An alternate view: My thoughts on the Christian Bale rant
The Christian Bale rant audio (click to hear) was a very hot trend this morning, and is still prime time news on the entertainment channels. For those who don’t know, Christian Bale (Batman) who is an A-list actor, was filming a new Terminator movie, when he shouted at a crew member who kept adjusting lights and was distracting him.
Bale kinda flipped out, and the tape became a global phenomenon today.
Anyone who hears this clip will instantly say that Bale is a typical Hollywood snobby actor who is abusive to a poor stage hand. It’s human nature to hate someone who is ranting and raving like a lunatic. In fact, Bale was arrested in 2008 for allegedly getting into a physical confrontation with his mom and sister in England.
This audio clip certainly doesn’t enhance Bale’s reputation, and is in fact very damaging to his public image. I would say over 95% of the coverage is negative.
So allow me to be a Christian Bale apologist. Why? Because I think he’s a great actor and want to put things in perspective (after all I can’t stand when the MEDIA tell me how to think or feel).
- Actors have to work 12-15 hours a day for months at a time, and awake during odd hours. I don’t know about you, but I need my sleep and food otherwise I get cranky.
- Bale was filming the most emotional scene of the movie, and takes a lot of pride in his work by focusing on the mood.
- Shane, the crew member, could have very well been incompetent and kept messing up the scenes. After all, Bale called him a “nice guy”, and we all know “nice guys” have a tendency to be unintentionally awkward over and over again.
- Granted, Bale said some horrible things, such as threatening to quit if Shane isn’t fired, but- and take it from me- when you become enraged and angry, you are going to say things that are out-of-character and wrong, just to express your frustration, and to let people know how they really got under your skin.
- Many, many actors do this; it’s old hat, nothing new, and part of movies and theater. Outsiders like us just don’t get it.
- I find it hard to bury a man’s life and career based on two-minute clip.
- Who knows how stressed out everyone was? People have bad days.
- So…everyone who judged him today never cursed like that?
- At the end of the day…who cares? It’s non-news, but was SIZZLING HOT all day. Seriously, I like to put things in perspective by making the headline as basic as possible: it really is “Actor yells at production member”, which takes away all the power of this non-story. In other news, “Boss yells at employee” and “Homeless man laughs to himself”
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nothing compared to the late primadonna actor Klaus Kinski complaining about the food on the set of Fitzcarraldo.
(from the Verner Herzog documentary “My Best Fiend”)
really shows what spending months in a peruvian jungle can do to a person’s psyche.
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Thanks! Super clip. I love it. I like the Indians watching, too.
here is part 2 of that clip.
really interesting stories behind the herzog/kinski relationship where they several times threatened each others lives.
All in an honest day’s work.
Great stuff