@@talhaansari62 I think the point is that he's a maniac and that he just gets joy from harming others and he's constantly trying to mask it with these other faux-emotional responses when in reality the only real emotional response he has is happiness when he's indulging his homicidal urges.
@@SkynetToaster Well yeah, but I also like to think Bateman was incredibely cowardly, as in, he was genuinely afraid of getting caught. After all, this breakdown did seem pretty legitimate. Of course, the real breakdown didn't really come from any sense of guilt or remorse but rather fear of something bad happening to him, of all people. It seems like a logical hypothesis, based on how he usually only cares about himself.
@@Pengd peng Well of course he was. The only thing an intelligent psychopath will feel for sure, is the fear of consequences for his degenerate behavior.
they filmed it at least 2 times with different emotions. I know with the detective they filmed 3 different takes, all different emotions and edited it together. unsettling to watch, good editing for this style of film!
I love how he's so proud of killing Paul Allen - amid all the whimpering and crying about the other killings, he practically brags about it. Brilliant scene.
Yeah, he really hated how Paul Allen made him feel like a failure, especially with having a much better business card and actually getting a reservation at Dorsia!
Psychopaths don't relate to people coz they don't have their opinions about what they are talking about. But when they do have an opinion, they expect you to have the same opinions as they do, maybe because they are too used to formality and being fitting in. idk.
Howard Wimshurst I agree both visual and in audio. He was definitely the right actor for this film. He truly sounds and looked like a complete crazy person.
This is one of my favorite movie scenes. It really shows Bale's acting chops. In this short clip, he went through like 20 different emotions, and merged them seamlessly.
About 15 years ago, a friend of mine left a message on my phone. Would you believe he recited this scene word for word, with the emotion to back it up. The funny thing was I had no seen the movie at the time of receiving his message, so you can imagine how confused I was. I lost it when he told me to keep my eyes open then hung up.
I just realized that his lawyer probably thought that his crying and sniffing sounds were just Bateman trying to hold in his laughter, solidifying his belief that it was all just a prank
The funny thing about this is that the lawyer tried to find a way around this confession and I personally believe Bateman did kill all those people except the chainsaw scene and this scene. The reason why I say this is because the lawyer told him (who he thought was Davis) that the joke he made about Bateman killing all those people was funny but in this scene he clearly called the lawyer saying "Hello Carns, its Bateman, Patrick Bateman". He clearly introduced himself. So it is pretty clear to me that the lawyer purposely tried to mistake Bateman for Davis to let him get away and not hand himself over as it would damage the company image.
I always felt like he kind of WANTED to be caught. Not because he's actually ashamed of what he's done, but more so because he's sick of living in the vapid, shallow lifestyle he is stuck in.
yea basically, he confessed, his lawyer didn’t take him serious, also by “but even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me” is even there in itself, he wants it be caught, to be noticed doing these things, but to everyone else in the movie he comes off as, odd, weird, a “loser” “that dork patrick bateman, such a boring spineless lightweight” it’s all there
@@AlienonEarthC-137 Also remember than an almost every scene where hes talking to someone he knows he gets mistaken for someone else. Everyone he knows is interchangeable and disposable, none of them matter. What he wants most is to be seen as different than them. But the revelation at the end is that even with everything he has done, he still really isn't different then they are.
He wanted to be caught cause he knew he was a monster and needed to be stopped. I like the theory he is in Hell and that's why noone cares. He's stuck perpetually unable to be caught on his rampage even though that's all he wants anymore
cmz8706 he was admitting it all throughout the movie, he admitted it to a lady that he was into murders and executions, however she misunderstood him. He also told his fiancé in the break up scene, however she wasn’t paying attention to him. Even when he admits it to his lawyer, his lawyer doesn’t take him seriously
Woah! Is that why he's crying....tears of joy ? Holy crap! This character is crazier than I thought, lmao! I thought it had something to do with a split personality or something?
ye tears of joy that he's about to get his conclusion/answer good or bad. He's going to be recognized for what he is whatever it is and freed from his torture. But his tears of joy sadly turn to a blank stare in the end as there is no answer only the next day where the cycle repeats itself
This is the best scene in the movie his acting makes it so uncomfortable. But its also the scene where I realized he is not a psycho. Hes gotta be a sociopath or something because psychopaths are unable to feel fear or anxiety and this scene boils over with those emotions
I don’t think he felt guilt over killing those people, he felt so emotional because he got caught. Having to confess is what made him so emotional. Having to break his facade hes worked so hard to keep up with is what makes him upset. Not the people he’s killed.
I think its because its the only scene in the movie besides the murder scenes where who reveals who he actually is, just a raving lunatic lol, and its satisfying to see it come out after him getting away with it all film.
And the little belching sound that he makes as he says it, I feel like Bale really felt a bit sick for a moment there owing to methodically visualizing cannibalism.
