Originally posted by Final Blaxican
Vinny's wrong anyway."Regular people" aren't total insane dipshits. At least, not usually.
Listen to this man. One day he will lead the free world.
I understand getting angry, I could understand his reaction if the shot he got in was like some million dollar scene with a bunch of exspensive explosions and stuff that would take over a day to redo, but from what I hear it wasn't. A few ****s and a shit would've been ok, but over 3 minutes of cursing and threatening is over the line no matter who you are.
"The context"?
In July 2008, it was reported that Bale had an angry tirade on the set of Terminator: Salvation. In February 2009, audio of the incident was released. The tirade was directed at Shane Hurlbut, director of photography, for Terminator: Salvation and was triggered by Hurlbut stepping onto the set during filming.The recording is of a highly agitated Bale screaming profanities at Hurlbut, threatening him, and finally threatening to quit the film if Hurlbut walked on set again and was not fired. It was reported that Warner film executives sent the tape to the insurer of the film in case Bale decided to quit the movie. In an interview with E! Online, assistant director and producer of Terminator: Salvation Bruce Franklin said it was an isolated incident. "If you are working in a very intense scene and someone takes you out of your groove...It was the most emotional scene in the movie," said Franklin. "And for him to get stopped in the middle of it. He is very intensely involved in his character. He didn't walk around like that all day long. It was just a moment and it passed."
The context is that Christian Bale is a spoiled brat who needs to calm his ass down. He's an actor, he gets paid to do emotional scenes, and the moviees in post-production, which means, guess what, he just did the scene again. Do I have the right to go off on someone if I'm having an extremely emotional, hard working day? No. I would lose my job if I acted like that to a fellow employee who was only doing his job, especially considering it was a one-time mistake, not multiple instances. Cursing him out, insulting him, and threatening to quit the entire movie in mid-production unless a man get fired... is completely assinine.
I agree. I would be irritated if that had happened to me, sure.
But he went off the deep-end. Trying to get the man fired is retarded, disrespecting him so badly is also retarded. If I was the lighting guy I'd be out of the job, and probably in jail, because I would have beat his little ass, his six-pack be damned.
Originally posted by Wild Shadow
if he were a regular guy bale would have been fired, or taken anger management class for his temper, or even sued after filing with human resource office.
Why on earth would he be sued? A one time event does not constitute a hostile work environment and the victim did not quit (there's a term for being forced into quitting that I've forgotten) so no laws have been broken. Heck, if someone was sued every time a temper snapped then... then our legal system would look the way it does now.
Originally posted by Publius II
...Why so serious?
Why so serious, son?
Fixed.
BLAX:
threatening to quit the entire movie in mid-production unless a man get fired.
Still, he did go off the handle for a relatively minor thing.
Time of the month...
Originally posted by Final Blaxican
"The context"?The context is that Christian Bale is a spoiled brat who needs to calm his ass down. He's an actor, he gets paid to do emotional scenes, and the moviees in post-production, which means, guess what, he just [b]did
the scene again. Do I have the right to go off on someone if I'm having an extremely emotional, hard working day? No. I would lose my job if I acted like that to a fellow employee who was only doing his job, especially considering it was a one-time mistake, not multiple instances. Cursing him out, insulting him, and threatening to quit the entire movie in mid-production unless a man get fired... is completely assinine. [/B]
I'm not his PR rep, I'm just saying to think of him as a complete dbag just because of that is ridiculous.
It wasn't "multiple times".
It was once.
He should be condemned, for being an *******. I'm an actor, I do plays and I don't get paid at all, and when it comes time to perform I don't have the luxury of being able to reshoot the scene, take a bathroom break halfway through, etc. The background crew's ****ed up before when I was in the middle of a scene in front of hundreds of people who paid to see me perform, do I get to go off on the crew? No. I'd be kicked off the cast if I did that.
