How Bret Easton Ellis came up with 'American Psycho' | Larry King Now | Ora.TV
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Bret Easton Ellis says the book that would become 'American Psycho' didn't start as a novel about a serial killer, and shares the real-life experience of his that proved the turning point.
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Lets see Paul Allen’s idea.
No we do not want that.
I see this kind of comments too many times
It’s Paul Owen in the book
Havent read the book?
@@sirunbekannt5653 Oh! You mean Tim Price, right?
Inside Bret is thinking:
There is an idea of a Bret Easton Ellis; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.”
But inside doesn't matter...
I ……don’t think so …. I think he had to return some video tapes
Yeah. That's his new book. 😅
This man is a GREAT writer. So bold and original.
The book is just a huge collection of shopping lists
@@paulvaughan3120
Yeah, it’s great.
@@paulvaughan3120 That's the POINT....capitalistic narcissism at its worst.
No Jennifer, he's not great. You're mistaken.
@@paulvaughan3120 if that’s your big take away from the book then your reading comprehension is probably less then zero
Excuse me I need to return some video tapes...
The point is not whether Bateman committed the crimes or not the point is that he had every intentions to. He the author nor the Director of American Psycho do not want to answer the question in fear of desensitizing the character Bateman’s arc and the way he is portrayed by the audience.
The director I think already shared her opinion that she thinks he did it but obviously she doesn't know and it's the reader's choice, but she regretted how she handled the last parts of the movie because she felt it made it much more likely that it was all in his head and she didn't want that, she wanted the ambiguity of not knowing like in the book.
@@sayros6711 Yeah unfortunately for her the film heavily leans towards it all being in his head
disagree but ok
Love the movie one of Bale's best performance and love the book just such a dark funny look at society in the 80s
Now let's see jared letos performance
1:19 Me when Paul Allen says I'm a loser
That's a coward. He called you a coward. You didn't read the book!
Jaystings I did read the book. I was in it
@@patrickbateman3284 well his name is Paul Owen in the Book...
@@yousefmomtojachih1920 Yes it is! However I am referring to film Paul Allen
'Nother martini Paul...
1:17 when you laugh at your crush's joke
exact facial expression
this observation made me laugh, hard. i probably watched that moment 20 times.
Any “dream” ending is also generally panned by critics as being unoriginal and a cop out. That’s probably why Easton laughed that way. He’s such a gifted and creative writer that the thought that he would end a book with “it was all a dream,” is absurd and laughable.
Close your eyes and listen to his voice. He "sounds" like Bateman.
Killjoy McQuire hey Paul!
@@markbranham6365
I mean, admittedly, as much as I’ve loved a fair amount of the man’s work, all of his characters talk more or less the same way.
it's the slight lisp too
Patrick Batman?
Great book finally explained !
Great book.
One of my favorite books.
Rip Larry King
His voice is beautiful
0 dislikes. this is something.
joaquim machado Still 0 dislikes
Your compliment was sufficient
It has now 7 dislikes.
@@Revenge128 9 now
@@inactiveuserr well 🤷🏻♀️
Let's put it this way-- if Bret Easton Ellis hadn't written American Psycho, he would be imprisoned, on multiple felony homicide convictions, long ago...
You know, I often think about this with authors like Steven King, Cormac McCarthy, or Clive Barker. Like if they had been raised in some terrible upbringing and never learned to channel that dark imagination into something constructive. It's not uncommon for Serial Killers to take up art, music, or poetry after getting caught so maybe there's a thing line between genius and madman after all
I don’t know why you would think this. Bret is a good humored, well adjusted individual with an active imagination.
@@sovietkino1008
Ehh…not according to Ellis himself, at least during the time he wrote it
“Bateman was crazy the same way I was. He did not come out of me sitting down and wanting to write a grand sweeping indictment of yuppie culture. It initiated because of my own isolation and alienation at a point in my life. I was living like Patrick Bateman. I was slipping into a consumerist kind of void that was supposed to give me confidence and make me feel good about myself but just made me feel worse and worse and worse about myself. That is where the tension of American Psycho came from. It wasn't that I was going to make up this serial killer on Wall Street. High concept. Fantastic. It came from a much more personal place, and that's something that I've only been admitting in the last year or so. I was so on the defensive because of the reaction to that book that I wasn't able to talk about it on that level.”
@@sovietkino1008 Are you his PR?
good video Larry King. I broke that thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the brilliant work.
Great, great book!!!
You are such a fantastic writer Bret! We love you Ellis ♡ Xd uuuf ;3
I am a voracious reader and AP is the only book i could not finish despite trying multiple times, the book frightens me and the main character is so terrible that i get scared after 6 chapters and couldnt go on. i just cannot believe anyone could think like that, it freaks me out
I dont want to make you feel worse, but psych studies found the top 3 career choices for those with psychopathic traits are, in order: Corporate CEO, Medicine, Law Enforcement. They go for roles that fill their need for power, status & control.
Great answer
How did you come up with american psycho
I saw a movie called vampires kiss
A sad banker…that would have been an interesting Patrick
Bret... just the bestest x
Impressive... Very nice... Let's see Paul Allen's interview.
Bateman could never have gotten away with so many murders, the would be caught by the time he was done with 2. He wasn't really good at hiding the bodies or clearing his tracks. This certainly was something all going on in his head.
nah fam
watch any doc about New York during the 80s and i think you might reevaluate this take
John Wayne Gacy buried 26 people in his crawlspace before being caught. It definitely could have been real. The main point however is that everyone is too self absorbed and focused on the superficial to even notice a guy running around murdering people because they are preoccupied with their own vanity
Wtf are you talking about? 😂 lmao lol you buffoon
Truth presented as "fiction."
That’s kinda why I didn’t like the movie. The movie leads you to believe that it was in fact all in his head.
Bit of a late reply but the director commented that she made a mistake in not being more definitive on that point and closing the open endedness as she said he definitely did commit all of the crimes you see apart from the obvious arc of psychosis. The book is clear as well, with more details and atrocities.
Never thought it could be all in the head but then again he’s not caught so why not?
Whether or not it was all in his head doesn't actually matter though, does it? Isn't that missing the point of the novel? From what I picked up, it's not supposed to just be a psychological deep dive into the mind of a serial killer, the novel is more about the world around him than it is about himself.
Bruce taylor
It was pretty real to Paul Allen.
100
0:50 sorry, watched multiples times, even with CC (useless as per), and cannot decipher what he's saying. "...and suddenly, out of the blue, thought: baddabeemsa serial killer." what?
i guess he's saying patrick bateman's a serial killer... hella mumbly though...
I listened to it in .25 speed. He's saying Patrick Bateman's a serial killer
"Patrick Bateman's a serial killer"
Another martini, Larry?
Can’t believe he wrote less than zero at 20
. so he flôw.d interesting + makes sence
cuz he's sick
He’s a bit of a cutie doe
Bateman is the absolute worst portrayal of psychopathy imaginable. A psychopath who sweats from nervousness and tears up when recollecting murders--even if "hallucinatory". Yeah, spot on.
Psychopath doesnt mean you feel no emotion
Psycho can mean psychotic. As in someone who loses grip on reality. I think the thing is we expect it’s about a “psychopath” but it’s about someone who’s psychotic.
Bateman isn't a psychopath. He's psychotic. "Psycho" Doesn't immediately mean "Psychopath." it can just mean totally insane.
If this guy is a serial killer
oh no people were making money in the 80's but not the way I think they should of...
As disgusting and deranged some parts of the book were, it was nonetheless well written.