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Robert Shaw , Quint , was a British actor , novelist and play writer , died only 3 years after Jaws in 1978 , after 8 more movies . Jaws movie is based on a book , but story of USS Indianapolis is real , by that it had crew of 1195 men and 316 survived , when it was sunk 15 min after midnight , 30 july 1945 , this was days after its bomb parts delivery , survivors were spotted in the open ocean three and a half days later. At 10: 25 on 2 August .The number of deaths attributed to sharks ranges from a few dozen to 150 . More of the sailors died from the elements , hypothermia , delirium , they had no water or food and they were inhaling ships fuel , bunker oil , fumes .
In the 1990's Lee Fiero (the woman who played Mrs. Kintner and slapped Chief Brody) was on vacation with a friend. She walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed they had a menu item called the Alex Kitner Sandwich. She mentioned she played Alex's mom. Suddenly the restaurant owner ran out of the back and hugged her. It was Jeff Vorhees, the actor who played her son. It was the first time they saw each other since principal shooting wrapped.
I’ve heard a theory that he was having a war flashback, actually. And that he started the fire the night before. It’s because he was under orders on the Indianapolis to maintain radio silence.
I just thought he destroyed the radio because he didnt want the other fishermen on the island to know that the great and mighty Quint needed help catching a shark.....it was a matter of stubborn pride....same with not getting a bigger boat
Yes pride was central to his choices. That's his world, his boat, his job. No way he would let the new sheriff and the fancy college boy tell him what to do or call for help.
Mary: I'm seeing actual blood, and it is a child! 70's PG rating: Parents may need to explain to their children that they can be savagely torn apart and devoured by giant fish with steak knives for teeth while adults watch helplessly.
@@snakesrule5 Not merely were those the days when PG meant Parental Guidance, those were still the days when it could be reasonably assumed that parents would guide their children firmly and sternly. (Mine weren't all that stern, but I seem to have grown up okay anyway.) 🙄 😕 😒
Indiana Jones: German soldiers look into coffin and get their faces melted off; and in a ritual a heart is ripped out of a chest, and when that person gets put into a pit of fire the heart burns along with it What a time the PG (and even G) rating was pushed so damn hard back then
There's a very good explanation, for the PG rating. It has nothing to do with the decade, the movie was made in. I don't remember the exact explanation, so I won't give you one here. But the only scene they had to change, was the leg from the guy in the small boat, dropping to the ocean floor. It had to be shortened.
Even if the shark prop was an absolute nightmare to work with, since it had been designed and built for use in fresh water, with the assumption it would be used in a tank at a studio set. As a result of being used in the actual ocean, it broke down all the time and sank a few times too. This actually helped the movie, because they could only show the shark sparingly, forcing Steven Spielberg to get creative and really ratchet up the tension
Practical effects are always better looking than CGI but movie making is more business than art. And big practical effects are problematic and expensive.
"I don't know why people think it's a good idea to go swimming when they're intoxicated." Being intoxicated means your ability to figure out what is a good idea is impaired.
Seeing this in a theater in 1975 was incredible. Prior to this movie, there was no such thing as the "summer blockbuster". This was the first. BTW the date I was with seeing this movie reacted pretty much as you did, as did much of the theater audience.
Seeing it a few months later with someone who hadn't seen it yet was almost as much fun as seeing it the first time yourself. I still watch it from time to time.
This movie so affected me back then i was 13 and wanted to be a marine biologist after seeing this. I never did become one, but I remain fascinated by sharks. Anyway, in 1975, we didn't have cable or vcrs or dvds. I saw it in the theater 5 times that summer. The first time, the jump scare with Ben Gardner's head got everyone in the theater. When Brody blows up the shark at the end, the entire theater got up and gave the happening a standing ovation. By the time I saw it for the 5th time, there were a bunch of bratty teens saying a lot of the movie's lines before the actors did and no ovation at the end. I guess everyone had seen it about as many times as I did, but I was still loving it.
It’s called Survivors Guilt from being in the Military and surviving USS Indianapolis sinking 1,000s went in the water 300 came out and Quint survived all that carnage
There's a similar tragedy during that time period most people (including myself) had never heard of, in fact, it's the second deadliest mass shark attack in history. In 1943 the US transport ship Cape San Juan was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, it carried 1,464 passengers and crew with the bulk being made up of the 855th Engineer Aviation Battalion, an all-black unit. Of the 1,464 passengers and crew, only 448 survived, just 54 less than the USS Indianapolis tragedy.
The reason you don't see the shark very much is that the company that made the shark didn't know it was going to be used in salt water. The shark malfunctioned a lot because of the corrosive salt water. It actually made the movie better, not seeing the shark very much till the end made the movie much more suspenseful. BTW, the sharks' name is Bruce. This movie is the first summer blockbuster
Not seeing the shark for the beach scenes were by design though. The mechanical shark wasn't ever scheduled to be used in them. First appearance of the shark wasn't scheduled until the ocean hunt scenes. Far more of the shark WAS meant to be shown in those scenes so you are right there.
Brody wanted to close the beach after Chrissie's death and even started doing it if you remember those first scenes, but the mayor and city council basically told him "you don't have the authority to do that without our permission" and then denied him permission to do it.
The USS Indianapolis realy happened, and it remains today one of my favorite monologue/acting moments from a Spielberg film. You cant really comment on "graphics" on films of the 70's or previous decades since CGI was almost non-existent. At least in movies.
The purpose of the barrels is to tire the animal out and keep it near the surface, where it could be harpooned or even effectively shot. Also, once the animal was taken, if the barrels weren't on it, it would likely sink and then there's no evidence you got the shark. Small caliber bullets, especially shooting at something under the water, can be problematic on an animal of that size.
Most sharks need to be constantly moving to breathe so the barrels should cause enough drag that the shark gets fatigued and slow it down to the point that it can't breathe and should drown/ suffocate.
Also, it's hard to shoot at anything in the water or in the ground. Water has much more resistance than air, which slows the bullet down dramatically. This not only decreases the range, it also decreases the power it has, and you'll need a lot of "stopping power" on something as large as a shark. A 25-ft Great White would need a hell of a lot of small arms fire to take down, and the best weapon they had seems to be a M1 Garand, probably loaded with .30-06 Springfield. It's a decent round and a great rifle, but little ammunition. The harpoon, on the other hand, isn't designed to kill the shark but to attach the air tanks that'll keep the shark from escaping while also potentially drowning it. Additionally, this is Quint's job, so the other two probably packed what he told them to bring. As we saw, even he wasn't prepared for this beast, so it's highly unlikely that Brody would have thought to bring much in the way of weaponry.
