[Kibagami Jubei]

I watched Begins and The Dark Knight. Does anyone think it's funny/hilarious when Christian Bale switches to the rough Batman voice?

My friend does a good impression of it and it makes me laugh.

 

[Kuroi]

There's been a lot of talk about this all over the web in the past week, it's pretty funny.
One guy compared Bale's voice to a kid impersonating an grown man trying to pull off a prank call.

The Bat-lash has started!

 

[AEAFalloon]

I think Christian has the right idea though, Batman should be intimidating, it works a lot of the time, especially when he's shouting, it almost sounds like a roar, like in Begins when interrogating the bent cop he bellows "SWEAR TO ME!".
Mind you they must have cracked up on set loads of times over that voice.

 

[Spartan Rex]

Its not all Bale.
The sound editor says he modulates it a bit in an interview

 

[WritinMan]

I have no problem with Bale's voice. If I were a high-profile millionaire (billionaire?) spending nights as a superhero, I'd do whatever was necessary to make my voice sound different.

 

[IslandOfToys]

Yeah when I first heard it I was like "What the heck is he overacting for?" and then it made sense...of course he'd "overact" because he needs to be so different from Bruce Wayne for people never to suspect.

In retrospect, it's pretty goofy that in the old 60's Batman show the voice was the same with or without the masks on.

 

[RJMacReady16]

It's nothing short of genius.

Bale brought an aspect to Batman that I didn't even consider when reading the comics.

He has indeed "changed everything", and the box office speaks for itself.

 

[saiko]

I kind of like the slightly deranged Batman that I know and love, being that his real voice is Batman's voice and Bruce's voice the made up one.
I also have grown comfortable with Kevin Conway's voice acting for Bats in all of the cartoons.

I was fine with the hoarse voice, never really gave it thought as he was So in character, but it bugged my friend.
We started joking and eventually I found it was almost like Old Snake's voice. "Drebin? I'm Batman."

 

[shim]

seems like Bruce has delved deeper into each of his created personas... be it Bat or Playboy. perhaps he is becoming just as uneven as his rogues gallery?

 

[dandid]

Batman use the same voice changer device like Guru Pitka

 

[dragonsleeper]

In the Knightfall story arc, Robin taught Azrael Batman how to talk to Gordon by telling him to use a grittier/raspier voice like Bruce Wayne under that cowl.. so this voice is faithful to the comic character...Wayne has so many public appearances that his voice would be known to all, the movie was just being true the comic book mythos...

 

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