Film Theory: Why Musicians Will ALWAYS Survive A Quiet Place

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

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

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

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

What's crazy about this video, is how MatPat virtually figured out how to beat the Death Angels just by using YouTube videos that play at 1400-1900 Hz. The most dangerous weapon is a smart mind.

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

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.

The fact that in that movies canon no one including the military thought to set up a mine field with a wireless sound system broadcasting in the center or simple spike pit traps with a noise maker at the bottom after everyone realized the creatures react and hunt to sound is amazing to me

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

this helped me in science class, thanks for explaining sounds

I played viola in 8th grade, and in 10th grade I took a 9th grade band course and tested a tuba. The teacher said, and I quote, "That is the highest I've ever heard a tuba". For the record, it sounded like a trumpet.

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.

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

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Just for jits and giggles, I made a quiet place survival kit: -One of those canteens that looks like a bag (idk what it’s called, but I’ll use it bc it won’t be as loud as a metal canteen if I drop it) -Dog whistle - soft, non-perishable foods - clothes (pack them so they act like a cushion between your backpack and the contents inside to muffle the sound if you drop your bag) - beanies, jackets, gloves, scarves, blankets, etc. - firearm + amo and silencer (I don’t know anything about firearms, so I don’t know if silencers only work with certain ones) - paperback book/other form of entertainment that isn’t noisy