I love this movie and can’t imagine anyone but Bale in the role. He gave an Oscar winning performance.

The fact that he freaked the author out at their meeting is amazing. Keeping in mind Ellis created and wrote a far more graphic and evil version of Bateman

I’m normally a “if it was different we wouldn’t know” type person. But BALE MADE THIS MOVIE WORK. I don’t believe it would have become such a classic without him. His delivery is why this is memorable.

The only crime in this movie was Christian Bale not winning an Oscar for this performance

Bale basing Bateman on Tom Cruise is so good. Cruise has that vibe of greeting you with a smile while he plots your death, all while manically laughing like a serial killer. Scientologist are all psychopaths.

Impressive…very nice ….let’s see Paul Allen’s 30 things you didn’t know list

A minor fact that I believe not many people have noticed: some of the characters' names in the film are slightly different from the novel. The ones I noticed are: Timothy Price (novel) -> Timothy Bryce (film); Paul Owen (novel) -> Paul Allen (film); Evelyn Richards (novel) -> Evelyn Williams (film). This really stuck out to me when I watched the film, as I had read the novel first.

When Defoe shows the Huey Lewis CD, he's genuinely purchased it and likes it. Bateman is secretly raging because he's talked earlier about how much he loves that album. This breaks Bateman's fantasy that's he's unique and special. It's why he denies having heard of the album, because he doesn't want to be a sheep.

Seems like Lions Gate really didn’t liked Christian Bale… they literally tried to cast anyone until they had no other option but accepting him as Pat Bateman

No but getting his teeth done really really was the move for playing Patrick!! Because Patrick WOULD have had his teeth done

Pretty cool video especially the tidbit about shining the light in Bateman's eyes. I can't understand why so many of the designers had a problem with their labels being worn by a movie character. So many of those designers have ties to so many unsavory people and events, you'd think they'd hardly be bothered by something fictional.

Oh it had to be BALE...no other actor could have pulled this off! Phenomenal performance.👏👏👏

DiCaprio has shown many times since that he has the acting chops and I'm sure would have done a fine job but Bale was the absolute perfect casting decision. He has tremendous range and talent and amazing instincts. But it was his commitment and understanding of the vision of the screenwriter and director that really nailed it for me. I genuinely think it's one of the most perfect screen performances ever and every time I watch it I am just transfixed by Bale and the way he creates a totally believable character from something that is essentially farcical satire.

The real psycho, is the person who measured, the distance of the card edges

Him dancing right before he kills paul Allen to “hip to be square” reminds me of jim Carrey so much😂😂

So I'll say it. "I have to return some video tapes". That is when Bateman goes into his alter ego fantasy. It is where his personality shifts. Follow that line through the movie.

Finished the novel today. Waaay more brutal than anything in the movie.

Also another thing I love about this movie is the casting for his receptionist Jean, Chloe Sevigny is a very good and underrated actress but she played that part so well

If you have seen the machinist you know bale has to be an alien because his transformations are not human.

I've watched the movie so many times and am convinced that almost everything takes place in his head.

Bale's expressions were just priceless and acting so on point.

"is that a raincoat?"

I absolutely love your videos. The pacing, the precise content, the amount of the interesting things I didn’t know.. and it even.. has.. a good thumbnail? *starts shaking and sweating profusely*

Besides the misspelling on the business card, it's perfect. The spacing puts the Firm name within an aligned box, and Patrick's name and title are not under neither the phone or firm name. This goes back to 1800 linotype practices, as men of these calibers understand. :)

Another unknown… when Ellis turned in the book draft to the publisher, the publisher said they could never release something like that. Way too violent. They dumped Ellis, let him keep his advance (I think $200k), and he shopped it to another publisher. The book was also found by police on the bedside table of infamous Canadian serial killer Paul Bernardo.

DiCaprio was scared of missing out on all the 13 year old fans

if you thought the name patrick bateman sounded familiar, that's because that's the main character on American psycho

How does he not take the academy award? Flawless performance of a psycho murderer....

