Merrick again...
Collider now says they were wrong about the information below, per THIS message omn their site. So, maybe we won't be able to understand Bane after all?
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Merrick here...
If you've seen the 6 minute DARK KNIGHT RISES Prorogue that's affixed to the front of certain IMAX screenings of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL, you very likely had difficulty understanding Bane's dialogue in the sequence. Personally, I could make out nothing he said in the piece - and was only able to infer what he was saying based on numerous Talkback transcripts of his lines, which I'd read before viewing the prologue.
It's now looking like a bit of tweaking has been done to the sound in said sequence, per THIS interesting piece over at Collider.
When asked how much clearer Bane’s dialogue is now compared to when we first heard it, our source said “40-50%, because he’s no longer being overpowered by the background noise that drowned him out before.”
Collider also offers a snippet of an internal IMAX memo regarding the re-worked sound. My understanding of the matter is that DKR director Christopher Nolan has no interest in re-recording or re-processing actor Tom Hardy's dialogue in the picture. Instead, it seems sound levels have now been re-worked so that his original tracks are competing a bit less with the ambient sounds in that IMAX prologue sequence. Presumably (and hopefuly) the IMAX prologue's original mix does not represent the final sound we'll get when the film opens in July.
I'd already adjusted to the reality that bane would be a S&Mish Charlie Brown adult in the actual film - now I suppose I'll have to recalibrate my expectations.
More over at Collider.
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