Russell Crowe is a selfless sort. Concerned that – following Constantin Films’ decision to petition for the removal of YouTube’s eleventy million parodies of Bruno Gantz’s bunker-bound rant in ‘Downfall’ – the Internet would be dully devoid of clips of movie stars going a bit overboard, he used his recent BBC interview with chubby-chinned cultural commentator Mark Lawson to provide an ear-catching eruption of rage over which Constantin Films has no copyright claim.

Crowe is not, of course, alone on the A-list in having so exploded. Jez Connolly wrote a post for TFAD collecting a couple of Orson Welles’s worst (by which we really mean best) drunken disagreements and Alec Baldwin achieved infamy for the below (and below the belt) rant that he directed, not at a pursuing paparazzo or impertinent interviewer, but at his own daughter.

One Hollywood rage, however, stands above all others in both its intensity and unpleasantness. Christian ‘Batman’ Bale’s apocalyptic outburst at an unfortunate lightning engineer during the filming of the fourth ‘Terminator’ movie turned off thousands of formerly infatuated admirers and condemned him to being badly lit in every scene in which he ever will ever appear in the remainder of his career.

Of all the indignities inflicted by Bale’s exposure as an anger-addict, the most crushing were perhaps those brought about by ‘Family Guy’s brilliant – and almost immediate – appropriation of the audio for the following hilarity:

But even Bale can’t claim the title of TFAD’s favourite ranter. That belongs to our old friend Brandon Hardesty, who responded to the downfall of the ‘Downfall’ meme by recording a version of the perpetually parodied bunker scene in which he plays every part. George Foreman once called himself ‘a one-man gang’; Brandon Hardesty is a one-man ‘Der Untergang’.