You know how this goes. You open the can, turn it upside down, and giggle like an idiot at the awesome slurping noises that emanate from the cylinder of “meat” slowly making its way into the bowl by way of gently releasing suction.
Remember Terminator 2: Judgment Day? You do? Good. Let’s travel back to the scene where the scariest villain ever, T-1000, uses his liquid metal ability to squeeze through some security bars:
When he nonchalantly passes through said bars, the sound that was used was exactly what I described above. It was the sound of dog food coming out of a can, and it didn’t even cost a dollar. That’s the beauty of working as a Foley artist, people. You can take everyday shit and apply it to some ridiculous sci-fi stuff and convince everyone, for almost two and a half decades, that it was some genius digital sound creation.
Maybe next time you stub your toe on a chair and send it grinding and groaning across your tile floor, stop and tell yourself “Whoa! That noise the chair made could totally be the sound of a dinosaur in pain for the inevitable sequel to Jurassic World!”.
Millions of dollars and an Oscar win for sound design later, you’ll be thanking me you paid attention to the cheap crap around your house that’s been making awesome noises all these years.
Thanks to Cinema Blend for the interesting bit of film design knowledge.
