{"podcast":{"title":"Shoot The Hostage","slug":"shoot-the-hostage-6316910","podcast_index_feed_id":6316910,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/shootthehostagepod/feed.xml","website_url":"https://shootthehostagepod.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16130652/shoot_the_hostage__38hcaw.jpg","author":"Shoot The Hostage Podcast","episode_count":172,"summary":"Shoot The Hostage is a movie podcast hosted by film-obsessed couple. We discuss a different movie each week based on a theme for the season and the seasons are 8 weeks long.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T10:19:41.001811+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shoot-the-hostage-6316910"},"episode":{"title":"American Psycho - S14 E113","slug":"american-psycho-s14-e113","published_at":"2026-04-13T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shoot-the-hostage-6316910/american-psycho-s14-e113","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shoot-the-hostage-6316910","url":"https://shootthehostagepod.podbean.com/e/american-psycho-s14-e113/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tdjnx579c5n4ttj3/113_AMERICAN_PSYCHO_S14_E11398u0y.mp3","summary":"Welcome to the seventh stop on our tour of Identity movies, where we’re discussing the bone-white brilliance of Mary Harron’s American Psycho (2000). In this episode, we get into why this is one of the most misunderstood movies in cinema history. While certain corners of the manosphere, incels and the red pill community treat Patrick Bateman like a looksmaxxing icon, we’re here to remind the dweebs that they’re the butt of the joke. It’s consumerist satire so brazen that it literally starts with blood-red raspberry sauce, yet people still manage to miss the point. We explore the essential feminist touch that director Mary Harron and writer Guinevere Turner brought to the production, turning Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial source material into a sharp psychological horror comedy. We also discuss how Christian Bale delivered a performance for the ages, partly by channelling the unhinged energy of Nicolas Cage in Vampire’s Kiss (a film we’ve previously covered). Expect the usual Shoot the Hostage nonsense as we dog pile Jared Leto once again, try to understand why Justin Theroux’s dancing lives rent free in Dan’s middle-aged memory, and debate whether the potential Luca Guadagnino remake is a masterpiece in waiting or a meaningless and pointless exercise. What to expect from this episode: Broken promises around Jared Leto movies no longer appearing in our lineups. The “magic E” theory that separates a hero like Batman and a villain like Bateman. A deep dive into collective identity and why all these yuppies are just one amorphous blob. How Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner’s feminine insight saved this movie from being a total misfire. The hilarious “business card war” and why we’re all anxious about the “subtle off-white coloring and tasteless thickness” of a rectangle.…","meta_description":"Welcome to the seventh stop on our tour of Identity movies, where we’re discussing the bone-white brilliance of Mary Harron’s American Psycho (2000). In t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4607,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/shoot-the-hostage-6316910/episodes/american-psycho-s14-e113/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/shoot-the-hostage-6316910/american-psycho-s14-e113.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}