AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Patrick Bateman is young, white,
beautiful, ivy leagued, and indistinguishable from his Wall Street colleagues.
Shielded by conformity, privilege, and wealth, Bateman is also the ultimate
serial killer, roaming freely and fearlessly. His murderous impulses are fueled
by zealous materialism and piercing envy when he discovers someone else has
acquired more than he has. After a colleague presents a business card superior
in ink and paper to his, Bateman's blood thirst sharpens, and he steps up
his homicidal activities to a frenzied pitch. Hatchets fly, butcher knives
chop, chainsaws rip, and surgical instruments mutilate-how far will Bateman
go? How much can he get away with?
Genres: Art/Foreign
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.
Release Date: April 14, 2000 Nationwide; January 4, 2000 Sundance '00.
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, sexuality, drug use and language.
Distributor: Lions Gate Films
Cast and Credits
Starring: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha
Mathis
Directed by: Mary Harron
Produced by: Christian Halsey Solomon, Ron Rotholz, Chris Hanley
Memorable Quotes from
American Psycho (2000) IMDB
Patrick Bateman: I don't want you to get drunk, but that's a very expensive
glass of Chardonnay you're NOT drinking there. It isn't poisoned.
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Patrick Bateman: Harold, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer so
I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment
uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central
Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany,
my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a
dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost
got away and uh someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's
dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his
body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything
out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a
lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some
of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to
kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time.
I guess I'll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty uh, I mean I guess I'm a
pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, meet me at Harry's Bar, so
you know, keep your eyes open.
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Patrick Bateman: You're a fucking ugly bitch. I want to stab you to death,
and then play around with your blood.
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Patrick Bateman: I want you to clean your vagina.
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Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet.
Jean: What, you're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin.
Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always look thinner.
Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to lose
your willpower.
Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway.
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Patrick Bateman: Not quite blonde, are we? More of a dirty blonde.
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Patrick Bateman: I like to dissect girls. Did you know, I'm utterly insane?
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Patrick Bateman: My need to engage in homicidal behavior on a massive scale
cannot be corrected, but, ah, I have no other way to fulfill my needs.
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Patrick Bateman: I don't think we should see each other any more.
Evelyn Williams: Why? What's wrong?
Patrick Bateman: I need to engage in homocidal behaviour on a massive scale.
It can not be corrected but I have no other way to fulfill my needs.
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Evelyn Williams: What about the past?
Patrick Bateman: We never really shared one.
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Patrick Bateman: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction.
But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I
can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours
and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply
am not there.
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Waiter: Would you like to hear today's specials?
Patrick Bateman: Not if you want to keep your spleen.
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Patrick Bateman: I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh,
skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed
and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know
why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the
verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
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Patrick Bateman: Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?
David Van Patten: The maitre 'd at Canal Bar?
Patrick Bateman: No, serial killer, Wisconsin, the '50s.
Craig McDermott: So what did he say?
Patrick Bateman: "When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I
think two things. One part wants me to take her out, talk to her, be real
nice and sweet and treat her right."
David Van Patten: And what did the other part think?
Patrick Bateman: "What her head would look like on a stick..."
[laughs]
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Patrick Bateman: Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever
since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't
understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke
where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch
was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility.
At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three
albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing
of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of
every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship,
the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina,
why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In
this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority.
In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment.
The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative
as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina
can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial
and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In
the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat
it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group,
than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great,
great song, a personal favorite.
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Patrick Bateman: Wasn't Rothschild originally handling the Fisher account?
How did you get it?
Paul Allen: Well, Halberstram, I could tell you... but then I'd have to kill
ya.
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[Just after breaking up]
Evelyn Williams: Where are you going?
Patrick Bateman: I am just leaving.
Evelyn Williams: But where?
Patrick Bateman: I have to return some videotapes.
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Patrick Bateman: He was into that whole Yale thing.
Donald Kimball: Yale thing?
Patrick Bateman: Yeah, Yale thing.
Donald Kimball: What whole Yale thing?
Patrick Bateman: Well, he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of
cocaine. That whole Yale thing.
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Courtney Rawlinson: Listen Patrick, can we talk?
Patrick Bateman: You look... marvelous. There's nothing to say.
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Patrick Bateman: I don't think we should see each other.
Evelyn Williams: But your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends.
I don't think it would work. You have a little something...
Patrick Bateman: I know that your friends are my friends and, uh... I thought
about that. You can have'em.
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ATM Machine: Feed me a stray cat.
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David Van Patten: [re: business card] Nice color.
Patrick Bateman: That's 'Bone'.
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Timothy Bryce: He makes himself out to be a harmless old codger, but inside...
inside...
Patrick Bateman: [voice-over] ..."but inside" doesn't matter.
Craig McDermott: "Inside," yes, "inside..." - believe
it or not, Bryce, we're actually listening to you...
