Thanks to SAM for sending us this little scoop from Francois Chau. When asked about the Cameraman in the new Dharma Video he had this to say.
All I can tell you is "yes" I know who did the voice, and "yes" it definitely is someone the audience has seen before.
For those that have no idea what I'm waffling on about, the video was another one that was released during the Lost Comic-Con Panel which we covered. Below is the video.
Pierre Chang - Dharma Video - Who is the cameraman?
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65 Comments:
FARADAY!!!!!!!!!
i second that. i think its Daniel.
What video? Was it posted here? Is it online? Does anyone have a link?
Here is the video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dn_dNsaz-AA&feature=related
Thanks for the link. That video is annoying, but I would definitely say without doubt it's Faraday--with or without Chau's scoop.
It is absolutely, positively, 100% Daniel Faraday. I've been following Jeremy Davies' career for over 10 years, and know his voice extremely well. No doubt about it.
am i crazy? cause it doesnt sound like davies to me, i her a hint of Karl in that voice, but... i dunno
would make waaay more sense if it was faraday
Yup, this confirms that it's Daniel. We don't know any other cast members with even remotely similar voices.
Some obvious questions:
How did Daniel make contact with Pierre Cheng? Did Daniel travel to the past alone? Did the entire island shift back in time? Did Daniel really travel back in time or did his consciousness jump alone (like in The Constant)? Was Daniel ALREADY on the island back in the 70s? Does Daniel not age like Richard?
Also somewhat interesting - Daniel was doubtful about the chances of anyone seeing the video, hence he turned it off against Cheng's wishes. What circumstances were they in to cause such pessimism?
I think it has to be Daniel. He is an amazing actor, but he has a bit of a whine to his voice. That was the FIRST thing I thought when I heard the video...
Gotta be Daniel!!!
i thought it was eddie, the cop who betrayed locke at the commune in his flashback...
"It is absolutely, positively, 100% Daniel Faraday. I've been following Jeremy Davies' career for over 10 years, and know his voice extremely well. No doubt about it."
Creepy.
Little doubt it is Faraday. I'm not sure this was even worth a post.
Matt, how is it not worth a post? So far it was only speculation on our part. We had no confirmation.
I'm not sure this was even worth a post.
If it's ok with you, I'll be the judge of what gets posted on my site :)
I thought it was definitely worth seeing. Thanks Dark, you are the best!!!
Still don't think it's Faraday. Too New Yawk. Looking forward to the reveal, though, and wouldn't mind being proven wrong.
yeah i caught a hint of the new york accent too, so i have my doubts that it's daniel =/
its definitely NOT Faraday. Faraday sounds too cool to be the cameraman. Its Horace. It sounds exaaaactly like him
This seals it for me. Faraday.
Faraday! :D Now it makes sense. Maybe the people on his boat go BACK IN TIME!!! :D :D :D
faradays voice, no doubt
its our friend with a penchant for skinny ties!
Glad to be of help. expect to see more of this discussion with Francois Chau this upcoming Sunday!
could be Horace...but I think it is Faraday.
Umm...I don't hear a single sound coming out of my speakers when I play this video (yes, my volume was unmuted and turned up to its maximum setting.
Oh, ABSOLUTELY Faraday! I think that is his voice. And, if I'm not mistaken, the silhouette that passes in front of the camera about midway through - the hair looks like Faraday's tousled 'do.
If I were a betting woman, my money is on Faraday.
absolutely Faraday, from the minute the video went up here on Dark's site, the initial response was "it's Faraday". Pop in a dvd or go to abc.com and find an episode he was in for comparison. I didn't hear a New York accent in there and well, yeah I know New York accents when I hear them.
sorry, obviously Faraday didn't show up until Season 4...I was thinking dvr if you have it saved.
It sounds like the voice of the camera man is Daniel Faraday!!!!
its Faraday. the end was the most obvious.
if that is faraday then we also hav someone else in the background who we seen b4..my guess is the baby...ifthey were given a warnin that they were gona die then they would want 2 get their kids off the island a.s.a.p....anyone get that? asian guy who can see dead people..or even a certain english woman..hint hint...mite explain why widmore chose who he chose 2 go 2 the island for him...
I can't hear any sound in the video! Is there somewhere else I can watch it at?
YouTube probably has it.
I say Goodspeed or Karl.
It sounds like Miles, not Faraday. The attitude and tone is consistent with his character. Listen to previous Miles' scenes and you'll hear the same occasional slip of an east-coast accent. (Heard in this scene on the word "off.") Ken Leung is from New York. Jeremy Davies is from California.
Uhm... I hardly think this confirms anything. The most obvious choice is Faraday, but it's not confirmed in anyway.
