![]() Stephen Holden write in the Times that the movie “salvage a novel widely loathed for its putative misogyny and gruesome torture scenes by removing its excess fat in a kind of cinematic liposuction. Bret Easton Ellis(novel) Mary Harron(screenplay) Guinevere Turner(screenplay). While some critics were turned off by its mix of graphic violence and sex, social satire, and sometimes slapstick humor (Christian Bale-as-Patrick Bateman gleefully axing his professional rival to death while listening to “Hip To Be Square”!), both The New York Times and EW praised it. American Psycho: Directed by Mary Harron. American Psycho is a brutal satire of the American upper middle class, set amongst the yuppies of New York during the boom era of the 1980's. The movie-written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner and directed by Harron-was released 20 years ago. It will no doubt deservingly be remembered as Bret Easton Ellis's masterpiece, his tour-de-force of sadist misanthropy. ![]() Yesterday, MovieMaker published an oral history of the film adaption of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (a book that Roger Rosenblatt described, in his review in The New York Times, as “the journal Dorian Gray would have written had he been a high school sophomore”). ![]()
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