Doktor Best
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Do you mean - Christian Bale in Batman? What an interesting way to refer to him.He's not absolute garbage-can tier, but I get the feeling that either the direction or how the actor is taking the direction isn't so great. He sounds like he's a professional voice actor, but comes across the same way Bateman did in Batman: silly. And considering Bateman is a really good actor, it's a natural comparison of what happens when a good actor does something silly. He was probably told to sound gritty and detached, took it a little too far, and the VA director either thought it sounded great, or was too timid to correct it.
I've always wondered if Bale is even a good actor.
Watch American Psycho, the Machinist, the Fighter, the Prestige. This will answer your question.
Bale had some shitty movies but when he is given the opportunity he will bite into the role like a rabid dog. Hes a maniac, and an A-grade actor.
Played all three games in three languages: Kwan, Potato and Putinski. I think Kwan VA has been excellent, especially Geralt. While he is grave spoken, his acting is actually very subtle, but very fitting the character. In fact, I feel the other two actors overplayed him. They seemed to have approached VA from a more stage centric perspective, with stronger intonation, which I don't think works for Geralt.
Disagree Polish VA for Geralt imo is perfect. In english version they made him basically Dirty Harry while in Polish version he is subtle in his speech often talking low key nearly whispering.
Then there is whole use of language. They did awesome job with english version but polish version is clearly superior here as language is often complex and used well in situations while english lines are often simple and sometimes fell off the point.
Polish VA of other characters though is sometimes bad and English VA work better.
Cant agree with that Dirty Harry comparison. English Geralt is much softer most of the times and also more nuanced. He is far from being onedimensional and he displays the character described in the books very faithfully.
I was put off at first by him when i heard his voice in Witcher 1 as it indeed comes across as "wannabe gritty" when you hear it first, but when you grow into it you hear the small differences between angry Geralt and normal/cynical Geralt and you start to view his VA from a different perspective.
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