@@scorp77snake Yes i know. Brody puts his head under the water and sees the dead shark going to the deep slowly until it dissapears of his sight. The ropes wouldnt be so long i imagine so maybe the shark is hanging 30-40 meters in the deep as much. I find this ending pretty scary because in the book the body is intact and, well, is dead but the shark is still there somehow.
Did you know Jaws was filmed at the island of Martha’s Vineyard? The kid who played Alex Kitner who got eaten in that movie is the manager of a local restaurant called The wharf pub his name is Jeffrey Voorhees, If you ever plan a vacation someday you should try that island
The one scene shot in Australia is also the only actual shark footage _and_ the most improbable footage in the movie: the shark destroying the shark cage.
He originally lived in my neighborhood in Connecticut. I used to play baseball with his younger brother then his family moved moved to Martha's Vineyard right before they began filming Jaws.
So, Americans pronounce "demise" pretty much the same way you said it. Robert Shaw was a british actor, playing an American in this movie, with (his version) of an American accent. I think he was just having some fun with the word. Honestly, his accent sounds about the same as he does in his other movies, where he's playing Brits. No shade, though. The guy is, was, always will be one of the greats.
I don't think he's supposed to be a native-born American in Jaws, he's just lived in Amity long enough that people know him. I have full confidence Shaw could've pulled off an American accent if he'd been asked to.
Mary, the USS Indianapolis was a ship sunk in June of 1945, just as Quint said. That part of the move was based on a profoundly real incident, and I don't think anyone told the story better than Robert Shaw in that scene!! I love your reactions, by the way, Sweet Lady!!
This film was the first "summer blockbuster." It defined the entire pattern of movie-making that has prevailed, for more than 45 years. It was Spielberg's first mega-hit.
Quint's experience with sharks made him overconfident in his skill and ability, even after they realized the shark was much larger than they initially realized. He also may have been concerned about not getting his full payment if they needed a larger boat or Coast Guard assistance. He was set in his ways with how to catch sharks, but unfortunately had never been up against one as aggressive and large before, to his detriment.
This is also a somewhat incorrect read. The shark is not intended to be a realistic shark. By the end the film has gone almost into the supernatural or purely metaphorical. Quint would have been fine w a real or realistic shark. He wasn't 'overconfident' and didn't make tactical shark-hunting errors. He plays it perfectly. But they weren't dealing w a real shark. It is foolish to break this down as if it's a realistic film or shark. It gets more and more surreal as it goes on at sea.
Not just a classic by THE Summer Blockbuster. Before Jaws there was no such thing as a blockbuster movie. Here with Spielberg the master of such, this was the beginning of it all.
"Tentpole." There were a few blockbusters prior--THE EXORCIST, THE GODFATHER--but they were seen as singular events unconnected to each other. JAWS was the first time there was a template for actually creating a blockbuster on purpose and using the summer as the window to launch it. Wide release during the summer was thought of as a fool's errand before JAWS.
the dead guy in the bottom of the boat jump scare, ALWAYS got me, no matter how many times I have watched Jaws. I can know it's coming and it will still get me.
Mythbusters tackled pretty much everything that happens in this film, and pretty much the only thing they totally busted was the air tank exploding when shot. A big great white could really pull down that many barrels, and drag a boat the size of the Orca backwards at a pretty good speed.
@@redrick8900 Yes they do: in the final moments of the battle Brody fires several shots before delivering his iconic line, and althoguh Mary didn't show it in this video, you can see at least one of these hit the water, followed by an underwater shot where you can distinctly make out the trail of the bullet passing through the water
Saw this movie when I was six years old at a drive-in! It set the course of my life. Sure the shark scared the bejeezus out of me but I was mostly fascinated by Quint's story of the Indianapolis tho it took me nearly a decade to understand why: Nothing happens during the story, just words. He held the audience spellbound for 2 minutes with nothing more than words, albeit a bone-ch8lling true story but just words. I've been a writer ever since.
I was 4. Double feature with “Young Frankenstein”, so my parents had NO idea what trauma JAWS would cause. I’m 52 and still afraid of swimming when I can’t see what’s in the water.
Almost every actor besides Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw (I may have misspelled their names) were actually locals who lived on the island. The making of the movie is almost better than the movie.
Fun fact. "We're going to need a bigger boat!" Wasnt in the script. He just said it and they kept it in, and ended up been the most iconic line. Lol Also, your reactions are adorable. :)
Fun fact: there are people in the comments section of RUclips that pretend they have inside information about the movie. They try to start Internet myths. I don't know why they do this. They must have little wee-wees and Jack off over this.
The number of people I know who have had a close encounter with a dangerous shark is the same as the number of people I know who have been hospitalized because of that virus: zero. I know several people who were hospitalized because of the experimental gene therapy treatment.
*Now you know the references when people say when someone doesn't want to be the Mayor from JAWS, and also, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." or "...a bigger___"*
Believe it or not, using standard firearms against a shark isn't as effective as you think they may be. Having to shoot through water slows bullets down, thereby reducing their penetrating power. This is why Quint was using a harpoon gun and barrels. The barrels increase the drag on the shark, causing the shark to spend more and more energy to keep water flowing over its gills. As the shark expends more energy, it starts to get tired, and in turn, swims slower. Soon it runs out of energy and effectively suffocates.
It was a ton of fun watching you take in a truly classic movie. Jaws is a classic for many, many reasons. And it still puts most modern movies to shame because it’s an extremely well-written film with terrific characters - something that many movies lack and try to make up for with over-bloated CGI effects. In the end, what matters most is story and characters. And it’s these two ingredients (plus many others) that make Jaws a film that people still talk about to this very day. I would like to respond to your comment after the film regarding certain choices that characters made. The man and the woman in the beginning go swimming drunk because people do dumb shit all the time when they’re drunk. Swimming in the ocean, driving a car, shooting a gun... you name it, people have done it while inebriated. As for Quint destroying the radio on his own boat, he was a man who was obviously haunted by his past. He was a proud, capable man who was obviously an alpha male in most situations. Being a man that was used to being in control, Quint started to unravel the moment the shark showed up and continuously demonstrated to Quint that he was not going to be the one in control. Quint destroyed the radio because he was a frazzled mess and he couldn’t handle the shark beating him at his own game. Like most of the characters in Jaws, Quint is a multi-layered character and is one of the reasons people love this film almost 50 years after it first came out.
Fun fact: The actress at the beginning of the movie didn't know the machine in the water would pull her under and thrash her around. Those screams were genuine.
I would say Jaws 2 is also quite good too, some good scares and edge of your seat moments. But I would say don’t go past that, it does for me of course get a bit unrealistic.
