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Quote of the Day II
my new plaid pants —
... this post out with a question, namely: What is this, "Tom Cruise is crazy" Day? But I remembered that every day is "Tom Cruise is crazy" Day and such questions are a frivolous waste of our time. Frivolous! So I went and typed two sentences about how I wasn't going to say that instead, which is the exact opposite of frivolous. Duh. Still, two posts in a row about the topic is a little weird, but this here is something I could hardly ignore. Here's American Psycho director Mary Harron talking about how she and Christian Bale formed his brilliant ...
AMERICAN PSYCHO BASED ON TOM CRUISE
Filmdrunk —
... can’t seem to buy good publicity these days, but that tends to happen when you’re a total weirdo. The latest hit is an interview with American Psycho director Mary Harron, and it’s really interesting to hear her talk about her latest projects tell us what we already sort of knew about Tom Cruise. From Blackbook Magazine: ...
Eerie: Tom Cruise was Christian Bale’s Inspiration for Patrick Bateman
/Film —
... Su-su-Suri. In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale’s inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What’s more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise’s go-getter, ’80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman’s yuppie, psychopathic shell. After the jump, we have Harron’s very ...
Tom Cruise inspired American Psycho
FILMdetail —
Director Mary Harron has admitted in an interview that Tom Cruise inspired Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
Which in turn has led to an updating of that Bale-Kermit the Frog meme from a few months back.
[Link via Buzzfeed] ...
Christian Bale’s Inspiration for ‘American Psycho’? Tom Cruise
:: The Playlist :: —
... Oh boy, Tom Cruise is having a bad PR week, even for him. First up, in an interview with BlackBook, director Mary Harron, reveals that in developing the character of Patrick Bateman for "American Psycho," Christian Bale found sudden inspiration when he caught Cruise's soulless but energetic appearance on David Letterman one night while flipping channels: ...
Quick List: Celebrities With The Worst Reputations
Cinematical —
... Perception is everything, and I don't mean to get all metaphysical on you, but sometimes it's how the world sees us that can define who we are -- but what if the world thinks you're a psycho? In an interview with ...
Tom Cruise Inspired Christian Bale's American Psycho
Cinema Blend News —
... yuppie Patrick Bateman long before his Batman growl made him a household name. And this week, for no evident reason, American Psycho director Mary Harron is coming forward with Bale's inspiration for the character-- and no, it's not his own endless supply of inner anger. "one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy," Harron told Black Book . I'm not really sure how to elaborate on that quote, other that to remark on how well ...
Does Tom Cruise have psycho eyes? Christian Bale says yes
Film Gecko —
... In an interview with BlackBook, Herron talked about how she and Bale created the delusional Bateman. “We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave.” ...
Who other than Tom Cruise has inspired Christian Bale?
Film | guardian.co.uk —
... The film's director, Mary Harron, told Black Book magazine that Bale initially struggled with the role of Patrick Bateman until he noticed Cruise's "intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes" during a David Letterman interview, and the rest is history. ...
Talking Heads > American Psycho > Christian Bale > Tom Cruise > Miles Fisher > Mad Men
scanners —
... Director Mary Harron, on working with Christian Bale to develop the character of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho": ...
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WTF: Let's Exploit Dead People
Movies —
... • Ever wonder where Christian Bale got the inspiration to play a rich, handsome madman so spot-on in American Psycho? Director Mary Harron revealed to BlackBook that it was apparently a Tom Cruise appearance on David Letterman. So Christian Bale saw the crazy before Cruise went full-on crazy in 2005. ...