This semester I ...ahahahh... I just had to skip a lot of lessons. I'm not sure ... I can get away with it this time. I guess I skipped maybe 20 lessons, maybe... 40, I can't remember... I mean... I mean I guess I'm a pretty lazy guy.
this is some next level acting. his emotions go from panic, to anger, to remorse, to shame and sadness. then he mentions paul allen and he expresses immense pride. then he's embarrassed when explaining that he has tapes and has eaten his victims, then he shifts to a crazy psychopathic type of excitement when saying he "HAD TO KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE!", then at the end he feels relieved.. then back to himself.
@@naha9696 He’s not a psychopath, he’s way too emotional and unstable to be a psychopath. He’s a mix of borderline (extreme mixture of emotions), antisocial personality (violating rights of others without remorse) and schizophrenia (de-attachment from reality)
It doesn't detail it in the film, but in the book there's a hilarious scene where he's trying to cook a sausage made from the meat of one of his victims: "I'm sobbing incessantly out of disgust of myself; but also because I realised I can't cook". I also wish that the scene where he poured chocolate on a urinal cake and gave it to his girlfriend in a box from a fancy cake company, then watched her struggle eat it because "it's so... minty..." made it into the film.
"I had to. She almost got away. " I laughed but This acting had me worried how someone could so convincingly play a crazy person. An absolutely outstanding performance
The real genius in this is that, through the whole movie (climaxing in this scene), Bale manages to walk the super thin line between perfect, brilliant acting and purposefully corny acting. Only through his acting you can tell that this is supposed to be a satire, because he sprinkles a little bit of that exaggerated drama here and there. Truly a genius
Funny he mention Hell's Kitchen in the 80s... that's when it was run by the fearsome Westies gang, and they were notorious for ways of getting rid of bodies like dissolving, etc.
At first he sounds like he truly is guilty about the animal he became. But then as he proceeds, maybe in his head he justifies these actions and while reaching Paul Allen's death part, he was truly proud. And when he said "I just had to kill a lot if people" while laughing, you could clearly say he enjoyed it. An acting Legend. The best in this generation.
I love this scene because you can hear Bale’s British accent slip out for a second when he’s getting emotional. listen to 0:27 ! You can especially hear it in “girlfriend” “nail gun” and “man”
well a fake accent can be hard to maintain when you're acting all emotional like that. for a long time, I didn't even realize Bale isn't American cuz his accent is so good; it wasn't until years after Batman begins when i saw an interview with him on TV in his British accent that I realized he's not American
This has got to be some of Bale’s best work. It’s one thing to play a villain who’s just maniacal and chews the scenery. But here he plays someone who’s terrifying, pathetic, funny, unsettling, and occasionally almost normal, sometimes all in the same scene. Shoulda gotten an Oscar nomination for this.
Christian Bale doesn't even have a Welsh accent? His natural accent is English. He's said in countless interviews he's not Welsh. He's English and was born to two English parents who happened to briefly be in Wales at the time of his birth. He left Wales at age 2 (so not even time to pick up an accent) and went back to England.
Christian Bale is one helluva actor. His performance as Patrick Bateman is probably one of my all time favorite performances in a film. There are so many memorable moments in this film and this is one of them.
I like that you start to think he’s feeling remorse and guilt for what he’s done and then he says “I’m not sure I’m gonna get away with it this time” and you realise he only cares about himself
I wonder if they did this all in one take. They just gave Bale the scene, shot it once, saw the footage, and they were like, “this is all we need.” CAUSE BALE IS THAT GOOD OF AN ACTOR
This is one of those films where its up to the audience if he really killed those people or not. I believe he really did kill Paul Allen, and all those girls. His lawyer at the end mistook him for Davis, and also THOUGHT he recently had dinner with Paul. In my interpretation, Patrick Bateman has two personalities. His "normal self" that he shows to the public, in which he has an obsession with fitting in with society and being just like everybody else. His "psychotic" side is his true personality which is a person who has turned insane from his over obsession with "fitting in" with society. In reality, Patrick hates himself for what he has become but knows he won't stop, which makes him hate himself even more. He takes this hate on everyone he believes deserves it. He preys on the poor/weak (because they are easy and do not belong in a working community) and people just as ignorant and self centered as he is (such as the prostitutes and his friend Elizabeth) He spared Jean because she represents everything he has always wanted to be. Someone who actually has dreams for the future, and has a passion in trying to become a better person. Which makes her stand out and unique from everyone in the society he lives in. Making her an "outsider" if you will.. He also ended up sparing Lewis (the gay guy) because he "in the last minute" showed Patrick who he really was, which is a homosexual. Someone who also would be considered an outsider from his society. So he basically targets random people he meets that he believes in his twisted mind are a plague to the possibility of a better society. The only events I believe didn't happen was him killing the old lady and the explosion of the police cars. At this point he has seriously lost his will to know reality from whatever is in his head.
also i think that he didnt kill Lewis b/c Lewis never mistook him for someone else which helped spare him from patricks pyscho side, and he was gay so patrick's shallow public personality was just disgusted by the whole situation.
