Christian Bale is intense

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Behind the scenes of Terminator Salvation

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The incident was audiotaped, and it’s amazing. It happened on the set after a director of photography accidentally ruined a scene by walking onto the set. Bale lost it, screaming, yelling and threatening to quit if the bosses didn’t fire the dude. Film execs sent the tape to the insurance company that insured the film in case Bale bailed.

Gotta love the behind the scenes stories esp when they are the bad ones.

Bale may have went a bit over the top but it’s still funny.

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This is what happens when you do a movie with Herzog, you KINSKI out.

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Also, you can totally see that McG is a tool.

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If the Director of Photography walked onto the set during a shot he deserves more abuse than that. Seriously.

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I think Bale’s been doing research for a Buddy Rich biopic.

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I don’t understand what the DP is doing walking around during a scene. If cameras are rolling and he’s strolling around, that’s…weird.

Too bad he couldn’t call Bale on his threats and keep his career, though.

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I’d like to hear Hurlbut’s side, because it doesn’t sound like he’s walking in front of the camera. It sounds like he may have been out of camera range but within Bale’s eyeline in the scene - he’s talking about how Hurlbut is walking behind Bryce Dallas Howard.

Of course it wouldn’t be the first time a DP was unaware that camera were rolling and walked into a scene, especially if a set is chaotic or has poor communication. It’s possible that a take ended but McG kept rolling into the next take and Hurlbut didn’t know, for instance.

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Could be any number of things. But even if that’s the case, that he’s walking around in what ended up being Bale’s eyeline to check a light (as he seems to be saying) I don’t get why he’s doing it instead of having someone else stand by to tweak as soon as the action cuts. Even if McG had them roll straight through to another take, I’d expect the DP to know what’s up.

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With the way Bale reacts, that couldn’t have been the first time the DP screwed him up.

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Bale’s a well known asshole.

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Whatever the true story, I thought Bale’s accent going in and out with the level of rage was fascinating.

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Wow. I like how he slips back into his American accent when he’s closer to saying “let’s do it again.”

Sounds like the DP had messed something up already. He says something about “that’s the second time you’ve wandered into a shot.”

And I’d say judging by what we can hear, sounds like it had more to do with eyeline rather than actually being in the frame.

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Originally Posted by devincf View Post Bale’s a well known asshole.

And in that respect, this could be a show of force aimed at folks other than the DP. McG is certainly the one who looks the worst in this scenario.

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Originally Posted by Russ Fischer View Post And in that respect, this could be a show of force aimed at folks other than the DP. McG is certainly the one who looks the worst in this scenario.

There’s stuff I don’t want to talk about on a public forum, but yeah. I’m surprised there weren’t more blow ups on this set.

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It’s still fucking strange that a DP would be venturing that far from the camera at any moment when there is any chance that cameras are rolling. It’s not quite that Kuato + Guy-attached-to-Kuato relationship that the Cam Op has with the camera… but still weird.

Bale seems to have needed to cool his shit, but I’ve heard worse things yelled at lower ranked people for less stupid shit on student thesis sets. On a 100m+ set? That’s nearly unthinkable. I can only imagine the context of this whole thing.

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Originally Posted by Russ Fischer View Post McG is certainly the one who looks the worst in this scenario.

I kept waiting for McG to speak up but he doesn’t even say anything until Bale asks him a question. He just lets Bale rip the guy up.

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Yeah, the clip makes McG look the worst. I’m very interested in hearing more stories. Are they about Bale being an asshole or McG loosing control of his set again?

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It’s not often I get a snippet of unedited behind the scenes like this.

Interesting stuff.

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Bale sounds drunk. McG sounds tiny. DP sounds Fuck my life.

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“NO, NOOOO!!”

Just shove your tail between your legs and take it, and possibly get fired. What can you do?