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[Gianakin_]

I highly enjoyed the interview. Man's got some balls. I'm talking about Bale, of course.

 

[Caped Crusader]

Alright I have some crazy news for everyone!!! So please take it with a grain of salt. She’s not a reporter… I repeat she’s NOT a reporter, but a freaking secretary working at WB. She told me that the female villain is HARLEY QUINN. I asked her how is it possible without the Joker. Then she goes on saying something about her BFF seducing Bruce Wayne. Then I told her she‘s full of ****, because the Joker is not a freaky bisexual clown. Afterward she was laughing hysterically. GO FIGURE!!!

 

[Bat-Mite]

Because I prefer the Joker to be alone. I like to think of the Joker as someone even the greatest freaks of Gotham want to stay clear from, as shown in the recent Batman: Under the Red Hood. The Joker is way too unpredictable and bat-s**t insane to let someone like Harley tag along with him for so long. Frankly, I'm surprised, given the Joker's characterization, that he doesn't outright kill her for some silly screw up or just because he doesn't like the way she's dressed or the shade of her makeup or some other trivial reason like that. Harley is the one thing that really drags Hamil's Joker from TAS for me. And that episode in which she upstages Batman's greatest villain? Ugh, I felt like punching Timm and Dini in the face for that.

I understand what you're saying, but he constantly beats and mistreats her, and he has tried to kill her on numerous occasions. He only feigns affection for her when he needs her to do something for him, and he pretty consistently abandons her to the mercy of the authorities while he makes his escape. It's not like they're the Lucy and Ricky of Gotham. I have to admit that I might be a little conditioned to liking her, though, because I grew up with her and she was one of my favorite characters. I also don't think it's that far fetched that she could upstage him by learning from him, since she obsesses over him and worships his every move. It's not like she's actually the one that came up with the plan in that episode, she just thought of a way to improve upon it and make it work.

It still wouldn't make sense to have her in this upcoming movie, though.

 

[Caped Crusader]

That interview was weird & funny.

Spoiler

 

[Seen]

Love him or hate him, the man has balls.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Oddly enough, I actually like Christian Bale MORE after reading that interview.

 

[Seen]

Oddly enough, I actually like Christian Bale MORE after reading that interview.

Agreed.

 

[Bat-Mite]

Not exactly news, but this is the strangest interview I've ever read...

Bale speaks to Esquire, mentions Batman briefly:
http://www.esquire.com/features/christian-bale-interview-1210

An interview where he goes on and on about how he doesn't like talking about himself! Hilarious. I'd probably be the same way, though.

"It's something that shouldn't just be handed out as an extra on a DVD. It should be sought out by serious potential filmmakers who wanna learn how to do it.

Somebody tells me I "should read Dickens," I'll be f****d if I'm ever gonna pick up Dickens. That word should just kills it. I'll never feel a personal connection to it."

....What the hell?

 

[returntovoid]

I figured the post was a clever parody of senseless "scoops".

Then he went offline right after posting, must be too scared to face other users....

 

[baleheadbrasil]

Not exactly news, but this is the strangest interview I've ever read...

Bale speaks to Esquire, mentions Batman briefly:
http://www.esquire.com/features/christian-bale-interview-1210

Yeah I´m reading this right now...
I love Christian!!!

 

[Boom]

Reading that interview, I am all the more convinced that Christian Bale is stark, raving mad.

 

[Symbiotic]

*reads Bale interview* The hell's his problem?

 

[AllyBabble]

Somebody tells me I "should read Dickens," I'll be f****d if I'm ever gonna pick up Dickens. That word should just kills it. I'll never feel a personal connection to it."

....What the hell?

You've never had that? Where various people over the years have tried to push a certain writer or book onto you, and you get pissed off that they are so insistent and therefore don't want to pick the thing up at all, ever, in the history of the frickin universe will i ever read that frickin book. It's like being subjected to an ad campaign so much it puts you off the product. I'm like that with 'Catch-22', no way am i ever going to read that frickin book as my friends kept going on about it and how i should read it and how frickin funny it is, no chance will i ever read that book, lol.
and the thing about the personal connection is that they have pushed it on you so much that it will always be *their* book , and you will never have the joy of discovering it yourself, you will always have thier ad campaign in the back of your mind when you are reading it.

i loved the interview, my fav random line was when he said actors are like mushrooms cooking or whatever it was.

