Wilhelm

It comes from a 1940s western. Named after an extra who yelled a certain way when shot by an arrow in a scene. It’s been used a lot by film makers ever since. 

1. I’ve come to hate that damnable scream. Takes me out of every me movie I see.

   Posted by  on  10/08  at  06:40 PM

2. I agree. Why can’t these film makers use some original sounds for a change.

   Posted by  on  10/08  at  09:29 PM

3. It’s become a sound-engineer in-joke....from what I’ve read, it was Ben Burtt who researched it and re-popularized it in the late ‘70s in the Star Wars films…

   Posted by  on  10/09  at  04:48 AM

4. It’s an in joke that has passed way into the tired cliché territory long ago.

   Of course, I always though the Wilhelm yell was another scream you hear all the time, usually when people fall from great heights. It’s a longer, deeper sound. One use I can think of off the top of my head is in the movie the Living Daylights where James Bond kicks a killer off a bag of heroin over Afghanistan and he falls away screaming. I’ve heard that yell in a ton of movies.

   Posted by  on  10/09  at  09:42 AM
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