To safeguard cattle herds, the U.S. government devised a novel strategy to deter predatory wolves and instill in them the notion that "humans are to be avoided." They chose the most harrowing auditory weapon conceivable: the sound of a married couple engaged in a fierce altercation. According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has deployed a recording featuring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, two actors wailing at each other with raw emotion in the film "Marriage Story," to terrorize wolves across the western United States. This powerful scene, presumably the one featured, stems from Noah Baumbach's 2019 film depicting a couple navigating a bitter divorce, complete with an especially intense argument (video embedded below).
Reports indicate that the USDA is employing drones equipped with speakers to broadcast this scene, coupled with other audio clips such as AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," fireworks explosions, and gunshots. The characters in the film rage on: "You'll never find happiness!" "You've resorted to hack work!" "You gaslight me!" "Life with you is devoid of joy!" "You despised me!" "Every morning, I awaken hoping you're dead!"
A district supervisor from the USDA in Oregon elaborated, "I need the wolves to react and understand that, hey, humans pose a threat." The narrative underscores that since wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995, their population has soared, and the use of Johansson and Driver's howling (among other audio tactics) has proven somewhat effective in diminishing the number of cows fallen prey to these predators.
