How To SURVIVE A Quiet Place! | Film Theory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The biggest problem with the whole movie is that you have an enemy that hunts by sound. Yet the military didn't immediately try to use some type of sound against it? It's like have a nocturnal predator and no one figuring out that if you have bright lights, you can disable it. I still liked the movie but thought it was weak that it took an accidental discovery for what would have likely been found in the first day or two of fighting.

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

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

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.

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.

As an ASL major props to the people making this movie. The ASL was fairly accurate to my understanding, (I think I’m not 100% sure) they used real Deaf actors (a huge Deal for the Deaf community) they clearly showed a respect for Deaf Culture, and they even addressed topics that most people wouldn’t pick up on like the lack of acceptance for the daughter being Deaf by refusing to believe the cochlear can’t be fixed. That being said he is also an amazing dad in the movie because of his willingness to sign even before the events that took place to force into asl, which sadly most hearing parents would rather sit and have their children never know what they are saying then learn to communicate with them in a language they prefer and can understand. Edit: Did not expect this to blow up! Thank y’all!

They are attracted by noise... Hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and thunder storms all create a lot of noise and with 3 of those being destructive, not all of the noise is exactly natural. Can the monster survive the torture mother nature throws at us on a regular basis?

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)

I just imagined a group of people who go around killing the death angels using instruments as their weapons. Picture a band that uses low-pitched music (from a relatively safe place, such as somewhere elevated, etc) to lure death angels to that location, then increases the pitch drastically and starts shooting. They'd probably use bows and arrows rather than guns now that I think of it. They're quieter and easier to make ammunition for.