If you read the book you will find that you are about 99% correct on your assumptions, very good. However, in the scene with Jean in his appartment, in the book it was just a prostitute, and if I remember correctly he actually did kill her with the nail gun.
I can give you one reason why the kills are real. In once scene in the movie, the scene where he has sex with those two women. The one that escapes runs, and when she's running she opens a closet and finds to two dead girls in it. Now throughout the movie you only are seeing Patrick's perspective. So when you don't see the girl in front of you, and only see what she's seeing means that you're seeing the perspective of not Patrick. Which means that she reacted to it as well. Now you might say, well Patrick might've imagined it. Well even more proof for you. A psychopath doesn't see or imagine this, because of how crazy they're it makes them want to see it. So it urges them on, and when they just can't take that feeling anymore they do it, because they want to see and feel what it's like for them to personally try it. So the body wouldn't need to, it wants them to. You can even look up stuff about psychopaths, and this is a true fact. Another thing I noticed you say is that he has two personalities. Every psychopath has two personalities. One of them is what you see on the outside, they don't want anyone else to see what they truly are. The other personality is when they just can't take it anymore, and just want to do what their mind tells them to do. So yes, you're correct. Patrick does kill his victims in the book and movie.
For those who haven’t read the novel, in this scene, Patrick actually lists some of the murders that took place in the book (in very very gruesome detail btw) that didn’t make it to the film.
True like when he mentions “some fagg*t with a dog” he may not be talking about the black homeless guy because I remember in the book he killed another guy with a dog and it was very disturbing details.
After the cast and crew saw the movie, they realized how brilliant his acting is. Bale is such a good actor, they didn't realize that it was Patrick Bateman who was the bad actor, pretending to be a normal human. Bale was playing Bateman, who was trying to be a human. So Bateman's over acting, everyone thought was Bale's over acting. Except for the director, she knew exactly what was going on.
I don't think Patrick was hallucinating his murders. I think they were real & in the end were cleaned up the the person he called. The realtor's reaction to Patrick when she realizes who he is confirms it. Everyone around Patrick knows there's something off about him. They choose to ignore & enable his behavior
@@pizzapartynightmarez393 I highly doubt a real life Patrick Bateman would have instagram.... then again, maybe he would. He always is trying to fit in, after all.
@@Cammyd4fun the perfect scene to describe what you're saying: Thanos: Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction. I offered a solution. Dr Strange: Genocide You know the rest
The delivery of “I’m not sure I’m going to get away with it this time” is so amazing it somehow manages to make me feel devastated for a man I know is a truly terrible person
1:36 - 1:46 This scene proves that Christian Bale can play a better Joker than Jared Leto's entire Joker performance in Suicide Squad. Heck, he might even do it better than Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill and maybe even Heath Ledger. Why? Because not only was he creepy in this scene but he might have been even funny. The Joker in the Batman comics is both creepy and funny at the same time. Having said that, Christian Bale should have got an Emmy/award for his performance in this movie. After all, this his was best performance in a movie.
Should have gotten an Oscar för this role, this scene in particular. The wide spectrum of emotions, and it's effects, like sweating and gasping for breath, he displays in this one scene is mindblowing. Panic, angst, fear, pride, joy, desperation and the list goes on and on, is absolutely amazing.
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I love how he constantly changes his emotions and tone of voice during the confession.
@@talhaansari62 I think the point is that he's a maniac and that he just gets joy from harming others and he's constantly trying to mask it with these other faux-emotional responses when in reality the only real emotional response he has is happiness when he's indulging his homicidal urges.
@@SkynetToaster Well yeah, but I also like to think Bateman was incredibely cowardly, as in, he was genuinely afraid of getting caught. After all, this breakdown did seem pretty legitimate. Of course, the real breakdown didn't really come from any sense of guilt or remorse but rather fear of something bad happening to him, of all people. It seems like a logical hypothesis, based on how he usually only cares about himself.
@@Pengd peng Well of course he was. The only thing an intelligent psychopath will feel for sure, is the fear of consequences for his degenerate behavior.
they filmed it at least 2 times with different emotions. I know with the detective they filmed 3 different takes, all different emotions and edited it together. unsettling to watch, good editing for this style of film!
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I love how he's so proud of killing Paul Allen - amid all the whimpering and crying about the other killings, he practically brags about it. Brilliant scene.
Yeah, he really hated how Paul Allen made him feel like a failure, especially with having a much better business card and actually getting a reservation at Dorsia!
