Remix!

I can understand the frustration if someone kept walking onto a set and distrupting the scene numerous times. Also if it was the end of a long day of filming.

But to go on and on and on and on like that, well, he's also making it all take longer by carrying on for so damn long!

purplesweat said:

It was only 3 minutes.

JustErin said:

You think he's hot, don't you?

purplesweat said:

It was only 3 minutes.

Remix!

purplesweat said:

It was only 3 minutes.

also, from Harry Knowles who has emailing moles on every genre film set:

"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. "
"Bale yelled, because talking CALMLY to this DP didn't seem to sink in. He had told him MULTIPLE TIMES. Told his director MULTIPLE TIMES. And the putz kept tweaking the lights during action, and in this case during the peak moment of what he felt was the character's key scene.

As for "HITTING HIS MOTHER" - that's disproven gossip. His mother and sister, who he is estranged from, showed up at his hotel room drunk and screaming about wanting money. He was verbally abusive, never laying a hand on them, wanting them to leave him and his child in peace.

Folks - think about this. Think about Bale as one of us. Do you have a family member that's a fucking embarrassment? Have you ever screamed at a parent, a friend, someone you know who is being fucking obnoxious? That's what happened between Bale and his Mother/Sister. And in this situation, I personally hold McG responsible for not having his crew locked down during a very emotionally tough scene, where a very serious actor was doing very serious work."

Dear Hollywood Actor,

Whatever job-related irk you're currently crying about, stop it - grow up and take those minor professional niggles on the chiselled, ruggedly stubble-flecked, gobsmackingly overpaid chin. After all, were you to step back, take a deep breath and behave like a genuine Earth mammal for five seconds, you'd probably remember that life hasn't actually dealt you a very tricky hand, all things considered.

Now, Mr Bale, I do appreciate that it's annoying to have to engage in 'do overs' at work, but we all have to do it. The phone has rung twice while I've been writing this, for example - and yet so far I have somehow managed to resist screaming and swearing in a bizarre Transatlantic accent at the person on the other end, despite the fact I am earning considerably less than you and as such have less of an obligation to my employers to act reasonably. You must calm down, or you'll end up having to go back to make-up and have your hair all smoothed down and that big pulsing vein on your temple re-powdered.

In addition, while not wanting to brag about my own awesome powers of Zen, I should point out that I didn't actually choose my career based on the number of times I would have to repeat the same 90-second task. You, on the other hand, have climbed over huge piles of your former peers in order to actively pursue a line of work for which the multiple 'do over' pretty much is the job. So just suck it up, old chap. Your bank balance should be your consolation, not spittle-flecked berating of fragile mortals.

Obviously, all my soothing words of advice are meaningless if the interrupted take really was so gilded by genius, so fleetingly and heart-rendingly connective and of-the-moment as to be utterly unrepeatable a second time around. However, I suspect you were in fact in the middle of yelling something like "Oh no, here comes Terminator again, you run off and I'll fight him a bit more" at a gigantic blue screen, and as such I don't think you've really earned the right to tear strips off the people working their arses off and squandering their significant creative talents on making you look more handsome, cool and dynamic than the rest of us.

Cheers,
A Normal.

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papaaisaway said:

That line is GENIUS

The rest is insulting, predictable and just blah

No more insulting and predictable than Bale's rant.

JoeTyler said: