Hollywood using the same scream for 46 years

[PanterA]

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[Gvac]

<p>I guess this proves the old adage &quot;If it ain't broke don't fix it.&quot;</p><p>I think Fez has been using his comedy material for roughly the same amount of time.&nbsp;</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>they should finally change it to the now infamous &quot;Dave Scream&quot; when MikeyD is pissing him off... man does he reach some high notes</p><p>funny shit</p>

[ADF]

I'm thinking that a lot of those screams are edited in, but maybe I'm just remembering wrong.<br />

[JustJon]

<p>The Wilhelm scream is a famous Hollywood thing.</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream" target="_blank">Wilhelm scream</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_using_the_Wilhelm_scream" target="_blank">List of Wilhelm Scream movies</a><br /></p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Once you familiarize yourself with that scream, you'd be surprised how many movies you'll hear it in.</p><p>It's even in Revenge Of The Sith.</p>

[fezident]

<p>That some pretty questionable audio in that montage.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by fezident on 8-16-06 @ 12:06 PM</span>

[JustJon]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Furtherman</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Once you familiarize yourself with that scream, you'd be surprised how many movies you'll hear it in.</p><p>It's even in Revenge Of The Sith.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It's in every Star Wars movie.&nbsp; Ben Burtt has been putting it in since ANH.&nbsp; And the Indiana Jones movies too.&nbsp;</p>

[Furtherman]

I didn't know that!&nbsp; I'll have to keep an ear out next time I trilogize.

[bobrobot]

<strong><font color="#000099">About 20 years ago, didn't some old lady file a lawsuit to have her husband's laugh removed from all sound effects libraries because she had&nbsp;suffered by hearing his laugh&nbsp;even tho he died 60 years prior? (his laugh was isolated from an audience&nbsp;recording of an early radio show)</font></strong>

[Furtherman]

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[MrPink]

That reminds me of the crowd cheering noise that I have heard in movies, tv, and videogames. You can always hear a "come on" in that cheering. I wish I can figure out what it's called.

[TheMojoPin]

Goddamn, I love the Wilhelm. It makes me smile every time I hear it.

There's a female scream that's pretty common, too. If you've seen Wag the Dog, try and remember the scene where Kirsten Dunst is playing an Albanian refugee supposedly running through her village, and they mic freak screams over the footage. The one they settle is one I've heard in at least dozens of movies, shows and commercials.

I think Wilhelm's scream is originally from a scene of some poor schmuck being eaten by a 'gator, though it's questioned whether that actor actually did the scream or if someone else recorded it seperately.

[MrPink]

Goddamn, I love the Wilhelm. It makes me smile every time I hear it.

There's a female scream that's pretty common, too. If you've seen Wag the Dog, try and remember the scene where Kirsten Dunst is playing an Albanian refugee supposedly running through her village, and they mic freak screams over the footage. The one they settle is one I've heard in at least dozens of movies, shows and commercials.

I think Wilhelm's scream is originally from a scene of some poor schmuck being eaten by a 'gator, though it's questioned whether that actor actually did the scream or if someone else recorded it seperately.

Yeah it's from a 1951 movie, and the guy that sang "Purple People Eater" did the scream.

[LiddyRules]

When watching the montage, how many people began to wonder if some of it was edited in after hearing it so much.

[JustJon]

Goddamn, I love the Wilhelm. It makes me smile every time I hear it.

There's a female scream that's pretty common, too. If you've seen Wag the Dog, try and remember the scene where Kirsten Dunst is playing an Albanian refugee supposedly running through her village, and they mic freak screams over the footage. The one they settle is one I've heard in at least dozens of movies, shows and commercials.

I think Wilhelm's scream is originally from a scene of some poor schmuck being eaten by a 'gator, though it's questioned whether that actor actually did the scream or if someone else recorded it seperately.

The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. Actor-singer Sheb Wooley is considered to be the most likely voice actor for the scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for the film.

There's a link to the wikipedia entry above.

[zerothehero]

The whole Wilhelm scream phenom is pretty cool. I saw a special either on Discovery on in the bonus materials of a DVD talking with sound editors about the scream and the running gag throughout the years to try and use the scream in their work.

[Chris from TX]

If memory serves me, there is another variation on this scream (or another one) that is more of a "UGHHH!!" like one would make when getting punched in the gut.

The Wilhelm scream is great, but that bloodcurdling woman scream (the one from Wag the Dog) just seems to take me out of the movie/show.

As does the cliched police woman dispatcher. The clip goes something like "Seven eight three five code six....." Anyone? Anyone?

[TheMojoPin]

The Wilhelm scream is great, but that bloodcurdling woman scream (the one from Wag the Dog) just seems to take me out of the movie/show.

Agreed. It always sounds so fake. The Wilhelm may get used a lot, but that's largely becuase it's such an awesome death scream.

[TheMojoPin]

As does the cliched police woman dispatcher. The clip goes something like "Seven eight three five code six....." Anyone? Anyone?

I realized I watched WAY too much TV and movies and music videos when I recognized that there's a very common hospital page used all the time calling a "Dr. Kravitz."

[Furtherman]

As does the cliched police woman dispatcher. The clip goes something like "Seven eight three five code six....." Anyone? Anyone?

Like the one at the beginning of Hill Street Blues...?

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[Chris from TX]

Like the one at the beginning of Hill Street Blues...?

Close...

[sr71blackbird]

I heard the Wilhelm scream in here....


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[TheMojoPin]

Bored thread bump.

Post your favorite Wilhelm Scream here.

This one was the first:

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Though this one is probably the most well known:

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[ozzie]

Kinda off the subject, but... while watching Dexter a week or two ago, in the scene where Deb is in the hospital, and Dexter is confronted by his wife in the hallway... they use an old "baby cry" that I've heard hundreds of times on the radio.. most recently probably when Ronnie would "make the baby cry, then make it start laughing again".

I was totally taken out of the episode after that.

I'd love to find a sound clip of this. Once you hear it, you'll recognize it in many tv shows and films.