BvS Batman's Voice Thread

[craigaat]

It doesn't need any exposition, it's totally obvious why he's disguising his voice.

 

[Clark-Kent]

Up until very recently I liked the voice, but I agree that the "do you bleed" comment in the most recent teaser was a bit jarring.

I feel like I could dig the voice better, if they show his tech side in some scene explaining some mechanism of it being contained in his suit. Psychologically would be good for the viewers and make it easier to accept in contrast to the previous Batman voices.

 

[Clark-Kent]

It doesn't need any exposition, it's totally obvious why he's disguising his voice.

Not why. I'm talking how. We assume he has something to change voice, but his mouth isn't covered with a device or anything. For me, it would be worth the exposition. Like I said, there will be some typical thought that it's overkill. Just my personal opinion

 

[egg]

when he says - tell me - in the tv spot, we don't see him saying it. that part sounded mechanized. when he says - do you bleed? - and we see him saying it, it doesn't have that sound effect

 

[craigaat]

Not why. I'm talking how. We assume he has something to change voice, but his mouth isn't covered with a device or anything. For me, it would be worth the exposition. Like I said, there will be some typical thought that it's overkill. Just my personal opinion

That's fair enough, but I feel that it's just implied that he has gadgetry built into the suit.

 

[BattleAngel]

I don't really care that it makes practical sense; I just think it's distracting and spoils the experience of his dialogue--the same way removing the ears from his cowl would spoil the visual experience.

Amen.

I really think it also totally cheapens what Affleck brings to the character - now we're really only getting his chin and height. Other actors have talked about "let the suit do the acting" but at least had their voices to work with (whatever crazy choices they may make with their voice).

And I get that the "I thought she was with you" line was itself a joke, but I'm worried that Batman is going to come across as a bit of a sad joke throughout the whole film. I hope I'm wrong!!

 

[Clark-Kent]

Batman had some funny lines in animated films, and in even the Nolan trilogy. I'm sure it will be done sparingly. Man people get worried about Affleck quick lol.

 

[I Am The Knight]

The "It's time you learn what it means to be a man!" is the perfect voice imo.

Yes!

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

Amen.

I really think it also totally cheapens what Affleck brings to the character - now we're really only getting his chin and height. Other actors have talked about "let the suit do the acting" but at least had their voices to work with (whatever crazy choices they may make with their voice).

And I get that the "I thought she was with you" line was itself a joke, but I'm worried that Batman is going to come across as a bit of a sad joke throughout the whole film. I hope I'm wrong!!

I think even if Affleck were soft-spoken as Batman, it's the quiet ones that are most intimidating

[YT]watch?v=Vg0lJC2X5as[/YT]

 

[The Guard]

"Jarring" appears to be the new "cringeworthy".

Okay, so it's jarring, but is that really a big deal when it comes to Batman?

Hasn't the experience of hearing Batman's voice always been sort of jarring?

If people mean it's jarring conceptually, then I really don't see it as jarring in the least that a man who uses all kinds of mechanical gadgets, including very visible ones in The Batmobile and Batwing (and his suits), uses a mechanical voice changing mechanism as well.

That said, while they obviously have the basic concept of the voice down, I would imagine this is something they'll tinker with until shortly before the film opens.

I do like that even though it occassionally has a mechanical "edge" to it, he does not sound too mechanical. He sounds like someone with layered/overlapping voices, for lack of a better explanation. It's kind of cool.

 

[rogbngp]

Where's that recent video of all Batman's mech-voice moments compiled? When you hear them all together in isolation from the other dialogue and action, there is something oddly satisfying about it. I came away like, yeah, this is gonna work and sound pretty cool in the film.

 

[KillerWolf]

[YT]/watch?v=pXM0brV8q-w[/YT]

I think the "do you bleed" line sounds less mechanical in the new spot, by the way.

 

[rogbngp]

Thanks!

 

[KillerWolf]

No problem.

And I agree, there is something quite satisfying in it.

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

^ On hearing the isolated voices: That SOB brought the war to US actually sounds the most natural. I can hear more of Affleck's mannerisms in that line. So I feel like that's the best modulation for Batman, because it still sounds human, but with a dark otherworldliness to it.

 

[KillerWolf]

Agreed. It's my favorite as well.

 

[I Am The Knight]

"Jarring" appears to be the new "cringeworthy".

Okay, so it's jarring, but is that really a big deal when it comes to Batman?

Hasn't the experience of hearing Batman's voice always been sort of jarring?

I wouldn't say that it has always been jarring. The voice was never an issue in the old films from the 90's.

That said, while they obviously have the basic concept of the voice down, I would imagine this is something they'll tinker with until shortly before the film opens.

Of course.

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

^ If so, I hope they're taking notes from this forum.

We want to hear Ben Affleck acting under the voice, but we also want to hear something genuinely creepy and inhuman. I personally think the "It's time you learn what it means to be a man" to be too robotic, and "I thought she was with you" not "shadowy" enough.

Of course, I'm just one fan, so what would I know?

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

^ On hearing the isolated voices: That SOB brought the war to US actually sounds the most natural. I can hear more of Affleck's mannerisms in that line. So I feel like that's the best modulation for Batman, because it still sounds human, but with a dark otherworldliness to it.

Do you mean otherworldliness like as in a robot? Cause that's exactly how it sounds to me.

 

[spiderral]

I agree that the SOB line, if it's modulated (and it sounds like it is), is probably the ideal voice for this version of Batman, seeing as the heavy modulation doesn't work for the aesthetics of Batman outside of his mech suit.

Also, with most of the modulated voices, they seem very monotonous and don't fluctuate much in pitch, meaning there's not a lot of expression there. The SOB line, however, has enough of a 'natural' feel to it.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

So are we all assuming at this point that the voice that we've heard in the trailers and the tv spots so far will NOT be the final sound of the voice in the film?

 

[KillerWolf]

It's not impossible, but I think it would be too much to assume that.

I'm fine if it stays the same. It could be better, but it's not bad... to my ears it doesn't sound robotic or anything of a kind.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Weren't people here big on Batman portraying himself as sort of "beyond human" to put a fear into criminals?

This voice just sounds like a guy straight up talking through a modulator device that you can get on apps today. Nothing particularly intimidating about it.

 

[Mainline]

Weren't people here big on Batman portraying himself as sort of "beyond human" to put a fear into criminals?

Citation?

He's 20+ years into his career, appearing as a headline in papers, getting mentioned in interviews with one the world's richest men (Luthor), brought up by the editor of another paper, and raised by a newsman to another of the world's richest men who doesn't dismiss the existence of the Bat.

We're not dealing with an urban legend. He's a known quantity at this point.

 

[WitchTrialz]

His voice is the icing on the conceptual cake of SNYDERS Batman, and remember this IS snyders batman.

If you compile all the little things just from that first trailer, you can see he is going for a very techy batman.

The batman suit reveal is highlighted by a very subtle techno beat In the soundtrack. This sound kinda defines what he's going for in batman. Think about when Nolan (and Hans zimmer) used the sound of a fluttering cape to highlight Batmans moments. I'm bad at explaining it.

In that same scene with the suit reveal you see the wall design behind the suit is very intricate. Almost sci-fi looking, but it also resembles chain mail (keeping with the knight motif). That's the point, the duality of sci-if with real world grit. And of course to top it all off the mechanized voice fits into place perfectly.

It just feels to me like it's all organic, the voice makes sense and it fits into SNYDERS vision of batman.