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Christian Bale finally reveals Dick Cheney's unfiltered thoughts of his 'Vice' portrayal
aol ^ | Nov 8th 2019 | KEVIN POLOWY

Posted on 11/10/2019 4:57:39 AM PST by MarvinStinson

Christian Bale doesn't know for sure if Dick Cheney ever watched last year's political satire Vice, which netted Bale an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win for playing Cheney.

But as Bale begrudgingly revealed to Yahoo Entertainment this week, he did receive a message secondhand from the 78-year-old former vice president, who served under George W. Bush for eight years. And it was short and not so sweet.

"Strangely enough it was through my son's school, one of the moms was at a party that Cheney was at, and she said, 'Oh, I'm going to be seeing Christian tomorrow, you have anything to say to him?'" Bale, 45, recounted to us during an interview.

"And he said, 'Tell him he's a dick.'"

Bale initially appreciated Cheney seemingly using his own first name as a double entendre to insult the actor.

"I went, 'Oh, at least he's got a sense of humor," Bale said. "And she said, 'No, there was no humor to it whatsoever.'"

It's understandable why Cheney would be salty. The Adam McKay-directed film painted Cheney as a manipulative war hawk who secretly called the shots in the White House during the Bush Administration. Not only that, but Bale — who was generally restrained about voicing his opinion about his subject while promoting the film — let his personal feelings be known when he famously called Cheney a "charisma-free a**hole" and thanked Satan for inspiring his performance during his Golden Globes acceptance speech.

UPDATE: Yahoo was unable to reach Cheney for comment, but a source close to the former vice president denied Bale’s claims in a statement to Fox News, saying, "Dick Cheney never has and never would send a message to Bale. Totally untrue."

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To: xp38

Christopher Nolan the writer/director was what made the Batman series so great. Sad to see Bale being such a braindead idiot.


21 posted on 11/10/2019 6:01:51 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: MarvinStinson
a thirty-four-year-old man

He looks sixty-four.

At any rate I'd rather spit on him than watch him "act".

22 posted on 11/10/2019 6:11:31 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: bray

Secondhand info? Maybe we should assign him the tagline ‘Whistleblower Bale’?


23 posted on 11/10/2019 6:17:56 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: hardspunned

I’m still a fan of Donald Rumsfeld.


24 posted on 11/10/2019 6:18:35 AM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: rbg81

I didn’t want to see the movie, but my husband did. I went along out of curiosity and afterwards, all I could say was ‘wow, I didn’t realize that Dick Cheney was the source of everything bad and negative that has ever happened in the USA’. Yes, that is how he was portrayed. I really couldn’t stand Bale or Sam Rockwell (one of my fave actors these days) as GWB. If anyone thinks this movie is even remotely akin to what happened during GWB’s tenure in the WH, I feel sorry for them as they are delusional.


25 posted on 11/10/2019 6:22:16 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: originalbuckeye

“I didn’t realize that Dick Cheney was the source of everything bad and negative that has ever happened in the USA.”


26 posted on 11/10/2019 6:26:00 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

And we care what he thinks because?


27 posted on 11/10/2019 6:30:29 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Those two c***suckers deserve each other.


28 posted on 11/10/2019 6:38:14 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: shelterguy
I just call my people carrier a CAR

It’s a British term for what we would call a minivan. It can also be applied to a high capacity SUV with a third row of seats.

29 posted on 11/10/2019 6:55:42 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I agree it was a hit job. I did not take it literally.


30 posted on 11/10/2019 6:57:43 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: real saxophonist

Ha ha! Isn’t that from American Psycho?


31 posted on 11/10/2019 7:03:05 AM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: Vermont Lt

ROFL!!

I wanted to contact an old boss from back in the day and I was sent his email address...AOL...

I haven’t used aol since the early 2000s :)


32 posted on 11/10/2019 7:17:46 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: rbg81
I did not think it was entirely a negative portrayal.

You had to put Cheney and Rumsfeld together. In the movie, Rumsfeld was Cheney's Cheney, the kind of bad influence on Cheney that Cheney was on Bush. Then the filmmakers could show less unattractive aspects of Cheney - the befuddled young man, for example, or the supportive father of his gay daughter - and still paint a very negative picture of him.

The film showed Cheney to be less ideological than many critics thought he was. Did that make him more sympathetic or less sympathetic? Maybe a mixture of both. In the film he wasn't trying to do evil, but not trying to do good either. He was in it for himself. But was he really trying to get power or just trying to survive in a highly competitive environment?

I wasn't a great fan of any of those guys, but the bias was obvious. You're right in thinking that it wasn't entirely negative. Certainly not positive either. I think the style of the movie - in your face and stupid - cut against any nuance in the script or performances, though. Same thing with The Big Short and everything else the director has done. "Subtle" doesn't really work with him.

33 posted on 11/10/2019 7:19:54 AM PST by x
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To: MarvinStinson

Who’s even less likely to make a funny than Batman? Dick Cheney. I

I thought what he said is clever and funny.


34 posted on 11/10/2019 7:24:39 AM PST by Crucial
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To: MarvinStinson

He’s lying... straight up lying.


35 posted on 11/10/2019 9:29:56 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: x

It showed Cheney as somewhat ethical because he would not criticize his lesbian daughter. However, later in the movie, it torpedoed that when it showed he gave his other daughter (Liz) the go-ahead to oppose gay marriage when she was running for Congress.


36 posted on 11/10/2019 10:16:04 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: x

In my last post, I should have said “sympathetic” instead of “ethical”.


37 posted on 11/10/2019 10:16:59 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: dp0622

I found a CD in my kids room when were cleaning their stuff out to make it “ours” again. I would have tried to sign up again...but I have neither a modem or a DVD player on MacBook.


38 posted on 11/10/2019 12:01:29 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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