The Psychology of the Film American Psycho (2014 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
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January 1, 2014
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to psychology in Seattle. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Kirk Honda professor and licensed therapist. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Umberto Kastagna. I'm an NFL historian. |
| 0:16.5 | All right, today's episode is about the movie American Psycho. |
| 0:21.0 | I recently came across a paper, a psychology paper, about American Psycho, and I remembered |
| 0:28.3 | that it's on Barro's favorite movie. |
| 0:31.0 | So I thought, let's make a podcast about this paper and about the movie and about all that so let's get going |
| 0:37.2 | Why do you love the movie so much birdo part of it is an emotional connection to when I saw it and how I saw it. |
| 0:43.8 | But here's the deal. |
| 0:44.8 | When I watched it, I didn't have a lot of context, |
| 0:47.3 | except that I had read an article a few years back |
| 0:51.0 | saying, hey, this thing called American Psychos being made into a movie and it's |
| 0:55.1 | got Leonardo DiCaprio in it because he was originally going to be the American |
| 0:58.5 | Cycle. And I thought, wow, it sounds interesting. And then I kind of lost track of of it and then all of a sudden out of nowhere |
| 1:05.2 | I know Leonardo's out this movie's coming out with this unknown guy right Christian Bale at the time |
| 1:10.4 | He'd been in stuff, but it's like newsies whatever right and so I go with some |
| 1:15.5 | friends and that's I don't have much context other than that so I don't know really to what I hadn't |
| 1:20.5 | read the book I never I didn't really know about Bret East and |
| 1:23.7 | Alice at the time even though I had seen less than zero when I was a kid or whatever |
| 1:27.6 | but so I go and I watch it in the whole movie I'm just mesmerized because A the style of the movie was fantastic like just |
| 1:36.7 | stylistically the the scenery the the decor the way they use the lighting the |
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