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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 21:40:17 GMT
Nolan's fascination with Bale?
This interesting observation from a Nolan interview was posted at the IMDb board during the Interstellar promos:
MinimallyTalentedSpoiledBrat:
I just read an article on the most awkward moments of some movie journalists during an interview .
A journalist explained that during Interstellar's promotion ,he said to Chris Nolan " in Inception,I thought that Cillian Murphy looked like Christian Bale. In Memento,Guy Pearce looked like Bale.In Intetstellar,it is obvious that McConaughey l..." A blushing laughing and a little ashamed Nolan interrupted him "My editor didn't stop to repeat it during the editing "
Interesting! Now I remember coming across an interview like that somewhere. I will search for it later and post it here.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 19, 2017 15:34:15 GMT
Keanu Reeves once admitted that he tried out for the parts of Wolverine and Batman but missed out. About the Batman role he said: 'I always wanted to play The Dark Knight, but I didn’t get that one. They’ve had some great Batmans. So now I’m just enjoying them as an audience.'He said that he no longer gets studio offers. According to him, "it sucks, but it's just the way it is."
This interview is, however, from 2014, before John Wick. With this month's massive success of John Wick 2, I think that could change in the future. He's real nice guy too and very charismatic and talented for his niche so I really hope he can headline studio flicks again. Link: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2811144/Keanu-Reeves-admits-missing-playing-Wolverine-Batman.html
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 28, 2017 3:15:47 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 1, 2017 4:04:56 GMT
Remember last year when Bale expressed his fear that he 'didn't quite nail it' as Batman? The Guardian's Ben Child wrote this response to that and compared all the onscreen Batmen (Affleck's film hadn't been released till then). Here's the relevant excerpts: Why Christian Bale will always be the best BatmanIt’s hard to remember what a shock to the system Bale’s debut turn as Batman was in 2005: the Welsh-born actor – for better or for worse – almost single-handedly forced Hollywood to take superheroes seriously. Batman Begins arrived in cinemas at a time when studios were largely clueless as to how to realise comic book material on the big screen. It gave us the caped crusader’s first proper origins story, and didn’t shy away from the grim reality of Bruce Wayne’s angst-ridden existence. Bale gave us a Batman we could believe in, in more ways than one.
Crucially the character is never overplayed: Bale may wish he had mined the horrors of the dark knight’s ruined soul more thoroughly across the Nolan trilogy, but Heath Ledger’s razor-edged Joker was always going to need a less flamboyant foil. Bale’s performance levels dipped slightly for the final instalment, The Dark Knight Rises, but his jaded, late-era Bats is still head and shoulders above any of his rivals. Critics always mention the silly gruff voice, yet it’s really just a clever way of maintaining one’s secret identity while scaring the bejesus out of more fragile opponents.
Costume: 9/10 Batmobile: 7/10 Fear factor: 9/10 Overall Batpower: 9/10Comparing Bale to Keaton: ... [W]hen Keaton steps into his “mini-Bats” outfit, he simply isn’t all that scary. Bale haters will disagree here, but who would you rather meet on a dark night?
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 2, 2017 16:00:55 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 3, 2017 23:20:33 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 4, 2017 7:27:24 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 4, 2017 7:30:36 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 4, 2017 7:32:59 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 5, 2017 15:35:42 GMT
Gotham city is a terrible place to live, especially ever since " a progressive new generation of comics creators decided that imperiling the entire city was a much more compelling way of engaging Batman than, say, the exploding mice of Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club", according to a just-for-fun Vulture article. Read on for a ranking of the 11 Worst Things to Ever Happen to Gotham City!
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 5, 2017 15:41:25 GMT
A pre-TDKR think-piece on the future of Batman: www.fotorater.com/film/2012/05/is-there-anyone-who-can-replace-christian-bale-as-batman/Is there anyone who can replace Christian Bale as Batman? by MARC CAMERON on May 3, 2012
It only hit the web on Monday evening, yet the world is still talking about the brilliance of the third and final trailer for Christopher Nolan’s last Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.
On the evidence of the trailer alone, it seems that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were both mere foreplay for what will be Nolan’s final and most mindblowing moment in the Batman trilogy. But, what few people are discussing, probably because they’re still so focused on the trailer, is that this will be Christian Bale’s last outing as The Caped Crusader. And given his and Nolan’s successful collaboration over the past few films, making Bale the first billion dollar Batman, it raises the question – is there anyone who can replace Christian Bale as The Dark Knight?
