Name - Patrick Bateman
Occupation - Mergers and Acquisitions, Peirce & Peirce
M.O. - Torture and on occasion a bit of Cannibalism
Victims - " I just had to KILL a lot people"
"Fuck the Yuppies"
From the mind of acclaimed author Brett Easton Ellis comes the one and only sociopathic and psychotic serial killin' son of a bitch Patrick Bateman. An eccentric 27 yr old Vice President at Peirce & Peirce, a Manhattan based firm. He is meticulous in every aspect of his life from the way he keeps his body fit and skin clean to the focused violence which goes into the destruction of his victims.
"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."
He lives his life with a constant insatiable urge to be the best better than everyone. From the need to have the best table at the trendiest most expensive restaurant to having the most desirable business card of his co-workers. His disgust for man eventually turns violent when he just can no longer hold back the urge to kill.
"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....."
Once the killings began they just grew more violent and torturous. Many whores and vagrants were amongst his first victims, killing them because of the ease of access and his disgust for them. Being charming, rich and handsome it was easy for him to find a girl at a bar, take her home and cut her head off. One of the most memorable moments of the movie happens when he is having sex with a couple whores and looks at himself in the mirror and begins to flex and point at himself. I believe that scene shows the true humor in the excess of his arrogance which makes his killings somewhat funny. I know it sounds sick to say it’s funny to watch him slay people but it actually is very funny. It was funny to watch him chase around a whore while blood soaked with nothing but clean white sneakers on wielding a chainsaw trying to take her down a peg. And that is simply something you can’t say most movie villains. It is truly difficult whether to categorize American Psycho as a horror or a comedy but it’s easy to call it awesome. So, if you haven't seen it you must watch it. I highly recommend it, even though it may be difficult for some to watch.
Patrick Bateman is obviously a better villain he is not only a murderous psychopath but hilarious.
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The only problem with Bateman as villian is that the whole American Psycho subculture regards him as a hero.
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1. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
2. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
But i agree with him being a hero to the American Psycho subculture its the same as say a Freddy Kruegar hes funny and the horror world treats him as a hero. Just because you like them it doesnt make them a hero. They are murderous villains at the core of the character
yea after reading the definition of villain, it's hard to argue that he does not fall into this category based upon number one. he isn't really involved as a member of an evil agency though. he seems to stand alone to me as a figure of deviance and hatred personified. i suppose it's all about how you want to consider the word villain. hes definitely the epitomy of a cold-blooded killer though.
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ReplyDeleteI have to admit I might have been defeated on this one, while Shooter is the ultimate in being a jackass, arrogant, pompous piece of shit...Bateman just takes his villainous to a whole new level. Although for some reason, I feel like Batemen would understand someone like Shooter...he would probably still end up killing him, but he would think about it longer than normal.
ReplyDeleteShooter would think he is better than bateman much like paul allen and that would result in a slaying
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