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"The Wilhelm Scream"
TheBoost
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Better a bad bomb than a bombadI recently showed "Dante's Peak" to my class. When the lead scientist character is crushed horribly by a collapsing bridge, every single class laughed because the film used the Wilhelm Scream.
I loathe the Wilhelm Scream, but I'm a film geek. I cringe whenever I hear it, but I recognize that I've been trained to recognize the sound.
But these kids aren't film scholars, but laughed every time... because it's a funny sound, and inappropriate to the scene in almost every film it's used in.
Sound editors who use it are more concerned with being clever than serving the film (with the exception of films like "Hot Shots").
I have no point, except I think it stinks.
Warbler
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South Jersey Devilwow, I never knew about the Wilhelm screem, until I saw this post and then went on youtube and watched a compilation of it being used.
TheBoost
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Better a bad bomb than a bombadWarbler said:
wow, I never knew about the Wilhelm screem, until I saw this post and then went on youtube and watched a compilation of it being used.
Now you can never NOT notice it again.
Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.A great write up on the Wilhelm is here. It is voiced by Sheb Wooley of Purple People Eater fame.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
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Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.TheBoost said:
Warbler said:
wow, I never knew about the Wilhelm screem, until I saw this post and then went on youtube and watched a compilation of it being used.
Now you can never NOT notice it again.
Yeah, I'm in that same boat. Even if it is buried in the very back of the sound mix, I always pick it up.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
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Ben Burtt at CV lamented at how pervasive the Wilhelm has become. He said he used to collect all the appearances, but at some point probably the late 80s, early 90s, it just became something everyone did.
TV's Frink
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Ointment FlyThis totally makes me want to scream.
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Anyway, I wish I hadn't found out about this a few years back. Just like Boost and Slugs, I can't NOT hear it. :-(
Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.I think we have established in a different thread that it is Sluggo and the Boost. I think it was Bingowings who formed the band.
It is interesting to hear that Burtt had his own Wilhelm collection before it was "cool" to do so.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
DuracellEnergizer
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Ce n'est pas DuracellEnergizerI'd like to see a movie made where everyone that screams uses the Wilhelm Scream =P
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Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.It was used 3 times in The Charge at Feather River.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
hairy_hen
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Reginald ScumI'm a fan of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight game series. Someone once made a mod, I think it was for Jedi Outcast, that made it so every single enemy character in the game used the Wilhelm scream. It was pretty dang hilarious, but it would get old fast. lol
captainsolo
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Tauntaun herder-Damn Fool Idealistic CrusaderI have to try that mod now. Still love that game.
I hear it every time it's used, but to me its endearing unlike other bad overused sound effects.
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TV's Frink
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Ointment Flybtw, my edits are going to be wall-to-wall Wilhelm. :p
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TV's Frink wrote:
btw, my edits are going to be wall-to-wall Wilhelm.
I think you should start with the ESB confrontation. Give Vader's a tad mechanical tone and pitch Luke's up a bit. The key though is to figure out what Luke says as he falls. That's a big pay off. Right now nothing's coming to mind.
TV's Frink
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Ointment Fly^You must be confusing me with someone who knows what the hell he is doing. ;-)
Ziz
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My 13 year old nephew has been learning about video editing. A Christmas or so ago I gave him a portable hard drive with an assortment of music and sound FX on it to use in his projects. First thing he asked me was "Is that funny scream on there?" When I told him it was, he cheered.
Leonardo
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Joliet JakeWilhelm is so overused it has become silly. Kinda like my nemesis, Comic Sans... Ughgh that typeface makes me wanna puke.
... And they had 'The Empire Strikes Back', the fifth of the four Star Wars films. He is fucking with us numerically, isn't he! "Children, count up to ten." "Four, five, six, one, two, three, ten". No, it goes, four, five, six, one, two, three… No, it goes: four, five, six. One... Two and three have not been made." "Two and three have not been made! What should they be?" "What should they be? We do not know. All we know is that there will be a big floppy character in it that goes, squawk squawk squawk... who needs a punch up the bracket!"