I mean, when you break down Batman, what is he? A guy who pretends to be a normal, charming socialite by day, but when the sun goes down he takes off that costume and becomes the obsessed, violent crazy person he is underneath.
What people overlook about batman is that his desire for a peaceful gotham involves violence and dominance over thugs, two things patrick bateman also actively seeks in his life. The main difference between the two characters is that batman has principles which keep his desire for revenge in check
@@TheBloofyx This. I'd go so far as to say that you could make a reasonable argument that Bateman is what Bruce might've become had he not channelled his rage and sorrow into Batman.
@@ccuwaniii6510 maybe he knew that he had to react to the cards and conditioned himself somehow that his body gets this visceral reaction to the trigger which is the card. But how exactly is anybody’s guess.
It's not surprising, he's part of a cult, he's been brainwashed by Scientology. Just look up what Allison Mack did. Even a number of extreme evangelical churches can be considered cult-like.
The irony of Gloria Steinem being so adamantly against American Psycho and convincing DiCaprio to drop out and that leading to her step son Christian Bale getting the role is hilarious to me
It's probably more to do with the fact that DiCaprio had a young female fan base so a mature role like this would be inappropriate for him at the time. This was Bale's first big role and wouldn't leave an impression on a bunch of tween girls. That's probably why Steinem was flexible on that stance.
I think I saw it said best in a meme: “In American Psycho (2000), actor Christian Bale prepared for his role by reading his lines and rehearsing the scenes ahead of shooting.”
In a Forbes interview, he actually told how he got in character for the role. He said every morning he woke up and scrolled through Twitter for ten seconds, and then was ready to be a homicidal psychopath.
Talking about him being immersed in his role, Bale didn't drop his American accent until the wrap party when filming was completed and apparently most of the cast and crew never knew or realized he was British and were just blown away.
I never understood why people get mad at actors for playing controversial roles like don’t they understand it’s not real life and they’re *cough cough* acting…. I swear some people are just idiots.
This is the drawback of the actor becoming too famous and popular. DiCaprio is one of those actors where, even though he’s excellent in his performances, you still see DiCaprio giving you a really good performance. We know who he is, how he thinks, what his lifestyle is, what he does, there’s not much mystery about him. It’s why many TV shows primarily look for unknown but talented actors to fill in the majority of the cast, with a couple of well known actors for credibility and marketing, they want audiences to see the character and not the actor. Bale is a strange case, because he is very well known, but he seemingly looses himself completely within roles, whether he’s playing a fat political puppeteer, a highly trained assassin, a narcissistic psychopath, or a moral and righteous superhero, he is so completely different where he can bypass that obstacle.
I think it’s hilarious that the woman who talked DiCaprio out of the role did it because of the violence against women in the film. Like, brutally murdering a homeless man and stomping his dog to death was fine to her. But killing a woman was crossing a line 😂 I hope she never watches Lars von Trier’s “The house that Jack built”. It would probably give her a heart attack. That movie doesn’t spare anyone. Old people, women, children and animals. I am fairly desensitised to violence, but I have to say it’s the only time that depictions of violence alone have genuinely made me feel uncomfortable during a film. (I say that because graphic depictions of sexual assaults in other films have made me feel uneasy, but this film managed to do so without crossing into that territory).
@@numerum_bestia weirdly enough Leo later went on to do wolves of wall street. And if you have seen it then you already know what I'm talking about. But if you haven't then I'll say female characters in the movie are treated as a piece of poop
@@numerum_bestia the woman herself could've not care at all, what she gave Leo was marketing advice; she didn't need to care to understand women fanatic of Leo could've not felt the same as she did
Well that's not necessarily true you become the character if you take it seriously, didn't the actor who played joker (can't recall his name) end up dying or like committing suicide as a result?
Something about method acting is extremely fascinating to me, I think in a different life it would be my perfect craft and artform, completely losing yourself in a role, the ultimate form of artistic escapism and borderlining on the obsessive artist trope - I love it so much
But being honest being a character off and on character idk it seems tiring like how do you know that once you stop being this character you’ve stopped being that character it scares me at times because I feel like I wouldn’t be able to be out of that character after playing him for so long
@@niels1142 Too over the top. Fits in a Tarantino movie, doesn't fit in American Psycho. The satire and comedy lies within the seriousness of Bateman trying to fit in this weird world around him.
@@KTK44 I think that because of the screenwriter and director both being female. It's a very misogynistic book, satirically so, but the author is a misogynist so I think it's on an extra level of contrivance. The film couldn't have been better with Leo but with say a Oliver Stone as director it could have been just as good but it would be different.
Leo was too much of a pretty boy at the time, and hadn't yet developed into the actor he would later become. He could have done it ten years later, but not then. Bale didn't just have the character down; his face is a good natural look for the role.
Learning that he got his inspiration to play a psychopath by watching Tom Cruise's behavior was the absolute cherry on top of this video. I almost snorted my coffee 🤣
It should be noted that what most non-actors these days call "method acting" has basically nothing to do with the actual Method. Method acting isn't about literally becoming your character and staying in character even when off-camera/-stage, it's about "behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances", as Lee Strasberg put it. That is why some actors give sub-par performances despite perpetually staying in character: Because they don't truly understand what the real Method even is.
