I’ve seen supercuts circulate on the Internet before (such as the famous No compilation) so I decided to try my hand at this assignment by creating a similar one that focused on emotional screaming. In constructing this, I noticed a particular pattern. Most of the screams are silent, or at least have subdued music/noise in the background. In addition, many have a slow-motion quality to them that heightens the moment. The footage I grabbed (using File2HD again) included Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, Eomer in The Lord of the Rings, V in V for Vendetta, Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Harry in Harry Potter, Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes, Deadpool in Deadpool, Superman in Man of Steel, Bruce Wayne in Batman v Superman, Thor in Thor, and Westley in The Princess Bride (which I already had a copy of on my computer).
I moved back to my usual video-editing software, CyberLink PowerDirector, to stitch the footage together.
The result was a nice collection of screaming. I especially enjoyed ending with the prolonged Sound of Ultimate Suffering from The Princess Bride. This was another great exercise for looking at commonality and tropes throughout film.
This assignment was really well thought out.
If I hadn’t seen these movies before it’d be pretty tricky trying to figure out the emotion behind their scream when just watching the scream scenes. Entertaining to watch!