Bateman Begins: An American Psycho
by AdabisiThis is a fanedit the combines elements from American Psycho, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Machinist into one cohesive story.
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(8 votes, average: 5.63 out of 10, rated)
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Original film name: American Psycho, Batman Begins, The Machinist, The Dark Knight
New film name: Bateman Begins: An American Psycho
Original runtime: American Psycho 101 mins; Batman Begins 140 mins; The Machinist 101 mins; The Dark Knight 152 mins.
New runtime: 121mins
Amount of time Cut/Added: 373 mins
Cuts removed/added/extended:
Here are the major ones:
- -Removed Willem Dafoe from American Psycho
- -Re-ordered/recut some scenes from American Psycho to make the body count higher
- -Removed Batman from Batman Begins
- -Removed Bruce returning home from school from Batman Begins
- -Removed Joe Chill subplot from Batman Begins
- -Rachael and her relationship with Bruce is (almost) completely removed
- -Removed all but 2 short scenes from The Dark Knight
- -Removed everything from the Machinist that dealt with Trevor’s job, co-workers, the accident and Ivan
- -Added some clips from Christian Bale’s rant on the set of the new Terminator to illustrate Bruce/Patrick’s inner dialogue with himself to show his growing insanity.
Your intention for this fanedit:
To create a more comprehensive story of the creation, rise and fall Patrick Bateman by Bruce Wayne. While on a seven-year long self-imposed exile from his wealth and riches, billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne meets a mysterious figure named Henri Ducard. Ducard trains Bruce in the ways of the ninja and offers him a place in the League of Shadows – a covert organization of vigilantes and assassins. Bruce rejects his offer and returns to Gotham City, now overrun with corruption and greed. He vows to take on an alternate persona to clean up the streets of Gotham. But what he becomes is much worse than even he could have imagined. Much, much worse…
Additional Comment/Caveat:
I think I’ve tied up any loose ends or plot holes. Some aspects may require a leap of faith. If you have any questions, just remember that Bruce is crazy. Bat-shit crazy, so to speak. His actions aren’t always rational. He jumps between his different personalities as a result (or maybe as a cause) of his psychosis.
There are a few hard audio cuts in the American Psycho footage. These are in the original and I didn’t see anything wrong with having them in there.
Thanks again to Infodroid for the inspiration.
Time needed for the edition: about a month
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lol, stay this madness!
Review by Kirkafur — March 12, 2009 @ 4:55 am
You could have kept Willem Dafoe and had him turn into the Green Goblin…
Review by InfoDroid — March 12, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
I saw American Psycho years aago so I don’t remember very much. I didn’t like on this edit were colours. They differ a lot so you can actually know from what movie the scene was. And music cuts were too hard for me. But it was really interesting idea and with some deleted scenes or unused material this could be a totally amazing cut. Pity they won’t get available for us.
Keep this good work and ideas
Review by Harman — March 19, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
while i enjoyed this edit, i expected more. a naet twist would have been to keep tha batman plot and used the American Psycho to show how bruce was when not batman was going “bat s#!t” crazy. the scene were he kills the dog and bum could cut with scene of the Waynes murder. any way good edit job though. movie flowed nicely.
Review by darknight — April 13, 2009 @ 1:47 am
this was a good edit. You have to watch it atleast once.
Review by rmania — May 21, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
This is an interesting Fan Edit, showing what a man would be like with an alternate persona that would be a bad guy instead of a good one. While there is no plost twist to speak of, i didn’t feel the need for one. Overall, this is well put together and a personal recommendation to those who want to see a man lose his sanity (for the better of humanity?).
I wouldn’t mind a higher quality DVD versions, dare i say, with surround sound and menus?
Review by megafat — December 3, 2010 @ 11:37 am