It gets even crazier in the prequel: "Bateman Begins".

Apparently in the scene where Dafoe interviews Bale in his office, they did three takes. One where Dafoe suspected Bale, one where he knew it was him and one where he didn't suspect him at all. They edited all the takes together to make it so uncomfortable and literally impossible to know where Dafoe's character stands. Awesome film. Big love Brandon.

What’s psycho is that the cast thought Christian bale was TERRIBLE. It wasn’t until they all saw the film that they realized how magnificent his performance actually was.

The business card scene is the most important in the movie and tells you everything you need to know. These guys are so vain and are trying so hard to one-up and stand out from each other... but to regular people they’re just all the same. Just like the business cards. The lawyer scene at the end is confusing until you realize that even he can’t tell them apart (his own clients!) Hell, Paul couldn’t even tell the difference between Patrick and Marcus and they work together daily.

The writer of the book clarified that in fact, he did commit the murders, it’s not all just in his head. The whole idea is that everyone in that lifestyle, at that time, was simply too self absorbed to realize it, even when it’s staring them in the face.

“ Don’t stare at it EAT IT.”

The guy thought he met Paul Allen because everybody's interchangeable to them. Bateman realizes he is in a perfect hell where even his evil has no meaning.

Fun fact, Bale's said he based his portrayal in part on a 1999 interview of Tom Cruise.

It was not the lawyer. It was the people that own the apartment who repainted it and cleaned everything up. Not to save him, but to simply resell the apartment to a new buyer. Simple greed and capitalism saved him. Its a big theme of the movie.

American Psycho has one of the most misunderstood endings in film history. While it's likely that Patrick's final rampage was in his mind, alluded to by his earlier comments of his mask of sanity slipping and clear visual hallucinations in the ATM message and explosions, Patrick DID commit all the other murders throughout the film. When he goes to Paul's apartment to clean up and finds it empty, recently painted, and newly on the market, he's extremely confused and begins to believe he's loosing his mind. Our confusion mirrors his. But the property manager's attitude is the first confirmation that he committed all the murders. She realizes he's NOT there to view the apartment and confirms it with her question about the ad. When she asks him to leave without causing trouble, she's basically confessing to having covered up his murders. Like Patrick, she only cares about appearances. If it was known that multiple murders were committed in the apartment, the property value would tank and she'd likely lose her job. Her demeanor is icy because she knows EXACTLY what Patrick has done. And she doesn't care. Later at the club, when he confesses to his lawyer again only for the lawyer to say Patrick couldn't have possibly had dinner with Paul, THAT'S when Patrick realizes the film's thesis. Literally, as he's saying 'no you didn't', he realizes that the lawyer didn't have dinner with Paul and is lying. The lawyer being able to tell everyone he had dinner with Paul Allen in London twice is great peacocking. A total status move. People look on him with envy when he tells his story about not one, but two private dinners with his great friend Paul. And when Patrick finally makes him believe that his is a real confession and not an outlandish joke, the lawyer, like the property manager, makes a decision to cover up Patrick's crime for the sake of keeping up appearances. His demeanor is icy because he knows Patrick murdered Paul. And he doesn't care. Status is more important. Patrick's confession meant nothing because what he's done isn't strange in his world. Everyone of his colleagues, maybe everyone in general, is just as psychotic as him. Albeit in different ways. The entire film is an an amazing criticism of the shallow consumerism of the 80's and a condemnation of yuppie obsession with status. And so many people's confusion at the ending contrasts Patrick's understanding. We don't see the madness because we're part of it. We, the audience, are complicit in the psychosis. We can't see it because we are it. In the world of the mad, who is truly insane?

The scene where Patrick is doing crunches while Texas Chainsaw is on the TV is really interesting because in the actual scene from the Texas Chainsaw movie there's no screaming from a woman.

“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?” 😂

"I want to fit in."

The Paul Allen apartment scene with the realtor was simply stating that even if bodies were discovered she would not want to lose the sale by having potential renters discover the grisly situation. She is also a selfish product of the decadent eighties. Just greed, that's all.

The main thing about the character is that he's completely empty inside, to the point where he's incapable of spotaneous normal human behavior. That's why his interactions with other people seem so weird and bizarre. Every time he interacts with someone, he's acting out the way he thinks a normal person would act to the point of overacting.

Based on reports from the making of this movie, Christian Bale can apparently sweat profusely on command.

Fun fact: in the scene where Bale's character is chasing the woman with the chainsaw, the woman didn't know that he would have a chainsaw so her reaction was totally genuine!

The whole thing about his musical tastes is actually that, being an emotional sinkhole, he has no real connection to music, and only listens to super commercial Top 40 pop music, which he dissects in the most pretentious way. Patrick Bateman is the ultimate dork, I believe Bret Easton Ellis has said.

“ I got to return some videotapes.”

to think Christian bale went from this to batman 😂