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History of a Famous Star Wars Scream
An anonymous reader writes "There is a very famous scream in Star Wars (Episode IV) that occurs when one of the stormtroopers falls into the Death Star chasm. No doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream, but may not know that it has been used in dozens of other movies and even has a name - "The Wilhelm". There is a fascinating interview (transcript and audio) from NPRs "On The Media" that discusses the now cult-like following and history of this scream."
I don't completely get it... So a sound file was used again and again...isn't this common place?
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In the Netherlands, the Wilhelm is actually even the national hymne.
The SCO scream:
"What the fuck are they smoking?!"
The Goatse.cx scream:
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The Windows BSOD scream:
"Ah well, time for a cigarette."
Kind of like the story about the wilhelm.
It keeps coming up over and over.
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They had to use a fake scream for a guy falling in a chasm? What's next, fake applause during a sitcom?
There is a very famous scream in Star Wars (Episode IV) that occurs when one of the stormtroopers falls into the Death Star chasm.
No way, I heard that scream coming from the audience during Episode I.
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The first one I am nearly sure about is the swordfighting sound from civilization is the same as the black night scene from monty python and the holy grail.
I keep hearing the same whoosh sound that is in Doom when you use the rocket launcher in movies and on TV. Is it a standard sound that people keep reusing or do they just sound simmilar.
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It's become a touchstone in many projects. Such a unique and memorable scream.
It's commonplace for ILM-related projects to include it, but it has also become a fanboy thing. Pete Jackson even used it in the Two Towers, although I do not know how overt it was intended to be.
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there is a following for a sound clip used in different movies! do they go to film festivals dressed up as their fav character to use the screem sound?
i'd google for the answer, but i'm almost afraid of what i'd find. heck, the answer might even be in the fine article...
Goofy (of Mickey Mouse fame) has a better scream...
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Last year when I was writing dialogue for the Star Wars Galaxies online roleplaying game, I named one character "Wilhalm Skrim" in honest tribute to this scream.
Could these people POSSIBLY TALK SLOWER? I feel like my heart is going to explode.
How many sound effects have names and followings? =)
How about the sound at the end of Doom II, when the spawn-cubes shoot out??
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I dunno that scream doesn't sound too familiar to me, maybe I need to watch Stars Wars again? What I've always been amazed by is how many movies/commercials have used sounds from the game DOOM. I've heard its rocket and dying imp sounds in tons of things.
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it is just like stock art, this is a "stock sound' that can be used...
Why is this news again?
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Nah, geeks are cooler than nerds, everyone knows that. Haha.
Actually the definitions of 'geek', 'nerd' and 'anorak' are pretty much interchangable when used by "normal" people, and how we can complain, when it's their word for US?
And don't get me started on the Jargon File, or major flamebait will ensue...
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No doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream, but may not know that it has been used in dozens of other movies and even has a name - "The Wilhelm".
What they don't mention is that is that the name "The Wilhelm" is a subtle reference to Wilhelm Wundt, considered by many to be the most important figure in the history of Psychology. This is because Wundt ran the first psychological laboratory, helping pave the way for the scientific approach to the study of human behaviour prevalent today. Wundt was professor of physiology at Leipzig, where he studied human perception. He is famous for founding the introspectionist school of Psychology, in which highly-trained subjects were asked to report on Just-Noticeable Differences between two stimuli of almost equal intensity, and sensory thresholds.
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Wilhelm recorded a whole series of screams in the studio for use, but the one has stood out more than any other.
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Most recently, I heard this twice during the battle against the White City in RotK. It also featured during the battle of Helms' Deep in TTT.
Here's a good listing of the many films it's appeared in (several entries with annotations citing exactly when, as well): http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.html
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Was Luke's scream that was added to the Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, when he falls down the shaft on Bespin after fighting Vader and losing his arm. First of all, it sounds nothing like Luke. Second of all, it changed the entire meaning of the scene where the scream meant Luke's fall was accidental rather than intentional. A guess Lucas never heard of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
this scream is nothing compared to the screams that chick in the red from the OSDN Personals ad would be making if she came over to my place!
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- Yes, it does look like a slow "geek" news day, most people are on holiday vacation, so no new products, reviews or SCO press releases for us to comment on.
- No, not every "nerd" is a "Star Wars" geek.
I have heard of the "Wilhelm" before, but it was still interesting seeing the complete story (and the complete-?- list, well almost, it is still unknown who the voice talent was, but I think it adds to the mystery.The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Actually, not all of use have seen Star Wars. I, am, one of, them.
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This isn't so very special. There are many screams and other sounds that get reused. Lots of action movies use the same screams you can hear in the N64 game "Goldeneye." There is a creaky door sound that I've heard used in video games ("Riven" is the one I remember best), TV shows, movies, and even commercials.
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The most unique sound from a game has to be the crow bar from HalfLife.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.. clang, clang
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Not being a huge Star Wars fan, I have no idea what this story is about. But I'm going to have to guess that whoever did the screaming can hardly compare to the best screamer of our time, the godfather of soul, the legendary James Brown. This is a man who has filled our hearts with joy through his screaming over the years, and I suggest that we honor him over this holiday season. Who can forget the screams he gave us; the subtle "WHOOOO", the energetic "GOOD GOD", and the classic "WHOOO ALRIGHT, YEAH ALRIGHT". In a history of screams, it is hard to underestimate the enourmous influence this one man has had on the genre.
