Sonic Movies This Christmas
Sonic movies ... now there's a thought! As regular readers of my sonic horns blog will know, I am passionate about the science of audiosonics and indeed everything on the periphery of the subject. It's not surprising therefore that I sit up and take notice when I watch a movie that has any 'sonic' connection.
It's to a movie that I actually owe a debt of gratitude for sparking my interest in sonic horn technology - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service with George Lazenby and Diana Rigg. It was the sequence where Blofeld (played by Telly Savalas) fired a signal rocket whilst Bond was on a ski slope and the sound waves that it generated created an avalanche. See this 'material debonding' effect as I now call it, ignited a fascination with sound that has dominated my life.
So what's this to do with Christmas? Well, over the holidays many people like to relax with friends or family and watch a good, entertaining movie. So 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' is one I can recommend :-)
It doesn't end there though because there are plenty of other great movies which feature sonics in some way. There's the Indiana Jones movie series. Yep, they have a sonic association in every single one of the 4 movies made so far! It's Indy's bullwhip of course when he unleashes it to ward off attackers. The crack that a bullwhip makes is actually a sonic boom. The end of the whip has been proven to move faster than the speed of sound and in accordance with the formula for kinetic energy, it generates a definitive sonic boom! For the formual and more info see the sonic boom Wiki page.
Maybe because of its dynamics, the whip is featured in many movies including yet more notable ones such as the 1998 movie The Mask of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. What's funny is that in reading up on the movie on imdb.com a photo came up showing guess who? Antonio Banderas and Harrison Ford together! Check it out here. Co-incidence? Maybe, or perhaps the sonic element of their most famous roles just drew them together unwittingly!
Whatever your movie tastes, there's hopefully at least one of the three I've mentioned above that will appeal to you this Christmas. Don't anyone ever tell me that sonics can't be fun!
It's to a movie that I actually owe a debt of gratitude for sparking my interest in sonic horn technology - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service with George Lazenby and Diana Rigg. It was the sequence where Blofeld (played by Telly Savalas) fired a signal rocket whilst Bond was on a ski slope and the sound waves that it generated created an avalanche. See this 'material debonding' effect as I now call it, ignited a fascination with sound that has dominated my life.
It doesn't end there though because there are plenty of other great movies which feature sonics in some way. There's the Indiana Jones movie series. Yep, they have a sonic association in every single one of the 4 movies made so far! It's Indy's bullwhip of course when he unleashes it to ward off attackers. The crack that a bullwhip makes is actually a sonic boom. The end of the whip has been proven to move faster than the speed of sound and in accordance with the formula for kinetic energy, it generates a definitive sonic boom! For the formual and more info see the sonic boom Wiki page.
Maybe because of its dynamics, the whip is featured in many movies including yet more notable ones such as the 1998 movie The Mask of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. What's funny is that in reading up on the movie on imdb.com a photo came up showing guess who? Antonio Banderas and Harrison Ford together! Check it out here. Co-incidence? Maybe, or perhaps the sonic element of their most famous roles just drew them together unwittingly!
Whatever your movie tastes, there's hopefully at least one of the three I've mentioned above that will appeal to you this Christmas. Don't anyone ever tell me that sonics can't be fun!
Labels: audiosonics, indiana jones, james bond, mask of zorro, movies, sonic boom, sonic horn
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