@@thickerconstrictor9037 the book was not inspired by those events, but the movie, while being mostly faithful to the book also has differences. Spielberg was certainly inspired by those events during the production of the film.
@@thickerconstrictor9037 also there’s an interview with screenwriter Carl Gottlieb that says when writing the movie those 1916 attacks were some of the only accounts they had to go by along with some attacks in Australia
Yes actual footage was used and it comes with a great story. The stunt actor that was used was a small person as they wanted to scale the cage down to make the shark look bigger. So they also scaled the tank down as well. What they didn't think of was the small tank had half the air. So when they put this small stunt man in the water with the sharks (which he had never dove with sharks before in his life) he had only half the air. They were able to get him out just before a shark got caught in the line to the cage (the real footage of the shark rolling around onto of the cage at the end of the movie). After seeing this the stuntman went AWAL the next day and never went back.
That was the first scene filmed for Jaws. In February 1974 off South Australia. This was before Dreyfuss was cast. Filming for Jaws proper didn't begin until May 1974 on Martha's Vineyard. Ron Taylor filmed the underwater shots. His wife Valerie was tasked with trying to paint scars on the shark with pink lipstick. The shark was a 13ft male. Spielberg wanted more shots so they went back in March but were threatened by local abalone divers for chumming up the sharks so they gave up. The local abalone divers were on edge after abalone diver Terry Manuel had just been killed by a great white.
@@SammyRebbo The stuntman who got the job did not know how to swim, he got into a car accident on the way to interview for the job with Spielberg. When he showed up bloody and cut up Spielberg respected his commitment and gave him the job.
This movie is a perfect 10. The acting was off the charts, the special effects with no CGI were awesome. The story from start to finish grabbed you immediately .The movie had a little bit of everything, drama, horror, action adventure, and humor well mixed together.
Jenn and Holden fun fact the the woman who played the mom of the boy that got eaten by the shark went into a restaurant about 20 years after the movie came out and when she was seen at the table this guy walked up to her and said hello the guy end up being the owner of the restaurant and he also played her son in the movie and it's the first time they saw each other since they filmed the movie and it ended up becoming really close right before she died
Wasn't the first "blockbuster" movie or the first to have people lined up like that either. Check out "Gone With the Wind" (1939) sometime. "Blockbuster" actually refers to WW2 aerial bombs that could reduce an entire city block to rubble.
@@paintedjaguar Jaws was the first real summer blockbuster. It started the whole trend that followed with films like superman and star wars couple years later. But if we are speaking box office wise then yeah gone with the wind is a blockbuster, so is the godfather and the exorcist. But it kinda feels weird calling the godfather a blockbuster doesn’t it? Lol.
It doesn’t seem like a big deal when Quint crushes the beer can in his hand, but this was before they were made from aluminium. It would probably have been tin-plated steel, which is much more rigid.
Kid: *Gets eaten by a shark Jen: *Feels bad the kid is getting eaten Holden: “Look at that shot” That’s probably one of the funniest things I’ve seen on this channel, I don’t know why 😂
THAT shot is something Spielberg learned from Hitchcock. He used it in Vertigo to visualize, well, the vertigo. Spielberg perfected it. It works by having the camera on a dolly, moving it backwards and at the same time zooming in with the lense.
Jen, you are the first and only person I've ever seen actually know the true story of the USS Indianapolis. A story more horrifying than any shark movie ever made (read that in Quinn's accent.)
An interesting note I learned when I read the book on the making of the sequel, the producers briefly pondered making the plot the story of USS Indianapolis.
@TheQuiet Jaws is also the original blockbuster movie it was the movie that everyone was talking about that year , 2 years before STAR WARS would go even further with that and looong before the internet . that theme two notes on a DOUBLE BASS said it all DUN NAN DUN NAN .DUN NAN ahhhhh !!🤯😮😱
I mean it's not the most popular movie she hadn't seen. She hadn't seen any star wars or Marvel films. But her loving shark stuff so much. It is surprising all the same.
I went on a fishing trip with a friend and we stayed on the boat and watched Jaws. A few days later our boat sunk 15 miles off the Pacific rim by Vancouver Island. When the Coast Guard showed up they saw sharks circling around us. Other than mild case of hypothermia no one was hurt thankfully.
@@Serenity113 we knew1 they were coming and they were flying over us for 20 out of the 40 minutes. So we stayed in good spirits. We didn't know about the sharks till after the rescue and I believe they were blue sharks not as big or dangerous as great whites
Is this a true story? It sounds just crazy enough to believe. I’ve always had the Top10 best stories in the Lower Mainland. Moved away 7yrs ago, getting old, guess we have to make room. Either way, I’m involved in the top 9…glad you and your friends are good.
My grandmother and two aunts happened to be vacationing in Martha's Vineyard when they were filming this movie and they completely corrorobrate: all you heard was "the shark's not working! The shark's not working" being yelled in megaphones. A few months ago I just happened to ask my aunt if seeing the filming of the movie "behind-the-scenes" impeded her appreciation of the movie once it was released; she said "It scared the s**t out of me!"🤣
I was 7 when I saw this in the theaters. So cool to see you guys watch this. The incident that was the inspiration for this movie did happen in NJ. The kids were attacked over a couple of days but actually happened in a river. They were bull sharks not great white sharks. Bull sharks actually kill more humans than great white sharks. Bull sharks can go from salt water to fresh water. In Mexico I did a bull shark experience with my wife in our honeymoon
When searching for the shark or sharks responsible they caught a Great White right of the coast that had human body parts inside. Modern researchers think that it is a bull shark and a white shark.
HI, Thomas! Yeah, Bull sharks definitely are found in fresh water. I live about 70 miles west of the Mississippi River in Louisiana due west from Vicksburg, MS. Bull sharks have been seen in the Mississippi as far north as Vicksburg, and some are reported as far north up the Mississippi as the mouth of the Ohio, if you can believe it. I've even seen programs during Shark Week that claim that bull sharks have been spotted in the Great Lakes. Those things get around! LOL
I agree that Jaws is a good movie and a true classic, however the repercussions that happened toward sharks is unbelievable, since this movie released there has been a 70 percent decrease in shark population worldwide and it’s genuinely sad to hear.