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Leprechaun 4 (Leprechaun in Space) (which is a very bad movie, BTW, and I recommend against wasting any of the precious seconds of your life, watching it) uses Doom's door opening and closing sound effect.
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...which has been used in hundreds of Simpsons episodes.
the Doom whoosh (countless commercials, trailers, and even features)
the Doom "door open" (television and feaures)
Battlestar Galactica explosions were originally used in several 1950's war films. i think it's part of the Universal Sound Catalogue
its not like the laser noise from star wars isnt everywhere...
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heck even disney has it in tron
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Let's start with analyzing the sound effects in Star Wars...
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Slow news day? Everyone knows it was the Wilhelm scream- it's talked about all the time on StarWars.com and most geeks do know about it.
It must be, because the article is over 2 years old.
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Near the beginning of the Battle at Helm's Deep. An elf gets tossed off the wall and one can quite clearly hear the Wilhelm.
Detracts from the film, IMHO.
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Has been covered again and again. I think this has also been posted on /. before as well. Sometimes the articel selection around here baffles me.
Very clever!
It must suck being /. for something you posted almost three years ago and right before xmas to boot. Yeah everybody take the afternoon off. Nothing to see here.
I make my face look like this and concerned words come out.
When I read the title of this article, only one scream came to mind, and I'm sure many of you will remember it. I have heard it used in many places, but the two most notable are these video games:
Dark Forces: Whenever you knock a Storm Trooper off a ledge to his death.
Starcraft: Whenever you select the Academy structure.
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How many sound effects have names and followings? =)
Forget the obvious ones like the Intel and NBC chimes.
There's the Ren and Stimpy Log jingle which is recognized by millions of Eudora users around the world.
But my favorite is from Growing Pains. Jeremy Miller, the kid who played Ben Seaver, had an awesome scream. Every time I heard it, I would just crack up. It just cracked and warbled in the right way to sound ridiculous. The Frantics were using it in their stand-up act for a while.
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Okay I can't remember what the things are in DOOM (Or maybe DOOM 2? I can't even remember the game) but when they die they kind of whimper and squish into a pile. I'm pretty sure the sounds they make come from the eyeball making old asian guy in bladerunner. In the game when the things spot you they go "YOU NOT COME HERE!", and they have a distinct dieing whimper/squish kind of sound, that the eyball guy makes when they start roughing him up in the movie. Can anyone confirm or deny this?? Is this a well known thing that I'm just not 1337 enough to be in on?
I remember hearing this scream in RotK somewhere, during one of the battle sequences involving Minas Tirith. However, the 'stealing' of sounds (that scream sound isnt stealing) is more common than people suspect. Though i can only think of 1 movie off hand that did so (Leprakaun 4: in space, haha), MANY scifi movies have ripped sound effects from video games, most notably Doom2, specifically door effects. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard a Doom II door opening sound used in TV or a movie. However, its more than just Doom II; I've heard video game gun shots, explosions, and so on; never do these recieve any credit. I can only imagine the amount of trouble some of these movies or shows would get into if they were discovered to be using non-royalty-free/non-folly sounds.
On a side note, I've been to sound studios before where they do mixing for movies and tv, and these guys often have huuuuuuuuge sound archives, both folly and royalty-free, and very often if you are working on a project for someone and they hand you a CD filled with audio effects made for their show/movie, you copy that effects cd for yourself for later use. So if you look out and have good audio memory, you can hear every once in a while a sound thats been used in other shows/movies. This is doubly true for TV where the schedules are tighter as well as money.
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There's three sounds besides that one that I always catch: the honking semi as it passes, the crowd cheer (made famous to me at least from Sim City), and tires screeching. I'm glad I'm not the only dork who notices stuff like this. :) Seems like these things are just passed around from set to set and make it into movies and TV.
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My favorite repeated audio clip is the sound of the police radio. You know, the sound they Sim City 2k (maybe 3k, I don't remember) makes when you make a police station? It's in a crap ton of movies too.
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Ok, this is embarassing me beeing here for so long and stuff, but wth., I'm german.
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Could someone please explain how to pronounce the word "geek"? Is it more like "greek" or rather like "cheap"? Thanks for clearing this up once and for all...
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I heard this exact scream TWICE during Return of the King. Within 2 minutes of each other no less. Once from an Orc and once from a human during the main battle sequence. Kinda jarred me for a second. Only heard it once from the Two Towers.
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I have to agree, though anonymously, out of respect for the Oldest Living Broadcaster.
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She has some medical condition, give her a break.
minor nit - they're both wrong ... don't you know all stormtroopers have kiwi accents?
It's pronounced exactly like "greek."
Yes, it's like Greek without the r :)
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The scream has been in all three Lord of the Rings movies. I can't remember where it was in the first movie, but there is definitely one in the battle of the Pelennor Fields.
I always thought it was a reference to Wilhem Podunk, the aspiring 1940s star of the never released MGM epic "The Romans". Playing Julius Caesar, Podunk was expected to perform on his horse along two thousand extras, each one holding a pike aimed at the Hun army in front of them. The scene required Caesar to command his men to prepare for an attack, turn left and then charge toward the enemy.
Podunk reportedly strode down the line of pikers majestically, presented his lines heroically and, unfortunately, turned right before spurring his horse on.
The clip of the resulting scream is all that remains of "The Romans", even the recording of Louis B. Mayer's shout, "Your Other Left!", has been lost; leaving a sad legacy for a man that could have been a bigger star than Cooper, if only he had a better sense of direction.
