Why Movie Dialogue Is So Hard To Understand These Days
<p>I worried I was having hearing problems a few years back. It turns out I was — but that’s not the reason I couldn’t hear dialogue.</p>
<p>I especially noticed it during Game of Thrones. I had to turn the audio way up, in part because of the myriad accents actors had —and because something had invariably changed.</p>
<p>Many <a href="https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">viewers complain</a> that movie dialogue is harder to follow than ever. Christopher Nolan's films are infamously difficult to understand with conversations that can sound like a mere whisper. He’s even <a href="https://www.slashfilm.com/577777/christopher-nolan-sound-mixing/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">had other </a>filmmakers reach out to him to complain about the elusive dialogue.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, I polled my Twitter users and was shocked by the results:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*iPCzdGBI1AwiP3f6pTOIwQ.png" style="height:456px; width:700px" /></p>
<p>Author <a href="https://twitter.com/Seanjkernan/status/1689048461914566656" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">via Twitter</a></p>
<p>Even if we discount for some of them speaking English as a second language, and assume the real number is only half that — that’s still a huge number of people using subtitles.</p>
<h1>Why movies are so hard to understand</h1>
<p>Filmmakers have leaned into the rise of special effects, making explosions, fights, and gunfire significantly louder. This makes dialogue seem that much quieter. It’s the audio equivalent of going from an extremely bright room to a dark room.</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/mind-cafe/why-movie-dialogue-is-so-hard-to-understand-these-days-f8948881798a"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>