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Hire a real child actor next time. If it's good enough for Disney, Universal, Dream Works, and Lions gate then it's good enough for TTG.
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IMO as a parent to be, I wouldn't want my child exposed to a horrible world like that so young, even though it is made up. I'm all for gore and blood and guts. I can't get enough of it. But 8 (clem's age) is too young to be a voice actor for such a game.
Plus Disney doesn't make zombie games/movies. *shrug*
http://youtu.be/ZVFxpkBzJwM?t=51m14s
so do i, it's a fact that children cant act, they don't have the emotional maturity to do anything other than what they are told to do, and they do that the way they would do it
So they shouldn't hire a child actor b/c they are too child-like? Because an 8 year old should have the emotional maturity of an adult.
Who's side are you on? lol
what i mean is children aren't emotionally mature enough to imagine/act how they would feel in complex emotional scenarios that they have never experienced.
so nuance and subtlety are out of the question for a child actor,
eg. if you tell a child to cry, they will just cry like they would cry, but an adult could cry like there character would cry
simpler than mine but yeah
Clem is closed off, so if she's not cracking jokes, she basically sounding sad and saying "oh." I haven't seen anything that seems out of range of child.
People act like children in drama don't exist, which they do, and which throws out the theory children couldn't perform the role.
Absolutely unnecessary and could very easily result in a worse job with the voice acting.
To counter your 'Major Studios' argument, hiring adults to voice kids seems to have worked perfectly fine for the longest running animated show on television. If it's good enough for the Simpsons, it's good enough for Telltale.
Besides, the voice actress who does Clementine has done a remarkable job. Same with Ducks voice actor.
I have no idea. Red Panda never bothered to state why they started the thread.
i can't be bothered to find more, but i had already said this one
edit: can you name one child actor that has acted in any way that isn't just a typical child in a typical situation and it was a great performance?
However now that I know it is an adult I have issue with it.
We speak of child actors and how they cannot handle certain scenes and cannot bring a certain maturity to the screen but I beg to differ. The movie "extremely loud and incredibly close" features a child actor playing a youth a year older than Clem. The back drop is 9/11 and the child lost his father in the attack. I would say that demands a certain level of maturity and emotion to play such a character. And the actor must have done something right because not only was the movie nominated for several awards but the actor won best young actor.
There are other movies and films in which child actors play dramatic parts. I can't recall the name of the female actress or the name of the film unfortunately but the setting was the rural south during the Negro Civil Rights era. The setting and race alone demand a high level of maturity to act in a setting not only foreign to American born blacks but also very hostile. (so maybe not so foreign)
However, there are such cases when a child actor would not be good for a program, my thoughts go out to the cartoon "The Boondocks. An adult female plays the voices of both male leads and it is understandable because of the language used by the leads and supporting characters. But to say that a child could not voice Clem because they are not mature is false in light of other child actors working with equally emotional and violent films and movies. Since the cursing is minimal and no cursing is done by Clem there is no reason a little girl could not voice Clem.
The way she her character acts has been further enhanced by the voice acting. Those two combined is what has made her my favorite character.
I honestly did not know that she was voiced by an adult until I read it on the forums. Only someone with talent could make a kid sound like a kid while not physically being one themselves.
Some of her lines are simple things like, "oh." It's not just what Clem says it's how she says it a lot of times. It tells you there is something deeper going on in this kid's mind then just saying "oh".
And she sounds like a girl rather than an adult talking in a high pitched voice.
looks older than Clementine and meh
But can they do it behind a mic in a sound room? You put an 8 year old in a scary, dark room- they're gonna be scared. Put a kid in a a recording studio and tell them to be scared and read the lines in front of them with feeling.. I don't know
She's just as good as the adult. Be real. Obviously you're trying to prove your point and will discredit every child actor a person can post to make it but it just discredits your argument when you can't recognize talent.
Plus, you just look like a hater.
westernized sheltered children of privilege.
Oh..yeah this is a California production.
hehe, jokes aside. That's what coaching is for.
Doesn't the Disney channel use child actors for the cartoon series they have? "The proud family"
Okay, he was in a well lit hospital room with Bruce Willis smirking. Really the opposite of scary so what is your point?
do you know her or something? because you seem to have taken my "meh" personally
True, but people aren't being eaten alive in it.
I don't know her and I don't need to for me to say you sound like a hater. You have opinions about her performance, I have opinions about your opinions. Don't take it personal!
You don't have to see a problem. I never said you need to agree with me. I'm not trying to convince you or anybody. I'm just giving my opinion.
Why do you feel it's a problem?
i was honestly not impressed, i don't see how not being impressed is being a hater, and she did look older than Clementine
Random words on page? Either you don't know what "random" means, you have dyslexia, or can't articulate what you're thinking.
If you weren't busy being trying to be disrespectful and rude, you would have said I never explained why I wanted to a see child actor play the part.
For me, I she sounds like an adult trying to talk like a child and it break me out of the narrative at critical moments. Children have an innocence and ignorance to them that I think is hard for adults to mimic.
You're the one coming off as a "hater", which by the way is a really stupid word. If you want people to post in your threads, I suggest you play nice.
OK, First, that whole thread was a joke. I understand you were saying I was living vicariously because I was changing the words when I quoted people. I'm not stupid.
Second, hater is a great word. It's apt for the situation.
Third, I play nice. I wasn't attacking anyone, especially not for disagreeing with me on this, and even if I was to the two you qouted, since when does 2 out of like the 12 people that replied count as "attacking anyone who disagrees"? That doesn't make any sense. I've done nothing of the sort.
I think the problem is Red Panda wasn't offered the role.
I don't see the issue with adults voicing children. As has been mentioned, The Simpsons has done it since The Tracey Ulman show.
For me adults have an inherent understanding of what is required in any given role. They can read the script, take in the subject matter and act accordingly. I don't think a child actor could read the script about being attacked by a zombie and portray it convincingly.
However, if somebody can post a good example of a child voice actor acting a similar voice only role convincingly, I'll happily eat humble pie.