In TV and movies, whenever people start chanting something,
they never show how awkward it must be when the chanting stops
Uhm...yeah. Okay then. Don't you think it would just die out naturally?
I'm sure the chanting stops, because life in movies always tends to go on, but we never get to see how it stops. It's pretty much the exact opposite of a Slow Clap that grows into a standard round of applause. But, just like a round of applause, you don't really know who the last person was to clap, and you don't really want to be that guy, either. So who is the last person chanting, or how did they all know to stop at the right time?
It's a problem.
See, one of the great examples of this comes from a movie I'm not allowed to talk about base on the first two rules of Fight Club. Anyway, there was a scene where Meatloaf gets shot (Pretty sure that's the first time I've written that sentence ever), and dies. The assembled begin chanting his name. His Name Is Robert Paulson. The scene ends with everyone still chanting over and over. We don't really know why they thought chanting was important right about then, but it happened, so we just go with it. At some point after Edward Norton leaves, the chant would have had to die out, lest Project Mayhem get derailed because everyone just stands around chanting all day. After who knows how long of a session of chanting, people have to have come to the realization that they were accomplishing nothing and decide to stop chanting, but other people would keep going. Depending on how the percentage of chanters and non-chanters changes over time, you could have people standing there amidst chanting for quite some time...maybe even start up again not realizing that they weren't done yet. Eventually, there are angry stares from non-chanters pointed at the people who just won't shut up and get out of the kitchen, guilty looks from the people who took too long to realize the gig was over, and just an awful lot of awkwardness. They never show that in the movie.
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