Bale was always the right choice to play Batman, a role he’d been in consideration for long before Batman Begins hit the cinema screen in 2005. His unforgettable portrayals of the psychotic murderer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho and the haunted insomniac Trevor Reznik in The Machinist, clearly demonstrated Bale had the versatility to take on the complex dual persona of Bruce Wayne.
The Oscar-winning British actor has been nothing short of superb as Bruce Wayne/Batman, bringing an intensity and darkness that was much-needed for a superhero whose quest for justice is driven by the murder of his parents as a child.
Bale, alongside Christopher Nolan, has given the franchise the credibility films fans had long desired since Tim Burton stepped down from directing Batman movies.
Though The Dark Knight Rises is due to be the third and final Batman film, Bale may well call it a day, but there will no doubt be calls for another Caped Crusader movie, if the film turns out to be every bit as good as the trailer promises it to be. In this day and age, money talks.
And then there’s the internet rumours that Batman’s next appearance on celluloid will be in a movie version of the Justice League, something that will now be seen as even more of a good idea given the commercial success of The Avengers. But who could take over from Bale as Batman? And given what Nolan and Bale have achieved with the trilogy, could Batman ever be just a co-star? He’s too big for that now, surely?
The Dark Knight made over $1bn at the box office, and the latest outing looks set to break the £$1bn threshold, too, with the potential to go on to be the most financially successful film of all time. So, taking that into consideration, could you really relegate the character of Batman to a supporting role? Having major superheroes such as Thor, Captain America and Iron Man alongside each other worked in Avengers Assemble, but none of the individual Marvel superhero films have generated near as much revenue or excitement as the Batman trilogy has – thanks largely to presence of Bale and the directing of Nolan. And with the Green Lantern failing with critics and at the box office, only Henry Cavill’s Superman in Man of Steel could potentially provide a decent co-star for Batman, at this stage. So, another solo outing for Batman may be the most likely outcome, but without Bale in the protagonist role, it just wouldn’t be the same.
If we’re going to go there, imagining who could possibly replace Bale, Brit born actor Charlie Hunnam has been doing sterling work in Sons of Anarchy, bringing a dark brooding intensity to his role as Jackson Teller. And Ryan Gosling has the ability to portray Batman in a different light. But even then, we’re struggling to feel entirely convinced that anyone has what it takes to fill Bale’s incredibly large Bat shoes.
What do you think? Can anyone ever replace Christian Bale as Batman? Share your thoughts and suggestions below.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 8, 2017 14:42:00 GMT
From a Will Arnett interview for LEGO Batman, he compares his Batman to Bale's: When asked by the Metro newspaper how his version differs from Bale's, he said: "I would say Lego Batman is a little less self-aware and a little more reckless. He's dark and brooding, of course. But he's also more fun. One of the things I loved about the Batman of the 1960s was the playfulness to it that sometimes I think got lost along the way."
The 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' star first voiced Lego Batman in 'The Lego Movie' and he admits playing the superhero was on his bucket list and he loves the fact he didn't have to hit the gym hard for his portrayal.
He said: "It wasn't something that had occurred to me. But it's kind of the perfect way of doing it. I didn't have to work out with a trainer, get poured into a rubber suit every day or spend eight hours in the make-up chair. I could just show up in my flip-flops and stand in front of the microphone."
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 9, 2017 4:46:36 GMT
From " Heroes vs. Stars: Revenge of the Nerds", a May, 2005 piece comparing traditional movie stars with those playing superheroes: Mr. Bale, like Mr. Maguire -- and like Eric Bana ( the Hulk) -- is a relatively skinny, serious actor with enough charisma to embody the role but without the kind of excessive individuality that would overshadow it.
The earlier Batmen -- Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney -- are perhaps the exceptions that prove the rule. Each one had already made -- or would subsequently advance -- some claim on genuine movie stardom, but their one-shot impersonations of Batman did not do much to elevate their standing. And their intense, unpredictable screen personalities -- the very idiosyncrasies that would have formed the basis of lasting stardom -- seem to block our access to the fantasy of superheroism, which is based on psychological transparency. Movie stars are glamorous creatures we dream of meeting someday, while superheroes are the people we secretly believe we really are.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 10, 2017 3:10:54 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 11, 2017 8:40:17 GMT
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