Psychopaths don't relate to people coz they don't have their opinions about what they are talking about. But when they do have an opinion, they expect you to have the same opinions as they do, maybe because they are too used to formality and being fitting in. idk.
he mixed him up with somebody else
WITH AN AXE, IN THE FACE
😂. Such a good observation..grinning ear to ear through the tears 😂
I fucking died when he said "I tried to cook a little". It sounded so casual and innocent.
Brainthrasher gulp!
Brainthrasher exactly!
Yeahhh lmao with the tone of that line!
Jeffrey dahmer lol
@@patrickbateman4541 lmao
Bale's best acting performance
Howard Wimshurst I agree both visual and in audio. He was definitely the right actor for this film. He truly sounds and looked like a complete crazy person.
Bale’s best acting performance is the dark knight rises “where is the trigger!” scene
Hell yeah
Hahaha, never thought i'd see one of my favorite Art youtubers here.
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This is one of my favorite movie scenes. It really shows Bale's acting chops. In this short clip, he went through like 20 different emotions, and merged them seamlessly.
maybe 40
I guess he's a pretty talented guy
It really came into its own commercially and artistically
His batman was boring but this is good
cringe pfp
Should have called Saul.
KnivesOfTheRound Saul probably would've found a way to get Patrick out of it
@@treecrab8192 he once convinced someone he was Kevin Costner.
Award for best comment goes to....you lol
What was Saul even doing in 1988-1989 actually. He was around.
@@treecrab8192 yea
The way he speaks about how he killed paul allen with an ax in the face is hilarious, you can tell he really hated that poor bastard...
Poor he was not.
Stupid, he definitely was.
So did we
Dude you are weird asf
YoungSahThugger you're so cool 😎
MARP00N u weirdo
this has got to be some of the best acting of all time
he wasn't acting ( ͡° ͜~ ͡°)
@@Jacob_Vincent13 Salty loser
@@therealcoolpup3196 Well, I might see what you mean.
I'm sure Christian Bale thinks so, at least.
Not really. Not at all actually. Far from it.
I like how he’s so extremely proud of killing Paul Allen
Probably the only murder he actually did
@@Henry-b3j but that's not possible
@@hazzmati nothing makes sense in the movie
@@Henry-b3j it;s not possible because I had dinner with Paul last week. Now excuse me I have to get going
@@hazzmati no you....didn't
Truly one of jerma's darkest moments caught on camera. It's crazy he just broke down like this mid stream.
Bro 💀
True, when i watched this in stream i was so horrified.
the
I remember back when Jerma was a TF2 RUclipsr.
Don't say swears.
@@RaynmanPlays who doesn't
Tonight I just had to peep the horror a lot, and I'm not sure I'm going to get away with it this time
About 15 years ago, a friend of mine left a message on my phone. Would you believe he recited this scene word for word, with the emotion to back it up. The funny thing was I had no seen the movie at the time of receiving his message, so you can imagine how confused I was. I lost it when he told me to keep my eyes open then hung up.
Pahahahahahaa genius
I guess he is a pretty sick guy
@@ardaaydn6063 your comment was sufficient Arda.
@@MUFFINHEAD1985 Let's see Paul Allen's comment.
@@mauriciomorais7818 That is beautiful grammar, Oh my god.. it even has correct punctuation 😥
My ingame protagonist during his down time without me
this made me smile
Now that’s some good thinking there.
Lmao
Basically every GTA Online character whenever their owner is offline
@@clancy9853 my character probably shivers in a corner because of the things I did
I just realized that his lawyer probably thought that his crying and sniffing sounds were just Bateman trying to hold in his laughter, solidifying his belief that it was all just a prank
We do a little trolling
No he knew it wasn’t
Lawyer knew he wasn't kidding, and he convinced Bateman that he didn't kill Paul.
@@Kreamations no, he was telling Bateman not to confess because it would hurt the company, adding to the satire.
The funny thing about this is that the lawyer tried to find a way around this confession and I personally believe Bateman did kill all those people except the chainsaw scene and this scene. The reason why I say this is because the lawyer told him (who he thought was Davis) that the joke he made about Bateman killing all those people was funny but in this scene he clearly called the lawyer saying "Hello Carns, its Bateman, Patrick Bateman". He clearly introduced himself. So it is pretty clear to me that the lawyer purposely tried to mistake Bateman for Davis to let him get away and not hand himself over as it would damage the company image.
Love this scene
Especially when he said
"Its me! Im the american psycho!"
My favorite scene was when Patrick Bateman looked out over his balcony and said to himself "Finally...After all these years...I am American Psycho".
“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman… but in reality, I am the American psycho (2001).”
“So that’s it? I’m some kind of American Psycho?”
“Can’t believe I truly am… Americas Psycho”
He didn’t say that!
I always felt like he kind of WANTED to be caught. Not because he's actually ashamed of what he's done, but more so because he's sick of living in the vapid, shallow lifestyle he is stuck in.
