Closest I’ve seen to this being done was the movie Black Hawk Down. Meanwhile can you imagine everyone screaming at each other in the John Wick films? Other movies like Aliens would have been a whole different level of horrifying as the sound fades away until its just the sound of the actor’s muffled heart beat and their cluelessness that the xenomorph is crawling up behind them.
As someone who is at times loud, yeah, I’m regularly using my volume to signal to people (mostly my wife) what volume I can hear at. I’m not trying to disturb anyone, I’m just hard of hearing and struggle to ignore background noise.
That said, I recently visited one side of my wife’s family and they’re louder than my deaf family. I genuinely don’t understand how a group of hearing people can default to being so loud
If there’s background noise, I usually ask people to repeat themselves if I can’t hear them, with a bit of obvious hand signals as to the reason.
I wonder what the reason for generally loud families is … maybe being raised by someone who was trying to mask deafness or something :-/