sentence that makes one giggle

[alonewiththemoon]

" Christian Bale, who plays the Caped Crusader in the upcoming Batman Begins movie, told SCI FI Wire that his Batman combines elements of two previous roles he's portrayed: Jesus Christ and the American Psycho."

That actually sounds promising, even if it does conjure up a bizarre image of Jesus hacking people up to Huey Lewis and the News.

My email is all frelled today; I can receive email but not send any.  I tried checking RCN's online help but oddly enough, that section of RCN's site isn't working either.  So I guess I just wait for them to fix whatever is wrong.

Eventually I will write an entry about the weekend.  sally_keith already said nice things about my performance--it was important to me to do this well, so thanks for the kind and supportive words :-)

Comments

[eeyrg.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe he's going to be Batman.

I just keep thinking of Velvet Goldmine. :)

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

I remember Bale's Jesus movie -- woof, was that bad -- but if he's going to play Batman as a messianic psychopath with a martyr complex, then he has the character nailed (no pun intended).

[alonewiththemoon]

Here's the rest of what he said--I'm actually pretty excited to see the movie, as long as what he's saying is carried through:

"He's very much an American psycho of sorts and, yeah, also certainly has Christ-like symptoms," Bale said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. "And, yeah, you know, [you see it in] the battle between [his] spirit and ... flesh and, with Bruce Wayne, the battle between the philanthropy his father taught him and was a great example to him for and the need for vengeance, which is incredibly strong." Bale played Jesus in the 1999 telefilm Mary, Mother of Jesus and gained fame as the title character in 2000's theatrical film American Psycho.

Bale said that he views Batman as conflicted. "Because his heart is telling him, frankly, that he wants to kill," he said. "But he cannot do it. He's been taught differently from childhood, and he knows that it is wrong. But, still, it's an overwhelming urge that he's had to pull back, rein in, all the time."

Bale added that this version of the Batman story, the fifth in Warner Brothers' recent franchise, is particularly relevant to these unsettled times. "I don't want to give away too much, but what Scarecrow [Cillian Murphy] is doing, and which Ra's Al Ghul [Ken Watanabe] and everybody [is up to], is very similar to the anthrax scare that people [went through]," he said. "It's very similar to the possibility of chemical, biological warfare, etc., going on. The notion also of the mentor that Bruce Wayne chooses to go and train with being a man with a triple-barreled name [who] lives in caves kind of on the run: You can't help but take a look and say, 'Hmm. There's a lot of relevance to it.' I think also the age-old thing of the ever-widening gap between rich and poor. And the nature of power and corruption. I think all of these things are particularly relevant, yeah. And I think it should be. Because this is American mythology. It should be in keeping with the times. If it's not, it's missing the point."

Also, a drunk driver hit the Batmobile.