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Door being opened (like used in Drew Carey) Many Doom sounds are reused especially doors. Shot gun being cocked.
A good start.
I swear- there is second Wilhelm-like scream in Star Wars. Though I can't remember which damn movie, and I don't have a sample of the sound. And isn't the Wilhelm. It's a scream- perhaps when one of the X-wings are blowing up- that I've heard in a lot of other movies, though no where near as much as the classic Wilhelm.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
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I wonder what she took in the 60's to make her talk like that... I think she's JT Kirk's great grandmother.
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I mean, come on, is that Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or is she pulling an inverse-Clinton?
There is a reason for her voice sounding the way is does.
"Doctors earlier this year began treating Rehm for spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological condition in which the vocal cords constrict when they're not supposed to."
Not that you can't continue to hope somebody dies simply because you dislike the way they sound on the radio.
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Here is a website that tries to list all of "The Wilhelm" occurrences in films.
They claim "A series of short painful screams performed by an actor were recorded in 1951 for the Warner Brother's film "Distant Drums." They were used for a scene where a man is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator. The recording was archived into the studio's sound effects library -- and it was used in many of their films since.
"Star Wars" Sound Designer Ben Burtt tracked down the scream recording - which he named "Wilhelm" after a character who let out the same scream in the film "Charge at Feather River." Ben has adopted the scream as sort of a personal sound signature, and has included it in many of the films he has worked on. He and a small circle of sound effects people, including myself and Richard Anderson, continue the crusade to keep Wilhelm alive. The Wilhelm Scream continues to be heard in new films every year."
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Listen for it in hospital scenes - I heard it in an episode of Arthur that my daughter was watching the other day when someone was in a hospital, it's in a Queensryche song off of Mindcrime, I've heard it on various soaps that the wife watches...
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I first recognized it at the end of Temple of Doom, and have heard it in many movies since, including twice during the big battle in Return of the King last week.
I've always assumed it was a sound effect made for Star Wars though, and was being reused as a tribute to Lucasfilm or ILM or something in big action/FX movies.
Anyway, I've never actually seen the topic come up, and nobody ever knew what I was talking about when I mentioned it, but I knew right away what this headline on Slashdot was referring to.
I think that's pretty cool.
It's funny to note who actually recognizes the video game sound effects they steal, er, "use."
The Smashing Pumpkins used Doom's barrel explosion sound on their Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness release, on the song "Where Boys Fear To Tread."
Look in the liner notes and you'll find this:
"Explosion from DOOM courtesy of id Software, Inc and bobby prince Music"
How do you know that door sound wasn't used in doom BECAUSE it was a royalty free stock sound?
Wow, I'm surprised that I didn't get modded down to -1 immediately. I hope I didn't offend too many of slashdot's female readers. I'm in a bit of a playful mood since almost no one is here at the office working but I'm also a little irritated by the ad as well.
Match.com is trying to make it seem like they are specifically seeking geeks like us for their online personals by putting "Slashdot personals" or "OSDN" into the graphic. But then they stick this picture of this really pretty girl with lots of makeup and striking colors in the ad and it just ruins the entire air of trying to court us. This girl is most certainly not a geek or a nerd by any stretch of the imagination. I would have been much more impressed if they had put a picture of a more cerebral woman in their ad than this little pretty piece of fluff. It's an insult to the women who read slashdot (geek guys aren't interested in you, they're interested in this) and an insult to the men as well (look what you can get!).
I understand that sex sells but, seriously, slashdot is the one place I would hope would attempt to portray something a little more substancial. There are plenty of attractive nerd/geek girls. True, they may not be as blatantly eye-catching as this mysterious Red Girl, but I think an ad featuring someone a little more like us would be much more appropriate.
Until Match.com or slashdot get this into their heads, I intend to make crude, sexual comments about this ad from time to time.
Actually, I think she is undead. It would explain a lot. It is a shame that so many cool people show up on that show, because I always feel woozy after listing to "aaand NExt oNN the Diiiane rrreehm shooow", with the wierd pitch and speed variations.
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That'd make me scream like that.
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I was at a Christmas party for a sound studio here in LA, and they had a 20-30 minute video filled with clips of people using that screeam.
It was hilarious and strange - everything from gladiators to aliens, and they were all screaming exactly the same. I really commend the guy who did the research to put it all together.
Dang, I wish I had a copy of that tape.
offers some good competition here.... during his infamous 'monkey boy' performance.
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The original Wilhelm-scream must have come from the guy that was practice-bait for Wilhelm Tell's first bow-shot :)
guys. doom and doom 2 used for most, if not all of their sounds, samples from a standard sound fx collection. thats why you hear them everywhere, they arent from doom, they are from a collection thats been around much longer than doom. perhaps someone here can even name the collection? i forget the name.
If you listen to some of the Peter Jackson interviews on sound effects in TTT, he mentions that people have to to expect that sound (and indeed mentions Monty Python as well) so they more or less have to put it in or people thing it will sound fake...
This sound is used in Command & Conquer (PS-1) for when you lead your infantry into a Nod artillery nest. Or, more accurately, they wander into one while you're building a new power plant onto the base camp. They also used the "guy burning to death" scream. (HHHRRRAAAAGH!)
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The point is, these sounds never die. And that's a beautiful thing.
I produce music and I carry around about 18GB of uncompressed audio with me. Nothing ever leaves that library - only new things go into it. Same thing for any sound editor.
In 2024 we'll crack open some crufty old Linux kernel file and find the code equivalent of the Wilhelm scream. Probably with a FIX ME comment.
