily slated to direct “american psycho, ” with leonardo dicaprio attached to play the lead, before mary harron won the gig with her more perfect casting choice of christian bale as the soulless wall street narcissist patrick bateman. coincidentally, “american psycho” is set in 1987, the same year that “wall street” was released on elite american males all to ready to mistake the film’s satire for economic and political doctrine .
two years later, the film spawned a bizarre, thoroughly ludicrous direct - to - video sequel, “american psycho 2: all american girl. ” the film follows a young woman played by mila kunis who witnesses the murder of her childhood babysitter at the hands of patrick bateman. now a determined college student majoring in criminology, she begins to murder off her classmates who pose a threat for a spot she' s after as a teaching assistant. the movie plays like a slasher film with loose ties to its predecessor film, which makes sense, because
all american girl
wasn' t initially intended to be a sequel at all. no ,
all american girl
is based on an original script called “the girl who wouldn’t die, ” which was only connected to
american psycho
as an afterthought, ridding on the heels of the latter film' s success .
the makers of the controversial american psycho have removed parts of a central sex scene to ensure the picture qualifies for an r rating from the us censors .
many people reacted badly to american psycho' s bloody violence. to me, you just looked as if you were having a tremendous amount of fun .
‘a very, very good author... american psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel’ fay weldon. now a major motion picture .
gurley brown, helen. commentary in “editorial judgement or censorship? : the case of american psycho. ” the writer may 1991: 20 - 23 .
mailer, norman. “children of the pied piper: mailer on american psycho. ” vanity fair march 1991: 124 - 9, 182 - 3 .
look closer at the deeper meaning and messages of american psycho' s ending. buy or rent american psycho on amazon: urltoken works cited & consulted: * eisenberg, eric. “american psycho ending: what really happened. ” cinemablend. * williams, wyatt (june 19, 2010). “bret easton ellis talks film adaptations at scad. ” creative loafing. * watkins, gwynne (april 17, 2015). “’american psycho’ screenwriter on patrick bateman’s legacy and that controversial ending. ” yahoo. * grow, kory (march 31, 2016). “american psycho at 25: bret easton ellis on patrick bateman’s legacy. ” rolling stone. * wood, jennifer m (april 5, 2016). “19 things you might not know about american psycho. ” mental floss. sign up to our email newsletter for updates on new videos, fun film trivia, news on giveaways, longform content, events and more! urltoken if you like this video, subscribe to our youtube channel for more: urltoken like screenprism on facebook: urltoken follow screenprism on twitter: urltoken visit urltoken urltoken
you' d had this flux in your career previously - a lull in work and then a period of intensive preparation - for american psycho, in fact .
efore its release on april 14, 2000 ,
american psycho
was attacked as excessively violent and misogynistic. when a book that had been reviewed as ”
clockwise from top right: benjamin walker in a new broadway musical adaptation of “american psycho”; a recent cover of the british weekly new statesman; christian bale in the 2000 film; a 1990 new york times review of the novel .
matthew is a freelance journalist and lifelong film fanatic. his favourite film is vertigo and he hasn' t missed an episode of eastenders since 1998 .
“american psycho” is not the only horror film to be receiving a tv adaptation. a & e’s “bates motel” is a prequel to “psycho, ” and nbc launched “hannibal” the tv show last season. a tv version of “the exorcist” is also being shopped around these days, but has yet to land at a net .
american psycho is a 2000 film that throws - back to the go - go yuppie year of 1987. that’s the year that oliver stone’s film wall street premiered, giving the world the suitably reptilian - monikered gordon gekko. director mary harron and actor christian bale borrow gekko’s designer suits, sunglasses and slicked - back hair for american psycho ’s patrick bateman. bateman also has all of gekko’s avarice and cunning, but he is also a bloodthirsty serial killer – or is he ?
although it scared up a huge audience for the blair witch project, internet marketing seems to have failed american psycho. distributor lions gate pumped $ 50, 000 into an online stockmarket game designed to drum up business.' make a killing with american psycho' invited players to invest in movies, actors or musicians using fake hollywood dollars .
to read the full review from film quarterly click here to download the pdf .
