The Dark Knight Scowls
So I’m really trying to do this blogging thing right off the cuff in an effort to make regular posts and have consistent activity – here goes. Most people I assume have heard of the recent “gossip” of Christian Bale’s outburst on the set of the new Terminator 4 movie. Alot of the feedback that I’ve heard from friends is that they are disgusted by his conduct and lost respect for him, a few have even taken the step of tweeting and setting their Facebook status to “Batman/Christian Bale is a <insert expletive>”.
I have to say in some ways I’m not surprised by the public reaction. Listening to the actor’s tirade at the unfortunate man, on it’s own, sounds like a moment of anger, which is exactly that – a moment.
Christian Bale has been known to be quite a private person. The thing that bothers me is how people have been quick to judge him on a moment, that when put in perspective, could be explained rationally, though not necessarily excusable. In all truth, I’m sure once in their life everybody has had an uncontrolled outburst when the stress got too much, when their passion and focus was distracted or had to unleash their stress and anger at something or somebody and rant. It’s just at this time, somebody in the public light has had this moment recorded and exposed to the public. Who knows? Maybe if Christian Bale was a more public personality and had a more public friendly image that most of the feedback from the press and public would be of sympathy for his work. At the end of the day, it’s a moment in his many minutes of work and it should be taken as that, a moment. This was certainly not the first time in the history of film that an actor/actress had broken out in a rant at one of staff whilst on set. For me, such sensationalism is not worthy of news and almost not worthy of my time blogging. 
