Variety’s picks for the new Patrick Bateman

[queenursula]

Variety has assembled a list of the best-suited actors to compare business cards, do a thousand stomach crunches and wield a chainsaw with glee in the new #AmericanPsycho film from Luca Guadagnino. https://t.co/eV9Ev8UOwv
- Variety (@Variety) October 23, 2024

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[flash_indie]

I posted this on tumblr recently, but honestly, there's not really a story I can imagine is less built for a gender or race swap in the casting? The whole point of American Psycho is that Patrick Bateman benefits from, and is protected by, white supremacy and the patriarchy in a way that not only enables his lifestyle and his murders, but also provides him with cover because the white men he's surrounded with are enough like him that he can pass for one of them. Casting a woman or a person of colour I just don't think would work on a narrative level because they don't benefit from the same systemic protections that straight white men do. I feel like it would completely change the themes of the story.

[ginainabottle]

Yeah, it’s like ok folks, we don’t need representation on every single story, relax.

[primimproper]

Perfect comment. It really is Bret Easton Ellis’ whole point.

This character can ONLY be a white man.

[succubuzz]

i LOVE this take

[insomniachobs]

Exactly this, well said.

American Psycho is one of the tiny minority of stories where whiteness is not just the default, it's a huge part of the point.