I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Directed by Mary Harron
The story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "SCUM" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he repeatedly ignored her. So she shot him.
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He will soon be working on a new Mary Harron film, his third after I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho, neither of which has scored highly with the gatekeepers of political or moral correctness.
After several years of the film adaptation rights thrashing around from one studio and director to the next, "American Psycho" has finally surfaced on the big screen with, shock of all shocks, a female director, Mary Harron (1996's "I Shot Andy Warhol"), and a female collaborative screenwriting partner, Guinevere Turner.
And in the first half of their script, Harron (whose previous feature was the fine I Shot Andy Warhol) and Guinevere Turner (star and co-writer of the lesbian indie flick Go Fish) do successfully present American Psycho as a lively black comedy.
Harron has a thing for black comedy, traditionally a male preserve: Her last film, I Shot Andy Warhol, applied a capriciously gruesome deadpan to the story of Valerie Solanasâ attempt to assassinate the â60s pop artist.
Writer/director Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) has sensibly excised the gratuitous gore at the sick heart of Bret Easton Ellis's yuppie slasher novel, leaving a provocative socio-psychological satire balanced tantalisingly on the cusp of chilly horror and outrageous comedy.
The movie is directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) who is more experienced at anti-mainstream movies than she is at horror films, but she adapts easily.
Writer-director Mary Harron ("I Shot Andy Warhol") has pared down author Bret Easton Ellis' violence, leaving intact his social commentary and wicked sense of humor.