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Bret. Easton. Ellis. Sonny, I just don't know where the heck to start with you. The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero has conducted interviews for Us website Movieline, about the film adaptations of his novels, in the throes of which he has shared his belief that women cannot be good directors. The problem, apparently, is that women lack the crucial "male gaze". This, lest you're confused, involves being "aroused by looking"; women aren't capable of this, he solemnly informs us, because of "how they're built". Hmm, like our bosoms get in the way of our eyes?
Now Bret's a chivalrous kind of guy, so he'll make some exceptions — he really liked Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, and he kinda dug The Runaways (directed by Floria Sigismondi...
Bret. Easton. Ellis. Sonny, I just don't know where the heck to start with you. The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero has conducted interviews for Us website Movieline, about the film adaptations of his novels, in the throes of which he has shared his belief that women cannot be good directors. The problem, apparently, is that women lack the crucial "male gaze". This, lest you're confused, involves being "aroused by looking"; women aren't capable of this, he solemnly informs us, because of "how they're built". Hmm, like our bosoms get in the way of our eyes?
Now Bret's a chivalrous kind of guy, so he'll make some exceptions — he really liked Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, and he kinda dug The Runaways (directed by Floria Sigismondi...
- 5/19/2010
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
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