Now, on topic. How in hell does Faraday end up being "30 years" into the past and tape a video (and not knowing how to turn it off???) with Cheng/Chandle blah blah...?
Sounds like 2 other people are in the room with him, the camera man and another person maybe standing off to the side behind the camera. Pierre Chang keeps looking past the camera, and seems to speak to him when it cuts out, the direction he is looking IMO couldnt be where the person shooting the video is standing. You can see Pierres eyes shift focus with 2 different people also
The voices sound like Faraday and Minkowski maybe, or Miles. You can hear the other guy starting to talk then the camera man interupting him right away, on both parts after it cuts out then comes back in.
On the first cut out, at 3:15, i hear one man (the one standing further from the camera) say "None of that matters" and immediatly u hear the man holding the camera say "It doesnt matter, just get to it. Please."
It then cuts out again, and when it comes back in, the guy further from the camera says something but its jumbled, and mid sentence he is interupted by the camera guy who says "Theyre never going to see this Peter, how do i turn this off?"
The man who says "None of that matters" and is interupted the other time he speaks sounds like Faraday. The guy holding the camera doesnt sound anything like Faraday to me, he even has an accent. The way he talks is more like Minkowski or Miles to a lesser extent. But either way, i can distinctly hear 2 seperate voices, and the pitch of both voices are so different they cant be from the same person.
Popular belief now is that MIles is the baby crying. When Pierre yells to his wife Jennifer, he tells her to quiet the baby. It could just be a little scene to show that he also was a family man, but this gives more backbone to the whole "miles is marvin's son" theory (not just that theyre both asian, anymore)
No doubts, it's Faraday. His voice is very particular and there's no other person on the show, and that we know ç, who talks like that.
Please lets not get into "the baby must be Miles because he's Asian" thing, like the horrid threads on "Abbaddon is Walt as an adult". Ken Leung and Francois Chau are of two very completely different asian backgrounds of which there are many. I don't even hear where Pierre calls his wife??? Jennifer. We're assuming alot here.
Daniel says, "they're never going to see this Pierre" not Peter and it's the same voice that says "none of that matters". I do agree however that I heard one line spoken from another male, one that we know, and that there are more people in the room than we think. Having said that, I think it's possible that Daniel moved with the island 30 into the past and is with the remaining survivors including Locke. Daniel's scatter brain like behavior is from not having contact with his Constant. Sounds like he hasn't thought to read his journal quite yet. If this is canon, this transmission should be received by someone, someone with "enough resources" to pick up on a signal like this....enter Penny and Desmond.
Why are people assuming the baby is Miles??? It could easily be Charlotte as well... What if Jennifer were a redhair with blue eyes? The fact that Cheng is asian doesn't make it 100% sure that his offspring will be "asian"... In fact, who said Jennifer is Cheng's wife and the baby is his? Jennifer could be a woman living there with him... She could be her friend, and the mother of Charlotte, and Cheng would send them away from the island to save them because he knew about the purge and stuff...
I just trainofthoughted that... just saying... I could be anything,
"Popular belief now is that MIles is the baby crying."
LOL
um, no.
Ment Pierre, not Peter, my bad.
charlotte is the baby? maybe... she knows korean remember...
maybe....just maybe...the purge that Marvin Candle has been talking about the whole time is really when ben turned the frozen donkey wheel? think about it this video makes it seem like the island is 30 years behind and with daniel in the video maybe it means he filmed it after the island "moved"....just throwin it out there
spets said...
charlotte is the baby? maybe... she knows korean remember...
Well... that's the kind of stuff we should avoid... No, it's not Charlotte because she knows korean... I mean... Charlotte has blue eyes... Locke too... is she his daughter???
I know we're just guessing, because we really have no information at all... But, let's avoid linking things when there's actually no link at all.
You know what I'm sayin'. Nothing personal.
At first I thought it was Horace but it could be Daniel.
If it's Daniel, then perhaps his boat was tossed through time individually of the island. The island from the "current" time gets transported "somewhere else" while Daniel's boat remains in the same spot, geographically, but in the past. Works with what they've been saying the flashes will be next season, all around the place. And Rousseau's backstory not really being a flashback...I hope we'll see some Radzinsky, too...
so my vote is faraday,
but damn the voice lets figure out the story
30yrs, a baby crying, halliwax, candle whatever his name is
is he changing names everytime the wheel turns, like jeremy bentham???
and did anyone else notice him grabbing his left arm at some point in the video.
daniel faraday is such a major player in this show. did candle shoot these dharma oreintation videos in the future in hopes of restarting dharma, and did daniel bring the videos back to the island so people like locke and eko could find them.
or did daniel send them in his little rocket experiment thing that had a time delay?
for all we know, the island doesnt have a time delay, but faradays experiment does.
how old is daniel? he looked the same at oxford in 96 and on the island.
thanks for satisfying my lost fix
Why are you assuming it's 30 years in the past? Could be 30 years in the future ya know. Watch it again.
