#american psycho. kinda

[zzoupz]

love the iconic duo of a psychopathic/schizophrenic individual and the colleague he's jealous of who he hurted and ended up regretting then had a mental breakdown about it

[wuntrum]

i really do looove a doppelganger story. what if there was a guy that looked like you and made you scared

[noaidles]

Yet she weakens me

Filter fun below

[goljie]

hello i’ve come back, davejohn doing silly cheesy date stuff because silly

(dave takes it very seriously meanwhile john is being ridiculous )

here's your food sir

and extras

[icecreamheadachez]

☆ the first lyric sung by patrick on every fall out boy album ☆

[happistar]

American Psycho Jekyll & Hyde AU, anyone?

[vinnystaysawake]

"Pumpkin, you're dating an asshole."

[anyarlly]

ikyk

[girltakovic]

austin butler as patrick bateman........much to discuss

[iamstuckinthevoid]

*sees fanart of a white dude w fluffy brown hair wearing a terrible outfit* oh boy wonder which one

[cinnbar-bun]

I hope this isn’t a weird question and I’m asking like,,, very nicely because I’m just curious because you often discuss novels but why do you like American Psycho? Like just cuz it’s a horror or smth? Your other recommendations were interesting so I was wondering what your thoughts are

Not weird at all, but sorry the English major in me is gonna pop the hell out and sorry this will be boring and long because I have so many feelings on the book and the movie and the other Ellis novels in general and I think some literary theory being applied to it really takes it beyond its shallow surface viewing of “guy who kills people”.

I will try to keep this short somewhat and I will try to avoid getting graphic and spoilery but beyond that, I do wanna start off with as a WOC in America I’ve always loved stories that tackle the American condition and ideology. It’s easy to write it off sometimes- what’s the difference if X story is in England for example and while yes that can be true, I feel most of the novels I hold important to me (Ellis, Toni Morrison, etc.) is a uniquely American thing. It’s so rooted in American culture and societal values it just personally touches me as a woc who has immigrant parents.

Now tying it back into the last paragraph, American Psycho is at its core a satire, and the novel is especially important for its place during Reagan’s presidency (and honestly a lot of the problems in the novel ARE traced back to Reagan’s policies and Reaganomics), presumably before Black Monday- so this is PEAK Reagan era American consumerist before what is going to be the worst economic crash in the world since the Great Depression.

Patrick is a symptom of the larger problem Ellis tackles- Yuppie culture and American consumption as well as identity politics. I’ve seen the theories of Patrick being a repressed gay man and I thought similarly along with coinciding with Ellis being a gay man who said that Patrick was something of Ellis’s own thoughts at the time. Patrick’s rage I kinda related to in a way (and not in Gahhhhhh I’m gonna murder and drug people!!) but as a warped sense of self and self hatred and repression for what you are.

And before you get the idea that means, Oh so Ellis is a fucking weirdo- I mean, maybe- but you have to read deeper into that and it’s that Patrick has no identity. Sure we read about him, but he effectively has no identity or connection to others. He is routinely mistaken for others, reality is a false construct, perhaps he did nothing or perhaps he did everything he said he did. The ways you can examine American Psycho over and over again is soooooo incredible. Whether it’s from a racial, sexual, or cultural lens I like to take a moment because yes the graphic violence is jarring but that is the point. It’s an over the top parody of what is the real issue- identity and culture. Ex: Patrick is a repressed gay man so he actively goes after women to lie/convince himself otherwise, Patrick is a white man with a rich dad so he gets away with it, Patrick is so empty inside he has to turn to substance abuse and cruelty to get any feeling, Patrick is so lost on who he is he is mistaken for XYZ.

The movie does make the satirical aspects more clear because Christian Bale is performing as Patrick in such an exaggerated way that it’s comical and emphasizes how ridiculous this shit is. I also think as time goes on the novel becomes more ‘important’ and very reflective of the world we live in (considering Patrick is such a fan of Trump to the point of idol worship and needing to be consoled by Trumpisms and this was New York in the late 1880s so like even then that was ridiculous) especially with our current situation now it’s a bit of something to reflect on imo.

So yeah! Just a condensed form of what I feel but honestly I feel and think and have thought waayyyyy more about the film and novel and every progressive viewing or reading as I get older always highlights something new to me. Ellis also is an interesting writer to me, can’t say if he’ll be good for you but in American Psycho specifically as an example because they all spend so much time describing outfits and brands, Ellis knew that people would just skip ahead whenever they did so he just started describing wackier shit and the details about for example Patrick taking his clothes to the laundromat it’s so much more thoughtful than you think.

[tvbles]

Hey blondie

[bunnylouisegrimes]

When two yuppies who look like Jerma985 recognize you in public (they're brothers from another mother istg)

(Based off of this meme: https://www.tumblr.com/bunnylouisegrimes/769335461457100800?source=share)

[fireworkss-exe]

how come the villain songs in the fucking mean girls musical sound more sinister than the ones in the american psycho musical

[anyarlly]

man those interviews in the 00's were so invasive..

it's my oc madeleine!! my babyy

[m1keville]

batrick

These are very messy and kinda old but I wanted to post this bc I think it looks cute. I think I made this a warmup sketch but i don’t remember anything anymore lmaoo