Scented Movies?
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 2:30 pm
I was just reading towards the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader just now, and a silly thought came to me. I was thinking about all of the wonderful smells that are described in the story, particularly as they draw nearer to Aslan's country. There is the "dim, purple kind of smell", as Lucy describes it, before they meet Ramandu and his daughter, and then the smell in the Silver Sea described as "sweet - yes,but not at all sleepy or overpowering, a fresh, wild, lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain and make you feel that you could go up mountains at a run or wrestle with an elephant."
Besides all these beautiful smells that Lewis spends some time describing (I assume they must have been important to him, and he imagined it very strongly), just the sea itself has so many wonderful smells! And I realized it was such a shame that while we can experience this book on the big screen, we don't actually get to smell what the characters would be smelling.
This made me think of "Soarin' Over California", the ride in California Adventure Park (I understand there is something similar at the Epcot, although I've never been to Disney World). My favorite part is flying over the Ventura orange field, where there's the apparent scent of orange blossoms. In the mountain scenes you can smell evergreens and when going over Malibu there is a sea breeze scent. (My least favorite part of the ride is when that stupid golf ball comes flying toward you...it scares me EVERY TIME! )
Just imagine if they were able to do something similar with VDT!! Obviously, it'd be a hassle to set up a system in every theater across the world, but what if they had one theater, with a special showing of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, that included scents? sort of like the equivalent of the Kodak theatre for Disney or something.
This is just purely a "what if" topic, since I doubt this will ever happen (but it'd sure be awesome!!) But, I mean, watching movies in 3D makes them come more to life, and wouldn't having scents and smells also contribute to that?
Besides all these beautiful smells that Lewis spends some time describing (I assume they must have been important to him, and he imagined it very strongly), just the sea itself has so many wonderful smells! And I realized it was such a shame that while we can experience this book on the big screen, we don't actually get to smell what the characters would be smelling.
This made me think of "Soarin' Over California", the ride in California Adventure Park (I understand there is something similar at the Epcot, although I've never been to Disney World). My favorite part is flying over the Ventura orange field, where there's the apparent scent of orange blossoms. In the mountain scenes you can smell evergreens and when going over Malibu there is a sea breeze scent. (My least favorite part of the ride is when that stupid golf ball comes flying toward you...it scares me EVERY TIME! )
Just imagine if they were able to do something similar with VDT!! Obviously, it'd be a hassle to set up a system in every theater across the world, but what if they had one theater, with a special showing of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, that included scents? sort of like the equivalent of the Kodak theatre for Disney or something.
This is just purely a "what if" topic, since I doubt this will ever happen (but it'd sure be awesome!!) But, I mean, watching movies in 3D makes them come more to life, and wouldn't having scents and smells also contribute to that?