The Wilhelm Scream

[grohl]

From Wired magazine:

Pretend an alligator just bit off your arm. Now scream. That's what a voice actor did to overdub a shriek for the 1951 film Distant Drums. Little did he realize he was making cinematic history. Over the years, audio engineers have reused the so-called Wilhelm Scream in dozens of films, making the girlish screech a punch line in the industry. "It's an inside geek joke among sound designers," says Matthew Wood of Skywalker Sound ? one that's shown up in everything from Star Wars to this year's Transformers.

Wired link

You Tube compilation

Once you watch the compilation, you'll be like, man I HAVE heard this before!

 

[BrokenVisage]

Good timing

 

[The Boston Dangler]

george lucas being unoriginal? shocking!!!

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
george lucas being unoriginal? shocking!!!

It's nothing to do with GL. It's Ben Burtt's signature for the pictures he works on.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Good timing

Good timing indeed. Maybe this should be a vs. thread or poll instead.

 

[ViviTheMage]

lil late

 

[grohl]

Yeah, I saw that other thread which jogged my memory about the Wilhelm.

Wilhelm FTW tho.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

This will sound nerdy as hell but I swear during Mission Impossible II, there's some kind of festival going on in the background while Cruise/Thandie Newton talk in a room. During that scene, I swear they use the sound of kids from RollerCoaster Tycoon.

The only reason I recognized it is during the crowd in the game, a kid says something that sounds like "Du-Bwa, Du-Bwa, Du-Bwa" and I swore I heard it in the movie. Unfortunately the scene its used in isnt a big scene so I cant find it on youtube.

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
This will sound nerdy as hell but I swear during Mission Impossible II, there's some kind of festival going on in the background while Cruise/Thandie Newton talk in a room. During that scene, I swear they use the sound of kids from RollerCoaster Tycoon.

The only reason I recognized it is during the crowd in the game, a kid says something that sounds like "Du-Bwa, Du-Bwa, Du-Bwa" and I swore I heard it in the movie. Unfortunately the scene its used in isnt a big scene so I cant find it on youtube.

The sound in MI II may be from the same background and ambient sound fx catalog that RollerCoaster Tycoon used. It happens a lot in TV and video games. It's more of a rarity in big budget films, but still happens as you've noted.

 

[Raduque]

I don't know if this was mentioned in the other thread or not, but Tarantino put the Wilhelm in "Deathproof".

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
george lucas being unoriginal? shocking!!!

its a film sound guy/film buff inside joke. nothing to do with george lucas.