Working with and Challenging conventions
My film introduces Mr Fantasy, a character who is mysterious and unclear. My film revolves around him singularly, he is a young white male in his early thirties, he carries a composed and confident personality. He has very little self-expression as he remains dull in his grey suit, however, he does fixate a small and calm smile of his face. I created his character as someone who grew up in an old fashioned, white middle class family. He works a stable job as a news reporter, but he would have access to family money, to which there is a vast amount of. I created this representation with the traditional clean business suit as the base of the costume, as well as directing him in a greedy way, this greed relates to the issues I explored as well as the representation for this white male type character.
(American Psycho, 2000)
The issue that I raised focused of the real life problem of the cruelty often brought upon the poor by the rich. The way that I explored this issue was by simply making him a murderer, carrying symbolism and representation of the cruelty he inflicts. This kind of character can been seen within the personality of American Psycho’s main lead, Patrick Bateman. He is a big head in the corporate world and murders for a sense of personal satisfaction. The direction I am taking this in is that much like Patrick Bateman, Mr Fantasy murders for his own satisfaction, but picks on the poor from the viewpoint that they are worth nothing but his own entertainment to do whatever he wishes with and he manages to get away with it because he was born into a world of wealth. This kind of thing happens in the real world, as the wealthy get away with all sorts because they are able to fix their problems with money, especially in the corporate world as seen with instances among people such as Harvey Weinstein, who is unfortunately only one example of many more.
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