Christian Bale

collection.

CHRISTIE
You have a really nice place here...Paul.
How much did u pay for it?

BATEMAN
Actually, that's none of your business, Christie,
hut I can assure u it certainly wasn't cheap.

Bateman leaves to refill his wine glass and Sabrina takes a
pack of cigarettes out of her purse.
Bateman returns, carrying a tray of chocolates.

BATEMAN
No, no smoking. Not in here.

He walks over to Christie.

BATEMAN
Varda truffle?

Christie stares at the plate and shakes her head. Sabrina
takes one.

BATEMAN
I don't want u to get drunk, but that's a very
fine Chardonnay you're not drinking.

Bateman goes over to his...

AMERICAN PSYCHO

by
Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner

Based on the novel door Bret Easton Ellis

Fourth Draft
November 1998


INT. PASTELS RESTAURANT- NIGHT

An insanely expensive restaurant on the Upper East Side.
The decor is a mixture of chi-chi and rustic, with swagged
silk curtains, handwritten menus and pale roze tablecloths
decorated with arrangements of moss, twigs and hideous
exotic flowers. The clientele is young, wealthy and
confident, dressed in the height of late-eighties style:
pouffy Lacroix dresses, slinky Alaïa, Armani power suits.

CLOSE-UP on a WAITER reading out the specials.

WAITER
With goat cheese...

NEWSIES
RACETRACK:
In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and other giants of the newspaper world. On every straat corner u saw 'em, carrying the banner, bringing u the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army, without a leader, until one dag when all that changed.
(The movie titel appears. We see the outside of the Newsboys Lodging House. Inside, Kloppman, the owner, enters the bunkroom, finding the boys still in bed.)
KLOPPMAN:
Boots! Skittery! Skittery!...