donderdag 16 oktober 2014

wall street

De New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is gemeten naar marktkapitalisatie de grootste aandelenbeurs ter wereld. In aantal noteringen en verhandelde aandelen is het de nummer twee na de schermenbeurs NASDAQ. NYSE wordt geleid door het bedrijf NYSE Euronext. Het hoofdkantoor in New York is gevestigd op Broad Street 18 op Lower Manhattan in de stad New York in de gelijknamige Amerikaanse staat. (Dit moet niet verward worden met de gebouwen, zoals dat op Wall Street, waar de handel plaatsvindt.)
In tegenstelling tot wat het geval is bij de meer virtuele beurzen (zoals de NASDAQ), was er bij de handel die onder de NYSE valt altijd sprake van directe communicatie tussen personen, dus op dezelfde fysieke locatie. Er was één "podium" voor elk op de beurs verhandeld aandelenfonds. Beursleden die namens hun klanten een bepaald aandeel willen kopen of verkopen gaan naar het betreffende podium (pit), waar een zogenoemde specialists van firma's als LaBranche en Van der Moolen zorg dragen voor de transacties. Dit gaat soms gepaard met rumoer en hectiek, die weergegeven zijn in verschillende films, waaronder Wall Street van Oliver Stone.
Tegenwoordig hanteert de beurs een hybride model waarbij zowel handel plaatsvindt via schermen als via de specialists op de vloer. Veruit het grootste deel van de handel verloopt anno 2007 via de schermen.

yuppie

Yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional")

Yuppism... is not definable entirely by income or class. Rather, it is a late-20th century cultural phenomenon of self-absorbed young professionals, earning good pay, enjoying the cultural attractions of sophisticated urban life and thought, and generally out of touch with, indeed antithetical to, most of the challenges and concerns of a far less well-off and more parochial Middle America. For the yuppie male a well-paying job in law, finance, academia or consulting in a cultural hub, hip fashion, cool appearance, studied poise, elite education, proper recreation and fitness and general proximity to liberal-thinking elites, especially of the more rarefied sort in the arts, are the mark of a real man.


Associaties

Psychopaat / Moord / Seriemoordenaar / Plezier / Gek / Psychisch Gestoord / Rijk / Geld / Macht / Alleen / Geobsedeerd / Prostitutie / Grof / Bloederig / Wapens / Kettingzaag / Wurgen / Lachen / Levensstijl / Realiteit / Raar / 1991 (Boek) / 2000 (Film) / Verfilming / Christian Bale / Acteur / Next-level / Schelden / Verveeld / Mentaal / Goor / ‘Moorden is een hobby’ / Levensgenieter / Taking lives / Slachtoffer / Dood / Geen gevolgen / Wanhoop / Explosies / Politie / Daklozen / Prostituees / Mes / netteman (overdag)/ s'avonds psycho/uit de hoogte/ gezichtscreme / the WOLF of wall street / kannibaal? / Geeft niets om anderen / Veel te groot ego / dwangbuis / Londen / Jack The Ripper / misbruik / marteling / drugs / walkman / "return some videos" / visitekaart / merkkledij / Niet populair / bedriegt / wordt bedrogen / politie zit hem op de hielen / Mooi kantoor / New York / geen emoties / moordritueel --> muziek / 

lifestyle patrick bateman






Wiki review

Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_(boek)




"American Psycho is grotendeels een kritiek op de oppervlakkigheid en wreedheid van het kapitalisme. De personages zijn overwegend bezig met materieel bezit en een oppervlakkige vertoning, kenmerken die verwijzen naar een postmoderne wereld waarin oppervlakkigheid heer en meester is. Dit leidt ertoe dat Patrick Bateman zich gedraagt alsof alles koopwaar is, mensen inbegrepen, een attitude die verder meespeelt in de toename van objectificatie van vrouwen doorheen de roman. Deze teruggetrokken houding van Bateman laat hem toe zijn daden te rationaliseren".

