when the audience doesn't get the joke 

Ever thinking of covering Trainspotting and it’s sequel in this series - love your work

@@Sam-nl8ie would love to see that too, especially the sequel for how great it actually ended up being despite all odds

Oh that is interesting! I think I just assumed subconsciously that it was a 90s look.

i cant unsee it now 🤯🤯🤯

I thought quentin tarantino made pulp fiction and reservoir dogs.

It does. Only the absolute dumbest minority of people would have missed it. People don't take it seriously. The people you see online are pretending to take it seriously because it's funny.

Is that a gram?

Everyone knows it's a satire, but that's only because it touches on some true themes. Business card design was a big deal in the 80s and 90s, just like what shoes or watch or suit you wore were (and still are) a big deal to the people you dealt with in business. Corporate life doesn't come with a lot of creativity in how you present yourself to the world, so the little details matter.

I bet people who were invested in the movie as straight, not satire, saw that scene like "ok, you *do* need attention to detail to become sucessful"

@@jozepedro27 Nobody in the world has thought that. The people who take the movie "as straight" see the satire, and embrace it. It's funny to take it in unironically

I read that in order to play the character of Patrick Bateman, he actually pretended to be him.

True dedication

​@@miriglith4293he did that on camera too, if you watch the movie you can see where it happens

Truly on of the movies of all time

Marlon Brando would like a word

It also reminds us that he has a lot of free time for an alpha yuppy.

Those things were more expensive than modern video game consoles and were designed to match your expensive furniture. All that wood grain stuff, the cheaper ones (still like 700 bucks in 1980s dollars too!) were plastic and painted but I think it’s interesting how back then LOOKING expensive if you had a VCR was just as important as the function.

@@overtherenowaitthere Yeah back then a VCR would be easily a months salary for a working class person. A gaming machine today 1-1.5 weeks.

Imagine flexing going to a Redbox these days 😂

Our old VCR from the late eighties weighed like 25 lbs. Ridiculous!

Willem DeFie played the interview at least three ways and they mixed up the takes, it's brilliant.

Okay this makes so much more sense. I never understood that before

maybe bateman is in fact allen

congratulations for understanding the key point of the film.

@@ConnieLynchitzWhoElse I'm pointing out what my favorite thing about the film is. Not whether or not it's obvious to the audience. Merry Christmas.

Lol, the movie is so funny. Anyway, gotta go... ... return some video tapes.

@@Freakazoid12345 A lot of people won't get that video rental stores back in the Eighties would charge you up the ass if you returned tapes late. Places like Blockbuster hoped you'd return them late so they could charge you the whole fucking rental fee again. So the whole "have to return some video tapes" really was a thing for us back then. Superb satire.

@@Melsharpe95 I hung out with a guy dude from a local Hollywood video (like a Blockbuster, not in Hollywood). He listened to Madonna and had a Chihuahua. He hit on me and I said I was straight and to get back at me he kept the tapes I returned so I had to pay for replacing them. This was the early 2000's and I'm sure you can guess how I felt about that and perhaps even what somebody might call somebody like him who does something like that.

@@Melsharpe95 Absolutely love the movie and whilst I'm 51 yrs old (today! :D ), I don't think I've ever personally paid for a video store membership / film hire. So the last bit of the jigsaw makes sense, now. Thanks.

@@neillynch_ecocidologist Happy birthday :)

Yeah they seem to be far and few between. Another one is Chuck Palahniuk, who was happy with the film version of Fight Club iirc.

@@amorphousblob chuck palahniuk you mean

Until he made comments that the movie would have been better if directed by a man 🙄🙄

​@@amorphousblobwtf are you on about? David Fincher didn't write Fight Club, he directed it.

@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts It was a half-asleep mistake lmao, christ. Relax.

I like to say he's a "sigma male" and honestly it's purely because it's funny. The scene where he arranges his hair with the menu is just too hilarious.

its as if the people saying that are joking and get the character perfectly

It’s the same with all the ‘sigma male’ wannabes. Take Tommy Shelby , he ends up alone and unloved by those he loves. Yet pathetic men aspire to him. Same with Patrick. It’s because they hate women and themselves. They want to be desired by other men, validated by other men, hence why they replicate these men that most women don’t like. Look at Mr Darcy a pretty much universally love male character, yet no men aspire to him (or very few).

