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Originally Posted by Hitch
The same thing is true of movies--the whole "smother them with noise" issue is really disturbing. I think that studies have shown that a human can really only hear (decipher) 3 sounds at any given time, so scenes with bombastic music, gunfire, bombs, alien weapons, other weird sounds AND dialogue? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Hitch
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^ Exactly. Decades ago background music (scores and underscores)
enhanced the experience of a movie or TV show, and usually only increased in volume to accentuate a scene where there was no dialog, but a heightened emotional response was the goal (think Psycho's shower scene).
Music has gone this way as well. Years ago you could actually hear and understand every word of a song. These days, not so much. Why there are even words in songs anymore is beyond me. You can't hear them anyway.
Why do
THEY (the powers that be) spend so much money on research, scripts, actors, scene re-takes, etc. when in the end it's all a waste because the words get lost along the way. May as well read a book.
