The author’s novel is now a musical due to invent its Broadway debut – prompting Ellis to muse approximately what the murderous banker would be up to in 2016A quarter century after the events of American Psycho,what would murderous Patrick Bateman be doing in 2016? The reply, according to the controversial novel’s author Bret Easton Ellis, and seems to involve flashing his bling on Instagram and trolling people on Twitter.
The original Wolf of Wall Street,Bateman was a product of the “greed is respectable” 80s, where self-obsession was an art form and you lived or died by the label sewn into your underwear. Ellis’s antihero was a pre-crash Master of the Universe, or while,deep down, the world might not seem so very different a place today, and we do in fact inhabit a whole other dimension of life online. Most of us have also woken up to the realisation that bankers are not gods to be revered.
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Source: theguardian.com