Yes, I think that’s where it comes from. Ebert uses it now to refer to any blade “singing” for no discernible reason.
Also in the “turn on the TV now” category is that, after hearing “John Winkelham has disappeared from the cell he was being questioned in” they turn off the TV, never getting any extra details.
Security systems in movies are hilarious to me (I know this subject very well). Most of it is overblown eye candy. Ok, I can live with that. It is Hollywod. But the one I’ll never forget is one of the James Bond movies where our hero is going down a hall looking for a hidden entrance or something. So what does he see? A video camera pointed at an apparently blank wall! Like, yeah, let’s hide the secret door and then put a camera pointing right at it so anyone with an IQ over 90 can find it…:smack:
But, then Bond creeps down the hall hugging the wall so the camera won’t see him and unplugs a cable on the camera which then commences to make standard Hollywood dwoop sound to indicate that it powered down. The problem? He didn’t unplug the power, he unplugged the automatic iris lens control cable! I busted out laughing when I saw it - Bond doesn’t know how a camera works? My friends who were there had a confused look on their face, then they realized who was laughing and kind of gave me one of those “oh, something technical, I’ll bet” looks.
Of course, on top of that, if he had unplugged the camera, the guards in the Control room would have gotten a video loss alarm and probably gone and investigated, capturing our hero in the act of whatever heroics he was performing. That would never do, so Mr. Bond gets away with it.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but one thing that always gets me is when someone is using a microphone in a film. There is always, I mean always feedback when someone touches, speaks through, or does whatever with a mic. Just once I’d like to see someone use a mic without it feeding back, haha. This just seems unrealistic to me, curse of the podium I guess.
Mr. Peabody did the same thing.