History Literature / Glamorama

* CatchPhrase:
** Victor's is, "The better you look, the more you see." It's likely that ''he'' doesn't even know what that means.
** He uses "Spare me!" very liberally.

* TheNineties: Much like in ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''', much emphasis is put on the fashion, music, the protagonist's use of TotallyRadical and other cultural aspects of the time period ''Glamorama'' takes place in. In fact, the reader can deduce that the novel takes place in 1996, as [[spoiler: Bobby Hughes' final terrorist act]] occurs on November 15, Friday which falls precisely on year 1996.

* AThreesomeIsAwesome: [[spoiler:In one point, Victor, Bobby and Jamie have very graphically described and at times acrobatic sex. Bobby and Victor both penetrate each other and though Victor has thrown around some homophobic slurs, he certainly seems to enjoy it.]]

* AThreesomeIsManly: Subverted. [[spoiler:Victor, Bobby and Jamie have very graphically described and at times acrobatic sex. Bobby and Victor both penetrate each other and though Victor has thrown around some homophobic slurs, he certainly seems to enjoy it.]]

* TheNineties: Much like in ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''', much emphasis is put on the fashion, music, the protagonist's use of TotallyRadical and other cultural aspects of the time period ''Glamorama'' takes place in.

* MeaningfulName: Victor is a case of an IronicName, as he is, more often than not, a loser undergod who's used and abused by the higher powers.

** "It’s what you don’t know that matters most."

* ArcWords: "Let's slide down the surface of things"

* BeautyIsBad
* TheBeautifulElite: Well of course!

* TheDitz: '''VICTOR'''. Also Alison.
* EveryoneIsBi: Certainly seems this way.

* FetchQuest: This is where the plot seems to be going,[[spoiler:but then it takes a hard turn]].

* {{Gorn}}: Yep. Though not as prevalent as it was in ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'', it's still there in force. An especially brutal example is [[spoiler: the death of Chloe]].

* [[spoiler:UnsettlingGenderReveal: Bobby Hughes does this to Victor (gives him a blowjob while dressed as a woman) on the cruise-liner as a way to steal an sensitive object for Victor. But considering the bisexual threesome that Bobby, Victor and Jamie engage in later...]]

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Unlike Ellis' other works, ''Glamorama'' has no chapter names, and chapters are numbered backwards, possibly to symbolise a countdown of a bomb.

* TheVerse: Victor himself was a supporting character in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction.'' Also appearing are: [[spoiler:Lauren and Bertrand from the same book. Jamie is technically a Ellisverse character as she was indeed mentioned by Victor as a former girlfriend in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction''.]] Alison Poole is also the main character of ''Story Of My Life'', a novel by Jay [=McInerney=], and was also mentioned in ''American Psycho''.

* TheVerse: Victor himself was a supporting character in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction.'' Also appearing are: [[spoiler:Lauren and Bertrand from the same book. Jamie is technically a Ellisverse character as she was indeed mentioned by Victor as a former girlfriend in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction''.]] Alison Poole is also the main character of ''Story Of My Life'', a novel by Jay [=McInerney=].

* TheCameo: You know how ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' was bursting at the seams with cameos? This manages to go beyond it somehow. There are sentences in the novel that are just {{Long List}}s of famous people at one particular event or another.

* CatchPhrase: Victor's is, "The better you look, the more you see." It's likely that ''he'' doesn't even know what that means.

* TheVerse: Victor himself was a supporting character in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction.'' Also appearing are: [[spoiler:Lauren and Bertrand from the same book. Jamie is technically a Ellisverse character as she was indeed mentioned by Victor as a former girlfriend in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction''.]] Alison Poole is also the main character of ''StoryOfMyLife'', a novel by Jay [=McInerney=].

** [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Patrick]] and [[TheRulesOfAttraction Sean Bateman]] also make cameos. Victor remarks that Patrick [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset "told me he has his own coat of arms."]]

