We All Know That Christian Bale Was Incredible As Patrick Bateman. Nobody Else Could Be As Bateman As

We all know that Christian Bale was incredible as Patrick Bateman. Nobody else could be as Bateman as he was. Like he was great, delicious, fierce, inimitable, irreplaceable. BUT I think we need to give the rest of the cast some credit too because they BODIED those roles! Dare I say DEVOURED. Like that’s them. Those are the Guys. That’s Luis Carruthers nobody else can be Luis now. Or Paul or Evelyn or Van Patten or anybody like. I was skeptical of Justin Theroux as Timothy for like three seconds (it’d been years since i first seen it, and i’d just finished the book) but ONLY for those THREE SECONDS because he was so GOOD i had to admit that i was wrong. Like they’re literally them they killed it i love this stupid fucking movie . I know the academy awards are a scam because it didn’t win every Oscar there is. Mary Harron i owe you so much dopamine

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I’m Late to the party w this one but its so true

this is how patrick would react to the recent news.

It be like that sometimes

The popular American Psycho (2000) take I heavily disagree with is that Patrick was convincing.

I heard this consistently; Patrick successfully hid his monstrous nature. He is the wolf in wool at the office. He gets away with what he does because he has successfully infiltrated the palace of normiehood. Patrick Bateman is Good at Being Normal.

This is demonstrably and meaningfully untrue? He's not persuasive. He doesn't convince anyone that he's one of them. He regularly fails his charisma checks. His peers openly dislike and disregard him. They don't notice that he (may or may not be) a sicko who kills sex workers, poor minorities, the homeless, and eventually one of their own both because they don't care/respect him enough to bother and because they're all too self-absorbed to notice the dead woman he's stuffing into the trunk.

This is not a small thing! He isn't keenly using pre conceived biases and superficiality to dodge consequences - they simply don't give a shit about him. Like, that seemed a core tenant of the movie, that his wealthy, brand-obsessed colleagues who talk so much while saying nothing of weight aren't actually listening to his flimsy excuses or explicit murder confessions, as if none of his actions mattered. I seriously hate to be that guy but "it's not that his mask was believable, it's that very few bothered looking at the mask" feels like an important point to not miss.

I can somewhat grasp the pov that Patrick was just too good at presenting as a dorky loser since that's what his peers believe him to be - maybe we're working off different definitions of what a "convincing person" is - But Patrick was absolutely not trying to convince them of this! He desperately tries (and fails!) to kill this image - which doesn't sound like convincing guy activities to me!

The word "convincing" denotes a level of agency I didn't see. It's as if people saw his character as frightening because oh what if the normal guy you talk to everyday at work was secretly a serial killer, despite the vast majority of people he interacts with either think he's an annoying loser or quickly recognize there's something wrong with him but lack the social status to do anything about it. Who did he convince?