American Psycho: interview with Christian Bale, Bret Easton Ellis and Director Mary Herron (2000)

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  • @reinhardtdan3
    @reinhardtdan3 8 років тому +231

    In those first seconds we see Bale he really looks like he's going to kill somebody

    • @trentm750
      @trentm750 6 років тому +4

      Dan Reinhardt I thought he still looked like a psycho at first to. Lol

    • @agentjackstone3543
      @agentjackstone3543 6 років тому +25

      My thoughts exactly. Lookin like he wants to kill a light technician

    • @dragospahontu
      @dragospahontu 2 роки тому +3

      @@agentjackstone3543 he's not broken character

  • @jbot91
    @jbot91 6 років тому +481

    Very nice... Let's see Paul Allen's interview.

    • @williamshaw9047
      @williamshaw9047 3 роки тому +6

      Cut to the first shot of Christian Bale in this interview.

    • @shayonsohrab2413
      @shayonsohrab2413 2 роки тому +16

      Oh my god it even has a watermark

    • @silentb2084
      @silentb2084 2 роки тому +1

      @@shayonsohrab2413 The captions font for this video needs to be Silian Rail.

    • @Seattle_streets
      @Seattle_streets Рік тому

      ​@@shayonsohrab2413and the writing is something called silian brail

    • @Pointman11111
      @Pointman11111 Рік тому

      "All gods must die"

  • @gigerbrick
    @gigerbrick 6 років тому +120

    0:36 is he still in character?

    • @John-qi9cj
      @John-qi9cj 3 роки тому +9

      Bale is an intense guy. U dont deliver like he does without a certain intensity

    • @ManicMindTrick
      @ManicMindTrick 2 роки тому +1

      @@John-qi9cj Yeah Bale could never have played the soft and meek Luis Carruthers character. The guy is so intense. That on-set screaming session that got leaked isn't too far from Bateman.

    • @francesconatalia8070
      @francesconatalia8070 Рік тому

      Yes i was thinking the same 😂😂😂

    • @odessa745
      @odessa745 9 місяців тому

      Resting psycho face

  • @JotaShank
    @JotaShank 6 років тому +147

    Most hilarious book I've ever read. I had never laughed hysterically to the point of tears by a book before... It was a laugh riot. Movie is also great, and reading the book AFTER seeing the film, actually made it funnier and gave the experience a big boost.

    • @Ken-no5ip
      @Ken-no5ip 2 роки тому +2

      Tell me about it! I made the mistake of reading it at a coffee shop and I was holding back my laughter with full force!

    • @ajturner2307
      @ajturner2307 2 роки тому +3

      When he eats the moose out of his hair I had to put the book down so I wouldn't leave wet marks from crying laughing

    • @andryuu_2000
      @andryuu_2000 2 роки тому +1

      The fun part is the absurdity

    • @Chadhogan111
      @Chadhogan111 Рік тому

      It's amazing how many people don't realise it's a black comedy

    • @Habubachu
      @Habubachu Рік тому +1

      When it was funny it was fucking funny lol

  • @TiberiusEmpire
    @TiberiusEmpire 3 роки тому +82

    God, I always forgot that Bale is English, he does a great American accent as an actor

    • @ManicMindTrick
      @ManicMindTrick 2 роки тому

      Not only an American accent, in the movie his specific accent is perfect for the role.

    • @DenianArcoleo
      @DenianArcoleo Рік тому +6

      He isn't English. He's Welsh.

    • @ManicMindTrick
      @ManicMindTrick Рік тому +1

      @@DenianArcoleo Potato potaato

    • @cmoran9103
      @cmoran9103 Рік тому +1

      ​@@ManicMindTrick no, they're different.

    • @dard4642
      @dard4642 Рік тому +1

      He's a method actor, so a lot of the cast and crew only ever saw him in character during the making of the movie. Then, at the premier, Bale was there as himself and many of the crew from the movie were confused as to why he was speaking with an accent.😂

  • @calowenby1654
    @calowenby1654 2 роки тому +29

    Great interview imo. I learned the information I was hoping to learn and I got it in such a relaxed and peaceful way. Seriously, I love how chill they all are.

