That tape wouldn't exist if I were in that situation because the minute it happened I would've knocked all his teeth down his F'n mouth.
I have five black belts across three Martial Arts, and I'm pretty sure Christian Bale could still beat me to death.
If you make him upset, he'll find you and make you sad; if you ruin his scene he'll ^^^^ing kill you. I get what he's saying. If you've been shooting an intense scene for several hours on end, and need to continue to scrap the work you're repeatedly giving your all to ensure comes out well... all because the shots keep getting ruined due to the
director of photography walking into and out of the frame, well, the man deserves to have his ass handed to him. He's right. It's not professional. Long days, long shoots, and family issues to boot, culminating with that sort of poopie. I can understand how it led him to overreact, and it's people not thinking about the circumstances surrounding a reaction like that which cause the media and public to just overreact further. There's plenty or reason to yell at people. Yelling ensures people take their screwup seriously and don't
repeatedly do it again. Yelling solves problems, and when caught on audio tape out of context creates whole new ones.
Just goes to show you that regardless of what the topic is, if it somehow involves a project or event Bale was, is, or will be involved in, people will bring up the tape, for a loooong time. I would like to start a topic about The Prestige, just for fun! Think of sequel possibilities! A newly-vivified Hugh Jackman breaks into a carefully choreographed dance sequence featuring Scarlet Johanson, then Chirstian Bale comes in and slaps