He sounded like a Boy then a young man after wards. That was either bad directing that they didn't notice or bad audio. Anyone else noticed what a difference in the pitch of Taran's voice has in the beginning as opposed to the last half?
shareSure did. It was definitely the same voice actor though. The guy was 14 years old when he recorded his lines so of course his voice went up a notch.
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They could have fixed the tune of his voice! It's just odd that his voice would be allowed to change when the story doesn't come of age..it's all in the course of 2 days! And as we all know, Boys' voices don't change overnight, they squeak for a while and slightly lower until its done.
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The trivia says that the movie took about 12 years in the making so I think the diretors must of cut off a lot of stuff when he was recording Taran's lines in the movie. I thought his voice change in the film was annoying too. Anybody can spot that.
share See it? I heard it. No fewer than three boys provided the voice for Wart. Two of them (the Reithermans) sounded like Mowgli from Jungle Book. For no small reason. The other boy, (Sorenson) sounded flat and scratchy in comparison. Specifically, he played Wart as a bird.
Working with young actors can get a sound editor into a colossal bind. This is why young boy voices are so often provided by women: Nancy Cartwright, Billie Lou Watt, Lucille Bliss, June Foray, Ginny Tyler.
OR by grown men who didn't go through puberty: Walter Tetley, Dick Beals.
Speaking of changes, did anyone notice Flam's voice was different when he charged across the lowered drawbridge yelling about the magic sword?
I hope that the reasons for the voice changes weren't because the soundtracks for those spoken parts were lost forever over a period of time, and voice doubles had to be used for those missing lines in the late 1990s. That would be even more tragic than if it was just lousy directing.
I thought about this possibility due to the fact that it took 13 years for this film to finally be released on home video.
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Good point.
I wonder Grant started recording his dialogue in the early 1970s, and finished it by the 1980s. If he did, then it would be almost like The Thief and the Cobbler, where all the newly-replaced voice actors were speaking to a 20+ year-old recording of Vincent Price.
I do not see a big problem with it. The film is much like a coming of age tale - which has precedence in medieval literature as a great deal of 'Sir Gawain and The Green Knight' deals with it. In the film Taran becomes a man, after being a day-dreaming boy. His voice change justifies that.
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From what it said in a Disney book written in 1987, the soundtrack was recorded over several months in 1981. Which explains the vocal change.
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