  • @russelconor8704
    @russelconor8704 7 років тому +55

    Bale is brilliant ever since The Empire of the sun. American Psycho, Machinist, Metroland, DKT, Prestige, The Fighter, Harsh Times - underrated, 3:10 to Yuma - fantastic western, and now Hostiles, what a great actor, really! Kudos! 10:35 - 11:07 ahaha love this entire part

  • @destinydoughnut8984
    @destinydoughnut8984 2 роки тому +33

    "The challenge is thats there's not an obvious plot" easily describes all of Ellis' books

    • @zackrodenbough6903
      @zackrodenbough6903 Рік тому

      corrected : "the challenge is that i'm a woman."

    • @deathlarsen7502
      @deathlarsen7502 10 місяців тому

      good call!

    • @chrisstevens-xq2vb
      @chrisstevens-xq2vb 7 місяців тому

      As far as the movie goes it’s a story about a tormented psyche whether it be real or conceptual.

  • @LarsLeonhard
    @LarsLeonhard 3 роки тому +18

    10:45
    I love his laughter there... so PB

  • @everythingthrice
    @everythingthrice Рік тому +51

    "The book was called 'misogynistic and cynical'"
    "It was a best-seller"
    Best part

    • @adamthemyth
      @adamthemyth Рік тому +3

      The minority can have such loud chants they sound like the majority.

    • @fiftyshadesofgrey1991
      @fiftyshadesofgrey1991 4 місяці тому

      so you find it great being mysogynistic

  • @NostalgiaVHS
    @NostalgiaVHS 8 років тому +16

    Great upload, thank you!!! Love your channel!

  • @myfriendisaac
    @myfriendisaac Рік тому +7

    13:35 THANK GOD she directed this film without all that unnecessary studio intervention 💯

  • @crazyleg2006
    @crazyleg2006 Рік тому

    Just here as I'm doing some research for a A.P. podcast. Thx for uploading.

  • @committedjack
    @committedjack 7 років тому +35

    Charlie Rose: Yeah yeah yeah, but what about the violence?

  • @reinhardtdan3
    @reinhardtdan3 8 років тому +100

    Most interrupting interviewer ever

    • @lev3067
      @lev3067 2 роки тому +1

      Today we got Piers Morgan

    • @cmoran9103
      @cmoran9103 Рік тому +2

      And when he doesn't get an interesting response, he keeps pushing the question.

    • @deathlarsen7502
      @deathlarsen7502 10 місяців тому +1

      I thought the same interviewers want to be the stars

    • @deathlarsen7502
      @deathlarsen7502 10 місяців тому

      @@lev3067 the very worst

  • @angelo4726
    @angelo4726 3 роки тому +42

    Ironically this was not bales career suicide but his rise to success, Bruce Wayne exists because of Patrick Bateman in many ways.

    • @narxyz
      @narxyz Рік тому +1

      Not at all😂 that would go to Bob Kane and Bill Finger

    • @angelo4726
      @angelo4726 Рік тому +1

      @@narxyz you think you're real smart with that one do ya, Punk ?!

    • @narxyz
      @narxyz Рік тому

      @@angelo4726 oh no pillsberry doughboy called me punk what will I ever do

    • @angelo4726
      @angelo4726 Рік тому

      @@narxyz who is Pillsbury Doughboy
      Edit : even my autocorrect suggested the name wtf

    • @emperorleroy6747
      @emperorleroy6747 Рік тому

      ​@@angelo4726mascot for Pillsbury, a baking and dessert business

  • @lemonstrangler
    @lemonstrangler 2 роки тому +15

    so interesting how bale can talk about a character so distantly when he was the one who played it with good immersion

  • @dollofshadows1703
    @dollofshadows1703 Рік тому +3

    I love American Psycho! I love Christian, but he's kinda terrifying. That glare @ 0:34, he's not a guy you'd want to be in the same room with when he gets mad lol

  • @eileencritchley4630
    @eileencritchley4630 4 роки тому +6

    Amazing to think this was 20years ago.

  • @BookClubDisaster
    @BookClubDisaster Рік тому +15

    Three creators of American Psycho with a real life American psycho!

  • @bethanyhadley4852
    @bethanyhadley4852 5 місяців тому +1

    Saw the movie first and loved it. The book blew my mind. Bale is gorgeous and was the perfect person to play Patrick.

