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Odd Things in this.

posted 10 years ago by HorrorManic
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I'm about halfway through this and there's already been some things said I don't really agree with.

One guy said something about movie acting is limiting and that your paid to do your own voice and whatnot, but what about actors that put on accents or like Health Ledger as the joker? Daniel Day Lewis re-creates his voice for every role he's in. What about British actors doing American accents?

Also the bender voice actor said he played a black guy before and that you can't do that in a movie. Robert Downy Junior played a black guy in Tropic Thunder.

Another point they brought up is that in order to be a voice actor you have to be able to do various voices. I know some voice actors that just do there own voice. The guy who does Archer, and Bob on Bob's Burgers is a prime example, that's just his own voice. This goes back to the first point about movie actors only getting paid to do they're own voice.

The documentary is cool, but it seem like they rip on movie actors a lot just to put their profession up more. Don't get me wrong a lot of the voice actors on there are very flexible in what voices they can do, it's very cool. But at the same time I don't really like it so far based on the points above.

[–] ReelRocknRolla 9 years ago

I agree with everything you said more or less.

But the part where they were talking about movie stars and just doing one voice or trying to sound as much like themselves as possible. They were referring to when a movie star does voice acting. And it's true what they said, more often than not.

[–] FrmSyriaWithLuv 8 years ago

Robert Downey Jr didn't play a black guy. He played a white method actor who had his skin like that for a role. lol He was the dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude.

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[–] Max_cinefilo89 8 years ago

One guy said something about movie acting is limiting and that your paid to do your own voice and whatnot, but what about actors that put on accents or like Health Ledger as the joker? Daniel Day Lewis re-creates his voice for every role he's in. What about British actors doing American accents?

They were talking about movie actors doing voices in animated movies. Nine times out of ten, they're asked to sound like themselves.

Also the bender voice actor said he played a black guy before and that you can't do that in a movie. Robert Downy Junior played a black guy in Tropic Thunder.

Not the same thing. RDJ played the role of a white actor playing a black guy. DiMaggio has voiced characters who are 100% black.