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    Standaard The WILHELM Scream (Hollywood's meest gebruikte angstkreet)

    Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhh!!
    HIS voice has been heard in more than 114 Hollywood films from classic westerns to blockbusters including Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, but his identity has remained a mystery for more than 50 years.
    The actor whose scream became the most prolific sound effect in film history because of a running joke among sound editors is unmasked in The Times today.

    Sheb Wooley, who died in 2003, was a little-known character actor and novelty singer, but his talent for producing bloodcurdling cries has become part of film history. A scream recorded in 1951 for the Gary Cooper film Distant Drums has appeared in all six episodes of the Star Wars franchise, three Indiana Jones films, two of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Toy Story and Reservoir Dogs.

    The sound effect was used extensively by Warner Bros as a stock scream during the 1950s and 1960s, but it took off when a pair of film students competed to see how many times they could insert the scream.

    Ben Burtt, who has recently left Lucasfilm to work for the animation studio Pixar, named the stock cry the Wilhelm Scream after a character in a 1950s western who has the yell dubbed over his voice when he is struck in the leg by an arrow.

    He and Richard Anderson, a fellow sound editor, vowed to put it in as many films as they could. They were surprisingly successful, and other sound editors have continued the joke. It has appeared in Batman Returns and Aladdin, and over the next few weeks millions of British filmgoers will hear it in Kingdom of Heaven, Star Wars Episode III and Sin City.

    No one knew the identity of the screamer for 50 years until Mr Burtt found a sheet of paper listing the names of actors who had recorded miscellaneous sound for Distant Drums. Of the four names listed the most likely was Wooley, but Mr Burtt was unable to confirm the story because Wooley had died of leukaemia. The name was finally confirmed this week when The Times contacted Linda Dotson, Wooley’s widow.

    “He always used to joke about how he was so great about screaming and dying in films,” she said. “I did know that his scream had been in some films, the older westerns, but I did not know about Star Wars and all. He would have got such a kick out of this. He would say, ‘I may be old but I’m still in the movies’.”

    Wooley, best known for his 1958 novelty hit Purple People Eater, arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s. He played a villain in High Noon and the scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide. The Wilhelm scream achieved cult status after another sound technician, Steve Lee, published its history on his Hollywood Lost and Found website.

    Mr Burtt, who became fascinated with sound effects as a child, said: “When I was a film student I decided to put some of my favourite sound effects in my movies. Richard Anderson and I started putting them in films we worked on and it became a case of one-upmanship.” The joke escalated when sound enthusiasts spread the word over the internet and directors such as Quentin Tarantino decided to use it.

    According to Mr Lee’s website, Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was so delighted by the joke when his sound editor slipped a Wilhelm into a battle in the second film that he asked for it to be added to the third instalment as well.

    Mr Burtt has added the scream to every film he has worked on except three documentaries about space shuttles, but now he has decided to stop.

    In the latest Star Wars film, the Wilhelm appears in the first ten minutes, when a laser blast hits a droid gun, killing its gunner.

    Bron: Timesonline.co.uk

    'WILHELM SCREAM'

    LIJST MET FILMS WAARIN DE 'WILHELM SCREAM' VERWERKT IS:

    1950s
    Distant Drums (1951, the original use of the sound. Used when a character is eaten by an alligator and when three Indians are shot.)
    Charge at Feather River (1953, the scream is uttered by the character Wilhelm, who gave his name to the scream, as well as by several other characters.)
    The Command (an indian is shot)
    Them! (1954)
    A Star Is Born (1954 version with Judy Garland)
    In the Land of the Pharaohs (1955) (the scream is emitted from inside a crocodile that has just eaten a man)
    The Sea Chase
    Helen of Troy


    1960s
    Sergeant Rutledge
    PT 109 (1963)
    Harper
    The Green Berets (1968)
    The Wild Bunch


    1970s
    Chisum
    Impasse
    The Scarlet Blade
    Hollywood Boulevard


    1980s
    The Big Brawl
    Swamp Thing
    Poltergeist
    Howard the Duck
    Spaceballs (1987)
    Willow
    Always
    Three Fugitives

    1990s
    Legion of Iron
    Beauty and the Beast
    Cabin Boy
    Mom and Dad Save the World
    Aladdin
    Reservoir Dogs
    Matinee
    Evening Class
    A Goofy Movie
    Toy Story
    Dante's Peak
    Hercules (1997)
    The Fifth Element
    Titanic (1997)
    Small Soldiers

    2000s
    Thirteen Days
    The Kid
    Just Visiting
    Tomcats
    Osmosis Jones
    Planet of the Apes (2001)
    The Majestic
    Wet Hot American Summer
    Life or Something Like It
    The Salton Sea
    Spider-Man (2002)
    Scorched
    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Kill Bill
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    Hellboy
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Looney Tunes: Back In Action
    Team America: World Police
    Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
    Sin City
    Family Guy
    Kingdom of Heaven
    Star Wars: Clone Wars

    Zie voor volledige lijst: http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.html

  2. #2

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    Erg grappig verhaal!

