Weighing in on Bale

According to several of my friends, I supposedly have a man-crush on Christian Bale. I wouldn't call it a man-crush, I just think he is an amazing actor who choose very demanding roles and commits himself fully to the characters he plays. Though I would say that this statement does not necessarily apply to The Dark Knight where he was minimized, and in a post on my previous blog I stated my trepidation about him working with McG on Terminator Salvation. Other than these recent decisions, I believe he is able to complete connect a character to the viewer as view can. I am assuming eveyone has heard about his on-set rant at Director of Photography, Shane Hurlbut. Judging from Mr. Hurlbut's experience, Mr Bale may be correct in calling him out for his lack of experience on the set. Then again it may have been a long day on the set. I would post a complete version of Bale's rant on my blog, but I assume everyone has heard all of it or enough of it by now to get the idea. So, I know present some precedence to his rant, and one spoof.

First, the spoof. Here is Michael Cera adding some light-hearted humor to the situation.

Next is Billo, Bill O'Reilly, doing what he does best, rant, raving, andd flipping out over nothing.

The last example eerily parallels Bale's rant. This is Chris Berman, masterful commentator and reporter for Espn, ranting about his unprofessional staff while he is trying to do his job, present sports news. Note the comments about the unprofessionalism of people moving in the background and how distracting this is, the same complaint Bale launch against Hurlbut.