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    Have you guys ever noticed.... that no one ever says "what?" in war movies? There can be... 10,000 people firing assault rifles at once, 50,000 tons of explosives being detonated, 54 super sonic aircraft flying past 300 feet off the ground, 18 cannons going off, a calvary charge, a ford mustang turning over, 60 helicopters crashing simultaneously and yet..... everyone hears everything that everyone else says.

    Even over 1940's WWII radios... no one ever has to repeat themselves, unless (obviously) if they're in some form of dispute with their superior officers and need to say what they've just said louder to make sure they know how upset they are.

    Otherwise... the conversation is pristine.

    My family has terrible hearing. If someone turns on the garbage disposal, no one can understand anything that anyone says on that floor of the house until its turned off. "What" is clearly, definitively, the most common word in our house.



    Has anyone. Ever. Seen a war movie where the soldiers cannot hear and/or understand one another over the ungodly racket going on around them???

    I submit to you, that none of you have.
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    Heh. Noticed the same thing in virtually all entertainment/art forms that involve dialogue.

    Except that woodchipper scene in Fargo...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vizvii View Post
    Heh. Noticed the same thing in virtually all entertainment/art forms that involve dialogue.

    Except that woodchipper scene in Fargo...
    War movies in particular though. Once you've noticed it, the suspension of disbelief is stretched pretty thin.

    Your average shotgun outputs about 165 decibles. A jet aircraft is about 140 DB, the tissue in your ear drums starts to die around 180 DB and the loudest sound possible is 194 DB.

    A busy battlefield might just be the loudest practical scenario physically possible.

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    Early on in Saving Private Ryan there's a scene where an American soldier repeatedly shouts 'What' to some German dudes before shooting them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katsumoto View Post
    Early on in Saving Private Ryan there's a scene where an American soldier repeatedly shouts 'What' to some German dudes before shooting them.
    You think that might have more to do with them speaking ... german... possibly??

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    In movies defence though lol. It would probably ruin the movie if half the dialogue was "what?" and it took an extra minute or so for each line to be delivered lol.

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    Also, people speak perfectly, without flubbing words or anything, even in tense and stressful situations.
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    I've heard some wanna-be actors claim realistic dialogue sounds completely unrealistic when acted out.
    Might be like that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katsumoto View Post
    Early on in Saving Private Ryan there's a scene where an American soldier repeatedly shouts 'What' to some German dudes before shooting them.


    Quote Originally Posted by jsktrogdor View Post
    You think that might have more to do with them speaking ... german... possibly??
    Actually they weren't speaking German, if I remember correctly. I believe they were Czech conscripts, specifically saying that they weren't German.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gen. Chris View Post
    Actually they weren't speaking German, if I remember correctly. I believe they were Czech conscripts, specifically saying that they weren't German.

    What?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jsktrogdor View Post
    What?


    The two "German" soldiers who are shot trying to surrender were speaking Czech. They were saying, "Please don't shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone, I am Czech!" They were members of what the Germans called Ost [East] Battalions, men - mostly Czech and Polish - taken prisoner in eastern European countries invaded by Germany and forced into the German army.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gen. Chris View Post
    What???

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    I think they say "What?" Multiple times in the movie "Black Hawk Down". Not sure.
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    I believe I got one. It's in Finnish though. The very first moment and word in this clip is "Mikä?", meaning "What?".

    The soldier without helmet had just destroyed a soviet bunker with a satchel charge. The explosion deafened him momentarily and when the other soldier comes to tell him how good that explosion was, he couldn't hear him at first.


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    As always when it comes to realistic war: Generation Kill.

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    I believe there were also some scenes in Band of Brothers where the main characters couldn't hear orders or whatever at times.
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    The Longest Day had a guy whose ears were destroyed from all the bombing and fighting when they get to Ste Mere Eglise I think and he keeps going what for like five minutes because he can't hear. You guys should all go watch Longest Day if you have never seen it by the way, and watch the version with realistic voices for everyone (Germans speaking German, French speaking French) You have to read subtitles, but it is the only movie I've ever seen that did that on such a large scale.
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