Sheesh, no dutch moderators today, looks like. The National Athem is called "Wilhelmus".
I first remember hearing this at the beginning of Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime and have since heard it everywhere (latest is the America's Army game in the medical training section). I'm not sure where it originaly comes from (Coma, maybe?), but I'm pretty sure it didn't originate on Mindcrime (1987).
It's funny how certain loops, effects, etc... will stick with you, and you're taken with pointing them out to anyone and everyone around.
Oh, wait... Or could that just be a clear indication of an obsessive personality linked with a lack of more important things to do? ;)
Well, if that's the case, I'm guity as charged, too. =)
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He's got a first-class scream and is quite a cuddler.
Xenogears uses the Star Trek computer beep sounds in the intro movie.
An El Hazard alternative world episode used the sound of a terran transport unload at some point...
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The Defensive Matrix (and some other sounds) in Starcraft comes from a stock source. I have heard the same distinctive crackling electrical sound effect in such diverse places as the video logo tag for O'Reilly on Fox News, the soundtrack for Spider Man, and various commercials.
and his scream at the climax of The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again is pretty iconic too.
When the Nazgul attack Faramir and his troops when they're sent back to Osgiliath, one of the soldiers is picked up by a Nazgul and dropped. He screams the Wilhelm on his trip to the ground.
However,
Wilhelm recorded a whole series of screams in the studio for use, but the one has stood out more than any other.
That's a bunch of bunk. If you READ the article, you will clearly see that the origin of this scream is unknown. It didn't even come from the actor of the character who player Wilhelm.
"Geek" rhymes with beak, creek, Deke, eek!, greek, leak, leek, meek, peak, peek, reek, seek, teak, weak, week, and Zeke.
It is commonly touted that geek originally meant a sideshow performer who bites the heads off chickens or snakes. While this is a sense of the word, it is not the original one.
Geek is actually a very old word. It is a variant of geck, a term of Low German/Dutch origin that dates in English to 1511. It means a fool, simpleton, or dupe. Geck is even used by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, V.i.:
Why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd. And made the most notorious gecke and gull That ere inuention plaid on? The geek spelling is an American variation, even though Shakespeare uses the spelling geeke in Cymbeline V.iv., but this is probably just a misspelling. Geek first appears (outside the single Shakespearean usage) in 1876 America. American usage adds the connotation of offensive or undesirable to the original foolish and stupid sense. The Carnival sideshow sense appears in 1928.
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is the sound from Magic Carpet, whenever you used that 'boost speed' spell.
It's like 'ssSSSSSSwooOOOoing'-kinda type of sound. It's seem to be at least one commercial using that sound on TV at any given time.
No doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream
I am a geek and I am not familiar with this scream. In fact I don't even really like Star Wars any more than any other well-made movie.
I think Slashdot has become too over-30-centric in its outlook and assumptions. Not all of us grew up in the 70s. There are much better movies being made today. Let your nostalgia go.
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TheForce.net has an old article about this along with a quicktime montage of the scream in different movies. Now it's stuck in my head and it'll stick out like a sore thumb whenever I hear it...
When I first saw RotK, it was pretty funny to recognize this sound, but a little annoying too. I guess ignorance is bliss. :-)
I have to disagree. I'm a native English speaker (Mid-Adlantic US, anthracite at first, but twinged with central New Jersey now after traveling through Philly for a few years--I don't even know what I sound like any more, I pick up accents very easily) and it's a really subtle difference that I thought didn't exist at first.
After prounouncing them all a dozen or so times, "geek" does not sound like "greek" to me at all. "Greek" is lower-pitched and more drawn out. A bit closer to "cheap", but still not exactly the same. Sounds exactly like "beak", "speak" and "leek" to me.
You'll probably get different answers from every region.
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My favorite repeated sounds are found in Nintendo games. Although several games reused sound effects, my absolute favorite repeated sound is one used both in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It's the "evil laugh" noise.
In Zelda II, it occurs if you die; the screen will say "Game Over, Return of Ganon", and Ganon will laugh at you with a "Ha ha ha ha ha" laugh. In Punch-Out, you'll hear the same laugh if you lose the match to certain fighters, like Soda Popinski!
Damn I love original NES.
I wish I could find a link to an example, but there are a few Quake 2 sounds that I've heard in movies and commercials over and over again, particularly ones that sound like a door opening (airdoor1 perhaps?) or an elevator lifting.
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That sound is used in Quake II when your player falls into the lava (which I've done countless times).
/me has flashback {*shudder*}
It's frickin eerie.
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I hear the car crash sound from Streets of Sim City a lot. Also the alarm sound from Total Annihilation, and the building alarm sound from Half-life. THe car crash sound is the funniest, because when you hear it mixed in for effect during a crash scene, it sounds ridiculous.
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What about that kind of scream/screech the TIE fighters make? I know I've heard that in way more places. It pops up randomly in Star Craft in the background and a ton of other places too that I can't think of off the top of my head right now.
It's just like at work the other day - it was MY turn to be 'Employee of the Month,' but they gave it to some stupid inanimate carbon rod!
Stupid rod...
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You'll find it on various p2p applications under the name wilhelm_48mb.mov (should be about 48 MB in size). It was originally put into circulation by TheForce.net IIRC.
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The most often heard scream I'm aware of is the "sound of ultimate suffering" from The Princess Bride. I've heard it in dozens of movies, and in South Park (every time a scene in Hell begins).
