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Post by Fritz on Jul 19, 2015 17:17:06 GMT
Celebrating 50 years of the Wilhelm Scream, probably one of Hollywood's greatest inside jokes.
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Post by dash on Jul 19, 2015 17:38:50 GMT
Lol, pretty funny! To be honest, I didn't even know of the existence of this as a continuing sound effect, although I'm sure I heard it many a time. I hate to think how long it took someone to assemble this compilation.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 18:23:57 GMT
I think this is a joke. They just dubbed in the same scream at the appropriate times.
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Post by Fritz on Jul 19, 2015 18:52:36 GMT
It is a joke, but not by the guy who made the video. The "Wilhelm Scream" is a stock audio track that has been used over and over in literally hundreds of movies. There's a write-up on in on Wikipedia.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 20:25:12 GMT
That's pretty dumb though. Every man's voice is different so all their screams should be different and come from the actual actors portrayed in the films, otherwise they are stealing the actors' abilities to create their own moments of agony in scenes. Hollywood sometimes suffers from major cases of laziness and lack of imagination. Even the MGM Lion was filmed multiple times doing his growls and once even the Marx Brothers chimed in (Harpo literally).
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Post by Fritz on Jul 19, 2015 23:39:05 GMT
I agree it's pretty stupid. I believe in the beginning, it was just the studios being cheap. It was a lot easier to use a canned sound clip than to set up proper sound recording during action sequences. You probably noticed most of the early examples were pretty low budget action films. In the later films ( Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings), it is more a humorous homage, like an audio "Easter Egg" for the film buffs. Similarly, I remember watching Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. There's a scene during the battle of Endor where Chewbacca and some Ewoks were swinging on vines and they dubbed in a classic Tarzan call.
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