The only difference is that Bateman seems more electable now than he might have been then. Twenty years later, American Psycho hasn’t left the culture, because the culture hasn’t left American Psycho. Some of the intended ambiguity may be lost, especially in a finale that’s chaotic and confusing, but the film still feels like an adaptation problem Harron and Turner have solved. (Ellis himself has expressed mixed feelings about the film, but seems grateful to it for clarifying his satirical intent.) Where the book’s deranged first-person style juxtaposed graphic scenes of violence with equally long and pornographic descriptions of high-end consumer items, the film’s voiceover narration integrates them more smoothly, as blood-streaked black comedy.
It would not be accurate to consider Harron and Turner’s American Psycho a feminist critique of Ellis’s novel so much as a clever and shrewd articulation of it, with less potential for being misunderstood. One of the funnier footnotes of the film is that Gloria Steinem, the most prominent of the novel’s critics, happens to be Bale’s stepmother. The film went through multiple iterations that had Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ewan McGregor in the lead, paired with directors like Stuart Gordon, David Cronenberg and Oliver Stone Harron and Bale spent four years attached to the project like barnacles before Lionsgate acquiesced, albeit on a less-than-generous budget. Photograph: Allstar/Lionsgate/Sportsphotoįor the screen version of American Psycho to come from two women helped short-circuit the charges of misogyny that dogged the book so persistently, though producer Edward R Pressman wasn’t concerned enough to settle quickly on Harron and her star, Christian Bale. He’s like an alien, only with a knife instead of a probe. It’s impossible to imagine anything like the organic process of childbirth creating a monster like Patrick Bateman, which may explain why he likes to splash around in human viscera. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory.” In Ellis’s book, Bateman has a fraught relationship to his brother and senile mother, but Harron and Turner wisely excise those characters from the film, to where he seems like someone who has no family and no past, as if he simply appeared in the world in a pinstriped Valentino Couture suit. “There is the idea of a Patrick Bateman,” he says in the early in the narration, “some kind of abstraction. They’re thinking of him like the maker of The Corporation: what if the era manifested itself as a person? How would he feel? How would he behave? The conclusion is more or less the same, right there in the title. But both book and film, craftily adapted by director Mary Harron and her co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner, are not thinking about him as a symbol per se. The same idea was used by YouTuber pipsi a month prior.It’s common to think about Patrick Bateman, the narrator and brand-conscious mass murderer of American Psycho, as representing certain 1980s themes: the greed and rapaciousness of Wall Street, the emptiness of consumer culture, and a Reagan era where old-fashioned values covered the whole Darwinian bloodbath in the sharp, piney scent of Polo cologne. On February 7th, 2021, TikTok user gold.in.the.gutter posted a Chug Jug With You edit of the meme that received over one million views and 201,000 likes in two weeks (shown below). A version set to "I Got Skills" by DJ Suede The Remix God received over 33,000 views and 8,400 likes in two days. For example, an edit set to Among Us (Trap Remix) received over 76,500 views and 21,200 likes in three days. Starting on December 6th, 2020, Instagram account repostrandy started reposting memes to the platform. On the same day, iFunny users Arminivs and PartytimeChump posted edits that received over 800 and 600 smiles, respectively (shown below, center and right). For example, on that day iFunny user mudderbudder posted an LISA – "Crossing Field" version of the meme that received over 270 smiles (shown below, left). Starting on December 6th, 2020, multiple iFunny users created similar edits based on the video.
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