This is EXACTLY it.
yea basically, he confessed, his lawyer didn’t take him serious, also by “but even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me” is even there in itself, he wants it be caught, to be noticed doing these things, but to everyone else in the movie he comes off as, odd, weird, a “loser” “that dork patrick bateman, such a boring spineless lightweight” it’s all there
@@AlienonEarthC-137 Also remember than an almost every scene where hes talking to someone he knows he gets mistaken for someone else. Everyone he knows is interchangeable and disposable, none of them matter. What he wants most is to be seen as different than them. But the revelation at the end is that even with everything he has done, he still really isn't different then they are.
He wanted to be caught cause he knew he was a monster and needed to be stopped. I like the theory he is in Hell and that's why noone cares. He's stuck perpetually unable to be caught on his rampage even though that's all he wants anymore
Yeah but also none of it happened lol
in the end they're tears of joy; he's so happy that he can finally admit it, amazing performance
cmz8706 he was admitting it all throughout the movie, he admitted it to a lady that he was into murders and executions, however she misunderstood him. He also told his fiancé in the break up scene, however she wasn’t paying attention to him. Even when he admits it to his lawyer, his lawyer doesn’t take him seriously
Woah! Is that why he's crying....tears of joy ? Holy crap! This character is crazier than I thought, lmao!
I thought it had something to do with a split personality or something?
ye tears of joy that he's about to get his conclusion/answer good or bad. He's going to be recognized for what he is whatever it is and freed from his torture. But his tears of joy sadly turn to a blank stare in the end as there is no answer only the next day where the cycle repeats itself
and the Oscar should have gone to........
he was not, a damn shame. and thank you muchly.
they didnt nominated him because they disgusted this film at the time, by how wrongly women was treated in this film
He should at least got nominated for an Oscar .
Kevin Spacey American Beauty.... Oh wait thats what it went to..
+Michael Brown WRONG! It went to Russell Crowe for Gladiator.
This is the best scene in the movie his acting makes it so uncomfortable. But its also the scene where I realized he is not a psycho. Hes gotta be a sociopath or something because psychopaths are unable to feel fear or anxiety and this scene boils over with those emotions
I don’t think he felt guilt over killing those people, he felt so emotional because he got caught. Having to confess is what made him so emotional. Having to break his facade hes worked so hard to keep up with is what makes him upset. Not the people he’s killed.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 sociopaths act on impulses more than psychopaths, specially low functioning sociopaths
@@trapicaz3149 yeah I just realised that I made a dumb comment, should do more research
Can you suggest an Italian movie very similar to American psycho?
''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion''
thats why I don't like this scene, It's unrealistic.
Why do I burst out laughing everytime he says" Tonight..I guess I had to kill a lot of people!!" lol
in the film he said "Tonight, I just had to kill a lot of people" but that's close enough :)
Mike Salvucci extra boi
I think its because its the only scene in the movie besides the murder scenes where who reveals who he actually is, just a raving lunatic lol, and its satisfying to see it come out after him getting away with it all film.
I know. My Friends and I laugh out asses at it too 😂. Just had to kill a lotta People!!!
He's demonstrating the positive signs of schizophrenia.
ive always loved how he sounds genuinely disgusted when he says that he ate their brains. Even he knows that was crossing a line lol.
And the little belching sound that he makes as he says it, I feel like Bale really felt a bit sick for a moment there owing to methodically visualizing cannibalism.
Crazy Christian Bale = Normal Jim Carrey.
true dat
LMAO
Or tom cruise and eric bana's love child, as I like to call him
@Chinmay C. 'only good with comedy'
Maybe you haven't seen him in eternal sunshine...
@Chinmay C. wrong...Carrey can be a terrific actor with any role...maybe not romance.
This semester I ...ahahahh... I just had to skip a lot of lessons. I'm not sure ... I can get away with it this time. I guess I skipped maybe 20 lessons, maybe... 40, I can't remember... I mean... I mean I guess I'm a pretty lazy guy.
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Brilliant comment lmaooo
Too close to home
Keep your eyes OPEN!
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@@juancantu3678 when the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see life as it is, infinite.
this is some next level acting. his emotions go from panic, to anger, to remorse, to shame and sadness. then he mentions paul allen and he expresses immense pride. then he's embarrassed when explaining that he has tapes and has eaten his victims, then he shifts to a crazy psychopathic type of excitement when saying he "HAD TO KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE!", then at the end he feels relieved.. then back to himself.
you know, im willing to bet a lot of actors actually are psychopaths. hmm.
@@ovechkin100Why? Actors are people too, yknow
How did he feel those though if he’s a psychopath do they sometimes feel emotions like that but like rarely or something
@@naha9696 He’s not a psychopath, he’s way too emotional and unstable to be a psychopath. He’s a mix of borderline (extreme mixture of emotions), antisocial personality (violating rights of others without remorse) and schizophrenia (de-attachment from reality)
I had to, she almost got away
Omar Little looool!
lmfao
he had to, because she put a footprint on his face.