* DevelopmentHell: The film adaptation. After Ellis was thoroughly impressed with the film of {{The Rules of Attraction}}, he handed the lifetime film rights over to Creator/RogerAvary. That was in 2002. Since the, Avary's completed and storyboarded a script, which according to Ellis' tweets, is awesome. However, TROA's underwhelming box office and the general dark tone of Ellis' work has kept studio funding away so far.

** [[AmericanPsycho Patrick]] and [[TheRulesOfAttraction Sean Bateman]] also make cameos. Victor remarks that Patrick [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset "told me he has his own coat of arms."]]

* CelebrityParadox: Patrick Bateman, the VillainProtagonist from AmericanPsycho exists in the same universe as Creator/ChristianBale, the actor who plays the film adaptation version of Bateman in RealLife.

* {{Gorn}}: Yep. Though not as prevalent as it was in ''AmericanPsycho'', it's still there in force. An especially brutal example is [[spoiler: the death of Chloe]].

If someone wanted to be glib about the plot of ''Glamorama'', they could say, "It's like the movie ''{{Zoolander}}'', but played straight." But they'd only be about 25% correct.

* TheCameo: You know how ''{{Zoolander}}'' was bursting at the seams with cameos? This manages to go beyond it somehow. There are sentences in the novel that are just {{Long List}}s of famous people at one particular event or another.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted.

If someone wanted to be glib about the plot of Glamorama, they could say, "It's like the movie ''{{Zoolander}}'', but played straight." But they'd only be about 25% correct.

Glamorama stars Victor, the mostly absent Europe-roaming boyfriend of Lauren's in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction'', as a somewhat vapid and completely solipsistic fashion model. He's risen to a level of fame and fortune; at the beginning of the novel, he's opening an extremely chic nightclub that promises to garner a large celebrity turnout. Victor is dating supermodel Chloe Byrnes while banging Alison Poole (who is dating the nightclub owner and Victor's business partner/boss) while doing a ton of drugs and chugging a ton of booze. Then Victor meets the strange and vague F. Fred Palakon, a man who offers him $300,000 to track down a former classmate of his, Jamie Fields. Victor takes the job and eventually finds Jamie and before he fully realizes it, he is waist-deep in the bizarre and violent happenings of an international terrorist group made up entirely of fashion models.

Glamorama is a 1998 novel by Creator/BretEastonEllis.

Glamorama is a 1998 novel by BretEastonEllis.

* DevelopmentHell: The film adaptation. After Ellis was thoroughly impressed with the film of {{The Rules of Attraction}}, he handed the lifetime film rights over to {{Roger Avary}}. That was in 2002. Since the, Avary's completed and storyboarded a script, which according to Ellis' tweets, is awesome. However, TROA's underwhelming box office and the general dark tone of Ellis' work has kept studio funding away so far.

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* CelebrityParadox: Patrick Bateman, the VillainProtagonist from AmericanPsycho exists in the same universe as ChristianBale, the actor who plays the film adaptation version of Bateman in RealLife.

Glamorama stars Victor, the mostly absent Europe-roaming boyfriend of Lauren's in ''TheRulesOfAttraction'', as a somewhat vapid and completely solipsistic fashion model. He's risen to a level of fame and fortune; at the beginning of the novel, he's opening an extremely chic nightclub that promises to garner a large celebrity turnout. Victor is dating supermodel Chloe Byrnes while banging Alison Poole (who is dating the nightclub owner and Victor's business partner/boss) while doing a ton of drugs and chugging a ton of booze. Then Victor meets the strange and vague F. Fred Palakon, a man who offers him $300,000 to track down a former classmate of his, Jamie Fields. Victor takes the job and eventually finds Jamie and before he fully realizes it, he is waist-deep in the bizarre and violent happenings of an international terrorist group made up entirely of fashion models.

* TheVerse: Victor himself was a supporting character in ''TheRulesOfAttraction.'' Also appearing are: [[spoiler:Lauren and Bertrand from the same book. Jamie is technically a Ellisverse character as she was indeed mentioned by Victor as a former girlfriend in ''TheRulesOfAttraction''.]] Alison Poole is also the main character of ''StoryOfMyLife'', a novel by Jay [=McInerney=].