​@@alexandermccabe556sure

sigma male **is** a satire satire of alpha-beta-omega stuff from false wolf pack structure

I’m going to do that too!

I can only see people using it ironically to simply quote the movie and not actually genuinely to get out of social situation. I guess you could get out of social situation and quote the movie at the same time, but not use it as a genuine line.

Just add "to Redbox" lol

😂 lmao

I usually just say "I gotta go, I've got a ton of excuses to make up"

Brilliant catch!

Watch the movie!

@@wafflepoet5437 brilliant catch??? he literally says it in the video what are you on about

Never notice that hhaha nice easter egg

"I'm into murders and executions" "You like it? Cuz a lot of guys I know don't like being in mergers and acquisitions" You should really give the movie a shot! It is too good to miss!

Leave it to Americans to think a satire about a sad, pathetic, run-of-the-mill malignant narcissist is something they should take seriously because they aspire to be like the antagonist. They think the antagonist is the protagonist. Basically America is fucked. Thanks for reading. 😂

I mean its objectively hilarious that someone would consistently review albums in a robotic tone at extremely bizarre times

This video is overstating things a bit. I saw it in the theater when it was released and the audience was laughing and clearly understood the satire,

I read the book when I was a teen. I had read a bunch of serial killer books and horror books etc and this was the one book I had to put down and take a break from because some of the sections were soo disturbing. Satire or not the violence was extreme and I still remember the descriptions to this day of the scotch sharpening his reflexes

What I find most hilarious is all the so called "intellectuals" on the internet who actually believe that anyone, anywhere, doesn't understand that this movie is blatant and obvious satire and are constantly patting each other on the back for "getting it". I heretofore challenge any of you "enlightened academics" to provide concrete proof of existence pertaining to these imaginary, non-existent, ignoramus straw-men that you have all unified together to pretentiously mock in your circle jerk of condensation...

@@red2977 love the part where he pulls a girl’s neck inside out

Can your point to what's satirical about the bit where he puts cheese and rats into a woman's pussy and then cuts her in half with a chainsaw

@@red2977 Thank you for your comment. Extreme violence and misogyny and greed and anger and obsessive self-involvement is simply pathological. Saying it is satire is almost meaningless.

one of them did. the rest copied him.

Which is ironic since the whole scene was about attention to the details of the cards

Or bateman didnt know how to spell acquisitions, and the whole thing is made up on his mind.🙄

Folarin Osibodu BSc BSc MSc PSM PSPO do u introduce urself as this in person, must take a while :D

​@@bunyann90 I wonder if he pronounces it bisk bisk pissim pisspoo

You kinda have to watch it a second time to really get into the comedy, especially if you watch it the first time thinking it's gonna be a scary thriller lol

I saw the movie with some friends and I was the only one laughing my ass off. I kind of questioned myself about that afterwards and determined I got the movie and they didn't.

@@madislandguy I remember laughing at the card scene in particular. For years after I'd make the same joke whenever someone handed me a business card.

sometimes you have to be primed by someone else that it is a comedy to even look for such cues.

The kitten scene had me gasping for air.

I don't think this works as well as you think it does

@@youngnoodle1963right 😭

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Oh buddy, yes.

The point of the movie is that teenagers are stupid and don't understand satire? Someone didn't understand the film...

@@ToxicBastarduh ya

​@@ToxicBastardYeah, nailed it buddy. Good job.

They're the same bunch of superficial people who don't understand that Warhammer 40k at its core is a satire on fascism. It flies right over their head. Instead they worship all the idiocy that these works make fun of.

My interpretation of it was that he actually DID kill Paul Allen but his co-worker who said he had lunch with Allen after Bateman supposedly killed him, thought he was Paul Allen, because they all seem the same and interchangeable in the eyes of the Wall Streeters.

