The familiar deep-voiced guy who does the dramatic voice-over narration for just about every movie made over the past several years ... has passed away.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/09/01/movie-voice-guy-don-lafontaine-has-died/
Who can step into his laryngual shoes?
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aw poops.
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:( that guy was awesome.
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I can almost see William Shatner doing the voiceover for some trailers -- for more lighthearted movies, maybe Indiana Jones/Arnold Schwarzenegger-type action movies. Especially if he plays it as straight as he can. But he has too much campy connotation for anything heavy.
We need another deep-voiced actor guy who can do also dramatic but without going full Shatner.
Orson Welles would be perfect if he wasn't dead.
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Bet they'll probably just pay his estate and use voice software to mimic him. I bet it winds up being both cheaper and has less margin of error than replacing him would.
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Oooh, LIT -- James Earl Jones would be perfect for this stuff!
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Shem: Interesting idea; is the state of the art up to that yet? I think there's more to what they guy did than the sound of his voice -- there's also the inflection, what he chose to emphasize, that made it "art." Might not be amenable to automation. I guess a director or actor could make these choices, though.
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They turned Hayden Christensen's voice into James Earl Jones' in Revenge of the Sith. I can't see why they couldn't do it again with announcer guy. And getting the cadence right shouldn't be too difficult for a trained actor.
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I suspect the market will respond with a new paradigm in movie trailer voice-overs.
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Honestly, I think it's about time for a new cinematic cliché, anyway. That guy -- although I must concur that he had a good, dramatic voice -- was one of the reasons I never saw 99% of Hollywood movies, because an awful lot of the previews he would do were for movies that just looked terrible.
On the other hand, now that he's gone, how else am I going to know what to avoid seeing?
I guess I'll have to rely on other cues now (Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, et al...).
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I noticed that a few years ago they started having other people do these things.
There are also others:
And this is my favorite voiceover moment, even though I haven't and will never see the movie:
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