“American Psycho Director Mary Harron Admitted That Cult Cult Classic Film Is Just As Relevant Today As It Was Was Released in 2000 While Celebrating Its -MOTSA The 2025 Tribeca Festival On June 7. The Horror Film, WHICH Takes Place Between 1987 and 1989, Follows”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Horror Film, WHICH Takes Place Between 1987 and 1989, Follows Investment Banker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) As He Deals with MurdaS Fantasies. Harron told Minhaj she believed that wall Street Employees Were “Dinosaurs” at the Time of Filming and that We would “Never See” men like that in the future.
“Not that woldnn’n be rapacious Wall Street Behavior and Greed,“ She Continued. “IT WAS TRUE, ACTUALLY, FOR A FEW Years After The Film Came Out. It Was Much Better Hidden.” However, Harron Pointed Out People Are Still “Reveling in Bad Behavior” and “The Joy of Being Overly Racist” Today. She Continued, “I would never have thorough you would see that.”
Minhaj Said that Batemann Seeled to Say “The Quiet Part of Loud” in his voiceovers, While People in the Present Day Seem Much More Comfortable Using HateFul and Offensive Rhetoric. Harron Agreed and Explained that She Viewed Bateman More As A Symbol Than As A Person. “PATRICK BATEMAN IS LIKE IF YOU DOOKING TERRIBLE ABOUT, LIKE, 20th Century Capitalism and About the Reagan Era,“ She Said, LISTING CRUELTY, DESPISING The Poor, Sexism Wasn’t afraid to glarify. Meanwhile, she said that Character Also Represents the “Triumph” of “Male Dominance and Money.”
WHEN MINHAJ ASKED IF “REALITY IS ODDLY MIMICKING” The Plot of the Movie, Harron Admitted that Her Views of the World Have Canged Since It Was Made. “I would’ve said when we have bere makeing [the] Film, You Know, The Arc of History Bends Towards Justice. And Now I Think Maybe the arc of history is like a Corkscrew or Maybe It’s a rollercoaster, ”she said. I would like to think that we’ll get Through This and Find Better Times. ”
After Noting That She Never Willd Have Imagines the State of the World Wound Look Like It Does in 2025, Harron Adeded, “It’s So Much Worse Than Who and Was Making the Film. You Know, Open. She Also Pointed Out that Direction of Today’s Society May Be “Who People Still Like This Film” Today.
Harron, Who Also Co-Wrote The Screenplay with Guinevever Turner, Reflected on the Popularity of Bateman today after minhaj Pointed out of that ther. “I Know The Film is Very Popular With Wall Street Guys and Guinevere and I Were, ‘Wait, What? Like, We’re Making Fun of This,’ ‘She Said. “I DON’T KNOW. I CAN’T Explain It.”
Sheen theorized that people may find the character to be aspratory because he “have everything materaly that a person wold want” and that “does whatver he play.”
The Movie ALSO INCLUDES SEVERAL MENTIONS OF THE TRUMP FAMILY, WHILE DONALD TRUMP IS MENIFED IN THE 1991 BRET EASTON EASTON ELLIS NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME THAT The MOVIE IS BASED ON. “IT WAS AS A QUASI-CELEBRITY,” she said of Trump being Mentioned, Noting that Bateman’s Fianancée Evelyn Williams (Reese Witherspoon) Complained ABOUT HIS OBESSION WITH. “That, i thorough, was part of his dorkiness, reality. ‘Cause donald Trump in the 80s, You Know, New Yorkers Did Not Really Think of Him As Cool. He Was Just, Like, HE WE.
Also Durying The Interview, Harron Reflected on Who Bale Was The Perfect Person to Play Bateman After The Role Was Re-Cast Several Times. “IT WAS VERY STRANCE BECAUSE HADNN’T ACTUALLY DONE Anything Like That Before In His Work,“ She SAID, ADDING THAT Leonardo Dicaprio Briefly Had The Role.
Harron Explained that Bale Was The Only Actor Up for the ROLE WHO VIEWED The Script As “Funny” as She Did, Who Gave Her Confidentnce That Has The Perfect Person To Playan. “It was basally that we have the Same Sense of Humor,” she said of whohhhy he ultimately got the role. “The Other Actors I Met, Some of Them Well Known and Certainly Better Known Thanks at the Time, I Could Tell that Thought Bateman Was Sort of Cool. Ande. Not Doing the Coolness.
The Conversation Concluded with Harron Recalling How Diflicult It Was To Get The Film Made Until Lionsgate Agreed to Produce It. “I would never have imagined that it would be so embraced,” She said of the Film’s Legacy.