    • @yaso5333
      @yaso5333 4 місяці тому

      i like to dissect girls

  • @user-cm8en8or1p
    @user-cm8en8or1p Рік тому +6

    The one main scene for me that casts doubt as to wether it was all real or not, was when Bateman is dragging Paul Allen's body through the building's reception whilst leaving a huge trail of blood as he does so, and nobody says anything.
    In fact, from what I remember ... in the next scene Bateman is putting the body into the Taxi trunk and the blood trail has then magically disappeared.

    • @jules8159
      @jules8159 Рік тому +1

      SAME, it was so out there there’s no way the people around didn’t notice

    • @CodeNameV13
      @CodeNameV13 Рік тому

      The book gives clues that Bateman doesn't actually murder anyone, he is playing out the scenarios in his mind. There are actually more scenes in the book that should have made the film but would have given Batemans mental psychopathy away.

    • @zackrodenbough6903
      @zackrodenbough6903 Рік тому

      there's quite a bit of this in movie and book . director annoyingly tries to slant the viewer toward interpreting these would be gaffs as grotesque male privilege - if you tip the matre de you can do whatever you want sort of thing . which makes it seem like she could be jealous of such a dynamic that is not present in the context she creates . then she tries to save her artistic integrity by including the other overly ambiguous lawyer/bateman phone call where the lead is told that he has indeed imagined it all . which she tries to hijack again by callously implying all of these men look so similar and are so blind that they wouldn't be able to positively identify one another without taking the other's word for it .

  • @tutucox
    @tutucox 3 роки тому +7

    the movie is amazing , one of the top 5 ever to me

  • @davepowell7168
    @davepowell7168 3 роки тому +6

    The Paul Allen murder was so deeply disturbing l was compelled to have my axe chrome plated.

  • @patricklemire9278
    @patricklemire9278 6 років тому +33

    Charlie Rose is the true American Psycho :)

  • @dariusalexandru9536
    @dariusalexandru9536 2 роки тому +6

    Why Patrick Bateman is acting almost like Christian Bale in this interview ?

  • @rileygally2967
    @rileygally2967 11 місяців тому +1

    Any movie lover or even any story lover knows it’s not about the violence. It’s a very compelling depiction that balances between fiction and non-fiction. Personally I find humour in absurdity so naturally I enjoy this storyline. I can empathize with someone who maybe doesn’t feel that way and can be distracted by the violence but the movie is better if you can disconnect yourself from social norms.

  • @desivega9464
    @desivega9464 3 роки тому +53

    so awesome that a woman directed it

    • @andryuu_2000
      @andryuu_2000 2 роки тому +23

      almost no male director would've got the movie so right, the book is just against the very same that now idolize american psycho because of memes

    • @zackrodenbough6903
      @zackrodenbough6903 Рік тому

      ya men r lik dum

    • @claudiodelisi
      @claudiodelisi 9 місяців тому

      Not sure what you're all going on about

  • @bigmack8307
    @bigmack8307 5 років тому +4

    Bret always says, “I think” and “I don’t know” the same way in every video I see him in 😅 but I love em

  • @jasondavinci470
    @jasondavinci470 3 роки тому +6

    its almost like christian bale didnt break character

  • @HishaMized
    @HishaMized Рік тому +3

    0:36 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @joshbarnes7055
    @joshbarnes7055 7 років тому +5

    3:33 What is Charlie saying here?

    • @LittleJo-
      @LittleJo- 6 років тому +1

      Josh Barnes He says "Just to make a quick reference here, Bonfire of the vanities"....

  • @pavelgirard2091
    @pavelgirard2091 Рік тому +1

    11:53 I just realized that Bale would be a great casting choice for HP Lovecraft

    • @rusamene
      @rusamene Рік тому

      He would be great Marcel Proust.

  • @creates100
    @creates100 6 років тому +9

    i like huey Lewis.

  • @LaChroniqueEdgy1816
    @LaChroniqueEdgy1816 2 роки тому +1

    I'm glad the first question was if the author liked the movie because that was my biggest question lol

  • @rorylawrence
    @rorylawrence 8 років тому +47

    This cannot be the same charlie rose that is supposedly one of the greatest interviewers ever...

    • @sarahs2288
      @sarahs2288 2 роки тому +1

      At least he lets people talk.

    • @BookClubDisaster
      @BookClubDisaster Рік тому +2

      He always sucked. His show was good because he had great guests in long form interviews.