@@simonster-9094 it's not quite as funny as bateman killing the wrong guy but it's just as nightmarish. Such a violent action and noone even cares. He'll never get the punishment he craves.

Oh, I never thought of it like that! I just assumed it was the other guy who mistook someone else for Paul Allen. But honestly your interpretation of it makes the whole thing a lot funnier.

@@simonster-9094 My interpretation of it was also that he did kill Paul Allen, but everyone subtly tells him that they know, don't care and will cover for him indefinitely, despite Bateman's most desperate desire being caught out. The psychopathic part of Bateman wants to break out of the endless yuppie Hamster Wheel, so he indulges in shocking acts of hyperviolence in the hopes someone might actually recognize that there is indeed some semblence of a human being under all those designer clothes, expensive perfume and flawless skin care. Instead he is told, in a rather threatening tone, more overtly so in the movie, that Paul Allen is still alive. The way Allens lawyer acted the scene was more of a "I know you did, now shut up before you get into trouble", followed by the "This is not an exit" sign. This soulless consumerism is Batemans personal purgatory, and nothing he deems deems acceptable to do will offer him an escape. He could of course reject his ways of a materialistic yuppie and nouveau riche businessman who got into his position via napotism alone (his father is a close friend of the CEO of the bank he works at iirc) but that is a scary prospect, because above all, he values his status, hence why the impoverished are the primary targets of his aggression.

Am I wrong for taking the title literally and believing all the murders were just in his head? My interpretation was he's so pathetic and insane that he just makes up these scenarios to deal with his mondaine existence

Oddly that's the scene that stuck with me the most, it was so petty and weird.

People on busses hate to see a fella happy.

Speaking of reading on the bus, I almost fainted reading one of the more brutal parts of it while riding the bus. Had to half lie down in my seat until I was no longer white as a corpse, and was barely able to get up and walk when we arrived at my stop.

Laws of Attraction is a storyline based on Bateman's brother, but you probably already knew that.

And nowadays we get films based on novels that are rushed out and delete important scenes entirely or misinterpret important themes of the book. Even worse, ones where production disregard the author's opinions or don't consult the author whatsoever.

@@askmeaboutsugma yeah that's nothing new ...

@@askmeaboutsugma We just got a serviceable adaptation of Dune for the first time since the books debuted half a century ago. Bad and good adaptations always existed, it's just the bad ones are always prevalent.

@@goodial Far more prevalent now than it was two decades ago. It could just be that movies based on books get made much more often than they did previously, so the data is just exacerbated.

The card scene is mine, also but it stems from the fact there were kids in my high school at the time who had already been passing out their business cards with fake occupations on it trying to impress students, more specifically the girls, I guess. Then I love the video tape return excuse to not want to spend time with the person.

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Because we don't care. Those who want this to be a reflection or satire as a form of criticism or ridicule fail to understand that many of us don't agree with their conclusion. Their almost Dunning-Kruger like affect regarding their judgement is nothing more than an opinion. One we don't share. This is also the case with Starship Troopers, albeit in a different position (We absolutely agree with what Michael Ironsides tells the students in the classroom lesson). Those who hold those movies as an allegory seem to be in a false sense of moral superiority when it simply shows that they don't understand the purposes and even the nuances of humanity. Their judgement of excesses are hypocritical as the same could be said about them from much of the 3rd world. Their position in this criticism often comes from a place of envy. Their desire for those lesser than them to be bolstered and they to be lauded as saviors while criticizing their betters. It's a form of super-ego of the mundane. And that's ultimately it. Envy being the ultimate failing of humanity suffered by all and the purpose for much of everything that exists today when you ultimately break it down. Those who champion the writing of American Psycho as a criticism are themselves doing so because of their own envy or even inferiority complex. The psychological door swings both ways. It always has. This is why Gen Z and looks to be Gen Alpha have used this movie and many like it as a primer. Often through memes and the subtle nuances of phrases in their lexicon. And that's neither a good or a bad thing.

American Psycho is a Litmus test. If you actually think Batemen is "cool"* and not the sniveling loser that he is; you don't get the message.

