American Psycho

No established characters are race- or gender-swapped; adaptation from the Bret Easton Ellis novel keeps characters intact.

Patrick Bateman is a male antihero/monster, but the film satirizes him rather than promoting female superiority as a message.

No central LGBTQ+ themes; sexuality is depicted as part of Bateman's hedonistic excess rather than identity messaging.

Casting reflects the wealthy 1980s Wall Street milieu of the source material.

The film satirizes yuppie consumerism and superficiality, but as dark comedy/social satire rather than activist sermonizing.

• Obsessive monologues about business cards and material status
• Critique of 1980s greed and vanity

The film clearly critiques a hollow, violent, status-obsessed masculinity through Bateman, but it's a satire of a specific yuppie archetype rather than a blanket ideological message about all men.

• Bateman embodies toxic, narcissistic Wall Street masculinity
• His violence and misogyny are presented as monstrous and absurd

Faithful adaptation of Ellis's novel; deviations are tonal/practical, not identity-driven.