legendary feminist gloria steinem was a vocal opponent of american psycho —both the book and its proposed movie—for the violence it depicted against women. and it was long rumored that she tried to talk dicaprio out of taking the role. ironically, on september 3, 2000—less than five months after american psycho ’s release—steinem married david bale, christian bale’s father .
harron was on track to create the
american psycho
we have today, when lionsgate (who now owned the script) used the 1998 cannes film festival to announce dicaprio as the lead. harron said she wanted bale as her bateman, and was met with a press release that she was no longer attached to the film .
presumably coincidentally, the fx show would also continue a title streak on the cable network. fx first launched horror - thriller american horror story, then spy thriller the americans and is now working on american psycho. perhaps fx and usa network should trade names ?
christian bale began his acting career as a lost little boy in empire of the sun. now he' s a murderer in american psycho. he tells libby brooks about his battle to get the part - and why it cost him his teeth film unlimited
the films of female directors working in genre cinema (including film noir, horror, action and sexploitation) will be celebrated in “genre is a woman, ” a series at film forum running june 3 - 16. the series includes the 2000 horror film “american psycho, ” based on the novel by bret easton ellis and directed by mary harron. that film, about an investment banker (christian bale) with serial - killer tendencies, satirized masculinity and social climbing in a pitch black way. the film inspired a broadway musical and helped propel mr. bale’s hollywood career .
the book’s consumption gets darker. by the end, bateman attempts to turn a dead woman into meatloaf. here we approach the grisly and infamous portions of “american psycho. ”
smiles a newly even smile. those suggestively vampiric incisors and the feminising gap between his top front teeth are gone. and it' s all the fault of an american psycho .
weldon, fay. “now you’re squeamish? : in a world as sick as ours, it’s silly to target american psycho. ” the washington post 28 april 1991: c1 .
kunis — the ravishing, doe - eyed brunette who plays feisty bitch - on - wheels jackie burkhart on fox' s
that' 70s show
and voices meg griffin on the recently revived cartoon
family guy
— wants to halt production on the forthcoming film
american psycho iii .
not that she' s connected with the project at all, but her starring turn as rachael newman in 2002' s
american psycho ii: all american girl
has blemished the 21 - year - old actress' résumé .
harron now has to battle with the american censors who have given the film a prohibitive nc - 17 certificate due to a three - way sex scene. the british censors have yet to rate the film, which is released in the uk on 21st april .
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american psycho is headed to television. fx has put in development an american psycho drama series that takes place decades after the events in the 2000 movie starring christian bale and the novel on which the film was based. lionsgate tv, whose sibling lionsgate films was behind the american psycho feature, and fx prods are producing the series shepherded by former lionsgate films head of production - turned producer allison shearmur and writer stefan jaworski. described as an update of american psycho, the drama series fast - forwards from the late 1980s, when the movie was set, to present day. it will feature serial killer patrick bateman, now in his mid - 50s but as outrageous and lethal as ever, taking on a protégé in a sadistic social experiment who will become every bit his equal — a next - generation american psycho. the project will be written by paradigm - repped jaworski who will executive produce with shearmur and ed pressman. the project originated at allison shearmur prods where it was shepherded by stephen meinen .
movie audiences may love a bloody good serial killer, but american psycho' s patrick bateman just doesn' t hit the mark. michael holden is your guide to the scariest screen slashers
american psycho eventually began shooting in march last year, in toronto, canada, against a backdrop of protest from an activist group called concerned canadians against violence in entertainment. apparently, local police had found a copy of american psycho in the home of a convicted murderer called paul bernardo - though a recent article suggests it actually belonged to his wife. none of these protesters had read the script, much less seen the film, and harron found herself again forced to live down the book' s reputation .
if people are objecting to a level of graphic violence ,
she says ,
then the attacks on american psycho are very inaccurate .
11. harron relays a great story on the american psycho dvd commentary that, during bateman' s first shower scene, all the women on set gathered around to watch bale get wet .
maybe hannibal lecter. yeah, but just not quite sexy in that way. it really wasn’t the serial killer aspect of american psycho that was haunting me in the moment of writing it .
it was an epiphany for bale .
i wanted to get the film made to keep myself convinced that this was a profession where you could still be an actor. american psycho became an issue for me of whether i still enjoy doing this craft and being in this business
celebrate american psycho - the most killer christmas movie ever made (and, yes, it is a christmas movie !) with a special showing presented by women texas film festival, featuring a special introduction before the film and post - movie party in the bar featuring' 80s music, networking with the most excellent of business cards, and a toys for tots drive .
