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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 22, 2019 11:46:35 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Jul 11, 2019 23:33:13 GMT
Tim Booth of band James, who played Victor Zsasz in Batman Begins shared an anecdote involving Bale: vanyaland.com/2019/07/08/tim-booth-of-james-on-living-in-extraordinary-times-and-saving-batman/**** Q: Just a few miles from where I’m sitting right now is the hometown of Anthony Carrigan, who just wrapped up playing Victor Zsasz for five seasons on the television show Gotham, a role you took on in the movie Batman Begins. How did you come about landing that part? A: At the time I was auditioning, and I had an agent in London and he was getting me in doors. I had just played Judas in a production of The Passion of the Christ and I auditioned in front of (director) Christopher Nolan, who didn’t know who I was, and I got the part. Q: And it turned out Christian Bale is a big fan of James right? A: [Laughs] I didn’t know that. I was sitting in makeup for a couple hours a day getting scarred up and on the fourth day, and I’m looking in the mirror and in full regalia, Christian stands behind me and goes “Are you Tim Booth?” and I go, “Yeah…” “From the band James?” – in full Batman voice – and I say, “Yeah…” and he goes, “Laid saved my life…it’s one of my favorite albums.” Then he walked off. And I’m sitting in the chair going, “Batman likes our music!” Whenever he was in the Batman costume he would talk like that, and when he was in the Bruce Wayne outfit I’d talk to him, thinking I was talking to Christian Bale, and then in retrospect I realize I was talking to Bruce Wayne [laughs]! I was thinking, “God, what a strange accent he has…that’s not what I expected at all.” And I realized he stayed in character on set the whole time. ****
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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 24, 2020 1:35:48 GMT
Should have posted this way earlier. Always funny!
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 6, 2021 1:39:48 GMT
Wow. This is priceless! www.themarysue.com/talk-like-batman-day/"It’s Officially “International Talk Like Batman Day” in Kelowna, British Columbia By Glen TickleApr 4th, 2013, 12:15 pm A petition on the Internet is usually about as useful to a cause as doing absolutely nothing, but sometimes they can affect real change. That was the case in Kelowna, British Columbia when a local radio station petitioned the Mayor’s office to declare today, April 4th, “International Talk Like Batman Day.” For some reason the Mayor agreed, and we now live in a world where “International Talk Like Batman Day” is a real thing. It’s not the holiday we deserve, but it’s the one we need right now. The online petition was started by radio hosts Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu from 99.9 Sun FM in Kelowna, and according to a blog post on the station site they had hundreds of signatures. When they submitted the petition to Mayor Walter Gray, he used the opportunity to show his city that it’s not who he is underneath, but what he does that defines him, and he made a proclamation stating that today is the day where people around the world can talk like winded gravely-voiced vigilantes. After The Dark Knight movies came out everyone quickly developed their own imitation of Christian Bale’s Batman voice, but in case you need some tips, Lim put together this video explaining how you can best talk like Batman: You know who’s probably really excited for “International Talk Like Batman Day?” Abed Nadir."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 6, 2021 6:42:14 GMT
The YouTube video mentioned in the International Talk Like Batman Day news piece above:
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 8, 2021 1:30:54 GMT
Very nice write up on Batman, Watches and Bale (part of a general Watches in Pop Culture piece this year): www.gq-magazine.co.uk/watches/article/batman-watch"This watch is the perfect match for Batman and Bruce Wayne By Cam Wolf 13 May 2020 One side is elegant—the other is practically unbreakable. Welcome to Watches of the Week, quarantine edition. With celebrities staying home, we’re calling in friends and experts to share their favorite pieces from pop culture’s past and present. What makes a good Batman? The voice, of course, is important. Looks, too: an actor needs the hair to pull off the debonair Bruce Wayne, and the chin to look just as handsome while wearing the cowl. For Eric Wind, the owner of Wind Vintage, it’s also the watch. There are endless watches that could capture business playboy Wayne’s elegant side, and just as many to go with his badass Batman persona, but few can seamlessly live in both worlds. The Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso does just that—it’s designed with a dial the wearer can rotate with a blank but indestructible steel shell. “It’s an appropriate choice given that it flips over and changes its identity like Batman with his mask,” says Wind. So while all things Bat—mobile, cave, suit, and -arang—have changed over the years, the watch has stayed the same since Val Kilmer played the part. Below, Wind walks us through his other favourite watches seen on U.S. presidents, iconic comedians, and Crazy Rich Asians. - Christian Bale’s Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Grande Date 8 Days in Batman Begins When you think about it, the Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso is the perfect watch for Batman. Gotham’s hero has two sides to him: elegant billionaire Bruce Wayne and hardened vigilante Batman. The Reverso also has two sides to it: elegant timekeeping on one and on the other a hardened shell, built to sustain a whack from a polo mallet and keep on ticking. “Imagine if he had to quickly change into his suit,” says Wind. “He could just flip the watch over and cover it. [Watches] are either tough like a Rolex or they're elegant, like a Patek Philippe, and the Reverso bridges the divide.”
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 1, 2021 4:10:39 GMT
Wallace Walla, Washington:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 9, 2021 15:49:47 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 18, 2021 10:32:58 GMT
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