American Psycho Genesis quote.....

The Lost Chord wrote: NEED I SPOIL THE ENDING FOR THE SAKE OF THIS THREAD!!! hes not a serial killer..... *whistles away*

Hate to spoil it further... but he most definitely was a serial killer.  You missed the point.

*Spoiler*

The point was (as was better illustrated in the novel than the film) that these businessmen were so shallow and self-centered.  He did kill those people.  But remember the recurring theme of everyone not remembering eachother's name?  For instance when he kills Jared Leto's character, and later on someone says that they had eaten lunch with Leto's character the other day, so he couldn't be dead.  Well... he was dead.  He just didn't know who the hell he was eating lunch with.  These people are so inconsequential and self-centered as that they don't remember anything that doesn't immediately benefit them.  That's why Bateman was able to kill all those people and have everyone tell him he didn't kill anyone.  No one remembered, you see.

*End of Spoiler*

Anycase, great film and book.  And the Genesis quote was a riot.


Oh, this is my first post by the way.  So, hello everyone.

i love this movie and find this scene hilarious...  However my understanding of the ending is that he really did commit the murders and it is that his peers couldnt believe that someone who is rich and successful would do such things...

NetsNJFan wrote: Peter wrote: Another funny know-it-all re music is Jack Black's caustic, elitist record store clerk guy in Grosse Pointe Blanc. Ha!

i think you mean High Fidelity

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Yes, you're right, thanks -- I wasn't sure.

Funny character, hey?

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I loved that scene, especially the part where he talks about the early genesis ("Before 1980 they were to complex, etc for me"), nice scene although the film was quite senseless!

Peter wrote: The Lost Chord wrote: NEED I SPOIL THE ENDING FOR THE SAKE OF THIS THREAD!!! hes not a serial killer..... *whistles away* OK -- my mistake. (I never saw the flic, & not sure that I want to. Movies about murderers are not my cup o' tea, really.) I just didn't like the idea of a serial killer being portrayed as funny and likeable, but if he's not a killer -- yeah, he sounds funny. Another funny know-it-all re music is Jack Black's caustic, elitist record store clerk guy in Grosse Pointe Blanc. Ha!

i think you mean High Fidelity

The Lost Chord wrote: NEED I SPOIL THE ENDING FOR THE SAKE OF THIS THREAD!!! hes not a serial killer..... *whistles away*

Really?, and this is confirmed. Cause I always thought it was left open to interpretation.

NEED I SPOIL THE ENDING FOR THE SAKE OF THIS THREAD!!!

hes not a serial killer..... *whistles away*

if anyone has seen the movie, christian bales character "patrick bateman" is absolutely hilarious...he knows EVERYTHING about the music he listens to, and lectures about whatever he is playing to the person or persons he is about to kill.

He is a miserable, insane business man...the movie/book is kind of playing on the stereotypes of major wallstreet business people, and thus the character is hilarious.

At one point he goes into the hotel of the man he has just killed and says something all these lines "and in a moment of sheer panic, i noticed john allans apartment window was facing the park, a better view than my apartement and thus a more expensive location"

its a hilarious film, and the genesis quote made it even more hilarious for me after becoming a huge gen fan

 

anyways, he has sex to sussudio after that quote with two girls as he felxes in the mirror, its amazing

BaldFriede wrote: How anyone can make love to that music is beyond me; it would definitely kill my mood.

Well... maybe that's the point.  how anyone could kill that many people is beyond me too.
The character's intellectual appreciation for bad 80s pop just makes him that much crazier.  you got to be nuts to like that stuff!