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Christian Bale
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Heath Ledger and Christian Bale
He's played everything from a dapper, cape-clad superhero to an obsessive turn-of-the-century magician, but sexy British actor Christian Bale unveiled his latest turn on the big screen at the N.Y.C. premiere of his latest film Rescue Dawn, in which he plays a prisoner-of-war plotting his escape. "We lost an awful amount of weight, and we were this ragged, intrepid-looking bunch," Bale—who joined friends like Heath Ledger for a post sneak peek nosh—said of the cast's experience filming in the Thai jungle.
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A look at his career 
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
THE ROLE In his breakout performance, Bale carried an epic Steven Spielberg movie on his 13-year-old shoulders, playing Jim Graham, a British boy in WWII-era Shanghai who is separated from his aristocrat parents, captured by the Japanese, and held in a POW camp.
WHAT EW SAID Not much — we didn't exist yet! But Janet Maslin of the New York Times had this to say about the budding actor: ''Mr. Bale... at first seems just a handsome and malleable young performer, another charming child star. But the epic street scene that details the Japanese invasion of the city and separates Jim from his parents reveals this boy to be something more. As Mr. Bale, standing atop a car amid thousands of extras and clasping his hands to his head, registers the fact that Jim is suddenly alone, he conveys the schoolboy's real terror and takes the film to a different dramatic plane.''
Newsies (1992)
THE ROLE In this Disney musical, Bale sings and dances as an underdog newsboy who organizes a strike in turn-of-the-century New York.
WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''The relentless, rah-rah boosterism of Newsies feels hollow and slightly absurd; it no longer has any connection to the mood of the country. The movie stands as a textbook demonstration of why they don't — and probably shouldn't — make 'em like they used to.''
Velvet Goldmine
(1998) THE ROLE Arthur Stuart, a reporter looking into the life (and staged death) of a David Bowie-esque glam rocker (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) he worshiped as a teen
WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''An elegant fantasia... Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.''
American Psycho (2000)
THE ROLE In this big-screen adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, Bale is Patrick Bateman, the Me Generation stockbroker who kills for thrills
WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''Christian Bale, who in movies like Velvet Goldmine has specialized in playing shrinking violets, here acts with a newly potent leading-man danger. As Patrick, he's strapping and virile, like a hawkishly sinister Tom Cruise, and he lowers his voice to a radio DJ's exaggerated masculine growl.''
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
THE ROLE In another World War II-set movie, Bale plays Madras, a Greek fisherman whose intended (Penélope Cruz) falls for the Italian captain of the title (Nicolas Cage)
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''Pearl Harbor for the English Patient crowd — a movie that reduces history, as well as eros, to a postcard... The Greek townsfolk in this history-inspired story glow with ethnic pride. Then they dance. Life is hard but photogenic.''
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
THE ROLE In his breakout performance, Bale carried an epic Steven Spielberg movie on his 13-year-old shoulders, playing Jim Graham, a British boy in WWII-era Shanghai who is separated from his aristocrat parents, captured by the Japanese, and held in a POW camp.
WHAT EW SAID Not much — we didn't exist yet! But Janet Maslin of the New York Times had this to say about the budding actor: ''Mr. Bale... at first seems just a handsome and malleable young performer, another charming child star. But the epic street scene that details the Japanese invasion of the city and separates Jim from his parents reveals this boy to be something more. As Mr. Bale, standing atop a car amid thousands of extras and clasping his hands to his head, registers the fact that Jim is suddenly alone, he conveys the schoolboy's real terror and takes the film to a different dramatic plane.''
Newsies (1992)
THE ROLE In this Disney musical, Bale sings and dances as an underdog newsboy who organizes a strike in turn-of-the-century New York.
WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''The relentless, rah-rah boosterism of Newsies feels hollow and slightly absurd; it no longer has any connection to the mood of the country. The movie stands as a textbook demonstration of why they don't — and probably shouldn't — make 'em like they used to.''