I found it difficult to accept the follow on films since Brucie* was blown to smithereens in the premiered film. However, if the second film was named the "The Son of Jaws" or "The Cousin of Jaws," then I may have been tempted to watch them. * The film crew named the shark prop Bruce.
I am from Matawan, it swam through the Sandy hook estuary and into Matawan Creek. My neighbors father was interviewed by the author of the book the film is based on as part of his research.
I think Quint smashed the radio because survival guilt. He made it through the USS Indianapolis sinking because of the help of others, he wasn’t going to accept the help again to defeat this shark. It was was going to be him or the shark this time /And Mary seemed to have gone full Hudson this review... “That’s it! Game over, Man!”
swimming drunk at night at mid-atlantic beaches, ie beaches from North Carolina thru Massachusetts, is fun as hell, and normally save because the only danger fish is a shark and they are so rare that if this movie never came out, no one on the east coast would even give it a passing thought. and if you are now a fan of John Williams, watch the 1984 Olympic fanfare, he composed the music for that as well.
I grew up in new England and this is def true. We used to go night swimming all the time in Long Island sound. The water is always freezing up north so no sharks, especially way back in the 70’s when this came out.
@@esl4058 i was ten when this movie came out and i saw it in the theater. I'm in CT only a couple hours away from Marthas Vinyard. Two weeks after I saw this a 20 foot great white was caught just up the coast from where I live, I've barely been in the ocean since. Jaws got to me, big time. Still love movie though.
@@Ryan_Christopher this is complete nonsense. great whites are always comfortable in colder water. Great Whites have been in the mid atlantic, they have always gone into the carribean as well as up to northern canada. nothing to do with climate change. great whites are highly adaptable.
Quint destroyed the radio when Brody said he was going to ask for assistance from the Coast Guard. Maybe Quint thought that if the Coast Guard helped in killing the shark, he wouldn't be paid.
I think it's more that Quint had something to prove to himself. That there wasn't a shark in the ocean that he couldn't kill. He wanted revenge on all sharks. He wasn't going to be cheated out of it by having the Coast Guard kill the shark. His being part of the surviving crew of the USS Indianapolis left him deeply flawed.
Fun Fact: John "Johnny" Williams wrote the theme for the TV series "Lost in Space." Steven Spielberg's next film would be "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" from 1977, music by John Williams.
It's the reason Hooper survived in the movie. The shot was too good not to use but there was nobody in the cage when the shark got tangled. To explain it, Hooper had to have escaped the cage.
This film had the opposite effect on me as a kid it started my love of sharks specially the Great White and made me want to go in the sea even more. Sharks are fascinating and beautifully creatures. 🦈❤️ I’d love to swim with them one day.
People thought bears were cute and fuzzy and tried to live with them until they got ate by them. If you wish hard enough your dream could come true also. They used to lock people up for suicidal tendencies. Not it is in couraged.
Relatable: One of my friends once gave me a book about sharks for my birthday, and while I'm no Matt Hooper, I think it's reasonable to say I know a bit more about sharks than the average Joe.
Everybody who lives in a US Ally country knows what the 4th of July is to Americans. Australia has a Defense Treaty with the U.S., and they regularly send troops to the U.S. for training. Sometimes the training visit happens close to or crosses into the 4th of July weekend. In which case the troops get permission to stay longer and enjoy the holiday themselves with their hosts.
Why would you go into the water when the movie is about shark attacks??? 😂😂 FUN FACT: the mechanical shark had many issues during the shootings, it never worked for most of the time. that's why we can see it clearly just in the last scenes, when it finally started to work as intended.
Here on the tubes somewhere is one of the sequels, with B-roll underwater footage without the matting mixed-in. Seeing the shark on the attack, while it’s attached to its contraption, was both still scary and hilarious.
I know I'm commenting 2 years after your reaction, but you asked why there were scenes with people on the beach and swimming after dark. Also why no one was originally cautious about sharks while swimming in the ocean. I'm sure there were shark attacks prior to 1975, but it was THIS movie that brought awareness of them. Jaws gave us Shark Week on cable TV, plus any other movie ever made about or with sharks.
Loved your reaction. In the book, this movie was an adaptation from the novel-obviously, Hooper dies. He does not survive the shark cage scene. The producers used actual footage of a shark attacking a shark cage, so that sequence is of a real shark, and they wanted the footage to ‘make the cut’, so the script was changed to Hooper surviving. Originally, as in the book, the least likely of the trio ends up killing the shark.
Bruce the shark (Spielberg named him after his lawyer) was found up a palm trees in a junkyard. He's now been restored and going displayed in the Academy for Motion Picture Arts in LA.
At that point, I recall there being only these ratings: G for everyone, PG for more mature audiences (some strong moments), R for 18 and older, and X for porn. In order to garner more audiences, Spielberg avoided the R rating by arguing that a shark doesn’t typically attack humans on land. It’s an exotic situation.
Fun note: Jaws was inspired by the 1916 shark attacks in Matawan, New Jersey (a coastal resort town). Though it's accepted now that the shark was a bull shark (which is how it got upstream into fresh water).
A fun fact: The woman who played the first victim was an animal specialist of sorts, and helped sound designer Ben Burtt record sounds of various animals for a small film that would come out two years later (and surpass Jaws as the biggest film of all time) called Star Wars. She found him a particular near that would be the basis of Chewbacca’s voice!
Best quote from this video, after Quint shot the shark with the first barrel: "I'm feeling good about this scene. I think they have a chance." - Mary Cherry
I highly recommend The Towering Inferno as well. Best natural disaster film, and the best film of showing the the multiple things that firefighters are able to do and not just fighting fires. This puts them through multiple challenges besides just fighting the fire. Also, does a great job at showing their bravery as well. Plus an all-star cast led by Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dumaway, and Fred Astaire just to name a few of the A-list cast that is in this film.
Two more big disaster movies from that era: Earthquake (1974) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Also Airport (1974), which spawned a series of similar airplane-in-distress movies before getting parodied by Airplane! (1980) - which itself was based on the script of Zero Hour (1957)
@@MikeTaffet What thermostat? Ain’t no A/C in that structure. Wasn’t in the budget most likely. Notice how the mayor was so desperate to keep the tourist season open? ‘70s were a tough time economically, man.
The guy who said he would catch the shark…great English actor…Robert Shaw..or is it Scot…the younger one who comes in to investigate..is Richard Dreyfus…who was splendid in countless movies..when he was younger…now acting for the last twenty years is just paychecks…and residuals..
Spielberg is a master of lighting and color...the beach scene when Alex Kittner is killed, everybody that has yellow on is effected by the shark.....the dog owner, alex, his mother....just amazing
Timothy Burrows, when the commercials first arrived on network television, it came with a warning: "Some material may be too intense for younger viewers". I wonder if anybody remembers that. Great film then, great film now.