Comparatively very little of that is to do with Jaws. Commercial gill netting and long line by-catch and the Asian shark finning industry is responsible for 90% of shark killing. You can add in the beach netting programme as well. In the long run Jaws BENEFITED sharks. It lead to more interest and consequently more scientific field research. This has culminated in far more knowledge and understanding. Benchley said he was gratified that he got hundreds of letters from kids each year telling him how much they loved sharks and want to study them. There are two sides to every story. 👍
@@lyndoncmp5751 You are right, but at the time I’m sure it sparked huge waves of fear and it did have some impact, however you are completely right and I should of mentioned the shark fins being taken and eaten as a status symbol.
TheRealMist, No worries. Believe it or not but even before Jaws, sharks were being wiped out. In 1970 when Ron and Valerie Taylor turned up in South Australia to film great whites for the classic documentary Blue Water White Death they had a hard time finding any. Locals told them they were declining not only due to sport fishermen but due to commercial by-catch. Off New South Wales, Australia the grey nurse shark was decimated in the 1950s and 1960s by spear fishing. They looked dangerous, so were massively targeted. Again, this was before Jaws. At least Jaws sparked awareness huh? Cheers. Best wishes. 👍
Jaws actually saved a lot of sharks because young people who saw the film and became oceanographers and conservationists BECAUSE of this film. So it did some harm due to the spike in shark fishing but largely it generated a tremendous amount of interest and fascination with sharks and white sharks specifically.
The girl in the opening seen first attacked by the shark is stunt woman Susan Backlinie. A few years later, she RE-DID THE ROLE in the opening scene to Spielberg's film comedy 1941! Except that the second time, she was "attacked" by a Japanese submarine periscope.
fun fact: Roy Schieder's "We're going to need a bigger boat." line was adlibbed. in the 90's he starred in the TV sci-fi show SeaQuest: DSV, where he played the captain and kept saying during the first season, "The boat's too big!"
Watch the interview with Carl gottlieb and Peter benchley on RUclips. Roy scheider straight up told them that that was in the script and he did not improvise that and he listed parts that he did improvise but that was actually not one of them according to the actor himself.
Around 3:00, this film didn't just create a run of shark movies, this film was the first blockbuster. It ran for the entire summer and just kept building momentum. This was two years before STAR WARS, and gave the studios their new game-plan for decades to come.
@@googleislame Exactly. Can you believe there was a time when summer was considered a BAD time to release a movie? They figured people would rather be doing stuff outdoors.
JAWS is literally my favorite movie of all time so I was super happy to see you guys watch this and that Jen liked it!! I can quote this movie scene for scene, I think it has so many iconic quotes to me....and YES those scenes under water when Hooper was in the cage, some of those shots were from real Shark footage. I watched a documentary about the movie and they revealed that there! Great video guys!
Crazy that this movie brought shark history to the forefront so much and was so influential that Jen knew all the obscure historical references even though she hadn't seen the movie.
Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing Best Original Score. It made $470 million dollars ($1.3 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget. The taglines read: "See it, before you go to swimming." "The No. 1 Terrifying Bestseller Becomes The No 1 Terrifying Motion Picture."
I've seen a few reactions to jaws by others, but Jens is very intelligent and spot on, I'm impressed. She knew about the NJ attacks, she new about the Indianapolis story and yes some footage was of real sharks like the shark cage scene that they film off the coast of Australia
This is one of those movies that lives in your head for the rest of your life. Even swimming in a swimming pool when my head goes under the water I hear that music that plays when Jaws is approaching in the back of my head.
I've been a Jaws fan since the late 70s. Every year, my family and I celebrate Jaws Day! I make my Chrissie Cookies, Quint Ka-bobs, Chips and Kitner dip. My sons, my daughter, and I are Visual Effects artists in the movie business. Movies like Jaws inspired us to do what we do as it has so many other filmmakers. It's one of my top ten favorite movies of all time!! Glad you both enjoyed it.
I just love how the suspense is building from the day at the beach before Alex kitner is attacked, the build up to the 'shark' sighting on July 4th, and the actual reveal of the shark out at sea. I would definitely recommend the 2nd film for the channel. Some pretty great suspense scenes and deaths.
To answer Jenn's question, the only time there's were real sharks was the scene at the end with Hopper in the shark cage. Was shot in shark infested waters in Australia. The double for Dreyfus was shorter, the cage was smaller and the boat was scaled down because the sharks were around 15' long
Actually not correct the many shots of the shark underwater were real.sharks they didn't use the model often as it broke down so much which actually worked better in end.
Not shark 'infested' waters. Just parts of the ocean where sharks happen to be easy to see. You can go cage diving there now with Rodney Fox's company. He was the guy who first developed shark cages for observing great whites in the late 60s after he was almost killed by one in a spearfishing competition.
Phil, They never intended to use the mechanical shark for the beach scenes. It was the Orca based scenes where it kept breaking down. By end, the shark worked well and that's when they got all those shots. Bruce was used for most of the cage attack shots. Ron and Valerie Taylor shot the real shark footage in February 1974, three months before Spielberg began filming on Martha's Vineyard. Ive been to the spot at Dangerous Reef, South Australia, where they filmed the real sharks. Very remote. Just off Port Lincoln. 👍
If I remember correctly the shooting star was real. They happened to capture it while filming. At least that’s the story. Also the scene on the shark on top of the cage was real.
My favorite piece of trivia about this movie is that they named the shark Bruce after Steven Spielberg's divorce lawyer. Then, years later, they named the shark Bruce in Finding Nemo to pay homage to this film. "Fish are friends, not food!" :)
One of my all time favorite Spielberg films is Duel, it's about a guy (Dennis Weaver) travel a cross the desert and he is terrorized by a crazy truck driver.
