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12351246 No.12351246 [Reply] [Original]

What was better: The Movie or The Book

Movie:
>Had Christian Bale
>Had Christian Bale
>Memes
Book:
>Plenty of extra amazing scenes
>Entire chapter rant about Huey Lewis and The News and the pleasures of conformity
>Extra detail that the movie couldn't include such as Bateman listing off the brand of clothing that everyone is wearing and the scene where the narrator switches

It's pretty close brahs. Going through the book a second time, have seen the movie multiple.

>> No.12351255

check em

>> No.12351299
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12351299

>>12351255
Those are nice, but check these triples

>> No.12351533

>Extra detail that the movie couldn't include such as Bateman listing off the brand of clothing that everyone is wearing

How the fuck is that a good thing

>> No.12351552

>>12351246
Movie for me. And usually I prefer books.

>> No.12351603

>>12351246
I was unable to enjoy the movie directly after reading the book.

Book is by far more superior. More gory. More comedic. Far more insanity

>> No.12351608

>>12351533
American Psycho is a work of literature, not a script. As such, you will NOT get the same experience from watching a fucking movie ffs.

Obviously the book is better but it’s just a different experience. On the whole I consider it to be a bad experience. I don’t read fiction too much anymore but Americans Psycho’s brand of fiction speaks to me: it’s trying to describe a lifestyle and a brand of morality popular at the time. It’s trying to ironically show the flaws in these things as well.

>> No.12351618

>>12351603
But without the references to Satan he just misses the point.

>> No.12351630

>>12351618
No self-respecting intellectual actually prefers the movie to the book of American Psycho.

I mean, this isn’t Fight Club, this is American Psycho. The whole point is the ridiculous experience of reading the fucking thing. It is an awful book. But it was the sign of the times, as twisted as it is.

>> No.12351685

>>12351630
My favorite part omitted from the movie is his friends rant about the homeless in the beginning of the book

>> No.12351689

>>12351299
not even close

>> No.12351696

>>12351685
How about how he casually waves a dollar bill in front of a homeless person as he's passing them, and puts it back in his pocket

>> No.12351762

>>12351696
Hissing at carothers in a store with a switchblade

>> No.12351841

>>12351533
Obviously you don't get it

>>12351685
There are many great parts not in the movie. I really enjoyed him screaming at his girlfriend forgetting to invite Donald Trump to his party. Not to mention the whole thing at the party of him not being sure if he was hullucinating by seeing midgets.

>> No.12352605

>>12351255
noice

>> No.12352641

>>12351696
How about when he kills a kid at the zoo without no one seeing and moments later someone finds the body near a trash can and Patrick pretends to be a doctor and is all like "Doctor here! Let me check!". Fucking hilarious.

>> No.12353251

>>12352641
Oh man that was brutal. I'm not surprised they didn't put that in the movie desu

>> No.12353266

>>12352641
The best part about the zoo scene is that line where he says he feels the same emotion as the animal locked in the cage, that he has the same kind of feeling within himself.

That’s the kind of stuff that makes this book worthwhile