Everyone knows that the character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho was played by Christian Bale but it is less well-known that the following actors were seriously considered for the part: Keanu Reeves, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, and Brad Pitt.
I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes; the devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply… evil.
Dr. Loomis on Michael Myers, Halloween
the autistic savant that rain man was based upon has died of a heart attack at age 58.
learn about this guy’s magnificent gifts and burdens here (5 part series, TOTALLY worth watching the whole thing).
In the article, it says he wasn’t actually autistic. That wasn’t discovered until later in his life.