In the film "The Santa Clause," a sound effect made by the imps in doom was used by one of the reindeer, when Tim Allen first sees them. I'm SURE of it!
who did the recordings and mixings to make Star Wars have truly unique sounds. Sure, it's not something you think about, but it *did* have unique sounds when it came out. People using those sounds just goes to prove it.
Star Wars broke a lot of ground to making sci-fi movies more realistic on the screen. Sounds are just one of the many unappreciated things that went into that movie.
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I'm pretty sure that was credited to 'Stormtrooper THX-1138.'
I found a site that has the scream here. As soon as I heard it, I recognized it from many movies. IMO, the best screen scream of all time was the one uttered by Daniel Stern in "Home Alone" when his character found a tarantula on his face.
Close enough.
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In Cyberspace, no one can hear Wilhelm scream...
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
So what are you saying? Geek girls == fugly? I wholeheartedly disagree. My girlfriend is a geek, and a hot chick by anyone's standards.
Now on the other hand, the type of girl who would need to use match.com or other personals websites is probably a fat ugly minger. So I concur somewhat there.
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And as an editorial comment, you have absolutely
got to be fucking kidding me, knowing this sort of thing. Now I know it too, ya jerk. This bit of knowledge probably pushed out something I need to know, like my wife's favorite kind of flowers, which are, um, they're...
dammit.
This is not my sandwich.
I wa at a parachute dropzone in the late 90's videoing friends skydiving. One of the guys was a prick whose canopy fully collapsed - a real roman candle. At about 1000 feet he dumped his reserve withut chopping the main so his reserve fouled his main. result? a big bag of non aerodynamic washing flapping over his head.
He knew he was going to die and we heard him screaming in terror all the way in. I was near where he fell and videotaped it all. It was impressively awful.
He was an asshole I always hated so it should have been a dream come true. But that scream shit chilled my bones. A big tough hard guy squealing and screeching a like a girl. I felt cheated by feeling guilty when I should have enjoyed it.
The trouble is he didnt die, he lived - even though he was all busted up. However I still masturbate to the video sometimes - I should convert it to DivX and Kazaa it.
AAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH -nononoNONONONONONONO.
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No, no actor can fake that.
...this happens all the time. I have a cheap-ass sound effects CD that I picked up, oh, 10 or 12 years ago that has a particular sample of a cat meowing--kinda freaking out actually. I've heard this sample in dozens of movies and TV shows--it's very unique and easy to pick out. It's pretty much sure to be in every film with more than a few seconds of cat sounds.
If I make up a cool name for the cat sample, can we make a big fuss over it too?
That the Wilhelm scream was discussed on slashdot oh, back in 2000-2001 timeframe.
Can anyone confirm this?
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
Yay!
From one anonymous coward to another - thanks for the URL!
Well, since we're on the topic of recycled sound effects, The Evil Dead (1982) has a sound of eerie wind wich is used in many other movies. It is mentioned in another NPR interview The reference is about 8 and a half minutes into the clip.
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Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee - an eight foot tall Wookiee - want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
-rNo doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream
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Since when did being a huge Star Wars fan become a requirement for being a geek? I haven't even seen all the SW movies... I saw episode 1 and couldn't see what others saw in it.
Besides, now I don't even have a TV (although I do have a Jaton X-Media Dreambox attached between my 17" Hitachi LCD and my custom built PC running Gentoo on RAID across 4 HDDs)...
Oh well. At least I now have something for my new-years resolution, I suppose.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
I hope I'm not infringing on any copyrights by posting this... but here's a collection of wilhelm screams. Quicktime, huge, long live Streamload!
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http://www.streamload.com/admin_roufa/wilhelm_27m
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Normally they wouldn't put somebody with a neurological condition in which the vocal cords constrict when they're not supposed to ON THE RADIO. Why does this bitch get special treatment?
I knew that scream sounded familiar. As soon as I saw the heading of this news item, I knew exactly which scream they were talking about, though I remember it most from the Sarlac pit in RotJ.
However, this is interesting:
"Under the Tuscan Sun" (2003)
After moving into her villa, Frances experiences a terrible thunderstorm. Listen very carefully when her washing machine is struck by lightening...
I went to this movie with my wife (it was good, btw, if you're looking for a nice date movie), but I don't seem to remember this one. I guess even sound engineers throw in easter eggs sometimes...
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You are one sick guy.
For those who missed it when this link got taken down: And again.
Personally, find it annoying to hear it so much. I watch the Lord of the Rings and think of all the hard work that was put into it, and then I hear the same canned scream that was in virtually all of the Star Wars movies (and a bijillion others). It just makes me think "cheap". Using the same old sound as everyone else. I don't care if it's paying "homage" to some mythical voice actor or not, it simply reminds the audience that your movie isn't that different from all of the others after all.
Another glaring example of this is the police dispatcher sound played when you click on a police station in Sim City. Seriously, you hear that everywhere. Worst example: X2 - when the police show up to the kid's house. Listen...it's there.
Sorry about the rant...for some reason that Wilhelm scream just really gets my goat.
Listen to the sounds of the landing gear in Aliens, as the ship gets stuck trying to leave the reactor platform.
That sound has been used several other tv shows and movies. Naturally, I can't name any of them off the top of my head.
Same goes for other sounds in that movie... doors opening, etc, they all seem to be pretty standard sci-fi sounds now. Except the pulse rifles. Thankfully nobody has used those sounds because those are so identifiable with Aliens, and they were the best sound effects in the movie.
