Odin Benitez, who worked on sound for the boxing movie "The Fighter" (2010), says the crew brought in a giant jicama turnip to pummel because of its unique crunch.
Punching a watermelon, you get the squishy wet part so it feels like you opened up the face."
"You double-track slapping a ham with squishing a bell pepper and it sounds like a bone cracked in the guy's face. "We love things like celery and green peppers because they have a really great crunch," says Mr. We beat it in the head, on the rib cage, on the haunches, to get that variety of sound," he says. "For the next four hours we just defiled this pig, beating it with baseball bats, lead pipes, leather gloves, bare fists. They killed it and hauled its carcass into a recording studio. Sound man Mark Mangini recalls that for Michael Paré's fisticuffs in the 1984 film "Streets of Fire," his colleagues bought a pig that was bound for slaughter at a county fair near Los Angeles. You get that cavity compression, and the bones slightly cracking, the organic matter. I'll grab a mallet, because I like to hear the bone crack a little bit, and then I'll smash it, with the microphone slightly in the cavity. "Meat has a slappy sound, but a turkey that's slightly frozen is solid. "I'll grab a store-bought frozen turkey," says sound designer Scott Gershin, whose recent work includes creating punches for the giant robots in "Pacific Rim" (by dropping 40-foot cargo containers on top of each other). Soon creative acts of violence against beef, pork, poultry, fruits and vegetables became common. He famously never revealed his exact audio formula. The late Frank Warner, sound effects supervisor for that film, mixed into fight scenes a stew of recorded sounds that included animal roars and metallic clinks. "Raging Bull," Martin Scorsese's 1980 biopic of volatile boxer Jake LaMotta, was a sonic boom. It's a wet towel slapping on a wall, sometimes with a pencil breaking added in there," says Leslie Shatz, who worked on "Out of the Furnace."Īs film sound became more sophisticated, and movie budgets rose, professionals moved away from using libraries of canned sounds, cooking up different audio effects for every punch using fresh ingredients. "The sound of a punch that we're familiar with is not made with any punching.
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