Film Theory: Why Musicians Will ALWAYS Survive A Quiet Place

When you watch A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place 2, we are shown how humanity has adapted to survive in a world where any sound can get you killed. Except, that's not exactly true. Even in the movie itself, we see that people are unable to exist without making ANY sound. So, how loud is TOO loud? It's time to find out!

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Mark Hofmeyer
Editors: AbsolutePixel and Koen Verhagen
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (viridianrosette)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

[atakiri]

I'd heard people at my summer camp say that they could hear people having conversations across the lake if they were awake early enough, it's wild to find out 15 years later WHY

[nuclearmemes]

Fun fact: in the beginning of a quiet place 1, you can see that the chips aisle was completely full because people were too afraid to eat chips cuz they make sounds. Can't belive the directors went into such detail

[ohshanana]

I’m a clarinet player and I mastered being quiet. We’re not allowed to eat in class. I was able to open a bag of chip and eat it all. I’ve done this multiple occasions and nobody notices unless I throw away the bag in the recycle

[beccabeckie]

Can you imagine being chased by a monster and fall to the ground before looking up to see a whole group of rock players as someone starts shredding an electric guitar and the lead singer starts singing a whistle note. Meanwhile the monsters start to writhe in pain and another person shoots it in the head

[Lord_Exticide]

MatPat: “Sound travels faster and is louder at night”
Me dropping a cup at night: “Yes”

[ShadowQuickpaw]

Here's the thing though: They go after wildlife too. The racoons near the beginning get axed relatively quickly, and its established that the DAs aren't hunting for food. They just reflexively destroy anything that's too "loud" to them. I can imagine they 'tried' to stop things like waterfalls or thunderstorms, but since there's nothing they could do they just learned to avoid those places since it would make them "go blind, " so to speak. The long and short is that while there is little they could do to deal with things like swarms of noisy bugs, Earth's ecosystem is about to go fubar regardless.

[austinmoe]

Imagine a badass scene where the death angels are on the MC's trail, pursuing them as the survivors try to find a new place to bunker down. And then, just when the monster hears the smallest 'crack' from their footsteps, it comes running, only to be stopped by ol' Cotton Eye Joe stepping out from a barn with his squeaky violin. Joe plays so horribly the monster opens up its plating, where then Joe shoots it with a shotgun.

[incredibleflameboy]

The weirdest "how to survive" ive seen about a quiet place was that the deaf would be the best equipped to survive because they're used to silence. Im deaf. It definitely doesnt work that way, if anything im noisier because i dont realise im making noise. I think whoever made that video was trying to go down the route of the psychological effects of living in silence and thought that the deaf try to be quiet all the time but it was just mind boggling.

[FloridaManEvolved]

MatPat is just like that teacher who says: “We still got a minute” and then explains the lore of everything in said minute.

[jelanibyrd]

That sound refraction is actually kinda scary. In Washington DC, where I live, there was a concert a couple weeks ago on an overcast day. The sound refraction pretty much made it a city wide block party where residents could hear the music up to 4 miles away. It only got louder as night fell. So imagine my surprise when I hear that the neighbor I thought was having a party was halfway across the city.

[crumblemuffin]

As a music student, this one goes for all of my fellow musicians who had people saying that studying music is useless XD

[JelloWello]

Imagine being someone who snores in "a quiet place"

[unit]

as a musician, I can say this: grab two mics and two amps, plugging one mic into each, then take a dog whistle or helmsman's whistle, piccolo etc. and play it into one of the mics, quickly making sure they are picking up everything from each other's amp. This will literally create a theoretically infinite loop of gradually louder volume and pitch if the amps have... well, amplifiers in them. So no average speaker would be okay, you must have an amp. Theoretically, because at a certain point your ears just wouldn't hear it or would be too damaged to hear it. Bring ear mufflers probably.

[kingkoopa]

matpat finally explains why opening the microwave at 3 am is a billion times louder than opening it at 3pm

[hometimemayhem]

fun fact: Cellos would trigger the death angel's weakness, not normally, but heres how

1: find the high pitch string
2: go to the same string, but under the bridge

3: take the bow and use the side

4: trigger not only the death angels, but also your friend's instant death

(dear god I hate that noise)

[beans_]

Never expected to learn physics in a MatPat theory video but here I am learning the refraction of sounds during different times of the day.

[Amayawolf_]

Huh, I didn't know that cold air/night affected sound. That explains why everything at night sounds incredibly loud...I thought it was just the knowledge that people were sleeping nearby that made it seem so loud

[tylerbremer]

Fun fact death angels dont go after ambient noise (things that would theoretically always exist, or come as a defined pattern) such as birds singing or waterfalls. So if we apply this to the situation, you could set up areas of loud noises you would want to train the death angels into thinking is ambient noise, set up a big area with loud speakers that the angels cant break to play construction or distant conversation. It might take a couple of days per each angel but its gotta be better than having to do what they do. This might also work the other way, want a death angel hunting dog? Simple, train one that has had "ambient training" by playing the noise you want them to hunt; and when they attack the speaker turn it off giving the illusion that what they killed is dead.

[daytpotat]

I love that he takes temperature into account to specify his answer to a single decibel, but forgets trees exist

[Bex-ooeu]

When mentioned the fact that flute players would survive, my friend literally cackled and said "Take that trumpets, flutes ARE useful!"
We're both flute players and for some reason our school's trumpet section seems to think that flutes are useless to the band because quote, "You can't hear them literally 96% of the time"