I am making an short film and i whant to make a vocal sound like it comes from a bottle. Can someone help me?

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Direction also plays a roll when you change the angle of the viewer relative to the bottle.  That is, the voice is more clear if you listen directly overhead of the opening verses being muffled from the side.  A good starting point for a muffled effect would be to use the "underwater speech" present available in the FX rack.  It will load chorus, parametric eq and reverb into the rack, set to a good baseline to start from, and don't forget to add the notch filter at 60Hz for added effect.
When inside the bottle or listening directly overhead, disable the parametric eq for clearer sound, then add it back in when listening from outside, through the glass.  Give it try and tweak as needed.

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