Was the famous “Wilhelm Scream” used in “The Force Awakens?”

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The “Wilhelm Scream” is a stock sound-effect that has been used in hundreds of films over the years as an inside-joke/homage among filmmakers. It was first heard in the 1951 film Distant Drums but is famously named after Private Wilhelm who is shot with an arrow and screams in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River . The scream rose to fame in recent decades when Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt used it in his work on Star Wars and other...

Originally asked by Giacomo1968 on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It did occur in the movie, very near the beginning, when Poe and Finn escape in a TIE fighter and fend off some stormtroopers with the TIE fighter's weapons . It is, of course, one of the stormtroopers blown away who utters the Wilhelm scream. It is a bit faint and overshadowed by the general noise (and soundtrack?) and not directly in your face, which might be why you missed it. But you can definitely hear it in that scene.

Full answer by Napoleon Wilson: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/45212 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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