r/AmericanPsycho

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(Pasted from my post in r/lostmedia)

American Psycho, released in 2000, is a horror movie based on a book of the same name. It follows a businessman named Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale) who leads a double life as a serial killer.

During production, director Mary Herron used a method of filmmaking where she’d film 3 takes of the same interrogation. One where detective Kimball (played by Willem Dafoe) was oblivious Bateman was the killer, one where he suspicious Bateman was the killer, and one where he knew Bateman was the killer.

Herron did this to keep the audience suspenseful on how much the detective Kimball knew about the murder. Some people theorise it may have also been to show how Bateman, a psychopath, is disconnected from normal human behaviour and isn’t sure of how much Kimball knows.

Despite this, the 3 unedited takes have yet to surface online. Although fragments are available (these being the cuts used in the scene), the entire oblivious/suspicious/aware reels haven’t been found.

This fact, that has been listed on various wiki sites and youtube biographies, is one that has never been mentioned in either the book or the movie. It's been driving me nuts trying to figure out where this information is from.

If there isn't a concrete source, my guess is that his birthday was originally listed as " 1st-23rd October" or something (as it's mentioned that his birthday is in October, and that he's a libra, so the range would have to be somewhere in October within the libra period), and someone misinterpreted that as JUST "23rd October" and it was never corrected.

The Informers takes place in the same universe as Rule Of Attraction, Less Than Zero, and American Psycho. And one story in The Informers the main character is an actual vampire. Like to me those stories are grounded and anything extra ordinary can be explained by an unreliable narrator. But Vampires canonically share a universe with Julian being pimped by Finn, Patrick working in mergers and acquisitions, and Sean pretending to be Peter the freshman.like imagine if Ian Flemming had world building notes that’s says “while vampires are never featured in a James Bond novel, they do exist in that world”