Jul 24, 2008 | by John

For Those Of You Who Hate How Batman Talks

Thanks to Kristina for the heads up on this. Hot damn, this guy doesn’t SOUND like Ledger… but wow he looks like a dead on Ledger Joker

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Simon

Oh my god that was to funny I love it.

Jul 24th, 2008
Jeff Razey

ABSOLUTLY FUCKING HI-LAR-RIOUS!!! SPOT ON!!

Jul 25th, 2008
Homero

Oh man, I know I’m going to hell for pointing this out but you said “a dead on Ledger”…tsk tsk tsk.

Inappropriate comments aside, I’ve watched this video about three times and absolutely loved the commitment of both the guys and their ability to stay in character.

Jul 25th, 2008
Kristina

Yeah, a friend who HATES the Batvoice sent this to me and I rolled laughing. I loved TDK, but that voice was flat out ridiculous at points.

Jul 25th, 2008
sal

loved it. you could have replaced the joker with Bales’s mum & sister & it would have been just as funny.

Jul 25th, 2008
bret

omfg thank you for someone else thinking this, i thought i was alone. haha great!

Jul 25th, 2008
AjaxLou

heehee! Great stuff! Thanks for sharing Kristina.

Jul 25th, 2008
HAZMAT

i fucking LOVE btamans voice its creepy as fuck and he sounds mad pissed..idk what people are talking about…maybe they liked the casuall george clooney voice better:

“hey freeze whats up..yeah look sinse youre like not dead could you go ahead and give me the antidote for cancer? cuz uh..alfreds THIS close to croaking soo..ahh thanx thats awsome..”

not to mention michael keaton was BOOOORIIIING

Jul 25th, 2008
Chris

“There’s nothing in the English language that sounds anything like that!”

This was awesome. Both actors carry the characters well.

Jul 25th, 2008
That_New_Guy

I do enjoy his guttural growl in the movie, but this was funny.

“Why do you want to kill me?”

The best use of his growl though was in Batman Begins when he tells that crooked cop to, “Swear to me!”

Jul 25th, 2008
Karl Hungus

I do like batman’s voice, he’s supposed to be intimidating and the voice does that, but at the same time, this was a really well done video and did make me laugh.

Jul 25th, 2008
DirkAnger23

Well that definitely the funniest thing I’ll probably see all weekend. I think I peed a little there. “Are you speaking Bat?”

Jul 25th, 2008
sean ormond

You all have to remember. He is also trying to disguise his real voice, not just be intimidating.

Jul 25th, 2008
grendel25

I loved Bale’s Batman except for the voice, but my roommate thinks it’s great. I like to walk around my apartment mimicking the voice and saying, “It’s not who I am that defines me, but what I do.” After a couple of times, my throat hurts.

Jul 25th, 2008
Ransom

AHAHAHAH. That made me laugh out loud, it was so ridiculous it was funny!

Ok, while I understand that in TDK Batman has to disguise his voice and sound intimidating, I still think Bale could have come up with somethint that wasn’t so ridiculous. I thought that Batman’s voice was the weakest part of the movie.

Jul 25th, 2008
chris (the real one)

i cant stop laughin…i shouldve watched this sober…LOL

Jul 25th, 2008
Sound Designer Dan

Actually, Bale’s REAL Batman voice (straight from location) sounds great but the problem is that it’s usually a whisper so the sound guys have to add a bit of low frequency to it and compression to make it sound as if he’s speaking normally.

The only time I’ve heard his Batman voice undiluted by effects was only in Begins when he interoggates the corrupt cop, Flask, and he sounded awesome.

Jul 25th, 2008
Meli

LOL! It went on a little long, but definitely funny.

Jul 25th, 2008
Marc

“I do not have throat cancer!” [punch]. That was my favorite moment. And there was a split second in which I thought the guy sounded like Heath.

Jul 25th, 2008
Booble

whoa whoa whoa WHOA

…did he just say ” I know I’m Crazy”

that was so not joker of him.

Jul 25th, 2008
Josh

That was pretty funny, although I really have no problem with Bale’s grumbling bat.

The Joker’s voice and mannerisms took me to a very scary world in which Ben Stiller played the Joker… eughhhh.

Jul 25th, 2008
Bobsyeruncle

Doing Bale’s Batman voice hurts almost as much as doing Billy Bob Thornton’s Karl Childers voice (mm hmm).

Jul 25th, 2008
Dragonslayer

My God, I have never laughed so hard in my life.

Jul 25th, 2008
HDpunk

check out this spoof trailer of TDK
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8sYBqhOEdRQ

Jul 25th, 2008
Kristina

That spoof trailer is great!

Jul 25th, 2008
davide

it’s amazing…really really funny….I’ve laughed a lot during and after the video…fantastic

Jul 26th, 2008
Mattiac

LOL! I like how Batman talks but I still find this funny even though I think that the Joker should have made an effort to sound like Heath’s Joker. The Batman’s facemask looked cheap and must be cheap.

Jul 26th, 2008
Kristina

I watched Begins last night, and the growl is noticeably different in TDK than in Begins. In Begins, he sounds intimidating, but you can still understand him clearly. Throughout TDK, he sounds out of breath or like he has emphysema. The scene where I really noticed the difference was the scene in Begins with him and Rachel in the Batcave. I don’t know why they decided to make the voice even raspier in TDK. I really did love TDK like I said above and in other posts, but that voice was distracting at times because it was so laughable. People were criticizing the voice in begins, but it actually sounds better there. At this rate, Batman will be rendered mute in the third one due to rasping like that.

I remember reading something when the first movie came out which explained the rasp. Allegedly, there was a microphone or something in the cowl which would alter his voice. That makes sense. However, that theory gets shot to shit in TDK. When Bruce is putting Harvey in the closet at the party, he uses the Batvoice when he tells Rachel, “They’re coming for him”. So, it’s not the Batsuit that makes him talk like that.

Jul 26th, 2008
EZELL

Is Bruce Wayne not the most famous person in Gotham City other than batman? Yes

So if he talked like he did normal don’t you think some of the villains who are smart figure out he is Batman? Yes

not to mention he has bad ass toys that cost money and who can afford these bad ass toys.

Jul 26th, 2008
Kristina

I understand the need to disguise the voice, but the growl-rasp voice was over the top at times.

Jul 26th, 2008
Karl Hungus

Maybe they should’ve got Dave Vincent to do a voice-over for Batman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp1TmPo35yM

Now that’d be intimidating.

Jul 26th, 2008
pigeon

best dark knight trailer right here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThYPfULdomg&feature=related

Jul 26th, 2008
pigeon

best dark knight trailer right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThYPfULdomg&feature=related

Jul 26th, 2008
pigeon

sorry little connection problem on the late comment

Jul 26th, 2008
John

haha “Have you been to the doctor recently? Because it sounds like you have a major case of throat cancer”

Jul 27th, 2008
aaron

funny video, but that’s not a good joker. but he was funny

Jul 28th, 2008
Alex

It looks like the Joker and Batman are the same person doing the parts.

Jul 29th, 2008
Mark

I went to http://www.batvoice.com and found a ton of stuff.

Aug 5th, 2008

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