"She's transformed a novel about blood lust into a movie about men's vanity."īuffing out the sharper edges for Turner's screenplay wasn't the only hurdle in getting American Psycho to the screen. "It's just as well a woman directed American Psycho," wrote Roger Ebert of Harron in his review of the film. Writer/actor/director Guinevere Turner had the formidable task of taking one of the most controversial novels of all time – replete with grisly scenes including one of a rat entering a woman's downstairs to eat out her insides ("I remember reading that and thinking, ‘Fuck you Bret Ellis, that’s never gonna get out of my vision!'") – and distilling it into a quasi-thriller-satire which traded stock in laughter rather than blood-letting. Ellis is a confused, sick young man with a deep hatred of women who will do anything for a fast buck," said Tammy Bruce, then-president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Organizaton for Women. When the novel first came out in 1991, an endless torrent of death threats were sent to smite its author, Bret Easton Ellis. It certainly was not a feminist comedy that the naysayers and boycotters had expected. When Christian Bale peeled back his herb-mint face mask to reveal his chainsaw-wielding proclivities as a serial killer in Mary Harron's American Psycho, America froze.
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