As I noted at the top of my review, Bane’s voice in The Dark Knight Rises was remixed before the movie hit theaters in response to complaints from people who saw the early IMAX preview and couldn’t understand what the hell he was saying. Well now, if you missed the preview like I did, you can finally hear the side-by-side comparison of the original version and the re-re-remix.
In the original mix, Bane was impossible to understand in at least two of the lines. But in the remix, he’s so much louder than anything else that it felt like Christopher Nolan had done it out of spite. Bane sounded like the voice of God, or the movie’s narrator. In fact, I’d kind of like to see a new cut of the movie where it’s shot like The Wonder Years, where Bane explains that he was only acting weird because he had a crush on a girl, and actually wanted to be best friends with Batman but worried that he wasn’t cool enough. “Talia and I, we lost touch after that neutron bomb exploded. But wherever she is, I have a feeling she remembers that Batman summer like it was yesterday. I know I do.”
[StevenRichter via HollywoodElsewhere]
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I kept hoping he would say, “Attention shoppers! Yellow cling peaches are on sale, only $1.50 a pound. Clean-up on aisle 12.”
I would shop at that store all the damn time.
They should have kept the original dialogue track,thus ensuring Bane would become the Kenny McCormick of the Dark Knight Trilogy.
Nolans Dark Knight trilogy is ridiculously over-rated.
I’m looking forward to seeing who gets to take a shot at the next Batman movie.
YOU SHUT UP YOU SON OF A BITCH CHRISTOPHER NOLAN IS A GENIUS AND EVERYTHING HE DOES IS MAGIC THAT SHITS RAINBOWS AND—-
Hang on, they’re just movies? I mean, personally I enjoyed them but I guess that’s no reason to go crazy and berate you for having a differing opinion. May I kindly ask why you believed the trilogy to be overrated, kind sir?
Quick – who’s this generation’s Joel Schumacher? Kenny Ortega? Nah, probably the next Bret Ratner.
Please quit with ‘noun verb adverb over-rated’ putdown. Whatever point you’re making is lost in your disaffected, MSM-level rhetoric. Overrated and underrated have lost their original meaning and been replaced by the MSM’s belief in everyday American’s IQ-level. They think we’re stupid and show it by offering only two alternatives instead of a thoughtful discussion of the subject. Please don’t reinforce their belief in us.
P.S. I come here for the dick and fart jokes with a cinematic spin.
Agreed. Prefer Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns. They felt like comic books and had atmosphere. This trilogy is just like any blockbuster action movie, with Batman characters in the roles.
I’m glad they changed it. That would have been extremely painful….for us.
Yea, I to am glad it was redubbed and cleared up somewhat. However, even in the final product, I still had trouble understanding him at some points in the film, “GOOD EVENING GOTHAM, I AM, hurblehurbleburbleblarghblarghgh, THERE IS A BOMB!”
I still can’t un-see the Goatse.
If I had any musical capabilites I would perform as Goatsye and my only hit would be “Some Bodypart I Used to Know.”
He still sounded like SNL Celebrity Jeopardy’s Sean Connery.
Lol that’s what I thought I was waiting for him to say suck it trebek
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me who heard that. It seemed strongest to me in the first half or so of the movie. I mentioned it to the friend I saw it with and he looked at me like I had an arm growing out of my forehead.
That’s probably best your friend doesn’t hear that because it’s hard to find Bane menacing when he sounds like this:
[www.ebaumsworld.com]
Suck it, Batman. Suck it long, suck it hard.
He kind of reminds me of the Grand Inquisitor from Venture Bros.
The Grand Inquisitor + Colonel Gentleman
Was the remix just for the US? I’ve just seen it in the UK and his voice sounded a lot more like the original version. There were a couple of lines in the film that we couldn’t make out.
To be fair, it depends on the theater you saw the movie in- the midnight premiere I was in an AMC theater in Kansas City and it was overall ridiculously loud and I had trouble making out Bane at times. I saw it again in my hometown hollywood 10 theater and the audio wasn’t near as loud and I could make out everything Bane said. But yes the filmmakers can be blamed for the mixing because ideally it should be able to be understood at ALL volumes, but it’s really not that bad, made worse by theaters that jack up the volume. On our blu-ray’s I’m sure it will sound fine.
You’re the man now, dog..
Finding Forrester references…rarely used, always appreciated.
Was it really necessary to give away the movie’s ending in this article? Ridiculous.
Is it just me, or does the intonation sound different on a few words? Indicating they used different takes or even rerecorded it?
I almost started laughing during this film cause first I thought he sounded like Sean Connery, and then I realized it was Sean Connery and Austin Powers’ Goldmember had a baby named Bane!