@@janus3555 Are you for real? LMAO. Thanks for exposing yourself as a clown and a horrible person.

@@janus3555 You're really lambasting the creators of both book and film for "not getting it", huh? Boy, do I have some stuff to tell you about "The Matrix"...

Yeah, it's sad how many people focus on the personas that _they_ want to be, rather than what the characters _do._

Indeed! For me too! The movie is insanely clever at that. But the first requirement is that you see through the shininess of the objects in the film (and in life). That one, you have to do yourself.

I’ll take “Things that didn’t happen” for 400, Alex

@@CelloMaster2000 ok

Much healthier than his daily routines during The Machinist…

@@CinemaStix Yep. A tin of tuna, an apple and endless cups of black coffee (water also included) per day - and ONLY that per day - will do that to ya. I honestly don't know how he even found the energy to perform 😕

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 the black coffee

@@eyeamstrongest lol fair enough

Saw the director in an interview and she said Bale could break out in a sweat on command during filming.

I dunno, I thought the discussion on women and perosnality vs looks was spot on and funny. A good commentary on how owmne are valued. Their lives as men is a good commentary on how men are valued by women.

“The characters in this work are [insert traits I don’t like/make me uncomfortable] and because of that I don’t want to consume that work”: Perfectly reasonable! critical of the media you consume! “The characters in this work are [insert traits I don’t like/make me uncomfortable] and because of that it is a bad work and the creators support those same traits”: braindead! you are a moron!

People who critisize like that are scary. But there is something even worse. People who like a movie like American Psycho because they like what the characters do.

There are so many different characters throughout all sorts of media people like through the screen, but wouldn't like in real life. Most critically acclaimed shows and movies are about criminals and degenerates. Godfather, Scarface, Shawshank, The Dark Knight, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire. Heros, anti-heroes, villains. Humans are able to separate people from characters, no matter how engaging.

It's actually too toned down, the sharp edges filed down

That’s not an interpretation, that’s the literal plot of the book.

@@gabbleratchet1890 I am not sure you understand what the word "interpretation" means...

It really is hilarious. I watched it with my wife when we were dating and she did NOT get it at all. I was laughing my ass off, which she found disturbing. 😂😂😂

What I find most hilarious is all the so called "intellectuals" on the internet who actually believe that anyone, anywhere, doesn't understand that this movie is blatant and obvious satire and are constantly patting each other on the back for "getting it". I heretofore challenge any of you "enlightened academics" to provide concrete proof of existence pertaining to these imaginary, non-existent, ignoramus straw-men that you have all unified together to pretentiously mock in your circle jerk of condensation...

​@@BrandonToy glad I'm not the only one this happened to 😂

​@@bengreen2200happened to me too, I had to play it down lest she'd think I was a psycho myself

feed me the cat

They actually worship this character. Especially the young ones just starting out…they want to be just like him. They don’t see how flawed and ridiculous he is.

@@chrisel4349 In another interview Bale speaks about how these people actually scared him and they didn't understand irony

Not really yuppie culture though. The first letter of that word stands for 'young'. In my experience the people this movie ridicules a breed of people employed in finance or property development typically aged 45 and up, with a majority being 55 and up. Source: I work in something that facilitates both industries and allows them to pretend they know f*ckall. Had my fair share of loud disagreements because my normal behaviour (including, yes, having a business card) offended their sense of super-importantess. The whole swinging chainsaws at eachother is exagerated though, they typically prefer flashy cars as weapons, that and empty threats.

@@nvelsen1975 it's both; the guys I've met have all been

@@silverblue73 Everyone understands, nobody cares.

I like the line that’s like “…which really gives the songs …a BIG boost!”

I say it every year.

Btw I think the fact that the real Huey Lewis did a parody of this scene with Weird Al where he talks about the movie is probably the greatest achievement in the history of meta humor, just WOW!

That's called dramatic irony.

@@Jargonlosterright, since it’s ironic because Chloe is acting like someone she’s really not but yet doesn’t tell us she isn’t really that person and it’s dramatic because it’s in a theatrical production intended to be viewed by an audience - that Chloe and Christian can’t even see!

