Saturday, June 13, 2009

In Praise Of Christian Bale

He may be a prima donna when it comes to people screwing up his eye line during filming, but the more I see of Christian Bale's craft, the more I think that the end result is all worth it.

We just watched Rescue Dawn and it was yet another great performance by Mr Bale. He and several of the other actors in the movie lost a ton of weight for some of the later scenes in it, but that's just one aspect of the overall effect. In his lead role as Dieter Dengler he's riveting in his ability to hold your attention right from the first scene.

For Lost fans, there are a couple of special treats. The actors who play Dr Pierre Chang and Daniel Faraday both make appearances, though sadly not together.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bale was about the only redeeming factor of Terminator: Salvation.

Don Hey said...

I recommend that you see Bale in The Machinist if you haven't yet. Wow.