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Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an Welsh and American actor and voice actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Forbes magazine ranked him as one of the highest-paid actors in 2014. Born in Wales to English parents, Bale had his breakthrough role at age 13 in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film Empire of the Sun. After more than a decade of performing in leading and supporting roles in films, he gained wider recognition for his portrayals of serial killer Patrick Bateman in the black comedy American Psycho (2000) and the titular role in the psychological thriller The Machinist (2004). In 2005, he played superhero Batman in Batman Begins and again in The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), garnering acclaim for his performance in the trilogy, which is one of the highest-grossing film franchises. Bale continued in starring roles in a range of films outside his work as Batman, including the period drama The Prestige (2006), the action film Terminator Salvation (2009), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the epic film Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and the superhero film Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). For his portrayal of boxer Dicky Eklund in the 2010 biographical film The Fighter, he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Further Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations came for his work in the black comedy American Hustle (2013) and the biographical dramedies The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). His performances as politician Dick Cheney in Vice and race car driver Ken Miles in the sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) earned him a second win and a fifth nomination respectively at the Golden Globe Awards.
Jinny Hawkins is secretly reading the story of the notorious Captain Flint, the creator of the legendary "treasure planet", past her bedtime. Samuel (Jinny's fatherther) bursts in, emphazising that he thought she had fallen asleep "an hour ago". 12 years later, Jinny still believes in the stories of Treasure Planet but has become quite a troublemaker, rebel, and hoodlum (in the eyes of other people) with a hobby for 'solar-surfing,' a combination of sky-surfing and wind-surfing on a rocket powered board with a solar sail. In this case she happened to be surfing in a restricted construction area, where she got caught by robotic cops. She is escorted to the Benbow (an inn run by Jinny's father), much to her father's disappointment, and retires to the inn's roof, where she overhears Samuel venting his frustration with Jinny's behavior to the family's canine friend, Dr. Delena Doppler. That night, a spaceship crash-lands on the port outside the inn and an old, injured salamander-like being clambers out. Her name is Billy Bones. Jinny helps her inside, and the alien hands her a mysterious sphere, warning her to "Beware the cyborg" in her last breaths. Bones soon dies and suddenly, a bunch of marauding pirates ambush the inn, burning it to the ground whilst trying to find the sphere. Jinny, her father, and Delena manage to escape along with the spherical orb which later turns out to be a holographic map, showing the way to the one and only Treasure Planet.
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