Velvet Goldmine
(1998) THE ROLE Arthur Stuart, a reporter looking into the life (and staged death) of a David Bowie-esque glam rocker (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) he worshiped as a teen
WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''An elegant fantasia... Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.''
American Psycho (2000)
THE ROLE In this big-screen adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, Bale is Patrick Bateman, the Me Generation stockbroker who kills for thrills
WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''Christian Bale, who in movies like Velvet Goldmine has specialized in playing shrinking violets, here acts with a newly potent leading-man danger. As Patrick, he's strapping and virile, like a hawkishly sinister Tom Cruise, and he lowers his voice to a radio DJ's exaggerated masculine growl.''
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
THE ROLE In another World War II-set movie, Bale plays Madras, a Greek fisherman whose intended (Penélope Cruz) falls for the Italian captain of the title (Nicolas Cage)
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''Pearl Harbor for the English Patient crowd — a movie that reduces history, as well as eros, to a postcard... The Greek townsfolk in this history-inspired story glow with ethnic pride. Then they dance. Life is hard but photogenic.''
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Reign of Fire (2002)
THE ROLE Quinn Abercromby, a haunted Brit who teams up with a badass American (Matthew McConaughey) to slay the fire-breathing dragons that have destroyed much of the earth
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''Reign is a rip-roaring, videogame-busy, Mad Maximum entertainment in which Matthew 'Offense!' McConaughey, as the bonkers Yank leader (shaved head, bulging biceps, tattoos, and biker beard straight out of Oz), rolls into the British fortress headed by Christian 'Defense!' Bale (whose sensitivity is as shaggy as his haircut), and the two joust for leadership.''
Laurel Canyon (2002)
THE ROLE Psychiatry student Sam, who brings his impressionable fiancée (Kate Beckinsale) to meet his estranged, freewheeling record-producer mother (Frances McDormand)
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''The characters are tedious, as are the fussy performances of Bale and Beckinsale. Everything good in this rock & roll fantasy belongs to the sexy, worldly-wise McDormand, who makes Jane ripe, real, and irresistible.''
The Machinist (2004)
THE ROLE Bale notoriously dropped 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznick, an insomniac factory worker who begins to question his own sanity.
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''There's not a minute we watch Bale, stumbling hollow-eyed through a green-gray world of alienation and paranoia... that we dare forget the millions who have died — in famines, in sickness, in concentration camps — desperate for the nourishment Bale so arbitrarily declined to play a make-believe character in a movie. Such boniness is obscene.''
Batman Begins (2005)
THE ROLE In the Christopher Nolan-directed origin story, Bale is Bruce Wayne, the millionaire businessman who avenges his parents' murders by suiting up as the Dark Knight and fighting crime in the corrupt Gotham City.
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''A triumph — a confidently original, engrossing interpretation... Even the greenest newbie to the hagiography knows [the details of Batman's beginnings]. But knowing doesn't pack the same pleasurable jolt as seeing primly smoldering Christian Bale's Batman No. 4 play so comfortably against expansively proper Michael Caine's Alfred (taking over for Michael Gough as if to the manor born) and watching the two devise the very first Batsuit.''
The Prestige (2006)
THE ROLE In his second collaboration with director Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind such dark fare as Batman Begins and Memento, Bale plays Alfred Borden, a turn-of-the-century Londoner whose escalating rivalry with a fellow magician (Hugh Jackman) turns deadly.
WHAT EW SAYS Owen Gleiberman: ''The Prestige leaps around in time with dizzy abandon, a deliberate strategy to make magic seem like the most concrete, grounded thing in the movie... Jackman, all keen intensity, and Bale, who knows how to push passion to the brink of pathology, are magnetic foils.''
Rescue Dawn (2007)
THE ROLE Dieter Dengler, a U.S. Navy pilot who, in 1966, was shot down and held captive in a Laos jungle prison; after rallying his fellow prisoners, the real-life hero led their narrow escape and rescue.
