Other mistake: Several close-ups of the business cards of Patrick Bateman and his associates reveal a misspelling of the word "Acquisitions" (the "c" is missing - not a small error, given that this is the name of their department). (00:18:35)
American Psycho (2000)
Plot summary
Directed by: Mary Harron
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Samantha Mathis, Chloë Sevigny
Patrick Bateman, a top executive at a company in America develops the taste for killing people. He goes on a mass killing spree which sees work collegues, prostitutes and dogs being cut short of life.
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Suggested correction: The business cards seen in that scene are supposed to be bad. An expert on business cards once reviewed the scene for a YouTube video and pointed out many aesthetic flaws in them, including this one. The subtle joke is that Patrick and his friends are all pretentious and deluded, thinking they're masters of style while they can't even spell words right. This is more explicit in the book, where paying close attention to the clothing Bateman describes, people's outfits make no sense.
Patrick Bateman: I think, um, Evelyn that, uh, we've lost touch.
Evelyn Williams: Why? What's wrong?
Patrick Bateman: I need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale can not be corrected but, uh, I have no other way to fulfill my needs.
Trivia: The infamous scene where Patrick Bateman kills Paul Allen while discussing Huey Lewis and the News was recreated by Huey Lewis himself in the role of Bateman, with "Weird Al" Yankovic being his victim as revenge for parodying his song "I Want a New Drug."
Question: Did Patrick really kill anybody or was it all in his mind? He killed a homeless man but there's no news report about it on TV. He murders Paul but is told Paul is in London. He severely beat and bloodied two prostitutes but no cops show up to arrest him. He murders Elizabeth and Christie but when he goes back to the apartment later, it is empty and put up for sale.
Answer: The situation is intentionally left vague. The homeless man being murdered wouldn't necessarily make the news in the time (there were over 4000 murders in 1989-90 when the book and movie are set). He and his friends are so alike that they continually mistake each other for others. The prostitutes would likely be loathe to call the police because they might be arrested themselves and he would likely get off with a much better lawyer.