"...No. I guess not, I don't want to get bruised."

@@LordAus123 You are referring to irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the character doesn’t. In this example we know that Bateman would hurt her literally (with an axe) but she interprets it as getting emotionally hurt.

I still grapple with the "why" of that decision having read the book and seen the movie. One part of me thinks he realizes that she's playing a part and ultimately is not like him or the rest of his victims. Therefore she is NOT anonymous and interchangeable. That part I'm solid on. Why he decides to let her go I can't decide between 'So he decides to let her go because he knows she'll be missed and he's not so deep into psychosis to have lost his sense of self preservation' and 'Because she represents the lifestyle he yearns for, and the opposite of the one he wants to break free of she doesn't trigger the same rage and hate his victims do.'

And one is peanut butter soup with smoked duck and mashed squash. 😂

Wanky restaurants be like that.

I'm me I like mcdonadld and you can get all items z on yhe menu because its a fast food place and they are like simple burgers and etc cetera

Yeah at least in the book it was a real restaurant in Soho. Balthazar. I remember in the ‘90’s the cheapest thing they had on the menu (of maybe 8 items) was a “salad” that came on a saucer for $14 that was three leaves of spinach and 2 halves of a hard boiled egg. The kind of place you intentionally don’t eat at out of principle. For him to order a lobster as an appetizer followed by a lobster for the main course and not even touch them just because his brother was paying was such a hilarious dick move.

All menus are permanent. You order new ones when you change them.

I had the hardest time in the theater because it reminded me so much of the culture I'd run 3000 miles from. It felt like an invasion.

I don't think that's some typical "rich" culture there though. I think that's just some narcissism and toxic masculinity. I used to go to a carate class for a year and the way men behaved was pretty similar. The only difference they were measuring not the business cards, but the number of pull ups or push ups they were able to do. And also their skills at throwing others at the floor. That's just masculine insecurity and machismo. And they were not rich, just normal middle class. And it was not 1980-2000, it was 2022. And we are not americans, we are from Eastern Europe. That's just some universal behaviour.

That's how satire works :) reminds you of stuff even if it is completely exaggerated.

@@el060248 No, I actually witnessed it, even their obsession with status was phony, (which is what made it cartoonish). It was a bizarre subculture, the business card scene portrays it. I liked some of those men, most of them treated me well and weren't bad people. Most of the men at the country club were not hyper phony and I liked most of them, too. Says a lot about you that you had a strong enough emotional reaction to a RU-vid comment about pathological phoniness that you found it necessary to leave an insulting reply to it.

And they don't all look and dress like Bateman. There is a kind clique-based hierarchy that manifests itself in various ways depending on the region. Silicon Valley white collar professionals have an entirely different style than the country tycoons and the city-expat nerds in IT I interact with. There is a tendency towards electric cars, bland/ muted colored clothing, half-framed glasses, Patagonia, and a consumptive- terminally online appearance. The tycoons are weightlifters with pretty wives, large American trucks, love of the outdoors and martial disciplines, etc. The two groups need each other but interact very little, and their views on the power of money and the lack of genuine, conscious love of humanity and the mundane are identical.

Oh so you were basically Richard from TSH 😅😊

The question you all have but cannot imagine an answer to is WHO is this? A real person? A criminal aberration? An evil corporation? What is it? These are Devil worshippers. Our permanent ruling class. These are the people that run everything.

@@aceman67HDA haha right, they both pulled out themes from the book, one more deep than the other based on who you ask

@@aceman67HDA The rich girls...also right.

Whiny woman victim mentality

Bale, and many other British actors, keep their fake accents out of character during production as to not "lose" it.

"I dont drop character till the dvd commentary"

It's much easier to maintain an accent than switch back and fourth. I lived in Germany as a kid and I'll talk differently when speaking to other people after a while because my accent isn't 100% natural and I don't want to be called a nazi or get weird looks from people.