It's so funny because every time Jen gets mad at Holden that an animal dies and he's like what I'm not doing anything, it reminds me of myself and my fiancée Amber watching movies where now I have to pre warn here before a scene like that so she doesn't lose it! lol It's not funny the animal in the movie gets killed It's just I feel like Holden in every one of those instances lol
Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist. The reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley. Robert Shaw was not quite sober when they did the first take of the Indianapolis scene. He did the entire speech in one take the next day.
Jaws was the first giant shark movie., up until then sharks in movies and on tv were these dolphin sized fish. It came as a shock to many to learn that while the shark in the movie at 25 feet in length was bigger than the record it wasn't by much And fishermen and surfers had reported seeing them that big.
Ron and Valerie Taylor were the preeminent shark filmmakers of the 70s and they filmed the footage of real sharks. Almost all the shark documentaries for National Geographic, etc back then (long before Shark Week) were filmed by them.
The underwater scenes with the real great white were filmed by the famous australian divers Ron and Valerie Taylor, pioneers in the filming of great whites sharks and sharks in general. Ron passed away some years ago but the couple always deeply regreted participating in the movie because the repercussions it had on killing sharks massively around the world. As a movie is great but the consequences not so great.
Long term benefits of Jaws outweighed the negatives. Jaws initiated far greater interest, which lead to more knowledge and understanding. I am a huge fan of Ron and Valerie Taylor....... but they returned to film more shark footage for Jaws 2.
A little bit of trivia here, the actor who played the mayor found that anchor jacket in a thrift store just after he got the part, so it belongs to him, not the costume dept. There were 4 animated sharks, right side, left side, above view and one that could be shot from any angle and none of them worked reliably in salt water. The TV announcer on the beach was Richard Benchley, the author of the book,"Jaws".
The scene with them talking at the table is great. On the table you see a plate with food still on it since Brody wouldn’t eat much because of his sea sickness. When Quint mentions the Indianapolis Brody keeps laughing but Hooper stops because as someone who studies sharks would know the story of the Indianapolis.
There is a good example of foreshadowing in this movie that everyone seems to miss: when Chief Brody is looking through books about sharks, researching the subject, while thumbing through the books, he comes across a photo of a giant shark with a compressed air tank from a diver in its mouth. Of course, this comes full circle at the end of the movie when Brody destroys the shark by shooting the compressed air tank in its jaws. I am always surprised that no one ever points that out; it seems like such an obvious oversight to me…
JAWS is a perfect film. Cast, characters, performances, story, dialogue, effects are all perfect. I defy anyone to do better sharks in CGI that are as real feeling and visceral as this one was. The shark is second only to the dialogue which is as natural and realistic as any possible film can be.
As you know, Quint’s speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is a historical fact. It really happened! His vivid description of the tragedy that resulted is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he wanted to secure the bounty and reward for killing the Great White, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge - or perhaps personal redemption - for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by killing the man-eating shark himself.
The number fun facts of this movie is endless. That was an actual tiger shark, one of the boats (boat that wasn't rigged to sink) sunk, Shaw hated Dreyfuss, shark wouldn't work made the script be wrote on the fly, yup, based off Jersey Shark attacks, the repoter was Peter Benchley, and yes many actors and Spielberg do not go the ocean now...and so many more fun facts🤣🤣
Jenn was right on the mark with this movie. Yes, scary and funny at times, but what makes the movie is the chemistry between the 3 main characters. She described it as magic, and it certainly is. Their interaction and portrayals were spot on. She said she enjoyed the second half better, and it makes sense considering it was mostly them. A note about the footage of the real shark. The real shark did caught in the cage, and the cage had to be released. The gentleman who shot the footage said the freakiest thing he's ever seen was the shark, trapped and entangled in that cage, sink past him into the darkness of the ocean.
Oh! Well then, now that Jen has seen Jaws: How about “My Wife Watches Airplane! for the First Time”? (Sorry! Can’t help but to link those two movies! LOL! If you know, you know!)
Contrary to popular belief, Susan Backlinie who played Chrissie Watkins, didn’t actually get injured during the filming of the opening sequence. I met Backlinie several years ago & asked her about this urban legend. She explained that due to her training as a stunt person, she knew how to brace & position herself to prevent getting injured. Also, the tracking POV shot past Michael after the attack on the rowing boat was originally much more brutal. In the test screening, the guy from the red boat ends up in the sharks mouth….as he passes Michael he grabs hold of him, as blood runs from his mouth. The ‘severed’ arm they find on the beach, is actually Spielberg’s assistant laid down in the sand. In 1999, Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant in Edgartown, MA and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot. The underwater / live shark photography was done by the legendary couple Ron & Valerie Taylor. During the cage sequence, the real Great White actually became stuck on the miniature cage which was used to increase the viewers perception of how big the shark was; the footage made it to the final cut. Virtually all the extras in the film were residents of Martha’s Vineyard, where Jaws was shot. If you notice during several scenes, the actors & extras in the water are visibly shivering….this is due to the fact that part of the shoot took place in the autumn & the water wasn’t particularly warm.
I consider this film to be Spielberg’s best film. It was made when he was young and fearless and had so much to prove…and prove it he did. It was made before his films became so formulaic and safe. There’s a ton of fascinating and fun trivia about the making of this film. In fact many people have suggested that a film about the making of the film should be produced. There’s also a play about the relationship between the actors in the film which stars Robert Shaw’s son who plays the role that his father did in the movie. It’s called “The Shark is Broken”. The reporter on the beach at 14:00 is the author of the book that the film was based on, Peter Benchley. My theory about how Quint became such an obsessed shark hunter is that he was so traumatized by what happened to him on the Indianapolis that he became a serial killer…of sharks.
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The part where the "shark" is in the beach during the independence day celebrations. People always miss that when the fin appears, there's no jaws theme. 99% of the time, when the shark is around, the tune plays.
