14 DAY TRIAL // Late last year, Warner Bros. screened a 6-minute prologue from its upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises,” causing quite a storm online among fans who could not understand what its villain, Bane, was saying. Chris Nolan fixed that for the final film.
Though audiences still complained they could not make out about 10 percent of what Bane (Tom Hardy) said in the film, it was a clear improvement over what was shown in December with the prologue, as the video below will confirm.
At the time the 6-minute clip was screened, director Chris Nolan insisted that he would do nothing to make his voice clearer because he believed this is who a man wearing a mask covering half his face should sound like.
However, by early July, he had admitted that the voice had been redubbed for the obvious practical reasons.
The video below shows just how much of an improvement that turned out to be, by comparing audio from the original prologue with dialog from the final film.
“The Dark Knight Rises” is Chris Nolan's final Batman film, and stars Hardy as the bad guy, Christian Bale as Batman, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.