Everybody around me is talking about James Blake and his song The Wilhelm Scream like it's the music equivalent of Messi. But what is a Wilhelm Scream, one might wonder...Luckily, the ever genius people at Cracked.com wrote an article today about the origins of the Wilhelm Scream. Turns out the Wilhelm Scream is credited to sound designer Ben Burtt, who found it on a reel labeled "Man being eaten by alligator" and made it famous by using it in over 200 films.
That man by the way is also responsible for the cool "pfew-pfews" and "changs-changs" of the lazers and light sabers in Stars Wars, Darth Vader's heavy breathing (using scuba gear) and the voices of both Wall-E and E.T.
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