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[url=http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/02/bale-went-ballistic]Woah![/url]

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what a dick.

If I ever meet him I'm going to spit in his face.

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He went to loony town for sure. Even went American accent on him. I think he was having a real bad day that day [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,389295,00.html"]with his mother, sister and wife fiasco and all[/URL].

Still, Bale is top 5 actor right now and I'm gonna let this indecent slide.

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Yeah, but he's a great actor and he's freaking out because someone is impeding his ability to act effectively. The cinematographer walked in front of Bale's eye line while the scene was being recorded, which is a very unprofessional thing, and which clearly distracted Bale when he was in a zone of sorts. This isn't someone being a dick to a waiter because his eggs are cold.

Clearly the guy is a little bit unbalanced but I kind of see where he is coming from here.

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Awwwwwwkward

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I think Bale went a little over the top but I can see where he is coming from. If some one came up to me and decide to delete an entire excel workbook that I had been formulating I would probably have the same reaction and essential this is what that guy did to Bale's work.

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What's the problem?
Just another day in the life of some ego driven, self centered Hollywood trash that America idolizes?

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What a prick. Yeah I get that he has a reason to be upset, but to go on and on about this is just really ridiculous and childish. You would think he just got interupted from coming up with a cure for cancer or something.

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Post 4 under that article is priceless

[quote]4. What a piece of human garbage...[B]there is NO reason to speak to anyone that way. Totally disgusting. What a little bitch![/B]

Posted at 3:06PM on Feb 2nd 2009 by CC
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Oh the irony!

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what a loser a rich stuck up LOSER with a ego bigger than his paycheck.

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Didn't he get in trouble a few months ago for slapping around his mother or was it his wife?

In the Roman social heirarchy actors were near the same level as prostitutes and theives. I can see why.

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[quote=Trample the Elderly;524688]Didn't he get in trouble a few months ago for slapping around his mother or was it his wife?

In the Roman social heirarchy actors were near the same level as prostitutes and theives. I can see why.[/quote]

It was his mother and sister.

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We all know that it's every celebrities God-given right to hurl abuse at people who don't count. They're all horrible, horrible people.

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[quote=Trample the Elderly;524688]Didn't he get in trouble a few months ago for slapping around his mother or was it his wife?

In the Roman social heirarchy actors were near the same level as prostitutes and theives. I can see why.[/quote]

I hate to defend the prick but I don't think he slapped anyone around. In the UK I believe just raising your voice to someone is considered assault.

And as we can hear he's pretty good at verbally asaulting someone.

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[quote=djnemo65;524647]Yeah, but he's a great actor and he's freaking out because someone is impeding his ability to act effectively. The cinematographer walked in front of Bale's eye line while the scene was being recorded, which is a very unprofessional thing, and which clearly distracted Bale when he was in a zone of sorts. This isn't someone being a dick to a waiter because his eggs are cold.

Clearly the guy is a little bit unbalanced but I kind of see where he is coming from here.[/quote]

Yes. He had a right to be upset. Being upset and angrily informing someone that they have just ruined your work is something we have all probably done (I know I have). That's a far cry from the verbal abuse Bale was laying on. He rants about professionalism, but then proceeds to disrupt the entire shoot. A simple "Hey a-hole, stay off the f'ing set" in the proper tone would have probably been more effective. But no, threatening to walk off the set, abusing a co-worker and continuing to do so even after everyone has acknowledged the problem, that's much more professional.

He should have just taken a couple bong hits and let it ride.

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[quote=JoeRedskin;524700]Yes. He had a right to be upset. Being upset and angrily informing someone that they have just ruined your work is something we have all probably done (I know I have). That's a far cry from the verbal abuse Bale was laying on. He rants about professionalism, but then proceeds to disrupt the entire shoot. A simple "Hey a-hole, stay off the f'ing set" in the proper tone would have probably been more effective. But no, threatening to walk off the set, abusing a co-worker and continuing to do so even after everyone has acknowledged the problem, that's much more professional.

He should have just taken a couple bong hits and let it ride.[/quote]

Well put.

I enjoyed when he screamed "You're a nice guy! You're a nice guy!"

Suddenly, his performance in American Psycho doesn't seem like so far a reach

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Nice post Joe Redskin. He lives by a diffrent set of rules then us. I would be mad if someone screwed up my work as well but to carry on like that in my office would get me a quick trip to HR and then most likely the street.

