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Post by blah on Nov 9, 2014 21:01:46 GMT -6
I didn't feel any intensity at all. Why was he doing this weird gravely thing with his voice at points? Don't blame it on his age either.
"Hehehe, yeeeewww fuckin' should be."
"Niiiiiiica."
"Ooooooooom gonna geeeeet youuuuu."
"NO NICA. YOU did this tah ME. YOU and YA MUM."
Ugh, Brad, I always thought I could count on you to do good work. But it wasn't here dude. Be proud of your daughter though, she did great with the role.
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Post by Dragon Prime on Nov 9, 2014 21:06:39 GMT -6
I have to admit... I couldn't tell if he was trying to hard or not hard enough. It's like as if he was voicing a cartoon character.
I noticed that over the years he added more emphasis to Chucky's voice but it is also unnecessary because he is Chucky. This is why his work CP1 will always be the best because he sounded like a man.
I also thought it was kind of bogus where he is narrating the flashback scene in a "character" voice yet he spoke just fine when being normal Charles Lee Ray in those flashback scenes.
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Post by Metal Matt on Nov 9, 2014 21:07:02 GMT -6
Personally, I disagree, I thought he did a fine job in this one, and his voice did seem a little weathered due to age, but I thought he did fine as Chucky in this one.
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Post by Dragon Prime on Nov 9, 2014 21:14:07 GMT -6
I thought it could have been due to age... but then I hear how he sounds in interviews and that flashback scene.
I think he just has a certain idea in his head asto how Chucky should sound.
It's kind of like watching season 1 of Family Guy, The Simpson's, South Park, or even Dragon Ball Z. None of the characters sound like the way we're used to hearing them. It takes a while for a voice actor to hone in on the character.
Unfortunately in Chucky's case... he doesn't get seasons. So perhaps it sounds more drastically noticeable with each sequel.
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Post by blah on Nov 9, 2014 21:39:12 GMT -6
I actually think a lot of it has to due with his recording environment. I have a feeling he is given no direction from Don or anything. No suggestions. "Just go in, record, and get out" basically. Don could've reeled him in.
But he DID sound fantastic when he was talking to Nica's mom in that kind of psychotic whisper. For the most part he was disappointing though. In interviews, he sounds normal. I still say his best vocal work is with CP2. Now THAT'S how you nail a character. There were so many details in just one line of dialogue. "YOU've been veeeeeery naughty" and then when he says "Ms. Kettlewell" it's almost a low snarl.
Or with Phil, there's no drawing out any syllables or a change in tone. It's just a cold, matter of fact, "How's it hangin' Phil?" almost like he feels sorry for Phil. Or when he jams the knife into his body? That's still the best Chucky scream to date. And the best Chucky laugh? When he's burying Tommy or killing Mattson.
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Post by Spanky on Nov 10, 2014 4:26:32 GMT -6
Yeah he just sounded old to me, but as it's been said before, the flashback scene he's seemed to talk pretty normal.
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Post by Metal Matt on Nov 10, 2014 7:55:39 GMT -6
To be honest, I consider Chucky and Charles Lee Ray to be two separate personalities, two separate entities. I see Chucky as a vicious killer who takes no crap from anyone, and I see Charles Lee Ray (at least in this movie) as a whiny, pathetic loser, lol, so it kind of makes sense to me that he would perform a normal voice as CLR.
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Post by Spanky on Nov 10, 2014 7:59:09 GMT -6
Yeah I definitely agree with you in that sense.
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Post by blah on Nov 10, 2014 12:04:27 GMT -6
The real CLR is at the beginning of cp1
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Post by sweetface on Nov 10, 2014 14:50:01 GMT -6
To be honest, I consider Chucky and Charles Lee Ray to be two separate personalities, two separate entities. I see Chucky as a vicious killer who takes no crap from anyone, and I see Charles Lee Ray (at least in this movie) as a whiny, pathetic loser, lol, so it kind of makes sense to me that he would perform a normal voice as CLR. See that's what they made him out to be in Curse, which I think makes no sense. I've always thought Chucky would have the same personality as a person that he has in the doll, so I really don't like the flashback scenes in Curse... the added in backstory is definitely my least favorite part of the movie. You could say he acted like that due to his twisted "love" for Sarah (or whatever you wanna call that) but even him being stalkerish and obsessed with this random woman seems out of character to me. I didn't really notice anything wrong with his voice in the movie though. The "I'm gonna get you" line was a little weird but that's about it. His voice was different in the flashback but everything about the flashback just felt off for me so yeah. |
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Post by Dragon Prime on Nov 10, 2014 16:21:30 GMT -6
Yeah... Chucky whether if he's a doll or a man he should be the same regardless.
I too wasn't a fan of the flashback scene because it made him look weird and weak. Even though I consider myself an "Original Trilogy Purist" they made Bride and Seed..m they didn't abandon it, so stick by it. I mean how did Tiffany feel about Chucky's love for this Sarah woman? I mean granted, we're not talking about sane people here so the possibilities are endless but we can't say it didn't tarnish our image of Chucky and all that came with him to some degree.
My only logical explanation for it is that maybe Tiffany was too Rock 'n Roll and he started dreaming of white picked fences and family BBQ's. His last effort towards normality but going about it in the fucked up way he only knows how to go about doing thing. Lol.
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Post by blah on Nov 10, 2014 16:32:24 GMT -6
The thing that makes Chucky scary is that the fact that he's always been that man we saw at the beginning of Child's Play, but inside a doll. He's not a doll that "came to life", he's an actual man. That's his soul doing all that work. That's what makes him disturbing. I don't see him as a doll, moreso as an imprisoned grown man, who is EXTREMELY violent towards women. Hitting them in the face with hammers, beating them with yardsticks, strangling them, stabbing them. A vicious, hot-headed sadist.
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Post by trilogyofterror on Sept 8, 2016 0:46:38 GMT -6
I always just look at it that it was just Brad's way of distinguishing the doll from the human counterpart by giving him more of a "cartoony" or "doll-like" voice.
Also keep in mind that Brad has been doing this for all 6 movies in the span of 30 years so I imagine his voice would be a little tired out by now.
But I guess if you're looking for a in-universe canon explanation the Chucky doll have been roughed up a lot over the years so I imagine it probably affected his vocal cords in a a way idk.
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Post by Spanky on Sept 8, 2016 4:03:47 GMT -6
Well the way I look at it somewhat is in regards to "how he becomes more human" the longer he stays in the doll. So if he can ejaculate and bleed like in other movies, why can't he age? Or at least his voice?
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Post by Dragon Prime on Sept 8, 2016 8:23:06 GMT -6
I just think he gets into a persona when voicing Chucky in a studio.
He himself probably doesn't even notice it.
It became more noticeable in Child's Play 3 when he started sounding more like Jack Nicholson.
From there we got the Chucky voice we know today.
Also let's not forget the spans of time between sequels. I noticed in Curse when he did the Voodoo chant it sounded a little off with some pronunciation in some words. It was 9 years after Seed and he barely said it in Seed.
So I think that time also plays a part in his voice. Just getting back into character after so long.
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