Mortician John Miller

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Bale describes his character as a mechanically inclined jack-of-all-trades from the U.S., an escapee of the Dust Bowl who ends up working on cargo ships.

"He's kind of a character who is accustomed to raucous and chaotic people around him. That's what he likes, that's where he finds his comfort," he says. "He's definitely pursuing excess with a vengeance — as a means, we find out later, to deal with pain."

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were slaughtered in the Nanjing Massacre, but the mass atrocities committed against the women gave rise to another name for the horror: The Rape of Nanjing. In The Flowers of War, Bale's character must choose between saving himself and helping a group of women escape the violence.

"He appears to be an absolute reckless, drunken, good-time guy, who cares nothing about anybody but just making a quick buck for himself and moving on," Bale says. "That's indeed how he would be thinking of this war to start with ... but eventually it comes to be his own war."