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(MSNBC) Misc China says that Christian Bale should be embarrassed. So they saw Newsies too?   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 41
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DGS [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 09:58:37 AM
Heh. My wife loves that film.

/It's not that bad.
//yes, only saw it when she wanted me to watch it.
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-12-21 09:59:10 AM
I liked it.

Hey, who else saw that they're Broadwaying it, like every other Disney movie ever?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:04:41 AM
I doubt he's going to fall on his sword.
 
nopokerface
2011-12-21 10:09:48 AM
He's got way worse than this to be embarrassed about.
 
Ebenator
2011-12-21 10:15:44 AM
I guess he and China are done... professionally.
 
gunga galunga
2011-12-21 10:18:38 AM
As much as Christian Bale says he's embarrassed by that movie, it did play a big part in the huge internet fanbase he had until he started getting high profile roles in his adult years.
 
Apos [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:19:30 AM
Who says communists aren't comedians?
 
Old enough to know better
2011-12-21 10:21:28 AM
Oh noes! How dare he remind the rest of the world that China is still a communist dictatorship that regularly abuses its citizens!
 
IrateShadow
2011-12-21 10:24:23 AM
"Batman" star Christian Bale should feel embarrassed for trying to visit a human rights activist while he was in China to promote a movie the country has submitted for an Oscar, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

Someone who writes professionally should be embarrassed to have a sentence like that go to print.
 
Coiled Hot 1
2011-12-21 10:29:28 AM
Oooohhhhh goooooood for them!!!!!
 
FeedTheCollapse [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:32:01 AM
 
AtticusFinchEsq [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:33:33 AM
So it was his dream to speak to this guy? Why'd he go to China? Should've gone to Santa Fe. Dreams come true, yes they do, in Santa Fe.
 
Killer Cars
2011-12-21 10:38:52 AM
The movie centers on the 1937 sacking of the eastern city of Nanjing, known in the West as the "Rape of Nanking," and has been described by some critics as hewing to official propaganda portraying Chinese as heroic victims and Japanese as one-dimensional cartoon villains.

I'm not sure why, but that particular inclusion at the end of the article threw me for a loop.

/"Misunderstanding of Nanking?"
//"We were invited. Tea and dumplings were served"
 
Mr_Fabulous
2011-12-21 10:39:14 AM
True Fact: After seeing Empire of the Sun, I walked out of the theater saying "that kid is going to be a star someday."
 
Moonraper
2011-12-21 10:40:18 AM
FeedTheCollapse: Banese.cx

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Thanks for ruining Batman for me.
 
sign_of_Zeta [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:42:43 AM
Killer Cars: The movie centers on the 1937 sacking of the eastern city of Nanjing, known in the West as the "Rape of Nanking," and has been described by some critics as hewing to official propaganda portraying Chinese as heroic victims and Japanese as one-dimensional cartoon villains.

I'm not sure why, but that particular inclusion at the end of the article threw me for a loop.

/"Misunderstanding of Nanking?"
//"We were invited. Tea and dumplings were served"

Yeah, trying to downplay in any way what the Japanese did is pretty wrong.
 
gunga galunga
2011-12-21 10:57:24 AM
Mr_Fabulous: True Fact: After seeing Empire of the Sun, I walked out of the theater saying "that kid is going to be a star someday."

I don't see how anybody could have walked out of that movie not thinking that.
 
redmid17
2011-12-21 11:01:18 AM
Killer Cars: The movie centers on the 1937 sacking of the eastern city of Nanjing, known in the West as the "Rape of Nanking," and has been described by some critics as hewing to official propaganda portraying Chinese as heroic victims and Japanese as one-dimensional cartoon villains.

I'm not sure why, but that particular inclusion at the end of the article threw me for a loop.

/"Misunderstanding of Nanking?"
//"We were invited. Tea and dumplings were served"

More like the Rape, Arson, Murder, and Rape of Nanking
 
Malcolm_Sex
2011-12-21 11:03:54 AM
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Slaves2Darkness
2011-12-21 11:21:42 AM
Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.
 
CreativeFarkHandle
2011-12-21 11:27:59 AM
Slaves2Darkness: Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.

He's from England.
 
SphericalTime [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:31:09 AM
Slaves2Darkness: Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.

I was going to say, American movie stars must be worrying to the Communist regime. They have no shame, so it's really hard to stop them from doing things you don't like.
 
Wayne 985 [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:36:36 AM
CreativeFarkHandle: Slaves2Darkness: Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.

He's from England.

In fairness, he's lived in America for a couple decades now.
 
Pandora's Litterbox [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:41:55 AM
CreativeFarkHandle:

He's from England Wales.

/end hairsplitting
 
Pandora's Litterbox [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:53:07 AM
Malcolm_Sex: [fc06.deviantart.net image 396x612]

That's farkin' high-larious.

Thanks for *that* much-needed guffaw.

Oh, yeah, and you had best believe that's saved.
 
Falco09
2011-12-21 12:00:31 PM
Pandora's Litterbox: CreativeFarkHandle:

He's from England Wales.