And uh, Paul Allen! I killed PAUL ALLEN. With an axe. In the face. His body is dissolving in a bath tub in HELL’S KITCHEN.
Like he wouldnt have killed her if she wasnt running away 😂😂😂
1:38 that laugh
jimbo nutrin sounds like an old dudes laugh
i laughed so hard when he says i ate some of there brains and i tried to cook a little. LOL
He literally ate snatch
It doesn't detail it in the film, but in the book there's a hilarious scene where he's trying to cook a sausage made from the meat of one of his victims: "I'm sobbing incessantly out of disgust of myself; but also because I realised I can't cook". I also wish that the scene where he poured chocolate on a urinal cake and gave it to his girlfriend in a box from a fancy cake company, then watched her struggle eat it because "it's so... minty..." made it into the film.
@@ahhwe-any7434 I'm dying lmao
Lol..that part was so disturbing
Biggus Dickus Ugh this makes me more enthusiastic to read the book 😆
"I had to. She almost got away. "
I laughed but This acting had me worried how someone could so convincingly play a crazy person. An absolutely outstanding performance
The real genius in this is that, through the whole movie (climaxing in this scene), Bale manages to walk the super thin line between perfect, brilliant acting and purposefully corny acting. Only through his acting you can tell that this is supposed to be a satire, because he sprinkles a little bit of that exaggerated drama here and there. Truly a genius
American Psycho truly is one of the most confusing yet straightforward satires ever made
Jesus... Why couldn't this guy be the new joker??
...
Oh yeah...
David De Rueda
Why?
Because he's Batman
That man could've played both roles in the same movie and sold it like nobody's business.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s Joker...
@@_catulus lets not.
Funny he mention Hell's Kitchen in the 80s... that's when it was run by the fearsome Westies gang, and they were notorious for ways of getting rid of bodies like dissolving, etc.
This movie was released in 2000
@@lolboi5005 based in the 80s
@@somewhataddicted7685 HOW?!
@@lolboi5005Read the book tf dude 😅
@@lolboi5005the ending where they're watching TV shows Regan as president
Now let's see Paul Allen's murder confession.
Scene - Batman calls Alfred:
"And the Joker. I killed the Joker with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen."
Is it interesting that Paul Allen was played by Jared Leto who will be the Joker in Suicide Squad?
It is indeed
Hell's kitchen? What? He is daredevil now? lmao
Chris Baca watched the same scene as I saw this comment
Its FUCKIN RAWWWWW
"Some homeless people, maybe 5 or 10..." Haha 5... or 10? I love it.
"I guess I've killed 20 people. Maybe 40."
"I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guyyy"
"Let's see Paul Allen's homicides."
Impressive, Very Nice.
Let's see Paul Allen's confession...
At first he sounds like he truly is guilty about the animal he became. But then as he proceeds, maybe in his head he justifies these actions and while reaching Paul Allen's death part, he was truly proud. And when he said "I just had to kill a lot if people" while laughing, you could clearly say he enjoyed it. An acting Legend. The best in this generation.
He's absolutely amazing
That insanity at 1:42. Fuckin' Awesome Acting!
1:44 AAAND UMM!!!
LMAO XD
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This film is iconic. It should get more recognition.
well its getting memed everywhere now
@@spacekitt.n lol , like too
It has...
The Joker body swaps with Bruce Wayne and uses this to ruin his life.
This sounds Awesome
Its all Patrick Bateman imagining Batman and Joker inside his head....
No, this is Thomas Elliot aka hush
1:38 Bale was a great Batman, but man he could have been an incredible Joker.
Completely agree
Now let’s see paul Allen’s joker
Just like Michael Keaton, great Batman, but his performance as Beetle Juice tells me he’d also be great at Joker.
Love the way says Paul Allen, as he hates him by just saying his name. lol
How did he not even get a nomination for his performance? This scene alone is worthy Enough!
This scene alone shows more range and talent than Russell Crowe’s entire performance in Gladiator.
0:48 he forgor 💀
😭🙏🏻
I love his pause before he mentions the brain eating. He's truly reflecting on himself in that moment and he doesn't know if he likes what he sees. 💯
No, it's about taking off the mask that he has worked so hard to build. A psycho never truly reflects.
I love this scene because you can hear Bale’s British accent slip out for a second when he’s getting emotional. listen to 0:27 ! You can especially hear it in “girlfriend” “nail gun” and “man”
well a fake accent can be hard to maintain when you're acting all emotional like that. for a long time, I didn't even realize Bale isn't American cuz his accent is so good; it wasn't until years after Batman begins when i saw an interview with him on TV in his British accent that I realized he's not American
@@dartmada9733 I completely agree!
