'The Dark Knight Rises' Trailer: Nolan on Bane's Voice

So the scrutiny has begun for Christopher Nolan.  Many online fans have decried Bane's voice in The Dark Knight Rises prologue as "hard to follow" or completely indecipherable.  Personally, if i'm listening, I can make out the dialogue that's heard.  In all honesty, if the majority of moviegoers can't make out the dialogue, they're not going to pay attention/go see the movie.

You certainly can't expect them to pay close attention, that's forbidden in a movie theater nowadays thanks to smash and blow up tactics by most Hollywood blockbusters.  When concerned with the dialogue, our very own David Hoffman best described Bane's line:  "When Gotham is in ashes, you have my permission to die."

Now because of the apparently difficult-to-hear dialogue is getting response from those behind the saga-ending Batman film from Nolan:  “Chris wants the audience to catch up and participate rather than push everything at them.  He doesn't dumb things down," says one high-level exec, declining to be named.  “You've got to pedal faster to keep up.”

Even the director himself said at a press conference on the prologue and the trailer "that it was OK for a moviegoer not to understand what was said at times, as long as the overall idea was conveyed."  I agree that the film should convey what it wants its characters and plot to say, but that's hardly the case as everything is being spat out in "dialogue" format and people expect dialogue to clarify certain plot elements.

I think this is more of a concern that moviegoers should pay attention, but I certainly don't want to be listening to garbled dialogue either.  Either fix it and have it not pander or remove it completely, whichever way you slice it:  Nolan has to do something about it.

The prologue can currently be see in front of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and the trailer can be seen below:

Source: THR

Comments

[Lillian James]

I'll just say I was paying extremely close attention and even trying very hard to understand clearly what Bane was saying because I'd already heard that he sounded a bit off, but a whole lot of it still sounded garbled and muffled. So I really don't think this is a problem of people not paying attention. Dialogue is meant to be heard; it shouldn't have to be deciphered.