American Psycho

[elfneedsfood]

I just watched American Psycho, and I have a question reguarding the ending. I'm not sure I understand exactly what went down. Did he actually kill all those people, or was he just crazy? I'm sure I'm missing something. Oh, and I haven't read the book.

[Dolemite]

You can interpet the ending either way. I like to think he actually DID kill all those people, personally.

Anyway, I LOVE this movie and I think Christain Bale was amazing in it.

As for the book, it's great, though 10,000x more violent than the movie was. If they have filmed the movie like the book really was, it would have been banned in every country, I think. So, faced with the choice of still having extemem violence in the movie, but toned down from the novel, or basically implying everything or having it happen off-screen, they opted to go with choice #2, which I think was the best bet. Sometimes if you just hint at something it gets a person's mind working in ways that pure gore can't.

Still, the convrsion from novel to movie was brilliant- the movie remains totally loyal to the spirit of the book. Nothing is changed, other than the violence shown (LOTS is implied, however). The book is told in the first person by Bateman himself, and Christain Bale is the PERFECT Patrick Bateman. All of the scenes and dialogue are taken directly from the novel, and several seperate scenes are taken from the book and spliced together for the film just to get most of the good stuff in there. The only thing I was disapointed that was left out was a scene with Bateman, his girlfriend, and a urinal mint, as the scene was really funny. Otherwise, if you liked the movie, and have a strong stomach (the gore in the novel is described in extremely disgusting detail), I really recommend reading the novel.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and return some video tapes.

[Despair]

Well, I think that he was just way out of his mind, and everything had happened in his head. Makes the story and happenings seem more bizzare.

Very cool movie though, and Bale was great it it.

Time to Return some video tapes

[Dolemite]

Well, I think that he was just way out of his mind, and everything had happened in his head. Makes the story and happenings seem more bizzare.

Well, like I said, you can go either way with the ending, Despair, but here's some reasons I like to use to try and prove that he really did kill everyone:

He tried to strangle Louis.
He was seen stuffing the overnight bag with Paul Allen's body into the trunk of the cab by Louis.
His notebook full of gory drawings found by Jean.
Detective Donald Kimball obviously knew that Bateman had killed Paul Allen but he had no proof he did so, especially with that last line he used on him ("To think that one of his friends just up and killed him for no reason...that's crazy. Right...Partick?" nod-wink)
The fact that Bateman's lawyer had claimed to have had seen Paul Allen in London was just another example of the parody of shallow 80's culture- everyone was mistaking people for someone else in that movie. Hell, even Bateman's lawyer thought that he was Marcus Halberstram.
It's just cooler.

Of course, you can come up with plenty of reasons that all this is happening in Bateman's head, too.

[Salsashark]

Yeah that was a pretty good adaptation of the book.

In the book he definitely did murder everyone though, right?

[Rumpy]

The ending of the movie threw me for a loop. I think I'll track down the book and give it a read. Problem is, whenever I see Bale, I immediatly think of American Psycho.

[Josh]

Perhaps a spoiler tag should be in the thread title... hmm?

[Rumpy]

I just watched American Psycho, and I have a question reguarding the ending.

I think that's a pretty good indicator that a spoiler for the movie is coming up.

[Gonzo]

If you haven't seen number 2 I think it helps with the answer. Just an opinion.

[elfneedsfood]

Well, I liked the movie. It seems to me that he was just crazy, and everything was going on in his head. I can see it happening the other way too though. At first I didn't like the ending, but I'm ok with it now.