Sketch profiles for Christian Bale's quintessential characters. Click EasyEdit to update this page!
(Don't see the EasyEdit button above? You need to log in.) |
|
| | | Character back story: Orphaned as a boy when his parents were shot during a botched mugging, millionaire Bruce Wayne grew up full of anger and guilt, with a strong desire for justice. Unsatisfied with the way society handles the problem of crime, Wayne traveled the world, seeking the means to exact his own method of justice- to circumvent the flaws in the system and see to it that no one else would suffer the same pain he went through. Learning to master his childhood fears through the tutelage of Ra's Al Ghul, the leader of a secret sect of vigilante crime-fighters, Bruce would return to his home town of Gotham City to turn fear against those who would prey on the fearful as the Batman. | | Inspiration for character: Dracula, Zorro, the Bat, Leonardo Da Vinci. | | Age/Occupation: 30's/Millionaire Philanthropist | | Personality type: Focused, determined, secretive. | | Signature look: Black cape and horned cowl, black body suit, scalloped black gloves, black leather boots, golden utility bely. | | Resides: Wayne Manor, located on the outskirts of Gotham City. | | Character connections: Works closely with Commissioner James Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), romantically interested in Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes/Maggie Gyllenhaal), closest confidant is loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine). Enemy to all criminals of Gotham City, and former student of militia leader Ra's Al Ghul (Liam Neeson). | Fun facts/trivia: Due to his part in The Machinist, Christian Bale was vastly underweight (about 120 pounds on his 6 foot+ frame) when he was under consideration for the part. After being cast, he was told to become as "big as you could be" by Christopher Nolan. Bale underwent a dietary and exercise regimen and ending up weighing about 220 pounds (about 40 pounds above his normal weight). It was decided that Bale had became too large (friends of his on the film's crew dubbed him "Fatman") and he quickly shed about 20 pounds to have leaner, more muscular frame.
Christian Bale lost his voice three times during the filming of Batman Begins after altering his voice to portray Batman's throaty growl.
|
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.
- They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness. Something terrifying. Something that will not stop until it gets revenge. Me.
- It's not who I am underneath, but what I do, that defines me.
- As a man, I'm just flesh and blood- I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol? As a symbol, I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.
- SWEAR TO ME!
|
| 
Character name:
Patrick Bateman
Appears in: American Psycho
Date(s):
Award(s): | | Character back story: Patrick Bateman comes from a wealthy family. His parents are divorced; his mother became sick and now resides at a sanatorium, and his father now owns an apartment in a New York hotel. Bateman attended Phillips Exeter Academy for prep school. He graduated from Harvard University in 1984, and Harvard Business School two years later and subsequently moved to New York City. He works as the Vice President for the Wall Street firm of Pierce and Pierce (a firm owned by his father), and lives on the Upper West Side, in the American Gardens Building. He is also, in his spare time, a psychotic killer who brutally murders a variety of people to sate his steadily growing bloodlust. | | Inspiration for character: Yuppies of the 1980's, "power players", serial killers. | | Age/Occupation: Mid-to-late Twenties/Vice President. | | Personality type: Superficial in every way, highly unstable. | | Signature look: Three piece suit, designer shoes, slick hairstyle, fastidiously groomed. | | Resides: 55 West 81st Street (the American Gardens Building), Upper West-Side, New York City. | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
- I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
- TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW, YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU–FUCKING–BASTARD!
- I have to return some videotapes.
- There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.
|
|
Character name:
Trevor Reznik
Appears in: The Machinist
Date(s):
Award(s): | | Character back story: Trevor Reznik is a machinist at a machine-shop in an undisclosed city on the West Coast. His past is hazy and ill-defined, but all that is certain is that he has extensive knowledge of industrial machinery operations, he was once an avid fisherman, and he has not slept for an entire year- a condition which has eroded his health and caused catastrophic weight loss, but the root of which is uncertain. | | Inspiration for character: The works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. | | Age/Occupation: Late Twenties-Early Thirties/Heavy Machinery Operator. | | Personality type: Friendly, but highly paranoid and intensely guilt-ridden. | | Signature look: Dangerously emaciated; typically wears drab brown or gray clothes with a dark jacket. | | Resides: Somewhere on the western coast of the United States. | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: Christian Bale starved himself for over 4 months prior to filming, as his character needed to look drastically thin. Allegedly his eating consisted of one cup of coffee and an apple (or a can of tuna) each day (approximately 275 calories). According to the DVD commentary, he lost 62 pounds (28kg), reducing his body weight to 120 pounds (54.4kg). Bale wanted to go down to 100 pounds (45.3kg) but the filmmakers would not let him due to health concerns. He later regained the weight, plus an additional 40 pounds (18kg) due to weightlifting, in preparation for his role in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Stevie, I haven't slept in a year.
- I'd like to report a hit-and-run.
- A little guilt goes a long way.
- Right now I wanna sleep. I just wanna sleep...
- I know who you are. I know who you are. I know who you are.
- Now it all makes sense. I'm fucking you so he's fucking me!
- Don't worry. No one ever died of insomnia.
|
|
Character name:
Appears in:
Date(s):
Award(s): | | Character back story: | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | |
|
|
|
