There’s an awful lot to love about the video for Miles Fisher’s cover of Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place.” I mean, there are layers and layers of things to love.

1) The spot-on recreation of Mary Harron’s adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

2) Fisher’s spot-on impression of Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman

3) How Fisher’s resemblance to Tom Cruise teases out the fact that Bale himself impersonated Cruise as the basis for this role

4) The fact that Fisher literally impersonated Cruise in a movie

5) All the additional weight and resonance Bale’s subsequent role as Batman and subsequent freakout on the set of Terminator Salvation bring to anything having to do with this role

6) Fisher’s bio

7) The identity of Fisher’s co-stars

8) Fisher’s most recent role

9) The fact that the image for Fisher’s homepage appears to be an homage to the cover of Ministry’s Filth Pig, which in turn is an homage to something I forget

10) Talking Heads’ epigrammatic role in the original novel

11) The cover itself, which at this point I prefer to the original

(Via Matthew Perpetua)

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