    • @Chadhogan111
      @Chadhogan111 Рік тому +5

      ​@@sarahs2288No he doesn't, that's why he's terrible

  • @youparejo
    @youparejo Рік тому +2

    0:36 bahahahah his Paul Allen is showing

  • @SeeBillyRun
    @SeeBillyRun 2 роки тому +1

    I think why people believe it was a dream or all in Bateman's head is because there's a scene where blood is missing where there should be blood. From this interview it sounds like this continuity issue was unintentional.

    • @CodeNameV13
      @CodeNameV13 Рік тому +1

      The book gives clues that Bateman imagines each murder and his psychopathy is mental.

  • @johnsetzco4178
    @johnsetzco4178 Рік тому +2

    it is shocking that anyone could read the book and not see the satire

  • @keepingupwiththehalsteads805
    @keepingupwiththehalsteads805 6 років тому +18

    Bale's voice sounds like a hot chocolate. And his native accent is so sexy. He is sexy ! His wife is one lucky woman... I remember when in the inerview for some magazine, it was GQ probably, Bale was asked how his wife endures his constant, acting transformations and his answer was she is great, she is very understanding etc., but also, that she got to sleep with so many different men (meaning his roles) - and it's so so hot ! I also read they actually eloped and got married shortly after he finished shooting American Psycho - never knew he was such a romantic in private life!

    • @herbseinburg449
      @herbseinburg449 3 роки тому

      Onnng like gaaaawd sip hot like. Christian bake is Amazon in good and me assess 😍😍

  • @natkam451
    @natkam451 7 років тому +8

    I will never understand some idiotic haters of Bale here. Brilliant actor. Did you watch The Fighter 2011, Harsh Times - should be more respected, Bale was fantastic in it, Prestige or 3:10 to Yuma? plus watch interview Bret did for Larry King in 2016 - hilarious creepy and brilliant Bale was& movie also, according to Bret ua-cam.com/video/dNOLYL8q9yw/v-deo.html

  • @deathlarsen7502
    @deathlarsen7502 10 місяців тому +3

    Bale should have gotten an Oscar for playing Bateman

    • @Edward-k4u
      @Edward-k4u Місяць тому

      He played Bateman and Batman! LOL

  • @ManicMindTrick
    @ManicMindTrick 2 роки тому

    Has there been a satiric novel about the hipster era, that 2004-2008 time before people started mocking hipsters and everybody who was cool read Vice magazine? I find it to be such a great landscape for an American Psycho type satire.

  • @OtherSideOfTheVoid
    @OtherSideOfTheVoid 5 років тому +5

    what is his psychological motivation, it's a valid question.

    • @henryschneider9101
      @henryschneider9101 Рік тому

      I think one reading of the film is to look at Bateman as an more of an avatar for the attitudes and beliefs of the yuppies he's a parody of. In that reading, motivation in the deeper human sense (something informed by your beliefs and past experiences) doesn't really apply. But that's just my take

    • @OtherSideOfTheVoid
      @OtherSideOfTheVoid Рік тому

      @@henryschneider9101 sorry but your response makes no sense. If he was a 'just a yuppie' then he would be happy with this lifestyle, and revel in it..... but he is not, just like Scarface for example. he is much more of an 'anti yuppie' if you really take the whole story into consideration. If Bateman is wicked and evil, then so is Scarface, and so are all the politicians and presidents who have ever engaged in war. And to be honest, I don't find the story of Bateman funny at all. - the story of bateman is sad he is confused and feeling guilty about something, and that propels his actions as a misguided and cnfused form of catharsis. He is a victim, and so are his victims. Whoever lies at the top of this chain is the real American Psycho, and that is Bret Easton Ellis and the rest of his pseudo intellectual shit author generation

    • @kings9724
      @kings9724 6 місяців тому

      that he’s a psychopath… hence the name american psycho

  • @jackbennett2269
    @jackbennett2269 5 місяців тому

    No way, the card scene lmao

  • @agentkwavy460
    @agentkwavy460 3 роки тому +1

    Corsica’s booked

  • @lemonstrangler
    @lemonstrangler 2 роки тому +1

    leonardo di caprio does look a bit like the person on the book

  • @villedocvalle
    @villedocvalle Рік тому +1

    Lol Easton Ellis has such exaggerated mannerisms.

