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There are a lot of things in movies that don't align to real life. Eagles don't sound like you think they do. Swords don't make that sound when you sheath them. The problem is that audiences have been so used to these visual and audio metaphors that reality would break the illusion.

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> Eagles don't sound like you think they do.

The “classic” sound for eagles is actually the cry of a red-tailed hawk. We have both redtails, and bald eagles, around here.

Eagles sound pretty unimpressive. I term it “the call of the sick seagull.”

This is called "the coconut effect" and I used to be able to rattle off examples, but it's late.

In a decent search engine(bing, brave):

!tvt coconut effect

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