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based on the 1990 novel by bret easton ellis, american psycho tells the tale of a status - obssessed yuppie murderer in manhattan. directed by mary harron, a former bbc film - maker who made her feature debut with 1996' s i shot andy warhol, the picture premiered in its uncut version to an enthusiastic reception at last month' s sundance international film festival .
see, sometime during production, and i’m not sure if it was in the thick of it or at the tail end of it, some genius at lionsgate decided that the film had more than enough similarities to their hit 2000 film american psycho that it could easily be tweaked into being a sequel. so a rather sad and inept prologue was added, along with some dipsh * t voice - over dialogue and a scene or two of padding that mentioned the name “patrick batemen. ” et voila, a sequel to american psycho that absolutely no one wanted was born .
so tom cruise was christian bale' s model for alpha - male killer patrick bateman in american psycho. could it have been corrie' s phyllis pearce who was behind bale' s batman ?
19. american psycho debuted at the sundance film festival, where it polarized audiences and critics. roger ebert gave the film three out of four stars and praised bale' s performance as being
heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability; there is no instinct for self - preservation here, and that is one mark of a good actor .
while the film’s violence might seem to have proposed the biggest obstacle for the mpaa, american psycho ’s original nc - 17 stemmed largely from an explicit sex scene involving bateman and a pair of prostitutes. in order to secure an r rating, harron was forced to cut 18 seconds out .
the article goes on to quote
a source at lions gate
who states ,
we' re going to see what happens with american psycho 2 before we go ahead with a franchise .
brien, d. (nov. 2006 )
the real filth in american psycho: a critical reassessment ,
m / c journal, 9 (5). retrieved from < urltoken > .
when you first see christian bale as patrick bateman in american psycho, you would almost definitely think that there is nothing wrong with him on a moral level. how wrong such an assessment would be .
this is probably the place to point out that a recent issue of new statesman, the british weekly, had a drawing of mr. trump on its cover with this headline: “american psycho. ”
american psycho is nearly perfect for what it is, but before we go on, we should ask what that actually amounts to. can something with so rigid a thesis be a real work of art ?
american psycho is set in the late 1980s, is written in predominantly first person narrative, split into 60 chapters with titles such as date with evelyn, concert, and taking an uzi to the gym .
yet it disturbed me that, in the moral panic over “american psycho, ” so many smart people made a rookie mistake: they’d confused author with character. bret easton ellis and patrick bateman were pariahs .
———. “the sensitive censor and the psycho. ” the sydney morning herald 24 may 1991: 5 .
co - screenwriter / director harron composes the film with hitchcock - inspired compositions to charge the script’s paper - dry wit with a palpable combination of pulsing suspense and pitch black comedy. like all great films, “american psycho” is one you can discover something new in regardless of how many times you’ve seen it .
if it falls short of the deadly satire of bret easton ellis' s novel, american psycho still finds its own blend of horror and humor, thanks in part to a fittingly creepy performance by christian bale .
freccero, carla. “historical violence, censorship, and the serial killer: the case of american psycho. ” diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism 27. 2 (summer 1997): 44 - 58 .
shaw, patrick w. the modern american novel of violence. troy, ny: whitson, 2000 .
fx and lionsgate tv have partnered to develop a sequel tv series to “ american psycho, ” the 2000 feature film that was based on bret easton ellis ’ 1991 novel of the same name. the pic was a breakout moment for star christian bale, and grossed over $ 34 million at the box office .
it' s been 15 years since american psycho premiered and there' s no time like the present to celebrate one of the sharpest horror movies ever made. these are 20 things you never knew about the movie :
american psycho author bret easton ellis has said he will always be defined by his iconic, psychopathic antihero patrick bateman, and revealed that his character would be “embarrassed” by donald trump today after revering him in the novel .