He was also speaking in the same cadence as Batemen he's a method actor

​@@dirkdiggler. 😂

Fun Fact: When the novel was written, there were no "memes" and people rarely used the word "iconic."

​@@fododudethat's actually just false

@@jurassicclassic6543 Not many people talked about memes in 1991 (pre-internet), especially as it is defined now. And I certainly was around before "iconic" was used as widely as it is now. It was a distinct and very noticeable emergence of a seldom-used word. I'll go ahead and maintain my position.

Be a responsible business person in Japan and say that, I dare you.

​@fododude Iconic was definitely used more widely back then, shortened to "icon" which has been used to describe people for hundreds upon hundreds of years. You're just being semantically ignorant aswell, as "memes' didn't exist because there was no virality, but mocking political cartoons and drawings existed for centuries, which can now be described as memes. No one uses forsooth anymore, but everyone uses "in fact" which is the exact same thing

The whole video gives zero evidence or provides zero discussion on how people didnt understand the satire at the time.

Yes he was consciously aping Jim Carrey. And nailed it.

That's why I love The Cable Guy. I was always shocked that people hated on what I thought was brilliant as Jim Carrey was the ultimate villain and parasite. Terrifying and hilarious simultaneously.

He has said that a Tom Cruise appearance on Letterman was one of his inspirations.

@@LamonsterZone that’s kinda scary honestly

@@LamonsterZone It was linked somewhere in another video. The context to that Cruise interview is basically that it is blatantly obvious that Cruise has less than zero motivation to be there and acts with a kind of hollow, superficial politeness, as you do when you really don't like being in a specific social situation, but don't want to offend the host.

Ironically, that’s the only terrifying thing about this movie.

Because, like Bateman, they lacked abstract cognition and self awareness.

I mean, it is obviously unrealistically exaggerated... I use only 4 different face lotions

Fucking terrifying 😭

Just as long as they don't kill people with axes while playing Huey Lewis & The News.

good eye he kept the accent. however have you noticed him returning to his native british accent in one of the last scenes where he is panicking at the telephone booth and confessing to his assistant?

A lot of actors stay "in accent" during the whole filming of a project so they don't flip back and forth.

Better than Paul Allen's method acting!

I noticed this too!

That's why I rolled my eyes at reports of his "on set meltdown" while they were filming that Terminator movie. The audio showed that he was in character the entire time.

He doesn't do that as part of method acting, he just has trouble maintaining accents if he lets himself switch back to his normal accent all the time

@@kl7360 nah the meltdown was real, imagine you are working, the scene is coming good and you have to do the take again because some idiot was fixing the lights during the shot, it wasn't really a meltdown he just chewed the guy. it's not like bale is an angel either, i think he got arrested for hiting his mom and his sister or something like that, it was right after the dark knight and before terminator

How could you not find that scene funny! 😂😂

How did you know ? 😮

Genius comment

Movie magic is amazing

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie

Clever

I like that they leave it pretty ambiguous. It's possible that all the violence was in Patrick's head, but it's also completely plausible that people who live well in a such a callous, self-obsessed world would hear something like that and think "not my problem." For me the fact that he can do these things and no one bats an eye heightens the sense of alienation. It's like he's standing there screaming "WITNESS ME" and no one even looks up.

Me when I spread misinformation on the Internet

That IS fun

Or maybe the adoption of Patrick Bateman as the Sigma Male is a tongue in cheek post post modern satire of the latent feminism in the satire. Sure Patrick Bateman is a funny strawman and a critique of "masculinity" but if you honestly believe that wall street stockbrokers aren't human beings with unique personalities and ideas; if you honestly believe that "all men = patriarchy", then jokes on you, we'll be memeing Sigma grindset until the sociology professors (cows) come home.

​@@Wicker_ You're talking about the same kind of men that listen to and defend Andrew Tate. Yes, they do glorify Patrick Bateman. That level of introspection you're describing isn't there.

@Wicker 2 the sigma meme is a satirical critique of those who genuinely idolize Patrick Bateman and believe in the “sigma male grindset”.

Same. This movie is funny as hell, especially when Bateman has to interact with people.

