As such, monstrosity functions as a satire inAmerican Psycho, and to prove that monstrosity embodies all the key elements of satire, the concept of satire is introduced. In the traditional definition of satire, four factors should be considered, including the core establishment of a critical dicho...
Still from a scene inAmerican Psycho(2000) in which Patrick Bateman's card (with "bone" coloring and "the lettering is something called Silian Rail") is compared with David van Patten's card ("eggshell" coloring with "Romalian type") Still fromAmerican Psycho(2000) showing Paul Allen's b...
Fallon immediately shoos Psycho off the premises while Billy hides in a corner. At the toy store, where the toy tin soldier and ballerina lie dormant on the shelves, Fallon lectures Billy on the virtue of showing respect for his elders. He encourages the boy to borrow the tin soldier, ...
The credit sequences that open a movie constitute an under-appreciated art form, as you will conclude if you watch an hour of Saul Bass’s film title sequences onyoutube.com[https://youtu.be/qqM3McG4-LE]. Distinctive and recognizable, Bass’s style relies on all manner of graphic image...
Christian Bale is most known for playing Batman in "The Dark Knight" trilogy, as well as his roles in "American Psycho" and "The Machinist," wherein he flexes his uncanny ability to physically and emotionally transform himself for his on-screen personas. Actor #2 Sunset Boulevard // Corbis...
His Du Darwinisme ou l'homme-singe (On Darwinism or the Man-Ape) was probably the most vir- ulent rebuttal of Darwin's Descent of Man (1871), the work in which Darwin compared man's physical and psychologi- cal traits to similar ones in apes and other animals, and showed how even...
The marvel of watchingStop Making Senseso many years after it’s been crowned the “best” concert movie is seeing exactly how it earned that trophy. The staging is tremendous – starting out with Byrne, alone on stage, gyrating through the twitchy “Psycho Killer,” but slowly joined in ...
, andSnow White. If you're under forty, addBlazing Saddles, Terminator, Jaws,and2001; otherwise, addGone with the Wind, A Night at the Opera, Psycho,andCitizen Kane. Or if not, add You went over US history, and some European, in school, Not much Russian, Chinese, or Latin American...
Max’s full-length major debut album, “Heaven & Hell” (Atlantic Records), boasted the hit “Sweet but Psycho,” which spent three weeks in the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart. She most recently released her sophomore album, “Diamonds & Dancefloors.” Tickets and fu...
“human rights” advocacy a tool of US foreign policy. When this was first proposed under Carter, I for one, was skeptical about the whole thing. As it turned out, if you examine the retrospectives of both US and Russian historians of the Cold War, they will credit the “human rights”...