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“They’re so obsessed with their looks, and Bret could see it and focus it and underline it.”
She also likened the behaviour of Bateman and his peers to that of teenage girls. People read The Catcher in the Rye and decide to shoot the president.”
The “sigma male” trend — popularised by internet subcultures — idolises Bateman as the ideal man: a solitary figure who is self-sufficient, attractive to women (yet disinterested), and hyper-focused on capitalist success.
“When he’s in a nightclub and he’s trying to speak to somebody about hip hop—it’s so embarrassing when he’s trying to be cool.”
On this note, Harron then raised the topic of the Ellis-penned source material, positing to her host, “It was very clear to me and Guinevere, who is gay, that we saw it as a gay man’s satire on masculinity.”
“[Ellis] being gay allowed him to see the homoerotic rituals among these alpha males, which is also true in sports, and it’s true in Wall Street, and all these things where men are prizing their extreme competition and their ‘elevating their prowess’ kind of thing,” she elaborated.
And the joke was never meant to be aspirational.
To Harron—and to many queer viewers from the jump—the satire has always been clear: American Psycho is “a gay man’s satire on masculinity.” The source novel’s author, Bret Easton Ellis, wrote from the vantage point of someone who understood the homoerotic pageantry of power and performance. "I would never have imagined that there would be a celebration of racism and white supremacy, which is basically what we have in the White House.
The way they talk about each other is like teenage girls in a locker room at school.”
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“He’s played as somebody dorky and ridiculous,” she said. But maybe leave the chainsaw at home.
Source: Variety
American Psycho’s Director Says Film Was Gay Satire Calling Out ‘Wall Street Bros’
More than two decades after the release of American Psycho, the film’s director and co-writer, Mary Harron, is speaking out against a growing group of men who idolise its lead character, Patrick Bateman, despite the film being a clear satire.
In a new interview with Letterboxd, Harron criticised the rise of “Wall Street bros” and self-proclaimed “sigma males” who admire Bateman, the narcissistic and violent investment banker played by Christian Bale in the 2000 cult classic.
“I’m not sure why [it happened], because Christian’s very clearly making fun of them…” Harron said.
So, did we fail? I would never have imagined that we would live through that."
Meanwhile, a new adaptation of the book is in development with Luca Guadagnino directing and Austin Butler attached to play Bateman.
Previously:
• Pixar's American Psycho
• American Psycho as a valley bro? And if the rumors are true, we’re about to get another blood-slicked chapter.
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There’s something gorgeously subversive in watching a film that lets you enjoy a perfectly choreographed skincare routine while also showing the utter horror of a society that prizes looks over empathy, power over humanity. Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Challengers) is developing a new adaptation of the novel, with Scott Z.
Burns writing and Austin Butler rumored to don the business card holder this time around.
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We can only hope the new version leans into the queerness, the satire, the delicious absurdity of men who lift, flex, and murder to feel something.
According to GQ, these men often mimic Bateman’s obsession with productivity and aesthetics.
Harron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner, explained that the film was always intended as a critique of toxic masculinity. You are not above checking out the biceps of your broker bro. Anything.
So, to the TikTok bros in Bateman cosplay: babes, this one was never for you.
“There’s [Bateman] being handsome and wearing good suits and having money and power.
It’s been 25 years since Patrick Bateman first lathered himself in exfoliant, recited Huey Lewis lyrics like gospel, and dragged a blood-soaked ax across the Manhattan skyline of 1980s excess. So, did we fail? He’s been meme-ified into a symbol of capitalist grindset masculinity, often stripped of the nuance (and blood) that made him horrifying and hilarious.
The punchline is the suit. That was not our intention.”
Yet here we are. “There’s something very, very gay about the way they’re fetishizing looks, and the gym.”
“They’re so obsessed with their looks, and Brett could see it and focus it and underline it,” the filmmaker opined.