Define the word ‘fan.’ Define the word ‘fanatic.’ Define the word ‘Balehead.’ 🙂
I’ve spent many years talking to Christian, to movie studio execs and to talent agents about the definition of a “fan” and what that means to different parties. To Christian, as the object of adoration, a fan wasn’t an easy concept for him to grok. Movie studio execs are a lot more pragmatic – fans are the people who are going to buy tickets, rent videos and make their movies number one on the Box Office charts. Talent agents have probably been the most evasive about defining fans because they’re loathe to acknowledge any other person’s influence aside from their own.
So what makes a Balehead? When the term was first coined years ago in a chat room, it was simple. A Balehead was a fan of Christian Bale’s. It’s evolved over the years as some fans splintered off to hardcore Newsies fans. Others are purists – non-Batman fans – and they sometimes resent the multitude of new fans who’ve never heard of Christian before Batman Begins.
I think the Baleheads are like a thermometer – a scale – with degrees of fandom ranging from the Bale Wall of Fame to American Psycho ringtones, to clever passwords like sibibale4ever or mojobaledog!:) You know who you are!
So with that in mind, I present to you the latest vlog from England:
Christian Bale: The Inside Story of the Darkest Batman 