"You WILL BE communicating on something called the internet" "Your president WILL BE George W. Bush" (eek what a horrible reference he had to make about our future). Looking at his arm which is still in tact, he says "I WILL BE dead".
These are clearly references to the future, not the past.
Pierre says "HIM". I previously posted a transcript from "Confirmed Dead" relating to when Ben shot her and Locke had a gun to his head. Charlotte's birthday is July 2, 1979, and again the video says "HIM" not "HER".
I agree with Samus88; theory without anything to back it up is pointless. We have no idea why Miles decided to stay on the island. What we know about him is that he seems to be able to talk to the dead; there are certainly plenty of dead people on the island for him to talk to. We see 2 asian people of completely descents and they have to be related? Do we even know if this video is canon would be my first question? Lets remember that the Orchid video from last year wasn't exactly the same Orchid station we eventually saw in TNPLH, was it?
Def Faraday... the hair silhoutte looks alot like his and his voice is hard to confuse with any of the other characters on Lost.. maybe he went back in time when the island was moved..
im still saying horace
I honestly thought it was SUPPOSED to be Faraday, as an "OMG" moment. I hadn't considered that it might not be him.
I have noticed that he sounded more cocky and arrogant in "The Constant" than the "awkward" Daniel we know on the island. It sounded like THAT Daniel.
Daniel is tied for my favorite character on Lost now. (Locke, Ben, Faraday... I like complicated people)
Clarification... I mean it sounds like the more confident Daniel, NOT awkward like he is on the island.
Lostinnj,
That doesn't discount that he could be communicating from 30 years in the future.
The camera man is Daniel Faraday. You can tell by his voice.
the producers won't just give away something THAT big, i mean there must be more to it, i agree it sounds like daniel and i believe that it is daniel but he really sounds confident and non-whiney kind of tone, throught season 5 i'm sure they'll make this thing deeper
I thought it sounded like Faraday or Juliet's husband. I've seen him in a few things but i'm not sure what accent he did for Lost
it almost has to be daniel,
everyone on that frieghter was chosen by abaddon for a reason.
these time travelers dont know who is really watching them over the course of all these years. faraday doesnt age either. and once u lived for 30yrs without aging you are on the radar of widmore/dharma/alpert whoever
we have to assume that daniel woke up in the 70's and started looking for the dharma people to warn them of whats to come
the dharma people let him observe maps and things of the island. faraday sneakily wrote them down just incase. thats how he has knowledge of the hatches on the island and other things. his life is like groundhogs day and the day of the donkey wheel he goes back 30yrs again. thats why when he saw the 815 wreckage he cried cuz he knew it was about to happen all over again unless he changes something. he's lived his life as a proffesor all over again tryin to build a time machine of his own to speed up this 30yr process he has to go thru. he showed candle whats to come by showing him his journal. the same way he told desmond to mention eloise to make him believe. he has to show chang/halliwax the journal to make him believe what he is saying.
when will the desmond/faraday constant come into play, i'm very curious about that cuz he needs him in the 70's to survive,
wow what if he looks and finds desmond hume as a child, and then wrote down in his journal that desmond will be his constant.
trippy aint it
For those of you who say the boat teleported, it makes sense. I don't think there was anything modern on the boat. The phones seem to be from the 60s or 70s, and I'm pretty sure there was plenty of other older stuff.
There are a few things that prove it's Daniel to me. First of all, Daniel did the time difference experiment with the payload. This broadcast has a similar outcome. It's not recording, it's a broadcast. Second, Daniel knew that they had to be off the island before it moved. He has knowledge of this island that others in their crew do not have. He's been here before. And last, he lived in Essex, MA where he would have picked up that East Coast accent that we hear in the broadcast from the camera man.
Sorry, I also wanted to throw this in there......
What discounts that this is being broadcast from the future is the arm issue that Dr. Chang is having. I am really thinking that this broadcast is what sets Dr. Chang on the path to making all the films for the Dharma stations. He urges the viewer to reconstitute the Dharma Initiative. And then, later, he ends up providing the necessary tools (films) to describe what experiments are done where.
dharma do only stupid experiments :)
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My immediate thought was Faraday, but after listening to it again, I also hear Miles as the one saying "Never mind, just get to it." Still just hear Faraday with all the other "How do I turn this off?" stuff.