Tuesday, May 04, 2010

THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: THE WILHELM SCREAM ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: THE WILHELM SCREAM ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT: "The Scream was resurrected by Ben Burtt, the sound designer of the Star Wars films. Burtt is widely held to be one of the great geniuses of Hollywood filmmaking, and is the winner of a number of Oscars, as well as being the voice of the robot Wall-E in the film Wall-E. Burtt found The Wilhelm Scream in a sound vault under the title 'Man Being Eaten By Alligator,' and used it for the cry of a stormtrooper falling down a Death Star chasm in Star Wars."