The Dark Knight Rises The Bat voice

[Deaths Head II]

It's a lot easier to sit down and be able to focus your voice in a studio, it's a little more difficult when you're acting, moving and showing expressions.

That may be true, but it doesn't mean much when talking about the quality of the voice itself. If it doesn't work, why use it? Or at least to the extent that Bale does it, where it becomes distracting. Keaton did fine by just lowering his voice to a whisper and Kilmer only added a slight raspiness. We don't need Batman growling the entire film.

 

[Mutagen]

It works for me after the first time I hear it.

 

[jarve]

I hear he's going to sing all of his lines in falsetto in the next one.

 

[The Only Woj]

there were only a few instances where I had a problem with his voice in TDK. they either happen when sentences end with a 's' or when he was doing something weird with his lower jaw.

talking to Maroni (after dropping him) he has two lines that end with a 's'. like when he says "friends". Bale always has a funny 's', and having him end sentences with that is just too much for me. Same thing with catching Harvey with the loon. "attracts" which sounds like "attracsph". and even though I like his delivery when he says "you're the symbol of hope", he seems to go through much of that sequence with a weird underbite, with his lower jaw jutting out. he does the same thing when he has Joker upsidedown. he has his lower jaw jutting out. I think it just looked so weird more than it affected his voice.

good deliver? with Lucious in the room with the big monitor. his "I'm sorry Harvey" in the hospital. talking to Gordon on the roof before he goes after Gordon (ferry scene).

 

[ross2287]

Yeah, when he's with Dent it sounds like he says "You're the schymbol of hope I could never be."

 

[I Am The Knight]

"Your schtand, against organized crime...."

 

[kid dropper]

personally i like the voice more and more with each viewing. Hed have to disguise his voice, since he is a public figure and probably has his voice recorded often, and the alternate voice helps completely seperate batman from bruce, as well as batman from humanity itself. it is very funny i will give you that,(and really, so is the idea of a man in a cape and a pointy eared mask to begin with) but not if you look at it in the proper context. say youre trying to sell dope in an alley, and some guy jumps you, dressed like that, and speaks to you in that voice. are you going to pause to laugh? no you are not, it is only going to add to the fear effect. Much as how onscreen we can laugh when the joker throws someone out a window, or uses hand sanitizer before he blows up a hospital, but if it unfolded in front of our eyes in real life, it would be another matter.

 

[Steelsheen]

Is there proof of that? I'm not telling you you're wrong, I've just never seen anyone say in an interview or article that that was the case.

i think it was on the TDK special edition dvd disc? or another article somewhere. you can try googling it up or looking through the threads in the Batforums. the TDK production from start to finish is well documented.

funny how i keep getting asked for proofs to what i say. i read a lot, watch a lot of videos/ news/ talkshows, talk to people, getting their reactions/ thoughts on various matters. most of the time i absorb information and store them in the fact file of my brain. if i can just put my brain out for you folks to file through the stuff i know i'd gladly do so. but until that happens, you're gonna have to take what my fingers type on the keyboard

What would you think if they showed a natural deterioration in Bruce's voice as well, as if Batman's voice was slowly becoming Bruce's as well, and the two personalities were becoming one?

his reminds me of one of the stories i read in the Batman comics. Alfred was commenting to Bruce how the gruffy voice he does for Batman-- well he's doing it all the time now. Bruce takes a second to ponder that thought. the setting is in the Batcave. that scene would be great if they can somehow incorporate that in Batman 3.

 

[Deaths Head II]

Yeah, when he's with Dent it sounds like he says "You're the schymbol of hope I could never be."

Great, now I can't see that scene without noticing that.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

his reminds me of one of the stories i read in the Batman comics. Alfred was commenting to Bruce how the gruffy voice he does for Batman-- well he's doing it all the time now. Bruce takes a second to ponder that thought. the setting is in the Batcave. that scene would be great if they can somehow incorporate that in Batman 3.

I want to say I've read that particular comic too, because it sounds very familiar to me. If you remember which it is, let me know, because now I'm dying to find out which it is.

 

[SheldonLevene]

Yea I know it has air holes. But the actual nose piece completely covers the bottom of his nose and has air holes. Keatons was completely open at the bottom if I remember correctly.

