Epic smackdown

Well, consider how hard it is (and probably expensive) to film a scene in a big name movie. The guy had ruined two scenes through sheer carelessness.

I do think that Bale could have handled this better and was a real ass about it, but there is a difference between what this guy did and what Bale typically does when he screws up. Stumbling onto the set is usually not something that you would think a professional director of photography would do, especially twice because that sort of distraction can ruin a good scene which costs a lot of time and money to redo.

I suppose the reason I am not entirely unsympathetic to Bale is that my wife and I have experienced some equally bad, obnoxious, don't-listen-screw-everything-up behavior where we work. For example, just recently, a sys admin where Rachel works lost 10 messages in a messaging app that were marked "extremely critical" because he disregarded her instructions and restarted the server app that she works on. Let's just say that her customer actually needed that information badly and there were no backups of what the admin lost. She didn't go off on him, but if she had cussed him out and ripped him a new one, she wouldn't have been out of line either because the guy cost his customer pretty dearly through sheer willful negligence and incompetence.

It's all a matter of how valuable you are to those you work for. As I said, I think Bale was an ass, but I can see where some of his rage came from here and that it was legitimate (I've seen coworkers do similarly stupid things which cost our customers tens of thousands of dollars in labor charges to fix). The fact is, we live in a world where the will to power and almighty dollar rule. Always has been that way, always will be. The best way to avoid being trampled on is to be valuable in what you do, and be nice and polite to others.