26歲

2000年,他們同樣是 26 歲,獲考慮邀拍殺人狂魔的角色。

以下是事發後肇事者給律師的電話留言。

You're my lawyer so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open.

很明顯,這個殺人狂魔是喪的,殺人工具包括斧頭、電鋸、釘槍,手法兇殘之極。

當年,在製作公司決定用 Christian Bale 之前,原來已發了新聞稿由 Leonardo DiCaprio 作領銜主演,但導演 Mary Harron 拒絶與大明星合作,更表示會辭拍抗議,後來有人勸 DiCaprio 不要接拍免損形象,電影的導演及男角才敲定。

事隔 10 年,當年臉上仍有一絲稚氣的兩大俊男,經過十年的磨練,已成為影壇上最有實力的年輕演員,還爭相被頂級導演重用。

回想,當年 DiCaprio 拒拍殺人狂魔角色,今天他選拍的角色也離不開癲、喪、瘋,有香港影評人說看 DiCaprio 拍戲,感覺 Jack Nicholson 上身。雖然未至於這個程度,要顯示演技實力,這些角色才有發揮。

關於瘋,在 American Psycho 中,Patrick Batman 在片尾有一段獨白,始終還不是太明白當中的意思。

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

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