After Leo dropped out, the next actor who was going to take the role was Ewan McGregor, but Christian Bale actually called him up and begged him for the role. Ewan would have been really good, but Christian owned Patrick Bateman. Also, fun fact, Gloria Steinem is Christian Bale’s stepmother!
@@theizgutdin Leo wasn't ready. If he did American Psycho he wouldn't have done Gangs of New York, and worked with Martin Scorsese or Daniel Day-Lewis. I think he needed to see that higher level.
From Bateman to Batman, Christian Bale is truly one of a kind. He’s one of the most unique and talented actors ever and his range is amazing. He is truly one of the best actors ever.
Christian Bale can make any movie a master piece but American psycho is so well written and leaves you just as confused at the end as the character and his third wall dialogue really makes you feel connected to the character like no other movie
Bateman kills a whole bunch of people: "Eh, they probably had it coming." Bateman tries to shove a cat through an ATM: "NO, you monster! What did that cat ever do to you?!"
This is what’s wrong with people today. They have been trained to not care about human life when they’re told to not care, but God forbid a cute little cat dies. Get your priorities in line
@@eliegbert8121 come on. Humans have been pretty garbage when it comes down to it, kitty's and dogs haven't commited genocide, ruined the planet, and cant defend themselves. Everyone doesn't have to think the same way you do. And you assume just because someone mentions the kitty or dog being killed that they automatically dont give a fuck about the people killed, thats stupid.
I've acted in several plays, and have experienced things similar to the sweating spoke of in the video. Especially with it being live, in the rare case someone sees you offstage (at least where I've worked), you HAVE to be in character. When you get attached to a character enough, you get to this point of empathy for them that you have to smack yourself a little to get away from them. It's the oddest experience, to feel so horribly upset or joyful over something that isn't even real. It's those feelings you feel and the mannerisms that come with it that truly make your character look real.
I was literally just rewatching American Psycho, and there was just something about Bale’s performance I couldn’t quite put into words, you did so perfect.
Good method acting involves keeping the tone/mannerisms of the character while collaborating with the director and crew. Daniel Day Lewis on There Will Be Blood was noted as keeping the voice and mannerisms of Plainview in-between takes and on set but when talking to him you weren't talking to Plainview you were talking to Daniel Day Lewis.
I think the method probably can evoke great performances but yes, keeping it civil and still remembering who you are throughout remains key. If you just go insane like Carrey did in Man on the Moon you just make everyone hate you and probably hurt the movie in the end.
@@RaptorJesus To be fair, most of the press tour shit is all staged and fake to create hype for a movie. You have a weird wackky movie with a method actor playing the joker, you spin up some outrageous stories, get the cast to tell them in interviews to make headlines. Dead rat claim has been debunked by multiple sources. It's mostly the same as with any production. Everything gets dialed up to 100 because you need to generate as much talk about the movie, and you want to stay in the newscycle for as long as possible.
It makes sense that it's easier to maintain an accent and mannerisms consistently, instead of dropping them to talk to a director and then struggling to get back into them for the next take
One if the greatest movies of all time. And definitely one of the great scenes is Kimball's meeting with Bateman. The director using 3 different cuts to show Willem Dafoe as being suspicious, indifferent, and clueless was pure genius, it really elevates the tension in that scene.
Bale is a legend in the field, held back purely by his very weird selection of movie roles. If we compare him to Gary Oldman who has done everything from drama to sci-fi, Oldman comes across as someone who knows how to choose his roles well. Bale loves indie films and seems to steer toward them when not attached to big budget productions. When he does move on to the big budget stuff however... wow.
The fact that being physically fit and healthy is considered to be "the 1980s vision" of a perfect man rather than just the obvious vision of the perfect man is sad.
The sweating on cue is kind of scary considering I just finished listening to the audiobook a few weeks ago. Bale IS Patrick, despite movie Patrick is tame compared to book Patrick. Still one of my favorite movies.
They point out Bale's expression changing as he leaves the dry cleaners. There's a funny scene later in the movie where Detective Kimball compliments Bateman's building and Bateman thanks him with a polite smile that changes to a glare a half second later.
The reason Carrey's method acting messed up Man on the Moon's filming process was that he was playing a clown. In the case of American Psycho and Bale, he was still just as committed as Carrey, if not more. It's just that Patrick was way more efficient and smooth than Andy.
Method can get a bad rap, but for a lot of actors, becoming the character is the best way to embody them. There often isn't a need to go to the point of being the character 100% of the time (especially when you're on break), but for some shoots, staying in character could be essential for an entire shoot day to maintain an emotional state. Acting is not easy.