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flash forward 25 years, to 2016. lo, how things have changed. over the past decade or so, bateman has become a pop something, a grinning, blood - flecked national gargoyle. a brash new musical based on “american psycho” is set to open on broadway. you can purchase bateman action figures. bateman memes — photographs and gifs from the director mary harron’s excellent 2000 film version of “american psycho” — splash across every corner of the web. (“i have to return some videotapes” is among the movie’s indelible lines. )
in 2002, a sequel to the movie went direct to video, starring mila kunis as the titular psycho .
15. while the novel american psycho is set in 1989, the film adaptation is set in 1987. this is evidenced by the scene where patrick is briefly reading zagat' s survey: 1987. also, the televised speech by president ronald reagan, as shown the final scene of the film, also occurred in 1987 (reagan had already left the white house by the time the events in the original novel took place) .
it' s just as well a woman directed
american psycho .
she' s transformed a novel about blood lust into a movie about men' s vanity. a male director might have thought patrick bateman, the hero of
american psycho ,
was a serial killer because of psychological twists, but mary harron sees him as a guy who' s prey to the usual male drives and compulsions. he just acts out a little more .
serial killer patrick bateman is eying a return to pop culture, this time on tv. fx and lionsgate tv have partnered to develop a sequel tv series to “american psycho, ” the 2000 feature film that was based on bret easton ellis’ 1991 novel of the same name. the pic was a breakout moment for star [ … ]
i feel like the film has become almost more iconic in the years since it' s come out .
doesn' t have many of the main songs from the film. very disappointed, would not recommend .
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this album was brilliant. the songs were well picked and interspersed with bale' s monologues as the psycho. however, i found some of the monologues a bit long and with the cd clocking in at nearly two hours it' s not a question of being bored but needing to move about and listen to something other than the throwback 80s music. the' american psycho' remixes were brilliant. a great album for those who love the film .
nine alfred hitchcock films made the list, including the film ranked # 1, psycho, making him the most represented director. hitchcock' s frequent cameos technically make him the most represented actor on the list with eight appearances, including every film except dial m for murder, in which he appears in a photograph on the wall .
' one of the year’s best film books... does more to argue for de palma' s place as a major filmmaker than anything that has come before it.' – david davidson: toronto film review
beyond that, harron had a very specific vision for her script. she knew once a name like dicaprio was on board, the studio would meddle with her plans, altering the comedic take on misogyny and shifting it into a generic horror film with a glamorized protagonist that would end up perpetuating ideas
american psycho
was meant to dismantle .
baelo allué, sonia. “the aesthetics of serial killing: working against ethics in the silence of the lambs (1988) and american psycho (1991). ” atlantis 24. 2 (dec. 2002): 7 - 24 .
it' s another dark film that definitely doesn' t have a happy ending ,
kunis said .
in manhattan, and new yorkers might just watch the film thinking they’re merely seeing it from a different angle .
2. the name
patrick bateman
is an homage to norman bates, alfred hitchcock' s killer in psycho .
———. “psycho sits in limbo: publisher awaits customs ruling. ” the globe and mail 14 march 1991: c1 .
christian bale began his acting career as a lost little boy in empire of the sun. now he' s a murderer in american psycho. he tells libby brooks about his battle to get the part - and why it cost him his teeth
once harron was cut and dicaprio was cast, a lot of major directors expressed interest, including tim burton. (please take a second to listen to some danny elfman and envision tim burton' s
american psycho
starring leonardo dicaprio. )
how to fathom the second coming of patrick bateman? the cult following and gradual critical embrace of ms. harron’s film, which starred christian bale, has played the primary role. ms. harron recognized the coal - black satire in mr. ellis’s novel and teased it to the surface. in her “american psycho, ” dire comedy mixes with grand guignol. there’s demented opera in some of its scenes. the film, like a painful zit on one’s lower lip, pops .
mcdowell, edwin. “now chapter seeks boycott of ‘psycho’ novel. ” the new york times 6 dec. 1990: c17 .
forget the furore surrounding american psycho, the movie. the latest controversy concerns the film' s soundtrack album, which has been yanked from retailers just a day before it was due to go onto the shelves. the cause of this untimely withdrawal? step forward mr huey lewis, who has objected to the inclusion in the album of one of his better known songs .
