American Psycho Murder Scene: Shot List

American Psycho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwicLgOGJOI
SHOT LIST—fast edits to build tension
Nathan Becker & Noemi Biel // Dialogue via IMDB script

1.HIGH-ANGLE FULL SHOT OF ALLEN ON COUCH

2.PAN&TILT TO CLOSE-UP OF HUEY LEWIS CD IN BATEMAN’S HAND

BATEMAN You like Huey Lewis and the News?

3.HIGH-ANGLE MEDIUM SHOT OF ALLEN ON COUCH

ALLEN They're okay.

4.medium-full SHOT OF BATEMAN AT STEREO. PANS LEFT and follows him AS HE SPEAKS AND CROSSES ROOM, HOLDS SHOT AT END OF SENTENCe, centered in frame.

BATEMAN Their early work was a little too New Wave for my taste. But then Sports came out in 1983, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.

/HE TURNS LEFT WITH THE EDIT.

5.WIDE-SHOT OF ROOM, BATEMAN EXITS DOOR RIGHT into a room in the background.

6.MEDIUM SHOT OF BATEMAN AT KNEE HEIGHT PANS UP TO BATEMAN IN MIRROR, PUTTING ON A RAINCOAT, head and shoulder shot

BATEMAN (Said partly from the bathroom)”The whole album has a clear, crisp sound and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that gives the songs a big boost.”

6.EXTREME CLOSE UP OF BATEMAN’S HAND AND VALIUM

7.RETURN TO PREV MED SHOT. BATEMAN DRINKS WATER AND EXITS BACK TO LR through the door left side of the frame, WITH AN AXE IN HAND

8.RETURN TO PREV WIDE SHOT OF APT. BATEMAN CROSSES ROOM TO KITCHEN

BATEMAN He's been compared to ELvis Costello but I think Huey has a more bitter, --

9.HIGH-ANGLE CLOSE-UP PRITINE AXE PLACED ON KITCHEN FLOOR

BATEMAN --cynical sense of humor.

10.RETURN TO MED SHOT

ALLEN Hey, Halberstam?
BATEMAN Yes, ALLEN?

11. medium-AMERICAN SHOT, POV BATEMAN’S, OVER SHOULDER OF ALLEN LOOKING BACK and gesturing

ALLEN Why are there copies of the Style section all over the place? Do you have a dog? A chow or something?
Shot switches to hed and shoulder of allen on the right side and Batemen in the background, medium-full shot of him on the left.

12. CLOSE-UP OF BATEMAN

BATEMAN No, ALLEN.

13. FULL SHOT, REVERSE OVER THE SHOULDER TO BATEMAN.
ALLEN (Confused) Is that a raincoat?
BATEMAN Yes, it is.

BATEMAN MOVES LEFT TO CD PLAYER

14. HEAD & SHOULDERS BATEMAN, ENTERING FROM RIGHT

BATEMAN, turns around at center of the screen, medium shot “In 1987 Huey released this, Fore!, their most accomplished album.--

15. WIDE SHOT OF ALLEN FROM BEHIND, BATEMAN STILL TALKING

--I think their undisputed masterpiece is (starts dancing)"Hip To Be Square," a song so catchy (walks towards the camera, exits shot to the left) that most people probably don't listen to the lyrics.”

16. Shot switches to Bateman turning around, centered in front of his kitchen, MEDIUM SHOT, continues talking as he is holding his axe, moving it around as he talks excitedly “…but they should. Because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends…it's also a personal statement about the band itself. Hey Paul!”

17. PERSPECTIVE SHOT FROM BATEMAN’S VIEW OVER ALLEN’S SHOULDER, ALLEN TURNING AROUND TO MEDIUM CLOSE-UP.

18. MEDIUM SHOT. Bateman lowers the axe, preparing to bring it back up and swing, runs toward Allen,

BATEMEN yelling “Aghhhh!”

19. CLOSE-UP OF BLOOD, BIRD’S EYE

20. HEAD & SHOULDER SHOT OF BATEMAN bringing axe down onto Allen REPEATEDLY. Blood spatters all over Bateman. CAMERA TILTS REFLECT SWINGING AXE MOVEMENT.
BATEMAN “Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now, you fucking stupid bastard!”

BATEMAN MOVES RIGHT AND CAMERA FOLLOWS TO HEAD AND SHOULDERS PROFILE.
Bateman undoes his see through rain jacket, pacing around the frame, looking around, seemingly calm, sets his jacket down, steps over the to right, the camera follows him as he sits down. the shot is tight around his shoulders and head, he lifts his arm to move his hair and then he puts a cigar to his lips.

21. Shot switches to a low angle FULL shot of Bateman sitting in the couch over top of the now dead Allen.
Bateman lights his cigar and looks to the left.