AMERICAN PSYCHO

by
Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner

Based on the novel par Bret Easton Ellis

Fourth Draft
November 1998


INT. PASTELS RESTAURANT- NIGHT

An insanely expensive restaurant on the Upper East Side.
The decor is a mixture of chi-chi and rustic, with swagged
silk curtains, handwritten menus and pale rose tablecloths
decorated with arrangements of moss, twigs and hideous
exotic flowers. The clientele is young, wealthy and
confident, dressed in the height of late-eighties style:
pouffy Lacroix dresses, slinky Alaïa, Armani power suits.

CLOSE-UP on a WAITER lire out the specials.

WAITER
With goat cheese...

NEWSIES
RACETRACK:
In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and other giants of the newspaper world. On every rue corner toi saw 'em, carrying the banner, bringing toi the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army, without a leader, until one jour when all that changed.
(The movie titre appears. We see the outside of the Newsboys Lodging House. Inside, Kloppman, the owner, enters the bunkroom, finding the boys still in bed.)
KLOPPMAN:
Boots! Skittery! Skittery!...

(the spilled whiskey is) SMOKING, eating into the wood.

GORDON
Get a medic!
Loeb COLLAPSES.

INT. KITCHEN, WAYNE PENTHOUSE -- EVENING

Dent pulls Rachel into the kitchen, away from the crowd.

DENT
You cannot leave me on my own with
these people.



51.





RACHEL
The whole mob's after toi and you're
worried about these guys?

DENT
Compared to this, the mob doesn't
scare me. Although, I will say: them
gunning for toi makes toi see things
clearly.

RACHEL
Oh, yeah?

DENT
Yeah. It makes toi think about what
you couldn't stand losing. And who
you want to spend the rest of your
life with...
Rachel looks at Dent. Smiles.

RACHEL
The rest...

So, this is an article which I hope will get responsive articles, because I’m really quite interested in how most Baleheads stumble across Christian Bale.

In my case, the first film which I watched which he was in was Treasure Island. My mum had taped it off the television, and I was only a tiny little tacker, but it was l’amour at first sight. Yes, Christian Bale was my first crush. Even now, many years later, I am still impressed par his incredible jouer la comédie prowess at the age of sixteen. Every time the camera turned to him, he managed to completely own the entire screen, a shining étoile, star against...

“The Prestige” (2006)
Directed par Christopher Nolan
Based on the novel par Christopher Priest
Starring Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie

Prepare to be deceived with the magical workings of Christian Bale (Alfred Borden) and Hugh Jackman (Robert Angier), two young magicians, locked in a battle which will involve all that they hold dear, and ultimately destroy them....
Alfred Borden and Robert Angier are young magicians living in period Britain with talent and a flare for performing. Both are secretive men with much to hide; and when they are thrust...

So that's what they call a family?
Mudder, fadder, daughter, son
Guess everything toi heard about is true.
So toi ain't got any family
Well, who a dit toi needed one?
Ain'tcha glad nobody's waiting up for you?
When I dream on my own
I'm alone, but I ain't lonely
For a dreamer, night's the only time of day
When the city's finally sleeping
When my thoughts begin to stray
And I'm on the train that bound for
Santa Fe
And I'm free
Like the wind
Like I’m gonna live forever
It's a feeling time can never take away
All I need’s a few plus dollars
And I'm outta here to stay
Dreams come true
Yes they do
In Santa Fe...