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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 17:55:49 GMT
And now something for the silly season:
Headphones are quite often seen as accessories in films. Sometimes they are playing even an important role in the story line.
What motion pictures include the use of headphones? Which headphone models are used for what? Are they wearing the 'phones just for their look or is the particular headphone model appropriate for the task they are using it?
Post anything you have in mind about movies and headphones. But to keep it clearly arranged, please follow these rules:
– Don't post pictures/screenshots of films. We could run very fast into some copyright issues. NO PICTURES AND NO LINKS TO MOVIES PLEASE. Your words are enough. Wikipedia links are allowed to give basic information about the films. YouTube links are OK (YouTube is responsible). – Not only Hollywood films are allowed. Anything goes. TV series and television films are also OK. – Please post the original title of the film. If the original title is not in English, please post also the English title in brackets. – If possible, also name the particular actor that uses the 'phones. You can use the film name of the actor and/or his real name. – If possible, name the exact type of the headphones that are used. No problem if you don't know it, but please write that the 'phones are "unknown". Maybe someone else knows more about them. – If you think that the used heaphones are a so called "product placement", please tell us. It's well know that certain computer and car manufacturers have a deal with Hollywood (Apple, Dell and BMW for instance).
I have a lot of DVD movies in which headphones are used. I will add posts continuously in the next few days/weeks.
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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 18:02:04 GMT
I will start with Hide and Seek (2005): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_and_Seek_%282005_film%29David Callaway (Robert De Niro) is using HD25-1/II's in his house soon after he has moved to a new location. The type of 'phones doesn't really matter for what he uses them. Probably they have choosen this type of 'phones because their style looks good.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2010 18:34:09 GMT
Some items in movies are pushed by manufacturers (they pay the movie makers to put it in there). The same goes for cigarettes and Ipods and other 'nice to haves' by the way. This excercise will probably tell more about commercial thinking then WHY they used a certain 'phone or because it's good in some way.
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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 19:04:28 GMT
Some items in movies are pushed by manufacturers (they pay the movie makers to put it in there). The same goes for cigarettes and Ipods and other 'nice to haves' by the way. This excercise will probably tell more about commercial thinking then WHY they used a certain 'phone or because it's good in some way. YES. A lot of movies (mostly from Hollywood) are totally commercialised. But there are also movies in which the used headphones are no advertisements. Even historic headphones (or replicas of them) are used in films with a story line that is in the past. I will mention some examples in future posts, but please give me some time... Mostly I need to watch the movie again for accurate information. In case of the HD25-1/II's in "Hide and Seek", I'm almost sure that this is no product placement. You can't read "Sennheiser" or "HD25-1/II" somewhere and you have to look twice to see that's really a HD25-1/II and not the HD25-SP. Robert De Niro also doesn't represent the target audience for the HD25-1/II's.
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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 21:55:40 GMT
Contact (1997):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_%28film%29Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) uses a couple of headphones and headsets during the film. It was a lot of internet research needed to identify some of the 'phones used. Most important, it was more interesting than I would have thought before. At the Arrecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, Ellie Arroway uses a headphone from TELEX. I couldn't identify the exact model, but it's clearly a model from TELEX. I have never heard from that manufacturer before. But they are still in business and specialized in air-traffic/military/healthcare/educational/governement/industrial applications. www.telex.com/As she arrives at the Very Large Array radio telescope in NewMexico, she uses a Sony MDR-V6 Studio Monitor headphone. One evening she is out in the desert near the Very Large Array and watches the sunset. Then she is snoozing on the engine bonnet of her car while listening with the MDR-V6 and closed eyes to the sound of the radio telescope. In this moment the alien signal arrives. (Hey guys, the biggest discovery in the history of mankind was made with some Sony headphones... ) The same MDR-V6 are also used in the control room of the Very Large Array by one of her friends as they connected some speakers for hearing the alien signal. After that, a couple of headsets are used in various control rooms. I couldn't indentify them easily and I think we aren't so interested in cheap headsets. I need to mention one of the headsets though: The special video-headset that Ellie Arroway uses on her alien trip is probably a dummy for the film. This headset is single-sided only and beside an earbud and microphone it has also a video camera and some kind of laser device. I'm almost sure there's no placement of commercial products in this movie. It was not easy to indentify the headphones and no names of manufacturers are visible.
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Post by Z on Jul 27, 2010 22:14:48 GMT
don't any of you think this thread is a bit sad? i mean, wasting time on wondering what the stars wear?
