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The 10 Greatest Sounds from Star Wars
Roger Ebert has said that for some people movie history begins with Star Wars. George Lucas has said that sound is 'half of the picture.' The sounds from the Star Wars series sit between these two quotes. Ben Burtt became the world's most influential sound designer by creating the sounds for the Star Wars series.
This list was created by factoring how famous or influential a given sound is, and also considering the sound from a sound designer's point of view. For example, the Darth Vader sounds are simple to create, yet the voice from James Earl Jones became one of the most influential sounds of the series. Compare that to the voice of Poggle the Lesser, which is not as famous, but a masterpiece of cutting and pasting phonetic sounds together.
This list was created by factoring how famous or influential a given sound is, and also considering the sound from a sound designer's point of view. For example, the Darth Vader sounds are simple to create, yet the voice from James Earl Jones became one of the most influential sounds of the series. Compare that to the voice of Poggle the Lesser, which is not as famous, but a masterpiece of cutting and pasting phonetic sounds together.
Apr 8, 2008 1:18 PM
Re: The 10 Greatest Sounds from Star Wars
How the hell did some of the prequel sounds get in there? I sure didn't recognize them, and they didn't seem that great to me.
By: chronomitch
Re: The 10 Greatest Sounds from Star Wars
Alien languages? Sure.
Sonic mines over the original Death Star explosion? Pffbt!
Sonic mines over the original Death Star explosion? Pffbt!
By: scalpod
Re: The 10 Greatest Sounds from Star Wars
exactly my thoughts. maybe Mr. Lucas compiled this list.
By: hypersapien
Re: The 10 Greatest Sounds from Star Wars
So many great sounds in the SW series, you can't compress it into an arbitrary list of ten, really. A few stand out in my mind, notice how they're all from the original trilogy:
Speeder bikes with the weird doppler howl, ATAT hydraulics, the Millennium Falcon jumping into hyperspace, Chewbacca's growl. Not least of all, many people I know seem particularly fond of the Jawa language.
Here are a couple of little tidbits: The Millennium Falcon's engine sound came from a refrigerator engine magnified about a hundred times. The blasters came from striking taut metallic wires, the kind that hold telephone poles upright, with a hammer.
However, I have to agree with the inclusion of the seismic charges, that sound really blew me away in a state of the art movie theater.
In fact, remember how there's no music in the first half of that asteroid sequence, it was meant to be a showcase for sound effects. I found the immersion extremely pleasing.
Speeder bikes with the weird doppler howl, ATAT hydraulics, the Millennium Falcon jumping into hyperspace, Chewbacca's growl. Not least of all, many people I know seem particularly fond of the Jawa language.
Here are a couple of little tidbits: The Millennium Falcon's engine sound came from a refrigerator engine magnified about a hundred times. The blasters came from striking taut metallic wires, the kind that hold telephone poles upright, with a hammer.
However, I have to agree with the inclusion of the seismic charges, that sound really blew me away in a state of the art movie theater.
In fact, remember how there's no music in the first half of that asteroid sequence, it was meant to be a showcase for sound effects. I found the immersion extremely pleasing.
By: niktemadur
