After reading American Psycho, having first seen the movie, I was retroactively disappointed that they did not have every character dress like literal clowns that all looked identical, the way the book exaggerates.
I’m a little surprised at that response because American Psycho is one of the most true to the source material movies I’ve ever seen. Whole passages were lifted and turned directly into dialog. Sure all of those white men were supposed to be corporate clones in the books but in a movie characters have to be visually distinct that’s just the nature of the mediums
I remember it being a rat unless we’re discussing different parts but that’s just the reality of what you were able to get away with in 2000s media. The movie would have been NC-17 if all of the violence from the book made it in
I mean, no? It would defeat the point of the story. The monoculture of white men destroying everything around them was what Brett Easton Ellis was talking about and making clowns would have made that a different story
After reading American Psycho, having first seen the movie, I was retroactively disappointed that they did not have every character dress like literal clowns that all looked identical, the way the book exaggerates.
I’m a little surprised at that response because American Psycho is one of the most true to the source material movies I’ve ever seen. Whole passages were lifted and turned directly into dialog. Sure all of those white men were supposed to be corporate clones in the books but in a movie characters have to be visually distinct that’s just the nature of the mediums
No hamster scene though.
I remember it being a rat unless we’re discussing different parts but that’s just the reality of what you were able to get away with in 2000s media. The movie would have been NC-17 if all of the violence from the book made it in
Would literal clowns not be visually appealing? 🤡
I mean, no? It would defeat the point of the story. The monoculture of white men destroying everything around them was what Brett Easton Ellis was talking about and making clowns would have made that a different story