#bret easton ellis

[motifcollector]

He was real for this

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I THOUGHT OF YOU." // CLOSE, BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH

Adrianne Lenker anything // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Ingmar Bergman from a letter to Liv Ullmann // Sonya Vatomsky Salt Is For Curing // Isaac Marion Warm Bodies // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Richard Siken Crush // Leah Horlick For Your Own Good // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Roland Barthes A Lover's Discourse: Fragments // Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction // Thomas E. Yingling "My Way Home is Through You," Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text: New Thresholds, New Anatomies // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Adrianne Lenker anything // Frank Bidart "Guilty of Dust," Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Yrsa Daley-Ward Bone

[starxcxboy]

— American Psycho (2000), directed by Mary Harron, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

[derangedrhythms]

[...] and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, from 'The Rules of Attraction'

[perfectquote]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

[fluffishere]

[venusjailer]

“I wish you were a girl”

They’re so ‘I bet on losing dogs’ coded I can’t even lie…

[mothhmannn]

found the funniest comment on a trigger list for American Psycho

[couchsterfield]

"You're a dead man. Count on it."

"Yeah? And you're a yuppie scumbag. Which is worse?"

[tygerland]

American Psycho (2000)

[thoughtkick]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

[jimmyspades]

"To figure out a character, I try to look for something that's not in the screenplay—a little secret they carry around with them. Sometimes it's allowed to show itself, sometimes it isn't, yet it's always there.

"Robert Downey Jr. and I both decided that our two guys had been lovers at one point. It wasn't referred to at all, but that was the one choice made in that film that I ended up being pleased with, because it informed everything that happened. There's a certain understanding between two people who've been lovers that's not there in two people who haven't." James Spader on LESS THAN ZERO (1987), Interview Magazine, 1993

[belle-keys]

i think the best thing about american psycho is actually how pathetic patrick bateman is actively characterized as and portrayed. he’s insecure, none of the other characters take him seriously, he has to kill people to compensate, he gets visibly triggered over every tiny inconvenience, he’s perceived as a sniveling spineless prick. the psycho in american psycho, who we’re not sure actually exists, is the intimidating sigma male patrick wants to be but is just not. and it’s been thirty years since incels have been misunderstanding and misappropriating this aspect of his character, which adds another layer of humor and harrowing concern to the debacle.

[petraden]

Guess who just ordered the Patrick Bateman figure?? Me.

I have been wanting it for SO long and I finally caved in. It definitely made a dent in my bank account.

It should arrive within the next few weeks!

[resqectable]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

[derangedrhythms]

Something cracked open within me that could never be sealed again.

Bret Easton Ellis, from 'The Shards'