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Random observation - movie vs real life

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So - All this shut-in time has me realizing some things:
Everytime I pull a knife out to cut veggies - no sound.
Similarly, when I pull a pistol out of a holster as a function check, no sound.

Why does every instance for a knife or gun need to have sound when displayed in movies?
 
Probably the same reason why tires squeal on wet pavement.

And yes, sound has been defected in space.
 
Omg!

Glocks have a safety to snick off and need to be cocked when you are serious??!!! And 1911’s will fire with the hammer down??

Who knew?!?!?!? I’ve had it all wrong!!

I also need to remember to chamber a round just before I breach, because condition one is bad mmmm kay....
 
Nick Fury said:
My personal favorite: Let’s bitch about sound in space...
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In space, no one can hear you scream.


snax said:
Foley artist union demands sound effects for everything
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About 20 years ago there was a parody of foley artists for a porn-film foley artist. Oh gosh it was funny.

In God We Trust said:
I get really annoyed when they cock a pistol on an empty chamber. It’s such an obvious sound. Use a snap cap or something
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Pull gun and put to head. THEN cock it. THEN chamber a round. What idiot points an unloaded, uncocked gun at someone's head intending to blow their brains out????


Oh and my favorite is the bad guy from Smuggler's Blues - a classic early-80's hit.



That poor guy should get the mag release checked on that 1911.
 
I like how every other missed shot produces a ricochet sound, not matter what's in the background. I think it is 1 part dramatization (ooo...he picking up the gun..) and two parts foley artist doesn't know how guns work/sound. Although, that's more a thing of 80's movies. It still happens, but to a lesser extent. Gun play has gotten a bit better with realism. Although, I've read that even the Wick movies got round counts wrong.
 
ReluctantDecoy said:
I like how every other missed shot produces a ricochet sound, not matter what's in the background. I think it is 1 part dramatization (ooo...he picking up the gun..) and two parts foley artist doesn't know how guns work/sound. Although, that's more a thing of 80's movies. It still happens, but to a lesser extent. Gun play has gotten a bit better with realism. Although, I've read that even the Wick movies got round counts wrong.
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Too often it's not the foley's fault, but the director's. (Heat being the obvious exception.) In a way, it's unintentional Impressionism. The director has an image in his head of what feel he's hoping to create as a storyteller, and neither he nor his audience actually understand the real experience. Sometimes we're lucky enough to have someone on set who knows better.
 
Mesatchornug said:
Too often it's not the foley's fault, but the director's. (Heat being the obvious exception.) In a way, it's unintentional Impressionism. The director has an image in his head of what feel he's hoping to create as a storyteller, and neither he nor his audience actually understand the real experience. Sometimes we're lucky enough to have someone on set who knows better.
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That's the "1 part dramatization" I was referring to, but in a long form description. Still, it's going tot be the foley artist who picks out the sounds. Director or producer might note "makes a clicking noise here", but it will be the foley artist who then puts in a cocking revolver noise for the Glock, or some other "doesn't know any better" sound references.
 
In the show Counterpart (good, weird series, BTW), one of the main characters gets grabbed up by a couple opposing spies. As he's being hustled out of the bar, he grabs a cocktail napkin, and manages to stuff some in each ear. I said, "Looks like someone's gonna get popped."

Shooting a gun in a car is loud, especially when there's two bad guys, and you have to shoot twice.

Ironically Archer, of all shows, was pretty accurate on a lot of stuff:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK85OXiValM
 
peterk123 said:
Sometimes you just have to sit back and just watch the movie. Enjoy it, don't question it. Just go with it. Life is better that way.
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That's often true, but if it's a fact-based, or documentary movie, like The Matrix or one of the Star Trek flicks, they should get it right.
 
I always like the run-like-hell-and-the-Mexican-carry-gun-never-moves-or-is-seen. Then in 1/8th of a second, they are able to grab and draw perfectly.

Reminds me of the Mr T. cartoon back when I was a kid. They could do all these gymnastic stuff. I tried. Failed miserably. Discovered that some of their tricks were not kosher. LOL.

I also got a laser-tag set about the same time. I've always been a pretty good shot. But tried the dive-and-shoot thing in my basement. I was SHOCKED at how inaccurate I was. SHOCKED, I tell you!
 

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