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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives lose it after Christian Bale thanks Satan for 'inspiring' him to play Dick Cheney
SARAH K. BURRIS
06 JAN 2019 AT 21:22 ET
Actor Christian Bale accepted the Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for his role in the film Vice.
Bale plays former Vice President Dick Cheney in a story that details the unique role he had in George W. Bushs White House.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, Bales transformation is a sight to behold. He donned prosthetics to achieve some of the key characteristics of Cheney, but capturing the so-called evil of Cheney was all Bale.
Thank you Satan for the inspiration, Bale said about the biographical drama-comedy role.
He then offered a challenge to other actors, saying it was a kind of competition.
I will be cornering the market on charisma-free assh*les, he said. What do you think, Mitch McConnell next? That would be good, wouldnt it?
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/conservatives-lose-christian-bale-thank-satan-inspiring-play-dick-cheney/
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)Neema
(1,151 posts)Perfect!
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)dem4decades
(11,282 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)...but he's missing a few of the "requirements" to be THE Anti-Christ...
calimary
(81,200 posts)Response to olegramps (Reply #25)
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underpants
(182,752 posts)That was my favorite other tha Gotta support Clint
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,699 posts)But Bale's acceptance speech may have changed my mind.
PJMcK
(22,029 posts)But wait until you can stream it unless your theater has a half-price night.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Hes one of the great actors. Hes played roles of drug addicts to psychotic violent military vets that are completely convincing. When I saw his body in one of the scenes of the drug addict I was shocked to see how skeletal he looked. He was wearing pants but they were hanging low enough that you could see the back of his pelvis bone clearly under the flesh as well as every vertebrae and rib. And his face was so thin that he didnt even look like himself. His collarbones stood out so much it seemed like it had to be painful.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)That was awesomely delicious! Now to sit back and watch the resulting fireworks. Dont think it'll cost Christian any more than the cost of a bodyguard for a few months; he'll always be able to find roles. Besides, death threats aside, the RWNJ's will have alot to digest in the coming year. Their worlds are about to be rocked when all the proof comes out. I almost feel sorry for them, almost. Christian Bale will not be in the frying pan of the very mad conservative right for too long before they're mightily distracted with Proof of Collusion, Coming Soon.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)All those RW judges the senate are approving? They're being rushed through, which means little or no background checking. Think "Kavanaugh lite".
I'm guessing that Kavanaugh, while being a dick, was a lightweight dick, and that some or many of these conservative judges being appointed are *serious* dicks. I.e., judges with "non-trivial flaws" in their personality. Who may not want that shit "to come out", and only agreed to the appointment if they could skip the background check. You get the idea.
PatSeg
(47,390 posts)I love Christian Bale now more than ever!
Botany
(70,488 posts)No Dick Cheney's war for oil in Iraq = no al Qaeda in Iraq = no ISIS = no civil war in
Syria and this baby* wouldn't be dead on some Turkish beach.
* Alan Kurdi
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its overwhelming.
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)I can never see this photo without bursting into tears. That little peanut looks like he should be taking a nap, not washed up on the shore as a byproduct of mans' unending stupidity. It's just too much.
thucythucy
(8,045 posts)May what happened to this poor child never be forgotten.
Botany
(70,488 posts).... would happen if they destabilized the middle east with their unneeded war and what did
the right wing, Fox News, and the hate talkers say in return? "Freedom Fries."
irisblue
(32,963 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That poor little boy.
Botany
(70,488 posts).... laying dead on the beach.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Botany
(70,488 posts)BTW Sandra Day O'Connor knew that they were fucking America with their ruling that stopped
the counting of lawful votes of American citizens in their bush v Gore ruling. Because she stipulated
that ruling could not be used in any other legal actions prior to bush v Gore or post bush v Gore.
BTW we would never of had a 9-11, a war in Afghanistan, a war in Iraq, citizen's united, Justices
Roberts and Alito, HAVA, Ohio 2004, the Big Branch Mine explosions, Dick Cheney drinking and
shooting somebody in the face, President Trump, and on and on without bush v Gore.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)2018 was a record year at the box office, but you know, who needs facts when you've got insanity and wishful thinking on your side?
dlk
(11,544 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)He was well prep'd to do Cheney.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)i consider truly evil.
Texin
(2,594 posts)Terrific movie. And Sam Rockwell was wonderful as W. I understand that McKay was tilting the movie more into a sort of dark (very dark) satirical piece, but it balanced pretty well between that and a straight dramatic biopic (but it was much more serious than any recent satire I've seen). Amy Adams was pretty much transformed as well. Not so much in her appearance as just how Machiavellian Lynne Cheney was. She was every bit the Lady Macbeth to her husband, and I'd just opine that she's the more ruthless and cold blooded of the two.
Cha
(297,123 posts)Texin.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Satan killed only 10 people in the bible and that was on a bet with god. Dick killed in the 7 figure range.
Seems pretty insensitive to Satanists and would have been more accurate if he said he got his inspiration from god.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,324 posts)Yet Bush is being rehabilitated by people in our own party.
It bogythe mind.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)In the Great Flood, God killed EVERYONE except Noah, his sons, Ham, Shemp, and Curly, and their unnamed wives (women, I guess, were too unimportant to name, even though everyone now alive supposedly descended from these women). That must have been, I don't know, hundreds of people (thousands? millions?), anyway, far more than the 10 you assign to Satan.
So, if we use bodycount as a measure of evilness, does that make God more evil than Satan? Are you saying God is more evil than Dick Cheney?
I don't know, somebody could get excommunicated up in here.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It's not as if we know how many kittens any of them drowned in a bathtub.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)skypilot
(8,852 posts)Someone should play them the clip of Cheney saying that "deficits don't matter" and then see if they can reconcile their sudden high opinion of him with that statement.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,488 posts)Vinca
(50,260 posts)calimary
(81,200 posts)Warning - you may find it INFURIATING. I certainly did. That ratfucker still walks free. With somebody else's heart keeping him alive. Murderous, scheming, power-mad fucking GHOUL.
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Yavin4
(35,433 posts)Dick Cheney's evil should be inspiration enough.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)louis-t
(23,288 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Cha
(297,123 posts)out of my chair if I had seen that on tv.. like I used to watch the Golden Globes!
What did the audience do?! lol
Danascot
(4,690 posts)Heh