ELi5: In a wild west movie or game, when a gunslinger puts their revolver into their holster it often makes a “click”. (for example in Red Dead Redemption 2). Would this happen in real life, and if so, what is it caused by?
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It’s an added sound to indicate heightened or lessened danger, I think it probs my corms from the old movies when characters would cock guns to show that they were serious or deadly. The sword version of this in various media is called “Audible Sharpness”. Most media add a sound or sounds to tell you that a dangerous thing has been deployed or put away, otherwise they’d have to use dialogue and/or an action sequence, it’s mostly just a convenient shorthand for the viewer to know how heavy and/or real the shit is at the moment.
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