    Ik moet wel zeggen dat ik moeite heb om hem te herkennen in veel van de films van het lijstje. Waar is ie bijv. te vinden in Always?

  3. #3

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    In Reservoir Dogs, klint het erg als in de auto of als de politieman die op de grond ligt te kreperen.
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    R Klemkerk
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    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Seth__Gekko
    In Reservoir Dogs, klint het erg als in de auto of als de politieman die op de grond ligt te kreperen.
    Daar dacht ik dus ook direct aan toen ik Reservoir Dogs zag staan.

    Ik dacht direct aan de autoscene dat Mr Orange zegt "I am f"cking dying here man!"

  5. #5

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    een oude topic mja:
    ~Wilhelm Scream filmpje~
    hier zie je de scenes van de films waar de schreeuw in voorkomt!

  6. #6

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    ik kom op een hele andere site uit...

  7. #7

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    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Sicco
    ik kom op een hele andere site uit...
    og jah als het goed is, is nu alles gefixt.

  8. #8

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    hahaha, klinkt wel heel idioot als je het zo hoort

  9. #9

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    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Sicco
    hahaha, klinkt wel heel idioot als je het zo hoort
    Ja idd
    Voor mij hoort ie toch wel bij Star Wars.

  10. #10

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    Grappig verhaal, lees het nu pas voor het eerst. Bijna onmogelijk om te herkennen in alle films.


  11. #11

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    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Joost v.d. Ham
    Grappig verhaal, lees het nu pas voor het eerst. Bijna onmogelijk om te herkennen in alle films.
    \
    ik hoorde het gister ook voor het eerst. had er nooit op gelet, maar zou het nu wel herkennen als ik een film kijk en het komt er in voor.

  12. #12

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    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Joost v.d. Ham
    Grappig verhaal, lees het nu pas voor het eerst. Bijna onmogelijk om te herkennen in alle films.
    Nou, toen ik afgelopen dinsdag King Kong bekeek hoorde ik hem in die film ook voorbij komen. Als je hem eenmaal kent dan valt ie snel genoeg op.

  13. #13

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    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Richard Boon
    Citaat Oorspronkelijk gepost door Joost v.d. Ham
    Grappig verhaal, lees het nu pas voor het eerst. Bijna onmogelijk om te herkennen in alle films.
    Nou, toen ik afgelopen dinsdag King Kong bekeek hoorde ik hem in die film ook voorbij komen. Als je hem eenmaal kent dan valt ie snel genoeg op.
    Ja hè? Eigenlijk zwaar irritant dan of niet? :P

  14. #14

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    De Wilhelm Scream is populairder dan ooit. Films van dit jaar waarin hij voorkomt:

    "The Pacifier" (2005)
    "Sin City" (2005)
    "The Ring Two" (2005)
    "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005)
    "Monster-In-Law" (2005)
    "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" (2005)
    "Madagascar" (2005)
    "Fantastic Four" (2005)
    "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (2005)
    "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" (2005)
    "Night Stalker" Episode #1.7 "The Source" (TV, Original Air Date: 10 November 2005)
    "Aeon Flux" (2005)
    "King Kong" (2005)

    Bron: http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.html

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    This film [The Distant Drums] contains the first known instance of "The Wilhelm Scream" (a sound effect of a man screaming, since used in over 70 other movies). During a scene in which the soldiers are wading through a swamp in the everglades, one of them is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator. The scream for that character was recorded later. Six short pained screams were recorded in a single take, which was slated "man getting bit by an alligator, and he screams." The fifth scream was used for the soldier - but the 4th, 5th, and 6th screams recorded in the session were also used earlier in the film when three Indians are shot, one after another, during a raid on a fort. Although the "signature" or "classic" screams, takes 4 through 6 on the original recording, are the most recognizable, all of the screams are referred to as "Wilhelm" by those in the sound community. Ben Burtt, sound effects designer on Star Wars (1977), named it "Wilhelm" after the character that let out the scream in _Charge at Feather River (1953)_ . He discovered a file at Warner Bros. for this movie, which contained paperwork that was left over from the picture editor when the film was completed. One of the papers was a short list of names of actors who were scheduled to come in to perform various lines of dialogue for miscellaneous roles in the movie. After reviewing the names and even listening to their voices, one person seemed to be the most likely suspect: Sheb Wooley. She played the uncredited role of Private Jessup in "Distant Drums", and was one of the few actors assembled for the recording of additional vocal elements for the film. It is very likely he was asked on the spot to perform other things for the film, including the screams for a man being bitten by an alligator.
    Bron: imdb.com

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