However, I have to say that I keep hearing the exact same sound in almost every action movie, and its making me wonder how hard this person might actually be working. Pick a major or small battle scene from any movie. It doesn't really matter which movie, just find one. OK, I'll give you one...The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The scene is the Helm's Deep Battle. I have to pinpoint the exact spot, but there is a scene where an Elf gets shot and falls down off the tower. The sound is the person yelling "argh!" If you listen, you will recall this exact sound in almost every other movie with a person falling. I am going to record the sound, so you can hear it here, but before I do, see if you can find which one I am referring to.

Every movie (I am not kidding) every movie that has a person falling some sizable distance uses this sound. I remember watching Battlestar Galactica, and after watching three episodes, the action got boring, because they used the same 6 explosions video, and 4 explosion sounds. Talk about cheaping out on the wow-factor.

I wonder if this is an inside joke for Hollywood. There is a director who does this...Sam Raimi. He loves the idea of using "Fake Shemps". When the Three Stooges were filming movies, apparently, they worked on quite a few at the same time (the hard working era), and Shemp Howard died which left quite a few holes in the movies. Well, they apparently used a look-alike, but you never saw his face. Sam Raimi does this on purpose in each of his movies, and at the end of some, he gives credits to these actors under the name "fake shemps". Its possible that the foley does this on purpose as a joke. When I catch one in a movie, I usually get a chuckle out of it.

Well in this case, I hope that the person who's voice they used in the 1970's to record the famous "argh" sound is getting major bankable cash, because he is truly the hardest working um...well I guess he himself is not the hardest working person, but his work hasn't stopped finding its way into my movies.