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Stage Whisper

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Stage Whisper	comment	A common occurrence with regards to Acoustic License. In Real Life, when people whisper, it is being done to conceal information from others and so is noticeably quieter and typically conducted away from prying ears. In works, however, this would be impractical, as it would hinder the audience's ability to hear the dialogue and understand what was going on. Enter the Stage Whisper, where a character will pretend to whisper, typically by covering part of their mouth with their hand, lowering their voice slightly, talking more slowly, and/or switching their tone to indicate as much. This allows the audience to understand that the character is "whispering" while still being able to understand the character delivering the line. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })While this trope is typically used by a character wishing to conceal information from other characters, it can also be used to add emphasis to particular lines delivered before key events or to create a feeling of sorrow or regret by the character delivering the line. Further, when works are trying to indicate that the voice is a character's internal dialogue, they may rely on this trope. Commonly Played for Laughs in modern films by characters who will make overly-loud whispers that are easily heard by the other characters on-stage that were meant to not hear it. Also, very common in romance films to set the appropriate tone. Compare Little "No" and Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene. Contrast Pose of Silence. Fake Loud is an inversion; a noise that conveys loudness without actually being loud.
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Stage Whisper / int_1ad1ba68	comment	Notting Hill: Near the end, two of the character share quick, whispered moment at the dinner table that is clearly audible to the viewers.
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Stage Whisper / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show - in the episode "Vanstock", the group takes Kelso's van to a Woodstock-like venue. Eric, Donna and Fez are sitting in the back of the van, discussing how Kelso is cheating on Jackie with Laurie. Kelso, Jackie and Laurie are sitting in the front of the van, and we can actually see Eric, Donna and Kelso mere feet away from them. It's completely silent in the front of the van until Jackie breaks the silence; there's no way they couldn't have heard them.
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Stage Whisper / int_22e860f4	comment	Originally played straight on Psych, but as the seasons went by they were more prone to subversions. Shawn and Gus would often turn around to whisper to each other about something that just happened, how they can possibly get out of this dangerous situation, or what kind of tacos they should get after they solve the case. Lamp Shaded in one episode where a pair of older expies for the duo do the same thing and are clearly audible to Shawn and Gus 10 feet away. "Can people hear us this clearly when we turn around and whisper?" "God, I hope not..."
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Stage Whisper / int_249b3519	comment	In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, the pair is given a ride by a downright terrifying redneck. His pickup truck doesn't have any back seats, so all three are riding literally inches away from each other. Despite this, Harold and Kumar start whispering to each other about whether or not the man plans on killing them, the erupting pustules on his neck, and finally, whether or not he can hear them talking about him. Several moments of awkward silence later, the man says nonchalantly, "I can hear everything you said", followed by more awkward silence.
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Stage Whisper / int_24ffd341	comment	In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis reveals he knew that Mac and Charlie were spying on him from the air vents because, "You were talking at full volume!"
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Stage Whisper / int_261c8d3f	comment	Used in many episodes of The Simpsons, including one in which two artists/counselors are talking and one claims the children can't hear them because they are stage whispering. When Lisa points out she can hear them quite clearly, the artist/counselor insists she can't. In one of the DVD commentaries, some of the writers joke that The Simpsons offers the loudest Stage Whispers in all of fiction.
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Stage Whisper / int_2675c915	comment	In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "T.R.A.C.K.S.", the team is on a public train in Italy, yet discuss their plans without noticeably lowering their voices.
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Stage Whisper / int_2b82b95f	comment	Killed to death with a hammer in iCarly. In fact, in one scene, Carly and Freddie are all but screaming while whispering at each other in the kitchen, while people are right in the living room. There is no wall separating the two rooms.
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Stage Whisper / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "Modern Espionage", this occurs when the characters talk through earpieces while infiltrating the gala. Of course it is Britta who is caught.
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Stage Whisper / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: When Dean Thomas complains about exam results being sent home during the holiday meaning he'll have to worry about them during it he is said to do so in a loud whisper. Probably due to the only person in the room he may not have wanted to hear him being McGonnagal and even she was unlikely to rebuke him over it that year seeing as she'd just asked them not to intentionally fail or get caught cheating just because it would reflect poorly on Umbridge in a way that implied she'd understand if they wanted to. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Used when Romilda Vane invites Harry to join her compartment and her insult to Neville and Luna is actually described as being "in a stage whisper."
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Stage Whisper / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: George Sr. shares one noticeable one with Michael in the prison waiting area:
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Stage Whisper / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novel Going Postal, Moist deliberately uses this technique at one point to cause maximum inconvenience and embarrassment to his conversational target.
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Stage Whisper / int_4fc3c258	comment	Donnie Darko: Much of the film's starting and ending narration in conducted this way.
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Stage Whisper / int_4fd9904a	comment	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: When Dean Thomas complains about exam results being sent home during the holiday meaning he'll have to worry about them during it he is said to do so in a loud whisper. Probably due to the only person in the room he may not have wanted to hear him being McGonnagal and even she was unlikely to rebuke him over it that year seeing as she'd just asked them not to intentionally fail or get caught cheating just because it would reflect poorly on Umbridge in a way that implied she'd understand if they wanted to.
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Stage Whisper / int_51fa4202	comment	Langt fra Las Vegas: Done very much in season 1 when Casper tries to hide an unpopular visitor in his apartment from Anne. Usually Casper will freak out and shout to the visitor "hide in the closet/bedroom", and Anne will just ask "are you alone" to which Casper will reply "yes" and Anne will believe him. Otherwise it's rarely seen in the series.
