The Batmanhas been released, and fans and critics are both loving everything about this movie. The casting, the music, the cinematography, the direction, and the acting are all praised as more behind-the-scenes secrets get revealed, and now fans are learning about the creative direction behind Batman’s voice.
The Batmanhad a very different approach to the portrayal of Bruce Wayne, as they went with a much younger and new iteration of the character. The creators also chose to have this version of Bruce Wayne be someone who’s working at trying to heal, as he still has a lot of rage and darkness left in him. Many want to seesidekicks like Robinjoin, but this Batman is clearly years away from letting people in.
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One difference between this version of the Dark Knight and past depictions is the fact thatRobert Pattinson’s Batmandoesn’t really change voices between his Bruce Wayne and Caped Crusader personas. Director Matt Reeves broke down his vision for Pattinson’s Batman during the film’s audio commentary. “I knew I didn’t wanna do a Batman that had been done previously, that had the growl that we’d seen,” the director started. “Because I knew that in this version, if you’re gonna do a detective story, Batman is gonna have a lot of dialogue scenes. Which, when you actually look at all the movies, Bruce may have a lot of long dialogue scenes but Batman’s dialogue scenes, he has dialogue but it’s controlled.”
The mystery story ofThe Batmanevidently required Reeves and Pattinson to take a different approach to the character. “This, by literally the necessity of solving this crime, was going to require him to have long dialogue scenes in that suit and some are very emotional,” Reeves said. “If he was growling, we wouldn’t be able to connect to him emotionally. There was a real exploration to figure out how to make that work.”
If Pattinson was growling and yelling like Christian Bale’s Batman, it wouldn’t have the same impact during the dialogue scenes between him and Gordon, Falcone, Penguin, Selina Kyle, andBarry Keoghan’s the Joker. The voice sounds authentic and isn’t much different from his Bruce Wayne voice, which actually worked.
Typically Bruce Wayne puts on a suave playboy act while going out during the day, but Pattinson’s version of the character is living with his pain, which means he’s not hiding his torment. He’s lost all emotion, he’s lost all fear, and he is stuck on his only goal ofsaving Gotham Cityfrom corruption. Based on all the success, it looks like they went with the right choice.
The Batmanis currently available on HBO Max.
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