It's fine as long as you're not being a dick to your fellow cast and crew. Another example of this is Dustin Hoffman taunting Meryl Street about the recent death of her fiancé on the set of Kramer Vs Kramer to get an emotional reaction out of her. She didn't ask him to do that and I'm sure she was perfectly capable of getting to the emotional state she wanted for the scene in her own way. It's one thing to be method yourself, but to decide to push it on someone else in such a horrible way really isn't ok
Just recently rewatched "Empire of the Sun", one of my fave war movies ever and he was the absolute most brilliant child actor I'd ever seen, even way back then I knew he was a great actor, would be a great actor, no matter what he did. Can't even imagine Leo Dicaprio in this role, it would have been like cosplay- Leo is Wolf of Wall Street, Christian Bale is American Psycho
@@donalddavis7423 Yeah I agree. I really don't like the hindsight analysis about Leo not being as grat as Bale for the role. I believe he would have done a great job. We have seen that he can be an absolutely unhinged and charming person in Wolf of Wallstreet and Django.
You like American psycho? The book was a little too graphic for my taste, but when the audio book came out in 93' i think it really came into its own, commercially and artistically. Pablo Schreiber's narration has a clear, crisp sound and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the book a big boost! It's been compared to catcher in the rye, but i think Ellis has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In 2001, lionsgate released this: American Psycho: uncut. The most accomplished adaptation. I think the undesputed best scene is the murder of Paul Allen. A scene so memorable most people probably don't listen to the commentary. But they should! Because it's not just about a homicidal psychopath brutally murdering people in cold blood, it's also a statement about the elite of society, and how they can essentially get away with murder! Hey Paul!!
Christain Bale honestly has to be one of my favorite actors since even if he hasn’t always played in great movies (see: Terminator Salvation), he truly pushes himself as far as possible both mentally and physically in order to fully get into the mindset of his character. And it’s that level of dedication why I can truly respect his level of method acting, especially when he has a far more consistent track record than an actor who similarly does so such as Jared Leto.
Imagine if there were method make-up artists... "Sure, I could make it LOOK like you have a nosebleed, but wouldn't it be so much more realistic if I just punched you in the face instead?"
This movie is, by far, Christian Bale's greatest performance, imo. I watched it with a friend, expecting it to be just another boring thriller. I was rivetted the whole way through, a rare pleasure being someone who has watched too many movies in my life. Aside from Bale's performance, the movie itself was just so expertly (I will even go so far as to say "perfectly") directed and put together (I'd have to watch it again to check, but have zero criticisms of it that I can recall, a rare thing for me). Another great movie I always remember Bale for is Empire of the Sun. He was an exceptional talented child actor.
The writing in the background of the dry cleaning store is genius: "You feel beeter when your clothes look better!" Fits so well for Bateman and even the other wall street guys and girls in the movie.
i heard Bale actually killed a few people to get into character and in the card scene he would think about getting caught and that’s how he was able to sweat. don’t ask me how i know this
Looking at the ying and the yang of different actors, on types of acting, quite often we'd consider that stereo-type casting. When I look at Chris' movie catalog, he rarely goes against method acting with the only film that even remotely begins to move him in the other direction would have to be The Fighter. A good example of a movie that should not have method acting would be something like Back To The Future. Yes, everyone says that Michael J. Fox is Marty Mcfly, but this is the reason that Zemeckis and Gale had to let go of Eric Stoltz, he was putting a method spin on the character. Yeah, it was five weeks of shooting lost, but they got it right. My favorite part of that story was that it was the first week of January of 1985 that the switch happened, crazy enough, that's the week when I first entered the world.
So in the beginning brief on the casting there’s a misleading detail. The way you said it it made it sound like Harron was dropped for wanting to cast Leo. Harron knew Bale was perfect for the role but the studio wanted heartthrob Leo for the movies curb appeal. Harron persisted that Leo was completely wrong for the role and Bale was the one, so they cut her. They later brought her back on when the other director dropped it. She wrote the screenplay and had a vision for the movie and made it what it was. They would have cut her just to cast leo. Sexism in the film industry could have led to this movie being a bust and not at all what it became.
What's your favorite Christian Bale performance?
Probably "American Psycho", "Empire of the Sun", or "The Big Short."
Other than this masterpiece it would be the Dark Knight series,and The Fighter
The moment when most favourite Batman killed most hated Joker
The Fighter, The Machinist, The Prestige & Rescue Dawn
+1 for The Machinist
I love how Chris Nolan saw American Psycho and thought to himself, "That guy would make a great Batman."
BATeMAN
I mean, when you break down Batman, what is he? A guy who pretends to be a normal, charming socialite by day, but when the sun goes down he takes off that costume and becomes the obsessed, violent crazy person he is underneath.
Have you Eva seen “equilibrium”!! If you never seen it, I can’t amagin thet movie with out him!!
What people overlook about batman is that his desire for a peaceful gotham involves violence and dominance over thugs, two things patrick bateman also actively seeks in his life. The main difference between the two characters is that batman has principles which keep his desire for revenge in check
@@TheBloofyx This. I'd go so far as to say that you could make a reasonable argument that Bateman is what Bruce might've become had he not channelled his rage and sorrow into Batman.
