American Psycho
Memorable Movie Quotes
Patrick Bateman: Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhead Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.
Patrick Bateman: You’re dating Louis and he’s in Arizona. You’re fucking me and we don’t have plans tonight. What could you possibly be doing?
Trivia
Edward Norton was offered the part of Bateman but turned it down.
The movie appearing on Bateman’s TV while he’s working out at home is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
The first porn movie Bateman is watching is White Angel (1998).
In the DVD commentary, Mary Harron says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself.
Two scenes featured unexpected improvisation by Christian Bale. When Bateman is jumping rope, he starts to skip and cross his jump rope as a schoolgirl would. Bale surprised director Mary Harron even more by starting to dance as Bateman was preparing to kill Paul Allen. That time, she says in interviews and the commentary, she collapsed with laughter.
To block the three-way sex scene with two prostitutes, Mary Harron and Christian Bale watched x-rated tapes. In her commentary, Herron says Bale made stick-figure drawings of the positions he thought would work best.
The only part of the movie that author Bret Easton Ellis didn’t like was Bateman’s moonwalk during Paul Allen’s murder-scene.
A sign reading “This is not an exit” is shown in the closing scene. These are the last words of the novel.
Goofs
When Patrick is listening to his new Robert Palmer tape, you see the cab drive by an FDNY ambulance. FDNY didn’t take over ambulance services until the early 1990s.
The TV that is shown at the end of the movie with President Reagan speaking is a late ’90s model of Sony Trinitron.
Bateman’s office is supposed to be located downtown, yet the view out his window is clearly of midtown.
When Bateman hits Paul Allen with the axe for the first time, the blood sprays on him before he actually hits him. Also the blood comes from a different angle than where Allen’s head is supposed to be.
When Patrick Bateman is packing a suitcase in Paul Allen’s apartment, the light is switched off in the bathroom behind him. But as he stands up and heads for the door the light is now switched on.
The film is set in 1987. In his apartment, Patrick offers ‘Christie’ and ‘Sabrina’ a Varda truffle. Varda Chocolatiers was not established until 1989.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $8,000,000
Opening Weekend $4,961,015 (USA) (16 April 2000) (1,236 Screens)
Gross $84,136,909
Filming 28 February 1999 – 23 April 1999
Filming Locations
Boston Club – 4 Front Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cabbagetown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Monsoon Restaurant, 100 Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Montana Restaurant Bar – 145 John Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New York City, New York, USA
Pearl Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Phoenix Concert Theater – 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Senator Restaurant – 249 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Shark City Bar and Grill – 117 Eglinton Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada