Patrick Bateman is not a model to follow.
“American psycho” Director Mary Harron said Mailbox In a new interview for the 25th anniversary of films that does not agree with fans who aspire to be like Christian Bale’s iconic serial murderous character.
“I’m always so baffled for that,” Harron said that Patrick Bateman hugs into social networks today. “I don’t think [co-writer Guinevere Turner] And once I hoped he was hugged by Wall Street Bros, at all. That was not our intention. “
“So, do we fail? I’m not sure why [it happened]Because Christian is clearly making fun of them, “the director continued.” But, people read the Bible and decide to go and kill many people. People read ‘The receiver in the rye’ and decides to shoot the president. “
Harron acknowledged that Bateman’s growing popularity is due to “memes” and “Tiktok”, as well as the investment banker turned into a curator “being handsome and with good costumes and having money and power.”
“But at the same time, he has played as someone silly and ridiculous,” he said. “When he is in a nightclub and is trying to talk to someone about hip hop, it is very shameful when he tries to be great.”
The filmmaker also said that she believes that the men who defend Bateman lost the point of The 2000 movie
“It was very clear to me and Geneva, who is gay, who saw him as the satire of a gay man in masculinity,” he shared. “[Author Bret Easton Ellis] Being gay allowed you to see the homurotic rituals between the alpha males of thesis, which is also true in sports, and it is true in Wall Street, and all these things in which men are specifying their extreme competition and their kind of things to ‘raise their skill’. “
“There is something very, very gay about the way they are fetishizing the appearance and gym,” Harron added.
Based on Ellis’s novel in 1991, Harron’s satirical film “was about a predatory society,” Journal told Letterboxd. The screenwriter added that “now society is actually 25 years later, much worse.”
“The rich are much richer, the poor are poorer,” said Harron. “I would never have imagined that it would be a celebration of racism and white supremacy, that we have in the White House. I would never have imagined that we would live that.”
An “American Psycho” adaptation He is currently in process with director Luca Guadagnino. The “Elvis” star Austin Butler will play Patrick Bateman.
