"Hello?" when the phoneline is dead or someone on the other end already hang up? It seems pointless...
2006-09-15 06:20:48 · 21 answers · asked by Alaska 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
For the same reason horror movie heroines think, "Two of my friends have been brutally murdered, one on the front lawn and one in the kitchen, and the two friends who went to look for them are missing. I think I'll go take a shower."
2006-09-15 06:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
So true. Maybe they are dumbstruck, and feeling helpless. think about it. If the line is dead, there is nothing you can do. Most of us don't just give up that easy. Especially when we really want to talk to who ever was just on the phone. It's a wish. It's a prayer that they are still there.
"Hello" is all they can do at that point. Besides looking stupid to us in the movie theater, I mean.
2006-09-15 06:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by joelgehringer 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because the viewer can't hear what's happening on the other end of the line. When they keep repeating hello, we get the fact that the line is dead or they were hung up on.
2006-09-15 06:23:18 · answer #3 · answered by pegasus_1174 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My best example of your question is at the end of "Silence of the Lambs" when Jody Foster is on the phone with Hannibal Lecter - he hangs up and she says "Dr. Lecter?" like 20 times!
2006-09-15 06:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by michael c 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its a trick the writers use to make the scene more suspenseful, more ominous. It builds up whatever bad thing is going to happen next.
2006-09-15 06:59:21 · answer #5 · answered by bellelayne 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dramatic tension - you get to watch them grow more mystified or horrified as they keep asking, with no reply. Or, they might get more angry, or the situation may become even more funny when they keep saying it.
It sets or heightens whatever mood they are trying to create.
2006-09-15 06:23:01 · answer #6 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is pointless. But for the movie sake, they do it to build suspense, for some ungodly reason. It's like as pointless to pretend to drink something! Duh, we know it's empty, no matter what they do. That's why they call it acting! :)
2006-09-15 06:25:39 · answer #7 · answered by Tesra 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the movies.Why do teenage girls get away from a killer who's inside the house,run out the front door,around the house in into the back door??
2006-09-15 06:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
either to make sure someone isnt on the phone or their stupid like the girls that run up the steps when theres a killer in the house
2006-09-15 06:24:14 · answer #9 · answered by Ssoroka 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because is like when you have bad milk in the fridge and you tell somebody and they go and smell it!!! Only want the reassurance that what you are experiencing is true!!!
2006-09-15 06:25:39 · answer #10 · answered by Edith Avatar 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