Oddward
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Joined: 6/8/2007 From: Corby
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A Bret Easton Ellis Double-Bill? Less Than Zero (1987) and Rules of Attraction (2002) I think this would be an interesting double bill because of the two films' similarities and differences, in both their approach to adapting Easton Ellis' work and also their tones. RoA plays more closely as an adaptation (although still quite loosely with the source material) and LTZ infamously changed the tone of the piece completely, mostly just taking it's characters and leaving out a lot of the book's message. However the films' both still include (mostly) Easton Ellis' (in)famously apathetic and morally ambiguous and bankrupt character - the major of both films (and books) both being quite similar (for the most part). I was thinking of including American Psycho but I think that it's more interesting using the the two contrasting adaptation, seeing as they have both similar ideas and characters and themes at the base of the source material.
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