Christian Bale is my hero

A couple of years ago, my paralegal at the time didn't follow my instructions in filing an appellate brief in an appeal from a $$$$$$$ lawsuit. That screw-up could have gotten our brief bounced and basically dropped us out of the appeal. I'm pretty sure my profanity-laced tirade didn't last 4 minutes, but I'm still here and the paralegal is not. That tirade, however, was my one and only.

I've heard f-bomb filled tirades in every law firm I've worked in going back to the early '90s when I was a mail clerk at a big law firm during college. It usually meant that someone was getting fired. I have as yet to see the yelling lawyer be the one to get fired.

With respect to Christian Bale, a family member worked on the set of one of his recent movies and she said he was a perfect gentleman until you got in the way of his work. Apparently he takes his work very seriously. I don't know the guy, but from what I know of him, I'm willing to believe what's in elguapo's link.

And, texas_ex2000, I'm not saying you're lying, but I was on a military base as a consultant in a legal matter a few years ago and I saw a guy screaming in the face of another guy and it was the kind of stuff that I'd be embarrassed to repeat. Maybe you've just been incredibly lucky that no one where you've worked, whether it be military or Wall Street, has ever screwed up badly enough to get yelled at for a few minutes.
 
There is a huge difference between a disciplinary hearing like Captains Mast or, in the Army an article 15 hearing, and what goes on in the field or the motor pool. Soldier and sailors screw things up on a daily basis and NCO's rip them on a daily basis. Officers don't usually see it, because that's the way things are supposed to work.

I was the assistant training NCO in my last unit before I got out and one of the worst *** chewing I ever heard was my CO ripping one of our platoon leaders in his office next door to mine. It lasted a lot longer than 4 minutes and the language was brutal.

The only thing Bale did that very different than the situations I laid out was that he did it publicly.

He lost it. If he was in a professional environment he probably would have called the guy into a room and done it privately, but I've seen enough public ones to know that it happens in almost all environments. It is a but unprofessional to do it publicly, but it happens.

In Bale's case, he is an actor who does his work in front of large groups of people so I'm sure he never even considered doing it privately. After all, nothing he does is considered private.
 
waaaaa, christian bale yelled at me.

he can yell at whoever the **** he pleases. his name is the marquee name that will attached to that movie. if that movie busts, his reputation will take a hit. so until your *** is on the line for a multimillion dollar project, don't be a puss and cry that he yelled at someone for screwing up the scene.

and you must not have much experience in the corporate world. i've heard many a vps and my ceo rip into subordinates that f'ed up. like i said, when millions of dollars are on the line, there is no room for pleasantries.
 
He physically threatened the guy! When is screaming at colleague "I'm gonna f@#$ing kick your ***!!!" while having to be restrained acceptable?

I will give you this. While I don't consider Terminator Salvation to be art (it's a summer popcorn movie), artists, which I do consider actors to be and even Bale...but in this context I'd classify him as just a movie star, operate in a completely different universe. As an example, all the great music from the 60's and 70's pretty much came from one long high. How much judgement do we pass on these rock stars for engaging in really completely unacceptable behavior? We don't.

If Shane knew full well what he was getting into working with an actor as crazy as CB to make a great looking movie, then I don't think there's a problem. Orderlies at looney bins, Oklahoma DMV employees, prison guards...I mean they get paid to deal with that stuff and to provide a valuable service.

Yes...I am equating CB to psychopathic schizos, inmates, and the typical person in line at an Oklahoma DMV.
 
Mickey was a bit before my time. What roles did he turn down?


Also, I've worked in that industry, and very rarely have I seen that. This one guy that I worked with loved to belittle his employees and loved his job. But, his teams were pretty much always last in sales. They reassigned him.
 
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