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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 22, 2017 5:21:19 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 22, 2017 5:34:27 GMT
Remember this art posters series inspired by American Psycho? The whole series can be viewed at whudat.de page 1 and page 2. I think it's a German website. The characters on the first page seem mostly the Watchmen characters in addition to Walter White. There's a dark-skinned one on page 2 which is unrecognizable to me. Is it based on a particular character?
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 22, 2017 6:03:13 GMT
This excerpt from a Rotten Tomato editorial by Nathan Rabin on American Psycho, the novel, is both fascinating and scary: Time has given some of the novel’s clumsy pop-culture references a new resonance. Christian Bale famously modeled his brilliant, hilarious, star-making performance on Tom Cruise after watching the famed Scientologist on television with David Letterman. In American Psycho (where Bateman’s favorite show is Late Night With David Letterman) the protagonist only really looks up to two non-musicians (Huey Lewis is sacred, the rest of humanity is scum). One is Tom Cruise, who lives in the penthouse of his building and who he fumblingly compliments for his performance in Bartender (which Bateman mistakes as the title for Cocktail). The other rich, famous alpha-male who inspires a Wayne-and-Garth-style “We’re not worthy!” deference in this otherwise supremely arrogant and evil man is a Gordon Gekko-like exemplar of cheesy 1980s greed, the crazy-haired TV clown who is currently the most talked about man in the country: Donald J. Trump.
Trump is as much a fixture in the book as Les Miserables. He and (now ex-) wife Ivana are referenced regularly by Bateman, always with an uncharacteristic reverence. They are god and goddess in his world, or at least king and queen. Late in the book, Bateman, deep into a downward spiral of madness, gazes adoringly at a Trump building glistening in the sunlight and contemplates pulling out his gun and blowing away a pair of African-American hustlers running a three-card monte game. The scene eerily mirrors the fears of contemporary Trump detractors.Note: The underline highlight is mine. Ref: The Bloody Banality of American Psycho
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 22, 2017 6:38:14 GMT
Artist Justin Reed captured some massive pop culture flicks (American Psycho, The Dark Knight, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, and Fight Club) on a small canvas. Here is the American Psycho one: via trendhunter.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 26, 2017 21:30:35 GMT
[ADMIN NOTE: The following moved from a deleted thread:] Was Robert Durst of The Jinx a wannabe American Psycho? 'The Jinx' Robert Durst: 'Maybe He Wanted To Be The Next American Psycho,' Says Ex-GirlfriendTalk about the ex from hell. Once upon a time, Dallas resident Linda Zevallos, now 64, dated the notorious subject of HBO's docuseries "The Jinx," Robert Durst. Zevallos told New York Daily News that she briefly dated the wealthy real-estate scion in 2000, but stopped seeing him after she found him snooping in her purse -- on the same day he wanted to go to Blockbuster to rent "American Psycho." The 2000 film starring Christian Bale is about an investment banking exec by day, serial killer by night.
Zevallos was prompted to think about Durst again when she heard about the "cadaver letter" Durst might have sent the LAPD alerting them of Durst friend Susan Berman's death in 2000. Rifling through old papers in 2008, she discovered that she, too, received a letter from Durst in the same green ink. The "cadaver letter" becomes the sensational clue that links Durst to Berman's murder in "The Jinx," when a letter with similarities in spelling and writing of Durst's is given to the docuseries' director. Durst was charged with Berman's murder and is currently being held without bail in New Orleans.
"I thought, 'Oh dear.' It was in green ink," she told New York Daily News. "It was so creepy. I'm still creeped out by the whole thing, 15 years later." She said that Durst called her and breathed on the phone for months until November 2000, one month before Berman's murder.
"I don't have any doubts that he killed Susan Berman and his wife," Zevallos told New York Daily News. "I think he has issues with abandonment. I think it's probably because his mother killed herself. He told me he was raised by a governess. He's psycho. Maybe he wanted to be the American Psycho," she said.
Police across the country are now looking into the possibility that Durst could be connected to a number of open missing-persons cases, including Lynne Kathryn Schulze, an 18-year-old Middlebury College student in 1971 and two California teens, Karen Mitchell and Kristen Modafferi, in 1997. Even former Texas judge Susan Criss, who presided over his trial for killing and dismembering Morris Black in Galveston (charges he was acquitted of), had suspicions. Criss told "Inside Edition" that she thinks Durst is a serial killer, and that it was Durst who left a cat's severed head on her doorstep.
“This was a perfectly clean and preserved cat head cut up by someone who knew what they were doing laying right there,” Judge Criss said. “I strongly believe it was Robert Durst.”
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 3, 2017 5:21:19 GMT
A video comparison of American Psycho and American Beauty re American way of life:
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 3, 2017 5:23:11 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 3, 2017 6:46:00 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 3, 2017 23:14:00 GMT
A great spin on the business card and Huey Lewis scenes by Denham The Jeanmaker:
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 4, 2017 8:03:13 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 4, 2017 8:05:32 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 6, 2017 3:58:32 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 7, 2017 7:04:58 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 8, 2017 2:58:49 GMT
Was American Psycho the first Lions Gate project to generate news and create awareness of the production company? Linda Lee wrote a piece in New York Times on DEC. 21, 1998, talking about three new independent production companies including Lion's Gate. At that time, the company's Gods and Monsters had already become a Golden Globe nominee. Lee writes in this article: Many people heard of Lions Gate for the first time in May, when the magic name Leonardo DiCaprio was attached to Lions Gate's planned film ''American Psycho,'' based on the controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel. But after the director, Mary Harron, was shouldered aside to allow Mr. DiCaprio to choose his own director, the actor himself backed out of the deal. Ms. Harron recently returned to the project, in which the male lead will now be played by Christian Bale.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 14, 2017 2:56:53 GMT
AN American Psycho easter egg inside the game Duke Nukem Forever: In the level Duke Nukem's Titty Club there are 3 ZZMONEYS ATM machines located around the club that when activated all say "OUT OF ORDER." But when activated a 2nd time each machine will say "FEED ME A STRAY CAT," which is a reference to the movie American Psycho where Christian Bale, who plays Patrick Bateman - a serial killer and son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. In the movie, Bateman, while in the Wall Street bank, finds a stray cat after turning on an ATM machine to withdraw money. He picks up the cat and pets it, and when he looks up at the machine screen it says "FEED ME A STRAY CAT." Bateman then violently proceeds to stuff the cat through the money withdraw slit on the machine.via www.eeggs.com/items/58672.html
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