The Canyons Page #7

Synopsis: When Christian, an LA trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between Tara and the lead of his film project, Ryan, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Paul Schrader
Production: IFC Films
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
3.8
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2013
99 min
$31,317
Website
613 Views


Christian...

Christian, what happened?

It's not important.

Uh, I don't-

what happened?

I don't get-

I don't understand.

What do you mean,

something happened?

I left dr. Campbell's at 3:55.

Got here at 4:
20.

You've been with me

ever since.

Do you understand?

Nod for me, baby.

Nod for me.

One more thing.

If you ever see him again,

If he ever contacts you,

If he calls you,

If you're even

in the same room together...

I will kill him.

Look at me.

I will kill him,

and I will get away with it.

You understand?

Yes.

Nod for me, baby.

Nod for me.

Okay, okay.

That's a good girl.

Good girl.

So, you guys

just got back from dubai.

Yeah, we stayed

at the burj al arab.

I thought you had a bad

experience at the burj?

Thought you were only staying

at the atlantis now?

Yeah, but tara

had never been to dubai,

So I thought

it'd be fun for her.

It didn't matter to me.

I was in meetings all day.

So how was dubai?

What'd you do there?

You know, just shopped,

laid out.

Weren't you working

on a movie?

Yeah, uh, kind of.

Yeah. How'd you know?

- We have a friend in common.

- Who?

Christian.

Didn't you

used to go out with him?

Yeah.

He's producing another movie

a friend of mine is in,

And jaden told me that you and

christian used to live together

And when I met you tonight,

I just put it all together.

Yeah, christian and I

went out for about a year.

And then when we broke up,

I decided to take myself

off the film.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Was the breakup that bad?

No. No, not at all.

No, it's just, there were

a lot of things going on and-

Wait, wasn't that-

Was that around the time

when that girl was killed?

Christian's yoga instructor

or something?

Yeah, actually...

Yeah, it was right around that

time that we broke up, yeah.

They never found out

who did that, did they?

No. I mean,

they had some suspects,

But aside from that, no.

At the end, nothing.

Didn't they find like a knife in

the car of someone's assistant?

Yeah, but... I mean,

I heard that it was basically

Whoever killed

the person, her,

Must have thrown it

in his car.

I mean, I was with him that

night, so it wasn't him, but-

Yeah, after that...

So they never

arrested anybody?

No. Actually, no, they didn't.

That's so scary.

Yeah.

How is christian doing,

by the way?

Christian,

he's, um, he's good.

We don't really talk

that much,

Aside from texts

and facebook and stuff.

But the last time I heard

from him was pretty recent,

And he's doing great,

actually.

Gonna go to the ladies' room.

I'll be right back.

Good, good. I'm glad

you guys had a good time.

- She's cute, man.

- Yeah, she's cute.

Hey! It's me.

Yeah, I'm here with her

right now.

Yeah, we went to david's place

first for drinks.

So... What do you

want me to do?

Anything you want me

to ask her

Besides what you

already told me to?

She seems happy, even though

she's like totally faking it.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello, ryan.

Hello, ryan, are you there?

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. Ellis made his debut at age 21 with the controversial bestseller Less Than Zero (1985), published by Simon & Schuster, a zeitgeist novel about wealthy amoral young people in Los Angeles. His third novel, American Psycho (1991) was his most successful. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year. In later years, Ellis' novels have become increasingly metafictional. Lunar Park (2005), a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews. Imperial Bedrooms (2010), marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein. Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, leading to the release of a starkly different film of the same name in 1987. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to generally positive reviews in 2000 and went on to achieve cult status. Roger Avary's 2002 adaptation The Rules of Attraction made modest box office returns but went on to attract a cult following. 2008's The Informers, based on Ellis's collection of short stories, was critically panned. Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the critically derided 2013 film The Canyons, an original work. more…

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