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American Psycho (Spoilers)

Ultimamk

Ultimamk

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Has anyone read this controversial yet extremely well written novel? If you haven't, don't bother with the movie beforehand. Anyway, for those who have, what did you think of the movie? I thought it could be longer, it seemed rather short and I couldn't help but notice just how many scenes were missing. For example, the part in the book with the Christmas party where Bateman says how scary midgets in elf costumes singing a Christmas song is(I can't seem to find the actual quote right now) and the part with the cabdriver near the end. Either way, the movie is still a very good adaption. So, in the words of Patrick Bateman: I gotta go return some videos. :cool:
 
I've read it. But I liked the film as well. One of my favourite scenes from any movie is when he kills the long suffering prostitute in the stair well. The book is a better chronicle of his madness though. He does end up pretty bonkers by the end of it.
 
I read most of it, but i got so bored after his fifty millionth description of what everyone was wearing that i ate the rest of the book in disgust. Lets just say that i'm not a fan of his writing style.

Phil
 
The obsession with appearance was part of his disease. I saw this documentary on psychopaths and apparently there's a lot more of them about than you'd think. A lot of people who've worked their way up the corporate ladder have done so because they're psychopaths. They work late and obsess about their jobs and don't care for the feelings of other people if they're standing in the way of what they want.

So the next time you're pissed off with your boss, be careful what you say. He might chop you up into little pieces and stuff you in his freezer. :eek:
 
I had realised it was symptomatic of him being psychopathic, it just irritated the hell out of me :D

Phil
 
The film was pretty good but I do think that they missed out some of the better bits. No mention of the Patty Winters show for example.

Probably better they left out the rat bit though.
 
My biggest problem with the film was that in the novel American Psycho (as well as Bret Easton Ellis' other adapted works, Rules of Attraction and Less Than Zero) there are overlying themes of emptiness, hollowness, and a general moral vaccum. You get the sense that if you looked inside these characters you'd find nothing. A whole lot of nothingness. Yet in the film, those themes aren't really explored to fruition. These themes are the basis of the novels and, in my opinion, what makes the novels great. To leave them out of the films really ruined them for me.
I also think that Ellis' writing style is so informed by cinema and music videos that the novels should lend themselves very well to film. Somehow, though, the producers of these films have seemed to miss the boat altogether.
 
charlie hodge said:
Despite the film not being great I do think that Christian Bale was a dam fine Bateman.

Any thoughts on that?
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He's certainly very good at playing people devoid of human emotion. He does it in Equilibrium too, the film was rubbish, but he did certainly did his best.
 
Ashlea said:
Now he's going to be Batman. That should be interesting. Bateman to Batman.
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So they're finally breaking with the Adam West tradition and picking a non-porky Batman? Batman Returns was on last night. Never dress a chubby man in rubber. Some excellent jowl action though.
 
*sigh* Christian Bale... that is one attractive man. Ever since I saw him in Swing Kids when I was 11, I have been in love with him. And Elijah Wood too, since I was 8 and saw him in Huckleberry Finn. Don't like him much as a dirty hobbit though...
 
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