In one of the lighter stories of the day, a report in The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the most famous scene in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” has found a use in an unexpected place.
The film’s most emotionally volatile scene features Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s characters having a full-on, screaming match at each other – the tension that had been building in the film spilling out.
Now its been revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture reportedly uses audio from that scene to scare off wolves from killing cattle and scaring livestock on farms across the America. A practice called ‘wolf hazing’.
The department uses drones with thermal cameras that reveal any wolf lurking in the darkness and bathe it in a spotlight. A loudspeaker then broadcasts alarming sounds like fireworks, gunshots and people arguing with the “Marriage Story” scene a go to. Another is AC/DC’s song “Thunderstruck”.
A USDA district supervisor in Oregon says: “I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad.” So far the program appears to be working with a noted drop in wolf slayings of cattle in the wake of the deployment.
Gloucestershire Airport in the UK famously uses Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” on occasion to scare birds away from the runway and prevent birdstrike accidents.
