Romanticism continues in the life of 'Sherman McCoy', and because his life is volatile and decides to go to his sister. But his life is reversed, especially after an accident happened in his car. In the end, they learned that the car that hit the boy belonged to financier Sherman McCoy. At the time of the accident, McCoy was with a woman who was not his wife. She refuses to let McCoy advance. Eventually he decides to sue McCoy.
Reduced to pure plot, the narrative is not so much a sendup of 1980s hypocrisy as an orgy of banal, juvenile mean-spiritedness. The irony of Wolfe's book becomes shrill, screaming sarcasm, unpleasant, and, worse, unfunny.
Brian DePalma`s The Bonfire of the Vanities is a perfect example of how a best-selling book can be carefully altered, perceptively pruned and converted into an intriguing motion picture.
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it.