Being able to sweat on command is crazy impressive.
I want him to do a Reddit Ama so bad so I can ask him how he does that :D
@@ccuwaniii6510 maybe he knew that he had to react to the cards and conditioned himself somehow that his body gets this visceral reaction to the trigger which is the card. But how exactly is anybody’s guess.
@@ccuwaniii6510 I think he won't tell it as it's embarrassing. An AMA is great though.
Impressive…very nice
@@ccuwaniii6510 By placing pressure in your face, you'll slowly heat up and sweat, like almost busting out a crap, that type of pressure.
My favourite fact is that Tom Cruise was a inspiration, how he had nothing behind us eyes and smile
We discuss this!
Omg that's funny and disturbing at the same time.
@@Nerdstalgic which episode is that
@@tinycomedian this one
It's not surprising, he's part of a cult, he's been brainwashed by Scientology. Just look up what Allison Mack did.
Even a number of extreme evangelical churches can be considered cult-like.
After seeing this I'm starting believe that Christian Bale can play just not Batman but he can also play The Joker.
Both in the same movie.
@@boxcarz Well, that would be something quite fascinating.
@Nathan Boyle Ikr
@Nathan Boyle consider this, though: Bale as Two-Face. _Considering his role in this movie, I don't think it would be too hard._
The batman who laughs
The irony of Gloria Steinem being so adamantly against American Psycho and convincing DiCaprio to drop out and that leading to her step son Christian Bale getting the role is hilarious to me
For me it's not Irony she did it on purpose
4D chess
Dicaprio carrer would has been very different, i think both him and bale came out winning here.
right that part confused me lmfao
It's probably more to do with the fact that DiCaprio had a young female fan base so a mature role like this would be inappropriate for him at the time. This was Bale's first big role and wouldn't leave an impression on a bunch of tween girls. That's probably why Steinem was flexible on that stance.
I think I saw it said best in a meme: “In American Psycho (2000), actor Christian Bale prepared for his role by reading his lines and rehearsing the scenes ahead of shooting.”
I heard that he even read the novel!
He broke new ground!
lmfaooo
@@svenleeuwen Nah, that's too extreme and unnecessary
That's just about the extent of acting…
He wasn't acting , he was actually vlogging his daily routine and activities
Oh god-
So does that Mean...
Hol‘ Up
@@hhrq._.q I think you mean "Hell Yea"
😂😂😂 LOVE IT -
In a Forbes interview, he actually told how he got in character for the role. He said every morning he woke up and scrolled through Twitter for ten seconds, and then was ready to be a homicidal psychopath.
I'll have to check, but I don't think Twitter was around at the time. But otherwise a great point )))
Off to check, expecting to be proven wrong...
@@slavkovalsky1671 lmao, I think they were just kidding
@@justemily6594 they definitely were
it's normal to say something about twitter nowadays
Guess those boomers were right... Sometimes, the old times really are better.
@EL AUTENTICO joke
Talking about him being immersed in his role, Bale didn't drop his American accent until the wrap party when filming was completed and apparently most of the cast and crew never knew or realized he was British and were just blown away.
Woahh so he was in role the whole time, impressive
Christian Bale wasn't acting. He wasn't even hired. They just followed him with a camera.
Christian bale is a really great actor that deserves even more recognition than he already gets. He’s been great for so many years now
He’s the GOAT
He's so much better than Leo imo but Leo gets all kinds of praise and Christian is rarely talked about.
Bale is absolutely one of the greatest actors of his generation and my number 1 fav actor of all time.
@@BengtBagels Leo got the cute boy look
amazing actor, horrible person
Then several years later, Leo got to play a psychopath in Wolf of Wall Street. Everyone wins.
it's like there are roles which are just destined to specific actors...right?
@@gusfringo69 Things work themselves out eventually
Hardly a psychopath
Belfort is more of a narcissist or a sociopath than a psycho
@@KaijuofSteel Actually, Belfort is of Jewish descent
I never understood why people get mad at actors for playing controversial roles like don’t they understand it’s not real life and they’re *cough cough* acting…. I swear some people are just idiots.
This is the drawback of the actor becoming too famous and popular. DiCaprio is one of those actors where, even though he’s excellent in his performances, you still see DiCaprio giving you a really good performance. We know who he is, how he thinks, what his lifestyle is, what he does, there’s not much mystery about him. It’s why many TV shows primarily look for unknown but talented actors to fill in the majority of the cast, with a couple of well known actors for credibility and marketing, they want audiences to see the character and not the actor. Bale is a strange case, because he is very well known, but he seemingly looses himself completely within roles, whether he’s playing a fat political puppeteer, a highly trained assassin, a narcissistic psychopath, or a moral and righteous superhero, he is so completely different where he can bypass that obstacle.
I think it’s hilarious that the woman who talked DiCaprio out of the role did it because of the violence against women in the film.
