Mostly laziness, Tim. And profound cynicism (like you say "99%'ll
never know the difference..." so why try to make
a difference with our work, right?) I've been working in film
(writing and ghosting scores and providing EFX since 1963)
having contributed to over 135 features (on the order of Apocalypse
Now, Rosemary's Baby, Shipping News,
Castaway, etc etc etc) and have rarely found directors who had the
willingness or intellectual curiosity to actually chase down the
right ambient material. There are a couple of majors =96 the late Robt
Altman, and Carroll Ballard (Never Cry
Wolf, Fly Away Home, Duma) =96 and a few lesser directors. But mostly
you get the "Aw hell, they'll never know
the difference, anyway" routine. Those aren't the kinds of footprints
I want to leave on my art when I'm gone. Fact is, people DO
know the difference. And care.
Within this group there are all kinds of great resources from all
kinds of great places. Most of these folks are a
phone call or email away. It takes that much time.
Bernie
On Aug 6, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Tim Nielsen wrote:
> And the fact is, 99% or more of the people out there probably
> would never
> know the difference (which is also probably a bit sad).
>
>
> Tim
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Bernie Krause wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't know how many on the list have seen BLOOD DIAMOND, but with
> > my wife on the road last night, and the Netflix DVD sitting by
> itself
> > on the coffee table and me alone in the house, I put it in the
> > player. For me, it ain't a good flick. Way too violent in the
> > episodic Hollywood American sense to be worthwhile no matter what
> the
> > "cause." But it was made far worse by the terrible sound editing.
> > The story takes place in Africa in (sometimes) forested areas where
> > diamonds are mined. I got as far as the scene where those jerks
> > inserted a Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans) and tropical South
> > American frogs and insects as part of the soundscape. It was at that
> > moment they lost me and I shut the damned thing off. I could no
> > longer suspend disbelief, having no patience for this kind of
> > cynicism.
> >
> > Bernie
> >
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