▲ 101 ▼ Charles Martinet will be stepping back from the voice of Mario and is taking on a brand-new "Mario Ambassador" role at Nintendo (twitter.com) submitted 3 years ago by Ganrokh@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 13 points 3 years ago (1 child) Some part of me thinks he quit after they didn’t cast him for the movie permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) There is a good argument for not casting him, though. Martinet's voice is good for short sound bites and small single sentences at most, which is mostly what's needed for Mario in the games, and that's something he did very well. As far as the games are concerned, his will always be the iconic Mario voice. Applying that to an entire movie's worth of dialogue, though, would have been painful. No Italian I've ever heard actually speak English talks like that. They especially would not have wanted the Martinet voice for having Mario be a Brooklyn native as in the movie. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MKBandit@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Martinet is a great voice actor, look up his other roles. He easily could have done a more normal Mario permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] olmec@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I agree with you. I imagine if the film was made by Disney, they would have had the confidence to go with Martinet. Illumination really leans into getting large voice acting names to get a bit of prestige. Keeping Martinet probably wasn't considered for very long. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) There is a good argument for not casting him, though. Martinet's voice is good for short sound bites and small single sentences at most, which is mostly what's needed for Mario in the games, and that's something he did very well. As far as the games are concerned, his will always be the iconic Mario voice. Applying that to an entire movie's worth of dialogue, though, would have been painful. No Italian I've ever heard actually speak English talks like that. They especially would not have wanted the Martinet voice for having Mario be a Brooklyn native as in the movie. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MKBandit@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Martinet is a great voice actor, look up his other roles. He easily could have done a more normal Mario permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] olmec@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I agree with you. I imagine if the film was made by Disney, they would have had the confidence to go with Martinet. Illumination really leans into getting large voice acting names to get a bit of prestige. Keeping Martinet probably wasn't considered for very long. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MKBandit@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Martinet is a great voice actor, look up his other roles. He easily could have done a more normal Mario permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] olmec@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I agree with you. I imagine if the film was made by Disney, they would have had the confidence to go with Martinet. Illumination really leans into getting large voice acting names to get a bit of prestige. Keeping Martinet probably wasn't considered for very long. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] olmec@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I agree with you. I imagine if the film was made by Disney, they would have had the confidence to go with Martinet. Illumination really leans into getting large voice acting names to get a bit of prestige. Keeping Martinet probably wasn't considered for very long. permalink fedilink source parent