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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 22:32:51 GMT
don't any of you think this thread is a bit sad? i mean, wasting time on wondering what the stars wear? It's about the headphones, not about the stars. Did you already know that TELEX makes headphones? I didn't. Maybe it's also about product placement. Are headphones advertised with product placements? The first two examples (see above) are unlikely to be "placed products" IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2010 22:36:57 GMT
I really couldn't give a rats what movie folk wear but that wasn't Christians thinking behind this.
To whit and only from memory;
Movie = Play Misty For Me Has Clint Eastwood playing a radio DJ with a request show where he manges to attract a psycho-bitch.
I have no idea what the cans were, but looked like heavy duty closed backs befitting the usage portrayed.
Movie = Book Of Eli Has Denzel Washington sporting blatent product-placement Monsters.
PLUS, all the movies about famous music peeps, they normally have studio scenes so headphones become an essential prop.
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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 22:48:34 GMT
Das Boot (The Boat) from 1981:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_BootThis is a very famous film and TV series. Only one person uses headphones here: The sonar operator of U-96. I couldn't identify the exact type of headphone used, but it's very similar to the type you will find pictured in the link below (at the bottom of the webpage): www.erinnerungswerkstatt-norderstedt.de/artikel/269_hk.htmI'm not really sure, but maybe the headphones used in the German WWII submarines are early variants of the Beyerdynamic DT48. DT48 was the world's first dynamic headphone back in 1937 (it was not the first headphone though). wiki.faust3d.com/wiki//index.php?title=Beyerdynamic_DT-48I think the early DT48's were probably the best 'phones you could get back in WWII and the use for sonar applications is something that would deserve good 'phones.
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Post by elysion on Jul 27, 2010 23:50:07 GMT
Terminator (1984):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerminatorIn a short sequence about 20 minutes after the beginning of the film, the flatmate of Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), Ginger Ventura (Bess Motta), uses some cheap headphones with an equal cheap walkman. Not really worth to mention... I can't really understand why they didn't use a Koss PortaPro which was introduced in 1984. www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/p?openform&pc^pt^PortaProA couple of million dollars salary for Arnold Schwarzenegger (the Terminator), but no money for decent headphones?
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Post by robertkd on Jul 28, 2010 0:35:29 GMT
NMaybe as simple as two words "product placement'.
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Post by elysion on Jul 28, 2010 1:30:31 GMT
Most headphones mentioned in this thread until now are far away from being a product placement. But of course, there are also movies with headphones that are used for product placement. Another movie (without product placement)... The Hunt for Red October (1990):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_%28film%29No submarine film without headphones... The sonar crew on the USS Dallas uses mostly some TELEX headsets (you can't buy them as private end user...), but seaman Ronald "Jonesey" Jones (the chief sonar operator) uses also Sony MDR-V6 headphones later in the film. I'm not totally sure about the exact type of the Sony 'phones since Sony made a few similar looking 'phones (like the MDR-CD900 for example). A Russian officers on the "Red October" submarine use Beyerdynamic DT-190's headsets, but Jonesey also uses similar to the DT-190's looking 'phones at the time he is on the "Red October". They are no DT-190's but something similar. A couple of unknown headsets are also used on the mini-submarine later in the story line. The German wikipedia entry about "sonar" has a picture of a real sonar crew wearing headphones: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar
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Post by elysion on Jul 28, 2010 1:40:59 GMT
BTW: What kind of 'phones are pictured above? I've seen this type a lot everywhere in movies where US Airforce personnel is filmed. Probably those headsets are used in a very large number by the US military and countries that have bought US military products.
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Post by elysion on Jul 28, 2010 17:33:54 GMT
Crimson Tide (1995):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Tide_%28film%29The reporter on the French aircraft carrier "Foch" uses the same type of headphone pictured in my last post above. The sonar crew and radio operators on the USS Alabama uses TELEX headsets. Those submariners seem to be hardcore headphone freaks.... they even have their own headphone models...
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Post by elysion on Jul 28, 2010 18:05:57 GMT
Cube Zero (2004):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_zeroThe crew in the control room of the "Cube" uses some vintage headphones. Similar (but not equal) to the pictures below: It's very likely that they did no "product placement" here... otherwise they would have used similar looking Grado's (but they don't). Strange: They use very old 'phones here just for their look. The control room has also a vintage look, but it's completely filled with modern electronics.
