American Psycho
Yuppie serial killer
American Psycho is a 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis about a wealthy Manhattan investment banker who may or may not be a serial killer.
The title became shorthand for a certain type of superficial, status-obsessed yuppie masculinity—polished surface masking something hollow or monstrous underneath.
The 2000 film adaptation starring Christian Bale spawned countless memes, particularly the business card scene and Bale's unhinged performance: He's got that American Psycho energy.
- literatureBody of written works
- fictionImagined narrative work
- 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
- ManhattanNYC's densest borough
Wall Street · yuppie · investment banker · narrative · protagonist · bestseller · contemporary · transgressive
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- social commentaryAnalysis of societal conditions
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
critique · superficiality · status · vanity · excess · capitalism · branding · designer
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
Willem Dafoe · Jared Leto · Reese Witherspoon · box office · soundtrack · cinematography · Huey Lewis · raincoat
Excessive admiration of oneself
- antisocialAverse to socializing
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- identityWho someone is
dissociation · unreliable narrator · obsession · compulsion · mask · duality · ego · grandiosity
Patrick Bateman
- literatureBody of written works
- fictionImagined narrative work
- 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
Manhattan · Wall Street · yuppie · investment banker · narrative · protagonist · bestseller · contemporary · transgressive · publishing
consumerism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- social commentaryAnalysis of societal conditions
irony · critique · superficiality · status · vanity · excess · capitalism · branding · designer · luxury
Christian Bale
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- cinemaMotion picture theater
Willem Dafoe · Jared Leto · Reese Witherspoon · thriller · box office · soundtrack · cinematography · Huey Lewis · raincoat · director
narcissism
Excessive admiration of oneself
- antisocialAverse to socializing
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
identity · dissociation · unreliable narrator · obsession · compulsion · mask · duality · ego · grandiosity · lack of empathy
serial killer
Recurring lone murderer
violence · chainsaw · bloodlust · victim · torture · disturbing · graphic · macabre · nightmare · gruesome
- 20th Century Books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath
- Adapted NovelsHarry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings
- 90s BooksHarry Potter, Fight Club, Jurassic Park, The English Patient, Bridget Jones
- Class DramasPride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion
- Lionsgate FilmsHunger Games, Twilight, John Wick, Divergent, La La Land
- satirelampoon, parody, parody account, political satire, spoof
American PsychoForrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption · To Kill a Mockingbird · Schindler's List · Les Misérables · A Christmas Carol
American PsychoAtticus Finch
Schindler's List · The Good Place · Ted Lasso · Gandhi · Mother Teresa
American Psychocozy mystery
Low-violence amateur sleuth genre
Agatha Christie · Murder She Wrote · Columbo · Law & Order · Sherlock Holmes
American, America, Americas, psycho, psyche, psychic, psychical, psychically, psychology