Stereotypes and Cliches

I love cliches and stereotypes, especially when it comes to movies. I stumbled upon a wiked page called "Film Sound Cliches"

ANIMALS

• Animals are never ever silent - dogs whine/bark/yip, cats meow or purr, cows moo, even in cases where most animals wouldn't be making a sound.


• Rats, mice, squirels and other vermin always make the tiny little squeeky noises constantly while they are on screen.


• Dolphins always make that same "dolphin chatter" sound when spinning, jumping, etc.


• Snakes are always rattling


• Whenever we see a hawk or a bald eagle, the sound is always that same red-tailed hawk screeching sound that's been around since the 50's!


• Always just before/or after some dramatic part of an adventure flick, you will here the screeching of a red-tailed hawk.


• Whenever a cliff or mountain is shown, especially if it's high, the Red-tailed hawk will screech.


• In a horror film when there is a full moon there is either an owl or a wolf howling in the distance. [Listen to Wolves!]


• The Loon is mostly found in lakes in North America. In the movies it seems to be just about anywhere in the world.

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It is my dream and desire to one day when I get around to it create a movie which goes way overtop in portraying stereotypes, this to me is funny. I also want to incorporate cooky character traits as were popular in many 80's movies, such as the dude who is always eating food, or the angry silent type, or an over the top ladies man, or a sex addict..... Damn there are a lot of good things used in 80's movies that todays movies are missing and todays audience are worser off for it. Some of these things include montages, bad electricity/neon glow effects, wacky far out story lines, but most importantly todays movies need more eccentric characters.

Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 10:25 AM