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Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: August 12th, 2013, 10:54 pm
by Baniac
The BB script says that Ken Watanabe as Ra's was speaking Urdu, but can anyone confirm that? Or did Nolan have him speaking another language? I'm not familiar enough with Urdu to be able to recognize it. Also, I can't figure out how to get my subtitles to work on my Blu-ray to see if that would help answer my question.
Anyone?
Re: Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: August 13th, 2013, 1:52 pm
by SomeFrenchToast
I thought it was Mandarin. Unless I'm confusing it with this scene when Bruce is arrested by the Chinese police.
Re: Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: August 13th, 2013, 6:27 pm
by Baniac
SomeFrenchToast wrote:I thought it was Mandarin. Unless I'm confusing it with this scene when Bruce is arrested by the Chinese police.
The script says Mandarin for the arrest scene, yes.
Re: Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: December 1st, 2013, 2:32 pm
by Code_R
I read an interview with Ken Watanabe where he says it's just made up.
Re: Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: December 5th, 2013, 9:38 am
by Bale Fan
Perhaps Japanese?
Re: Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: August 24th, 2016, 3:08 am
by marka3441
I read it some where the language Rs's speaking has a Japanese inspiration but not 100% Japanese.
Re: Language Spoken By Faux-Ra's
Posted: June 6th, 2018, 1:44 pm
by Batman's Batman
SomeFrenchToast wrote: ↑August 13th, 2013, 1:52 pm
I thought it was Mandarin. Unless I'm confusing it with this scene when Bruce is arrested by the Chinese police.
Ra's Al Ghul in the comics is Middle-Eastern - the movie makes him a Chinese decoy.
Mandarin in the comics is Chinese - IM3 makes him a Middle-Eastern decoy.
Granted, Ken Watanabe's Ra's Al Ghul was still better than whatever the heck that thing in IM3 was supposed to be, since he at least had some fight with the main hero.