If I were a filmmaker, I’d be so tempted to troll the ornithologists by putting in, say, a faint but distinctly recognisable kookaburra call in a scene in the Peloponnesian Wars or something. And add another layer of trolling by having the scene filmed somewhere where there are no kookaburras.
I get it, my dad worked in corporate aviation, my aunt worked in commercial aviation, and I worked in cargo aviation. I also have a little second hand knowledge of military aviation. Anytime there's something with planes in TV or film, I cringe.... well except for Airplane! but that should go without saying.
I couldn't agree more, why I remember the first time I saw Airplane! it was during the war, my wingman George Zipp suggested the film while we were on R&R. I agreed to go with him, more to keep him company than an actual desire to see the film, but to my surprise I actually enjoyed it. On our way home we stopped by a disco.........
Yeah there is, it's in the growth patterns where you can tell the trees were either planted or allowed to grow in an arrangment that maximised yield, are all very similar in age, and historically but not recently regularly trimmed for wood and sticks without chopping them down.
Asia and Africa (other than Japan, which did it with evergreen trees) historically used other materials (mainly grasses/palms), and in the Americas they used different construction methods both pre- and post-colonisation, so you don't get (as many) old managed woodlands.
That is the weirdest generalization I've ever read.
Houses are built differently all throughout Europe. Trees were planted at different times, with different varieties. Sweden has huge swathes of pine, where I live it's mostly oak and beech. A lot of that pine is fairly young while the forest near me is hundreds of years old. Hell, Wales has an ancient rain forest.
And yet the type of woodland in Deadpool & Wolverine appears almost exclusively in Europe, and so (given how much they'd have to go out of their way to find somewhere like that elsewhere), must be European.
If anything I'm generalising that all North American woodland is either primeval or modern plantations, but nowhere have I said that there isn't woodland like that in Europe.
I have no idea of this person is expert enough to tell the difference, but there are loon species in Europe that sound pretty similar to the common loon.
You're all complaining about the minutest detail, but if you watch the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge, you'd have aneurism. A battle famously occured in Europe during one of the coldest snowy winter, and the finale was filmed on dry semi-arid landscape. The Allies used M4 Sherman tanks in larger numbers, but the film used M24 Chaffees as if they were more ubiquitous. You don't need to be nerd on WWII but having the basic knowledge of conflict would make one cringe of the film's deliberate errors. Ridley Scott's Napoleon was somehow more tolerable and given a pass because Scott never intended the film to be taken aa seriously.
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Sergio@piefed.social · 59 pts · 357d
They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 56 pts · 357d
If I were a filmmaker, I’d be so tempted to troll the ornithologists by putting in, say, a faint but distinctly recognisable kookaburra call in a scene in the Peloponnesian Wars or something. And add another layer of trolling by having the scene filmed somewhere where there are no kookaburras.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 357d
Short list there...
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 12 pts · 357d
If feral Australian giggle chickens were as common worldwide as, say, feral lorikeets, you’d know about it.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
Such an Australian thing to say.
gigiocor@lemmy.eco.br · 10 pts · 356d
They already do this by putting the sound of screaming piha in any movie placed in a rainforest
sepi@piefed.social · 9 pts · 356d
Calm down there, satan.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 356d
Or just a guy sitting in a tree playing a flute.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 356d
For anyone wondering, the Kookaburra call sounds like Mel Blanc doing a woody woodpecker laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spzvae_BUGA
bumblefumble@mander.xyz · 29 pts · 357d
Here's the thing. You said the common loon is a North American bird...
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 13 pts · 357d
syreus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan
I feel old now.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 356d
This is my curse, as well. Your film is set in the desert surrounding ancient Egypt. WHY ARE THERE CACTI?
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 16 pts · 356d
I get it, my dad worked in corporate aviation, my aunt worked in commercial aviation, and I worked in cargo aviation. I also have a little second hand knowledge of military aviation. Anytime there's something with planes in TV or film, I cringe.... well except for Airplane! but that should go without saying.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 356d
Airplane! is the best aviation movie ever made, you cannot change my mind.
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 11 pts · 356d
Surely, you can't be serious?
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 356d
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 356d
I couldn't agree more, why I remember the first time I saw Airplane! it was during the war, my wingman George Zipp suggested the film while we were on R&R. I agreed to go with him, more to keep him company than an actual desire to see the film, but to my surprise I actually enjoyed it. On our way home we stopped by a disco.........
HalifaxJones@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
Lolol who did this?! That seems like a real big fuck up
Eq0@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 356d
That’s a pretty big one! (Isn’t it?)
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 357d
Watch Deadpool vs Wolverine. The entire woods scene was so clearly filmed in a European woodland, it ruins the whole film.
muhyb@programming.dev · 33 pts · 357d
OP's gonna crush when they learn they didn't film Star Wars on Tatooine.
sepi@piefed.social · 8 pts · 356d
They did film on Tatooine. They couldn't film on Endor so they had to go to Romania. That's why everybody looks like that.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 356d
They filmed it on the death star duh.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 357d
starlinguk@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 357d
There is no such thing as 'a European' woodland.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 357d
Yeah there is, it's in the growth patterns where you can tell the trees were either planted or allowed to grow in an arrangment that maximised yield, are all very similar in age, and historically but not recently regularly trimmed for wood and sticks without chopping them down.
Asia and Africa (other than Japan, which did it with evergreen trees) historically used other materials (mainly grasses/palms), and in the Americas they used different construction methods both pre- and post-colonisation, so you don't get (as many) old managed woodlands.
Interesting video on the topic
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
That is the weirdest generalization I've ever read.
Houses are built differently all throughout Europe. Trees were planted at different times, with different varieties. Sweden has huge swathes of pine, where I live it's mostly oak and beech. A lot of that pine is fairly young while the forest near me is hundreds of years old. Hell, Wales has an ancient rain forest.
There is no such thing as a European anything.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 356d
And yet the type of woodland in Deadpool & Wolverine appears almost exclusively in Europe, and so (given how much they'd have to go out of their way to find somewhere like that elsewhere), must be European.
If anything I'm generalising that all North American woodland is either primeval or modern plantations, but nowhere have I said that there isn't woodland like that in Europe.
Eq0@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 354d
Thanks for sharing, interesting video!
pyre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d
wait what does this mean
Denjin@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 357d
I'll give you one Canadian dollar for each Loon call you can find in a film not set somewhere that Loonies are endemic.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 16 pts · 356d
I have no idea of this person is expert enough to tell the difference, but there are loon species in Europe that sound pretty similar to the common loon.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 356d
For anyone wondering, yes it is exactly that bird sound you are thinking of:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Loon/sounds
Nougat@fedia.io · 10 pts · 357d
CinemaSins would be proud.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 356d
You're all complaining about the minutest detail, but if you watch the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge, you'd have aneurism. A battle famously occured in Europe during one of the coldest snowy winter, and the finale was filmed on dry semi-arid landscape. The Allies used M4 Sherman tanks in larger numbers, but the film used M24 Chaffees as if they were more ubiquitous. You don't need to be nerd on WWII but having the basic knowledge of conflict would make one cringe of the film's deliberate errors. Ridley Scott's Napoleon was somehow more tolerable and given a pass because Scott never intended the film to be taken aa seriously.