At the climax of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, a blazing inferno burns down a theater, with Nazi officers locked inside. That fire was as real as it gets too, and came dangerously close to killing a whole lot of people.
As Eli Roth described in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the fire “was going to burn at 400 degrees centigrade and it burned at 1,200.” Steel cables liquefied in the 2,000-degree Fahrenheit blaze, and if it had gone on for another 10 to 15 seconds, “the structure would have collapsed.”
We all remember Boo from Monsters, Inc., the adorable 3-year-old that eventually found herself at the center of the story. Voiced by 5-year-old Mary Gibbs, it was difficult to get a full day’s worth of studio sound work from the young actress.
The solution: “They simply followed her around with a microphone and cut Boo’s lines together from the things she said while she played.”
Ever get an odd sense of déjà vu every time a character in a movie screams? There’s a very good reason for that, and it’s called the “Wilhelm scream.” Originally featured in Gary Cooper’s 1951 Western, Distant Drums, it’s since become an inside joke among sound people across the movie industry, slyly inserted into a handful of Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, as well as the likes of Titanic, Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, and lots more.
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