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American Psycho rambles & doodles🧡jp/en

[dekaidog]

love this part in the novel (a jaguar print jacket... what kind of taste is that)

[dekaidog]

I've been experiencing American Psycho in this order — the movie first, then the Japanese translation of the novel, and now the original English novel.

And in the original… Patrick watches Luis way more than I expected. And Luis? He's being so obvious about wanting to close the distance with Patrick.

So now I'm just sitting here going — huh. huh…… heh.

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sick doodle

I feel like absolute shit and my brain is lagging hard so here’s a doodle I did of Patrick & Luis to feel something other than crappy.

I draw Luis taller than Patrick just cause it’s funny. Idk Christian Bale and Mat Ross are both 6’0ft I’m pretty sure butttt I think it’s funnier as well as something that would annoy Patrick Bateman since he would have to look up to him and obviously Patrick looks down on him.

I made Luis’ head to small but this is a doodle, doodles aren’t perfect and I feel too bleh to fix it

hope that anything I said makes sense cause my brain is scrambled rn

[dekaidog]

omg same, I love that Luis is taller than Patrick!

I got curious and looked it up — Christian Bale is 6'0 (about 183cm), and Matt Ross is actually a tiny bit taller, around 6'0.25 (about 184cm). but in the bathroom scene (especially when Luis turns around while Patrick's strangling him) it kind of looks like they made Luis taller on purpose?

the guy Patrick is supposed to look down on is taller than him, so having to reach up just to strangle him is exactly the kind of thing Bateman would be SO annoyed by. that's the delicious part… if it was the director's intent, what a perfect touch

[lowpoly24]

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Luis: Oh, Patrick…… Patrick: What the hell is this guy doing?

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Luis. not Lewis. it's been bugging me for a while, so i finally went and looked it up.

Luis is actually a Spanish-origin spelling. didn't know that.

i bet it's on purpose. like, to show that among all these carnivore yuppies, he's the one guy with slightly different roots?

by the way — in Japanese, Lewis and Luis turn into the exact same word. katakana just makes both of them ルイス. so for me there was no difference to even notice.

[dekaidog]

i really like how fast Van Patten reacts the moment "Dorsia" comes up.

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i keep thinking about how, in the novel, patrick bateman actually takes the things luis recommends. he doesn't just hear them out. he uses them.

look at the range of what he lets luis into:

something he puts into his body (the aramis)

the person who handles his body (a personal trainer)

the aramis one is for thinning hair. and patrick admits, himself, that his hair is something he worries about. it's a soft spot for him, a delicate one. luis reaches exactly that spot — hands him the one product that works. and in his own narration, patrick credits it by name. "carruthers recommended" it. the full name.

he's supposed to look down on luis. he makes fun of him. and still, he hands luis the judgment over his scalp, and his muscles too.

yes. the muscles.

patrick has that perfect body, and he still went and got a personal trainer at the gym because luis told him to. i don't really know what to call that power balance. (he did fire the trainer later, for his own reasons. but still.)

this is patrick. the patrick bateman. him.

i would really like to see how that conversation went. someday he's going to have to explain himself. and when he does, i hope he explains it with the same energy he gave huey lewis and the news.

[dekaidog]

vertical and horizontal writing have completely different rhythm, so no matter what, i end up drawing in the one i'm used to (tategaki). probably makes it hard to translate with google lens… sorry…..

[lowpoly24]

[dekaidog]

Come on, detective, you've got to believe me! I love watching a psychopath killer with a perfectly maintained exterior absolutely lose his shit and panic uncontrollably. That's the truth. I swear. Please, detective — please believe me.

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Patrick (narration): A Valentino silk tie. A flawless dimple. The Armani three-piece. Cool Water to finish.

Which means today, I'm flawless. There's no one in this office who could threaten me——

Luis: Hi, Patrick!

Patrick: …Why do you keep appearing in my office? I've told you to stop showing up without an appointment.

Luis: Did I surprise you? You look lovely even when you're flustered.

Luis: By the way, Patrick — I wanted your advice on what to wear to the Pierce & Pierce summer party out in the Hamptons. You're going too, so let's go pick something out together at Barneys ♡

Patrick: No. I have to return some videotapes.

Patrick: I've rented about a hundred of them. I have to return them right now.

Luis: Oh, that sounds like such a hassle. So — what kind of movies do you like, Patrick?

Patrick (thinking): ……Is there no stopping this guy!?

[dekaidog]

patrick bateman losing to a tangled earphone cable

ジーンにパトリックの情けない所を見られて欲しい

[dekaidog]

How do you think Luis and Patrick’s first interaction went? Luis mentions he’s wanted Patrick since this Christmas party in Arizona 206 before the book takes place during the bathroom scene

also I have a small headcannon that Luis watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre because Patrick would mention it a lot and he wanted to relate to him more or have it be a conversation starter >_<

AAAAA AN ASK?? for me?? thank you so much oh my god 🥹🙏 — Luis and Patrick's first meeting is honestly one of my favorite things to spiral about.

my read: that red paisley tie is, by pure accident, what got them their first real conversation. because — Luis is being strangled, years later, and he's still reciting the pattern. just watching him from across the room gets you "red tie," sure, but "paisley"? that detail doesn't survive unless they actually talked about it. so I imagine Luis sidling up with "that's a beautiful pattern," or "that color really pops under the lights in here," and Patrick, half-drunk so not in full icy-brush-off mode, going "huh. nice that someone clocks the detail." a tiny, real little exchange. that's why the pattern is burned in.

but from Patrick's side it's not a memory, it's a transaction: "nice tie" → "thanks, someone's calling me, gonna grab a drink" — gone. for Luis it was the beginning of everything. mismatched from the very first second, which is the part that wrecks me — and the cruelest little rhyme is that the love that started at Arizona 206 ends with him getting transferred to Arizona. (the "they never spoke, Luis just watched him from across the room" version is delicious too though — I love both Luises 🫠)

like picture Luis after the party, dazed in the snow, cheeks pink, smiling at his own reflection in the cab window — "what a wonderful night… god, thank you for the gift of falling in love ✨". the image is unbearably cute 🎄🎁 (100% my own delulu, ignore me)

and your TCM headcanon?? I love it — it's so plausible it might as well be canon. Luis watching it purely to have something to say to his beloved? absolutely happened. once you buy the tie-as-icebreaker theory, Luis becomes a man who is FOREVER scouting for a reason to get close to Patrick — the business cards, complimenting his jacket just to have an excuse to reach out and touch it, all of it. so of course he sat through Texas Chainsaw. forced himself through a slasher he secretly couldn't handle, white-knuckling the gore, thinking "Patrick's totally unbothered by this… so strong, so cool… (and if we were dating and watched it together, maybe he'd hold my hand at the scary parts ☺️)." he thinks this. 1000%.

[dekaidog]

The people around Patrick fail to notice what he really is — a killer — because they're indifferent to him. But Luis, who's in love with him, fails to notice for the opposite reason: he pays too much attention.

[dekaidog]

I opened my askbox because I really want to talk about American Psycho and Luis. Please send me your thoughts — I'd love to hear you gush about them🐶🐶🐶

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