Great reaction, loved it! Back then, no young child was safe in movies. Nowadays, it's almost shocking if a kid die in a movie. Still happens from time to time, but it's usually from a cancer or something.
the town offices are actually Edgartown (where teddy Kennedy was found not guilty they never tried him for murder), in Martha's Vineyard and the kid with the fake fin is now Sherrif there, Quint's place is Menemsha
The Indianapolis was declassified just shortly before Jaws was released. From what I read, several Indianapolis survivors were shocked and moved to hear it in the movie. Most of the public learnt of the event through the release of this movie
another little fact about Jaws - Robert Shaw the actor of Quinn was an alcoholic and would regularly turn up for shoots drunk - hence why he comes across the way he does. He forgot most of his lines and filled it with improvisation, some of which stayed in the film. The poem before they set sail was never in the script.
Another fun fact... Chief Brody's cocker spaniel, seen towards the beginning, is Steven Spielberg's pup, Elmer. You can also see Elmer in Close Encounters.
Awesome fun fact: one of the kids that did the shark fin prank in this movie was recently elected as the new Police Chief of Martha’s Vineyard, the town where they filmed this movie. He is basically the modern day Brody!
GAH! BEN GARDNER'S HEAD!!!! Heheheheh, the severed head with the missing eye jumpscare claims another victim! I watched Jaws with my family in the living room of our old house, and when the head popped out, I happened to be the closest to the tv. I was out of the room and hiding behind my dad's couch in 2 seconds flat! God, I love this movie!
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Jen is correct about this movie being inspired by the NJ attacks in the early 1900s
Benchley stated in interviews ( one from 05 with Carl gottlieb) that it was NOT inspired by the Jersey shore attacks.
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Thats Peter Benchley doing a cameo, the guy who wrote the Jaws novel and the screenplay for this movie...
@@thickerconstrictor9037 the book was not inspired by those events, but the movie, while being mostly faithful to the book also has differences. Spielberg was certainly inspired by those events during the production of the film.
@@thickerconstrictor9037 also there’s an interview with screenwriter Carl Gottlieb that says when writing the movie those 1916 attacks were some of the only accounts they had to go by along with some attacks in Australia
Fun fact, the reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley author of the book "Jaws"
Yes actual footage was used and it comes with a great story. The stunt actor that was used was a small person as they wanted to scale the cage down to make the shark look bigger. So they also scaled the tank down as well. What they didn't think of was the small tank had half the air. So when they put this small stunt man in the water with the sharks (which he had never dove with sharks before in his life) he had only half the air. They were able to get him out just before a shark got caught in the line to the cage (the real footage of the shark rolling around onto of the cage at the end of the movie). After seeing this the stuntman went AWAL the next day and never went back.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaat thats insane!!!! thank you for that
Right. And they wrote the scene with the empty cage getting thrashed by the great white into the script.
That was the first scene filmed for Jaws. In February 1974 off South Australia. This was before Dreyfuss was cast. Filming for Jaws proper didn't begin until May 1974 on Martha's Vineyard.
Ron Taylor filmed the underwater shots. His wife Valerie was tasked with trying to paint scars on the shark with pink lipstick. The shark was a 13ft male.
Spielberg wanted more shots so they went back in March but were threatened by local abalone divers for chumming up the sharks so they gave up. The local abalone divers were on edge after abalone diver Terry Manuel had just been killed by a great white.
I believe I heard the person in the cage also didn't know how to swim.
@@SammyRebbo The stuntman who got the job did not know how to swim, he got into a car accident on the way to interview for the job with Spielberg. When he showed up bloody and cut up Spielberg respected his commitment and gave him the job.
This movie is a perfect 10. The acting was off the charts, the special effects with no CGI were awesome. The story from start to finish grabbed you immediately .The movie had a little bit of everything, drama, horror, action adventure, and humor well mixed together.
Don't forget some of the most iconic soundtrack in history!
Jenn and Holden fun fact the the woman who played the mom of the boy that got eaten by the shark went into a restaurant about 20 years after the movie came out and when she was seen at the table this guy walked up to her and said hello the guy end up being the owner of the restaurant and he also played her son in the movie and it's the first time they saw each other since they filmed the movie and it ended up becoming really close right before she died
That actually is a fun and sweet fact, thanks for sharing that with the class friendo.
She went into the restaurant because the special on the outdoor blackboard that day was the Alex Kintner sandwich.
Fun Fact: The mechanical shark used was nicknamed “Bruce” by the crew, and was named after Spielberg’s lawyer. 🦈
Is that where they got the name of the shark from Finding Nemo?
@@cadyg2531 Yup
Bruce the shark from Finding Nemo makes a lot more sense now 😅
Damn, that was a good pull with connecting this to the Jersey Shore attacks, Jen! That’s exactly what inspired “Jaws.”
Fun fact for you guys! Jaws was classed as the first blockbuster due to the cues of people who lined up around the block.
I was one of those people, as a matter of fact I was 13 when it came out, I was in the very first line/showing for the movie and yes it was VERY long.
I saw in in 1975 in the theater. Like Jurassic Park, it's much more impressive on the big screen.
I saw it 3 times that summer.
Wasn't the first "blockbuster" movie or the first to have people lined up like that either. Check out "Gone With the Wind" (1939) sometime. "Blockbuster" actually refers to WW2 aerial bombs that could reduce an entire city block to rubble.
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Jaws was the first real summer blockbuster. It started the whole trend that followed with films like superman and star wars couple years later.
But if we are speaking box office wise then yeah gone with the wind is a blockbuster, so is the godfather and the exorcist.
But it kinda feels weird calling the godfather a blockbuster doesn’t it? Lol.
It doesn’t seem like a big deal when Quint crushes the beer can in his hand, but this was before they were made from aluminium. It would probably have been tin-plated steel, which is much more rigid.
Yep, it took a good bit of grip strength to be able to do that back in the day. Now it doesn't read as any more impressive than the styrofoam cup.
