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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9714397" data-attributes="member: 22779">For that to be diegetic, the characters in the movie would have to react to the music stopping.  We might not know why the music stopped, that's true, but, there would need to be a source of that music in the fiction (a radio, someone singing, whatever).  It would be non-diegetic if the music suddenly stopped, the characters make no reaction to the music stopping and it is never explained - IOW, it doesn't actually exist in the world of the story.  So, again, for it to be diegetic, it needs a tiny piece of information explaining why it stopped.  For example, the characters are in a bar, there is music.  The characters walk out of the bar.  The music stops when the door closes.  Diegetic.  Why did the music stop?  There is no way to hear the music anymore for the character or the audience.  Even if the music is just muffled because the door closes, that would make it diegetic.  No problem.But there is no way to end diegetic music in a story without making it clear to the audience why the music stopped.</blockquote>