Probably because of these toxic masculine males again 😡

Length is not a flaw in and of itself (there's a that's what she said joke in there somewhere), and it's not severely flawed like you're making it out to be. Also a lot of its decisions were bound to be controversial, rather than outright bad. If they work for you, you don't see any issues and find it to be a masterpiece. If they don't work for you, you see it as quite flawed

tbh, the movie is absolute trash when compared with the book and she missed out on some key aspects. She basically makes him an insane killer from the beginning instead of building it to it. The first half of the book has almost zero mention of violence at all.

⁠@@gzuskreist1021 Yeah but almost all book to movie adaptations will be like this. They probably wanted to start off the movie as a thriller because that’s how it was advertised in the first place. Thrillers pull more audiences than satire comedies in general.

A pair of women who wrote and directed a dark comedy about a delusional chauvinist from a book spited by feminists in 1987 is ironic full circle.

Was it really all that much more violent? I haven't read it personally, so I can't attest to that, but the author in the video said if you added up all of the text describing violence in the book you'd have about four pages.

​@@epsteindidntkillhimself69 Regardless of the author's accuracy w/ that statement (which I doubt), the level of violence isn't dependent on the number of pages. The book was banned by many places in the world b/c of its sadistic torture sequences, while the movie was not. You can find many comparisons online.

​@@jp3813 Huckleberry Finn was the first book banned in the US. Is that an indictment of Huckleberry Finn, or an indictment of the people who banned it? The fact that some people were so offended they had to ban a book tells me a good bit about the people, but very little about the book. Have you read American Psycho, or are you just going off the fact that it was banned in some places?

@@epsteindidntkillhimself69 I said "world" & "many", not "US" & "some". I tried reading it long ago but couldn't stomach finishing it. The movie, on the other hand, skips most of the brutality. But if you're gonna doubt what I say anyway, might as well just look up some violent passages from the book yourself. Research beats asking random commenters.

​@epsteindidntkillhimself69 not sure the qualifiers to be officially banned, but offer that Harriet Beecher Stowe's " Uncle Tom's Cabin" may qualify, not as the first, but it did precede Huckleberry Finn. But yes to your premise : "Well, what do you mean by that?" ~ "That's boring...much more intriguing is how you are taking it- , that's what's arousing, no?"

Lmao

how prophetic

“accidentality spelt”

@@carlray9819... yeah I know. Don't be harsh.

@@dsmyify balls for not editing LOL

Too bad the people who take the movie as something to look up to fully overlook any sort of subtext like that.

@@staebs No they don't. Your inability to get the joke doesn't mean we're not joking. Go outside and stop being a busybody on the internet.

​@@actualturtle2421 dude, I don't think he disagrees..

They're exactly right. People idolize Bateman as the ultimate "sigma male" meanwhile his biggest goal is not to stand out and be a trailblazer but to fit in and be invisible. He wants to be liked by everyone. He wants to be the same just a LITTLE bit better.

Amazing how many people have the key phrase "I want to wear the mask" still rattling in their brains, and here they sit, having the main takeaway of the film be what "happened" in the film and what it "tells" us. When it DIDN'T happen; it's fiction. Told by some guy. Bateman is admired like Santa Claus is admired, because articles of faith REMAIN WITHIN the FAITH, they don't appear in your real life prowling on the rooftops. Not in reality, not until the line for you specifically starts to blur. Then YOU start conjuring up these imps and devils on the wall about how behavior, or made-up stories, MEANS something when it doesn't in fact CAUSE anything. Like a single protest MEANS something but the violence or peace of the protest itself, is irrelevant to your agenda. Because the violence is in reality, and your "meaning" is in the fantasy, that YOU take seriously.

I was hoping to throw that in, but couldn’t find a good quality version of the specific interview. Maybe for a part two one day. Because the film’s got a fascinating history generally in how it all cane together.

@@CinemaStix Agreed! That's a video I'd be very excited to watch

@@tom.mp4 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ecwh7g5GnP0.html&ab_channel=Eddie4518is it this one?

