Did anyone notice, in Andor...? by Beery

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Did anyone notice, in Andor...?

POSTED BY: BEERY
UPDATED: Sunday, December 18, 2022 11:36
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Saturday, December 17, 2022 7:10 AM

In the recent Star Wars: Andor show, I noticed Star Wars has suddenly started using the Firefly "power-up" sound when using blasters. They totally stole that from our favorite show.

Or, to look at it another way, I guess the ghost of Firefly continues to appear every now and then.

Either way, I was happy to hear it.

Did anyone else notice it?

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Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:03 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I haven't watched a Star Wars property since Episode 2... long before Disney acquired the rights.

That being said, they probably didn't steal it from Firefly. More likely it was purchased from a digital rights audio package that didn't belong to FOX, Joss or Firefly.

I remember thinking the same thing when I was hearing several sound effects from the original X-Com PC/Playstation game being used in sci-fi movies and TV shows... mostly lower budget ones. One noise that I still hear a lot from that game which came out nearly 30 years ago is the sound of a ship door opening.

It wasn't until years later that I found out that these digital rights CDs/DVDs were on offer for sale to companies who didn't want to take the time to make their own graphics or sound effects. Most of the graphics in the scenery on 3D N64/Playstation 1 backgrounds and textures were entirely made up of real world photographs that were downscaled and altered because it was way cheaper, easier and faster than paying digital artists to make those by hand.

Probably the most famous example of this was Super Mario 64's "Wet-Dry World" background, which was actually a downscaled and slightly altered photograph of the town of Shibam, in Yemen. (And all of the bricks and tiles you see in the picture were made from photographs as well).

I don't think George Lucas would have ever paid for somebody else's sound effects, with the full force of ILM behind him.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:29 PM

THG

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Originally posted by Beery:
In the recent Star Wars: Andor show, I noticed Star Wars has suddenly started using the Firefly "power-up" sound when using blasters. They totally stole that from our favorite show.

Or, to look at it another way, I guess the ghost of Firefly continues to appear every now and then.

Either way, I was happy to hear it.

Did anyone else notice it?

I'll have to listen for that.

T

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Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:32 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Maybe Firefly was the first maybe not

Fox owned Firefly now Disne/Marvel owns Fox
or maybe it was always a free to use stock sound effect?

There are often free Library of Open non copyright sounds used again and again in media, some times studios will make an effort and have an audio engineer collect unique sounds.

One joke that will ruin movies or make them laughable as an inside joke, the infamous 'wilhelm scream'.

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Sunday, December 18, 2022 11:36 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Firefly probably wasn't the first.

In my above example, X-COM on the PC/Playstation 1 probably wasn't the first to use the sound effects that I've heard countless times in other media since either... It's just what I associate them to because I grew up with them.

If you watch YouTube enough, there is a huge overlap of sound effects and music going on there, because YouTube has a library of public domain audio for creators to use without having to pay for licensing fees.

Although it would be really interesting to have the info, I think it would be impossible to have a database where every song and sound effect from every movie, TV show and video game was catalogued and traced back to its original source.

I mean, I guess that it's possible to do that in the future with AI, but does anybody really want to live in a world where AI is not only capable of that, but has the free time to do it?

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