The way he enthusiastically say "I just had to kill alot of people" is probably my favorite line
I love the way it sounds when he says it, is very iconic.
@@davidgreyson2822 I love his voice and his smile when he says it. It's kind of cute 😭 But I guess I'm a pretty sick gal...
This has got to be some of Bale’s best work. It’s one thing to play a villain who’s just maniacal and chews the scenery. But here he plays someone who’s terrifying, pathetic, funny, unsettling, and occasionally almost normal, sometimes all in the same scene. Shoulda gotten an Oscar nomination for this.
You can hear his Welsh accent slip out when he says "I killed another girl" at 0:35.
Good observation!
Yes I heard it too 😂😂
Alexandar Vasileski I noticed that too
his accent is naturally english. and as an english person who lives close to the welsh border, it doesn't sound welsh at all.
Christian Bale doesn't even have a Welsh accent? His natural accent is English. He's said in countless interviews he's not Welsh. He's English and was born to two English parents who happened to briefly be in Wales at the time of his birth. He left Wales at age 2 (so not even time to pick up an accent) and went back to England.
Let's see Paul Allen's murder confessions.
Christian Bale is one helluva actor. His performance as Patrick Bateman is probably one of my all time favorite performances in a film. There are so many memorable moments in this film and this is one of them.
Christian Bale. An acting legend.
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1:27 "Balanced diet."
He totally deserved an oscar nomination for this movie.
Love the little shrug at 2:09 😂😂😂😂
This is what Batffleck should be confessing to after BvS.
Every live action batman including bale
Agreed every live action batman has killed.
That is bullshit, and you know it. And no, it's not funny.
Omar Alor ahaha i think the exactly thing
How it feels calling in sick
The way he keeps switching from terror to amusement is amazing
00:55 he's not regretting killing Paul Allen
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman is definitely some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. One of my favorite films ever.
For that scene alone, Bale deserved at least one Oscar
I like that you start to think he’s feeling remorse and guilt for what he’s done and then he says “I’m not sure I’m gonna get away with it this time” and you realise he only cares about himself
what an insane performance bruh his acting skills r crazy
"And uh...Paul Allen! I killed Paul Allen with an AXE in the FACE!"
And now he’s dissolving in a BATHTUB at HELLS KITCHEN!
His acting is great on here
0:26 Nice reference to the Novel.
Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's murder confession.
100% sure this inspired Heath Ledger. From 2:16 until the end, the way he says "Keep your eyes... open !"
One thing is for sure, a politician would never own up to his or her crimes like that.
I wonder if they did this all in one take.
They just gave Bale the scene, shot it once, saw the footage, and they were like, “this is all we need.”
CAUSE BALE IS THAT GOOD OF AN ACTOR
I read somewhere that the director had him do this scene over and over again to break him down, and he got better with each take.
i hope he got some award for this performance cause what he does in this scene is simply stunning, outstanding
1:38 Travis Scott calling his lawyer after the Astroworld concert
This is one of those films where its up to the audience if he really killed those people or not.
I believe he really did kill Paul Allen, and all those girls.
His lawyer at the end mistook him for Davis, and also THOUGHT he recently had dinner with Paul.
In my interpretation, Patrick Bateman has two personalities. His "normal self" that he shows to the public, in which he has an obsession with fitting in with society and being just like everybody else.
His "psychotic" side is his true personality which is a person who has turned insane from his over obsession with "fitting in" with society. In reality, Patrick hates himself for what he has become but knows he won't stop, which makes him hate himself even more.
He takes this hate on everyone he believes deserves it. He preys on the poor/weak (because they are easy and do not belong in a working community) and people just as ignorant and self centered as he is (such as the prostitutes and his friend Elizabeth)
He spared Jean because she represents everything he has always wanted to be. Someone who actually has dreams for the future, and has a passion in trying to become a better person. Which makes her stand out and unique from everyone in the society he lives in. Making her an "outsider" if you will..
He also ended up sparing Lewis (the gay guy) because he "in the last minute" showed Patrick who he really was, which is a homosexual. Someone who also would be considered an outsider from his society.
So he basically targets random people he meets that he believes in his twisted mind are a plague to the possibility of a better society.
The only events I believe didn't happen was him killing the old lady and the explosion of the police cars. At this point he has seriously lost his will to know reality from whatever is in his head.
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also i think that he didnt kill Lewis b/c Lewis never mistook him for someone else which helped spare him from patricks pyscho side, and he was gay so patrick's shallow public personality was just disgusted by the whole situation.
If you read the book you will find that you are about 99% correct on your assumptions, very good. However, in the scene with Jean in his appartment, in the book it was just a prostitute, and if I remember correctly he actually did kill her with the nail gun.
Doesn't explain how all the corpses in Paul Allen's apartment were gone.
I can give you one reason why the kills are real.