Diverse covers





moordwapens




Movie quote

Evelyn Williams: You're inhuman.
Patrick Bateman: No... I'm in touch with humanity.


Jean: What's that?
Patrick Bateman: Duct tape. I need it for... taping something.

Evelyn Williams: Where are you going?
Patrick Bateman: I am just leaving.
Evelyn Williams: But where?
Patrick Bateman: I have to return some videotapes.

Evelyn Williams: You hate that job anyway. I don't see why you don't just quit.
Patrick Bateman: Because I want to fit in.

David Van Patten: What are you so fucking zany about?
Patrick Bateman: I'm just a happy camper! Rockin' and a-rollin'!


Patrick Bateman: I killed Paul Allen. And I liked it.

Victoria: [referring to the bloodstains on Bateman's sheets] What are those?
Patrick Bateman: Oh, uh, it's - cranberry juice. Uh, cran-apple.


Patrick Bateman: I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Personages

Major characters

  • Patrick Bateman - The narrator of the novel
  • Evelyn Richards - Bateman's girlfriend
  • Timothy Price - Bateman's best friend and colleague. Later appears as a teenager in Ellis' novel The Informers
  • Paul Owen - Bateman's colleague who is later murdered by Bateman
  • Jean - Bateman's secretary, whom Bateman refers to as "Jean, my secretary who is in love with me"
  • Luis Carruthers - A closeted homosexual co-worker who is in love with Bateman, something that disgusts him
  • Courtney Lawrence - Luis' girlfriend who is having an affair with Bateman
  • Craig McDermott - Bateman's colleague, part of a social foursome alongside Bateman, Timothy Price and David Van Patten
  • David Van Patten - Bateman's colleague, also part of Bateman's main social group.

Minor characters

  • "Christie" – A prostitute, employed and abused sexually on multiple occasions by Bateman before he eventually murders her. Bateman gives her this name; her real one is never revealed.
  • Elizabeth - A dinner date of Bateman's, drugged and coerced into having sex with "Christie" before being murdered.
  • Marcus Halberstram – Bateman's colleague; Paul Owen repeatedly mistakes Bateman for Marcus.
  • Donald Kimball – Private detective hired to investigate Paul Owen's disappearance.
  • Alison Poole – Sexually assaulted by Bateman; created by Ellis' friend Jay McInerney in his novel Story of My Life[13] and based on McInerney's former girlfriend Rielle Hunter; reappears as a main character in Ellis's later novel Glamorama, where she is involved with the lead character, Victor Ward.
  • Sean Bateman – Younger brother of Patrick Bateman and also the lead character of The Rules of Attraction.
  • Paul Denton – Friend of Paul Owen, who also appears in The Rules of Attraction where he is possibly romantically involved with Patrick's brother Sean.
  • Christopher Armstrong – Bateman's colleague at Pierce & Pierce.
  • Bethany – An old girlfriend of Patrick's whom, after a date, he murders in a particularly heinous manner.
  • Stash – Evelyn's friend, is HIV positive.
  • Vanden – Evelyn's friend from the East Village who attends Camden College, the main setting of The Rules of Attraction.
  • Al - A homeless man whom Bateman blinds and disfigures with a knife.

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dinsdag 14 oktober 2014

Persoonlijkheid hoofdpersonage


Betekenis psychopathie

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathie

psychopath vs sociopath

http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Psychopath
“…there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at Harvard) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this—and I have countless times, in just about every act I’ve committed—and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing….” 
― Bret Easton EllisAmerican Psycho

link: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2270060-american-psycho

verfilming van american psycho



Patrick Bateman
is een stereotype 
yuppie,
hij woont in een prachtig appartement in New York en draagt alleen de duurste mode.





Maar 's avonds komt Patricks ware aard boven, een losgeslagen moordende en verkrachtende psychopaat.