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Apr302009
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 8:16AM Bale Talks and Talks about 'Terminator' Outburst
When the Christian Bale tantrum audio was leaked online a couple of months ago, I think everyone was taken aback by how long and repetitive it was. Sure, it was profane and incredibly rude, but man, how long can that point be dragged out?
“I do stress though, it’s not in anyway a trust that’s there to cover up bad behavior. It’s not about that. It’s an essential trust that’s needed for creativity. I just don’t think it’s in anyone’s interest to know that much, either. I’m actually someone that’s very anti- the whole B-Rolls, DVD extras, and stuff like that.""I understand people are interested, I get that they want to hear about it, but to me I look at it as old school movie magic and with magic you do not reveal your secrets. I’m not making any excuses. I’m not whining. I’m not going ‘Oh well, if it hadn’t have been for that!’ But it’s that. It’s a creative trust. It’s not a behavioral trust.” I'm checking for a pulse on that horse he just flogged over and over again...nope. This one's dead all right. Here's the deal, in all seriousness: If you say you're not making excuses, then stop making excuses. Stop distorting it into another thing altogether. What good does it do to blame somebody else for any part of this? How does that make what you did any better? For a guy who wants to keep everything about making movies a secret, Bale sure seems to have no problem talking about the sacred bond on set...so long as somebody else breaks it. Just knock it off.
Reader Comments (13)
Nail on the head hit as usual Colin. I'd have thought Bale moved on from this too as it seems in his best interest to do so. If someone else wants to drag it out in time for his new flick let them and then simply issue a "no comment" or "I've already spoken on that". Let others look the ass for trying to stir up old news in other words. That he revisits the issue without any apparent prompting makes one think he protests too much that perhaps he is that hot head always at the ready to blow after all.
Yes I agree he shouldn't be dragging this issue out, but once the movie promotion we all knew this was the only thing people would really want to talk about. I don't really think he's trying to make excuses I think he's just trying to express his feelings on the matter and I do agree that the sound guys shouldn't have still been recording. Just as I think this audio should never have leak to the media. Trust was broken. Its in the same broken trust category that the makers of Wolverine just had to go through with someone on their crew releasing the unfinished movie onto the net.
No, it's entirely different from Wolverine, because that's theft, it's one of the major issues facing the entire industry, and it had never happened to a movie of that size so early in the process. It's also different because nobody from the cast of Wolverine has to atone for their own shortcomings because the movie was leaked. It's not like Ryan Reynolds posted it online.
Colin I understand that they are different and that's not what I was saying. I'm saying a member of the crew broke the trust of everyone involved by trying to make a profit off their work or their embarrassing moment. Its not exactly the same but it is similar. If there were no gossip sites like TMZ or UTube networks then there would not have been any way of making a profit off either of these products. Also as I've started reading other sites posts of this interview it dose not surprise me one bit that most of them, yourself included are only commenting on this one part of the article. Which I know you can't just copy and post the entire story on your page, but he dose talk about more than just this subject. But why would we want to discuss that, it's not the juicy stuff. My feeling is if everyone else would stop dragging it up to the surface then maybe it would dye off and I think, well I hope that this will be the only interview he'll do on the subject.
Of course the guilt of the crime is not on the perpetrator but on the guy that happens to film it.
Someone needs a refresher curse in media training. Some acting classes wouldn't go amiss either.
Blueyes -
Nobody associated with the production leaked the audio. The producers submitted it to their insurance company because Batman threatened to quit the project if the director of photography wasn't fired. You know, because he was being a baby.
So the only reason the audio exists is that the producers needed to have ammo if Bale walked. The leak came from outside the production.
Also, he's not quoted by Total Film on any other subject but the outburst.
If you say so, i have the article from the total film mag at home and I have read it. He talks about a 3rd Batman movie and Public Enemies as well as Terminator. But I guess because I don't have my own web site to post my one sided opioions on I #1 must not know how to read and #2 be completly wrong because you say so. Thanks for the insight but I guess I won't post again on this site if my opioion is going to make you so pissy. Man now I know how Bale must feel, and this is just one site.
I've worked as a sound guy for many years and can say yes, there is an unwritten code of honor that most sound guys follow that says that whatever they hear through the headphones when the cameras are not rolling is to be kept to themselves.
But I also know plenty of sound guys that collect little nuggets of soundbytes like Christian Bale's tirade and hold onto them like gold, sharing them with other audio guys who are doing the same thing.
And this was not about the recordist on the film. As I have read it, the studio wanted to make sure that they were covered if Bale decided to jump ship on the movie altogether. So they acquired the recording for evidence.
If the recordist really leaked the audio clip, I really cant blame him too much. Yes, he broke a rule about recording people, but if you are a major actor and you go off the deep end that loudly and that long on a set filled with cast and crew, you really deserve everything you get from your bratty, crybaby attitude.