christian bale played mandras in captain corelli's mandolin.
who played mandras in captain corelli's mandolin?
christian bale
on 14 april 2000, lions gate films released "american psycho" in cinemas. bale was later approached to make a cameo appearance in another bret easton ellis adaptation, "the rules of attraction", a film loosely connected to "american psycho", but he declined out of loyalty to harron's vision of bateman. he believed that it could not be properly expressed by any other director. in 2000, he played a wealthy murderer in john singleton's "shaft". bale's first role after "american psycho" was in the john madden adaptation of the best-selling novel "captain corelli's mandolin". bale played mandras, a greek fisherman who vied with nicolas cage's title character for the affections of pelagia (penélope cruz). "captain corelli's mandolin" was bale's second time working with john hurt, after "all the little animals".
christian bale
"captain corelli's mandolin" explores many varieties of love. we see the initial lust-based love between pelagia and mandras, which burns out as a result of the war, and the change it prompts in both of them. corelli and pelagia's slow-developing love is the central focus of the novel. love is described by dr iannis as "what is left when the passion has gone", and it certainly appears that this criterion is fulfilled by the love of corelli and pelagia. the paternal love of iannis for pelagia is also strong and is heavily compared and contrasted to that of corelli.
captain corelli's mandolin