I do, indeed, remember such admonitions - AND how, as often as not, they served us minors as incentive as much as deterrent. Interestingly enough, it was yet another movie from Mr. Spielberg (to wit, the second Indiana Jones movie) that finally proved to be the catalyst for the new PG-13 rating...or so, at least, popular myth has it. 😉 😎
Sooooooo happy to hear you give a shout out to John Williams who, without a doubt, gives every movie he scores an extra level. Spielberg films don’t have a fraction of the emotion without his music…
I love how long it takes to actually see the shark, yet it's still terrifying. It's genius. Also, Quint at the end, pushing the engine too hard? He's afraid of the shark. So good.
Dont know if I got more pleasure from reliving my own memories of sitting in a Chicago theatre in June of 1975 or watching your reactions to it.... Which were Identical!
At 25f a rifles gonna do bugger all , they'd need an elephant gun and even that's questionable. Not sure if you noticed it but the falling star behind Brody was real, talk about perfect timing for a shot
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I think i felt in love with you
is that was a sharks movie for you you really need to watch The Meg (2018) movie
Robert Shaw , Quint , was a British actor , novelist and play writer , died only 3 years after Jaws in 1978 , after 8 more movies . Jaws movie is based on a book , but story of USS Indianapolis is real , by that it had crew of 1195 men and 316 survived , when it was sunk 15 min after midnight , 30 july 1945 , this was days after its bomb parts delivery , survivors were spotted in the open ocean three and a half days later. At 10: 25 on 2 August .The number of deaths attributed to sharks ranges from a few dozen to 150 . More of the sailors died from the elements , hypothermia , delirium , they had no water or food and they were inhaling ships fuel , bunker oil , fumes .
Watch Deep Blue Sea. Very underrated shark movie.
Pretty sure only reason it was rated pg was because pg13 wasn't a thing yet, and it has to have more nudity or faul language to make it an R
The USS Indianapolis was a real event. It's truly a chilling story.
Indeed. Love history
Some people who had family on the USS Indianapolis didn’t know what happened to it until they saw this movie. It really was a low key operation.
Apparently spielberg wanted to make a prequel after this focusing on quint on the indianapolis
@@distemic there is a movie about the Indianapolis, but I don't think it's Spielberg.
@@christianforsstrom2222 no it's not directed by him but steven did want to make one focusing on quints survival as a jaws adjacent prequel
In the 1990's Lee Fiero (the woman who played Mrs. Kintner and slapped Chief Brody) was on vacation with a friend. She walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed they had a menu item called the Alex Kitner Sandwich. She mentioned she played Alex's mom. Suddenly the restaurant owner ran out of the back and hugged her. It was Jeff Vorhees, the actor who played her son. It was the first time they saw each other since principal shooting wrapped.
So cool
Wow.
OMG, you are joking. What a wonderful story, thank you for sharing !!
Wow
Cool story! Love it! Thanks for sharing that.
Quint smashed the radio bc it was his quest, his revenge for the Indianapolis (which was real), his 10,000 dollars. He was not to be robbed of it.
I’ve heard a theory that he was having a war flashback, actually. And that he started the fire the night before. It’s because he was under orders on the Indianapolis to maintain radio silence.
I just thought he destroyed the radio because he didnt want the other fishermen on the island to know that the great and mighty Quint needed help catching a shark.....it was a matter of stubborn pride....same with not getting a bigger boat
Captain Ahab calling for backup??
Never.
I also think it was because Quint wanted to prove his mettle as the area's greatest fisherman.
Yes pride was central to his choices. That's his world, his boat, his job. No way he would let the new sheriff and the fancy college boy tell him what to do or call for help.
Fun fact: His entire time in the Navy, Quint didn't say "fuck" as many times as Mary Cherry did in a 45 minute video.
And a sad fact, too. Oh well... at least she proves she knows big-kid words.
@@Cbcw76 - I'll bet all the other kids were in awe.
@@dougearnest7590 ha ha... yes... that is SOOO impressive!
Doug Earnest Your fun fact is hilarious! Mary is indeed a "fuck" factory. I love her for it!
Good one.
Mary: I'm seeing actual blood, and it is a child!
70's PG rating: Parents may need to explain to their children that they can be savagely torn apart and devoured by giant fish with steak knives for teeth while adults watch helplessly.
I miss the days when PG actually meant ‘parental guidance.’
@@snakesrule5 Not merely were those the days when PG meant Parental Guidance, those were still the days when it could be reasonably assumed that parents would guide their children firmly and sternly. (Mine weren't all that stern, but I seem to have grown up okay anyway.) 🙄 😕 😒
Indiana Jones: German soldiers look into coffin and get their faces melted off; and in a ritual a heart is ripped out of a chest, and when that person gets put into a pit of fire the heart burns along with it
What a time the PG (and even G) rating was pushed so damn hard back then
Also, this movie was made before PG-13 was a thing.
There's a very good explanation, for the PG rating. It has nothing to do with the decade, the movie was made in.
I don't remember the exact explanation, so I won't give you one here. But the only scene they had to change, was the leg from the guy in the small boat, dropping to the ocean floor. It had to be shortened.
Ben Gardner´s head popping out from the hole is one of the best jumpscares in cinema´s history. Never fails.
It certainly worked on Mary. One could think there was pneumatic trip leaver in her chair during that scene propelling her.
That scene gets eveevryoneee!
It certainly got me when I first saw it and I don’t scare that easily.
Again, credit to Maestro Williams for PUNCTUATION. Think it would have worked just as well without?😉 😎
Even the cat got scared, LOL.
This movie still holds up. And yes, Steven Spielberg and John Williams are amazing. They still are.
Holds up? As what - comedy? Come on.
Jurassic Park
@@OroborusFMA - it holds up in story, character development, cinematography, music and special effects. It's widely acknowledged as a classic.
They are literally the dynamic duo of the film industry.
I also have to point out that the animatronics in "Jaws" still look more real than today's CGI.
Even if the shark prop was an absolute nightmare to work with, since it had been designed and built for use in fresh water, with the assumption it would be used in a tank at a studio set. As a result of being used in the actual ocean, it broke down all the time and sank a few times too. This actually helped the movie, because they could only show the shark sparingly, forcing Steven Spielberg to get creative and really ratchet up the tension
Practical effects are always better looking than CGI but movie making is more business than art. And big practical effects are problematic and expensive.
@@weldonwin The robotic shark was so nightmary to work with, that Spielberg named him after his lawyer (Bruce, I think)
“Jaws 3”? Not so much.
@@Sweetish_Jeff_ And in The Revenge you can see the wires
"She is making a big mistake."
