Closest I’ve seen to this being done was the movie Black Hawk Down. Meanwhile can you imagine everyone screaming at each other in the John Wick films? Other movies like Aliens would have been a whole different level of horrifying as the sound fades away until its just the sound of the actor’s muffled heart beat and their cluelessness that the xenomorph is crawling up behind them.
Anytime someone in a movie or show fires a weapon in a cave, or in a bunker, or in any enclosed space, and then goes about their day takes me right out of the story.
Anyone who has fired a gun, especially at an indoor firing range, knows you’re not acting normal after that shit.
I want one where the detectives who find the days-old dead body puke their guts out because of the smell.
I’m just picturing Archer MWOP MWOP! Because that’s what everything sounds like. That and the getting knocked out. “That’s like, really bad for you” lol
there’s a recurring gag in Archer about this lol
What?
This kind of happened early on in Preacher. One of the characters deliberately put his head in the boot of his car and fired a rifle off to the side so he’d be deaf, and unable to hear Custer’s ‘Word of God’.
MWAP… MWAP…
I thought Alex Garland’s Civil War did a good job of this kinda thought.
The Sopranos did this in one early episode. Dude shoots another dude in a car and is immediately like “FUCK!” and holding his ears. Rest of the series is dudes casually blazing away and “I’m all itchy!”
Elvis Presley owned a 1971 Detomaso Pantera, famous for vapor lock. After arguing with a girlfriend, he tried to peel out but the car wouldn’t start, so he pulled out his .38 and shot the dashboard. No way he didn’t damage his hearing in a small sports car. The car is on display at the Peterson museum in LA with the bullet hole.
Save the realism for the documentaries, I want escapist fun.
John Wick now sells Babayaga brand hearing aids.
Reading through these comments, I’m starting to think the military might be bad for your health…
Nah, do your 20 and be able to retire in your early 40’s. I mean sure your back is fucked, probably need a couple knee surgeries, weird things like the Pillsbury doughboy commercials may trigger you into a murderous rage, and there’s a possibility your anus is going to fall out at some point because of the anthrax vaccine… but all so worth it so that you get to retire in your 40’s!
Pillsbury doughboy commercials may trigger you into a murderous rage
What?
It’s well known that males, especially American, are to put it mildly not so great at managing their emotions. after a long period of extreme stress, one sign they are having problems is with something called “cute aggression”
Been over 20 years since I got out but I remember mentioning it in passing to the woman I was dating at the time who was a licensed therapist. She was insistent that a noticeable amount of post service and recently deployed men (and some women) experienced this for a time.
After a year or so it stopped happening without needing treatment which is why I am guessing it doesn’t get much if any attention. Personally I find it funny remembering having this shockingly visceral hate response to seeing the dough boy or that fucking fabric softener animated teddy bear.
FUCKING DOUGHBOY…POKE HIM WITH A BAYONETTE.
You found this more concerning than the detaching anus?
Considering that I’m far more likely to be in the vincinity of a veteran and a Pillsbury doughboy commercial, than having to have an anthrax vaccination? Yes, I absolutely find seemingly unprompted blood rage more concerning.
That being said, I would also like to know about the detaching anus thing, but I reckon that I can find that by googling for it.
Never happened to me but another sadder response are veterans that post deployment find themselves on the verge of tears when presented with totally benign normal locations like being in a grocery store. Only becomes a concern if this response continually happens or increases in severity.
Remembering seeing this happen to other veterans and partially experiencing it with myself is making me a bit more conscious of the people with some level of PTSD that is debilitating and resistant to treatment.
Yeah, shit just happens sometimes.
My favorite is when someone sets off a grenade indoors and then everyone remains fully conscious and continues having normal conversations immediately after.
Indeed! I know a fair bit about explosives and no one I know likes watching action movies with me. Either I will point out the blue bands on weapons, how everyone will be dead in the next hour or so because of all the perforations in their intestines and other organs after the impulse wave passes over them, or how some of these people should be wheezing through the rest of the movie due to the chemical burns to their esophagus and lungs (I am a blast at parties).
I recently watched the series Falling Skies and there’s a scene where they set off an explosion indoors. The characters black out and wake up with hearing loss, blurred vision and their ears bleeding. They still recover unnaturally fast, but, like, that’s OK were doing a TV show. I was happy to see some realistic consequences play out on screen.
There’s a different scene where one of the characters has to actually deal with being concussed due to being near an explosion. Overall the series does pretty well with the basic concept that the characters get wounded in combat and are not action heroes. If they survive, they’re still wounded in the next episode and it affects their actions in the story.
Just made me think of it. In the movie Atomic Blonde, I appreciated how Charlize Theron’s bruises and cuts accumulated as the movie progressed versus the normal brutal beatdown followed by the immediately following glamour guy/gal scene. Otherwise the movie is over the top but not enough to be detracting.
I would love to have a party with people who have such interesting knowledge. What else are they doing wrong? Or what common mistake would you like to see on screen?
In any film or series where the characters are carrying guns regularly I immediately notice muzzle discipline. If the actors actively keep their weapons pointed away from everyone except enemies, you know they had someone competent on staff who gave them some basic weapon handling training before filming. If the characters are supposed to be professional military or law enforcement and they have bad muzzle discipline it immediately takes me out of the scene. If the character is supposed to be competent but waves their gun around like a moron it’s very immersion-breaking.
In very well produced media, the characters who are supposed to be amateurs show bad muzzle discipline and sometimes it’s even a plot point, and I appreciate that kind of attention to detail.
If the character is supposed to be competent but waves their gun around like a moron
they could be ICE?
I feel like the “supposed to be competent” qualifier excludes that.
One piece of advice I never see, perhaps because its not practical for civilians. Immediately after an explosion where you are close to the epicenter, do everything possible to avoid gasping or yelling. Next, quickly but carefully check if you have been hurt or not.
By the end of my time in service the most I might do is have an eye twitch but for normal people, being in proximity to an explosion is an unprecedented experience that’s like opening a hot stove oven, flipping a flood light on in your face, having a party balloon pop behind you, and being hit hard by an ocean wave from an awkward angle, all at the same time. Totally normal reaction is to want to get the fuck away but first you want to make sure everything is still attached, nothing new is now attached to you, and there are no major holes anywhere.
I guess the problem with that advice is that unfortunately its only useful to those expecting to be near an explosion.
Why avoid gasping or yelling?
on my phone so terse response
Chemical residues in the air are super toxic, yelling will cause you to take a deep breath of that. Explosives made to kill don’t have many health & safety restrictions besides what’s on the Geneva convention checklist (joke about Canadian soldiers)
Also you may have injured your lungs but are not aware of that just yet. A lot of extremely injured people will understandably try to get away but are oblivious because of severe shock.
I’m bookmarking this so I can quickly check it in the event I’m trapped in an explosion.
(No, I’m not serious. My phone would be on charge at home).
The show Archer is basically based on hearing damage.
“MAWP”
That was such a wonderfully disturbed show.
Seriously… are we not doing phrasing?
Do you want people quoting Archer? Because that’s how you get people quoting Archer.
It has to be called “WHAT?!” and the sequel is “WHAT, MOTHERFUCKER?!” starring Sam Jackson.
SAY WHAT AGAIN!
NO SERIOUSLY, SAY IT AGAIN, I COULDN’T HEAR SHIT!
And the side story has the subtitle “ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!”