I think a lot of sound designers get away with using "canned" sounds. There's that "pooshwap!" sound that was used at the end of Doom2, when John Romero's severed head is firing out demons through that hole in the wall that you're supposed to shoot rockets through.
That sound has been used in several action flicks (perhaps Mission Impossible 2, can't remember) for explosions, though it doesn't sound anything like an explosion to me!
I've also heard that exact same sound on a couple TV commercials and an episode of the X-files.
It takes a lot of work to make original sounds though. My favorite are still the velociraptors from Jurassic Park... Gary Rydstrom mixed a dolphin shriek with a walrus grunt to create the velociraptor attack cry. I think if anybody else tries to use those sounds in a different movie, everybody will instantly think "velociraptor"!
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Hell, if you really want to spite him...
Sell the rights to an fx studio for a nickel.
I heard the Wilhelm scream twice during Return of the King. And once during The Two Towers. I don't recall if it made its way into Fellowship of the Ring but I'm sure it's in there somewhere.
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The Wilhelm Scream
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Together, we will drive the rats from the tundra.
Thanks. The explanation with the "Geck" really worked, since I am german in fact. My grandparents used to call me a "Geck" when I was dressing up for a party or trying to impress the girls with silly stuff back in highschool. ;-)
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Wow, I can't believe I have to download a plugin to listen to wave files through my browser (Firebird). That's pretty bad! It's not like it's a complicated process to play one.
A little story from a LOTR set here in Wellington (related to me by a friend who worked there): The Nazgul scream sound effect was a bit naff, and the hobbits jumping in shock and surprise weren't really getting into it. So Fran Walsh (scriptwriter, producer, and partner of Peter Jackson) crept up and when the Nazgul scream sound effect was supposed to happen she let loose with the loudest, highest-pitch scream you can imagine. Hobbits jumped in surprise and shock, as they should. Peter Jackson chortled and filmed. So they redid the sound effect, basing it on Fran's scream.
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News for Nerds? A report of a BBC news article from 2001 about a sound heard in a 1977 movie (okay, lots of others more and less recent, but the story's hook was from SW). This is news why?
Oh, you mean like Mapplethorpe...
He acquired a large format press camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. These included artists, composers, socialites, pornographic film stars and members of the S & M underground. Some of these photographs were shocking for their content but exquisite in their technical mastery. Mapplethorpe told ARTnews in late 1988, "I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before...I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them."
I looked to see if anyone asked this, but didn't notice...
What's that other famous scream that's heard in Star Wars and many others, typically when someone falls a very long way? It almost sounds like someone's about ready to scream their guts out...really!
Surely that one has a name, too. I hear that almost as much as the Wilhelm Scream.
The star wars dark forces game (circa 1996?) has the scream too...
I hear that when a VD patient finds out they have star warts, they also scream like this.
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I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
To be honest, they both sound very alike to me, at least in this region. I was born and raised...and still live in New England (Massachusetts to be a little more specific...but not near Boston...I don't pahk cahs here *giggle*) and that's just the way I've done it. I think the way I say it is "EEK!" with a G in front of it...as in..."EEK! That geek has created a beowulf cluster of hot grits!" or some such.
.wav of your pronounciation? Could be interesting! Wait...on second thought...that'd be a bad sort of link to post here. Hmm...
However, I do have to wonder what the difference between Cheap and Greek with a German accent sounds like. Hey parent to my earlier post...got a
I sing the doggie electric!
the tie fighter screach sound... you know the only sound you can hear in space.
Only on Slashdot can a link that appears in the main story get posted again in the comments and moderated as "Informative" !
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
You're getting into the movie when all of a sudden it uses an unedited sound from elsewhere and you're totally taken out of the movie because of it. How hard can it be to record your own sounds, for chrissake? At least you'd have the 'bonus' of it sounding authentic.
That is particularly helpful to all the readers viewing slashdot on rack mounted servers with no soundcards.
Also heard it in Two Towers. One of the elves (that shouldn't be at Helm's Deep in the first place) does the Wilhelm falling off the wall.
I did the Wilhelm when Peter Jackson had the elves show up at Helm's Deep. =)
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rediculous.
In the classic PC game Dark Forces there is a scream used when you take a big fall. It is a kind of bellowing "Uuuurrrgh!". I've heard it in many films and on TV since then but don't ask me to remember them. It sounds like another Wilhelm.
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I've found this info though:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_e
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Listen to the punches.. The're all the same. Like 8 in a row in the elevator scene. Doesn't matter what's being hit, or by what: they all sound the same.
As soon as you start paying attention to the *details* of the sound, forever will it be your destiny...Basically, it's a pillar of geekdom.
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader had a comprehensive discussion on the origins and uses of this scream. BRI does a great job on this crap.
I would love to hear this :)
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Can't say I recognise that scream to be honest, but I've noticed stuff like this mostly in computer games. People have talked about it earlier but my most annoying one is one of the death sounds from the original Command and Conquer (when an infantry gets shot) and I hear it like every day on Cartoon Network it really bugs me! Surely people could at least alter the pitch a little or put one or two effects on them so that it doesn't ruin things for us geeks!
Everything sucks except musicandstuff
I was watching Terminator 3 on DVD a couple of weeks ago and in two instances I clearly heard the "Wowrraar!" scream of a panther/cougar/wildcat/"Thundercat"(TM):
1) When the crane flips over and hits the conveniently located truck carrying welding gas tanks..boom..wowrarrr!