Like, brutally murdering a homeless man and stomping his dog to death was fine to her. But killing a woman was crossing a line 😂
I hope she never watches Lars von Trier’s “The house that Jack built”. It would probably give her a heart attack. That movie doesn’t spare anyone. Old people, women, children and animals. I am fairly desensitised to violence, but I have to say it’s the only time that depictions of violence alone have genuinely made me feel uncomfortable during a film. (I say that because graphic depictions of sexual assaults in other films have made me feel uneasy, but this film managed to do so without crossing into that territory).
@@numerum_bestia weirdly enough Leo later went on to do wolves of wall street. And if you have seen it then you already know what I'm talking about. But if you haven't then I'll say female characters in the movie are treated as a piece of poop
@@numerum_bestia the woman herself could've not care at all, what she gave Leo was marketing advice; she didn't need to care to understand women fanatic of Leo could've not felt the same as she did
Well that's not necessarily true you become the character if you take it seriously, didn't the actor who played joker (can't recall his name) end up dying or like committing suicide as a result?
The fact that Gloria Steinem was Bales stepmother is actually a pretty funny thing to think about, family helping each other out.
Something about method acting is extremely fascinating to me, I think in a different life it would be my perfect craft and artform, completely losing yourself in a role, the ultimate form of artistic escapism and borderlining on the obsessive artist trope - I love it so much
But being honest being a character off and on character idk it seems tiring like how do you know that once you stop being this character you’ve stopped being that character it scares me at times because I feel like I wouldn’t be able to be out of that character after playing him for so long
@@demon108hunter6 for shows, yeah, maybe - but movies take... 6 months at most?
Jesus died for our sins,if we turn from sin we'll be saved,Jesus is the only way not to go to hell
"I want
to fit
in."
Everybody talks about returning videotapes, but I love this line.
Impressive. Very nice.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s favorite line.
Its one of the best lines of the movie imo
Let's see Paul Allen's Card
this whole movie is just MWAH
Best line is :"No Luis, it's not me, you mistaken"
Thank fuck Leo didn't make it to the filming stage.
He's a good actor, but this was NOT the role for him.
I personally think he would have been great! Just think about his awesome performance in 'Django Unchained'...
@@niels1142 Too over the top. Fits in a Tarantino movie, doesn't fit in American Psycho. The satire and comedy lies within the seriousness of Bateman trying to fit in this weird world around him.
@@KTK44 I think that because of the screenwriter and director both being female. It's a very misogynistic book, satirically so, but the author is a misogynist so I think it's on an extra level of contrivance. The film couldn't have been better with Leo but with say a Oliver Stone as director it could have been just as good but it would be different.
Leo was too much of a pretty boy at the time, and hadn't yet developed into the actor he would later become. He could have done it ten years later, but not then.
Bale didn't just have the character down; his face is a good natural look for the role.
@@CJonesApple wait, what was so mysogynistic about it ?
Learning that he got his inspiration to play a psychopath by watching Tom Cruise's behavior was the absolute cherry on top of this video. I almost snorted my coffee 🤣
lol
I snort my coffee either way
"Ground control to major Tom". There's a song about that!
@@christianlessing7256 is it that song by david bowie?
It should be noted that what most non-actors these days call "method acting" has basically nothing to do with the actual Method. Method acting isn't about literally becoming your character and staying in character even when off-camera/-stage, it's about "behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances", as Lee Strasberg put it. That is why some actors give sub-par performances despite perpetually staying in character: Because they don't truly understand what the real Method even is.
After Leo dropped out, the next actor who was going to take the role was Ewan McGregor, but Christian Bale actually called him up and begged him for the role. Ewan would have been really good, but Christian owned Patrick Bateman. Also, fun fact, Gloria Steinem is Christian Bale’s stepmother!
Wow! That really changes a lot. What if she talked Leo out of the role on purpose??? Thanks for the fact!
@@theizgutdin Leo wasn't ready. If he did American Psycho he wouldn't have done Gangs of New York, and worked with Martin Scorsese or Daniel Day-Lewis. I think he needed to see that higher level.
Honestly judging by Ewan’s Black Mask performance he would’ve nailed it
Nah obi wan was a jedi
I don't think she was Bale's stepmom at the time, but if she was...
That business card show off scene had more tension and suspense than 90% of crap that Hollywood puts out these days
Bro legit was mad the guy had a better card☠️
I never understood that scene. Was it like a dick measuring contest?
@@doesyomamaknowtho1468 Yeah. Except they're all 2 inches.
@@PhantommJ 😏😏😏😏🤭
@@ioannisathanas8812 Okay but have you ever thought that it’s because they’re bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Grail.
From Bateman to Batman, Christian Bale is truly one of a kind. He’s one of the most unique and talented actors ever and his range is amazing. He is truly one of the best actors ever.
c'mon Jared...
He used Tom Cruise to help him act like a psychopath. That is hysterical and spot on
Christian Bale can make any movie a master piece but American psycho is so well written and leaves you just as confused at the end as the character and his third wall dialogue really makes you feel connected to the character like no other movie
Looking back this movie feels more authentic than most of the countless 80's nostalgia movies and shows there are these days.