To be fair, you already know this is a shark movie; she doesn't."
She'll be back in 1941.
@@carm3d -- that was a good one. 😁
@@carm3d HOLLYWOOD!!!
Lol after Quint gets eaten.
"Is Mary dead?"
"No she's in shock."
Robert Shaw definitely knocked it out of the park for that scene.
That's what she gets for calling Alfred Pennyworth a creep.
Yup, I still hold that grudge. But now I think it's time to retire it.
"I don't know why people think it's a good idea to go swimming when they're intoxicated."
Being intoxicated means your ability to figure out what is a good idea is impaired.
Exactly. It's the same as being a liberal.
@@trhansen3244 Or a RUclips troll.
@@trhansen3244 Yea, cuz Trump supporters clearly have their mental faculties in check, are reasonable objective people, and are not unhinged, right?
Thank you Dr. Trimboli
@@trhansen3244 leave it to the right wing nut jobs to bring up liberals every chance they get.
Quint is Ahab. His obsession did him in. His wanting to kill the shark was his way to redeem his fellow crew members that died on the Indianapolis .
That's what I thought and Bruce the shark was the great white whale
In the book he literally dies the same way Ahab does. Tied to his obsession via harpoon rope.
That's why he destroyed the radio
"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
That line was improvised
Oh thats cool, I didnt know that.
Turns out it's not, at least according to Carl Gottlieb.
It's also been repeated several times, in various other movies about boats, and the ocean. All as a callback to this one film, and that one line.
@@jacob4920 There's also a film production studio called A Bigger Boat.
Seeing this in a theater in 1975 was incredible. Prior to this movie, there was no such thing as the "summer blockbuster". This was the first.
BTW the date I was with seeing this movie reacted pretty much as you did, as did much of the theater audience.
Seeing it a few months later with someone who hadn't seen it yet was almost as much fun as seeing it the first time yourself. I still watch it from time to time.
This movie so affected me back then i was 13 and wanted to be a marine biologist after seeing this. I never did become one, but I remain fascinated by sharks. Anyway, in 1975, we didn't have cable or vcrs or dvds. I saw it in the theater 5 times that summer. The first time, the jump scare with Ben Gardner's head got everyone in the theater. When Brody blows up the shark at the end, the entire theater got up and gave the happening a standing ovation. By the time I saw it for the 5th time, there were a bunch of bratty teens saying a lot of the movie's lines before the actors did and no ovation at the end. I guess everyone had seen it about as many times as I did, but I was still loving it.
It’s called Survivors Guilt from being in the Military and surviving USS Indianapolis sinking 1,000s went in the water 300 came out and Quint survived all that carnage
always knew he was a tough person
There's a similar tragedy during that time period most people (including myself) had never heard of, in fact, it's the second deadliest mass shark attack in history. In 1943 the US transport ship Cape San Juan was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, it carried 1,464 passengers and crew with the bulk being made up of the 855th Engineer Aviation Battalion, an all-black unit. Of the 1,464 passengers and crew, only 448 survived, just 54 less than the USS Indianapolis tragedy.
The reason you don't see the shark very much is that the company that made the shark didn't know it was going to be used in salt water. The shark malfunctioned a lot because of the corrosive salt water. It actually made the movie better, not seeing the shark very much till the end made the movie much more suspenseful. BTW, the sharks' name is Bruce. This movie is the first summer blockbuster
Did you know it was the film crew who nicknamed the shark Bruce, after Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Raynor?
@@Garryck-1 No I didn't know that!
Thanks, Wikipedia.
@@ThatBlakeCampbell - Well, I knew it before Wikipedia was a thing.
Not seeing the shark for the beach scenes were by design though. The mechanical shark wasn't ever scheduled to be used in them. First appearance of the shark wasn't scheduled until the ocean hunt scenes. Far more of the shark WAS meant to be shown in those scenes so you are right there.
Brody wanted to close the beach after Chrissie's death and even started doing it if you remember those first scenes, but the mayor and city council basically told him "you don't have the authority to do that without our permission" and then denied him permission to do it.
The look on Brodys face the first time he sees it when he’s tossing the chum…gets me every time.
The USS Indianapolis realy happened, and it remains today one of my favorite monologue/acting moments from a Spielberg film.
You cant really comment on "graphics" on films of the 70's or previous decades since CGI was almost non-existent. At least in movies.
@Tessmage Tessera That is my recollection as well ... back in the good old days when we called everything "special effects"
The purpose of the barrels is to tire the animal out and keep it near the surface, where it could be harpooned or even effectively shot. Also, once the animal was taken, if the barrels weren't on it, it would likely sink and then there's no evidence you got the shark. Small caliber bullets, especially shooting at something under the water, can be problematic on an animal of that size.
So due to the barrels, the rests of the shark are there, hanging at some point in the dark deep, after Brody blowed the shark up.
Most sharks need to be constantly moving to breathe so the barrels should cause enough drag that the shark gets fatigued and slow it down to the point that it can't breathe and should drown/ suffocate.
Also, it's hard to shoot at anything in the water or in the ground. Water has much more resistance than air, which slows the bullet down dramatically. This not only decreases the range, it also decreases the power it has, and you'll need a lot of "stopping power" on something as large as a shark. A 25-ft Great White would need a hell of a lot of small arms fire to take down, and the best weapon they had seems to be a M1 Garand, probably loaded with .30-06 Springfield. It's a decent round and a great rifle, but little ammunition. The harpoon, on the other hand, isn't designed to kill the shark but to attach the air tanks that'll keep the shark from escaping while also potentially drowning it.
Additionally, this is Quint's job, so the other two probably packed what he told them to bring. As we saw, even he wasn't prepared for this beast, so it's highly unlikely that Brody would have thought to bring much in the way of weaponry.
@@davida7153 In the Book the Barrels do eventually tire the fish and it drowns, hardly a good ending to a film tho
@@scorp77snake Yes i know. Brody puts his head under the water and sees the dead shark going to the deep slowly until it dissapears of his sight. The ropes wouldnt be so long i imagine so maybe the shark is hanging 30-40 meters in the deep as much. I find this ending pretty scary because in the book the body is intact and, well, is dead but the shark is still there somehow.
Did you know Jaws was filmed at the island of Martha’s Vineyard? The kid who played Alex Kitner who got eaten in that movie is the manager of a local restaurant called The wharf pub his name is Jeffrey Voorhees, If you ever plan a vacation someday you should try that island
Apparently, the actress who played his mom went into that restaurant recently. He called her mom and they got to visit. So sweet.
Voorhees? Does he wear a hockey mask as well?
The one scene shot in Australia is also the only actual shark footage _and_ the most improbable footage in the movie: the shark destroying the shark cage.