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Post by elysion on Jul 28, 2010 18:41:34 GMT
White Noise (2005):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Noise_%28film%29There are a few headphones that are show in short sequences during the film. I couldn't identify the 'phones exactly, but at least two of them seem to be from Sony. At least two of the other 'phones are probably of other brands. I see no product placement here. Product placement means that you can identify the product clearly. That's not the case here and I think the markings of one 'phone have been removed by electronical retouch.
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Post by elysion on Jul 29, 2010 1:45:13 GMT
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Post by elysion on Aug 6, 2010 0:56:16 GMT
Back to the Future (1985):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_%28film_series%29Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) uses a AIWA walkman with original headphones that came with the walkman. The headphones/walkman look almost identical to the HP-F07 and HP-P02 MKII in the link below: www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/aiwa/I can't determine the exakt model of the walkman/'phones, but it's almost sure it's one of the walkman models pictured above. Both are models from 1984. AIWA released only one new type in 1985 and that doesn't match the walkman used in the film. I had similar headphones back in the 80's. Do you remember that (absolutely NOT perfect) sound? BTW: I see no "product placement" here (at least not for the AIWA walkman and the 'phones). I had to search a while to find the model that was used.
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Post by elysion on Aug 8, 2010 4:27:33 GMT
Firewall (2006):en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_%28film%29Although you see also a couple of unidentifiable headsets, only one type of 'phones have an halfway important role in this film: The earbuds of the iPod Mini that is used copy the bank information. The earbuds themselves are not used in important role, it's the iPod Mini that gets a lot of attention. I'm rather sure we have a direct product placement here... Computers from Apple are often seen in a lot of Hollywood movies, but this time you see almost only PC/servers from Dell. All those Dell servers in the bank get hacked during the film. IMO that a sort of "negative" product placement. The message is simple: "Apple products are good and help you even in a worst case scenario while those PC/Dell crap doesn't work and gets hacked" IMHO that's not the right (=> honest) way to advertise products from Apple. It's plain marketing crap. Of course also Dell makes reliable computers (and some of them don't run Windows at all). With such crappy advertisements, Apple has finally reached the advertisement standard of M$... Bad thing that the general impression on a not informed audience would be probably as I described above. Marketing is bullshit.
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Post by elysion on Aug 18, 2010 20:25:18 GMT
Eddy Murphy uses K240 Sextett's in his 1985 music video "Party All The Time".
A nice remix of that video:
The 'phones are displayed very prominent, but I'm in doubt that this is a real product placement.
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Post by insomniac on Aug 18, 2010 20:47:24 GMT
How about the film called "It's All Gone Pete Tong" Seen it? Youtube Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5K6pIez5P4The phrase "it's all gone Pete Tong" is Cockney rhyming slang that plays off the name of superstar DJ Pete Tong. It means "it's all gone wrong." IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG is a biopic based on the life of legendary DJ Frankie Wilde. Frankie was one of Europe's most talented and envied DJs and a main attraction for hedonistic youth each holiday season in Ibiza, Spain. Everything about Frankie's life was over the top: the clubs, the parties, the women and the drugs. But the years of pounding music and heavy toxins took their toll, eventually leaving Frankie stone deaf. His fans, record deal, manager, wife and stepson soon disappeared. The good times gone, Frankie isolated himself in his villa for a year under a pile of self-pity and a mountain of drugs. Determined to pull himself together, Frankie hired a lip-reading instructor, accepting a new way of life and rediscovering the dance rhythms that had defined him. His ultimate redemption returned him to the top of the scene with a renewed connection to the almighty beat. And then - he disappeared. IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG is a hilarious insiders look at a club and rave culture most people don't get to experience. Paul Kaye, portraying Frankie Wilde, turns in an award-winning performance. Directed by breakout director Michael Dowse, the film features interviews with world-famous DJs including Pete Tong, Carl Cox, Lol Hammond and Paul Van Dyk. The movie's soundtrack is a varied collection of club, new independent and classic songs. IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG is a wild and original look at an extraordinary life.
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Post by elysion on Aug 22, 2010 15:02:44 GMT
David Guetta wearing HD25-1/II's: He's not my cup of tea. Too much commercialized sound. What DJ's like him earn is a bad joke (like the salaries of top football players). I don't have any clue if David Guetta has advertisement contracts with headphone manufacturers. But he's very prominent and if he wears headphones, it's always a kind of product placement (intended or not). On the other hand, he's almost not visible sometimes. Too much special effects, too much light show. And too much people and not enough music IMO: I've seen recent photos like those in the following link where he's wearing Monster Beat Studio's. Looks like a product placement for me. Although I'm listening mostly to electronic sound, I couldn't live with 'phones like the Monster's:
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