@@paintedjaguar Exactly. poke a small hole in a soup can, pour out contents. Then crush that with your hand. Then you get the idea.
I love how Spielberg movies have a sense of Adventure and Suspense at the same time.
Jaws is a Mystery movie, a Horror Movie, a Monster Movie,a Suspense Movie,an Adventure Movie and a Buddy Movie! That's why it's so Brilliant!
No they don't.
@@jamesalexander5623 You're right bro! A true classic.
@@manvirshergill1739 Are you doing a Monty Python Skit?
@@jamesalexander5623 yeh.
Dude loves this movie don’t he? He couldn’t hush 😂😂
Kid: *Gets eaten by a shark
Jen: *Feels bad the kid is getting eaten
Holden: “Look at that shot”
That’s probably one of the funniest things I’ve seen on this channel, I don’t know why 😂
THAT shot is something Spielberg learned from Hitchcock. He used it in Vertigo to visualize, well, the vertigo. Spielberg perfected it. It works by having the camera on a dolly, moving it backwards and at the same time zooming in with the lense.
@@Quotenwagnerianer I remember learning about Dolly Zooms in film class, they’re probably one of the best camera effects in filming
Jen, you are the first and only person I've ever seen actually know the true story of the USS Indianapolis. A story more horrifying than any shark movie ever made (read that in Quinn's accent.)
Do you mean his real British accent, or his put on American one?
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Definitely his put on American one
Someone who knows their history
An interesting note I learned when I read the book on the making of the sequel, the producers briefly pondered making the plot the story of USS Indianapolis.
Jaws is THE shark movie. Classic film.
@TheQuiet Jaws is also the original blockbuster movie it was the movie that everyone was talking about that year , 2 years before STAR WARS would go even further with that and looong before the internet . that theme two notes on a DOUBLE BASS said it all DUN NAN DUN NAN .DUN NAN ahhhhh !!🤯😮😱
Great video as always Holden. I am still processing how Jen has not seen Jaws...
I mean it's not the most popular movie she hadn't seen. She hadn't seen any star wars or Marvel films. But her loving shark stuff so much. It is surprising all the same.
Its probably been on tv more than any other famous movie these last 40 odd years.
I found out recently that my dad has also never seen Jaws. He said that the shark always looked fake so he never bothered to watch it
@@CrazeeAdam umm jaws is way more popular than any marvel or Star Wars movie
@@Dr.LongMonkey not true
This movie is fascinating. First time I watched it, it was terrifying. Jaws 2 is a good sequel to it. Just disregard 3 and 4
3 is *dumb* fun. If you dig reaaally bad movies for their hilarity then 3 is golden.
4 is just Michael Caine and misery.
@@fluffytoaster427 that is the perfect description of 4 lmaaao
C’mon Jaws 3-D was awesome in the theater. :-)
@@MySandstrom I loved Jaws 3-D when I was a kid but the franchise really goes downhill in the 4th.
3 is a gem, definitely worth a watch. 4 (the revenge) is trash
I went on a fishing trip with a friend and we stayed on the boat and watched Jaws. A few days later our boat sunk 15 miles off the Pacific rim by Vancouver Island. When the Coast Guard showed up they saw sharks circling around us. Other than mild case of hypothermia no one was hurt thankfully.
Omg that is so scary 😦
@@Serenity113 we knew1 they were coming and they were flying over us for 20 out of the 40 minutes. So we stayed in good spirits. We didn't know about the sharks till after the rescue and I believe they were blue sharks not as big or dangerous as great whites
@@imthewolf1 ahh okay. Still kinda trippy that you are unaware of the creatures or danger that was right around you or below your feet lol.
Dang, man!! Good Story
Is this a true story? It sounds just crazy enough to believe. I’ve always had the Top10 best stories in the Lower Mainland. Moved away 7yrs ago, getting old, guess we have to make room. Either way, I’m involved in the top 9…glad you and your friends are good.
My grandmother and two aunts happened to be vacationing in Martha's Vineyard when they were filming this movie and they completely corrorobrate: all you heard was "the shark's not working! The shark's not working" being yelled in megaphones. A few months ago I just happened to ask my aunt if seeing the filming of the movie "behind-the-scenes" impeded her appreciation of the movie once it was released; she said "It scared the s**t out of me!"🤣
I was impressed: Jen knew about BOTH the NJ shark attacks AND the USS Indianapolis. She knows her history.
She often refers to her basic training, so I guess she knows a lot about military history
@@spearmintmedia oh, she's former military. Didnt know that. Thanks.
I was 7 when I saw this in the theaters. So cool to see you guys watch this. The incident that was the inspiration for this movie did happen in NJ. The kids were attacked over a couple of days but actually happened in a river. They were bull sharks not great white sharks. Bull sharks actually kill more humans than great white sharks. Bull sharks can go from salt water to fresh water. In Mexico I did a bull shark experience with my wife in our honeymoon
When searching for the shark or sharks responsible they caught a Great White right of the coast that had human body parts inside. Modern researchers think that it is a bull shark and a white shark.
HI, Thomas! Yeah, Bull sharks definitely are found in fresh water. I live about 70 miles west of the Mississippi River in Louisiana due west from Vicksburg, MS. Bull sharks have been seen in the Mississippi as far north as Vicksburg, and some are reported as far north up the Mississippi as the mouth of the Ohio, if you can believe it. I've even seen programs during Shark Week that claim that bull sharks have been spotted in the Great Lakes. Those things get around! LOL
I was 2 months shy of turning 8 when I saw the 1975 movie.
I agree that Jaws is a good movie and a true classic, however the repercussions that happened toward sharks is unbelievable, since this movie released there has been a 70 percent decrease in shark population worldwide and it’s genuinely sad to hear.
Yes the author of Jaws was very sad that that had happened
Comparatively very little of that is to do with Jaws.