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''Bale's surprise in Rescue Dawn is the lightness of being — the modest, good-natured grace — that he locates in Dengler even under the most agonizing conditions. I've never seen the actor look more at home with his own taut charisma, or put his sinewy physicality to more rewarding use.''
Reign of Fire (2002)
THE ROLE Quinn Abercromby, a haunted Brit who teams up with a badass American (Matthew McConaughey) to slay the fire-breathing dragons that have destroyed much of the earth
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''Reign is a rip-roaring, videogame-busy, Mad Maximum entertainment in which Matthew 'Offense!' McConaughey, as the bonkers Yank leader (shaved head, bulging biceps, tattoos, and biker beard straight out of Oz), rolls into the British fortress headed by Christian 'Defense!' Bale (whose sensitivity is as shaggy as his haircut), and the two joust for leadership.''
Laurel Canyon (2002)
THE ROLE Psychiatry student Sam, who brings his impressionable fiancée (Kate Beckinsale) to meet his estranged, freewheeling record-producer mother (Frances McDormand)
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''The characters are tedious, as are the fussy performances of Bale and Beckinsale. Everything good in this rock & roll fantasy belongs to the sexy, worldly-wise McDormand, who makes Jane ripe, real, and irresistible.''
The Machinist (2004)
THE ROLE Bale notoriously dropped 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznick, an insomniac factory worker who begins to question his own sanity.
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''There's not a minute we watch Bale, stumbling hollow-eyed through a green-gray world of alienation and paranoia... that we dare forget the millions who have died — in famines, in sickness, in concentration camps — desperate for the nourishment Bale so arbitrarily declined to play a make-believe character in a movie. Such boniness is obscene.''
Batman Begins (2005)
THE ROLE In the Christopher Nolan-directed origin story, Bale is Bruce Wayne, the millionaire businessman who avenges his parents' murders by suiting up as the Dark Knight and fighting crime in the corrupt Gotham City.
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''A triumph — a confidently original, engrossing interpretation... Even the greenest newbie to the hagiography knows [the details of Batman's beginnings]. But knowing doesn't pack the same pleasurable jolt as seeing primly smoldering Christian Bale's Batman No. 4 play so comfortably against expansively proper Michael Caine's Alfred (taking over for Michael Gough as if to the manor born) and watching the two devise the very first Batsuit.''
The Prestige (2006)
THE ROLE In his second collaboration with director Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind such dark fare as Batman Begins and Memento, Bale plays Alfred Borden, a turn-of-the-century Londoner whose escalating rivalry with a fellow magician (Hugh Jackman) turns deadly.
WHAT EW SAYS Owen Gleiberman: ''The Prestige leaps around in time with dizzy abandon, a deliberate strategy to make magic seem like the most concrete, grounded thing in the movie... Jackman, all keen intensity, and Bale, who knows how to push passion to the brink of pathology, are magnetic foils.''
Rescue Dawn (2007)
THE ROLE Dieter Dengler, a U.S. Navy pilot who, in 1966, was shot down and held captive in a Laos jungle prison; after rallying his fellow prisoners, the real-life hero led their narrow escape and rescue.
WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''Bale's surprise in Rescue Dawn is the lightness of being — the modest, good-natured grace — that he locates in Dengler even under the most agonizing conditions. I've never seen the actor look more at home with his own taut charisma, or put his sinewy physicality to more rewarding use.''
When i saw him in Little women ... i just hated him. For me... he just wasn't Laurie.
But in The Prestige....he is just toooo good! Also I really liked him in this movie called Equilibrium. The movie was terrible, but he was just fab!!
But in The Prestige....he is just toooo good! Also I really liked him in this movie called Equilibrium. The movie was terrible, but he was just fab!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Lv...://img.youtube.com/vi/F6Lv_vdXJs8/default.jpg
The Dark Knight Teaser Trailer
The Dark Knight Teaser Trailer
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he is so hot!
