【KOIMOI】Christian Bale’s Inspiration For American Psycho’s ‘Patrick Bateman’ Was Tom Cruise! Here’s How The ‘Stylish & S*xy’ Actor Inspired This Helluva Serious Role

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意味　(かたく)〈人が〉〈義務· 計画· 職務など〉を実行 [遂行] する

Christian Bale has done some phenomenal movies in his career, including the Dark Knight trilogy, The Machinist, The Prestige and more. But his character of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is one of a kind. He executed the role with so much precision and authenticity that it is still difficult to look at the star without getting reminded of the lethal serial killer. While there are several stories related to the making of the film, there’s one that’s quite peculiar. Scroll on to learn more.

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意味　〈事が〉やっかいな, 気がかりな ((主に英)worrying).

As surprising (and worrisome) as it may sound, but Christain Bale took inspiration from Tom to nail his role in American Psycho. While talking to BlackBook once, director Mary Harron revealed how the actor decided to nail his character. She said, “We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me, and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”

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トーク番組でのトム・クルーズってキラキラニコニコで場を支配してるから、確かに…なるほどー。

intensity

意味　（感情· 気候などの） 強烈 (さ), 激しさ; （行動などの） 熱心さ

Of course, the ‘inspiration’ had nothing to do with Christain Bale’s Patrik’s violent nature. It probably had more to do with the intensity with which he talked about his stories, work and anything he was passionate about. It was genuine yet forced, borderline aggressive and charismatic in a dangerous way. A lot of how Tom Cruise presents his stories.

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意味　[C][通例 a ～]気絶, 失神

In fact, a YouTube page called Random Access Memes shared a clip from the interview that Mary Harron was probably talking about. In the video, Cruise explained how he stopped the oxygen supply on a flight which made a passenger faint. The weird bit was, that he laughed during the entire narration, which irked the netizens, and they ironically called him ‘American Psycho’ in the comment section.

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あーこのエピソード知ってる！確かにドン引きポイントw