One of the clichéd things we talk about all the time in cinema is people who get the theme of movies wrong. There's a frat guy with the poster of Fight Club, oblivious to toxic masculinity, or the people who use Starship Troopers as a pro-war rallying cry, or even how Jurassic Park is about how we shouldn't have Jurassic Parks. Well, directly in line with all of that are people who watch American Psycho and want to be Patrick Bateman, the character who murders a bunch of people. Hey, we love his business card and we love to debate the ending of American Psycho, but that's pretty wild. - YouTube www.youtube.com Recently, Letterboxd Journal caught up with American Psycho director Mary Harron to talk about the movie's 25th anniversary. Of the movie, Harron said, “I’m always so mystified by it. I don’t think that [co-writer Guinevere Turner] and I ever expected it to be embraced by Wall Street bros, at all. That was not our intention. So, did we fail? I’m not sure why [it happened], because Christian’s very clearly making fun of them… But people read the Bible and decide that they should go and kill a lot of people. People read ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and decide to shoot the president.”Of course, Harron understands the ease with which TikTok and Instagram personalities have been attracted to Bateman. She says, "There’s [Bateman] being handsome and wearing good suits and having money and power. But at the same...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 17 April