Timothy Bryce: Come on, Bateman, what do you think?
Patrick Bateman: Whatever.
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Patrick Bateman: There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common
with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the
mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone,
in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape,
but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continuous
to allude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself no new knowledge can
be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
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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.
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Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes,
but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial
and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen
of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's
been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter,
cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place,
d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished
album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square",
a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they
should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance
of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
[raises axe above head]
Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul!
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]
Patrick Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID
BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!
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[Recurring line]
Patrick Bateman: I have to return some videotapes.
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Patrick Bateman: [to drycleaner] If you don't shut your fucking mouth, I will
kill you.
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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?
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[to Al, a homeless person]
Patrick Bateman: Get a god-damn job Al.
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Evelyn Williams: You're inhuman.
Patrick Bateman: No... .I'm in touch with humanity.
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Jean: Make someone happy. Have you ever wanted to?
Patrick Bateman: I'm looking for, uh...
[Puts nail gun to the back of Jean's head]
Patrick Bateman: I guess you could say I just want to have a meaningful relationship
with someone special.
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Patrick Bateman: I think if you stay, something bad will happen. I think I
might hurt you. You don't want to get hurt, do you?
Jean: No. No, I guess not. I don't want to get bruised.
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Courtney Rawlinson: Stop it, I'm...
Patrick Bateman: - on a lot of lithium?
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Evelyn Williams: You hate that job anyway. I don't see why you don't just
quit.
Patrick Bateman: Because I want to fit in.
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Patrick Bateman: [voice-over] There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize
that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive
than mine.
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Patrick Bateman: Did you know that Ted Bundy's first dog was a collie named
Lassie?
[laughs]
Jean: Who's Ted Bundy?
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Courtney Rawlinson: Will you call me before Easter?
Patrick Bateman: Maybe.
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Patrick Bateman: Ask me a question.
Daisy: What do you do?
Patrick Bateman: I'm into... well murders and executions mostly.
Daisy: Do you like it?
Patrick Bateman: It depends. Why?
Daisy: Because most guys I know who work with mergers an acquisitions really
don't like it.
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Patrick Bateman: Jean, I'm not going to make it... I'm not going to... make
it... to the office this afternoon.
Jean: [alarmed] What is it, Patrick? Are you all right?
Patrick Bateman: Stop sounding so fucking... sad. Jesus.
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[repeated line]
Patrick Bateman: Just say no.
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Craig McDermott: If they have a great personality and they're not great looking...
then who fucking cares?
Patrick Bateman: Well, let's just say hypotetically ok? What if they have
a great personality?
[pause, all laugh]
Patrick Bateman: I know, I know.
[all in unison]
Patrick Bateman, Craig McDermott, David Van Patten: There are no girls with
good personalities.
David Van Patten: A good personality consists of a chick with a little hard
body, who will satisfy all sexual demands without being too slutty about things,
and who essentially will keep her dumb fucking mouth shut.
Craig McDermott: The only girls with good personalities who are smart or maybe
funny or halfway intelligent or talented, though god knows what the fuck that
means, are ugly chicks.
David Van Patten: Absolutely.
Craig McDermott: And this is because they have to make up for how fucking
unnattractive they are.
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Jean: What's that?
Patrick Bateman: Duct tape. I need it for... taping something.
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Patrick Bateman: Hey, I'm a child of divorce, gimme a break!
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Patrick Bateman: [voiceover] As we arrive at Espace I'm on the verge of tears
as I'm certain we won't get a decent table. But we do; relief washes over
me in an awesome wave.
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Timothy Bryce: [after snorting "cut" cocaine] I want to get high
off this, not sprinkle it on my fucking Oaties.
Patrick Bateman: Definitely weak, but I have a feeling that if we do enough
of it we'll be okay.
Club Patron: [leans over from another booth] Will you keep it down? I'm trying
to do drugs!
Timothy Bryce: [speaks to the patron in the next booth] HEY, FUCK YOU!
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Patrick Bateman: Just cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks.
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Patrick Bateman: Your compliment was sufficient, Luis.
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Patrick Bateman: [after being kicked in the face by Christie the call girl]
Not the face! You bitch! Not the fucking face, you piece of bitch trash!
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Patrick Bateman: I'm leaving. I've assessed the situation, and I'm going.
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Patrick Bateman: Come on, Bryce. There are a lot more important problems than
Sri Lanka to worry about.
Timothy Bryce: Like what?
Patrick Bateman: Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the
nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food
and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote
civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage
a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote
general social concern and less materialism in young people.
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Patrick Bateman: I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street
on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe
in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine.
In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while
doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use
a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser,
then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub.
Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while
I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with
little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look
older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing
protective lotion.
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Jean: Are you dating anyone?
Patrick Bateman: I dont know. Maybe... not really.