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Stage Whisper / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: In "Yor's Kitchen", Franky and Loid are shown having a loud argument in a very public setting as Franky tries to get Loid to help him ask out his crush. No one is reacting to their conversation, however, and a subtitle appears to directly state that, in actuality, they are whispering.
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Stage Whisper / int_59fb8a3b	comment	Parodied in The Young Ones episode "Boring", where Neil is heard shouting to the others from the doorway. This is obviously meant to be private, even though the person he's talking about is right in front of him.
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Stage Whisper / int_5afe77cb	comment	At one point in Sirens (UK) the crew meet a man with a carrot up his, ahem, bottom. When one of them starts freaking out he gets called away for a private discussion. About two feet away from where he was just standing sort-of near a corner.
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Stage Whisper / int_637554db	comment	The zombie episode of The Middleman had the Middleman and Wendy discuss the need to kill a possibly infected man, who is absolutely horrified since he's just a few feet away and can hear every word they say.
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Stage Whisper / int_6d02517d	comment	Cate lampshades this trope on 8 Simple Rules when Paul pulls her aside, and Cate says "Yeah, they'll never hear us from over here" with sarcasm in her voice. Yet, it's played straight, as the kids don't hear them.
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Stage Whisper / int_6d7fb9f	comment	Time for the Stars. The twin protagonists use a 'prison speak' stage whisper to prevent them from being overheard. Turns out they've actually been using Twin Telepathy and not realised it; when their stage whispers are recorded and played back to them, they realise they can't make out what the other is saying.
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Stage Whisper / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Die Hard: McClane must whisper into the radio most of the time to avoid detection, but it is nicely amplified for the viewers.
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Stage Whisper / int_81692f99	comment	Played fairly straight in most Star Trek episodes (the addition of the captain's "ready room" in TNG reduced the need to resort to this)... until in the first season finale of DS9 the murderer hiding in plain sight casually eavesdrops on the investigation. Also subverted in "Favor the Bold" when Weyoun reveals that the Vorta have good hearing (in contrast to their bad vision).
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Stage Whisper / int_976efc02	comment	Commonly lampshaded in riffs of movies shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and later RiffTrax with something to the effect of "You know we can hear you."
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Stage Whisper / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the first episode of the 2011 series of Doctor Who, the companions discuss an Awful Truth that they absolutely cannot tell the Doctor...under the glass floor of the TARDIS console room, with him directly above them. Then he actually interrupts their conversation by sticking his head down over the edge of the floor and tells them to come up top. There is no way he could not have heard it.
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Stage Whisper / int_ca171922	comment	In "The Oldest Established" from Guys and Dolls, one of the choruses suddenly drops to this volume for the words "crap game."
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Stage Whisper / int_cacc7427	comment	In Galavant Gareth criticizes King Richard's use of the "evil king whisper" for making it blatantly obvious when he's up to something.
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Stage Whisper / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin: The Genie adopts one when telling Aladdin "Your line is: I wish to free the genie."
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Stage Whisper / int_d940dc6f	comment	In Into the Woods, the Wolf whispers a few lyrics of "Hello, Little Girl" in the creepiest, most unsettling way possible.
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Stage Whisper / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain novel, The Last Ditch, a young commissar gets into an argument with Colonel Kasteen over the proper approach to fighting an Ork invasion. When she questions Kasteen's fitness for command, Cain's aide Jurgen offers to serve as his second in a duel "in a confidential undertone which carried to every corner of the table." This is a Call-Back to The Traitor's Hand, where Cain challenged another commissar who'd insulted the colonel.
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Stage Whisper / int_efbf004f	comment	Played with in The High Crusade where the aliens bargaining with the humans don't realize how good human hearing is, leading to them having frequent whispered secret discussions that the humans exploit to the fullest possible extent.
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Stage Whisper / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: Hilarious lampshading.
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Stage Whisper / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): Because the past events of the fourth episode are told from Claudia's point-of-view, the official English subtitles list "[Indistinct whispering]" when Louis replies to Lestat's question "You missed me?" as the two men are snuggling inside Louis' coffin. It's a prelude to sex, so they don't want their daughter to hear their sweet nothings, but viewers only need to turn up the volume to discern Louis' answer: "I hated sleeping without you."
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Stage Whisper / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier's kitchen has no door separating it from the living room, and part of one of its walls is just a stack of shelves open to both the living room and the kitchen, offering no real barrier to sound. But when two characters need to have a private conversation, they need only step into the kitchen and speak normally, and it's guaranteed that no-one in the living room will overhear them. Slightly justified, but not really, by the fact that when the camera is in the kitchen the audience cannot see outside the kitchen, which falls under another trope entirely.
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Stage Whisper / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Probably looks out of place because Friends normally makes liberal use of Inner Monologue.
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Stage Whisper / int_f91de837	comment	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Used when Romilda Vane invites Harry to join her compartment and her insult to Neville and Luna is actually described as being "in a stage whisper."
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Stage Whisper / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: Wendy knew for a long time that Dipper had a Precocious Crush on her thanks to all the times he spoke to himself about it with this volume. Played for dark laughs in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" when Preston Northwest declares that: "We'll eat the butler!" right in front of the bulter, who doesn't even react even though he heard everything.
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