A Great Effect: Bane's Voice


There is much to like in The Dark Knight Rises, but I think, at the end of the day, what I like most is : Bane's voice.

The face of the actor playing Bane -- Tom Hardy -- is obscured for 99% of the movie, there is only one brief shot of his face(in pre-Bane flashback) near the end. So Hardy has to get it done with his muscular body(really his, I've read) and that incredible choice of a filtered voice(ALSO his, I've read.)

The voice tantalizes in the listening because it is CLOSE -- but not close enough -- to a couple of other famous voices: Sean Connery (sometimes) and Robert Shaw(in his "Quint" mode from Jaws.)

Again, close but not close enough. One hears a little of Connery's Scottish brogue and a little of Quint's growling mid-Atlantic "lilt" -- but not really. Not decisively. It is something else, this voice.

And it has a cadence...as in one of Bane's lines near the end: "You'll have to IMAGINE the flames!"

Bane's voice is great all the way through, but I particularly like it in the opening "mid-air escape" sequence and when he lays down the law at the football game he has just blown up.

That is all.

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I couldn't get into it. Hardy was good, but somewhere between the effects put on it and the cadence, it kinda sounded silly to me. That's just my reaction. It followed on the heels of my not caring for Bale's Bat-voice, either.

Nolan made (two) really great Batman movies, but I didn't like the voices.

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Bane was an awesome villain

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Hardy was good, voice sounded silly to me. I liked him better in the comics.

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His voice did not sound silly to me.

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It did to me. It wasn't the reason I didn't like the movie, but I found it hard to take him seriously at times.

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Well I always bought him as a credible threat. His voice was awesome and if they ever invent a voice changer that makes you sound like Bane I am going to be the first to buy it

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Go nuts, my man.

https://celebrityvoicechanger.com/bane-voice-changer-app-online

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Thanks but Bane isn’t on there

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Sorry. I just did a quick Google search, and since it was labelled as "Bane Voice Changer App", I figured that was accurate.

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It’s all good, that son of a bitch Biden is on there and I can have some fun with that

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Bane was perfectly awesome

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A lot of my friends didn't like his voice. I personally did, but I can understand why the particular cadence of his words turned some people off. It sounds kinda goofy/colorful/exaggerative...but I liked it. I thought it was a nice contrast to the fearsomeness of his physicality.

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