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Hopkins voicing of Hitchcock


I was in another room for a short bit while this movie was on, and I could only hear it. Hopkins voice sounded like Michael Caine doing Hitchcock.

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I thought he did an excellent job with Hitchcock's peculiar enunciation and pacing.

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Yeah. He wasn't going to sound exactly like Hitchcock. But he got the cadence right.

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I was most impressed by his voice from the whole film - I thought that part was done really well and as you said, he nailed the cadence. I thought watching him speak was peculiar - the way he moved his lips was weird and I don't remember Hitch doing that.

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I'm with the OP- Hitchcock had a very distinctive timbre, accent and cadence. I'm really let down by Hopkins' portrayal.

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Hitch was more nasal than Hopkins as well.

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I really liked him

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Hopkins has a reputation of doing great voice impressions, but to me in this role he sounded like he was struggling with the voice the whole time. Never sounded right.

Incidentally, do you know who does a spot-on Hitchcock impersonation? Martin Landau. In the North by Northwest DVD there's a retrospective featurette in which Landau does the Hitch voice and is spot-on.

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Hopkins voice sounded like Michael Caine doing Hitchcock.




Frankly, I didn't think Hopkins was right for this. The voice impression was not as spot-on as I would have expected of an actor of this caliber. Also, even with the dark contacts his eyes still just didn't look right in a way that I found distracting all the way through the film.

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I thought Anthony Hopkins did a great job with the role.

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I thought Anthony Hopkins did a great job with the role.


I agree.

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It's not about doing an exact impersonation of the voice though, it's about acting. A laboured exact impression throughout ends up with, more often than not, a prety soulless performance. Otherwise you could get Jim Carrey to play everything.

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Hopkins was Hannibal doing Hitchcock!

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