in the update, bateman - - now in his mid - 50s but as outrageous and lethal as ever - - takes on a protege, in a sadistic social experiment, who will become every bit his equal, creating the next generation american psycho .
in versailles there were protests outside the town hall denouncing the film as blasphemous, while in lille a previously unknown group calling itself the
defenders of christian morality
, has threatened to attack any cinema that screens the film. an official spokesman for the catholic church in paris has called the film
derogatory
and instructed all catholics to boycott it .
afi' s 100 years... 100 thrills is a list of the 100 most thrilling american films of all time .
before christian bale donned the cape of our favorite superhero – batman, he played bateman, patrick bateman, in american psycho. american psycho is a black comedy horror film directed by marry harron, and is based on the eponymous novel by bret easton ellis. at its heart, american psycho is a bitter satire about materialism and the ennui that comes along in its pursuit. it is a self narrated account of a wall street hippie who relishes pop music and fine dining by day, and indulges in his murderous dispositions by the night. christian bale, who has etched himself in our memories as the un - selfish, righteous “hero that we deserve”, submerges himself completely into the despicability and hedonism of bateman without an ounce of restraint. he displays signs of greatness that were cemented by his later works. he made bateman a part of popular culture, a part of fandom discussions .
still, is ellis happy with it? not quite. yesterday, he shared his thoughts on the compromised movie adaptation of less than zero, and today, he delves into the tortured backstory of american psycho and how he feels about female directors in general .
serial killer novels are hot in the publishing biz, and apparently, hollywood’s appetite for such fare has also increased. so much so that a movie is being developed around a novel that even jeffrey dahmer might find unappetizing, bret easton ellis’ “american psycho. ”
viral marketing might seem a modern phenomenon, but it was alive as far back as the pre - social media days of 2000, as evidenced by these unhinged emails written from the point of view of patrick bateman for mary harron' s american psycho adaptation .
in the new drama series, iconic serial killer patrick bateman, now in his mid - 50’s but as outrageous and lethal as ever, takes on a protégé in a sadistic social experiment who will become every bit his equal — a next generation american psycho .
by 1997, cronenberg was out and mary harron was in as director of american psycho, according to a report from variety at the time. she co - wrote a new version of the script with guinevere turner (who plays patrick bateman’s friend - turned - victim elizabeth in the final film). and harron wanted bale in the lead, so she offered it to him .
it’s one of my most favorite [ scenes ]. although people think of “american psycho” as this violent film, i think that what i and most people like best about it are the comic scenes. this has been much parodied. there’s a great dutch jeans ad where it’s hipsters and denim instead of business cards. and there’s another one where people are comparing sloppy joe sandwiches .
kirchhoff, h. j. “customs clears psycho: booksellers’ reaction mixed. ” the globe and mail 26 march 1991: c1 .
lehmann - haupt, christopher. “ psycho: wither death without life? ” the new york times 11 march 1991: c18 .
any film that extols the virtue of a phil collins song has to be bad, as this one is. avoid .
the american psycho update comes as serial killers continue to be big business on both cable and broadcast television. showtime' s dexter will end its run this summer, while nbc renewed hannibal for a second season, and fox' s the following earned a sophomore season. in addition to those who kill, a & e has the upcoming second season of psycho prequel bates motel coming in 2014 .
[ … ] bret easton ellis either dislikes or is ambivalent about almost all of the adaptations of his novels, including less than zero and american psycho. with less than zero, ellis has discussed the problems with the film on his podcast during an interview with the film’s star, andrew mccarthy, wherein the studio neutered and / or changed much of the tone and intent of the novel. ellis’s less than zero novel functions as a tour through the decadence of the young, rich, and white in southern california of the 1980s, with the main character, clay, coming home for christmas break disillusioned with it all. the film version decided to make clay, who’s bisexual and has his share of vices in the book, into a heterosexual goody - goody who comes home trying to save his friends from drugs, and replaces the novel’s tour through partying hell with a redemptive arc and a love story. with american psycho, it has become something of a cult classic, with many critics thinking it’s one of christian bale’s best performances. however, ellis thinks the film is flawed because it conflicts with the nature of his novel, and thinks the visual medium tips the scale of whether the story is real or imagined. ellis has also been a bit sexist with his opinion about female directors, which the film adaptation of american psycho had with mary harron at the helm of the production. in ellis’s view, a female film director lacks a proper “male gaze” and “male sensibility, ” since women…. [ … ]
in many ways, american psycho is an extremely faithful adaptation. a lot of the dialogue and scenes are taken straight from the book. and yet, when i saw you last, you were sort of implying that you thought mary harron was hamstrung by it .
