Some Of The Best Motion Pictures That Starred Christian Bale
Oscars have always done a fair and good job of encouraging actors for doing a job worth recognition of any sort. However, they have always missed out on one great actor, which should have been acknowledged a long time ago; Christian Bale.
His versatility and diversity finally gave him his well deserved break in the movie The Batman Begins, which he had a huge role in. The movies mentioned further are examples of some of the brilliant work that has been done by him to date. All of these showed off his vast skill set in a varieties of ways.
You can’t be American if you yet have to see the Dark Knight. This is one movie which was extremely popular and brought along great hype, and did a great job at fulfilling people’s expectations in more ways than one. The quality of the movie and box office reviews, both contributed to its success both financially and critically. It was considered as an absolute work of art; however the fact that it did not get nominated was a huge disappointment to many.
To people’s delight, Bale was back with yet another movie with the director Christopher Nolan, the Prestige. Even though, this movie had a lot of great actors included in it, Bale managed to get his presence felt more than anyone else and was appreciated by doing a wonderful job as a magician, with some deep, dark secrets.
The greatness of an actor can be witnessed by how he actually brings about changes in himself to fit in the role each time a new movie is made with them in it. For example being 130 pounds for the movie The Machinist and 210 pounds for another movie soon after, the Batman Begins. That takes a ton of dedication to your work, something that few others have been able to handle with such precision.
If you have seen American Psycho, you must be aware about the excellent performance of Bale, who plays the character of a seemingly normal resident of New York, who is actually psycho and does awful things to things and people. It’s hard to hate him even in a character of this sort. When you look at how well he portrays such a crazy person, he once again shines.
Another masterpiece was Rescue Dawn by Werner Herzog, in which Bale played the role of a US pilot who got imprisoned during the time of the Vietnam War. In order to get out of the prison, he plans to run away into the jungle of Laos. Even for this movie he lost a lot of weight.
It won’t be fair not to discuss 3:10 to Yuma while mentioning the great work of Bale, as he made yet another mesmerizing performance in this one. It’s hard to find good westerners like Bale and Crowe these days, but we are lucky to have them. It becomes more and more apparent that there is very little this man cannot do when it comes to acting.
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