He originally lived in my neighborhood in Connecticut. I used to play baseball with his younger brother then his family moved moved to Martha's Vineyard right before they began filming Jaws.
@@tjhorsegirl she died last year, I think from COVID.
Thanks for including the zoom closeup of Roy Scheider when he first sees the shark on the beach. It never ceases to chill my soul.
In her defense, being sober wouldn't have helped.
As an Australian, I have to admit I'm bloody surprised another Australian had never seen Jaws?🤣🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺
Well, it IS American
So, Americans pronounce "demise" pretty much the same way you said it. Robert Shaw was a british actor, playing an American in this movie, with (his version) of an American accent. I think he was just having some fun with the word. Honestly, his accent sounds about the same as he does in his other movies, where he's playing Brits. No shade, though. The guy is, was, always will be one of the greats.
I think Brits mispronounce words just get a rise out of people. Notice how they pronounce 'schedule'? Yeah, they're toying with us all.
He was also good as a Bond villain.
@@jeffthompson9622 He was better as the villains in "The Sting" and "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three".
another bit of TRIVIA wth that speech , he did then asked Spielberg to do it over and he nailed it the second time
I don't think he's supposed to be a native-born American in Jaws, he's just lived in Amity long enough that people know him. I have full confidence Shaw could've pulled off an American accent if he'd been asked to.
Mary, the USS Indianapolis was a ship sunk in June of 1945, just as Quint said. That part of the move was based on a profoundly real incident, and I don't think anyone told the story better than Robert Shaw in that scene!! I love your reactions, by the way, Sweet Lady!!
I remembered when this movie came in the Summer of 1975. I was an 11 years old. No one wanted to go in the ocean.
I was 11 in 1975 too. This movie was a huge deal at the time.
I saw this when I was 7. After that I had to be persuaded to even get into the bathtub, lol
And to this day I have remained firmly on the shore.
I saw it when I was 12. On vacation on beach in Florida....
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 The effects were astounding, as is the power of the medium.
This film was the first "summer blockbuster."
It defined the entire pattern of movie-making that has prevailed, for more than 45 years.
It was Spielberg's first mega-hit.
Quint's experience with sharks made him overconfident in his skill and ability, even after they realized the shark was much larger than they initially realized. He also may have been concerned about not getting his full payment if they needed a larger boat or Coast Guard assistance. He was set in his ways with how to catch sharks, but unfortunately had never been up against one as aggressive and large before, to his detriment.
Quint is very much an Ahab character, and the shark was his white whale.
Tbf this wasn't your average shark. In fact it's almost supernatural when you think about it.
I always loved the way that Quint looks at the life jackets before he finally decides he’s outmatched and asks Hooper for help.
This is also a somewhat incorrect read. The shark is not intended to be a realistic shark. By the end the film has gone almost into the supernatural or purely metaphorical. Quint would have been fine w a real or realistic shark. He wasn't 'overconfident' and didn't make tactical shark-hunting errors. He plays it perfectly. But they weren't dealing w a real shark. It is foolish to break this down as if it's a realistic film or shark. It gets more and more surreal as it goes on at sea.
@@grayhudson1095 I think, if it's a film about how people would respond to a supernatural shark, it's a very realistic film.
The Indianapolis story is a true one.
Mostly. The sharks didn’t kill all of the men who died. A lot died from exposure or wounds from the torpedos exploding.
Not just a classic by THE Summer Blockbuster. Before Jaws there was no such thing as a blockbuster movie. Here with Spielberg the master of such, this was the beginning of it all.
"Tentpole." There were a few blockbusters prior--THE EXORCIST, THE GODFATHER--but they were seen as singular events unconnected to each other. JAWS was the first time there was a template for actually creating a blockbuster on purpose and using the summer as the window to launch it. Wide release during the summer was thought of as a fool's errand before JAWS.
Which was not entirely a good thing.
the dead guy in the bottom of the boat jump scare, ALWAYS got me, no matter how many times I have watched Jaws. I can know it's coming and it will still get me.
you know that was added after test screenings as Spielberg wanted 1 more jump scare.
Mythbusters tackled pretty much everything that happens in this film, and pretty much the only thing they totally busted was the air tank exploding when shot.
A big great white could really pull down that many barrels, and drag a boat the size of the Orca backwards at a pretty good speed.
The shooting bullets in water too, they only penetrate about a foot of water before disintegrating.
@@AbominationalFailure Bullets don't go through water in this.
@@redrick8900 Yes they do: in the final moments of the battle Brody fires several shots before delivering his iconic line, and althoguh Mary didn't show it in this video, you can see at least one of these hit the water, followed by an underwater shot where you can distinctly make out the trail of the bullet passing through the water
@@Aurochhunter It's moving way too slowly to go through anything. That's why you can se it.
Saw this movie when I was six years old at a drive-in! It set the course of my life. Sure the shark scared the bejeezus out of me but I was mostly fascinated by Quint's story of the Indianapolis tho it took me nearly a decade to understand why: Nothing happens during the story, just words. He held the audience spellbound for 2 minutes with nothing more than words, albeit a bone-ch8lling true story but just words.
I've been a writer ever since.
You may be interested to know that the man in the glasses and blue blazer doing the TV story is the writer of the original Jaws book, Peter Benchley.
The Indianapolis Speech is the best monologue on film.
I saw it when I wa around 6 years old too, on TV in the early 80`s, scared the hell out of me as a kid, Quint death scene was horrific.
I was 4. Double feature with “Young Frankenstein”, so my parents had NO idea what trauma JAWS would cause.
I’m 52 and still afraid of swimming when I can’t see what’s in the water.
Almost every actor besides Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw (I may have misspelled their names) were actually locals who lived on the island. The making of the movie is almost better than the movie.
Mrs Kitner died last year :(
@@shawnthompson2303 you knew Mrs. Kitner died, and you let people comment anyway?
I’m kidding. That’s awful.
@@TheAbominableDrFaustus no, no, I'm picking up what you're putting down.
My grandma knows Lee Fierro. Mrs. Kitner)
This movie is 45 years old. Your genuine frightened reactions really tell just how well it still holds up today.
Fun fact. "We're going to need a bigger boat!" Wasnt in the script. He just said it and they kept it in, and ended up been the most iconic line. Lol
Also, your reactions are adorable. :)
It wasn't in the movie, either. Bet me a dollar. :)
Fun fact: there are people in the comments section of RUclips that pretend they have inside information about the movie. They try to start Internet myths. I don't know why they do this. They must have little wee-wees and Jack off over this.
I always thought people would be smart enough to close the beach if there was an obvious danger killer shark, but then COVID hit.
Really?