In once scene in the movie, the scene where he has sex with those two women. The one that escapes runs, and when she's running she opens a closet and finds to two dead girls in it. Now throughout the movie you only are seeing Patrick's perspective. So when you don't see the girl in front of you, and only see what she's seeing means that you're seeing the perspective of not Patrick. Which means that she reacted to it as well. Now you might say, well Patrick might've imagined it. Well even more proof for you. A psychopath doesn't see or imagine this, because of how crazy they're it makes them want to see it. So it urges them on, and when they just can't take that feeling anymore they do it, because they want to see and feel what it's like for them to personally try it. So the body wouldn't need to, it wants them to. You can even look up stuff about psychopaths, and this is a true fact.
Another thing I noticed you say is that he has two personalities. Every psychopath has two personalities. One of them is what you see on the outside, they don't want anyone else to see what they truly are. The other personality is when they just can't take it anymore, and just want to do what their mind tells them to do.
So yes, you're correct. Patrick does kill his victims in the book and movie.
Loved when he said Its psycho time, and psychoed all over the phone.
God this scene is just so good because this man is such a great actor
I ate some of their brains... And I tried to cook a little...
I love how hes totally aware of his own insanity
“You’re my lawyer so I think you should know I’ve killed a lot of people”
Oscar worthy acting, laugh out loud funny, incredibly disturbing, and thought provokingly ambiguous.
What an excellent scene
For those who haven’t read the novel, in this scene, Patrick actually lists some of the murders that took place in the book (in very very gruesome detail btw) that didn’t make it to the film.
Fun fact: most of the murders he mentions are real scenes in the book that were way, way too violent to put in the movie
There was no way in hell they could have done the nail gun rat one
True like when he mentions “some fagg*t with a dog” he may not be talking about the black homeless guy because I remember in the book he killed another guy with a dog and it was very disturbing details.
This might sound weird but this is probably my favourite scene in the whole movie, even despite all the countless other great ones.
1:03 Hells kitchen huh, gordon is spicing up the recipes
It’s a neighborhood in manhattan
i love this scene and i love this performance. can’t believe the cast and crew thought he was a bad actor during filming
Did they?
@@pajtimo23 yea i think it’s in an interview
After the cast and crew saw the movie, they realized how brilliant his acting is. Bale is such a good actor, they didn't realize that it was Patrick Bateman who was the bad actor, pretending to be a normal human. Bale was playing Bateman, who was trying to be a human. So Bateman's over acting, everyone thought was Bale's over acting. Except for the director, she knew exactly what was going on.
@@abovewater6918 i knew that already
I don't think Patrick was hallucinating his murders. I think they were real & in the end were cleaned up the the person he called. The realtor's reaction to Patrick when she realizes who he is confirms it. Everyone around Patrick knows there's something off about him. They choose to ignore & enable his behavior
1:01 would love to see Gordon Ramsay finding out.
He would say it’s raw
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@@Awhiteguyfrom8mileIT'S FORKIN RAWW
It's pretty haunting to think people like Bateman actually exist...
There is only an idea of a Patrick Bateman. He is simply not there.
The closest person to a real life Patrick Bateman would have to be James Alefantis (check out his Instagram Photos)...
@@pizzapartynightmarez393 I highly doubt a real life Patrick Bateman would have instagram.... then again, maybe he would. He always is trying to fit in, after all.
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@@Cammyd4fun the perfect scene to describe what you're saying:
Thanos: Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction. I offered a solution.
Dr Strange: Genocide
You know the rest
Incredible performance by Bale!
1:40 my fav bit right there
I love how he got away from a GTA 3 star cop chase lol.
He was only 26 in this movie, one of the best actors of our generation
really? im 26 wtf am i doing with my life
Yeah he was 25-26 years old when this movie shooting
This movie, an outrageous display of his talent, and obviously good looks.
Impressive, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's phone call.
The delivery of “I’m not sure I’m going to get away with it this time” is so amazing it somehow manages to make me feel devastated for a man I know is a truly terrible person
Unbelievable Bale didn’t get an Oscar nomination for this role.
Yeah, I mean… Christian Bale is just something else. The way he nailed this character is beyond my understanding.
1:36 - 1:46 This scene proves that Christian Bale can play a better Joker than Jared Leto's entire Joker performance in Suicide Squad. Heck, he might even do it better than Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill and maybe even Heath Ledger. Why? Because not only was he creepy in this scene but he might have been even funny. The Joker in the Batman comics is both creepy and funny at the same time. Having said that, Christian Bale should have got an Emmy/award for his performance in this movie. After all, this his was best performance in a movie.
Should have gotten an Oscar för this role, this scene in particular. The wide spectrum of emotions, and it's effects, like sweating and gasping for breath, he displays in this one scene is mindblowing. Panic, angst, fear, pride, joy, desperation and the list goes on and on, is absolutely amazing.
The happiness when he says paul allen