2) Near the end when the Terminator crash-lands a helicopter into a tunnel and slides along the ground. booom...screech..wowrarrr!
These cat screams jolted me out of the movie. What the heck was a cougar scream doing in there? Is it supposed to make it "cool" or something? The Terminatrix's scream is different, much more mechanical, so I doubt it's supposed to be her.
I seem to hear the same recording of "paging Dr Blair" in just about every hospital scene. I also recall hearing it on Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime" album; all the songs together tell a sort of murder mystery drama and there are small dialogue and sound effects sequences between them. Quite an interesting album.
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Shit. I hadnt thought about it. Thanks for the personality analysis.
I laughed when I heard that sound effect inserted in the show Fear Factor, when the final contestants had to swim under a flaming metal cage to knock off five red balls. Whenever they started the fire, really dramatic music played, and the Doom II whoosh (I, too, recognize it as such) sounded.
Not only do they have to fake the sounds to increase the drama, but it's sounds from a decade old computer videogame.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Hello, 1998 wants its BSOD joke back. That is all.
...isn't this story one? Or am I nuts?
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On the roof, the reindeer groan with an Imp death sound and then a human zombie death sound, both from Doom.
"Sufferin' succotash."
the Wilhelm has been in use dating back the to 40s in the original western it came from.. you'll also find it in nearly everything Indiana Jones related, and I've noticed it in the last two LOTR movies.. in TTT as an orc gets tossed from a ladder at Helm's Deep and in the ROTK it occurs during the battle scene when Legolas throws a guy off his Oliphaunt
Dumb Dumb Dumb de Dumb.
This is special, because it is a highly-used sound effect, moreso than most. To the point that people recognize it and gave it a name.
How many uptight people are going to post about how "this isn't important?" Lighten up, already. It's a popular sound effect used so often that it has a following.
"Sufferin' succotash."
When the orcs arrive at the river after Frodo has had his encounter with Boromir, and Aragorn is stepping forward to meet them in slow-motion, you can hear a very loud sheep baa-ing. Twice.
"Sufferin' succotash."
is that there are a lot of shows that use this one sound bite for a cop car where it chirps. Usually it is a scene where a cop car needs to use the siren a small amount. CSI and Law and Order have used it (CSI a lot). .02
It is so distinctive that it sounds fake and added in.
My
The rocket launcher and barrel explosion noises from Doom 1 are used in the first track on CD 2 of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. Haven't played it for some time, but I used to love hearing that.
Whooooooosh....boom!
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the C&C Scream from a torched soldier... I hear it all the time still, ten years later... (mostly in my head)...
You're telling me that one scream from one Elf in a 3 hour movie during a protracted battle scene "detracts from the movie"? Can we say "overly critical"?
Well, maybe not one scream, but those god damned dots they show in the middle hour of the movie every 4 mins (timed) WAS REALLY PISSING ME OFF!!
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... in Return of the King.
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Hey, I read that same scream in the prolog to the original Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple II....
I thought movie makers were being unoriginal and cutting costs by using that annoying special effect when someone died.
As it turns out, movie makers were beig unoriginal and sought to use that insipid, annoying, repetitive, piece of crap sound effect for nostalgia's sake.
Thank goodness that's cleared up.
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And thank you for reminding me. I knew it was a nickelodeon show and it was one of their older cartoons, I couldn't place it. That's the last sound in their opening music.
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Presumably the actor who gets royalties every time it is used is now wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice?
Who is it?
The most notable use is when it was used as a sound effect in Wag the Dog when making the fake war footage. Since then I have heard it in a dozen movies and I hear it in a new commericial at least once a month. I believe I first heard it on a sound effects CD I used on an apple years ago.
Does ANYONE know what I'm talking about? I'd like to see a page on it.
Congralations for basically repeating exactly what the documentaries in The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition already told us, complete with original audio clip of the source scream (which is horribly blood-curdling).
"Sufferin' succotash."
Anytime, anywhere someone decides they need a 'computer' sound, they use the very (to me) familiar warble of a Seagate 30 Meg RLL Hard Drive doing heavy disk access. The sound was fairly distinctive, and somewhat soothing as a background noise.
I hear it in computer games all the time, in ads, in movies, and in TV shows. For old style mainframes that are spinning tape drives, and for futuristic computers on shows like Andromada. I laugh whenever I notice it.
Despite hearing it everywhere, I'd like to find a good sample of it. I'm not sure what for, it just seems like a handy sound to keep around. I wish I'd had good recording equipment back when I had one of the drives around!
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In 'Two Towers', when the Ents storm Isengard and break the dam, there's a sound that an Orc makes as the water rushes into the pits. It's the exact same sound a Gnoll from Warcraft III makes when it dies, sort of a weird yelping noise.
It's in the Extended version; I can't say if it's in the original.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Eh, people say 'realistic' when they mean 'vivid'. In anything by SF/fantasy, they're equivalent.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
I've noticed that sound effect in various movies.. usually when someone's dying.
How poetic.
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Werent a whole bunch of sounds and the secret project movies taken from the movie Baraka?
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so now you can hear your scream and wear it, too.
simple is as simple does.
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair...Hell, even noticed that on ER I think, heh. It's in the freakin' intro for a Motley Crue album for that matter. I find this a little uninteresting, sounds have been reused all the time in all sorts of places. Can't count how many video games have used the same dragon sound, which I think I first noticed in Doom as a sound for one of the Doom monsters.