The number of people I know who have had a close encounter with a dangerous shark is the same as the number of people I know who have been hospitalized because of that virus: zero.
I know several people who were hospitalized because of the experimental gene therapy treatment.
COVID hit what?
*Now you know the references when people say when someone doesn't want to be the Mayor from JAWS, and also, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." or "...a bigger___"*
Believe it or not, using standard firearms against a shark isn't as effective as you think they may be. Having to shoot through water slows bullets down, thereby reducing their penetrating power. This is why Quint was using a harpoon gun and barrels. The barrels increase the drag on the shark, causing the shark to spend more and more energy to keep water flowing over its gills. As the shark expends more energy, it starts to get tired, and in turn, swims slower. Soon it runs out of energy and effectively suffocates.
It was a ton of fun watching you take in a truly classic movie. Jaws is a classic for many, many reasons. And it still puts most modern movies to shame because it’s an extremely well-written film with terrific characters - something that many movies lack and try to make up for with over-bloated CGI effects. In the end, what matters most is story and characters. And it’s these two ingredients (plus many others) that make Jaws a film that people still talk about to this very day.
I would like to respond to your comment after the film regarding certain choices that characters made. The man and the woman in the beginning go swimming drunk because people do dumb shit all the time when they’re drunk. Swimming in the ocean, driving a car, shooting a gun... you name it, people have done it while inebriated. As for Quint destroying the radio on his own boat, he was a man who was obviously haunted by his past. He was a proud, capable man who was obviously an alpha male in most situations. Being a man that was used to being in control, Quint started to unravel the moment the shark showed up and continuously demonstrated to Quint that he was not going to be the one in control. Quint destroyed the radio because he was a frazzled mess and he couldn’t handle the shark beating him at his own game. Like most of the characters in Jaws, Quint is a multi-layered character and is one of the reasons people love this film almost 50 years after it first came out.
Fun fact: The actress at the beginning of the movie didn't know the machine in the water would pull her under and thrash her around. Those screams were genuine.
What prompts you people to tell these lies?
that's false. She just played the part very well.
So, another classic you should check out - if you haven't already seen it - is Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho from 1960.
And Hitchcock's "Rear Window" with James Stewart.
And also Hitchcock's The Birds from 1963, another classic killer animal film.
I would say Jaws 2 is also quite good too, some good scares and edge of your seat moments. But I would say don’t go past that, it does for me of course get a bit unrealistic.
I found it difficult to accept the follow on films since Brucie* was blown to smithereens in the premiered film. However, if the second film was named the "The Son of Jaws" or "The Cousin of Jaws," then I may have been tempted to watch them.
* The film crew named the shark prop Bruce.
@@MichaelPower212 the son of jaws definitely sounds good
It was an...acceptable sequel, let's go with that. Just very unlikely that a SECOND massive shark would show up in Amity.
This was loosely based on a 1911 incident in New Jersey where a shark hung around a town and kill 4 people over the course of a week.
It swam up a river and ate someone in a swimming hole miles from the ocean.
I am from Matawan, it swam through the Sandy hook estuary and into Matawan Creek. My neighbors father was interviewed by the author of the book the film is based on as part of his research.
1916 not 1911, I live in the town it happened in
@@Aaron-io8vw 👍
Which is also mentioned in the Syfy movie Jersey Shore Shark Attack.
I think Quint smashed the radio because survival guilt. He made it through the USS Indianapolis sinking because of the help of others, he wasn’t going to accept the help again to defeat this shark. It was was going to be him or the shark this time
/And Mary seemed to have gone full Hudson this review... “That’s it! Game over, Man!”
Good reference! R.I.P. Bill Paxton.
swimming drunk at night at mid-atlantic beaches, ie beaches from North Carolina thru Massachusetts, is fun as hell, and normally save because the only danger fish is a shark and they are so rare that if this movie never came out, no one on the east coast would even give it a passing thought.
and if you are now a fan of John Williams, watch the 1984 Olympic fanfare, he composed the music for that as well.
Well thanks to Climate Change, the Mid-Atlantic waters are finally getting warm enough to be comfortable to Great Whites.
I grew up in new England and this is def true. We used to go night swimming all the time in Long Island sound. The water is always freezing up north so no sharks, especially way back in the 70’s when this came out.
@@esl4058 i was ten when this movie came out and i saw it in the theater. I'm in CT only a couple hours away from Marthas Vinyard. Two weeks after I saw this a 20 foot great white was caught just up the coast from where I live, I've barely been in the ocean since. Jaws got to me, big time. Still love movie though.
@@Ryan_Christopher Great Whites can regulate their body temperature so cold water doesn't bother them
@@Ryan_Christopher
this is complete nonsense. great whites are always comfortable in colder water. Great Whites have been in the mid atlantic, they have always gone into the carribean as well as up to northern canada.
nothing to do with climate change. great whites are highly adaptable.
Chilling with your cat and watching Jaws together is the ultimate vibe
Quint destroyed the radio when Brody said he was going to ask for assistance from the Coast Guard. Maybe Quint thought that if the Coast Guard helped in killing the shark, he wouldn't be paid.
I think it's more that Quint had something to prove to himself.
That there wasn't a shark in the ocean that he couldn't kill. He wanted revenge on all sharks. He wasn't going to be cheated out of it by having the Coast Guard kill the shark.
His being part of the surviving crew of the USS Indianapolis left him deeply flawed.
@@douglascampbell9809 He reminds me a bit of another obsessed ship’s captain, Captain Ahab.
@@Bfdidc Exactly!!
I lived in Massachusetts when I was a kid. The father of a friend of mine was a real cop who was one of the cops on those boats!
Fun Fact: John "Johnny" Williams wrote the theme for the TV series "Lost in Space."
Steven Spielberg's next film would be "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" from 1977, music by John Williams.
Also Star Wars
Also wonder if Mary the Muse knows about Landsharks and of course ... Sharknado!
Just about every movie Spielberg made Williams did the music.
@@BuzryHaproMandalorianHunter Really? I honestly did not know that but it doesn't surprise me. Both are very good at what they do.
Fun fact, the shark spinning on top of the cage is actually a real shot and a real shark.
It's the reason Hooper survived in the movie. The shot was too good not to use but there was nobody in the cage when the shark got tangled. To explain it, Hooper had to have escaped the cage.
🤠 "You're gonna need a bigger" pillow, security blanket, etc... 😂
8:25
I love Aussie's uncanny ability to insert so many letters and syllables into words when unnecessary.
"NOUGHH"
"NOURRRR"
Quint destroyed the radio because if the Coast Guard kills the shark Quint doesn't get his ten thousand...$$$$$
Fun watching JAWS with you. I liked your expressions and use of cuss words.