  • @FatalDawn1
    @FatalDawn1 Рік тому

    Lol they all look so comfortable yet nervous here I love it not so shappy hahaha 😂 ;3 ♡ uuuf Xd

  • @VanshRaval19
    @VanshRaval19 4 місяці тому

    Let's see paul allen's inyerview!

  • @hurlicane56
    @hurlicane56 Рік тому

    How ironic that this film is a critique of the type of male behavior that has been alleged against Charlie Rose.

  • @TheEternalOuroboros
    @TheEternalOuroboros 7 років тому +5

    I've heard that Bret didn't like the film, strange

    • @natkam451
      @natkam451 7 років тому +1

      not true, watch interview Bret did for Larry King in 2016 - hilarious creepy and brilliant Bale was& movie also, according to Bret ua-cam.com/video/dNOLYL8q9yw/v-deo.html

    • @BareBandSubscription
      @BareBandSubscription 3 роки тому +7

      He likes it, he just maintains that it didn’t need to be a movie. It’s not a book that can be adapted into a conventional film without sacrificing quite a bit and watering down many elements. As a result, it doesn’t _really_ capture his own sensibility so well, but it does a great job transforming it into something more unique. Conversely, Rules of Attraction is the movie he considers the best adaptation of his work, because it manages to successfully capture his voice and his style in a way American Psycho’s movie didn’t. The flipside is that Rules of Attraction maybe isn’t quite as strong or as tight of an actual *movie* as Harron’s adaptation (even though I love it and agree with his sentiments that it’s the best adaptation of his work).

  • @pavelgirard2091
    @pavelgirard2091 Рік тому +2

    Why is this interviewer always interrupting everyone? Jesus

  • @pvyuki
    @pvyuki 3 роки тому +6

    charlie rose is so annoying here... glad he's cancelled!

  • @Taporeee
    @Taporeee 5 років тому +18

    The interviewer is awful

  • @AndreiPascu
    @AndreiPascu Рік тому

    Ah shit he's british??

  • @Platformdestroyer
    @Platformdestroyer 6 місяців тому

    Huh

  • @BookClubDisaster
    @BookClubDisaster Рік тому

    Has Bale been living in Hollywood the last 22 years? Because he's lost much of his accent.

  • @Swifty-Kommando
    @Swifty-Kommando Рік тому

    Celebrity media has really elevated our perception of actors. This interview perfectly captures the fact that Christian Bale is completely out of his depth when compared to Mary or Brett. Christian, without direction, sounds like a kid at the grown-ups dinner table.

  • @zackrodenbough6903
    @zackrodenbough6903 Рік тому

    "typical of male behavior" - bleck - sexist much ???

  • @lemonstrangler
    @lemonstrangler 2 роки тому +3

    come on the movie wasnt that funny... maybe subtle humor but not full on comedy

    • @myfriendisaac
      @myfriendisaac 2 роки тому +15

      It was LAUGH RIOT 😂

    • @thecookj454
      @thecookj454 2 роки тому +1

      I agree, the movie isn’t funny at all. The book is funny at some points but never had me rolling on the floor about to piss my pants laughing like some people say.

    • @lemonstrangler
      @lemonstrangler 2 роки тому

      @@thecookj454 yeh its not the rofl kind, its more playful while trying to be serious. its a good movie

    • @lemonstrangler
      @lemonstrangler 2 роки тому +1

      @@myfriendisaac what part did you think was funny?

    • @sovietkino1008
      @sovietkino1008 2 роки тому +3

      Both the novel and movie are laugh riots.

  • @zackrodenbough6903
    @zackrodenbough6903 Рік тому

    love "feminists" that can't get off the ground without climbing on a man's back .

  • @m_turbolover8
    @m_turbolover8 10 місяців тому +1

    comedy? so american 🤡

  • @jacobfastpro
    @jacobfastpro 2 роки тому +3

    ua-cam.com/video/n2fJxoTUnT8/v-deo.html she says here the film may have been better 5 to 10 years after it was made. I think that is incredibly insightful, and today it's obviously become very popular.

  • @CodeNameV13
    @CodeNameV13 Рік тому

    The book gives clues that Bateman doesn't actually murder anyone and is rejecting the reality he lives in by playing out each scenario in his own mind. His confession on the answering machine and empty apartment belonging to Paul Allen give clues that he believes that he committed the murders but is left unsure if he actually did. His lawyer treating the confession like a joke and telling Bateman that he isn't capable of being a murderer, that he is in effect, a pussy.