When I first saw it, I was randomly on HBO in the middle of the night and I couldn’t tell if it was just set in the 80s or was actually from the 80s.
Granted, it was produced much closer to the 80s than today is. It would be like someone making a movie set in 2000s New York today.
Very impressive, now let's see Paul Allen's analysis
This deserves all the likes
The tasteful thickness of it - oh my god, its even got a watermark
Came to the comments just for the Paul Allen lines
Bateman kills a whole bunch of people: "Eh, they probably had it coming."
Bateman tries to shove a cat through an ATM: "NO, you monster! What did that cat ever do to you?!"
Did you forget about the dog he stomped to death? Lol
@@jbo4547 it was not Bate......
It was Dio
This is what’s wrong with people today. They have been trained to not care about human life when they’re told to not care, but God forbid a cute little cat dies.
Get your priorities in line
@@eliegbert8121 it’s the fact that animals are somewhat helpless in a situation like that
@@eliegbert8121 come on. Humans have been pretty garbage when it comes down to it, kitty's and dogs haven't commited genocide, ruined the planet, and cant defend themselves. Everyone doesn't have to think the same way you do. And you assume just because someone mentions the kitty or dog being killed that they automatically dont give a fuck about the people killed, thats stupid.
I've acted in several plays, and have experienced things similar to the sweating spoke of in the video. Especially with it being live, in the rare case someone sees you offstage (at least where I've worked), you HAVE to be in character. When you get attached to a character enough, you get to this point of empathy for them that you have to smack yourself a little to get away from them. It's the oddest experience, to feel so horribly upset or joyful over something that isn't even real. It's those feelings you feel and the mannerisms that come with it that truly make your character look real.
Christian Bale is a machine. He literally programs himself into the roles of the characters he's playing
I was literally just rewatching American Psycho, and there was just something about Bale’s performance I couldn’t quite put into words, you did so perfect.
I just watched it and there was genuinely something really disturbing about his performance, I actually felt ill after watching it
Good method acting involves keeping the tone/mannerisms of the character while collaborating with the director and crew. Daniel Day Lewis on There Will Be Blood was noted as keeping the voice and mannerisms of Plainview in-between takes and on set but when talking to him you weren't talking to Plainview you were talking to Daniel Day Lewis.
This. It's not mailing dead rats to your costars. That's just being an asshole.
I think the method probably can evoke great performances but yes, keeping it civil and still remembering who you are throughout remains key. If you just go insane like Carrey did in Man on the Moon you just make everyone hate you and probably hurt the movie in the end.
@@RaptorJesus To be fair, most of the press tour shit is all staged and fake to create hype for a movie. You have a weird wackky movie with a method actor playing the joker, you spin up some outrageous stories, get the cast to tell them in interviews to make headlines.
Dead rat claim has been debunked by multiple sources.
It's mostly the same as with any production. Everything gets dialed up to 100 because you need to generate as much talk about the movie, and you want to stay in the newscycle for as long as possible.
@@hansvdz5834 Damn, they really fucked Leto over.
It makes sense that it's easier to maintain an accent and mannerisms consistently, instead of dropping them to talk to a director and then struggling to get back into them for the next take
This is why he’s my absolute number one favorite actor. He consistently brings something extra to his performance to a level that not many can touch.
Me acting villainous for the imaginary camera following me for my whole life
Not only bale, infact every other actorrs were so perfect in that Movie
One if the greatest movies of all time. And definitely one of the great scenes is Kimball's meeting with Bateman. The director using 3 different cuts to show Willem Dafoe as being suspicious, indifferent, and clueless was pure genius, it really elevates the tension in that scene.
Bale is a legend in the field, held back purely by his very weird selection of movie roles.
If we compare him to Gary Oldman who has done everything from drama to sci-fi, Oldman comes across as someone who knows how to choose his roles well. Bale loves indie films and seems to steer toward them when not attached to big budget productions. When he does move on to the big budget stuff however... wow.
"his very weird selection of movies" took me out lmao but this is really accurate tho
Very nice...let's see Paul Allen's insight on Christian Bale
Held back LOL
@Yang Mojo yikes, he's literally Jim Gordon bruh.
@@reddd-77 and Sirius black and the terrorist in Air Force one and the business guy in the fifth element and Winston Churchill and Dracula
Fun fact: he’s the English voice of howl in howl’s moving castle
Yes amazingly he tried out “the voice” before going into “Batman Begins” the next year
top tier username & pfp.
Yes...I saw that in the news I read today
Christian Bale’s performance absolutely made this movie. Just wow.
POV: you walked out the store pretending you didn't steal anything even though you didn't
Cristian Bale is one of the greatest actors ever born. He's the pinnacle of method acting
He played the this role so well that I genuinely question if Patrick Bateman is far off who he actually is lol
People thought the same of Anthony Perkins with his role in Psycho.
how to act like a killer
step 1. be a killer
The fact that being physically fit and healthy is considered to be "the 1980s vision" of a perfect man rather than just the obvious vision of the perfect man is sad.
