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h2. About
<strong>Christian Bale Rant</strong> is an audio segment released by celebrity blog TMZ, featuring the voice of American actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bale">Christian Bale</a> going ballistic on the director of photography Shane Hurlbut on the set of "Terminator Salvation" in July 2008.
h2. Origin
On February, 2nd 2009, TMZ released an unedited <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/02/bale-went-ballistic/">audio segment</a> from the set of "Terminator Salvation" (captured previously in July, 2008), which evidently reveals <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bale">Christian Bale</a> gong ballistic on Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut for about four minutes. For many fans, the famous English actor went from a superstar fairy-tale hero to a complete and utter d-bag. You can listen to the original, uncut freakout "here":http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3.
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h2. Spread
Links to the audio clip quickly circulated around the net, becoming a top topical trend on Twitter. Boosted by Hollywood celebrity factor, Christian Bale's freakout story quickly spread across the blogosphere and mainstream media alike, including <a href="http://perezhilton.com/2009-02-03-bale-out">Perez Hilton</a> and other <a href="http://tinyurl.com/c4q3sr">news blogs</a>. Within hours of TMZ blog post, mash-ups and remix videos began popping up on YouTube and other hubsites. The online entertainment blog UGO produced a good old-fashioned Christian Bale "soundboard":http://www.ugo.com/movies/christian-bale-soundboard/.
By February 15th, two weeks after the clip was posted, the Christian Bale Freak Out was given the meme kiss-of-death when it was parodied by the popular animated TV series Family Guy.
* Bale Out - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/revolucian">RevoLucian</a>'s Christian Bale Remix:
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* Video of re-enactment by actor portraying Bale, set to original audio track:
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* Audio over video looping remix:
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<h2 id="oscars">Oscars 2011: Christian Bale Jokes about His Rant</h2>
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At the 83rd annual Academy Awards ceremony held on February 27th, 2011, Christian Bale received his very first Oscar for his supporting actor role as Dicky Eklund in the boxing drama _The Fighter_. The 37 year old English actor opened his acceptance speech by telling the audience that he wasn't going to "drop the F-bomb" as his co-star Melissa Leo did earlier in the ceremony, then he joked, "I've done that plenty before."