5. Give the musical genre another try.
While it’s true that Newsies, the Disney period paperboy musical that Bale starred in while still a teenager, was a major box-office flop, there is a whole generation of twentysomething moviegoers who were at the right, easily-dazzled age when that song-and-dance bomb was released in ’92 and who still harbor fond memories of Bale’s yearning ballad, “Santa Fe.” And when you think about it, the sight of Bale hoofing it up and belting out a tune onscreen is really as far as you can get from the spectacle of him angrily shouting, “What don’t you f--cking understand?” off screen.
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