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Wet feathers wack against stone.
Blood splatters as the man just keeps swinging and swinging.
It looks gruesome, but it sounds even worse.
The Lighthouseis many things.
Its a workplace comedy.
Its a male-bonding drama.
At a few points, its even an old-timey Raymond Harryhausenstyle creature epic.
Hes incredibly specific about verisimilitude from his historical research, supervising sound editor Damian Volpe tells Vulture.
Absolutely, Foley editor Filipe Messeder adds.
That was a never-ending process.
Volpe and Messeder have vowed never to disclose howexactlythey imagined the sounds of Wakes flatulence.
Call it bespoke flatulence, they agreed.
Dafoe was very cagey about this at the festivals, because he actually doesnt know, Volpe says.
He claims that they were his actual farts.
Im not gonna say whether shes right or not … Volpe adds.
Its like the mystery of the lighthouse.
Really its that important.
I will say on record that I think Im the only one who knows where the flatulence comes from.
The first part happens, then your brain gets to go, Woo!
I can actually laugh.
That scene is pretty horrifying to look at over and over again, Volpe says.
Toward the end, you have a kind of wet rag hitting stone sound, says Messeder.
The wind constantly whips.
Nothing ever really stops dripping.
That damn foghorn just keeps blaring.
The interval of the waves becomes kind of naturally a pulse or a breath.
I really wanted to make everything just protest from being very helpful to these characters, explains Messeder.
Each one of these environments just sounds like it doesnt really want to be used.
These characters are kind of unwelcomed there.
Messeder: Oh my God.
We were very sore at the end of this.
So, we brought it.
