Quote - Yes, but it works both ways.  Moviemakers have to account for normal
human expectations.  Very few of us are accustomed to living in a vacuum.
We expect a vehicle to make sounds as it passes by.  If Lucas made everything
completely silent in space, a few scientists and astronauts would say "Yes,
that's exactly how it should be!"  but 99.9% of people would say "Huh?  Where's the
sound?"  and would feel the movie was too unrealistic.

 

And yet, if you watch the vacuum scenes in the "Firefly" TV series, they're all done in complete silence and they still feel very dramatic and a whole lot more gritty and "real" than anything in the Star Wars movies.

Over time I think Hollywood conventions do manage to really twist people's ideas of how things work.  For example, how many people know that if you hold a flame to a fire sprinkler, that sprinkler will be the only one in the building that turns on - you won't set off the sprinklers on the whole floor the way they do in the movies.  

In the city where I live, the police recently conducted a survey to see if people knew the emergency services number.  Most of the people surveyed said it was "911".  In Australia, the number is actually "000".  People have learned the wrong number from seeing so many US movies and TV shows.  Thanks to their devotion to Hollywood, in an emergency, they'll be dialling a number that won't do anything at all.

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