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 &mdash; but that&rsquo;s not the reason I couldn&rsquo;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 &mdash;and because something had invariably changed.</p> <p>Many&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;that movie dialogue is harder to follow than ever. Christopher Nolan&#39;s films are infamously difficult to understand with conversations that can sound like a mere whisper. He&rsquo;s even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.slashfilm.com/577777/christopher-nolan-sound-mixing/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">had other&nbsp;</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&nbsp;<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 &mdash; that&rsquo;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&rsquo;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>