One thing I’ve noticed over the last 10 years is how action films with car chases in have started cutting to shots of the driver shifting gears. It’s as if the manual gear change is becoming an exotic thing, used only by getaway drivers.
As someone who lives in a country where automatics are still in the minority, it’s very odd.
It always rubs me the wrong way when in a movie there is a dialogue scene in a car going at a steady pace, and yet in the background you get a recording of a motor revving up and shifting back down in a loop. Like a Shepard tone, but with a car.
As someone who lives in a country where automatics are still in the minority, it’s very odd.