Christian Bale’s Batman voice is now even worse

Christian Bale is notoriously serious Batman The voice now looks considerably worse after later films with the Caped Crusader. Bale portrayed Bruce Wayne in all three of The dark knight Trilogy in which director Christopher Nolan brought Batman to Earth for as dark a story as possible. Bale’s performance as Batman was universally praised, with Bale embodying the selflessness and determined heroism that is central to Bruce Wayne as a character.

That puts Bale’s performance in The dark knight The trilogy didn’t entirely escape criticism, with the harsh growl of his Batman voice being endlessly parodied and among the lesser-loved elements of Nolan’s Batman films. Since Bale’s tenure as Batman ended, Ben Affleck and Robert Pattinson have each played their own distinct versions of Batman on cinema screens. This also had a noticeable side effect on the legacy of Bale’s Batman voice.

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Bale’s Batman voice has aged badly after Affleck & Pattinson

In Ben Affleck’s Snyderverse renditions of Batman, his version of Bruce Wayne uses a custom-built voice modulator that makes his voice sound almost demonic to the criminals he’s chasing. Later at Matt Reeves The Batman, Robert Pattinson’s Kurt Cobain-inspired Batman takes a much more technically simple approach, simply lowering his voice, while Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne speaks rather softly, even outside the hood. In the case of Affleck and Pattinson’s Batlan, both of them are really intimidating and scary with their voice changes, but this puts Bale’s Batman voice in a much worse light.

With his aggressive snarl as Batman, Bale’s Bruce Wayne is clearly making a conscious effort to instill fear in the criminals he fights. However, given Affleck and Pattinson’s Batman voices, Bale’s efforts to sound creepy seem far more excessive and over the top. Bale’s Batman voice even makes the words he speaks sound a bit distorted at times. This is particularly noticeable when he screams, most notably when the Dark Knight tears up Bane’s (Tom Hardy) mask and demands where the detonator of a neutron bomb is located during the finale The Dark Knight rises.

Why Bale’s Batman voice sounded like this

Per Christopher Nolan in the interview further The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, Bale’s Batman voice came from his observation that Bruce Wayne and Batman essentially needed two different voices to stand out as distinct entities. As Nolan states: “He decided Batman needed to have a different voice than Bruce Wayne; He had to compose a voice that would support the character’s visual appearance.” That’s how Christian Bale’s Batman voice was born, for better or for worse.

As much criticism as Bale’s voice has taken as the Caped Crusader, it never dampened the overall strength of Bale’s Batman performance. Even with his raspy voice, Bale’s Batman has many quotable lines like “Nice coat” And “swear to me“Nonetheless, Ben Affleck’s Batman and Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight each show an overall stronger approach to the vocal side Batmanso Bale’s voice in The dark knight trilogy is something that will likely be remembered as one of his few missteps in the role.

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