This is incorrect.

 

[DACrowe]

I did not like the voice at all in BB. Never did. But I got use to it. I did not want it back in TDK. The first scene he talks and grumbles "I don't wear hockey pads," was kind of the first and only time I felt a slight touch of disappointment in the awesomeness of that movie. But then the film was so good I just didn't care and I'm use to the voice and don't think about it.

To change it now, 2/3 through a trilogy? No. I don't like the voice, but it would make the first two look worse if they just ditched it now.

P.S. When he tells Rachel "It's not who I am underneath that defines me..." in BB, who here thought he sounded like a gravely Donald Trump?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

This is incorrect.

Got any proof?

 

[JonnyQ]

The cool thing is about the voice, you would NEVER think "oh thats Bruce Wayne!"

It's so different to his normal voice.

 

[SheldonLevene]

Got any proof?

http://www.batmanunmasked.com/displayimage.php?album=36&pos=109

http://www.batmanunmasked.com/displayimage.php?album=36&pos=414

Not the best pictures but you get the idea.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I stand corrected then. But I still feel the cowl in Nolan's films, in particular TDK is more restrictive than the old ones. It seems smaller and tighter round the mouth, like it's scrunching his face up a little bit.

 

[Crook]

Bale has said it's the most improved and comfortable suit yet, despite being one of the heaviest.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea I heard he said that. But I mean when I look at the cowl, the mouth opening seems too small for my liking. It's like his face is squeezed in. But I guess only Bale knows how comfortable it is.

 

[SheldonLevene]

Yea I heard he said that. But I mean when I look at the cowl, the mouth opening seems too small for my liking. It's like his face is squeezed in. But I guess only Bale knows how comfortable it is.

Honestly I think it has to do with the fact that the newer cowls actually fit far better than the older ones. I mean certain shots of Keaton in the cowl are black on either side of his jaw showing that it was extremely loose at times.

 

[CFE]

If Bale talked with the same voice that he used to address Rachel in the Batcave in "Batman Begins" it would work...

 

[SheldonLevene]

If Bale talked with the same voice that he used to address Rachel in the Batcave in "Batman Begins" it would work...

Having just watched BB again last night I have to say his voice in that entire film was far better overall than the one from TDK. When he glides up to Ra's at the end and says, "It ends here" that might be my favorite bit of dialouge from either film. I think mainly it has to do with the length of Batman's sentences. He shouldn't be reduced to a monosyllabic short sentence speaker, but some of the longer lines of dialouge in TDK made it hard for the voice to work.

 

[Goodfellas]

That....Or like someone else said the voice he uses in the new Terminator movie is perfect

 

[tekken]

yeah i agree sheldonlevene, the fewer batman's words the better. i think batman's growl is much like an accent. asian accents can only be funny for so long until it gets redundant. can you imagine a whole essay read with an asian accent? it would start funny, and just get annoying.
i think it's the same with batman's voice. he should only say small little phrases. my favorite being "i'm batman." lol.

batman begins kinda jumped around. his voice was inconsistent cuz it always depended on the situation. interrogating flass, he had a crazy growl. talking to rachel, he had a bit of a whisper. talking to gordon, he had somewhat of a growl, but not mean or anything. in dark knight however, he had an angry growl throughout. lol. im not sure what i like more, i liked both.

but i never really had a problem with the bat voice. i actually thought it sounded cool. you hear someone try to imitate it, and it sounds like crap. you hear bale do it, it sounds awesome. to me anyway.

 

[SheldonLevene]

That....Or like someone else said the voice he uses in the new Terminator movie is perfect

That would work I agree, but two films have already established a very distinct voice, that fans and non-fans alike have come to recognize and relate with Bale's portrayal. Meanwhile going the un-altered BB route wouldn't be as harsh a change imho.

 

[Deaths Head II]

That would work I agree, but two films have already established a very distinct voice, that fans and non-fans alike have come to recognize and relate with Bale's portrayal. Meanwhile going the un-altered BB route wouldn't be as harsh a change imho.

I don't think most people will cry if there's a big difference in Bale's voice. I know for a fact I would be happy if he had the TS voice.