Encapsulates 80's yuppie culture so well

The movies 'graphic nature' is nothing compared to the book.

He def should have gotten an Oscar. Its a masterpiece.

One of my favorites of all time. I still say the psychological interpretation works better and is more fun than the realistic interpretation.

One of the best movies ever made in my honest opinion. I saw it in 2018 for the first time and honestly became one of my top 10. I always saw it in Blockbuster and saw the memes, so I wondered what the fuss was. One of my best decisions. 🎉

Cruise may also be a frame point because in the book they live in the same hotel and while in the elevator they have an awkward conversation about cocktail, a movie cruise was in but Bateman calls it ‘Bartender’ making cruise angry

Christian Bale was really funny in a very clever way. Excellent acting and a beautifully crafted movie. Will not stop watching it.

It's so weird that brands/brand names are able to have a say in what people are able to wear in movies. WTH?!?

12:38 Bale hasn't got a Welsh accent!😂 He was born in Wales, but spent his childhood living in England. (Dorset, Bournemouth & Surrey) When being interviewed for Empire Under the Sun, as a child actor he had a pleasant standard English accent. As an adult he's lived in America longer than in Britain and now has acquired a rather affected odd "cockney" accent!🤔

Anything American Psycho will now make me think of Tom Cruise, like he wasn't already cringe-worthy enough.... great video about a great film, Kudos

Amazing video like always. Keep it up...

The Tom Cruise part was itching at my brain: "Where have I seen this before??" Everything makes perfect sense now.

Few people have the courage to tell the truth albeit in a satire about American supercapitalism. These American ethics put monetary wealth above human life. Few if any stop to notice. Thank you!

I love this movie so much, Bale did a phenomenal job. It's funny, it's freaky, it makes you think, never seen anything else like it.

I can't believe that I still haven't seen this movie. I always get reminded about it's existence randomly somehow, and then I always forget to actually sit down and watch it.

The speaks volumes when the higher ups are more worried about the sex scenes than the brutal graphic murder n torture, pretty disturbing tbh.

I love this movie so much , bale is amazing actor.

A perfect example of the suits not knowing anything and the artists sticking to their guns and getting it right. This is a film done right. Thank God for Bale and Harron.

Just watched it yesterday it was absolutely brilliant

Great video! I learned so much.

Honestly, Christian Bale’s physique is what I strive for.

Thank goodness Dicaprio didn't play Bateman.

In the book Patrick Bateman actually meets Tom Cruise in an elevator, Ironic Bale decided to base his character from Cruise in an interview without having read the book beforehand.

Dude, awesome video 😎

omg Christian Bale was so adorable with his old teeth ❤❤

bruh if I had lunch with christian bale and he completely stayed in character as bateman I would straight up leave

The author of American Psycho also wrote Rules of Attraction. One of the main characters in Rules is named Bateman. In the last pages of American Psycho, Patrick Bateman is visited by a brother. In theory, the brother is the Bateman from Rules.

“Your compliment was sufficient Luis”

The narrators cadence is constantly ascending and descending. It’s more disturbing than the American psycho film.

Holy shit. That Batman typo. Christian Bale playing Batman and Bateman. YOOOOOO YOUR OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS ARE ON POINT. SUBSCRIBED MY FRIEND GOOD SHIT!!!

Good lord! I'm SOOOOOO HAPPY we were delivered the film that we received! At 6:05 I'm freakin' out!

Brilliant!!! Bale on working out: "In Wales, we don't go to the gym. We go to the pub."

I also took the CD thing as him saying that he has been to his house or that he has done some research on Bateman and knows things like his music taste. Just to rattle him, see if theres a reaction. Same outcome for both things though

Thanks for the video! You really have an eye for detail and do a lot of research... quite impressive!! Have a good one.

Mad to think the other cast members thought his acting was terrible during the filming.

This movie wouldn't have hit as hard with anyone but Bale as Patrick Bateman.

Brad Pitt could have never pulled this film off like Bail did 💯or dicaprio.

I’m glad DiCaprio didn’t play Bateman, I don’t think he can play a convincing stone cold narcissistic psychopath

Great insight. I missed all these facts.

