| Title | Year | Director | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|
| M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | [00:19:30] [00:31:29] [00:38:14] [00:41:34] [00:43:03] |
| Brubaker | 1980 | Stuart Rosenberg | [00:32:48] |
| One Magic Christmas | 1985 | Phillip Borsos | [00:14:05] [00:14:43] |
| Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | [02:06:53] |
| Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | [00:08:14][01:27:06] |
| Gung Ho | 1986 | Ron Howard | [00:18:33] [00:55:01] |
| When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | [00:58:28] |
| Soapdish | 1991 | Michael Hoffman | [00:12:17] |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | [00:14:45] |
| Miss Congeniality | 2000 | Donald Petrie | [00:40:28] [00:41:59] [00:52:54] |
| Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | [00:02:26] |
| Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | [00:08:13] |
| Das Leben der Anderen [The Lives of Others] | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | [00:12:40] |
| 10 Items or Less | 2006 | Brad Silberling | [00:18:03] [00:18:51] |
| Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright | [00:55:00] [00:57:36] [00:57:55] [00:58:30] |
| Semi-Pro | 2008 | Kent Alterman | [00:05:08] [00:09:01] |
| Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman | [01:27:48] [01:27:58] |
| Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | [00:46:53] |
| Up | 2009 | Pete Docter; Bob Peterson (co-director) | [00:14:50] [00:14:56] [00:16:44] [00:34:03] [00:35:05 / 00:35:20] |
| Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter; Ronnie Del Carmen (co-director) | [00:54:04] |
| 45 Years | 2015 | Andrew Haigh | [01:23:29] |
| Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | [00:48:01] [00:50:51] [00:51:00] [00:53:24] [01:21:56] [01:24:54] |
| Werk ohne Autor [Never Look Away] | 2018 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | [01:36:36] |
| Booksmart | 2019 | Olivia Wilde | [01:27:01] |
| Memoir of a Snail | 2024 | Adam Elliot | [01:25:51] [01:26:30] |
| Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | 2024 | Merlin Crossingham, Nick Park | [01:02:07] |
| Nuremburg | 2025 | James Vanderbilt | [02:16:51] |
| Affeksjonsverdi [Sentimental Value] | 2025 | Joachim Trier | [00:10:08] |
A trope sound effect is ‘a recurrent theme; a motif … to represent or interpret (something) in a figurative or metaphorical way’. [1]
Sound-system feedback—the high-frequency squeal or howling noise—is often used to symbolize a ‘live’ microphone in a public address or broadcast situation. In the majority of these examples the sound-system feedback is figurative.
Similar tropes:
a low-frequency modulated ‘buzz of electricity’ when a magnet is attracted to an object
e.g. Memoir of a Snail (2024), Adam Elliot [00:29:35]the ‘explosive glass crashing’ which accompanies a 1930s to 1960s-style camera flash bulb combustion
e.g. Nuremburg (2025), James Vanderbilt [01:15:26] [01:15:43] [01:48:54]the ‘schwing’ of a sharp metal blade that is not necessarily in contact with a substance that would produce this type of sound
e.g. Im Westen nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front] (2022), Edward Berger [02:12:52]
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[1]
Oxford English Dictionary. trope, v., sense 1. Oxford University Press; 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3467643930