In the vacuum of space?
-Rav
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!
I guess you mean the one on this page: Look for Red-Tailed Hawk Screeching on the page
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…
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.
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.