You will not meet your hero. Don’t listen to artists trying to explain their work. Especially when the artist appears to be harboring a daze for the person responsible for the ongoing relevance of his art.
Mary Haarlong, Director of “American Psycho,” spoke Cult Classic Film’s 25th anniversary Retterboxd Journal. The film is an adaptation of the novel by Brett Easton Ellis of the same name, following Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a moonlit yuppie New York City banker who is a serial killer. perhaps. (He’s sanity is unknown).
Welsh actor Christian Bale, directed by Canadian Mary Harron, based on a novel by Brett Easton Ellis. (Photo by Eric Robert/Sigma/Sigma by Getty Images)
“there is [Bateman] He is handsome, wearing a good suit, has money and power. But at the same time, he plays someone as a clumsy and ridiculous person,” the director says. So It’s embarrassing when he’s trying to be cool. ”
Halong really, really doesn’t want people to like Bateman. But especially young men do. After all, it remains an attractive goal for this particular cohort “being handsome, wearing a good suit, having money and power.” This is irrespective of Halong’s attempt to overthrow. Or it’s embarrassing for her to find a character. Or to blame what the young men in legacy media pearl clutches tilt. (Related: DEM Gov has a hard time explaining why young male voters are away from his party)
Bale’s performance has gained sustained interest since the film’s release in 2000. Tiktok’s Advent has benefited certain bounties from the popularity of the character.
“The toxic worship of Patrick Bateman of Tiktok is another sign of the loss of young men.” I’ll read GQ Byline starting in 2022. This article accuses Bateman of “problemous.” This is the description of men who supply live kittens to ATMs in moderation, in moderation. Stalin was also quite a problem, and I started thinking about it.
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In an interview with LetterboxD, Harron acknowledged “memes” and “Titktok and others.”
“I’ve always been so mystical by it… I don’t think I’m that Ginnever [Turner, co-screenwriter,] And I was hoping it would be totally acceptable to the Wall Street brothers. That wasn’t our intention. So we Fail? I don’t know why [it happened]because Christians are making fun of them very clearly,” Halong says in the letterbox.
Halong may have failed with her activism. But her mysticization betrays a lack of curiosity about why her films continue to resonate among the “Brothers of Wall Street.” (Related: “I enjoyed his policy”: Young man in swing state reports NBC news that they plan to vote for Trump))
A highly misused Yuppies of the 1980s rejected the rotten fruit of the summer of love. Psychedelic-induced psychosis, no smell under the arm, and rejected everything. The cubicle was craved yuppies. They conspicuously consumed shyness. That was, as Bateman’s favorite Huey Lewis and news track say “it’s going to be square.” There are some of this spirit in the post-millennial generation.
Bateman’s embrace rejects certain Hempeck attitudes familiar to Gen Z. “You don’t enjoy this The correct way. “In this example, the correct way Feminist method. Postmodernism was to enter the age of relativity, but instead cleared the awakened high priest’s path to asserting rule over morality. This is morality You will be notified by popular TV and media. So that’s why a properly accredited person is supposed to interpret it on your behalf.
Similar interpretive debates are regularly igniting Starship Troopers, a 1997 science fiction film about Americans fighting bug-like aliens.
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– Auron Macintyre (@auronmacintyre) February 19, 2024
“I was looking for a prototype of blonde, white, rog arrog,” said director Paul Berhoven, who was the director of his casting process in an interview. and Guardian. “These heroes and heroines were straight from Nazi propaganda. No one saw it at the time. “Indeed, critics did not interpret the film as a satire.
“We’ve been accused Washington Post It’s a neo-Nazi! ” cry Verhoeven in 2014.
It appears that lead actress Dennis Richards is also moving away from Verhoven’s strict interpretation mission.
“I love my character and fans seem to appreciate her being a strong woman,” according to the Guardian, calling the character a “great role model.”
Fans continue to relate more to human characters than the repellent Arknid.
It doesn’t matter if he intended it as some sort of “dunk.” It’s a great movie.
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– doc strangelove (@docstrangelove2) March 10, 2024
There is a very simple explanation for this phenomenon. People like attractive people. Beauty brings out empathy. This is a logic that Hollywood has worked for many years and has a great effect. Even if they seem to have abandoned these standards in more recent films.
Perhaps executives will do this in time for this from now on Restart “American Psycho.” Whoopi Goldberg in the role of Patrick Bateman would speculate that he would draw less enthusiasm among younger men.
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