Hah, from the perspective of a business card manufacturer, I suppose the issues with the cards are obvious... but I never noticed all the mistakes various cards. I don't know that the incorrect...
Hah, from the perspective of a business card manufacturer, I suppose the issues with the cards are obvious... but I never noticed all the mistakes various cards. I don't know that the incorrect offsets of Bateman's card convinced me of his madness so much as the idea of caring about business cards this deeply.
Caring about anything so deeply really. The whole theme of the movie is that these people are such empty shells that they have to mimic having a personality through the stuff they buy.
Caring about anything so deeply really. The whole theme of the movie is that these people are such empty shells that they have to mimic having a personality through the stuff they buy.
It is ironic that something that mocked 80's consumerism and business ethics is driving peoples choices of business cards. The cards are not really there to express personality. The cards are all...
It is ironic that something that mocked 80's consumerism and business ethics is driving peoples choices of business cards.
The cards are not really there to express personality. The cards are all homogenous because the characters are all homogenous. They all dress the same, they all look the same, they all consume the same, their jobs are all the same...
The entire theme of both the book and movie revolves around the homogeneity of the lead characters. The plot is largely driven by people constantly mistaking Patrick Bateman for Marcus Halberstram.
For the movie, someone clearly decided to make the business cards visually worse by making them slightly off center, but the book had Patrick agonize over more subtle differences such as the font and color.
Patrick is continuously obsessed over small differences in suits, glasses, business cards. He thinks these small surface details that are greatly esteemed by his peers will help him get a promotion. Yet he never once stops to consider the fact that he is a murdering psychopath might impact his promotional prospects. And of course, no one in his work notices that he is a murdering psychopath. Even when he tells a girl he is into murders and executions, she simply hears that he is in mergers & acquisitions.
I had never noticed that the cards shown never matched the dialogue, which came straight from the book. Clearly when the movie was created, there was little attention to detail with the business cards chosen, yet those business cards seemed to have had a lasting impact
Hah, from the perspective of a business card manufacturer, I suppose the issues with the cards are obvious... but I never noticed all the mistakes various cards. I don't know that the incorrect offsets of Bateman's card convinced me of his madness so much as the idea of caring about business cards this deeply.
Caring about anything so deeply really. The whole theme of the movie is that these people are such empty shells that they have to mimic having a personality through the stuff they buy.
It is ironic that something that mocked 80's consumerism and business ethics is driving peoples choices of business cards.
The cards are not really there to express personality. The cards are all homogenous because the characters are all homogenous. They all dress the same, they all look the same, they all consume the same, their jobs are all the same...
The entire theme of both the book and movie revolves around the homogeneity of the lead characters. The plot is largely driven by people constantly mistaking Patrick Bateman for Marcus Halberstram.
For the movie, someone clearly decided to make the business cards visually worse by making them slightly off center, but the book had Patrick agonize over more subtle differences such as the font and color.
Patrick is continuously obsessed over small differences in suits, glasses, business cards. He thinks these small surface details that are greatly esteemed by his peers will help him get a promotion. Yet he never once stops to consider the fact that he is a murdering psychopath might impact his promotional prospects. And of course, no one in his work notices that he is a murdering psychopath. Even when he tells a girl he is into murders and executions, she simply hears that he is in mergers & acquisitions.
I had never noticed that the cards shown never matched the dialogue, which came straight from the book. Clearly when the movie was created, there was little attention to detail with the business cards chosen, yet those business cards seemed to have had a lasting impact