Christian Bale losing it on set of T4 at the DP

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Anyone heard the audio of this yet? I cannot post a link as there is more F this and F that than a bad exam paper!

I thought Bale was ok really but no more after hearing this audio of him ripping into the director of photography who was working with some lighting gear in the background apparently and CB got annoyed by it.

Guess he didn't think about his fans or anything!
 
Well there's nothing that says he told the guy to not do it the last time round (other than mentioning he saw him do it once before) so obviously he ignored it and decided to cause a drama scene the 2nd time. What's wrong with asking like a normal person.

Drama queen,. that's all really.
 
B@Th*nG said:
because if the movie's crap he opens himself up to a world of public ridicule? I'm not defending the guy, i haven't even heard the recording, but his work affects him more than a "normal persons"

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Commenting abbot a topic without hearing the audio clip itself is a bad move in this case...

I don't care if he's "working" great, thousands of other actors can do it perfectly fine, why do CB and Cruise have to become children whenever something annoys them is the question
 
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Mammalian said:
So you think you know exactly what it's like to be in his position?

Do you honestly think that you can judge, whilst being fair, what has happened from one audio clip of only a tiny part of what has happened whilst sat comfortably on your desk chair?
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From the audio clip, yes I can. I don't see the point of your argument either.

Uhm from the audio clip, yes I can. I don't see the point of your argument either.

In the clip the DP is trying to rationalise why he was working with the lights, you can hear him in the BG, never once do you hear him raise his voice.
Bale shouts about the DP not being professional and how his professional relationship with him is ruined now. Well what a hypocrite. He moans about professionalism whilst proceeding to rip a new anus hole in the worst possible way out of someone in front of everyone?

Some professional.

As for the armchair warrior comment, give over. I work in an office yeah but I also work with people outside all the time, I know what a stressful job is but like many, I also know how to control myself when someone does something wrong.

Bale does not have any defence in this instance for the way he acted. Even his superior (or whoever it was that came to calm the situation) is trying to reason with him to calm down...
 
Are you debating the use of my abbreviations? seriously?

DP is an industry standard abbreviation for Director of Photography, also DoP.

CB was specific, I intended that due to my typing circumstances and people knew exactly what I meant anyway so was not relevant for discussion!

If you do it again I'll ******* kill you!!! Internet is serious business!!!


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Mammalian said:
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I think you're taking it in a bit too much really. Sure people get angry BUT there is 100% no reason to swear at someone in the volume that Bale did in that audio recording.

There is No Excuse for such language, it's not like the DP stabbed him in the face or something.
 
That's also true, DPs as mentioned above can often re-adjust equipment during rehearsals etc. It only affected Bale too and nobody else from the sounds of it and he did apparently have other issues that same week so...
 
You need to read again, I said it SEEMED to from the audio clip due to the fact that nobody else was shouting other than bale and from what little information is currently known about it.

I didn't comment on your other points because I didn't feel I needed to break them apart word for word like you. I don't do the whole picking people's posts apart in an attempt to deface them, it's a forum online, not a criminal trial so I won't stoop to that kind of level.

Sorry if that offends you....or am I, I don't know as I'm apparently not intelligent enough to decide.
 
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Mammalian,

Seems like you're mixing jest with seriousness somewhat. I suggest anything in GD is taken with a pinch of salt where opinions are concerned - I know you've /only/ got 3500 posts but that's enough these days to know this by now about the OcUK forum. Or maybe it isn't....

Not everything in every thread is posted to be serious, sometimes people will read them out of context and take them the wrong way which is exactly how you're treating this.

I never assumed anything as fact. I stated my opinions based on what I heard/understood from the audio clip. I'm not wrong in my opinion because of that and the reason for the thread is to hear other peoples views on it without being insulted. It's my observation of the small amount of info known on this matter and no different to how other people have gathered their opinions and the rest of us have managed to rally each others views back and forth without having to drop to the level of intricate detail and insults you've managed to build in the last few posts alone.

Wit and humour in your posts are great but badly used in this thread because you're taking it out of context and come across as a bit of a self proclaimed know it all telling people why you think they're wrong and demanding answers through it.

Again, no offence but that's my opinion of your posts here and I won't let one person try to persuade me otherwise for having an opinion, or at least one without a reasonable debate that doesn't revolve around insults and questioning their age.

It seems you approve of how Bale reacted so I will ask why?

