Bret Easton Ellis on his latest novel, "Glamorama." Join us on Patreon! / manufacturingintellect Donate Crypto! commerce.coinbase.com/checkou... Share this video!
Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/ManufacturingIntellect Donate Crypto! commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/868d67d2-1628-44a8-b8dc-8f9616d62259 Share this video!
Agreed. It reminds me of that famous passage in the Socrates _Apology_ when he described poets as sort of ‘soothsayers’ & ‘diviners’ who call upon ideas and patterns that go beyond the poet’s normal levels of explanatory power, yet the poet can still ‘embody’ or capture what they are channeling through the poetically arranged words.
A few of his ideas are fairly good as a sort of caricature of modern “culture” which American Psycho and Glamorama do fairly well but shit like Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms and The Informers are an example of his original First-Person Cookiecutter style consisting of loosely connected dialogue and monologue heavy scenes that get repetitive quickly.
Charlie blew the question about why Bret is big in Europe by not letting him go where he was going to go with it - Bret is big in Europe for the same reason Bukowski was - they both said the American Dream is a nightmare run by psychos.
Such a genious and a smart man … the books i have read were amazing and any movie with his name on and an 80s soundtrack are fantastic … his whole input along with an 80s soundtrack in a movie is what a would class as pure perfection sound and vision
I wish they'd make this a damn movie or show already! It was supposed to be a film after the rules of attraction came out. But it never got finished or something 😢
I love this interview...he's got a David Foster Wallace-esq vocabulary and speaking sense. It's interesting to note that this upbeat, splendid character writes such dark and introspective novels, with American Psycho being the ultimate example. As a sort of amateur writer, I love these dichotomies in authors...
Just finished Glamorama last night. I haven't done a video in a while, have kind of given up on my channel, but I'm seriously thinking of doing a Glamorama review. Short take: definitely worth reading. It seems to me the first 150 pages or so could've been halved and we wouldn't have lost anything, but then it gets really interesting. I almost feel, crazy as it sounds, like Ellis included the earlier parts to sort of cast off any lookie-loos or casual readers. Like, you don't get this TRUTH without enduring some stuff first, haha. I know that can't really be the case, but, damn, does it seem that way. I'm pretty sure a LOT of people got 80 pages in, said "is this seriously all this book is" and put it down. But they missed out. It's an insane, haunting ride. I have a lot of thoughts about it. Like I said, I literally just finished it last night, it's all still settling in my head. But Victor is a character that will stay with you, as are Bobby, Jamie, Lauren, and poor poor Chloe. I have to let it rest a bit before I can really consider it all, but it's absolutely worth reading. Trust me, you'll want to give up 80, 100 pages in, but don't.
Can you imagine anyone caring about a book that much again? That any chatty talk show will have an author on 'cause he wrote a shocking book? But it's fine that Ellis didn't back up American Psycho because it still stands and it's still a solid book and people are still studying it.
I don't think it would be published in these times. They won't even publish Milo Minnopoulous books and all he does is flint and act sarcastic. It's very hard for writers to push the boundaries without risk of censorship.
It's become a part of our culture. Our common language. When someone mentions "A Patrick Bateman type" we all know exactly what that means. It's really amazing, because I was around when that book came out, and it was buried.
No, his sexual preferences are irrelevant. This was 8 months ago, and I don't remember exactly what I was reacting to. But I will listen again to see and get back to you. @@theSupercasa
It's that he is very clear-eyed, almost aggressively honest, in his reflection on himself. And balanced, accepting the bad with the good. Not apologizing for the bad. Not sentimentalizing anything. And he is confident and comfortable with that honesty. And he speaks with a chest voice, unlike Millennial males, who tend to speak with head voices. It's a very '80s male persona. @@theSupercasa
I read it at lunch in middle school and the teachers who do lunch duty don't have any problem with it. I read Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero, and American Psycho during my free time at school as well.
He lives down the street from ME! South of Sunset, poor chap. I'm up on Blue Jay Way. Hard for writers to live above Sunset but still, brilliant. What a stalwart of the West Hollywood glitterati. X Jackie
so it’s 4:36 am and i’m watching bret easton ellis early interview as soon as i could not get rid of circulating thoughts like Disappear Hear in my head after reading his books few years ago. love how intelligent and interesting this person is. he is truly something and very underrating
It's not all that surprising. Bret struggles with a need to re-write and self edit. He does outlines, with a lot of detail, before actually doing a first draft. I heard him say recently that he spent a year on an outline.
@@glenfahselt8378 Well the fact that he spent 5 years writing it is some further confirmation to me that it's a quality piece of literature. If I put 20 books on my bookshelf as " quality prosaic works " then Glamorama would be one of them, along with other 'notable standalone' works, a bit like a " hit song " from an artist which created 99 bad songs, with 1 really good hit song. Other works in that category include " The Girl Who Played Go ", " Ender's Game ". Where the author created 1 masterpiece (only). I wouldn't call " American Psycho " a masterpiece, as many people can't even finish the book when it derails into the category of 'vivid gore', like: " I was walking down a dark alley... suddenly a saw a homeless man with a dog, I pulled out my knife and embarked on a mission to strangulate the homeless man's neck with the dog's intestines ".. it's like ok what is this..? Yet the book turned into a famous Hollywood movie in which he probably made millions from the BluRay sales alone. Glamorama, much like the other 2 I just mentioned, have the quality of being 'deep & fascinating', like: " I just read this book for 48 hours straight, wow, that was great. ", that type of immersion is possible in these 3. Like: " Thanks so much for lending me that book, best book I ever read //quote from 2002 & 2003 ".
@@Xenon777channel Sure, Glamorama's his best book, but he's certainly not like a one-hit music wonder. He hasn't written a bad book, and his first four are all great. Btw, authors almost always get a one-time up-front payment for movie adaptations; he didn't make anything extra on the video sales.
@@williambartholmey5946 Thank you for the extra info. So Glamorama is his best book as some sort of accepted fact amongst people which have read all of his books, or just your personal opinion? And yes I agree that he isn't a " One hit wonder " as with many authors & music composers.
Who is this comment aimed at? And Harris is an average author who writes plain paperback thrillers they sell at airport bookstores to quickly digest during a flight, one or two of which made for better movie(s) than the damn book. The only reason anyone remembers Harris' books is because of the popularity of the movie version of SOTL. Ellis became an overnight literary celebrity while still in college when he wrote what became arguably the coming-of-age novel of the 80's (Less Than Zero), and later a satire that drew intense reactions, still holds up today, and pushed the boundaries of expression (A.P.).