It’s huge. Hollywood puts big money into props like this to push their narrative. It is everywhere. Like I forget the movie but some shallow but loaded character they put Meridian speakers prominently in his room. So of course some guy here asks about em. In Jerry Maguire when they want to show how sophisticated a character is they have her play Mingus on LP. On and on.
These people are obsessed with image. Snowpiercer is steampunk sci-fi so of course some midwit set designer has to come up with background bling that fits that vibe. Inevitably some dude sees it and goes wow cool must be good.
No. Must look good. All the difference in the world.
The movie, ’The Score’ has the two thieves as competitors, across generations and ways of doing things.
DeNiro had his psychological backdrop and his audio choices was supposed to reflect that.
Edward Norton had his characteristics, etc.., and his system choices was supposed to reflect that.
We conspired to give the one an all MFA system, but Classe got wind of this and managed to interrupt the selection and put their own gear in there. Which had nothing to do with who the people were supposed to be.
Taras and I (Ken Hotte) were sort of brought in by the sets people who knew us..we were brought in to decipher the psychology and then the stereo components in the high end bracket, that would reflect who these people are. A thing that only audiophiles would understand, but the script was supposed to be that kind of deep. In reality, Taras was asked as he has been around the film industry and knew lots of people. He asked me to help in the selections.
Then that was abandoned when Classe stepped in and paid for it all. Money talks and quality walks. That the film company abandoned the idea of a quality script with depth as someone would them pay for the gear in the shots and the filming, overall, and they did not have to go out and obtain the gear.
Since Classe is gone now, re the originals involved, I can now speak on that story.
Admittedly, we were drooling at the idea of obtaining the gear after the filming was done. When they break the company up, as is done at the end of most films (they are done as limited run corporations), the gear would have been sold off for pennies, kinda thing.
What they do generally, or used to do, is do the filming in Canada (Toronto film district, sometimes Vancouver) sell the film off to the editing companies in the US, for one dollar (enough to make for an officially recognized contract -and not one cent more)..and then shut the filming company down. so you better make sure you are paid before that happens as...when that happens... the company exists no more and has no assets.