on his end, ellis was pretty hands - off with
american psycho
after dealing with the arduous process of working with the adaption of
less than zero .
still, according to harron, he would have liked
a more violent version .
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12. the events bateman mentions in the phone message to his lawyer transpire in the book, but not in the film .
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tightly wound screenplay mercifully substitutes a propulsive structure and relatively restrained images for the book’s genuinely pornographic longueurs — the sex and sadism here are both largely offscreen. still, “ american psycho ” begs an unsettling question: if its hero is such a zero, what exactly is being satirized? does he serve to amplify an amoral era’s more callous aspects, or does the film, like the book before it, merely inventory them? to the extent that it’s harrowing, “ american psycho ” remains indefensible as critique; only in the marginal details — disposable pop soundtrack, fussed - over decor and cuisine, prostitutes numbed by their commodity status — does it achieve anything approaching satire .
picking up “american psycho” now, you can’t help but ask yourself: do people get outraged by books anymore? salman rushdie’s “the satanic verses” aside — it was published three years before mr. ellis’s novel — it’s difficult to recall a recent novel that was so arduously condemned .
american psycho has been a controversial work since the novel was originally published, but its sense of sharp social satire feels particularly well - suited to modern - day cable television. then again, on the surface the premise of the new series — which is being written by stefan jaworksi — veers uncomfortably close to the direct - to - video american psycho 2, which starred a then - unknown mila kunis. we' ll have to wait to see if the project makes it to air to learn if the new series can strike the right balance .
movie review -' simon killer' - an american (psycho) in paris in most movies, the creepy ex - boyfriend would be an ominous antagonist, or even a supporting character. but in antonio campos' eerie thriller, the spotlight is all on the titular nutcase .
when bret easton ellis’s “american psycho” was about to be published in 1991, word of its portrait of a monster — an amoral young wall street serial killer named patrick bateman, who nail - gunned women to the floor before doing vastly worse to them — was met with outrage .
american psycho follows narcissistic wall street banker patrick bateman and his life as part of the elite of new york. exposing the culture of the 1% , the film uses bateman’s character to satirise the american yuppie (young urban professional) culture through a concoction of murder, dark humour and spellbinding sequences. working with an a - list cast comprised of christian bale, reese witherspoon and jared leto, director mary harron has spun a tale that leaves the viewer awestruck; ‘horrific yet hilarious’ is the phrase that comes to mind when the credits finally roll .
in terms of proven storytelling talent the canyons might just be the biggest project to plant a banner at kickstarter yet. bret easton ellis (american psycho, less than zero) has written and paul schrader (taxi driver, auto focus) will direct this thriller about the quest for love, sex, success and power in contemporary hollywood. the film is scheduled to go in front of the lens this summer .
the fx tv drama will center on iconic killer patrick bateman, now in his mid - 50s but still just as outrageous and lethal as ever. bateman takes on a protege in a sadistic social experiment, a protege who will eventually become his equal — the next generation american psycho .
the official logline: “in the new drama series, iconic serial killer patrick bateman, now in his mid - 50’s but as outrageous and lethal as ever, takes on a protégé in a sadistic social experiment who will become every bit his equal — a next generation american psycho. ”
there' s suspension of disbelief and then there' s bad screenwriting... this film packs a wallop of the latter .
