Rescue Dawn: Christian Bale

[Fresh Tendrils]

Christian Bale's latest movie, Rescue Dawn. The film is based on a true story about a fighter pilot who is shot down behind enemy lines and taken captive during the Vietnam War.

Movie trailer: Link.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Behind Enemy Lines...saw it already.

[Skerik]

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That looks freaking great, especially with it being a true story. Hopefully Bale's newfound stardom will lead people to watch some of his lesser-known movies like Equilibrium, American Psycho, and the Machinist.

Btw, apparently Bale lost 55 lbs for this movie. He's certainly committed to his craft....

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Committed is an understatement. He went from a walking skeleton in The Machinist to Batman Begins and now back to a skeleton. That cannot be good for one's health. He's working with Chris Nolan in another movie titled The Prestige and will hopefully start on the next Batman movie after this film is done.

[Lintyfresh85]

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looks great... doubt it will pull much money at the box office though.

[SportsTop]

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Behind Enemy Lines...saw it already.

Did you watch the trailer?

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Supposedly the movie has a release date of August 22, 2006, at least it did. The film is done shooting/production but the producers (one of them is Elton Brand) haven't paid the cast and crew yet.

[NYG_Meth]

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Looks quite good.

[sven]

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Christian Bale is the effin man!

[Fresh Tendrils]

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MGM has acquired all North American distribution rights for the film, which has been set for a December 2006 release.

LINK

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TIFF

Werner Herzog’s 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly tells the extraordinary story of a German-born American Navy pilot, Dieter Dengler, who crash-landed in Laos during the Vietnam War. He was imprisoned in a POW camp and brutally tortured. He then engineered an extraordinary escape with the other inmates, both American and Vietnamese. Near starvation and overwhelmed by the forces of nature closing in on him, Dengler was rescued at last by United States choppers that happened to be flying over the area.

Christian Bale plays Dengler in Rescue Dawn. It is one of this accomplished actor’s most breathtaking performances. From all-American wisecracker to beaten-down victim to Messianic, rifle-toting outlaw, Bale inhabits his character with such a fierce and passionate intensity that one recalls the similarly riveting performances of Herzog’s muse, Klaus Kinski. More to the point, the film’s survivalist snarl, its intense anti-heroism, Dengler’s Sisyphean attempts to overcome predatory Mother Nature, and Herzog’s abiding love of freakish wise men echo the filmmaker’s earlier masterpieces, Cobra Verde and Fitzcarraldo in particular.

Bale is matched step for step by a group of accomplished character actors, including the wonderful Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies as fellow POWs who help Dengler hatch his plans. The camerawork is characteristically stunning, although simpler and more direct than in Herzog’s past films; the script is equally propulsive.

This clarity actually is a blessing. It allows a ruminative viewer to quickly intuit Herzog’s motives for making the film at this historical moment – although it’s not that tough to do the math. After all, Dengler is captured during a “secret war” waged to extract America from a quagmire abroad. He encounters brutal hostility from the Laotian guards and villagers he encounters. And he is tortured, contrary to the Geneva Conventions. Sound familiar?

- Noah Cowan

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New Trailer

Release Date: March 20th

[Beantown]

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Movie looks a lot better than most of the other "behind enemy lines" types.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Bump.

I believe the movie comes out July 4th.

[TheLetterZ]

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Really excited for this one.