Commercial gill netting and long line by-catch and the Asian shark finning industry is responsible for 90% of shark killing. You can add in the beach netting programme as well.
In the long run Jaws BENEFITED sharks. It lead to more interest and consequently more scientific field research. This has culminated in far more knowledge and understanding.
Benchley said he was gratified that he got hundreds of letters from kids each year telling him how much they loved sharks and want to study them.
There are two sides to every story. 👍
@@lyndoncmp5751 You are right, but at the time I’m sure it sparked huge waves of fear and it did have some impact, however you are completely right and I should of mentioned the shark fins being taken and eaten as a status symbol.
TheRealMist,
No worries. Believe it or not but even before Jaws, sharks were being wiped out. In 1970 when Ron and Valerie Taylor turned up in South Australia to film great whites for the classic documentary Blue Water White Death they had a hard time finding any. Locals told them they were declining not only due to sport fishermen but due to commercial by-catch.
Off New South Wales, Australia the grey nurse shark was decimated in the 1950s and 1960s by spear fishing. They looked dangerous, so were massively targeted.
Again, this was before Jaws.
At least Jaws sparked awareness huh?
Cheers. Best wishes. 👍
Jaws actually saved a lot of sharks because young people who saw the film and became oceanographers and conservationists BECAUSE of this film. So it did some harm due to the spike in shark fishing but largely it generated a tremendous amount of interest and fascination with sharks and white sharks specifically.
Yes; actual footage was used. They list the photographers for live shark shots.
Ron & Valerie Taylor shot the footage of the sharks.
After seeing this movie I didn’t swim in deep water for about a year. It held up amazingly well over the years, it’s one of those must see movies.
Imagine living with someone who thinks everything he says is comedy gold...
Yeah, and didn’t that become tiresome real fast?
I just wanted him to be quite for a single second
You people sound like old nags
Dude it was so obnoxious. Especially since this was her first time watching. He talked over dialogue.
@@SubterrelProspector a cardinal sin
The girl in the opening seen first attacked by the shark is stunt woman Susan Backlinie. A few years later, she RE-DID THE ROLE in the opening scene to Spielberg's film comedy 1941! Except that the second time, she was "attacked" by a Japanese submarine periscope.
fun fact: Roy Schieder's "We're going to need a bigger boat." line was adlibbed. in the 90's he starred in the TV sci-fi show SeaQuest: DSV, where he played the captain and kept saying during the first season, "The boat's too big!"
Watch the interview with Carl gottlieb and Peter benchley on RUclips. Roy scheider straight up told them that that was in the script and he did not improvise that and he listed parts that he did improvise but that was actually not one of them according to the actor himself.
Around 3:00, this film didn't just create a run of shark movies, this film was the first blockbuster. It ran for the entire summer and just kept building momentum. This was two years before STAR WARS, and gave the studios their new game-plan for decades to come.
If I recall correctly, Jaws is what established the summer as the time to release big blockbuster movies.
And Jaws made more money more quickly than Star Wars did so was more of a blockbuster.
@@googleislame Exactly. Can you believe there was a time when summer was considered a BAD time to release a movie? They figured people would rather be doing stuff outdoors.
23:47 LOL the way Jenn looks at him
JAWS is literally my favorite movie of all time so I was super happy to see you guys watch this and that Jen liked it!! I can quote this movie scene for scene, I think it has so many iconic quotes to me....and YES those scenes under water when Hooper was in the cage, some of those shots were from real Shark footage. I watched a documentary about the movie and they revealed that there! Great video guys!
Not only was this the first shark movie, it’s considered the first summer BLOCKBUSTER, the success of this film changed the industry
Then star wars
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Star Wars didn't change what Jaws aready started two years before.
Jen: I’m excited to see the follow up movies.....
Holden: *Jaws the revenge flashbacks intensifies*
Crazy that this movie brought shark history to the forefront so much and was so influential that Jen knew all the obscure historical references even though she hadn't seen the movie.
Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Sound Editing
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score.
It made $470 million dollars ($1.3 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget.
The taglines read:
"See it, before you go to swimming."
"The No. 1 Terrifying Bestseller Becomes The No 1 Terrifying Motion Picture."
The effects still hold up after all these years. A real classic
Dude, the "look I reported it, didn't I? Power converters!" line killed me.
I've seen a few reactions to jaws by others, but Jens is very intelligent and spot on, I'm impressed.
She knew about the NJ attacks, she new about the Indianapolis story and yes some footage was of real sharks like the shark cage scene that they film off the coast of Australia
This is one of those movies that lives in your head for the rest of your life. Even swimming in a swimming pool when my head goes under the water I hear that music that plays when Jaws is approaching in the back of my head.
That was one of Spielbergs trade marks, he always added a shooting star (some people say UFO's) in his films. His company logo has it.
First one was real the second was fake
Fun fact they actually built the shark and watch the shallows and the Meg
Jenn is gonna be traumatized for life! Lol!!
“I love Shark movies” - but hasn’t watched the best Shark movie. Jaws 2 is a good movie!
1 is still the best lol
I mean I respect that opinion, jaws 2 is the second best, but jaws cannot be beaten
@@TheRealMist-sy5bz oh hands down JAWS is the best. I’m just saying 2 is actually pretty decent.
@@johncena2336 oh I agree. JAWS is good in my top three all time films - if not number 1.
Jen be like: "Is that a fisssh??!!" 😂
The legend of Bruce the Shark is notorious. The BHtS of this whole production is a entertaining tale of its own
Wait Bruce? Is that why the great white in Nemo was named Bruce? Lol a reference to the actual shark they filmed? I never knew that.
I've been a Jaws fan since the late 70s. Every year, my family and I celebrate Jaws Day! I make my Chrissie Cookies, Quint Ka-bobs, Chips and Kitner dip. My sons, my daughter, and I are Visual Effects artists in the movie business. Movies like Jaws inspired us to do what we do as it has so many other filmmakers. It's one of my top ten favorite movies of all time!! Glad you both enjoyed it.