 

[hatebox]

Incidentally I'd recommend checking out that Nicholson film The Passenger that the interviewer mentions. That particular interview scene is the best part.

That article also reminded me of the 'Journalist and the Murderer' essay, which suggests a lot of journos only care about their career rather than the subject.

 

[Bat-Mite]

You've never had that? Where various people over the years have tried to push a certain writer or book onto you, and you get pissed off that they are so insistent and therefore don't want to pick the thing up at all, ever, in the history of the frickin universe will i ever read that frickin book. It's like being subjected to an ad campaign so much it puts you off the product. I'm like that with 'Catch-22', no way am i ever going to read that frickin book as my friends kept going on about it and how i should read it and how frickin funny it is, no chance will i ever read that book, lol.

No, I totally get that. My thing with it was that he was saying "it should be sought out by serious potential filmmakers..." and then in the very next line, he goes on about how if someone tells you should do something, that just ruins it.

 

[Travesty]

I like Christian Bale as an actor, but I'm not a fan of him at all. I think I'll skip any new interview of his that doesn't deal with Batman.

 

[Seen]

Batman-News was referenced as a source thanks to Garth Franklin and Dark Horizons. Pretty exciting! Franklin talks about all the news stories circulating The Dark Knight Rises lately and how most of them amounted to nothing.

 

[AllyBabble]

No, I totally get that. My thing with it was that he was saying "it should be sought out by serious potential filmmakers..." and then in the very next line, he goes on about how if someone tells you should do something, that just ruins it.

Ah right, ok, but i don't think the two statements correlate or contradict each other just because he uses the same word.
In the first remark all he is saying is that some of the mystery of film should be preserved, and that kind of thing would be more of a benefit to film students, and perhaps detremental to an average audience member's viewing experience as they might have the experience ruined by thinking about all the nuts and bolts during the film, and not immerse themselves into the illusion quite so well.
So, when he says 'should' there, he is not pushing it onto aspiring filmakers, he is using the word to illustrate who the footage should be for exclusively in his opinion. Same word, different meaning in context.

 

[lililatigresse]

I can't help but like Christian Bale. He seems wierd but I think he's a nice guy, just misunderstood.

 

[StorminNorman]

I prefer Christian Bale as a person to Christian Bale as an actor, and I think quite highly of his talents on screen.

 

[TheFuture]

Not exactly news, but this is the strangest interview I've ever read...

Bale speaks to Esquire, mentions Batman briefly:
http://www.esquire.com/features/christian-bale-interview-1210

First page is weird, but the rest of the interview is fine. That's just a bloke being himself rather than giving the answers "he's meant to give." Want that **** go to Will Smith or Tom Cruise.

 

[StorminNorman]

*reads Bale interview* The hell's his problem?

I fail to see a problem. To me it was the interviewer who was a bit...dickish.

 

[scifiwolf]

Christian Bale's a fan of Beverly Hills Ninja and Chris Farley in general. Normality achieved.

 

[hegele]

BALE: I'm still singing and dancing and happy. I just don't like musicals, that's all.
ESQUIRE: Or romantic comedies, I hear.
BALE: I just don't find them very romantic or funny much of the time.
ESQUIRE: What about Bringing Up Baby?
BALE: Is that a movie?
ESQUIRE: It's Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
BALE: I don't know it.
ESQUIRE:The Philadelphia Story?
BALE: Never seen it.
ESQUIRE:Breakfast at Tiffany's?
BALE: Never seen it.
ESQUIRE: Get the **** outta here.

I love it. Hilarious interview.
http://www.esquire.com/features/christian-bale-interview-1210-3#ixzz15MwZGwcp​

 

[Travesty]

I fail to see a problem. To me it was the interviewer who was a bit...dickish.

I see it as an interviewer interviewing, and Bale being a bit....dickish. An interviewers job is to ask questions, and a part of being an actor, is having to be interviewed. But, it seems Bale hates that part of his job, and starts complaining about it, putting the interviewer in an awkward position.

I have clients from my job that I absolutely hate, but I man up and do my job, instead of being a dick towards them. I just see Bale as being a bit bratty about it all. I understand that part of being an actor (interviewed) probably sucks, but he has a pretty cushy job that pays extremely well, and he's lucky to be where he's at. He just needs to man up, and do an interview, instead of being a dick about it.