The best meme on the internet is the scene where Patrick says " Now lets see Paul Allans card " but the meme has a fat Patrick and the phrase " Now lets see Paul Allans lunch " it's hilarious.

He continued brokering and murdering right up until September 11 2001 where he had been working with Eurobrokers on the 84th floor for 8 years His last moments were witnessing the plane approaching to which he responded 'That's not correct at all' as he returned to his phone call

If you ever wondered how Christian Bale would have played the Joker, here you go.

I'm shocked no one mentions Bale's one bad slip of accent. In his phone confession, he clearly says "guhhl" for the word "girl". "I killed another girl with a chain saw..."

17:16 No way! Whow! That’s insane! 🤯 That’s truly amazing 😱

That was really good, thank you

love it man keep it up

Baby face Dicaprio couldn't have done this role like Bale in a million years.

Lol I knew about the shrink wrap around the book in Australia because, surprise surprise, I am Aussie and when I went to buy the book after seeing the movie I was like wtf?? I had never even heard of a book being shrink wrapped. It still makes me laugh. At first I found the book kinda boring actually. It's so much of him describing what every single character is wearing and I was like, ok I don't care, get to what happens in this chapter please. But after persisting for a little while, suddenly I found the descriptions and all the clothing was interesting and kind of making it into a page turner for me. I knew the clothing was representative of each character etc but it got boring really fast, until it wasn't. I don't even know how to describe it but suddenly these descriptions were almost intoxicating and I wanted to know. If that isn't a sign of an amazing writer, I don't know what is. I liked the book a lot. I love the movie. And I really enjoyed this video. Good job 👍👍

You're a beast, great facts 👏

Not only the movie felt like a fever dream. Also these facts feeling like one

"You like Huey Lewis and the News?"

My favorite scenes are the one with Bateman & his friend in the toilet & the previous scene with the business cards.

He’s also British so he was very good at the American accent!!

Whats crazy is the amount of ups and downs to get this role and the fact if almost losing the role and did fir a shirt while but got it back witha miracle like he daid to lose a role to the same person would brake anybody down

Putting that Jared Leto later became the Joker with Bale becoming Batman was unwarranted. Leto's Joker isn't on the same spectrum as Bale's Batman

Omg the way he pronounced Comme de Garçon made me giggle

I can’t believe Mr. Bale has a welsh accent or was paid only 50,000..seems kinda low considering what a stellar performance he gave in that movie..

I weirdly connect with this movie sort of like a comfort movie for me, the way Bale acts in this is so perfect that I can watch this movie over and over again

Thank you so much for specifying that Christian Bale has a Welsh accent and not just calling it 'British' like most people on UKposts do. We're only a tiny little country, but a damn proud one, so thanks for the proper representation, friend!

The director said she shot the film and made it in the way to where the FACT is left up to the viewer to decide. I like to the he did it all. The loose parts are because his sanity began to unfold. His night began to flow into the days. I NEED THE BOOK!!! so bad!

Frankenstein afraid of his monster 💀 at dinner 🍽️. Good on you Christian that was so intense of you mate. 😅😅😅

I just noticed Luis Carruthers's business card states his last name first.. no wonder Patrick hated him so much

For anyone who has only seen the movie, I highly suggest you read the novel. It truly is a masterpiece

One of my favorite retorts is "I've gotta return some videotapes."

Thank-you for this. Christian Bale ❤️

Excellent video. Bale is also outstanding in The Machinist

Christian Bale sweating on command is beyond impressive

This was great, I read the book first and saw the movie afterwards. I was impressed by Christian Bale and enjoyed the movie, but there are some scenes from the book that live rent free in my mind forever.

I feeling lethal on the verge of frenzy I think my mask of sanity is about to slip

0:43 I didn't know that Calvin Klein pulled out of endorsing the film but love that right when this is mentioned they show Bale running towards us naked holding a chainsaw! Made me laugh out loud! Great movie and I've rewatched it many times!

In Australia, I bought the book at an op shop (thrift store)

Great list.