The sweating on cue is kind of scary considering I just finished listening to the audiobook a few weeks ago. Bale IS Patrick, despite movie Patrick is tame compared to book Patrick. Still one of my favorite movies.
the film makers actually went to a prison and consulted a psychopathic mass killer known online as Jerma985
That Bostonian has some SERIOUS issues man.
@@dabtican4953 I mean, he DIED on STREAM
@@vaclavjebavy5118 I didn't know about this 😭
Isn’t that the guy who beat Dark Souls on stream?
@@dabtican4953 why the heck did I think you said bosnian
They point out Bale's expression changing as he leaves the dry cleaners. There's a funny scene later in the movie where Detective Kimball compliments Bateman's building and Bateman thanks him with a polite smile that changes to a glare a half second later.
Paul Allen’s actor would never be able to sweat on command.
Anthony Starr must have watched this movie religiously.
Portrayed his role REAL nicely
I see what you did there- I agree
i see your comments everywhere dude
The reason Carrey's method acting messed up Man on the Moon's filming process was that he was playing a clown.
In the case of American Psycho and Bale, he was still just as committed as Carrey, if not more.
It's just that Patrick was way more efficient and smooth than Andy.
The fact that Jim is a basket case irl and Bale is just passionate about his craft might be the case
Carrey messed up method acting because he can't act. And, I don't think what he did in "The Mask" was acting.
@@stevensenator4804 Liar Liar was good
@Sandra Swan - IMHO, just JC being weird and doing drugs.
@@stevensenator4804 He can. Watch The Truman Show
Christian Bale is the closest thing I've ever heard of to a Shapeshifter.
Christian Bale is the closest thing I’ve ever had to a father
"Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!"
Me: *starts downloading my new personality*
cringe
@@VlannCo 🤓
Method can get a bad rap, but for a lot of actors, becoming the character is the best way to embody them. There often isn't a need to go to the point of being the character 100% of the time (especially when you're on break), but for some shoots, staying in character could be essential for an entire shoot day to maintain an emotional state.
Acting is not easy.
It's fine as long as you're not being a dick to your fellow cast and crew. Another example of this is Dustin Hoffman taunting Meryl Street about the recent death of her fiancé on the set of Kramer Vs Kramer to get an emotional reaction out of her. She didn't ask him to do that and I'm sure she was perfectly capable of getting to the emotional state she wanted for the scene in her own way. It's one thing to be method yourself, but to decide to push it on someone else in such a horrible way really isn't ok
Just recently rewatched "Empire of the Sun", one of my fave war movies ever and he was the absolute most brilliant child actor I'd ever seen, even way back then I knew he was a great actor, would be a great actor, no matter what he did. Can't even imagine Leo Dicaprio in this role, it would have been like cosplay- Leo is Wolf of Wall Street, Christian Bale is American Psycho
I think Leo could have pulled it off, he played the evil king part of his twins performance in The Man in the Iron Mask quite well.
When they called Bale "up and coming," like what? He was in something like 20 roles at this point. 🤣
@@donalddavis7423 Yeah I agree. I really don't like the hindsight analysis about Leo not being as grat as Bale for the role. I believe he would have done a great job. We have seen that he can be an absolutely unhinged and charming person in Wolf of Wallstreet and Django.
@@catqueensina he was lame in Django Unchained, average performance, seriously overrated actor
Very nice video, one of my favorite films. Crazy how he can portray his role
crazy how you are getting this ratio
Thanks for checking out the video!
@@Nerdstalgic check this ratio
Very nice, let’s see Paul Allen’s video
@@Nerdstalgic no problem! Love your content ❤️
You like American psycho? The book was a little too graphic for my taste, but when the audio book came out in 93' i think it really came into its own, commercially and artistically. Pablo Schreiber's narration has a clear, crisp sound and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the book a big boost! It's been compared to catcher in the rye, but i think Ellis has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In 2001, lionsgate released this: American Psycho: uncut. The most accomplished adaptation. I think the undesputed best scene is the murder of Paul Allen. A scene so memorable most people probably don't listen to the commentary. But they should! Because it's not just about a homicidal psychopath brutally murdering people in cold blood, it's also a statement about the elite of society, and how they can essentially get away with murder! Hey Paul!!
Aaaahhhhhh!! 🪓
Try to hate the movie for toxic reasons, you stupid b*st*rd!
That’s amazing
Christain Bale honestly has to be one of my favorite actors since even if he hasn’t always played in great movies (see: Terminator Salvation), he truly pushes himself as far as possible both mentally and physically in order to fully get into the mindset of his character. And it’s that level of dedication why I can truly respect his level of method acting, especially when he has a far more consistent track record than an actor who similarly does so such as Jared Leto.
he's so amazing in this role it made me genuinely terrified by him. i couldnt even watch him as batman.
I love bale. Watched the machinist this weekend and I will never be the same
Nice! Only about 17 years too late.
“Very nice… Let’s see Paul Allen’s performance”
I watched that movie so many times and i didnt even notice that his expression changes so abruptly at the chinese dry cleaning scene
I love method acting. Bale is one of the greatest to ever do it. I've never seen someone be so dedicated to their roles.
