As an actor, I'm trying to understand from both points of view here. It's true that it's incredibly rude to be moving during a shoot, not only because of the actor's concentration but also because any noise you make could be recorded into the master audio, which is the audio recorded separately and then mixed into the film during audio looping, which would ruin all the work done by not just the actor but every other single person on the set.
But as the actor, you should let the Director deal with it, you ask the assistant directors to speak with the DP and if they don't stop then you ask the assistant director to talk with the Director, then Producers. You do not have a giant outburst on set which wastes everyone's time. No matter how many times the DP was moving around during shots nothing makes up for the time wasted by Bale, or the uncivil way he dealt with things. Unfortunately, unlike a normal job where Bale would be fired, even the Director could control him (he's who Bale refers to when he's talking to McG), Bale is too great of an asset to the success of the film. But this is a great illustration of how someone can be great in one aspect, acting, but terrible in another, dealing with conflict. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but there's no indication in the audio that Bale had made any attempts prior to this 'second' offense to stop any more 'messing around' by the director of photography. Gez... no wonder he and Crowe get along so well. :rolleyes:
Edited by chouzu_tao, 03 February 2009 - 07:27 AM.