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  No Audiophiles in Hollywood
A thought just came to me that a lot of movies show us the lives of fictional people doing the everyday things that real people do. However, we never see anyone sitting down and listening to a high end system.

The only thing that I can remember is when the billionaire played by Robert Redford put on an LP on what appeared to be a high end turntable in the movie "Indecent Proposal".

I have never seen exposed tubes on-screen, or an amp of any type for that matter. Big speakers, fuggedaboudit...it seems hifi does not fit the decor scheme of movie sets, or more realistically, audiophiles are rarer on earth than Klingons and Romulans and hollywood does not know of their existence.

It would seem that some of the well heeled actors, directors and producers would own a killer 2 channel system and periodically include one in a scene when the character has discretionary income.

We've all seen scenes with the wife complaining about the husband always watching sports, but never complaining about him pampering his hi-fi rig.

We've all seen characters with automobiles and other toys that we've envied, but never a stereo system to make you salivate.

Anyone ever see a hi-fi system onscreen worth mentioning?

Just a thought.
Mitch4t  (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

08-24-04
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08-24-04   My educated guess would be that the cost of renting audiophi ...   Tvad

08-24-04   Check out mel gibson's system in the movie "what women ...   Vegasears

08-24-04   Tvad...can't be the cost with $100m budgets commonplace nowa ...   Mitch4t

08-24-04   Mitch4t, you contradict yourself within three sentences when ...   Tvad

08-24-04   Mitch4t, yer totally right. what really blows my mind is ...   Slappy

08-24-04   Dude check out christian bales system in "american psyc ...   Bundee1

08-24-04   You're right about hollywood - i can't think of one. but if ...   Peter_s

08-24-04   I think it was "the italian job" where the guy pla ...   Nutella

08-24-04   As far as movies go, you might be right. but in tv shows, l ...   Isellstuff

08-24-04   The folks that make the soprano's called up donna at sota an ...   Sean

08-25-04   Lol...slappy...as i was reading the posts i was thinking abo ...   Ellery911

08-25-04   As good as it gets - jack nicholson, helen hunt. jack " ...   Chris74

08-25-04   Laura croft....tomb raider....she was spinning vinyl on a cl ...   Skeyebox

08-25-04   Jack nicholson had a nice mcintosh mc2102 system in as good ...   Velo62

08-25-04   Besides the martin logans on friends, they also had some blu ...   S7horton

08-25-04   Product placement helps offset the costs of production. for ...   Pragmatist

08-25-04   This is a little off, but still somewhat relevant. on " ...   Robm321

08-25-04   I believe on the short lived cosby detective tv series he ha ...   Deecee

08-25-04   High fidelity with john cusack. near the end he's sitting ...   Dcohn002

08-25-04   what about love potion #9 with sandra bullock and that guy, ...   Mc5baby

08-25-04   One of my favorites is in risky business when joel's [tom cr ...   Gunbei

08-25-04   Yeah skeyebox, i was afraid lara was gonna fall on that turn ...   Gunbei

08-25-04   Pulp fiction. one scene cueing a record, (i think dusty spr ...   Breadman

08-25-04   Got two: 1) bernie mac show - his den (shown every episode ...   Tomryan

08-25-04   In high fidelity john cusack is shown making a tape through ...   Sbfx

08-25-04   In "sex and the city" the character big plays an l ...   Hammergjh

08-25-04   Clockwork orange had a (for the time) serious looking turnta ...   Ashra

08-25-04   I'm surprised no one mentioned the movie the rock where nico ...   Nrchy

08-25-04   Nice movie, and the guy was a vinyl nut, and about collectin ...   Apogeelov

08-25-04   I worked as an art department coordinator on several feature ...   Viridian

08-25-04   I believe the speakers on sex and the city were the big red ...   Drubin

08-26-04   They had a pair of martin logan's in joey and chandler's apa ...   Perkadin

08-26-04   Does anyone know what turntable, robert redford played in &q ...   Readster

08-26-04   Marty, i'm surprised they didn't go ahead and use it. frie ...   Tomryan

08-26-04   Tom, this was a very sensitive crew, starting at the product ...   Viridian

08-26-04   Readster, i believe robert redfords table was an oracle, do ...   Charliee

08-27-04   Read it was a vpi tnt somewhere oliver stone's "talk ra ...   Mejames

08-27-04   In the italian job, recent remake, with seth green & co, he ...   Vaystrem

08-27-04   Yeah, he was talking about nad gear. like the 762 t or some ...   Slappy

09-13-04   Someone in the john kerry camp spent his/her 2003 tax rebate ...   Rooze

09-13-04   Check out laura crofts tt in "tomb raider" serious ...   ydesimone@

09-16-04   Gene hackman played sax alone in his apartment every evening ...   Nixin

09-16-04   In one of the latest six feet under episodes, david is sitti ...   Bundy

09-17-04   Matt damon had a bose wave radio in the bourne supremacy. y ...   Nickatkins

09-18-04   Fabio uses or did use martin logans along with transparent c ...   Panny

09-18-04   I remember a photo shoot of fabio with all top-shelf krell a ...   Mitch4t

09-19-04   This may be slightly off topic but your post makes me think ...   Papa171

09-19-04   Hi mitch, as i recall, fabio had a bunch of krell gear that ...   Bright_star_audio

09-19-04   I read in an interview once that the krell gear that fabio o ...   Ellery911

09-19-04: Mprime
The drivers for audiophile in HW film is as follows:

1) Does the screenwriter deem it an integral part of a character's profile? If so, show it. If not, it's irrelevant, expensive, and a waste of space.

2) Does the production designer deem it an integral part of the setting? If so, show it. If not, it's irrelevant, expansive, and a waste of space.

3) Does the director deem the music and image an integral part of the story? If so, show it. If not....

4) Finally, does the producer want some free gear?

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