If you really hate him don't go see the next Batman or any of his movies. That is the best and only way we can show him we don't like his behavior.

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Bale definitely took it to a level it need not have gone to. Even McG was afraid to say anything to him. Reminds me of a recent story where a big time Broadway actress stopped acting in the middle of a play and demanded that an audience member taking photos with flash be escorted out.

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I wonder if Christian Bale is on steroids. The only people I have ever seen act like that were.

Yeah he over reacted, but I am not going to stop watching the Batman series because of it. I might not watch the Terminator movie, but I will not boycott him altogether. I got 5 bucks that says he will publically apologize anyway.

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What gets me more than Bale flipping out, is what kind of incredible P-words are the executives from the movie company that's paying Bale's salary??? When he feels free to act like this, it shows he has no respect for the folks stroking the checks.

It's not like they are making Batman 3 and he holds way more leverage. The suits should've come to the set and went off on him the way he went of the guy who walked on-set. They should've told him to settle the hell down or he'd be carrying his annoying UK-accent ass back across the f-ing pond, minus the multi-million dollar check for the f-ing movie.

They have to have some sort of language in his contract about him causing production delays or walking out of the movie.

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A few more outburst like that and he will be blacklisted. There are consequence to losing people money or threatening to.

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Yes. That is likely. I think more than one star has had a promising career shot down b/c word got out they were "difficult".

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Wow. Just wow.

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[quote=JoeRedskin;524700]Yes. He had a right to be upset. Being upset and angrily informing someone that they have just ruined your work is something we have all probably done (I know I have). That's a far cry from the verbal abuse Bale was laying on. He rants about professionalism, but then proceeds to disrupt the entire shoot. A simple "Hey a-hole, stay off the f'ing set" in the proper tone would have probably been more effective. But no, threatening to walk off the set, abusing a co-worker and continuing to do so even after everyone has acknowledged the problem, that's much more professional.

He should have just taken a couple bong hits and let it ride.[/quote]

I agree. I mean I dont think its that big of a deal that you say something to the guy, even be kind of an asshole about it...but this is just ridiculous.

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The guy clearly has some anger issues.

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[quote=Mattyk72;524800]The guy clearly has some anger issues.[/quote]That's because [I]he's The Batman![/I]

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It sucks that Hollywood plays by a different set of HR rules... people aren't treated like humans, unless you've got some sort of pull. If you're a normal crew member, you're treated as easily replaceable (which is actually true).

If anyone has a chance to peep it, rent "Swimming with Sharks." Now that's some real producer abuse.

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[quote=itvnetop;524814]It sucks that Hollywood plays by a different set of HR rules... people aren't treated like humans, unless you've got some sort of pull. If you're a normal crew member, you're treated as [B]easily replaceable[/B] (which is actually true).

If anyone has a chance to peep it, rent "Swimming with Sharks." Now that's some real producer abuse.[/quote]

There's the million dollar (actually more literally) phrase. The DP is replaceable Cristian Bale is not. Both from a talent/star stand-point and practically. They can't stop shooting in the middle and start over with a new actor even if they wanted. What needs to happen is that Hollywood has to stop hiring actors who do this.

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[quote=FRPLG;524816]There's the million dollar (actually more literally) phrase. The DP is replaceable Cristian Bale is not. Both from a talent/star stand-point and practically. They can't stop shooting in the middle and start over with a new actor even if they wanted. [B]What needs to happen is that Hollywood has to stop hiring actors who do this.[/B][/quote]

Sort of like Wall Street needs to stop hiring certain jackasses who want to steal everyone blind... not gonna happen in both cases.

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Not the first time the guy in the background had done this. I like the fact that someone gets screamed at instead of people behaving like the world should protect ****-ups.

If Mr. Background can't stay off set then don't work in movies.

Nice one, Batman, like it!


:Smoker:

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[quote=itvnetop;524814]It sucks that Hollywood plays by a different set of HR rules... people aren't treated like humans, unless you've got some sort of pull. If you're a normal crew member, you're treated as easily replaceable (which is actually true).

If anyone has a chance to peep it, rent "[B]Swimming with Sharks."[/B] Now that's some real producer abuse.[/quote]
Fantastic movie. Kevin Spacey is great in that.

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