/end hairsplitting

Yeah, but he considers himself English.
 
moothemagiccow
2011-12-21 12:00:33 PM
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//not even close to embarrassing
 
Kangaroo_Ralph
2011-12-21 01:09:36 PM
images2.fanpop.com
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 02:01:35 PM
Pandora's Litterbox: CreativeFarkHandle:

He's from England Wales.

/end hairsplitting

Not hairsplitting. My grandparents are from Wales and there's a huge...

/just kidding, couldn't locate Wales on a map at gunpoint
//and Americans have plenty of shame. Ever meet a kid brought up in a religious home in the midwest?
 
browneye [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 02:10:13 PM
CreativeFarkHandle: Slaves2Darkness: Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.

Slaves2Darkness: He's from England.

Actually, he from Wales.

Wayne 985: In fairness, he's lived in America for a couple decades now.

True, but most times when you hear him speak in interviews, he's purposely uses an American accent. He really speaks with a Welch accent (new window)
 
legion_of_doo
2011-12-21 02:29:31 PM
Mugato: Pandora's Litterbox: CreativeFarkHandle:

He's from England Wales.

/end hairsplitting

Not hairsplitting. My grandparents are from Wales and there's a huge...

/just kidding, couldn't locate Wales on a map at gunpoint
//and Americans have plenty of shame. Ever meet a kid brought up in a religious home in the midwest?

Under "Thar be monsters...", just look for the waterspout.

/He tasks me!
/Guilt is different than shame. Americans feel guilt, but are pretty shameless. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and all that.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 02:35:15 PM
legion_of_doo: /Guilt is different than shame. Americans feel guilt, but are pretty shameless. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and all that.

Funny. Stereotypical generalizations against Americans are never considered racist. Luckily, we don't give a shiat.
 
redmid17
2011-12-21 02:46:51 PM
Mugato: legion_of_doo: /Guilt is different than shame. Americans feel guilt, but are pretty shameless. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and all that.

Funny. Stereotypical generalizations against Americans are never considered racist. Luckily, we don't give a shiat.

Unlike those tea-drinking Brits or surrendering Frenchmen.
 
antron
2011-12-21 04:22:27 PM
img839.imageshack.us
 
K.B.O. Winston [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 04:52:55 PM
Mugato: legion_of_doo: /Guilt is different than shame. Americans feel guilt, but are pretty shameless. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and all that.

Funny. Stereotypical generalizations against Americans are never considered racist.

Uh, mayhap because we aren't a race?

/this was either a joke
//or the word you were looking for was 'bigoted'
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 05:40:17 PM
K.B.O. Winston: Mugato: legion_of_doo: /Guilt is different than shame. Americans feel guilt, but are pretty shameless. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and all that.

Funny. Stereotypical generalizations against Americans are never considered racist.

Uh, mayhap because we aren't a race?

/this was either a joke
//or the word you were looking for was 'bigoted'

So which countries are a race and which aren't? It's fuzzy.
 
exactly three days
2011-12-21 06:44:32 PM
Mugato: K.B.O. Winston: Mugato: legion_of_doo: /Guilt is different than shame. Americans feel guilt, but are pretty shameless. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and all that.

Funny. Stereotypical generalizations against Americans are never considered racist.

Uh, mayhap because we aren't a race?

/this was either a joke
//or the word you were looking for was 'bigoted'

So which countries are a race and which aren't? It's fuzzy.

No countries are a race. Some countries are so racially homogenous that people use the words like it means the race, but that only works in ignorant, uneducated &/or bigoted company.
 
Small Town Misfit
2011-12-21 06:54:54 PM
With regards to his origins, he was born in Wales, but raised in England.

As a longtime fan, I've sat through some pretty shiatty movies because he was in them; he does seem to try his best, though. True, Newsies isn't very good, but that's partly the reason I love it.
 
James Scameron
2011-12-21 09:12:29 PM
Christian Bale isn't one of those Hollywood people who do it for the publicity. He comes from a family of activists. He does this type of stuff all the time. He just doesn't do it for the press. Which is why you don't really hear about him doing it.


lol
 
Slaves2Darkness
2011-12-22 10:31:38 AM
browneye: CreativeFarkHandle: Slaves2Darkness: Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.

Slaves2Darkness: He's from England.

Actually, he from Wales.

Wayne 985: In fairness, he's lived in America for a couple decades now.

True, but most times when you hear him speak in interviews, he's purposely uses an American accent. He really speaks with a Welch accent (new window)

Well no wonder the current crop of Batman movies sucks, they have a Brit playing Batman.
 
browneye [TotalFark]
2011-12-22 01:10:42 PM
browneye: CreativeFarkHandle: Slaves2Darkness: Silly China, don't they know Americans have no shame. We don't feel shame at all. The only people who should be ashamed in America are the poor.

Slaves2Darkness: He's from England.

Actually, he from Wales.

Wayne 985: In fairness, he's lived in America for a couple decades now.

True, but most times when you hear him speak in interviews, he's purposely uses an American accent. He really speaks with a Welch accent (new window)

Slaves2Darkness: Well no wonder the current crop of Batman movies sucks, they have a Brit playing Batman.

Whadda know....two wrongs really don't make a right. Especially when they're in one sentence.
 
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