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Rupert Guest – A violent drug dealer and Sean's supplier. A major subplot in the book is Sean's debt to him. The B.E.E. Podcast - 9/6/21 - The Shards Finale - Timewarp - SILVER". The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. Patreon. September 6, 2021 . Retrieved December 20, 2022. Stuart – A student who moves into the room across from Paul Denton. He previously had a crush on Paul when they shared a drama class, from which Stuart subsequently withdrew after he botched a scene with Paul. He later hopes to run into Paul after he moves across the hall, and hopes (unsuccessfully) to see him at the Dressed to Get Screwed Party. He also has a friend named Dennis. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.

All Just a Dream: The ending of the film implies that everything that occurred in the opening sequence (including Sean sleeping with Kelly in anger over Lauren's actions) was part of Sean's fantasies. This is further justified by Lauren and Paul walking out of the party and talking nonchalantly, despite the former having just been raped and vomited on, and the latter having been beat up during a failed hookup. Reviewing the audiobook for The Times in 2021, Theo Zenou called it Ellis's "weirdest, most interesting work in years" and felt it was "rendered all the more absorbing" by the audiobook format. [1] The Rules of Attraction rated 18 by the BBFC". British Board of Film Classification. August 27, 2003. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011 . Retrieved July 24, 2011.

The book and the film adaptation feature examples of the following tropes:

Swaim, Barton (April 16, 2019). " 'White' Review: Repeat Offender". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved May 4, 2022. Sean has a stalker, a sweet secret admirer, who leaves him love notes in his mail box. ”It is simple. I watch him. He reveals himself in dark contours. Everything I believe in floats away when I witness him, say, eating or crossing the boundaries of a crowded room. I feel a scourge. I have his name written on a sheet of pale blue paper that is tissue thin.” She is a ghost throughout the book as we whiplash between different narrators who all reveal pieces of what has happened. Sometimes their accounts differ, and sometimes the omission of facts from one narrator, in particular, reveals much about how far they are from understanding what they truly desire. Sometimes they lie. The task for the reader is to evaluate what we are told until the truth becomes a glittering, but tarnished, pearl. Motor Mouth: Victor's voiceover narration of his European escapades is practically devoid of punctuation. Bret Easton Ellis (June 2010). Imperial Bedrooms. Publishers Weekly. ISBN 978-0-307-26610-1 . Retrieved August 24, 2019. Ellis, Bret Easton (December 17, 2012). "Dear Kathryn Bigelow: Bret Easton Ellis Is Really Sorry". The Daily Beast . Retrieved December 18, 2012.

Schwartz, Ian (February 6, 2023). "Bret Easton Ellis: Gen X Is The Most Conservative Of The Generations Because We Had The Most Freedom". RealClearPolitics.When asked in an interview in 2002 whether he was gay, Ellis explained that he did not identify as gay or straight, but was comfortable being thought of as homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual and enjoyed playing with his persona, identifying variously as gay, straight and bisexual to different people over the years. [26] In a 1999 interview, Ellis suggested that his reluctance to definitively label his sexuality was for "artistic reasons", "if people knew that I was straight, they'd read [my books] in a different way. If they knew I was gay, ' Psycho ' would be read as a different book." [27] In an interview with Robert F. Coleman, Ellis said he had an "indeterminate sexuality", that "any other interviewer out there will get a different answer and it just depends on the mood I am in". [28] Tobias, Scott (May 7, 2008). "The New Cult Canon: The Rules Of Attraction". The A.V. Club . Retrieved July 24, 2011.

a b Coleman, Robert F. (August 22, 2010). "Bret Easton Ellis interview". RobertFColeman.com. Archived from the original on November 10, 2010 . Retrieved December 20, 2010. Another detail that bugged me and that (I think) betrayed the original intent of the novel is that Avary makes a choice about Paul and Sean’s relationship. You’re never supposed to know whether it really happened or not, but in the movie you do. That was no fun. For a time, he uses a split screen to illustrate the dual realities. I would’ve loved to have this split screen on whenever Paul and Sean were together on screen. It would have accentuated the dislocation of reality, which really is the topic of the film. Dennis Widmyer. "Bret Easton Ellis". Archived from the original on October 18, 2007 . Retrieved September 26, 2007. The uncut version was shown at UK cinemas. However, the BBFC, under its power as censor under the Video Recordings Act 1984, shortened the suicide scene, even at the highest (18+) rating. [11]Going to class at Camden seems optional. It is certainly low on the list of priorities. These kids are being washed up on the shores of a hedonistic island, and if anyone is feeling inhibited, soon the copious amounts of alcohol, drugs, and hormonally driven lust have them dancing to the latest Talking Heads album along with the natives. The novel is written in the first-person, continuing the aesthetic of Ellis' earlier Less than Zero, and is told from the points of view of multiple characters. The main narrators are three students: Paul, Sean, and Lauren. A number of other characters also provide first-hand accounts throughout the story, which takes place at the fictional Camden College, a liberal arts school on the East Coast of the United States. The three main characters (who rarely attend class) end up in a love triangle within a sequence of drug runs, "Dressed to Get Screwed" parties, and "End of the World" parties. In May 2014 Bravo announced that it had teamed up with The Rules of Attraction feature film adaptation writer/director Roger Avary and producer Greg Shapiro to develop a limited-run series based on the novel. The plot will stray from the source material and is described as follows: "Inspired by the book and film of the same name, the high-concept series takes the students and faculty at the fictional Camden College and unravels a murder mystery by telling the same story through 12 different points of view. Children of the 1%-ers live as unhinged and wild adults in a Bret Easton Ellis world with seemingly no rules to hold these privileged few down." Titled Rules of Attraction, the series will be written by Roger Avary ( The Rules of Attraction, Beowulf) for Lionsgate TV with Greg Shapiro ( Zero Dark Thirty) serving as an executive producer. [46]

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