American Psycho Notes

you aren't gonna get anything about if the murders were real or not here.. but if you look on you tube or google i believe you could find Something!

American Psycho/Patrick Bateman Timeline

the comic is missing, but i'll update once i get all the issues C:

Peanut Butter Bateman

patrick’s initials are PB right. is that why ellis named jean for jelly so they could make.... peanut butter and jelly

Jean At The Confession

He stares at me as if we are both underwater and shouts back, very clearly over the din of the club, “Because … I had … dinner … with Paul Owen … twice … in London … just ten days ago.”
After we stare at each other for what seems like a minute, I finally have the nerve to say something back to him but my voice lacks any authority and I’m not sure if I believe myself when I tell him, simply, “No, you … didn’t.” But it comes out a question, not a statement.

“Now, Donaldson,” Carnes says, removing my hand from his arm. “If you’ll excuse me.”

“Oh you’re excused,” I sneer. Then I make my way back to our booth where John Edmonton and Peter Beavers are now sitting and I numb myself with a Halcion before taking Jean home, back to my place. Jean is wearing something by Oscar de la Renta. Nina Goodrich was wearing a sequined dress by Matsuda and refused to give me her number, even though Jean was in the women’s room downstairs.

jean was there !!!!? and he's taking her back to his apartment ???????! 😦 (you know. where all the bad things happen?)

Jean and Evelyn

so the End of the 1980s chapter is meant to show the differences between Jean and Evelyn...

i mean, Patrick is interrogating Jean to see if She's Nothing Like His Ex. he makes his intention obvious:

She has one more test to pass.
“Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
“No,” she says. “I don’t.”
“Evelyn carries a briefcase,” I mention.
“She does …?” Jean asks.
“And what about a Filofax?”
“A small one,” she admits.
“Designer?” I ask suspiciously.
“No.”
I sigh, then take her hand, small and hard, in mine.

but also, when Patrick asks Jean, "How many people in this world are like me?" it's because of what Evelyn says about Price

“Why don’t you just go for Price?”
“Oh god, Patrick,” she says, her eyes shut. “Why Price? Price?” And she says this in a way that makes me think she has had sex with him.
“He’s rich,” I say.
“Everybody’s rich,” she says, concentrating on the TV screen.
“He’s good-looking,” I tell her.
“Everybody’s good-looking, Patrick,” she says remotely.
“He has a great body,” I say.
“Everybody has a great body now,” she says.

(ouch, lol. but here we see an establishing of a pattern, one where Patrick often tries to bait his lovers into confirming his fear of being replacable)

to top it all off... one of Patrick's complaints about Evelyn is that she doesn't drink beer. guess who does?

I stare at [Jean] hard, for maybe half a minute, before turning away. This quiets her. After a while she orders a beer. It’s hot out on the street.

White Man Is The Devil

or, the american psycho version: "yuppies are the devil"

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank...

... the letters of the message hovering above Bono’s head in orange wavy letters: “I … am … the … devil … and I am … just … like … you …”

“Damien. You’re Damien,” I think I hear Sean mutter.

"Damien" referring to devil's child of the same name in The Omen movies

i was about to write this off to being an indirect reference, but no, in a haiku, patrick literally writes:

She falters again, then reads the last sentence, sighing. “‘Black man … is … de … debil?’”

Evelyn: A Funky Insect

This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation. I needed to go to the Hamptons.
I suggested this to Evelyn and, like a spider, she accepted.

To me [Evelyn] looks like a big black ant—a big black ant in an original Christian Lacroix—eating a urinal cake and I almost start laughing, but I also want to keep her at ease.

And to Evelyn I successfully Federal Expressed, through the office, a small box of flies along with a note, typed by Jean, saying that I never, ever wanted to see her face again and, though she doesn’t really need one, to go on a fucking diet.

The Ending

honestly i’m so glad that they made the “this confession has meant nothing” the ending speech of the movie because girl what the hell is

“Well, though I know I should have done that instead of not doing it, I’m twenty-seven for Christ sakes and this is, uh, how life presents itself in a bar or in a club in New York, maybe anywhere, at the end of the century and how people, you know, me, behave, and this is what being Patrick means to me, I guess, so, well, yup, uh …” and this is followed by a sigh, then a slight shrug and another sigh...