Bret Easton Ellis interview on "The Informers" (1994)

[@ManufacturingIntellect]

Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/ManufacturingIntellect Donate Crypto! commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/868d67d2-1628-44a8-b8dc-8f9616d62259 Share this video!

[@kenq7948]

A depiction of misogyny is not an act of misogyny. So many people who criticize literature and comedy fail to recognize such a distinction.

[@HughMorristheJoker]

I know. I hate that. It's fiction. To depict how something is does not mean the author agrees with it.

[@strictlynorton]

Informers is a work of high art... unusual and arresting. Read or re-read. B.E.E. is one of America"s best writers.

[@cardigan3000]

I chose re-read

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

really? it's basically a bunch of outtakes from Less than Zero with names changed. the vampire stuff was cool, but it's my favourite writer's worst book

[@WesDanceMusic]

@@thebasedgodmax1163Gotta agree, I finished it slightly miffed, not sure if he was trying to do his version of Raymond Carver; I might give it a reread.

[@akidnamedcam]

My favorite part of this interview is how they don't know if Pulp Fiction will be any good lmaooo

[@stevencampbell2018]

Hindsight is a great thing man haha.

[@WalterLiddy]

Rose just seems totally unable to accept that Ellis's books aren't like everyone else's.

[@normanno8514]

I love how the guy who was accused of sexual harassment by 27 women is complaining about the lack or morality in a book.

[@OversikerSTUDIO]

I love it too.

[@0heda734]

27?!

[@jamesferry1523]

Essentially the same argument that Hubert Selby Jr. was making about "authorial intrusion" in that great doc, "It/ll be Better Tomorrow." Seems like every generation every writer since Flaubert has had to explain this very thing: 'It's not ME, you idiots! It's a narrator/character."

[@kennobody]

You can see Ellis suppressing his frustration with Charlie Rose, who is obviously a poor interviewer. Rose continually interrupts and controls the narrative for his own little sound bites, at the expense of digging deeper and finding out what Ellis was really trying to say... No wonder Ellis took control and made his own podcasts, taking control of artistic criticism and abandoning artistic creation after countless disappointment from asinine reviews and interviews.

[@WalterLiddy]

I love how at the end Rose is simultaneously pretending to be interested in what Ellis thinks, and making a big deal of how little he's interested in the gory details he just asked about.

[@oona791]

Rose is so goddamn frustrating lmao. He seems terribly occupied with ignoring Ellis' answers

[@beautifuldegen]

what a great book

[@MyTimeOutt]

When a writer dares to explore a dangerous area & shares his/her understanding of that truth or reality, getting death threats from ignorant people would be disheartening. When a person dares to live a life & gets metaphysically castrated for sharing his experience, what can you do, retreat into a monastery, or just go within, & let people who matter come into your life?

[@stevebrizzle]

I absolutely loathe Rose’s interview style. He always feels the need to finish the subject’s sentence to show how intelligent he (thinks he) is, which is something a good interviewer never does.

[@mick.7202]

who would've thought that this censorship would still be as rife today? Brett is one of my favourite authors and I'm glad that the bullshit didn't impair him! Long live his genius.

[@rileyperez277]

The yound director that Brett talked about to direct American Psycho is Rob Weiss who would end up Producing the film and going on to EP/Write for Entourage & Ballers(HBO). Seems like they did well.

[@alucuron]

This footage is gold

[@brianjohnsonontour]

Love his writing.

[@solarplexus4003]

Why don't that brilliant interviewer write a masterpiece?

[@kevinbistre3002]

We have Brett's vision of LA existing with Ice Cube's vision of LA. What's missing is an Asian and Latina vision. Any suggestions?

[@innovativeprogramschool7979]

Danny Trejo?

[@jcurrin1904]

Interesting the discussion about this then-nascent Generation X that was starting to come into adulthood...Ellis mentions 'easy narratives' (remember how GenXers were all a bunch of stoned slackers?) and compartmentalization. History repeating itself 20+ years later with Millennials. I've read several of his books (Less than Zero, Lunar Park, American Psycho); if nothing else he does have a unique style of writing.

[@jmm2841]

13:54 (and basically all of it) - why do we feel such a need to moralise everything (and hence strip it of all its meaning lol), the questions always seem to be obsessed with moralising...why does he have to write about people that are moral, fighting for a cause etc.

[@MetFansince]

It's weird. He writes about shallow people but then says, "When my favorite rrstuarant closed, L. A. was over for me."

[@MetFansince]

@Yankie Doodle I read Less than Zero so long ago, I need to reread it now. I remember not liking it 30 years ago. I'll let you know aftervI read it again and then read American Psycho.

[@brettwyatt7165]

Schizophrenic hypocrisy

[@chokingmessiah]

It was a snide joke delivered deadpan.

[@ericpanissidi6761]

The only other movies that hit home and sick to my stomach scary Larry Clark movies " kids" and" bully"

[@mirkovic]

Watching in 2019 it appears as if the author was surrounded by simpletons!

[@geovanl]

You think bret drinks blood

[@munch314]

My favorite BEE book

[@theongreyjoy19]

his voice is quite different than in his podcast

[@tcity6334]

He probably dated some black dude in the past 20 years.

[@VBHB83]

Great movie

[@bumpnthumpmusic638]

culture of outrage by self denying people

[@ericpanissidi6761]

Now we see the victim s of rock stars and actors have a voice now.

[@dannybowring1065]

I wonder if the fly being the. Critic is homaged in glamorama, just a far out theory. Probably way off😚 hehe!

[@theartistformallyknownassp3347]

lmao I study criminology and none of that shit are in my textbooks

[@Platformdestroyer]

this hasn't changed

[@brettwyatt7165]

Why is Tom cruise a big star

[@ReubenModeXXX]

Hey is it meant to be Clay at the end of the Up Escalator story? At the very end of the chapter the mom (I forget her name) sees a random young tan boy not listening to any conversation and staring at the water. He only starts paying attention when a story about someone drowning themselves is brought up. That sounds exactly like the passive Clay from Less Than Zero. Did I really miss this for 20 years?

[@brettwyatt7165]

Murder is satisfying

[@brettwyatt7165]

I don't remember saying this

[@brettwyatt7165]

You don't remember saying it

[@bradleytaylor5493]

Feminists gonna feminist

[@benashworth7653]

this dude scares me, yes, I know A.P. is fiction, but no sane person thinks of that shit......not like *that* i'll put it this way : If he told that brutal shit to a therapist , he would be commited to a mental hospital

[@Vicious5id]

Me too. I read AP few years ago, and some parts still haunt me or causes me nausea. And I remember asking to myself as I was reading: "how sick a mind can be, who is capable to write so many abominable acts and situations like that? Did he interview someone, did he read that shit somewhere, or did he invent all that hideousness by himself?"

[@benashworth7653]

yeah, andyou are the rat stuffed in it

[@stephenkissane4268]

@@Vicious5id maybe he saw and read about serial killers