Here they are A New Hope: 88m39s of film The Empire Strikes Back: 28m12s and 94m57s The Return of The Jedi: 33m00s
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I think he was referring to the soft or hard G... Greek being a hard sound, cheap being a soft sound. The vowel sounds of Greek and cheap are the same.
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...if you've ever wondered what the Doom II boss was saying:
dsbossit.wavMy wife thought I was a moron when I told her a noticed this identical sound byte in dozens of movies. Now I can show her I'm really not crazy... just bored.
I don't know whether it's been used again since, but I do know the origin of the rocket launcher sound in Doom (my favorite sound from that game).
The sound designer, Bobby Prince, recorded a cork being pulled from a large bottle, then he massaged it a bit using a wave form editor.
I've heard this story before, but what I'd be most interested in having (for comedic value), if anyone knows anything about it, is a heavily used screaming noise for crowds that is puncuated by a lady yelling "OH MY GOD!" South Park has used it more than once (frequent destruction of the entire town), and it's used in the Futurama episode about the 'What If' machine, when bender is a giant.
I know of one movie that is not on the list where they use the scream.
Copy Cat
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I know its been reused in movies and stuff. Its funny, every time I hear it, I'm like,"Its the Dune 2 scream!"
The scream you get when a single infantry tries a headlong assault vs your 20 rocket towers.
God spoke to me
This is not the scream I was thinking of.
The one I was thinking of pops up in movies all the time. It sounds like... "yeeeuuuuarrrrgh!". There's a bit of a bucket brigade sound to it, and any time someone falls down a cliff, off a mountain, or down something really deep(ie, lots of distance), that sound is uttered. I think it's in Star Wars as well.
Anyone remember it? May have been in Cliffhanger too.
All time fave scream sound for me is the so called "Flaming Death Scream" of the civilians in Bungie's game Marathon. Has anyone heard this?
Here's the wav file of that scream: Doug Zartman's Flaming Death Scream I hope I don't get slashdotted!
mplayer doesn't work with wilhelm_27mb.mov:
MOV track #0: 0 chunks, 0 samples
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Contact the author if you have such sample file!
Segmentation fault
"No doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream"
newsflash: "slashdotters", although often stereotyped and pigeonholed, are in fact an extremely diverse and varied lot. There are slashdot readers who don't even care for star wars. There are slashdot readers who don't work in the computer industry! There are even -gasp- slashdot readers who don't consider themselves nerds!
To suggest that "all geeks are familiar with this scream" is naive at best, and this kind of dogmatic encouragement of the "groupthink" so often mentioned here is surely harmful to the breadth of opinion and depth of knowledge that makes slashdot what it is.
You do hear some of these sound effects so often that it takes you out of the spell and gets your thinking about how the whole film is really just a constructed trick. Another example is the same old creaking gate/door sound effect you hear over and over again... you can hear the one I mean in The Shawshank Redemption, just as Tommy steps outside to talk to the warden about Elmo Blatch's confession.
When the Sarlaac grabbed Lando?
The first time I heard the creaky door sound was in Bethesda's game Daggerfall. From then on, I started noticing it in movies, TV shows, and I think even a radio spot or two. My wife thought I was nuts when I mentioned how I thought it was funny there was this de-facto international standard for how a creaky door sounds when it came up in a movie we were watching. Then I booted up the game and proved, much to her surprise, that I wasn't making it up.
None; we don't have any more since the Salem Intern Trials of 2003.
Okay. The parent article was modded into oblivion, when the apology post got modded INSIGHTFUL.
Moderators, please repeat after me.
I, the Slashdot moderator for today, hereby vow to kick my cracksmoking habits now and forever...
I can't believe that no one has mentioned the Nazgul scream. Peter Jackson wanted an effect that was chilling, eerie and entirely unhuman. They tried many variations of stock screams, animal noises, etc. Finally, however, they found the perfect scream for the witch king -- it was produced "live" by Peter's partner, Fran. History does not record what was happening to her at the time of the scream, or why she is such a great screamer.
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I could swear I heard an Orc at the top of a ladder getting pushed off Helm's Deep in The Two Towers say bugger!
... that I did not know anything about this, I did not know that such a scream had a name and can't actually remember the scene where it all happens. For me StarWars was all about the first scene, Obiwan Kwnobi vs Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker blowing the Death Star to pieces, those sequences remained on my mind.
Somehow I feel left out of the herd, but much better for it...
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Here's the actual "Fair Use Doctrine" as it appears in section 107 of copyright law... So, in short, the use of this scream has nothing to do with fair use.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure B movies actually reuse video. I've read about it video review books, but have never actually recognized the same scene from different movies.
Anyone else know anything about that?
On a related note, have you ever heard the "Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis, telephone please" sound that seems to show up in every single hospital scene? Talk about annoying. I think it's even in a Motley Crue song...
Um...not that I'd know that.
Sorry it wasn't in HTML. Cut n' paste!
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Theres a few other sounds I've heard in many places before. When you kill a trooper in Dune2 (no not DOOM II) they sometimes make the same noise that you hear in "Freejack" the movie when they drive on the sidewalk and a guy jumps out of the way. I've heard it in other movies, always used with people jumping out of the way. There is one more REALLY famous noise, that's the noise used in all the Doom games - when you open a door, i've heard that noise in a ton of movies and tv shows.
-I DDoSed your mom.
...in which you had to say "Shhh!" at the doors to get them to open or close.
//e (rattle of drive heads smacking into the stops 39 times and all) as one of their computer-is-doing-things noises.
Or Saturn III, in which they used a booting Apple
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