I would like to try those cookies and dip.
Excited for this one. Psychology wise it is the best Horror movie of all time and one of the best and most influencial movies ever made.
I just love how the suspense is building from the day at the beach before Alex kitner is attacked, the build up to the 'shark' sighting on July 4th, and the actual reveal of the shark out at sea. I would definitely recommend the 2nd film for the channel. Some pretty great suspense scenes and deaths.
Props to Jen for knowing the Indianapolis story.
To answer Jenn's question, the only time there's were real sharks was the scene at the end with Hopper in the shark cage. Was shot in shark infested waters in Australia. The double for Dreyfus was shorter, the cage was smaller and the boat was scaled down because the sharks were around 15' long
Actually not correct the many shots of the shark underwater were real.sharks they didn't use the model often as it broke down so much which actually worked better in end.
Not shark 'infested' waters. Just parts of the ocean where sharks happen to be easy to see. You can go cage diving there now with Rodney Fox's company. He was the guy who first developed shark cages for observing great whites in the late 60s after he was almost killed by one in a spearfishing competition.
Phil,
They never intended to use the mechanical shark for the beach scenes. It was the Orca based scenes where it kept breaking down.
By end, the shark worked well and that's when they got all those shots. Bruce was used for most of the cage attack shots.
Ron and Valerie Taylor shot the real shark footage in February 1974, three months before Spielberg began filming on Martha's Vineyard.
Ive been to the spot at Dangerous Reef, South Australia, where they filmed the real sharks. Very remote. Just off Port Lincoln. 👍
Jaws and Jurassic Park; Spielberg, “I’ve successfully given 2 generations of children nightmares for life, mission accomplished”. 😉
If I remember correctly the shooting star was real. They happened to capture it while filming. At least that’s the story. Also the scene on the shark on top of the cage was real.
It’s not about a shark. It’s about responsibility. Brody must fulfill his duty protecting Amity from this menace.
Film rules:
1. Never kill a pet
2. Never kill a child
3. Show your expensive creature as much as possible
Steven Spielberg: Jaws (you’re welcome)
My favorite piece of trivia about this movie is that they named the shark Bruce after Steven Spielberg's divorce lawyer. Then, years later, they named the shark Bruce in Finding Nemo to pay homage to this film. "Fish are friends, not food!" :)
One of my all time favorite Spielberg films is Duel, it's about a guy (Dennis Weaver) travel a cross the desert and he is terrorized by a crazy truck driver.
Great film. That was actually Spielberg’s first movie that he ever directed
It's so funny because every time Jen gets mad at Holden that an animal dies and he's like what I'm not doing anything, it reminds me of myself and my fiancée Amber watching movies where now I have to pre warn here before a scene like that so she doesn't lose it! lol It's not funny the animal in the movie gets killed It's just I feel like Holden in every one of those instances lol
When I think of great old/older suspense/horror I think of Jaws, Alien, and The Thing.
The shooting star is a Steven Spielberg signature. It's in all of his movies. It's an ode to "When You Wish Upon A Star" from "Pinocchio."
As I’m watching this I realize I’m wearing my jaws t-shirt 😂.
Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist. The reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley. Robert Shaw was not quite sober when they did the first take of the Indianapolis scene. He did the entire speech in one take the next day.
Love this movie, one of my all time favorites. Near perfect movie. Quint's monolog is still one of the best.
Jaws was the first giant shark movie., up until then sharks in movies and on tv were these dolphin sized fish. It came as a shock to many to learn that while the shark in the movie at 25 feet in length was bigger than the record it wasn't by much And fishermen and surfers had reported seeing them that big.
Ron and Valerie Taylor were the preeminent shark filmmakers of the 70s and they filmed the footage of real sharks. Almost all the shark documentaries for National Geographic, etc back then (long before Shark Week) were filmed by them.
Jaws is also considered as the first blockbuster
😂 Jens voice imitating fans at 2:10 is too funny
That Dolly zoom is definitely the greatest.... not the first but definitely the greatest and most iconic.
7:02 - the dolly-zoom was such a great touch!
In the first scene with the girl swimming out so far, I think the original script had her telling him to race to the buoy and back
The underwater scenes with the real great white were filmed by the famous australian divers Ron and Valerie Taylor, pioneers in the filming of great whites sharks and sharks in general. Ron passed away some years ago but the couple always deeply regreted participating in the movie because the repercussions it had on killing sharks massively around the world. As a movie is great but the consequences not so great.
Long term benefits of Jaws outweighed the negatives. Jaws initiated far greater interest, which lead to more knowledge and understanding.
I am a huge fan of Ron and Valerie Taylor....... but they returned to film more shark footage for Jaws 2.
A little bit of trivia here, the actor who played the mayor found that anchor jacket in a thrift store just after he got the part, so it belongs to him, not the costume dept. There were 4 animated sharks, right side, left side, above view and one that could be shot from any angle and none of them worked reliably in salt water. The TV announcer on the beach was Richard Benchley, the author of the book,"Jaws".
Quints monologue about the Minneapolis is my favourite scene in the movie.
I came for the shirt on the thumbnail and I stayed for the shark
I love Jen’s accents. It’s incredibly relatable.
The scene with them talking at the table is great. On the table you see a plate with food still on it since Brody wouldn’t eat much because of his sea sickness. When Quint mentions the Indianapolis Brody keeps laughing but Hooper stops because as someone who studies sharks would know the story of the Indianapolis.
There is a good example of foreshadowing in this movie that everyone seems to miss: when Chief Brody is looking through books about sharks, researching the subject, while thumbing through the books, he comes across a photo of a giant shark with a compressed air tank from a diver in its mouth. Of course, this comes full circle at the end of the movie when Brody destroys the shark by shooting the compressed air tank in its jaws. I am always surprised that no one ever points that out; it seems like such an obvious oversight to me…
This old Sailor is very impressed Jen knew about the USS Indianapolis. The line "Your Going to Need a Bigger Boat" was an ad-lib line.
