E arly in American Psycho, Mary Harron’s blisteringly good adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, Patrick Bateman ...

A sigma male is someone who is a lone wolf and doesn’t follow the pack – someone who is considered successful and cool, but on their own terms. Someone like fictional character Patrick Bateman from ...

From the “morning shed” to fitness advice from the manosphere, Christian Bale’s iconic morning montage in “American Psycho” ...

The filmmaker recently chatted with Letterboxd Journal about the “sigma male” social media phenomenon and how some men have grown to look at Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman as a role model.

He imagined a character, Patrick Bateman ... Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network” (2010) as the defining sigma male. Bateman and Zuckerberg both triumph in their respective industries, ...