What happened to Conroy and Hamil?
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Zooropa_94 — 14 years ago(September 22, 2011 06:52 PM)
Let me start with saying I LOVED this movie, one of the best animated Batman incarnations ever.
I thought Dimaggio and Greenwood both did good, but where were Conroy and Hamil? I'm not trying to start a Conroy-Hamil vs. Greenwood-Dimaggio war, I'm just curious why Conry-Hamil didn't voice their usual characters.
I think I would have preferred Conroy doing Batman, he has a nice low, gruff-but-smooth at the same time voice that works really well for Batman; Greenwood's voice is a tad too high. Besides that, I guess I'm just used to him. Dimaggio was good doing Joker, but I did miss Hamil's signature cackles.
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blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 26, 2011 05:51 PM)
Thanks, the dude in the video is very spot on. That is an opinion jacks. They may have sounded like them since they were capturing the characters through their voice. It is like me saying the darkseid in Superman/Batman Apocalypse sounds like the one in Justice League and JLU since they both have deep voices.
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Jacks1981 — 14 years ago(October 26, 2011 07:53 PM)
But again it begs the question if they sounded similar.why not just stick with them?
The one reason I can think of is that they wanted it totally separate to the other filmsthat I can understandeven if I think Conroy was a lot better than Greenwood. -
blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 27, 2011 04:26 PM)
I really don't think that they sounded that similiar. Conroy and Greenwood both had deep, calm voices but that is where the comparison ends. Dimaggio's joker voice is nowhere near Hamill's since his is way deeper. The only similiarity might be in the laugh at times, but then you can also argue that any other actor who has portrayed the joker sounds similiar too. Just because Nicholsn and Ledger also had crazy laughs would you say that their laughs sounded similiar?
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blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 27, 2011 07:35 PM)
Thank you endenkton. I respected both Greenwood and Dimaggio for not trying to copy their predecessors and doing their own thing.
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Iceman_x21 — 14 years ago(October 28, 2011 10:49 PM)
My problem with Dimaggio was that it reminded me too much of one of the random characters he does for Futurama. Not opposed to someone other than Hamil being the Joker but Dimaggio is not someone I'd like to see takeover the role.
Besides Hamil is wanting to retire from voicing the joker, in fact a while back he said that Arkham City would be his last hoorah. (edit: just saw the video, and it mentioned this, and the fact that he has since recanted)
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Iceman_x21 — 14 years ago(October 28, 2011 11:54 PM)
In fact my leading candidate for the voice of Joker would be the same guy who played the role in "The Batman", Kevin Richardson. If you haven't already seen/heard his performance you should check it out, he appears in the first episode which is available.
http://dcbeyond.kidswb.com/video/The-Batman/The-Bat-in-the-Belfry/8200 ed89-0e09-427a-9b81-4b7f57e88b53
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blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 29, 2011 10:42 AM)
The video just makes reference to an alleged twitter post though. It is actually me in the video. I did like richardson's voice and the new design but I know it gets a lot of hate from people.
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morphion2 — 13 years ago(June 25, 2012 12:34 AM)
nobody seems to have actually answered the OP's question with any kind of citation or evidence, and I am curious myself. Was it that Conroy and Hamil weren't available? Did the producers deliberately decide they wanted to go in a different direction with the actors? What's the story?
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morphion2 — 13 years ago(June 25, 2012 07:56 PM)
Fair enough. Sorry, I wasn't implying that Kevin Conroy is the be-all and end-all of Batman's voice, I actually think Greenwood did a great job (and DiMaggio too for that matter).
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