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Serious question about clapping etiquette across the world
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Not just Europe, the rest of the goddamned planet.
Applause is something you give to those you are applauding. In the US it seems to be something that Americans do to call attention to themselves, the equivalent of yelling out "I LIKE THIS THING!".
We clap when there is an actual live person to applaud, why the fuck are you clapping for a recording? Do you clap when sitting at home watching netflix as well?
In america they don't even wait til the movie is over, fucking clapping when people come on screen.
It's a nerd fandom thing for midnight/first day showings of popular movie franchises to express excitement/hype without people being idiots and yelling at the screen. Basically like people geeking out over Nintendo Direct announcements at Nintendo NY collectively.
Obviously it'd be a different situation if you were at a premiere/film festival with the producer/director/actors of the movie in the crowd where you're actually clapping for someone there.
I feel like I would have straight up killed a person if they tried to clap at the end of BlacKkKlansman. I assume it's not all films they do this for lol
I'm German and the only time I clap is in planes to congratulate the pilot to have us all brought to the destination alive.
Clapping in the midst of a movie is is just...dumb? Sorry I can't find another word for it. I don't want someone to interrupt the movie I'm watching, just like anyone else watching the movie wouldn't, and it's not like the people responsible for my enjoyment would hear or see me clapping. There's absolutely no sense to it.
Where I live (northern Spain), the cinema is dead-silent when watching a film, except for laughter if it's a comedy. People don't clap, or jeer, or shout. It'd be terribly annoying if they did.
For most people it's scarier to fly on a plane than driving in a taxi, even if it's nonsense stastically speaking.
I find people randomly clapping while I'm trying to watch a movie way more annoying. Do you clap when watching TV at home as well?
I entered this thread clapping with my hands and feet while also hopping in the air and wriggling like a salmon to make additional claps with my thighs and dick.
We do obesity and anti-intellectualism pretty well too.
We don't clap at projectors, in Ireland anyway. Unless of course the people behind the movie were present in that specific cinema. Then people might clap.
Lol people get so bent out of shape about this.
Americans aren't clapping for the movie or its cast, they are expressing joy with noise. I don't clap at movies, and I think it's a bit silly, but I don't begrudge people who clap after a good movie ends.
Americans aren't clapping for the movie or its cast, they are expressing joy with noise. I don't clap at movies, and I think it's a bit silly, but I don't begrudge people who clap after a good movie ends.
As a European, every time this happens I'm like "yay, pilot did his job, wee"
I've heard it a few times, and in various countries over the world.
Far more common when it was a rough flight or a particularly hairy landing.
People aren't clapping during movies in America to show appreciation, but because it's a normal part of excited cheering in America.
People clap and cheer during exciting parts of movie for the same reason they do watching sports at a bar. The players can't hear you from there.
People clap and cheer during exciting parts of movie for the same reason they do watching sports at a bar. The players can't hear you from there.
This.
I don't think I've ever seen people clap for a movie or a plane. Maybe one or two people once at the end of a flight that had been particularly turbulent? The idea of clapping at the end of a movie or a normal, uneventful flight is completely weird and alien to me and I can't believe people unironically do this.
Also, I'm from the US.
Some people clap (or yell out in some way) out of excitement. It isn't necessarily an "approval" thing.
I'm not a "clapper", but I understand why it's done.
I totally clap and cheer in the Friends kind of way when awesome or hilarious shit happens. It's like three claps, not a round of applause, and just people getting hype with each other.
I've seen the round of applause thing happen at the end of a couple of movies. I think it's about the audience expressing their appreciation for the shared experience to each other, like "holy fuck that was amazing, right!?"
When I'm in Europe, I know the norms are different, so I'll just shout stuff like "NAE BOTHER!", "HOOT HOOOOOT!", "OHM JEE!", "MOTHER FUCK YOU!", etc.
I've seen the round of applause thing happen at the end of a couple of movies. I think it's about the audience expressing their appreciation for the shared experience to each other, like "holy fuck that was amazing, right!?"
When I'm in Europe, I know the norms are different, so I'll just shout stuff like "NAE BOTHER!", "HOOT HOOOOOT!", "OHM JEE!", "MOTHER FUCK YOU!", etc.
I'm so glad we have another clapping thread - I was worried there for a while when I didn't see one. Please remember to post another within the next month or so or I will be concerned.
Let me put it this way:
Excitement, jubilation and ebullience are emotions it is socially acceptable to express in America in a way they are not elsewhere.
The socially acceptable way to express your excitement, jubilation and/or ebullience in America is with applause. At least, when the source of thise feelings is external and from another's efforts.
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It's the certification card that shows before every film.
lol. Social acceptability doesn't come into it. There is a reason people are asking who the applause is for, rather than stating it's wrong to applaud at all. Like applauding at the end of a speech is perfectly normal, but applauding all the way through it would be weird.
I don't think anyone outside America would have too much of a problem with the type of excited clapping as depicted in the Friends gif. During the course of a movie that kind of thing is really no different from ooohing or aaahing, or laughing at something funny.
"I'm not gonna bother trying to read and comprehend what you're saying, I just want to feel culturally superior for a bit."
I think the real question is why do people in the US clap and cheer at films? Just sit and watch the film.
We also don't clap planes landing... Twice have I witnessed this, once after landing in a heavy snow storm in Austria after we aborted landing twice and had a really bumpy ride over.. and once in New York when nothing eventful happened at all.
We also don't clap planes landing... Twice have I witnessed this, once after landing in a heavy snow storm in Austria after we aborted landing twice and had a really bumpy ride over.. and once in New York when nothing eventful happened at all.
Clapping at movie theaters is how audiences signal each other "that was awesome", kinda like a big shared high-five. Going to the movies is a very social experience.
I enjoy clapping for non-existent actors in the theater.
Although, I do enjoy clapping for the employees who come in to clean up at the end. The applause is really for them. Fuck the movie.
Although, I do enjoy clapping for the employees who come in to clean up at the end. The applause is really for them. Fuck the movie.
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Keep on acting like clapping at a live event or if the creators can hear you is the only reason to clap. That narrative is a bunch of self important horseshit. Fine YOU don't clap at movies but that doesn't mean it's somehow more important when it fits YOUR idea.
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Keep on acting like clapping at a live event or if the creators can hear you is the only reason to clap. That narrative is a bunch of self important horseshit. Fine YOU don't clap at movies but that doesn't mean it's somehow more important when it fits YOUR idea.
Lmao. I always cringe when people clap in theaters. I went to see Star Wars 7 opening night and people were clapping for the littlest things and I was just *biggest eye roll ever*
To claim that "Excitement, jubilation and ebullience are emotions it is socially acceptable to express in America in a way they are not elsewhere. " is to suggest that people outside America would naturally express their emotions in the same way but refrain from doing so because it is socially unacceptable. The only one claiming cultural superiority is you due to framing it as open Americans versus suppressed Europeans.
It's not a matter of normal vs not normal, or socially acceptable vs socially unacceptable. It just something you do and we don't.