American Psycho (Literature) - TV Tropes. It is the story about the archetypal '8. Serial Killer. Patrick Bateman is a yuppie's yuppie. He works on Wall Street, has a pretty girlfriend, and spends most of his life in trendy restaurants and clubs.
However, he is also a psychotic serial killer who often hallucinates and murders people in increasingly horrific ways, for no reason. Most of the people in Pat's life don't really know anything about him, but then, he doesn't know anything about them either.
Most of the people he knows can't even be bothered to remember his name — but he isn't so sure about their names either, so it all evens out. There is no one who listens to him; he confesses at least once a week, but no one seems to notice or indeed care. And Ellis explains that Patrick may not really be a serial killer. Patrick may just be harmlessly insane. But Patrick may also be speaking the absolute truth. It's up to the reader to decide. The book also crosses over with Ellis' earlier novel The Rules of Attraction, but like everything else, it's of no consequence whatsoever.
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The main character Patrick Bateman also makes appearances in his later books Glamorama (1. Lunar Park (2. 00.
In 2. 00. 0, the story was adapted into a feature film by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner and starring Christian Bale as Bateman, which has since grown a cult following. A movie sequel In- Name- Only is described on another page. There is also a musical version that ran in 2.
London's Almeida Theatre, featuring Matt Smith as Bateman, and in 2. New York's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, starring Benjamin Walker.
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Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more. American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis first published in 1991. It is the story about the archetypal '80s businessman: rich, shallow, unhappy, self
Inspired the song and album title of the same name from The Misfits. Not to be confused with the song by Canadian rock band Treble Charger or the experimental track by John Zorn on Radio. Word of God for the movie version has it, on a DVD commentary track, that when the two co- writers were writing the film they thought of it as having every single murder in the story really taking place in some fashion or other but never in exactly the way Bateman hallucinates/lies about/misremembers it. Aluminium Christmas Trees: Peanut butter soup is actually a real thing (nkatenkwan, the national dish of Ghana), although it's usually made with chicken and yam, rather than duck and squash. Mud soup and charcoal arugula are still just plain ridiculous, though. Always Someone Better: Patrick is driven to kill Paul Owen/Allen because Paul's own successes make Patrick feel deeply inadequate, and outside his own social circle, Patrick constantly looks up to and admires the wealth and lifestyle of Donald Trump, who Patrick would hope to meet one day. Ambiguously Jewish: Both the book and movie portray an early scene of dialogue where Bateman plays devil's advocate for political correctness when he calls out a colleague for claiming that a business rival is Jewish and was .
In a chapter in the book, he disembowels another dog, then shoots its owner; in a chapter set at a zoo, he throws nickel coins to the seals, just because he saw a table asking people not to do so (because they can choke on them). Beneath the Mask: Publicly, Patrick is charming, mild- mannered, and likable to those in his circle of friends. Privately, Patrick is a violent sadist incapable of empathy, remorse, or compassion. He explicitly refers to his friendly facade as his .
For instance, the very thought that Patrick will not get a good table at a restaurant is enough to put him . Also (in the movie), as much as he despises Luis, it's the fact that Luis had business cards that Patrick thinks are better than his own that drives him to attempt to murder Luis almost immediately. Black Comedy. Borrowed Catchphrase: In part of the work's satire in shaping Bateman as a product of 1. American culture and values, as molded by its media and most prominent political figures, Patrick appropriates other popular phrases of the era for himself.
Most notably, Nancy Reagan's . For Patrick, this emphasis on commercial consumption not only compels him to murder people out of jealousy for having more or better stuff than he does, like Paul Owen/Allen, but also causes him to see other people as products for his personal consumption, first realized through his penchant for prostitutes and escorts and later taken to a metaphorical extreme when he turns to cannibalism. Cassandra Truth: There are times when Bateman openly confesses his crimes to people, who either don't believe him, mishear him, or think he's joking. Catch Phrase: . They pretend to be conscious of tragic news stories and global crises (murders, drugs, mafia, nazis, AIDS, homelessness, Sri Lanka, et. As much as Bateman portrays himself as possessing immense knowledge and informed opinions in appreciation of pop culture, music, movies, TV, and other trivia, he does occasionally get things wrong, although this isn't always made glaringly obvious: In all adaptations, there's a scene where Bateman references a quote which he attributes to infamous murderer Ed Gein. In actuality, the quote in question was said by another serial killer, Edmund Kemper.
