RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Spielberg, 1981): Unrealistic animal sounds

Since Indiana Jones' fear of snakes is one of his defining character traits, the snakes he meets in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK had to be memorable. However, the depicted animals are naturally extremely silent. So Ben Burtt's sound team made the "asps" (probably Egyptian Cobras) sound like loudly hissing monsters whose slithering sound was allegedly produced by fingers sliding through a cheese casserole provided by the sound designer's wife. In addition, all the creepy animals are often accompanied by John Williams' dissonant atonal modernist music.

Weil die Schlangenphobie zu Indiana Jones' entscheidenden Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen gehört, mussten die Schlangen in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK einen starken Eindruck hinterlassen. Die gezeigten Tiere sind in der Realität allerdings geräuschlos. Deshalb liess Ben Burtt's Ton-Crew die Ägyptischen Kobras wie laut zischende Monster klingen, deren Schleichgeräusche angeblich von Fingern in Käseauflauf stammen. Zusätzlich wird der Auftritt dieser gruseligen Tiere oft von John Williams' dissonanter atonaler Musik begleitet.

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Highly inventive slithering...

...and shocking hissing sounds.