They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.
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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.
somewhere where there are no kookaburras
Short list there...
If feral Australian giggle chickens were as common worldwide as, say, feral lorikeets, you’d know about it.
feral
Such an Australian thing to say.
Calm down there, satan.
They already do this by putting the sound of screaming piha in any movie placed in a rainforest
Or just a guy sitting in a tree playing a flute.
For anyone wondering, the Kookaburra call sounds like Mel Blanc doing a woody woodpecker laugh
Here's the thing. You said the common loon is a North American bird...
That situation is the most I’ve ever been involved in internet lore. My partner showed me a Reddit post of a jackdaw where the top comment was Unidan calling it a crow (pretending to be an authority on it as he usually did) and I told her to correct him (in a friendly way) because jackdaws are one of my favourite birds and I want people to know what they are. This was only a few weeks before he had his meltdown over the subject.
Kind of funny to know that it bothered him enough that he would implode his entire internet persona over it.
He works at the container store now. What a weird career.
Wow what an interesting read that was!
I might be misremembering 11 years ago, but why did an SRD post apparently think this guy was banned by "the jews?" That seems a bit extreme even for 2014 reddit, especially in a relatively mainstream sub like SRD?
Is it on the same planet? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a geologist who studies continents, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls common loons North American. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "North America" you're referring to the tectonic grouping of the Americas, which includes things from North America to Central America to South America.
This is my curse, as well. Your film is set in the desert surrounding ancient Egypt. WHY ARE THERE CACTI?
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.
Airplane! is the best aviation movie ever made, you cannot change my mind.
Surely, you can't be serious?
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!
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.........
Lolol who did this?! That seems like a real big fuck up
That’s a pretty big one! (Isn’t it?)
Alas, they're the universal spooky bird. They show up in fucking Avengers Endgame.
Watch Deadpool vs Wolverine. The entire woods scene was so clearly filmed in a European woodland, it ruins the whole film.
OP's gonna crush when they learn they didn't film Star Wars on Tatooine.
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.
They filmed it on the death star duh.
I thought nostalgia-baiting ruined the whole film. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is no such thing as 'a European' woodland.
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.
There is no such thing as a European anything.
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.
Thanks for sharing, interesting video!
wait what does this mean
I'll give you one Canadian dollar for each Loon call you can find in a film not set somewhere that Loonies are endemic.
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.
For anyone wondering, yes it is exactly that bird sound you are thinking of:
The ornithology police are always on duty
neoAVES police.
CinemaSins would be proud.
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.