It's crazy that he immersed himself in the mind of a narcissistic sociopath someone who's brain works so different to ours
Bateman is a boanfidé psychopath, not a sociopath. I don't know why people treat them like interchangeable terms.
It was a role that’s it Lmfao
@@pascalreitmeier7688 you know he's a method actor right?
you never know who is a psychopath though do you
I don’t think there’s a single Bale role I’ve never enjoyed, he does a great job every movie he is in.
Imagine if there were method make-up artists... "Sure, I could make it LOOK like you have a nosebleed, but wouldn't it be so much more realistic if I just punched you in the face instead?"
Method stunt actors "Just crash my fucking car bro"
Let's see Paul Allen's analysis.
Look af the subtle B roll shots, the tasteful thickness of the transitions. Oh my god, it even has timestamps.
@@warstroke442 Nice
Nice video man, Bale's performance really did kick the movie off wow.
Sleep only for an hour a day for a month straight and you won’t have to pretend
Its called method acting. People like him are a rare breed!
Indeed, acting as though you ARE the character to best get into their mindset. Daniel Day Lewis was the king of Method Acting!
Al Pacino is able to pull it off, being a Cuban Immigrant raised poor but thrive through the ranks in the 80s Drug Fueled Miami paradise
@@HaveanOreshnik hi role in the Devils Advocate was not too bad either. The final monologue was just perfect
@@trinaq well thats why got 3 oscars lolol
let's see Paul Allen's preparation for his role.
let‘s see paul allen‘s analysis video
This movie is, by far, Christian Bale's greatest performance, imo. I watched it with a friend, expecting it to be just another boring thriller. I was rivetted the whole way through, a rare pleasure being someone who has watched too many movies in my life. Aside from Bale's performance, the movie itself was just so expertly (I will even go so far as to say "perfectly") directed and put together (I'd have to watch it again to check, but have zero criticisms of it that I can recall, a rare thing for me). Another great movie I always remember Bale for is Empire of the Sun. He was an exceptional talented child actor.
Patrick Bateman sounds like the American version of Yoshikage Kira, just without the female hand fetish and a little bit more out of control.
You should analyze Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in Nightcrawler. It's amazing
He’s brilliant as a psychopath.
Pretty good. Your payment shall be experience.
Christian Bale has to be one of the greatest actors of all time
Fun fact: Christian Bale is Gloria Steinem's stepson
She was doing her stepson a solid.
I just googled this and it's actually true omg!
What do you call it when Batman skips church?
Christian Bale.
Every time I hear “…. wasn’t the original pick” it’s always followed by Leonardo’s name lol
From Bateman to Batman
what a change
He wasn’t a stock broker, he was an investment banker.
Sweat on command is not something I thought was even remotely possible.
7:13 did Christian bale just did a griddy + moonwalk😂
I think I simply love hearing someone explain something which I've tried explaining to myself over and over.
This explains how he was able to become the giant worm for Denis Villenue's Dune!
Can't believe Christian Bale killed Jared Leto for this role, what an excellent method actor.
this movie makes me feel like bale wouldnt make a very bad joker
2:50 Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thiccness of it
The writing in the background of the dry cleaning store is genius: "You feel beeter when your clothes look better!" Fits so well for Bateman and even the other wall street guys and girls in the movie.
Wonder how different American psycho would have been with Leonardo DiCaprio instead
Very very different!
Christian bale is a treasure.
The king himself, the human chameleon.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s method acting.
My rare fish collection needs to be attended to
i heard Bale actually killed a few people to get into character and in the card scene he would think about getting caught and that’s how he was able to sweat. don’t ask me how i know this
Looking at the ying and the yang of different actors, on types of acting, quite often we'd consider that stereo-type casting. When I look at Chris' movie catalog, he rarely goes against method acting with the only film that even remotely begins to move him in the other direction would have to be The Fighter. A good example of a movie that should not have method acting would be something like Back To The Future. Yes, everyone says that Michael J. Fox is Marty Mcfly, but this is the reason that Zemeckis and Gale had to let go of Eric Stoltz, he was putting a method spin on the character. Yeah, it was five weeks of shooting lost, but they got it right. My favorite part of that story was that it was the first week of January of 1985 that the switch happened, crazy enough, that's the week when I first entered the world.
So in the beginning brief on the casting there’s a misleading detail. The way you said it it made it sound like Harron was dropped for wanting to cast Leo. Harron knew Bale was perfect for the role but the studio wanted heartthrob Leo for the movies curb appeal. Harron persisted that Leo was completely wrong for the role and Bale was the one, so they cut her. They later brought her back on when the other director dropped it. She wrote the screenplay and had a vision for the movie and made it what it was. They would have cut her just to cast leo. Sexism in the film industry could have led to this movie being a bust and not at all what it became.
If he had killed Jared Leto as part of method acting we would not had to witness the absolute disastrous joker in DCEU.
I think they just filmed what Christian bale does every day