Re: Ronin (no spoilers)

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

>Ever noticed how the engine noise bears no relation to the acceleration
>and gear changes, and how every car sounds like a badly tuned V8 with
>a couple of holes in the exhaust?  How the tyres always squeal _after_
>the corner?
>
Standard movie procedure.  They never use the actual motor sounds.  In
fact, so much of the film shot isn't mated with the original sound recorded
on scene; sometimes they don't even -bother- to record the sound on-scene,
and it's all done in the studio.  Lip-sync is a much higher art now, with
software that can coordinate mouth movements(to the point of having a
computer animated head move its mouth to sound inputted from a recording.)

They also love to put in screech-to-stop noises when it's obvious the
vehicle would have to have bald tires and the pavement covered in sand to
get that kind of noise.

Ex:

In Virtuosity, the woman(Ms. Mom) drives a Volvo 960 wagon.  There is a
scene where Denzel and she zoom off in it to go rescue her babe.

I can tell you from personal experience(heh heh) that a Volvo 960 of that
vintage sounds NOTHING like sound clip they plastered over it; the 960's
inline 6 has a distinct, raspy tone; when pushed, this is accompanied by a
dull roar; very identifiable.

As to one lister's complaints about the Z3 and other BMW's in Bond movies,
there was one Bond where he drives a new, black(w black leather), 1987 or
88 5kCSTQ across the German border; the car is in about 2-5 minutes of
film.  Keep in mind that at the time, that was like a A8/SL600/7-series,
only more exotic.  We don't really think about it now, but Audis used to
have a certain exotic ring(pardon the pun) to them; now they're just plain
status symbols.

Also, you all missed out on the most unbelievably blatant commercial of all
time.

The Bodyguard.  Think back to the airplane scene.  There is a 5 to 10
second spot, when "her" King Air is taxiing, where you see the side of the
plane with the words "King Air" go across the screen, nice and slow.  Right
smack in the middle of a big emotional scene.  Beech paid MILLIONS for that
one 5-10 second shot.

And it was worth every penny.

Immediately after the movie was released, sales for the King Air turboprop
almost doubled.

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