American Psycho: Analysis of Novel and Movie Production
American Psycho has been recognized as a brilliant thriller of its time and can legitimately be labeled a scandalous novel. The novel was published in 1991 by the daring author Bret Easton Ellis and was later adapted into a movie production in 2000 by the director Mary Harron. The novel endured nasty criticism to the point of rousing riots and the boycott of the publishing company, Simon & Schuster; who later dropped the publication of the book, due to the negative publicity. Bret Easton Ellis’ novel was convicted of national censorship, and remains censored in select countries. The disapproval of Ellis’ novel was based on the graphic sequences of sexual violence and the explicit murderous thoughts from within the mind of the serial killer Patrick Bateman. Harron later decided to transform the rule-breaking thriller, in spite of the criticism, and capture the story with the approach of a black comedy by dismissing......
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