In the book and musical, a character points out to Patrick that he hung his cherished, original David Onica painting upside- down. Moreover in the book: Timothy Price/Bryce makes the claim when trying to sound world conscious that . In the movie, Patrick says Fore! The music he talks about is also an example of this. Ellis didn't like any of the music Bateman liked; he used it because . He later came to regret associating Huey Lewis and the News with Bateman. Disposable Sex Worker: .
A beggar named Al, in particular, is presented to readers/audiences as Patrick's first victim. In the book, Al is suggested to have survived his encounter with Patrick and reappears later in the second half.
Disproportionate Retribution: Several of Bateman's victims are killed out of jealousy or vengeance over incredibly petty grievances. Dumb Blonde: Evelyn and Courtney, primarily. Also, three models (Libby, Daisy and Caron) Patrick and his associates mingle with in a nightclub. In the book, when they're asked to name any of the planets, two guess the Moon, and the third one guesses Comet. This is deconstructed with one of the models lamenting this and saddened by how Bateman sees her as nothing but a brainless squeeze, suggesting there is more to her character, but she doesn't mind because she thinks Patrick is actually a nice person. The '8. 0s: This decade is omnipresent from fashion, trademarks and pop culture references to discussions on topical issues related to the era.
Even Evil Has Standards: Three characters who Bateman does not kill are Evelyn, his fiancee; Jean, his secretary; and Luis, his gay associate, all of whom are in love with him. Notable, as Bateman finds Evelyn incredibly annoying, but never considers murdering her, and he was actually about to kill Luis, until he revealed he was gay and in love with Bateman. Even though Bateman is disgusted by this he still does not kill Luis. Also inverted in the book, where Bateman kills a small boy but doesn't find it evil enough.
Evidence Dungeon: Patrick Bateman uses both his apartment and appropriates Paul Owen/Allen's apartment after killing him to commit most of his murders. In his apartment, there is a head in the fridge and numerous implements of murder and torture. In Paul Owen/Allen's apartment, there are two bodies hanging on hooks in a closet, another on the bathroom floor and a room with 'Die Yuppie Scum' scrawled on the walls. Subverted as the ending implies that Bateman may be having psychotic delusions about his murders. As he is an incredibly unreliable narrator, it calls into question everything we've seen and whether the 'evidence' was really there. Evil Is Petty: Patrick kills people for such things as having fancier business cards than he does.
Extra- Strength Masquerade: Bateman could be caught, but no one cares to catch him. Gainax Ending: What will happen to Patrick?
Is he really a murderer, or is it all in his head? Impossible to say.
Girl- on- Girl Is Hot: Patrick has an extreme hatred for homosexual males (whom he derides as . If he's not going to lengths to pay prostitutes and/or drug women just to watch them get it on, he's often seeking it out in pornographic videos. In one instance late in the book, this obsession causes Patrick to miss a business meeting when the topic of his favorite daytime talk show turns out to be . Word of God has stated that this premise was arrived at relatively late in the process of writing the novel, and the earlier chapters are more about Bateman's vanity and isolation. Hookers and Blow: Part of Patrick's exceptionally decadent lifestyle.
Hypocrite: Early in the narrative, Bateman publicly puts forth to his peers that it is on themselves to work towards solving social crises, such as providing food and shelter for the homeless, opposing racial discrimination, supporting civil rights and equal rights for women, and return to traditional moral values. However, privately, Bateman is an ardent racist, sexist without ethics who only feels disgust for the poor. In the book, as Bateman lays this all out, he even tries to openly support both sides of divisive social issues, such as stressing a need to . Patrick shows open disdain for people who smoke cigarettes, while he himself enjoys smoking cigars. In the film, Patrick disallows one of the prostitutes from smoking in his apartment after she takes out a cigarette, but Patrick lights a cigar in the exact same room after murdering Paul Allen.
In the book, Patrick loudly complains about being seated next to smokers at a restaurant (hoping the . Later, when torturing Bethany back at his apartment, Patrick momentarily pauses to show her a cigar and gloat that he still smokes them, in spite of telling her earlier that he had quit.
Patrick chides his colleagues for making anti- semitic comments about another one of their co- workers and confusing words like .