3. All The Business Cards Share A Typo
The multiple business cards of American Psycho make for a hilarious scene. To the untrained eye they all look pretty much identical, but to the yuppies of the movie there are tiny differences that seem to mean a lot in terms of social stature. One thing you may have missed is that all the business cards share the same typo. As you can see on Paul Allens card in the picture above, they all have Pierce & Pierce Mergers And Aquisitions written in the top right hand corner. They obviously didnt have autocorrect back in the 80s, because theres meant to be a C in that last word (its actually spelt acquisitions). In recent years, this typo has been heralded as a huge mistake by certain corners of the internet. But its more fun to ponder whether it may actually have been deliberate. Perhaps the filmmakers intentionally included the misspelling, using it is as a playful poke at the characters in the scene. As in, theyre all so obsessed by fonts and watermarks that they dont even notice that theyve spelt one of the main jobs of their company wrong. If you ever meet Mary Harron, then, be sure to ask if she meant to include the typo. Im sure she wont think youre a weirdo.