It looks like Bane is as incomprehensible as before, as reports that the audio in The Dark Knight Rises prologues had been altered prove premature...
Right then. Yesterday, we reported the story that Christopher Nolan appeared to have cleaned up the audio on the prologue to The Dark Knight Rises, addressing complaints from those that had seen it that Bane’s dialogue was pretty much inaudible. The story turned up at Collider, who subsequently posted a letter sent from IMAX to cinemas with information on the new audio mix.
However, it now turns out that this mix wasn’t anything to do with sorting Bane’s audibility out after all. The site has updated its story, following conversations with Warner Bros and IMAX, confirming that “they have not issued a new mix for The Dark Knight Rises, but some theaters have been sent the digital file that would have been playing on an analogue system”.
It’s an odd one, this. There’s little doubt that Nolan knows what he’s doing, and presumably the tricky-to-understand Bane is very deliberate. Also, the prologue is but a six minute slice of the film itself, and Bane will have a greater amount of screen time than that to make himself heard.
But still: we can’t hear him. It’ll be interesting to see, and hear, if the prologue’s audio mix remains entirely in-tact come the release of The Dark Knight Rises on July 20th.
The full, updated story is over at Collider, here.
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