Sgt. Largent":3rw8erjs said:
Cartire":3rw8erjs said:
He would be great narrating a documentary about the growth of grass. In all honesty, he actually would be a great Planet Earth type narrator. I might be comparing it a bit to much to a hard knocks style though. Which I think is great and works real well.
All narrators try to give the source material some gravity and profoundness..............unfortunately with sports you also need some inflection and excitement in your voice when the moment calls for it. THIS is the part Caviezel fell short on for me.
He was too even the entire hour, needed some more voice inflection. Can't all be Steve Sabol unfortunately.
The voice of Hard Knocks, and documentaries like "Lombardi", is actor/narrator Liev Schrieber. Liev was on the Today Show a while back and he was saying that he purposely changes his tone when doing the documentary stuff. He said that he strives for clarity and correct pronunciation over an emotion-based sound and didn't want to sound like his normal voice.
Caviezel did not sound any different from his normal voice to me, and because of the few of these he has done, the familiarity aspect for us is not as comforting to the ear as what we probably wanted to hear, but I thought is was okay.
I will admit that Schrieber would have sounded better, but he is quite prolific in that marketplace so they may have been looking for a different feel for this production.