So what if he's in a superior position? If a man turns in a paper late to his boss the boss has the right to go off for 3 minutes calling him an ass and telling him to shut the **** up and dehumanizing him? No. There is practically no one else in a job environment who can do that and not lose their jobs except for actors who are unfairly treated as gods and maybe politicians/leaders.
Fact is, Bale went off on a man who was doing his job, and made one mistake. Most people don't go off like that. Most actors don't go off like that. Either Bale's an *******, or he has anger management issues. Your choice.
When an actor is calling someone on the film crew an amateur. They are being fuktards. Someone else here already posted that it is not the actors job to confront and berate the film crew. That is why you have producers, Directors and set managers. I could understand if Bale was correcting someone's mistake but he called that man out and questioned his professionalism. Also, you don't yell at your Director and the only reason he can get away with doing that shit is because his name is bigger than the movie he is working on. I doubt he would pull that shit on a Nolan film.
FROM Ain't It Cool News....
Why AICN Doesn't Post Links To Stories Like This Christian Bale thing that's everywhere!
Hey folks, Harry here... I'm getting slammed with assloads of people angry at me for not posting the Bale explosion from the set of McG's TERMINATOR: SALVATION. Well, first off - there's a real simple reason. It isn't news. And it certainly isn't cool news. It is a moment in a man's life taken completely out of context and most likely leaked to personally embarrass Christian Bale.
Now, I know what a lot of you are thinking... There's no excuse for a temper tantrum like that to ever occur and if you are going to act that way, you deserve to be embarrassed by your own actions.
Except, you want to hear the REALITY behind that clip?
I know this because I happen to be somewhere where someone that was there that day and for the shoot is. And this person isn't a publicist, nor are they invested in Bale's career. They're just someone that thinks it is absolute bullshit that this moment in Bale's life is being aired and that the real story should get out there.
The DP on TERMINATOR SALVATION, Shane Hurlbut, is a apparently a light tweaker. He's a fairly young DP and likes to fiddle with his lights on set during action, which is a big "NO NO" on most productions unless worked out in advance with performers. But apparently Shane was a pretty unrepentant light tweaker.
The scene in question, was a very emotional and tough scene between Christian Bale and Bryce Howard. A scene that required soul bearing and a deep level of immersive concentration. The sort of scene where everyone on set knows not to get in anyone's eye lines, and definitely not to move lights around while FILMING. You lock that shit down before the scene starts.
Bale had indeed warned the DP on multiple occasions about messing with lights while the cameras were rolling, and Bale was in the midst of a painful scene with Bryce, what was described to me as being the emotional center of the film and his character for the film.
Now, the reason I know all of this is because the person that was there, felt that it should be made perfectly clear that Christian Bale was the utmost gentleman and cool guy on set. And the DP really was doing something that professional DPs with experience just don't do. Not during a performance.
You don't need me to give you a link, it's all over the internet, I just felt that you should know what really went down - and that this particular outburst did indeed modify the DP's behavior - and for future DPs. **** with the lights before and after your actors are acting. Not during.
Just listened to it and Deano's post aside, Bale states this wasn't the DP's first time doing the very same "**** up", so Bale's in the right.
Bale also clearly states it isn't anything personal as he thinks they DP is a "nice guy", just the guy is repeatedly being unprofessional.
So yeah, Bale ftw, as some other poster said and shame on you "Bale should be fired" or "Bale has an ego" ranters. Dude is trying to do his job, which is act.
edit: Has Bale ever done this before on a set? Don't think so and if not, should be an indicator that he isn't a raging loon. Guys like Mickey Rourke are, as they have a history of having problems with co-stars, directors and film staff repeatedly.
Originally posted by Final Blaxican
I agree. I would be irritated if that had happened to me, sure.But he went off the deep-end. Trying to get the man fired is retarded, disrespecting him so badly is also retarded. If I was the lighting guy I'd be out of the job, and probably in jail, because I would have beat his little ass, his six-pack be damned.
Wasn't he yelling at the DP?