![]() And instead of Neeson as an unstoppable killing machine who will blow up anything necessary to get his daughter back, here he plays a childless botanist who wanders around dazed and ineffectual from a bump on the head. Instead of Taken‘s evil Muslims, Unknown features good Muslim victims of discrimination against illegal immigrants. They”ve merely reversed the polarities in this tale of international intrigue: Instead of France, it’s Germany. Unknown isn”t exactly a sequel to Taken, though it certainly sounds like one. Taken wasn”t a great movie, but it made a great trailer built around the Dangerous Dad’s speech to the head pimp promising, “I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” Similarly, in the 2007 blockbuster Transformers, Michael Bay directed his animators to model the good robots” wise leader Optimus Prime’s body language on today’s most imposing patriarchal presence, Liam Neeson.īut the 6″4″ actor’s apotheosis was the surprise 2009 hit Taken, in which Neeson plays an ex-CIA man whose daughter is kidnapped in Paris by Albanian sex slavers. “You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy,” Welles mused to his biographer shortly before his death. Thus, the great man’s last role was as Unicron, the planet-sized bad guy in the 1986 cartoon Transformers: The Movie. “They weren”t necessarily the best actors they were the actors who played the king.” Welles had to be cast as the highest authority character “or I discombobulate the scenes,” because the audience couldn”t figure out why he wasn”t in charge. Edit: for clarification years ago he had several interviews that stated that he used John Wayne as an influence when acting out Prime. but if he tried to voice Optimus, it just wouldn't of worked as well.Orson Welles once explained that he was, inevitably, what the Comédie-Française called a King Actor. Transformers Optimus Prime Returns to Roboson with Elite Edition Bot Optimusprime. Are you in need of a talented voice actor who can bring iconic characters like Liam Neeson and Optimus Prime to life Look no further We specialize in finding qualified voice specialists who can mimic these beloved voices with precision and skill. ![]() In the directors commentary of the 2007 Transformers DVD, Michael Bay said that he had told the animators to. Liam Neeson to Voice Qui Gon Jinn for Series quot Tales of the Jedi quot. How ever it still worked, because he was playing a relatively unknown character. Liam is asked to play the voice of optimus Prime. while i was in the theater *saw it twice* both times, people said "hey! it's spock!" Sentinal Prime's voice in DOTM, was any one unaware of who he was voiced by? NO. ![]() but a great Optimus Prime? no, because he'd be Neeson the entire time he speaks his lines. ![]() Which is why i agree, he'd be a perfect Alpha Trion. Yeah honestly, with the power of hindsight as much as I dislike Lorenzo for being a slimy fuck I think if they did get Liam Neeson to just voice Prime itd be so much easier to just divorce him from the character hes meant to be aping. Transformers One differentiates itself from the live-action films by focusing solely on robot action and not including a human storyline. but he does have a habit of always playing the same "Mentor" character. The movie takes place on Cybertron before the Transformers relocated to Earth, showing the earlier dynamic between Optimus Prime and Megatron as friends, not enemies. It doesn't matter how good of an actor or actress they are, we still see them. You can not take an iconic character, and put Arnold into it, look at Mr. IF james earl jones, was to voice optimus, for example, we'd be all hearing darth vader, or mufasa. if we want to believe that, that voice IS optimus, then it needs to be a good voice, that is relatively unknown. we saw HIM fly, we saw HIM be superman, we saw HIM in the costume.Ĭaptain america had Tommy Lee Jones in it, i don't even know what his character's name is, and nor do i care, i only saw Jones. Turns out it wasnt him, but the one who originally voiced him in the cartoons. not Sylvester Stallone, or Arnold, or any one else. I couldve sworn Liam Neeson did the voice of Optimus Prime. that's why reeves was such a wonderful superman. with famous actors, you will see let's say Nick Cage, in the superman costume, or in the ghost rider costume, and NOT see superman. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. it's the same with superman, or any other iconic character. THAT is why optimus prime can not be voiced by just any one. With peter cullen, we hear the voice of optimus prime. so anytime he voices a character, i know it's him. Problem with him, is he seems to have just one voice himself.
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