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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Christian Bale rant - so what?
The online world is all-atwitter about Christian Bale’s (insert dramatic music here) “explosive rant” on the set of Terminator Salvation. However, even though that’s a big movie, and this is a movie blog, you won’t find an attempt to analyze or exploit that video here.
Why not? The answer is simple: I don’t care.
Look, I understand there’s a certain fascination with watching a star go nuts and people like to gossip about it. If you’re into that sort of thing, check out our Celebrity Worship blog. I’m not interested.
Neither is Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News - he has a post that’s far more illuminating than any other report I’ve read about this incident.
Bale’s rant doesn’t matter one whit to me. It doesn’t affect me personally in any way. It does not change my feelings about Terminator Salvation, which are that I’m curious about the film but more than a little leery given that the director is McG, who made one of my least favorite action movies, Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle.
The rant also does not change my impression that Bale is a great actor. OK, apparently he’s a bit of a hothead, but why should that matter to me or to anyone who sees his movies? I find it inevitable but extremely distasteful that this episode dredged up his arrest last year when Bale had a domestic dispute.
Some people may say that I’m only adding to the fire by blogging about it at all. And I suppose I am. But I do so to take a stand and make it clear that I’m only interested in this kind of news when it will seriously affect a movie or a movie star. I don’t think this “news” changes the fortunes of Bale or Terminator Salvation much at all.
People may gawk and gossip about Bale all they like, but if you’re looking for celebrity rubbernecking, you won’t find it here.
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