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DiMaggio as Panzram!

posted 12 years ago by Otkon
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Panzram has the best final words of any person ever. Look them up. They are immortal.

DiMaggio has said some killer sh!t as well - mainly from the perspective of my personal hero, Bender "Bending" Rodriguez.

[–] twodollarshort 11 years ago

he looked just like him,, i was shocked when i saw the trailer. it is just as if Panzram himself has come back from the dead =O chilling

[–] waspfan33 11 years ago

IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK...

i was playing gears of war 3 earlier today,then happened on this documentary on netflix,i was like damn that voice sounds familiar lol said the same thing when i was playing gow3,this guy sounds like optimus prime lol turns out hes done every voice except optimus prime . also sounds alot like lance henricksen,who also woulda made a great optimus prime,carl panzram,marcus fenix also lol

spectre can

suck it.

[–] ToHelenBackAgain 9 years ago

DiMaggio's delivery was terrific. It was a wise choice to primarily let the text speak for itself; Carl had a way with words, despite his minimal education. It's terrifying but also fascinating to gain this glimpse into such a violent, hate-filled mind, and I think DiMaggio really did it justice.

"This is a problem that requires two minds with but a single malt."

[–] lunacyregnant 9 years ago

I was so surprised to find out that John DiMaggio provided the voice of Penzram!! I'm more used to hearing the voices he uses for characters like Bender, Jake the Dog, Schnitzel from Chowder and Wakka from FF10, which all sound pretty similar; but the voice he uses for Penzram sounds nothing like that! I like that it's an octave lower - more raspy sounding and less cartoony. I haven't been this surprised by a VOA casting choice, since the time I found out that Jim Cummings (Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, Darkwing Duck) provided the voice of the mask from the Splatterhouse remake. Although admittedly, the surprise came more from hearing a voice from my childhood swearing, than it was a "It's HIM?!" moment. Even then, I could still tell it was Jim. Comparing DiMaggio's performance to other VOAs that have voiced dark roles, his is the first that I didn't recognize. Take Tony Jay for instance, I've heard his voice work as Judge Claude Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Megabyte from that early 2000s CGI cartoon Reboot, The King from the Lucas Arts game Armed and Dangerous, and the documentary H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer. His voice remains the same. It's the deep, very British voice he was known for. You just knew it was him. Or like with Steve Blum. Every time I hear his voice, I think of Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop; because Spike's voice is Steve's.

Not to diminish the work those very talented VOAs have done, I'm just amazed by how much John got his voice to change like that.