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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 23, 2019 2:16:56 GMT
Liked this analysis from our Movie Redux board (carry over from IMDb's Oscar Awards board) of Bale's possible 2nd Oscar win:
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Leaning Bale here, would not be surprised by Cooper getting something here though or Malek.
Bale is in some ways defining his historical turf - that would be 2 Oscars for 2 tour de forces, with physical body changes a la De Niro.....the only British actors with 2 Oscars where at least one is for Lead would be DDL and Bale (I think?) - that's quite elite company if accurate........if he wins it, people who enjoy hating on the dude are going to be hating on the wrong side of history it seems to me because he's just tremendous in a mediocre film..........he's playing a monster too - that puts him in that recent DDL sphere for lead wins, that's not easy to do........it's quite a feat to do that these days."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 23, 2019 23:21:06 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 8, 2019 23:47:27 GMT
An analysis of Bale's talents as an immigrant actor ... Interesting, to say the least ... www.ft.com/content/6ed0b45e-29fd-11e9-88a4-c32129756dd8 Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at www.ft.com/tour. www.ft.com/content/6ed0b45e-29fd-11e9-88a4-c32129756dd8Excerpt regarding Bale: You are not far into an article about Christian Bale before he is likened to a chameleon. You are not far into Vice before you understand how stingily that cross-species comparison short-changes him. All the lazy, good-for-nothing reptile does is switch colour, whereas Bale, as an emaciated insomniac in The Machinist, or as a muscular yuppie in American Psycho, or as Dick Cheney in Vice, which might bear him an Oscar later this month, appears to mutate at the cellular level. Credit to the cosmetics team for padding the Tatar severity of those blade-like cheekbones with vice-presidential flab, but it is his acting that elevates an uneven, didactic film. That Bale has a fair shout as Hollywood’s most consistently persuasive changeling is plain enough. The mystery is how. He has, in his own words, “no training”, let alone in Stanislavski’s Method. The search for an answer runs bare, until you realise that circumstances compelled him to be flexible at an early age. Audiences forget — or never know, because he rations his interviews — that he is British by birth and upbringing. He moved to the US as a teenager, and his off-screen accent is still nearer the UK average (“mouth” is “mowf”) than the Emily Blunt-Tom Hiddleston troupe that are more often embraced as soft-power ambassadors for the nation. Leaving the cinema, unnerved for the fifth or sixth time this century at Bale’s sinister plausibility, I wonder if nativists and xenophobes have a point. To be an immigrant does confer at least one unfair advantage in life.
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Post by RhodoraO on Jun 6, 2019 5:38:45 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Aug 31, 2019 5:28:03 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 28, 2021 0:41:59 GMT
From a 2013 article on the degree to which various actors work in their Native Accents: www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/12/christian-bale-and-actors-who-work-least-their-native-accents/355879/Christian Bale: 15% Bale is a strong example of an actor who very rarely plays characters who are from where he's from. That'd be the UK. In his last 20 films, Bale has played Brits only three times: The Prestige, The New World, and Reign of Fire. Sixteen other times, he's played Americans. Once, he played a Greek, but it's not polite to talk about Captain Corelli's Mandolin. And he's trending ever more American, including every one of his last ten roles. Batman played a big part in this trend, but even now that he's placed the cowl on the shelf, he continues to work within the muddy flatness of American English. Which accent he chooses to indulge in as Moses in Ridley Scott's upcoming Exodus could be a streak-breaking question.
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