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Willem Dafoe Gave Us One of His Most Menacing Villains in This YA Movie
Willem Dafoe is an actor renowned for his versatility, but it’s his villainous qualities that have become his most beloved roles. Whether he’s a crazed supervillain like the Green Goblin in Spider-Man, a hulking hitman in The Grand Budapest Hotel, a probing investigator in American Psycho, an insane sailor in The Lighthouse, or a ruthless […]
Continue readingHow American Psycho’s Filming Locations Helped Feed The Story’s Narrative
Are we in general agreement that Mary Harron’s adaptation of “American Psycho” is better than the original Bret Easton Ellis novel? If so, then good — while the original book does hold significance within the history of postmodern literature, the changes made to bring it to the screen fleshed out its themes more effectively. One […]
Continue readingChristian Bale Claims His Pay For American Psycho Was Less Than The Film’s Make-Up Artists
Christian Bale has always had an unnervingly focused commitment to his craft and it’s often helped him as much behind the scenes as it has on-screen. Back when he was still a struggling actor, he had to take his commitment to frankly unbelievable levels in order to get cast (and then recast) in “American Psycho.”The […]
Continue readingMary Harron Knew The Music Of American Psycho Had To Set A Tone
“American Psycho” satirizes the culture of the 1980s, and you can’t talk about the decade and leave out the era’s music. The ’80s were a conservative decade, with an ascendant political right-wing, the financialization of the global economy, and more commercial art compared with the subversiveness of the 1960s and ’70s.Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in […]
Continue readingJosh Lucas Originally Thought Christian Bale’s Performance In ‘American Psycho’ Was “Terrible” But Now Considers It “Next Level”
“American Psycho” is a film that people fully embrace now, more than 20 years after its release. However, at the time, Mary Harron’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis classic novel was actually thought to be silly and just not good. And a lot of that comes down to the tricky tone of the film, […]
Continue readingThe Best Horror Movies: Maika Monroe, Jennifer Tilly, and More Scream Queens Share Their Picks
From the carefully considered outline of a Final Girl to the intoxicating nebulousness of the Scream Queen moniker, women are the bloody, brooding, beating heart of the horror genre.On screen and off, women have long proved an essential linchpin to the success of scary movies. Actresses have served as horror’s marquee-topping centerpieces since even before […]
Continue readingChristian Bale Says He Made Less on ‘American Psycho’ Than the Film’s Makeup Artists
It’s almost psychotic to think that Christian Bale made pennies on the dollar compared to his collaborators on “American Psycho.”Bale’s iconic role as yuppie-turned-serial-killer Patrick Bateman came to be only due to director Mary Harron’s vision for Bale in the role — after Leonardo DiCaprio turned it down.“Nobody wanted me to do it except the […]
Continue reading‘White Noise’ Producer Buys Rights to Don DeLillo’s ‘Americana’ (Exclusive)
Don DeLillo’s debut novel, “Americana,” is set to be adapted 51 years after it was first published.“White Noise” producer Uri Singer has bought the rights to the 1971 novel, continuing his streak of adapting a string of DeLillo works that have been deemed “unadaptable.”“Americana” tells the story of David Bell, an out-of-touch television executive who […]
Continue readingEzra Miller Won’t Be Cut from ‘Dalíland,’ Says Director: ‘Nothing Bad Happened During Our Filming’
Ezra Miller had no issues on the set of TIFF closing night premiere “Dalíland,” as the persistence of memory goes to show.Director Mary Harron (“American Psycho”) had Miller, who stars as a younger version of Salvador Dalí in the movie, in mind for over a decade to star in the biopic. “At that point, the […]
Continue readingYear Of The Vampire: The Moth Diaries Puts A Teen Girl Twist On Traditional Vampire Tropes
(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)”The Moth Diaries” is a moody horror piece directed by Mary Harron (“American Psycho“), based on Rachel Klein’s gothic novel of the same name. It was lambasted by critics […]
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