Everyone Knows Morse: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'': While Frenzy has Maggie, Glenn, Secretary Keller, and Agent Simmons pinned in the archives, Glenn modifies an ancient PC to send a Morse code tone through the shortwave radio set so Keller can authorize an air strike against the Decepticons in Mission City.

* This trope is key in ''[[Eagle Eye]]''; in order to get his message out, the [[Sacrificial Lamb]] flashed his cell phone light while walking in circles around an elevator shaft. Somehow, the all-seeing [[AI Is a Crapshoot|evil]] [[Master Computer|supercomputer]] onto which the message was recorded (and from which the other protagonists retrieved the message) was not able to catch the Morse-coded message despite the fact that the character was not apparently doing anything else while walking in circles around the elevator shaft.

* In the [[Stephen King]] movie (that is, written AND directed by King) ''[[Maximum Overdrive]]'', the machines have suddenly gained intelligence and started slaughtering humanity in wildly ridiculous fashions (eg. a vending machine pitching soda can fastballs, push mover killing its pusher, and so on). Anyway, at one point the vehicles are running low on fuel, so they have the mounted gun among them honk its horn in Morse, which the boy scout among the survivors in a diner translates into a "fuel us and we don't kill you" message. A perfect display of the trope: spoken language speed translation, post sending translation, and so on.

* In ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', two submarines communicate with one another by flashing Morse code over the periscope light. The American transmitting (Scott Glenn playing Capt. Mancuso) says, "My Morse is so rusty, I'm probably sending him the measurements of the Playmate of the Month."