Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors. His novels feature "flat affect" and a glossy, empty style which garner him extremely polarized reviews. Ellis has been described as "a profoundly moral writer characteristically spare and hypnotic prose style which beats out these lives of quiet desperation with a slow pulse as gentle as it is compelling" (Modern Review). He has called himself a moralist, while he has been pegged as a nihilist. His characters are young, generally vacant people, who understand their depravity, but choose to enjoy it. Ellis prefers to set his novels in the 1980s to use the overt commercialism of the entertainment industry of the decade as a symbol. The novels are also linked by common, recurring characters, and dystopic locales (Los Angeles, New York).

Films

Less Than Zero was made into a film in 1987, directed by Marek Kanievska and starring Andrew McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr and Jami Gertz. American Psycho was filmed in 2000, directed by Mary Harron and starring Christian Bale. The Rules of Attraction was filmed in 2002, directed by Roger Avary and starring James Van Der Beek and Shannyn Sossamon. A film based on Glamorama is in pre-production. Additionally, there is a film called Glitterati being made that takes place in between the events of The Rules of Attraction and Glamorama, which is slated for release before Glamorama.

Related Topics:
Marek Kanievska - Andrew McCarthy - Robert Downey Jr - Jami Gertz - 2000 - Mary Harron - Christian Bale - The Rules of Attraction - 2002 - Roger Avary - James Van Der Beek - Shannyn Sossamon - Glitterati

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A film about Ellis, titled This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis, was made in 2000. The film is a combination of a documentary on his life as well as dramatizations of scenes from his books.

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