…or, at least, The Most Essential 9:52 in All of Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Ellis. Except for most of American Psycho. Well…maybe the Most Essential 9:52 in All of 80s Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Eliis? Can we agree on that?
In short: Less Than Zero has been uploaded to YouTube in several chunks. Embedding has been disabled by the request of user 80sTeenMovies, but you can watch the first nine minutes and fifty two seconds––from the tacked-on graduation prologue, through Andrew “Clay” McCarthy’s EuroCine flashbacks to the dissolution of his relationships with Jamie “Blair” Gertz and Robert “Julian” Downey Jr, and up through the end of the triumphant “You can’t home home again…to a Ferrari showroom your parents mansion in Beverly Hills” montage set to “Hazy Shade of Winter” by The Bangles––here.
You don’t really need to watch the rest of the film, but if you’re looking for an excuse to kill the rest of the afternoon, you could. Or, you could just watch the above, vaguely-synergistic Bangles video, which includes that wonderful/horrible scene of Gertz and McCarthy making out in his convertible in the middle of Sunset Strip traffic.
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