If they’re talking over lunch in a diner or restaurant, the clinking of silverware on plates, kitchen noises and traffic in the street outside behind a glass window pane will be three times louder than their speech. So yeah I could see it.
My favorite example is when the characters don’t hear the helicopter hovering just over the ridge until it suddenly pops up into view.
I recently rewatched the Dollars trilogy as it’s available on Prime and there was more than one occasion when I thought ‘how the hell did they not notice him walk up and pull a gun on them?’. The answer: off-screen invisibility, of course.
If you need to do something noisy in a bathroom when somebody else is listening in, just turn on the sink faucet at full blast for 5 straight minutes and apparently nobody else will hear or think anything is wrong. Nobody will ask “So why is the person were supposed to be watching washing their hands for 10 minutes?”
Thinking of noise, anytime a scene is in a nightclub or disco, the main characters can speak with each other in normal voices. The music is never louder than their conversation.
That one annoys me because I really can’t stand the noise level of a typical nightclub, where you have to shout directly into the ear of the person next to you to be heard.
Or answer a phone call. Sorry, I have to go outside and down the block before I can here someone on the phone.
It’s the corollary of walking three feet away and talking in a normal volume about something confidential in front of the people you don’t want to hear you.
Asides have been in use since before Shakespeare. I feel that movie-making conveniences that allow the audience to understand what’s happening should be classified differently than unrealistic plot points or outlandish action.
I’m probably sorely mistaken, but is the sitcom thing where two bedrooms share the same bathroom in the middle an actual thing? Always felt like they did that to save on set space. I’ve never encountered a two or three door home restroom in my life.
Called a Jack & Jill bathroom.
The past is a foreign country. They take shits differently there.
Nowadays, you’re probably right, but my grandmother’s old house had a bathroom in between two bedrooms. I don’t think the house originally had one when it was constructed; it has long ago been demolished. I also later lived in an apartment with a similarly laid out bathroom.
Has there ever been any kind of device (TV, cell phone, i-pad) with a video screen you can watch outdoors in the daylight? If there has, I’ve never encountered it.
Watching Escape to the Country (in GB) they still have them in older homes.
Ive seen the one bath two bedcthing multiple times. Seems quite normal to me.
My wife and I went to an estate sale a couple weekends ago. The house was a pretty decent size, probably built in the 60s. It had what appeared to be a ‘Jack & Jill bathroom’ between two bedrooms, but it only had twin sinks-- no shower / tub, no toilet, just the sinks. I thought that was odd. I’ve heard of ‘half baths’ which actually have no ‘bath’ at all-- this was, I dunno, a quarter bath?
A somewhat more recent example: when I was in high school in the 80s, my best friend’s parents bought a new-construction house with a Jack & Jill bathroom.
It’s very common In McMansion designs. Main bedroom has its own bathroom. Two bedrooms meant for the kids have a Jack and Jill. Then there is usually another separate bathroom in the hall. When I lived with my ex-girlfriend the house was like this. Built in the early 2000s.
I friend in grad school bought a house (it was a different era) with that setup. He was baffled as to how that was going to work. Not just going thru a bedroom to get to it, but there were two doors. Do you lock both doors going in and then remember to unlock both after?
I might have seen that setup once or twice since but that’s the one I remember. It is truly rare in my experience.
Yes, I think you want to lock both doors going in, at least if you want privacy. Though I’m wondering if you could use some technology to lock the opposite door when you enter from one and lock it. Googling, you might be able to do this with some sort of interlock. And someone described a jack and jill bathroom in which only the sinks were easily accessible, with the bath and toilet behind a separate locking door.