You forgot to mention the endless descriptions of brands (I
guess that's what Ellis meant by satire) and the overall
disjointed narrative. I couldn't agree with you more. Noir it
isn't.
-Gonzalo.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Nathan Cain"
<IndieCrime@...> wrote:
>
> American Psycho wasn't noir. It was a very, very bad
attempt at
satire. (You
> know you failed at satire when you have to explain
after-the-fact
that your
> book was satire.) And it should have been about 400
pages shorter
than it
> was and Bret Ellis is a hack.Oh, and the American
Psycho movie was
much much
> better than the book, which wallowed in filth. File
it under
torture porn as
> far as I'm concerned.
>
> On 7/29/07, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
> >
> > Alright. I'm pretty pissed at you guys for
shooting
> > down nearly all my suggestions for examples of
psycho
> > noir. It doesn't matter if you were right,
either.
> > That just makes it worse.
> >
> > But I have finally come up with an example of
psycho
> > noir that is absolutely rock solid, American
Psycho,
> > by Bret Ellis.
> >
> > Chew on that one for a while.
> >
> > miker
> >
> >
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