JAWS is a perfect film. Cast, characters, performances, story, dialogue, effects are all perfect. I defy anyone to do better sharks in CGI that are as real feeling and visceral as this one was. The shark is second only to the dialogue which is as natural and realistic as any possible film can be.
"Crazy ol' Moreese" might be my favorite Holden continuing reference. All from a movie they haven't watched on the channel
As you know, Quint’s speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is a historical fact. It really happened! His vivid description of the tragedy that resulted is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he wanted to secure the bounty and reward for killing the Great White, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge - or perhaps personal redemption - for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by killing the man-eating shark himself.
The number fun facts of this movie is endless. That was an actual tiger shark, one of the boats (boat that wasn't rigged to sink) sunk, Shaw hated Dreyfuss, shark wouldn't work made the script be wrote on the fly, yup, based off Jersey Shark attacks, the repoter was Peter Benchley, and yes many actors and Spielberg do not go the ocean now...and so many more fun facts🤣🤣
"YEEEEAAAHHHH !!!!! .... Serious sushi right there" ...... 🤣😅😅😂
Jenn was right on the mark with this movie. Yes, scary and funny at times, but what makes the movie is the chemistry between the 3 main characters. She described it as magic, and it certainly is. Their interaction and portrayals were spot on. She said she enjoyed the second half better, and it makes sense considering it was mostly them.
A note about the footage of the real shark. The real shark did caught in the cage, and the cage had to be released. The gentleman who shot the footage said the freakiest thing he's ever seen was the shark, trapped and entangled in that cage, sink past him into the darkness of the ocean.
Oh! Well then, now that Jen has seen Jaws: How about “My Wife Watches Airplane! for the First Time”? (Sorry! Can’t help but to link those two movies! LOL! If you know, you know!)
WATCH THE SEQUELS! Haha the reactions would be great
Yes, Chief Hopper. That line, his Patrol truck and even the patch is styled off of Brody.
Contrary to popular belief, Susan Backlinie who played Chrissie Watkins, didn’t actually get injured during the filming of the opening sequence.
I met Backlinie several years ago & asked her about this urban legend. She explained that due to her training as a stunt person, she knew how to brace & position herself to prevent getting injured.
Also, the tracking POV shot past Michael after the attack on the rowing boat was originally much more brutal. In the test screening, the guy from the red boat ends up in the sharks mouth….as he passes Michael he grabs hold of him, as blood runs from his mouth.
The ‘severed’ arm they find on the beach, is actually Spielberg’s assistant laid down in the sand.
In 1999, Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant in Edgartown, MA and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.
The underwater / live shark photography was done by the legendary couple Ron & Valerie Taylor. During the cage sequence, the real Great White actually became stuck on the miniature cage which was used to increase the viewers perception of how big the shark was; the footage made it to the final cut.
Virtually all the extras in the film were residents of Martha’s Vineyard, where Jaws was shot. If you notice during several scenes, the actors & extras in the water are visibly shivering….this is due to the fact that part of the shoot took place in the autumn & the water wasn’t particularly warm.
As a kid we went to Hollywood studios tour. The shark leaps at the side of the tram we rode in… massive jump scare… terrified me :)
I consider this film to be Spielberg’s best film. It was made when he was young and fearless and had so much to prove…and prove it he did. It was made before his films became so formulaic and safe.
There’s a ton of fascinating and fun trivia about the making of this film. In fact many people have suggested that a film about the making of the film should be produced. There’s also a play about the relationship between the actors in the film which stars Robert Shaw’s son who plays the role that his father did in the movie. It’s called “The Shark is Broken”.
The reporter on the beach at 14:00 is the author of the book that the film was based on, Peter Benchley.
My theory about how Quint became such an obsessed shark hunter is that he was so traumatized by what happened to him on the Indianapolis that he became a serial killer…of sharks.
There Used to be a JAWS Ride at Universal Studios Orlando! Now it's Replaced by Diagon Alley, but the JAWS Ride still Exists at Universal Studios Japan.
The part where the "shark" is in the beach during the independence day celebrations. People always miss that when the fin appears, there's no jaws theme. 99% of the time, when the shark is around, the tune plays.
Removed to: Corners Office
Gets me every time 😂😂
Great reaction, loved it! Back then, no young child was safe in movies. Nowadays, it's almost shocking if a kid die in a movie. Still happens from time to time, but it's usually from a cancer or something.
the town offices are actually Edgartown (where teddy Kennedy was found not guilty they never tried him for murder), in Martha's Vineyard and the kid with the fake fin is now Sherrif there, Quint's place is Menemsha
The Indianapolis was declassified just shortly before Jaws was released. From what I read, several Indianapolis survivors were shocked and moved to hear it in the movie. Most of the public learnt of the event through the release of this movie
another little fact about Jaws - Robert Shaw the actor of Quinn was an alcoholic and would regularly turn up for shoots drunk - hence why he comes across the way he does. He forgot most of his lines and filled it with improvisation, some of which stayed in the film. The poem before they set sail was never in the script.
Another fun fact... Chief Brody's cocker spaniel, seen towards the beginning, is Steven Spielberg's pup, Elmer.
You can also see Elmer in Close Encounters.
It wasn’t just a shark movie, it created the summer blockbuster
jaws 2 is underrated it was pretty good
Awesome fun fact: one of the kids that did the shark fin prank in this movie was recently elected as the new Police Chief of Martha’s Vineyard, the town where they filmed this movie. He is basically the modern day Brody!
GAH! BEN GARDNER'S HEAD!!!! Heheheheh, the severed head with the missing eye jumpscare claims another victim!
I watched Jaws with my family in the living room of our old house, and when the head popped out, I happened to be the closest to the tv. I was out of the room and hiding behind my dad's couch in 2 seconds flat! God, I love this movie!
The scene with Quint sitting there eating his crackers and the reel slowly starts ticking over is incredible.
Also, the book is even better