Like I said, there's no reason to turn into a badass and use such foul language at anyone in a work environment especially when you're swearing and shouting about being professional resulting in an immense cloud of hypocrisy. It's just not on.

Everyone goes through titty shimes at least a few times in their lives, many even every day at their jobs but you don't see them losing their cool and becoming absolute monsters that not even a 3rd party can calm down. I see it as no different to Road Rage and is an anger management issue.

Method actor or not, others in the same class as him can do it perfectly fine so what makes him more superior to be allowed to use such language at another man doing his job.
 
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Well that is correct, why would he not think of the millions of people who will be listening or watching his outburst? he's at a scene with recording equipment all going so he'd clearly know that what he says would be seen or heard by everyone and they could take it the wrong way.

'To me; it's like as many here in this thread has said, he lost his cool and went way OTT which was completely out of line (there is no denying that) to be able to think for a second about what he's actually saying to this guy and I think it's fair to say that it's his own fault that the world wide web is listening to it and thinking the worst even if there is more to it - Surely he's not bone idle to the fact that this got leaked, why doesn't he get his agent to make a statement giving the actual facts of the situation giving him suitable rights to flip out like that?

It just boggles the mind why someone of his status would act like that to another person and that's why I think he deserves the bad press he's been getting everywhere based on that audio.

Don't get me wrong, I like his films and his acting but having such an attitude in real life is not on and it doesn't help that his own family filed an assault charge against him recently.

It's not a good example to set to fans the majority of which will be kids who come across that audio when searching for Batman stuff online.

Mr Joshua said:
I couldn't find anything on you tube about Tom Cruise going off the deep end on set, do you have any links?

Probably not using the right terms :D.
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He's not gone off like Bale of course, was more thinking how they both have their own world etc - youtube Tom Cruise and Scientology as an example :eek:
 
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Mammalian said:
thank you so much for pointing it out, i thought i made it a bit too well hidden but thankfully i did not. you agree assumptions are bad? at least i didn't make a thread about it and my posts were in defense of someone rather then "attacking" bale.

out of interest do you agree with what mrk has said and think it was a fair thing to say?

and what i really love is how the assumptions the mrk has made have just been shown to be completely wrong (if the source is credible of course) by what Vanilla posted. however i hihgly doubt it will affect mrk views on bale, bale is still obviously a drama queen who doesn't care about his fans and does something thousands of other actors could do just as well etc etc.

i love how people will pick on cb (because he is better then them?) yet ignore when other people do the exact same thing, well not the exact imo it's far worse but anyway.



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What? so you agree Bale was over the line yet you disagree to me stating he was over the line on this matter and that there is no excuse for such language toward a colleague regardless of the situation? Clearly you're in your own world making your own translations of peoples posts here.

What you've just said unless your intended text was meant to be read in a different context but isn't...) is that Bale was out of line and that other actors COULD be similarly out of line yet don't? which is pretty much the whole point of the thread? so you're agreeing in one mind yet disagreeing with everything I have said about Bale being way out of line and that because of his foul language probably didn't even think of his audience in case someone leaked it out?

Good going there.

Hypocrisy 101 right here folks, popcorn at the ready etc.

It's funny how you seem to be up in arms over this, in part mainly to my posts though whilst everyone else is throwing their opinions about happily. Do you have an issue here? Are you in some ways a Bale fanboy?

No need to answer as I already have my mind made up about those.
 
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I don't need to explain myself for any reason whatsoever so will not do so any further than this post to you, keep that in mind because it's clear you still don't get it that Bale was on the heavier (wrong) side of the scale. Quite why you think he had grounds to act like that is beyond reason.

The discussion is about Bale's outburst of a highly unprofessional nature whilst that outburst was a complaint about someone else being unprofessional - Two wrongs do not make a right and I have a problem with that kind of person so there is no need to have to explain to you why I think it's wrong because it just is both logically and morally, end of.
 
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I think then it's equally fair to jump on Bale because of the way he jumped on the DP then because clearly it's acceptable to do so according to you, let's call him a big **** and f this and f that - that would be very professional and grown up of us to do that. Afterall Bale did it so it must be fine.

Let's not give him the benefit of the doubt and tell him off lightly for using such bad language, let's not speak to him or about him like normal people.

See what I'm getting at?

If you're moaning at the people who are moaning at Bale yet at the same time condone his actions toward the DP then you're as equally a hypocrite as him, no two ways about that.
 
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