So you basically think it’s worse to yell at someone than to demand them fired? Weird.
He’s a total baby. I can see getting upset and yelling a bit. But to go off on a five minute tirade filled with f-words and insults is a bit of an overreaction. He’s an actor filming a freakin’ *Terminator *movie, not curing cancer.
That’s easy to say, but in the moment most people don’t have that kind of control over their tempers. You could just as easily say that Tiger should just quietly have a word with security after someone pops a bulb in his face and screw up his approach shot, but we all know emotions don’t work that way.
How do you know he didn’t?
And doing something as amateurish as walking into a shot doesn’t do much to engender respect.
What is the purpose of the insults? It’s an ego trip. He’s yelling like a baby, that “I’m more important than you!” I’m more important than you!". That’s all.
If the guy really is not doing his job correctly, isn’t best for everyone involved to warn him, the first time he screws up and then fire him if he does so again?
Why does unprofessional ism and outright insults have to come into play?
You’ve never made an amateurish mistake in your professional life? Never? I’ve never heard of anyone who hadn’t fucked up one way or another.
It’s never a free license to mouth of to another person. Correct the mistake, help that person improve, or dump him for someone who you think isn’t going to make mistakes (good luck with that).
It’s the sense of entitlement that pisses me off. I’ve never had to curse out an employee. If a mistake was made, we worked together to try and make sure it didn’t happen again. It never entered into my mind that I should hurl disparaging comments at him willy nilly. If I truly think that he can’t improve I’ll let him know that sorry, it’s not working.
Why are you people so set in condoning this level of unprofessionalism? Make no sense to me. Guess I’m just wired differently. I would never treat another person in such a way and I would not stand for being treated in such a way either.
Maybe he did … the previous times it happened. But clearly it’s an ongoing problem. And if the guy has been told to stop walking around during shots and still does it, then HE’S not behaving in a professional manner and he’s not treating the actors with respect. That’s why Bale is pissed.
Bale says “Am I going to walk around and rip your f–king lights down, in the middle of a scene?” He’s essentially saying “I respect what you do, why don’t you respect what I do?”
Sure I have, and I got yelled at for it. I spent years as a line cook. If you screw up stupidly during a service, you can bet you’re going to get your ass chewed out. That’s life works.
The Navy was even worse.
But I don’t see the need for it.
Was the chewing out all that happened Dio? Or did your manager explain what you did wrong, and helped you figure out how not to make that mistake again? And if so, why was the chewing out necessary?
See, that’ the difference I guess. That’s what I would have done. even if I would have been pissed I would not have hurled insults at you or questioned your parentage in a professional environment. I might have told you to stop what you are doing and wait for me outside. I would have explained what you were doing wrong and how that affected the service and tried in some way to help you NOT make that mistake again.
If you went and fucked up service again I would have pulled you aside and told you, sorry, it’s not working out, pack your things, I have to let you go. Why am I going to curse you out?
What purpose would be served by me acting like an unprofessional ass? Just an ego trip? No thanks.
A professional wouldn’t threaten to kick someone’s ass because of a lack of respect.
How much less seriously should he take his job than say a lawyer, doctor or other professional? Major motion camera time is astoundingly expensive and complicated to set up. If someone keeps moving around in the background during a shot that takes intense concentration I can sort of see how he might flip his lid, especially if the guy has (apparenlty) done this before.
Not particularly unusual for actors to freak out if a crew member happens to get in their way, unfortunately. A lot of them are raging prima donnas, and that kind of behaviour is humoured because the public cares about who stars in the movie, not who worked as the DP.
I know of an FX supervisor who accidentally walked into a well-known actor’s eyeline while he was rehearsing a scene (which, in orders of magnitude, falls waaaay lower than what this dumbass DP got chewed out for). He got an earful for distracting the star, was fired on the spot and practically ruined his career for that one move.
Imagine you have a coworker. You’re working together on a project on a tight deadline. Millions of dollars are riding on it.
You spend an hour typing up a report you’re really happy with. You ask your coworker to proofread it.
And he accidentally deletes it instead.
There’s no back-up. So, working from memory, you type it up again.
And he accidentally deletes it again.
If he carelessly spoils your hard work over and over again, will you calmly sit down with him and discuss how to improve his work habits? Or will you say “What the fuck? Are you a fucking moron? Have you never worked in an office before?”
Or maybe you would just demand that he be fired, to be more professional.
Yeah, maybe Bale should file a report with HR. It’s a film set not an office, it’s probably as hard to fire the DP as it is to fire the director or a lead actor. When you work in a less structured, time-focused, and informal environment as that this is how a lot of issues play out, not with a frank talk with the manager.
Obviously its never happened to you. You think being chewed out is despicable but an ass-kicking at work is justified? I assure you that if you ever did that in any job you would never make that mistake again.
What a cock.
Sure, everyone screws up occasionally, and occasionally everyone has a right to be angry.
What makes him a cock, IMO, isn’t that he was angry, but that he wouldn’t let it lie. That bit where the person admits they were wrong, and apologises? That’s when you should stop.
What was the director doing at the time, by the way? Who was in charge there?
He says the word “fuck” 36 times. Maybe he was practicing for a role in a *GoodFellas *sequel.
Well as long as we’re playing “Haven’t you ever…”, haven’t you ever lost your temper? Haven’t you ever yelled at anyone? Hasn’t anyone ever yanked your chain at just the moment you were emotionally wound up and caused you to lose it?
Lucky you, you don’t have a film crew taping when you go off the handle. Nor a bunch of tabloids waiting to play gotcha!
I have some sympathy for celebrities who get caught being human.
L O L! e-peen run amok!
My bet’s on The Batman and on you being a grease stain if you invaded his personal space. If not directly by his hand, by his or the movie set’s security.
Hmm, I think it’s difficult to tell. He apologises at first yes. But later it seems that he doesn’t really get it. “Hurlbut: No, what it is, is looking at the light and making sure, that you are …”. It also sounds like he said other stuff that was too low volume for the mike to catch.
Ok, I’ll admit I might be overthinking it and overreacting given that yes, a film set is probably a much more laid back environment and two, maybe Bale was suffering from hemrroids and maybe he just found out that his girlfriend was fucking the REAL Batman and it all just came together for him at that point.
I can see how someone might loose his temper. I hope he apologized to the man along with a stern but polite statement alogn the lines of: even though I’m aplogising for my unprofessionalism, I really need you to understand that what you did was unacceptable and I expect it not to happen again.