The comprehension issues are all cleared up, but Bane's voice is still unusual, and so when Vulture caught up with Hardy at last night's Dark Knight Rises premiere, we asked him to explain the inspiration. “It's based on a guy named Bartley Gorman,” he told us.
When asked how he came up with Bane's voice, Tom said: "That was actually a really cool choice that Chris [Nolan] made. Bane quintessentially is Latinx in origin of a character...and I'm not. "So I looked at the concept of Latin and found a character, a gentleman, a man called Bartley Gorman, who's a Romany gypsy..
Ultimately, it seems Hardy and Nolan mainly wanted to avoid a “neutral tone villain voice” by giving Bane a strange and distinctive way of expressing himself. And there's no denying they succeeded in their aim of making Bane memorable.
Hardy revealed how Gorman inspired him. “Taking that into mind, I looked at original Latin … sort of Romany Gypsy. And there was a character, Bartley Gorman … the bare-knuckle fighter, and that's where the accent comes from that I use in the film,” Hardy adds further.
"Bane is someone ravaged by pain from a trauma suffered long ago, and the mask dispenses a type of anesthetic that keeps his pain just below the threshold so he can function.
Tom Hardy's Bane voice seemed to be entirely the actor's unique creation, but back in 2012, he revealed to Vulture it was actually inspired by an English traveler and boxer named Bartley Gorman.
He has a white father, and a Latina mother. But as someone who never knew his father until he was an adult, who was born and spent his formative years in Pena Duro, the prison colony of Santa Prisca, and now as a man who still considers Santa Prisca his home, Bane is Latino by nationality as well.
Wikipedia lists Bane's alter ego as Antonio Diego. He was born in the fictional Caribbean Republic of Santa Prisca, in a prison called Peña Duro. > His father, Edmund Dorrance (better known as King Snake), had been a revolutionary who had escaped Santa Prisca's court system.
Gotham City fascinates Bane because, like Peña Duro, fear rules Gotham—but it is the fear of Batman. Bane is convinced that Batman is a personification of the demonic bat which had haunted his dreams since childhood. Therefore, Bane believes fate placed Batman on a collision course with him.
While the substance often makes Bane practically unstoppable, Venom is also Bane's biggest weakness. Venom gives Bane a huge Achilles' Heel. When the tubes/mask are damaged, severing Bane's Venom supply, he immediately experiences excruciating withdrawal. That intense pain makes Bane easily fallible.
However, this selfless action resulted in the prisoners' exacting revenge by torturing and beating him to the point that his face was mutilated and wrapped up in bandages after the doctor did what he could to save him but the doctor's fumbling attempts to repair the damage left Bane in constant agony.
Bane has abnormal physical strength as a result of having undergone experiments involving a derivative of the drug Venom. He became known as "The Man Who Broke the Bat" when he broke Batman's back, forcing Bruce Wayne to give up the Batman persona while he recuperated.
Nolan and company then decided to redub Bane's scenes to make his dialogues easier to understand but without fully losing that menacing tone he originally had, and in comparison with the IMAX presentation, his lines are clearer, but many viewers still found it hard to understand him.
Bane's Mask is the world-renowned headgear Bane wears to make people care about him and to suppress the constant pain he endures because of the wounds he suffered at The Pit. The pain-killing gas it delivers is so potent that Bane is, for example, able to take punches from rather large individuals without flinching.
Batman has a number of trying villains in his rogues' gallery, but few that can actually match wits with him. Except for Bane who, on more than one occasion, has proven that he is without a doubt Batman's intellectual equal.
Bane is a criminal who uses a special type of Venom to gain superhuman strength. He is an excellent fighter with high intelligence (IQ of 187) and an army of loyal mercenaries under his command including his most loyal lieutenant, Bird.
Judging by the ending of The Dark Knight Rises, Bane is the final villain Christian Bale's Batman ever faces. And it's quite the climatic fight, as Bane clearly has the advantage in physical strength, yet still Batman is able to dodge and strike at all the key moments.
This comfort and satisfaction with his own isolation also extends to lovers; Bane is not entirely asexual, but it is true to say that romantic and sexual desire in him is somewhat stunted, almost childlike, due to it both having never really been explored thanks to his upbringing and life in captivity as well as it ...
England, Ireland, and the Netherlands. On his father's side, Bruce is a descendant of the Revolutionary War US General “Mad Anthony” Wayne, whose father, the Irish-born, English-educated Isaac Wayne, emigrated from England to Pennsylvania in 1724.
The twist in the story was that the child from the story was actually Talia al Ghul, and Bane was her protector after her mother's death, but after Talia escaped, Bane was tortured and beaten by the other prisoners, leaving his face mutilated, and though the prison's doctor did what he could to save him, Bane was in ...
“It's based on a guy named Bartley Gorman,” he told us. (So, not Mr. Belevedere?) “He's the king of the gypsies, and he's a boxer, a bare-knuckle boxer, an Irish traveler, a gypsy.” If you are unfamiliar with the legend of Bartley Gorman, a clip from his 1995 documentary is below; the accent does not disappoint.
