# Most Excessive Sound Effect in a Movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722 "2003-12-08T07:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/41 "2003-12-10T06:53:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > The Death Star explosion in Star Wars - Special Edition. > > You nuts? That explosion was a mere whisper compared to what it should be… > \*\* In the vacuum of space? -Rav ---
**Author:** ![Nangleator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@Nangleator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nangleator)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/42 "2003-12-10T13:40:09Z")
I’m noticing this more and more. Whenever the camera shows an outside scene in any kind of location that suggests desert or hotness or dryness, there’s the same goddamn hawk sound effect. They even use it in sci-fi pictures on alien planets. It’s always the SAME audio clip. Get off your asses, Foley people, and record something new! ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/43 "2003-12-10T14:31:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nangleator \* > **Whenever the camera shows an outside scene in any kind of location that suggests desert or hotness or dryness, there’s the same goddamn hawk sound effect.** I guess you mean the one on this page: [Look for Red-Tailed Hawk Screeching on the page](http://www.filmsound.org/cliche/) I’m wondering if they are using it more and more simply as a parody of itself - witness the “spy” episode of “The Brak Show” (which doesn’t takes itself seriously), when DAD is the “Condor” in the scheme to set up a bachelor party - they use that sound effect in the scene when he and Brak wait for Rudalfo the Butcher on the bridge… ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/44 "2003-12-10T16:14:24Z")
The one that grates on my nerves was in _Return of the Jedi_. The little Tarzan yell some schmuck decided to throw in as Chewbacca and his intrepid Ewok comrades-in-arms swing out onto the top of the ATST. The cloyingly “cute” factor was already up to 9¾. That little sound effect pushed it up to about 12. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/45 "2003-12-10T17:02:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nangleator \* > \*\*I’m noticing this more and more. Whenever the camera shows an outside scene in any kind of location that suggests desert or hotness or dryness, there’s the same goddamn hawk sound effect. > > They even use it in sci-fi pictures on alien planets. It’s always the SAME audio clip. Get off your asses, Foley people, and record something new! \*\* There’s a pretty funny instance of this in a scene from a Star Trek:TNG episode. It’s obviously shot somewhere in the LA hills, as Star Trek so often was. In this particular case a real, but unscheduled turkey vulture loops into the frame in the background, and they decided to keep it in and just add a hawk scream to cover it. ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722/46 "2003-12-10T17:36:10Z")
[The Wilhelm Scream](http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.html) Here’s a Quicktime clip that has a bunch of examples from different movies [http://download.theforce.net/video/wilhelm\_27mb.mov](http://download.theforce.net/video/wilhelm_27mb.mov) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-excessive-sound-effect-in-a-movie/217722.md?page=2)