Laws of attraction (film)

the Laws of attraction ( The Rules off Attraction ) is an American film carried out by Roger Avary in 2002, adapted novel éponyme of Bret Easton Ellis of 1987.

Synopsis

In Camden College, the essence of the life of the students does not proceed during the courses. In this universe of festivals and vice, Sean Bateman did not usurp his reputation of ladykiller. A good part of the young girls of the campus can testify some personally. Paul Denton, posts to him at the great day his homosexuality, but it has evil to be partners. Lauren Hynde, for its part, is sublime. She does not misuse it yet. She is too occupied seeking her place in this libertarian world which obeys entire the laws of attraction…

Data sheet

  • Title: Laws of attraction

  • original Title: The Rules off Attraction
  • Subtitle: We All Run one Instinct (translation: One goes all to the instinct )
  • Réalisation: Roger Avary
  • Scenario: Roger Avary, according to the novel éponyme of Bret Easton Ellis (1987).
  • Producing: Greg Shapiro
  • Production: Metropolitan FilmExport
  • Director of the photography: Robert Brinkmann
  • Music: Tomandandy
  • Assembly: Sharon Rutter
  • Costumes: Louise Frogley
  • Decorations: Sharon Seymour

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • the Laws of attraction is a novel of Bret Easton Ellis, writer worship and discussed, of which all the novels were adapted to the screen ( Neige on Beverly Hills in 1987 for Less than zero and American Psycho in 2000).

  • Roger Avary will adapt in 2004 another novel of Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama .
  • For the producer Greg Shapiro, the Laws of attraction constitutes the meeting of two strong and singular universes. " On a side, Bret Easton Ellis, who can make steal in glares appearances of the easy mediums. And Roger Avary, which films the places that one believed to know in a completely unextended way. With final, you obtain an acid, funny and attractive fable on the reality of a young jet set which has only certain concerns in tête."
  • Sean Bateman is the young brother of Patrick Bateman, hero of American Psycho , which besides appears in the novel but not film.
  • Roger Avary has voluntarily selected to incarnate the désoeuvrés students of film of the actors resulting from films and popular series for teenagers: James Van Der Beek is the principal interpreter of the televised series Dawson, Jessica Biel in Seven at the house, Shannyn Sossamon was revealed in Chevalier and 40 Days and 40 Nights and Thomas Ian Nicholas in American Pie …
  • Fifteen years was necessary to carry out the Laws of attraction: as of the publication of the book in 1987, Avary, then student, recognize his generation and wish to put in image this novel. According to him the history and the topics approached have as much impact than fifteen years ago, the company of the image, the superficiality of manners and the cynicism being always of topicality. The realizer only wished to gum the specific elements of end of the year 80 to return the Laws of possible attraction most timeless.
  • the film does not go until the end of the novel, stopping with the first rupture of Sean and Laurenn, whereas the novel further continues, the two protagonists recovering together for a tragic epopee on the roads from the the United States.
  • to make feel the narrative originality of Bret Easton Ellis, Avary uses innovative processes and unusual methods of narration: assembly with Final Cut Pro, Split screen (which answers the multiple alternate narrators of the novel), elliptic music…

External bonds

  • Official site of the film

  • Card IMDb

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