/lit/ - Literature

>>9273775
no
why would you ask that?

>>9273775
if you talk about patrick bateman, because donald represents everthing those yuppies want to be.
rich and famous, also known by everyone while everyone else looks / is the same

I love the scene with Tom Cruise in the elevator.

>>9273775
Trump is king of the yups my friend.

>>9273775
/our/guy

>>9273983
Wasn't Tom Cruise in the running to play Bateman in the movie?

>>9274513
I don't know. I do know that Christian Bale has said he based his protrayal of Bateman on Cruise because of his vacant and insincere expressions.

I often cite this book/movie combo of a perfect example of a film adaptation. My only complaint is the way the movie makes it seem like the whole thing was in his head the whole time. In the directors commentary Mary points to a few scenes where she tried to avoid that so I point to them every time basic bitches talk to me about how cool it is that you don't know if it's all in his head or not.

>>9273983
My favorite was when he saw U2 and inexplicably orgasmed when Bono touched him, even though he constantly described how much he disliked them

>>9274817
Which scenes?

>>9274817
>how cool it is that you don't know if it's all in his head or not.
The point is that it doesn't matter.

>>9274817
>I don't know. I do know that Christian Bale has said he based his protrayal of Bateman on Cruise because of his vacant and insincere expressions.
This is hilarious. I've actually told people I thought Kubrick deliberately cast Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut for his inability as an actor.

>>9274899
You've caught me in a lie. I actually do hear basic bitches say that dumb shit all the time I just don't have a stock response for them. I do recal that Mary made it clear in the directors commentary that it was her intention to make it clear that this isn't just all happening in his head.

If I were to think about it right now I'd say that the fact that everyone on wall street is an identical stand-in for everyone else comes across alot better in the book and makes it less of a shock when the lawyer tells Bateman he had dinner in London with Paul Allan last week.

>>9274917
there's something to that, cruise's life has parallels with the character. Dopey handsome guy who blunders into a nightmarish cult.

Any Psycho majors who can give me a good run down of the MC? No need for layman.

>>9275006
Layman here. His inability to experience empathy and his compulsive desire to fit in at all costs are standard psychopath behaviour. It's also no secret at this point that the highest eschelons of scociety are infested with people like that.

>>9273983
>scene

>>9275023
I thought about that when I typed it out but I stand by my use of the word.

>tfw you were 18 when you read American Psycho and you were scarred permanently at that young age

feelsgoodman

>>9275033
Fucking 18? What bubble did you grow up in, Jeremiah?

>>9273775
He still is

>>9274982

I doubt it, he was great in EWS. But Kubrick is notoriously harsh on his actors and people he worked with.

>>9275284
>I doubt it, he was great in EWS
You can't be serious mate.

>>9275288

Come on, he was!!!!!!!! What did you not like about him?

>>9273775
becuase Ellis had the gift of precognition and knew Bateman and Trump would both become 4chan memes

Is American Psycho BEE's Moby-Dick? It's far and away the best thing he's ever written, and he never really reached the level of quality in it again.

>>9274959
IIRC what she says is that she dislikes how certain scenes in the movie (basically the sequence from "feed me a stray cat" until the confession) ended up suggesting that it was all in his head, and that it wasn't her intention at all.

Honestly you have to be a special kind of stupid to think it was all in his head given the "there was no ad in the times" exchange. CLEARLY he just got extremely lucky. And every other element of doubt is just based on the concept of yuppies having interchangeable identities, which the entire movie (and book) is based on, so... I don't know, the book is more explicit about it, but the movie does a good job of showing it too. The casting and the wardrobe makes everyone look extremely similar.

I mean, since the feed me a stray cat sequence is so over-the-top I get wanting to believe it's all made up, but the movie continues after it and clearly something's up. "It never happened lol" it's like that retarded Squall's dead stuff, it's just trying to seem 2deep4u.

>>9275475
It would be if it were a great book, but it isn't (despite being the only piece of non-trash he's written).

>>9275475
>Moby Dick
Stop the memes

>>9274817
>this book/movie combo of a perfect example of a film adaptation.

Being There is also excellent in this regard.

>>9275444
>Trips
Appropriate