Mary Harron comments on the wrong idolatry Patrick Bateman and recalls the satirical intention behind American psychopath
In the 25th anniversary of the movie American psychopath (2000), the director Mary Harron granted an interview to LEtterboxd Journal. Among the subjects, she talked about the choice of Christian Balethe influence of Tom Cruise And the female reception to the movie – but what caught the most attention was how surprised she is still seeing people idolizing Patrick Bateman.
“I don’t know why [aconteceu]why Christian It’s clearly making fun … but people read the Bible and decide that they should kill a lot of people. ”
This desire to be Crash Yeah, for Harrondeeply ironic. She always saw American psychopath like “a gay satire of masculinity”. The film is based on the novel of Bret Easton Ellisand according to the director, many people just don’t understand the tone.
“[Ellis] being gay allowed him to see homoerotic rituals among these alpha males, […] And all these things in which men value their extreme competition and their kind of ‘elevation of their prowess’ “said the director. “There is something very, very gay in the way they fetishize the appearance and the gym.”
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In January 2025, the author Bret Easton Ellis He commented on his podcast that he believes rumors about this new adaptation are unfounded.He said he was not involved in the project and that, as far as he knows, there are no contracts signed by Butler (Dune: Part 22024), Luca Guadagnino (Rivals2024) or Scott Z. Burns (Contagion2011).Ellis He suggested that the information disclosed may be “fake news” spread to the public reaction.
Source: Letterboxd Journal
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