Summary of Bret Easton Ellis's White

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had no desire to write a novel for the past five years, but out in the desert, between the notes calls and the fear tamped down by Xanax and tequila, the first paragraph of a novel began to take shape. It centered around the bone-white Emser Tile sign situated on a rooftop at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive.
#2 I’ve gone five or seven or eight years between books, and I’ve never forced a novel. I write in a way that works best for me, and I never give an audience what I think they might want.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Personal Memoirs

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822504448
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Bret Easton Ellis's White
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had no desire to write a novel for the past five years, but out in the desert, between the notes calls and the fear tamped down by Xanax and tequila, the first paragraph of a novel began to take shape. It centered around the bone-white Emser Tile sign situated on a rooftop at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive.

#2

I’ve gone five or seven or eight years between books, and I’ve never forced a novel. I write in a way that works best for me, and I never give an audience what I think they might want.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was unusually attracted to horror movies as a kid growing up in the 1970s. I knew one or two believers who loved them as well, but for the majority of my friends in that movie-mad decade, horror was just another genre.

#2

I had a very active childhood, as I was left to my own devices most of the time. I was always on the move, from playgrounds to parks to pools to the beach, and from arcades to malls to the streets.

#3

I was a child of the 1970s who read Thomas Tryon’s horror novel The Other when I was seven years old. It shocked me because it was the first detailed murder I had ever read about. I wanted to know how the author had pulled this scene off.

#4

My parents were lenient about entertainment. R-rated movies were typically acceptable, and my father had no problems with the nudity or sex with a minor in National Lampoon’s Animal House.

#5

The laissez-faire attitude about content that was common in the 1970s is not acceptable today, but it was not unusual for children in the summer of 1976 to sit through multiple viewings of The Omen in a massive theater.

#6

I spent a lot of time in the theater watching movies in the 1970s, and I was always filled with blood-soaked and realistic death. Compare this to the bloodless massacres of Marvel films today.

#7

I was ten years old when I saw a matinee of Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise, which blew my mind. I was becoming more independent, and I was excited about it. I was confronting the adult world on my own, by myself, and growing up.

#8

I grew up watching horror movies, which helped me understand and accept the world as it is. The movies taught me that there are winners and losers in life, and that you can’t always expect things to work out for you.

#9

I had become an adult when I returned to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving in 1982. I saw Creepshow, a George Romero and Stephen King collaboration, at the same theater where I’d seen Theatre of Blood with my friend and my father almost a decade earlier. I just shrugged at it.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

American Gigolo is a 1980 film about a male prostitute in Los Angeles, and it has had a huge impact on how I view and treat men.

#2

American Gigolo was a hit in 1980, and it was largely due to the movie's leading man, Richard Gere. The film is deliberately paced, and flirts with pretension more than it doesn't. It's hard to believe that this art object with few commercial concessions was a big Paramount picture.

#3

I was inspired by the moral ambiguity of American Gigolo when I was fifteen, and I still am today. The film came out when films could have a wide-ranging cultural impact, just as novels do today.

#4

Gere’s performance in American Gigolo is a performance of a performance. The movie’s narrative trajectory is that of a performer who needs to become real and get off the stage in order to save himself.

#5

In 1979, Gere starred in Yanks, a World War II ensemble film directed by John Schlesinger. He had never before appeared in a movie made by a gay director, and the difference between this and his two previous movies was noticeable to me even at fifteen.

#6

American Gigolo is a glazed and somewhat embalmed piece of traditional studio moviemaking, and all the Americans are miscast: Chick Vennera as Gere’s best friend is overdoing everything, and who in their right mind considered William Devane a romantic leading man, paired with the luminous Vanessa Redgrave.