Ellis, Bret Easton. "The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast". patreon.com. Patreon . Retrieved April 18, 2018. Bungled Suicide: Sean tries to off himself because Lauren doesn't want anything to do with him anymore after he slept with Lara. The book does it semi-dramatically, but the movie plays it for laughs with Sean trying three different times and waking up with damp trousers. The ending of the film implies that the events of the opening sequence are not what really happened, as Sean leaves the party without bedding Kelly, while Lauren and Paul do not appear to be disheveled, despite having traumatic incidents happening to them supposedly minutes before.

A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Played more or less straight, so much so it's lampshaded with the "Dress to Get Screwed" party.Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor, who split for Europe months ago, and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letters to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren - even if he ends up in bed with half the campus - and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed to Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lauren is based on author Donna Tartt, who attended college with Bret Easton Ellis. Among the dozens of young students the reader meets, there are three main characters. Sean Bateman is a senior who has changed majors multiple times. To say he is non-serious would be one a considerable understatement. He was surprised when his mentor advised him that he was failing only three of his four classes. Sean is constantly in search of the next girl, drink or drug that he can use and abuse. He is a self-described financial aid student who supplements his cash flow acting as a small-time middle man for a townie drug dealer. Sean perpetually owes money to Rupert the drug dealer, who is constantly threatening Sean to pay up. In reality, Sean is from a wealthy family and and experienced an upper-crust lifestyle including a tony boarding school education. Sean conceals his wealth from his classmates. He could easily pay off the menacing drug dealer but refuses to do so. Rape as Drama: Lauren in the opening scene, while she's drunk, passed out and being videotaped by another guy watching. Disturbingly, it's how she loses her virginity. Both book and film come within a whisker of playing it for comedy.

The Shards is a 2023 autofiction/ horror novel by American author Bret Easton Ellis, published on January 17, 2023, by Alfred A. Knopf. Ellis's first novel in 13 years, The Shards is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis's final year of high school in 1981 in Los Angeles. The novel was first serialized by Ellis as an audiobook through his podcast on Patreon. [1] Plot summary [ edit ] THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (18)". British Board of Film Classification. November 7, 2002 . Retrieved May 17, 2013. In May 2014, Bravo announced that it would produce a TV series inspired by the book and film written by Avary for Lionsgate Television with Greg Shapiro serving as an executive producer. [22] See also [ edit ]

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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] Melissa Broder said in The New York Times that the book "invit[es] the reader more profoundly into the emotional realm of the protagonist" than Ellis's earlier works. While the length and looping narrative helped build suspense, "the reader wonders if the book could have been shorter and still achieved the same psychedelic, collage-like effect", she wrote. Broder concluded that "the novel's climax and denouement ultimately fall flat". [11] Television adaptation [ edit ]

The writer-director is Roger Avary, who directed " Killing Zoe" and co-authored Quentin Tarantino's " Pulp Fiction." (Whether he cast James Van Der Beek as his lead because he looks more like Tarantino than any other working actor, I cannot guess.) In all of his work, Avary is fond of free movement up and down the timeline, and here he uses an ingenious approach to tell the stories of three main characters who are involved in, I dunno, five or six pairings. He begins with an "End of the World" party at Camden College, the ultimate party school, follows a story thread, then rewinds and follows another. He also uses fast-forward brilliantly to summarize a European vacation in a few hilarious minutes. a b Christensen, Lauren (March 31, 2019). "Bret Easton Ellis Has Calmed Down. He Thinks You Should, Too". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved May 4, 2022. Molloy, Tim (November 16, 2020). "Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast". MovieMaker . Retrieved December 20, 2022. Ellis's first novel, Less than Zero, is a tale of disaffected, rich teenagers of Los Angeles written and rewritten over a five-year period from Ellis's second year in high school, earlier drafts being "...more autobiographical and read like teen diaries or journal entries—lots of stuff about the bands I liked, the beach, the Galleria, clubs, driving around, doing drugs, partying", according to Ellis. [37] ELDRIDGE, DAVID (March 20, 2008). "The Generic American Psycho". Journal of American Studies. 42 (1): 19–33. doi: 10.1017/s0021875807004355. ISSN 0021-8758. S2CID 146580328.

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

This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Book Ends: The film begins and ends at the "End of the World" party; both the book and the film begin and end mid-sentence.