Early in American Psycho, Mary Harron’s blisteringly good adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, Patrick Bateman walks ... the multipurpose stuff of memes. Over the years since Harron’s movie, ...

Rewatched today, Bale played Bateman as a perfect caricature of ’90s greed. (And some of that might have gone into his Batman performance.) According to Know Your Meme, in 2020 other music was ...

Christian Bale’s turn as Wall Street yuppie and serial killer Patrick ... later, Bateman remains relevant as a pop culture figurehead, from his “sigma face” that’s been meme’d a thousand ...

Patrick Bateman is no role model ... Harron recognized that Bateman’s rising popularity is because of “memes” and “TikTok,” as well as the investment banker-turned-murderer ...

Harron understands that TikTok and memes have played a role in the idolization of Patrick Bateman because “there’s [Bateman] being handsome and wearing good suits and having money and power.

Harron understands that TikTok and memes have played a role in the idolization of Patrick Bateman because "there's [Bateman] being handsome and wearing good suits and having money and power.