Patrick Bateman meets Tom Cruise in the book.

​@@dsmyify holy shytstix. Is this real?

Fun fact: Charlize Theron never loses her fake American accent either, but that's because she's the living personification of Christian Bale's character in this movie, and has no actual personality of her own.

Thats pretty common to do. David suchet keeps his belgian accent for weeks while filming poirot, it just makes it a lot easier. With accents yiu have to physically change your miuth movements and aclimitise to it

@@Ukraineaissance2014sure but that doesnt require you to be in it off set.

@@santiv4 In this case, it does. That's what the guy above you is saying. It's easier once you've got it down to just keep using it all the time, rather than switching back and forth.

I didn’t realize that Bale didn’t move to America until he was 17, well past the age when kids can naturally pick up a different accent. I thought he had lived in the US much younger.

I realised it was 100% a comedy when Bale is naked and bloodsoaked with a chainsaw doing his best Tom Cruise impression.

I think it's alright to see this at 13 and go "Well, that's fucked up" then review it later on and go "Ooooh I get it, it's irony!" What worries me is the not unsubstantial number of people who are told outright it's satire, that the author wrote it as satire and the filmmakers adapted it as satire - then insist it isn't and that they relate to it on an unironic level.

@@LabradorIndependent It's a meme, numbnuts. You not getting the joke doesn't mean we're not joking.

@@LabradorIndependent the intellectual capabilities of a 13yo and the average Patrick Bateman stan are freakishly similar, believe it or not

@@WICK_3D you give them too much praise doubling their average mental age

90 percent of 13 year olds never got that far

It's not a realistic book. It's a reflection of the author's own mental illness, and is just silly. It only got popular because oversocialized people get off on breaking supposed taboos when in reality if they're all heaping praise upon it, it can't actually be breaking taboos by such powerful cultural institutions.

The book is a lot more descriptive than the movie is though. Rat, for example.

@noahmclaughlin2251 True, and it can be difficult to stomach at times, given how vivid Ellis is with those scenes. As I said, there were parts of the book that were a major struggle to get through for me. It's utterly brutal, much moreso than the film, but it's still a great read all the same. I'd say to anyone who got put off by the book by those scenes to give it another go - try to take a more detached attitude to the violence. Don't focus so much on the acts, but consider the type of person Patrick actually is. The violence is absurd, and this is actually an important point, in my opinion. I don't want to spoil anything, but remembering that he's an extremely unreliable narrator helps a lot.

You got a point The book is really readable, its a page turner for folks who normally don't read. Just strange😊

I never thought anything could make me interested in reading it, but i think you just did.

Donnie Darko is my favorite

I watched both movies for the same time on the same day lmao it was the best day ever

did you return the videos

I didn't notice that either lol

women

​@@vnzstz209 Wo men

@@vnzstz209 When a man is stupid, he is just stupid. When a woman is stupid, all women are stupid.

@@vnzstz209incel moment

he’s method acting

??? The costumes and settings are also 80s af. All the art design was virtually flawless

It happens sometimes. Cars just explode. Natural causes. An ATM demanding to be fed a kitten, now, that's getting a little suspicious.

I love that even Bateman looks at his gun "wtf? Did I do that?"

@@sabbathjackal For me it kinda parallels 'The Last Action Hero' (1993) when Arnold's character is surprised and confused that he can't make cars explode in the "real world". Both playing with movie tropes, self awareness, realism and fantasy.

@@AllenKnutson lol - even if you take all the other scenes as "no, that could have actually happened", the ATM one is the point at which I think we can all agree "oh c'mon now that's not for real"

As Alfred Hitchcock did so brilliantly. That shower scene, for instance.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre effect, lol. That meat hook scene will forever haunt me even though it literally shows no gore.

excellent point, the hooker scene with the tools comes to mind 😬

Not showing is not the same thing as not implying. Nowhere does she say that she did not want to imply.

@@murk1e I mean if you really want to nitpick then sure. I was just pointing out how her approach didn’t do her any favors in regards to how viewers associate her films with violence despite her disinterest in body horror.