Mary Harron thinks those who unironically idolize Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman in 'American Psycho' misread Bret Easton Ellis' story.

One of the clichéd things we talk about all the time in cinema is people who get the theme of movies wrong. There's a frat guy with the poster of Fight Club, oblivious to toxic masculinity, or the people who use Starship Troopers as a pro-war rallying cry,

The filmmaker said she never intended "to be embraced by Wall Street bros" as Christian Bale's "very clearly making fun of them."