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i’m sure 25 years later you must be happy not to be called a misogynist every day. well, look. i certainly got into trouble with a few tweets i made about kathryn bigelow winning the oscar, and kathryn bigelow being the object of tokenism. and i think these comments were blown out of proportion because of the perceived misogyny of american psycho. i think it has trailed me. it’s ridiculous, of course. you know, whatever. it seems online, that over 50 percent of fans of american psycho are women. they are fascinated by patrick bateman .
director owen harris invests the proceedings with a degree of manic energy that serves the first half of the film well, though it becomes increasingly tiresome in the second half when you realise that it’s the only note the film intends to play. similarly, the film’s blatant riff on american psycho works well for a while and goes to some enjoyably dark places, but there’s no corresponding hint of ambiguity as to whether or not the events are all in stelfox’s mind, which means you immediately start picking holes in the plot, not least in the shoddy police work (the presence of your own piss on a corpse at a crime scene might be a bit of a giveaway, no? )
obviously, there is criticism of the film. “too much blood”. “too much violence”. “no redeeming qualities for bateman’s character”. but bateman isn’t meant to be a redeemer. he is the amalgamation of our worst vices, the epitome of what mankind is like at its worst. however, this is seen through the lens of black comedy. bateman says that ‘there is no catharsis’ as the final line of the film, but there is, for the viewer at least. american psycho is not for everyone, but it is a tour de force .
due to the nature of its content, american psycho is still sold shrink - wrapped in australia and new zealand, a practice bret easton ellis has called “adorable” and “cute”. last year, a bookstore in adelaide was visited by local police after it displayed the book unwrapped on a shelf .
[ … ] at the time of the film release, ellis was positive about the film and seemed happy with the outcome according to turner. it appears his opinion has changed in the interceding years. he has said the book never should have been made into a film. and, he’s stated that he’s not a fan of women directors. the female - directed movies are not as good as those directed by men because film is a visual medium better suited to men. it’s all in this movieline interview from 2010. [ … ]
american psycho is a 2000 american black comedy horror film co-written and directed by mary harron , based on bret easton ellis 's 1991 novel of the same name . it stars christian bale , willem dafoe , jared leto , josh lucas , chloë sevigny , samantha mathis , cara seymour , justin theroux , and reese witherspoon . producer edward r. pressman purchased the film rights to the novel in 1992 . after discussions with david cronenberg fell through , harron was brought on to direct and cast bale in the lead role . lionsgate acquired worldwide distribution in 1997 and temporarily replaced harron and bale with oliver stone as director and leonardo dicaprio portraying patrick bateman . dicaprio left in favor of the beach and harron and bale were brought back . american psycho debuted at the sundance film festival on january 21 , 2000 , and was released theatrically on april 14 , 2000 . the film received generally positive reviews and was a financial success , with critics mainly praising the screenplay and christian bale 's performance . 
american psycho is a 2000 american black comedy horror film co-written and directed by mary harron, based on bret easton ellis's 1991 novel of the same name. it stars christian bale, willem dafoe, jared leto, josh lucas, chloë sevigny, samantha mathis, cara seymour, justin theroux, and reese witherspoon. producer edward r. pressman purchased the film rights to the novel in 1992. after discussions with david cronenberg fell through, harron was brought on to direct and cast bale in the lead role. lionsgate acquired worldwide distribution in 1997 and temporarily replaced harron and bale with oliver stone as director and leonardo dicaprio portraying patrick bateman. dicaprio left in favor of the beach and harron and bale were brought back. american psycho debuted at the sundance film festival on january 21, 2000, and was released theatrically on april 14, 2000. the film received generally positive reviews and was a financial success, with critics mainly praising the screenplay and christian bale's performance.
american psycho is a 2000 american black comedy horror film co-written and directed by mary harron, based on bret easton ellis's 1991 novel of the same name. it stars christian bale, willem dafoe, jared leto, josh lucas, chloë sevigny, samantha mathis, cara seymour, justin theroux, and reese witherspoon. producer edward r. pressman purchased the film rights to the novel in 1992. after discussions with david cronenberg fell through, harron was brought on to direct and cast bale in the lead role. lionsgate acquired worldwide distribution in 1997 and temporarily replaced harron and bale with oliver stone as director and leonardo dicaprio portraying patrick bateman. dicaprio left in favor of the beach and harron and bale were brought back. american psycho debuted at the sundance film festival on january 21, 2000, and was released theatrically on april 14, 2000. the film received generally positive reviews and was a financial success, with critics mainly praising the screenplay and christian bale's performance.