This film had the opposite effect on me as a kid it started my love of sharks specially the Great White and made me want to go in the sea even more. Sharks are fascinating and beautifully creatures. 🦈❤️ I’d love to swim with them one day.
People thought bears were cute and fuzzy and tried to live with them until they got ate by them.
If you wish hard enough your dream could come true also.
They used to lock people up for suicidal tendencies. Not it is in couraged.
Relatable: One of my friends once gave me a book about sharks for my birthday, and while I'm no Matt Hooper, I think it's reasonable to say I know a bit more about sharks than the average Joe.
"How does this shark have strength??" It's 30 feet of solid muscle. that's how. LOL
You can do it ! I saw it in the theater when I was 9 years old - crazy what they considered PG back in the 1970's. : )
Pre PG 13. The rating Steven Spielberg basically forced the ratings board to create with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and
Poltergeist.
@@douglascampbell9809 And Gremlins.
Jaws was a 15 cert up until the 90s in UK as I have a VHS copy purchased in 1988. Jaws 2 was a 15, Jaws 3 PG, and the fourth was a 15 upon release.
Non Americans might not know that the 4th of July is a big Day for tourist towns as it is Americas Independence day holiday.
Everybody who lives in a US Ally country knows what the 4th of July is to Americans.
Australia has a Defense Treaty with the U.S., and they regularly send troops to the U.S. for training.
Sometimes the training visit happens close to or crosses into the 4th of July weekend. In which case the troops get permission to stay longer and enjoy the holiday themselves with their hosts.
The person playing the reporter on the 4th july beach is Peter Benchley the Author of the book "Jaws" that the film was based on...
Swimming at night is one of the best things. So calming and relaxing. And the silence 😌
I already would never swim in the ocean again but learning about the Vertical migration I would double never swim at night.
@@Riecharus You don't have to go deep waters so the vertical migration doesn't really apply.
@@Riecharus - Swimming at night... doesn't necessarily have to be the ocean. I would also add swimming naked to complete the whole relaxing vibe. 😁
Night swimming is a shockingly common cause of fatal accidents.
@@Wingless- If you can't swim without lights, it's definitely on you.
The head scene is the single most effective jump scare in cinema history. I've watched this movie countless times, and it gets me every time.
Why would you go into the water when the movie is about shark attacks??? 😂😂
FUN FACT: the mechanical shark had many issues during the shootings, it never worked for most of the time. that's why we can see it clearly just in the last scenes, when it finally started to work as intended.
Here on the tubes somewhere is one of the sequels, with B-roll underwater footage without the matting mixed-in. Seeing the shark on the attack, while it’s attached to its contraption, was both still scary and hilarious.
That Quint Indianapolis scene gives me shivers every time.
I’m not sure a sober person in the water could beat either a shark or a crocodile.
I know I'm commenting 2 years after your reaction, but you asked why there were scenes with people on the beach and swimming after dark. Also why no one was originally cautious about sharks while swimming in the ocean. I'm sure there were shark attacks prior to 1975, but it was THIS movie that brought awareness of them. Jaws gave us Shark Week on cable TV, plus any other movie ever made about or with sharks.
The Mayor is definitely the true villain. The Shark is just hungry and has a Homo Sapiens craving.
And yet he shows up in Jaws 2...ha ha..
@@benleon3405 the box office did.😄
The Oceanic White Tips that took those guys off the Indianapolis are now CRITICALLY ENDANGERED! 😢😢
Interesting.
Your reactions when he's in the cage are priceless 😂
Loved your reaction. In the book, this movie was an adaptation from the novel-obviously, Hooper dies. He does not survive the shark cage scene. The producers used actual footage of a shark attacking a shark cage, so that sequence is of a real shark, and they wanted the footage to ‘make the cut’, so the script was changed to Hooper surviving.
Originally, as in the book, the least likely of the trio ends up killing the shark.
One of the best films of all time! My personal second favorite of Spielberg's filmography, right behind Jurassic Park!
Jurassic Park? How dare you mention that in the same breath as Jaws! I want your movie watching rights revoked.
There are so many different accents in America. Thats how Quint pronounces "demise". Let's just leave it at that.
Bruce the shark (Spielberg named him after his lawyer) was found up a palm trees in a junkyard. He's now been restored and going displayed in the Academy for Motion Picture Arts in LA.
At that point, I recall there being only these ratings: G for everyone, PG for more mature audiences (some strong moments), R for 18 and older, and X for porn. In order to garner more audiences, Spielberg avoided the R rating by arguing that a shark doesn’t typically attack humans on land. It’s an exotic situation.
Fun note: Jaws was inspired by the 1916 shark attacks in Matawan, New Jersey (a coastal resort town). Though it's accepted now that the shark was a bull shark (which is how it got upstream into fresh water).
Fun Fact: The actor who played the kid with the dake fin was just named Sherri in the community where the film took place.
A fun fact: The woman who played the first victim was an animal specialist of sorts, and helped sound designer Ben Burtt record sounds of various animals for a small film that would come out two years later (and surpass Jaws as the biggest film of all time) called Star Wars. She found him a particular near that would be the basis of Chewbacca’s voice!
Best quote from this video, after Quint shot the shark with the first barrel: "I'm feeling good about this scene. I think they have a chance." - Mary Cherry
Sydney in july is bloody freezing. Today in Sydney : 17C. Oh australians, you should come visit northern europe or canada and experience -40C.
Hell, I grew up in Florida on the beach and 17C was always a nice and comfortable temp.
Okay, You win.
@@juanpotgieter8406 It's just personal commentary. Nothing more.
What about on the 22nd when she filmed it? (though you're probably right anyway)
@@tattoofun31548 same in NC. We're still in shorts and t-shirts at that temperature.
30 minutes into your review, when Quint destroys the radio, is the moment when it is clear that he has turned from Quint to Ahab.
If you’re looking for more older movies that still hold up well today, I recommend The Towering Inferno.
I suggest BULLITT (1968) or THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975). :D
Yes agreed, id put the Thomas crown affair. ( Steve McQueen)
Towering Inferno?! That's weak McQueen. 😉
I highly recommend The Towering Inferno as well. Best natural disaster film, and the best film of showing the the multiple things that firefighters are able to do and not just fighting fires. This puts them through multiple challenges besides just fighting the fire. Also, does a great job at showing their bravery as well. Plus an all-star cast led by Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dumaway, and Fred Astaire just to name a few of the A-list cast that is in this film.
Two more big disaster movies from that era: Earthquake (1974) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Also Airport (1974), which spawned a series of similar airplane-in-distress movies before getting parodied by Airplane! (1980) - which itself was based on the script of Zero Hour (1957)
Your reaction to the head scene is just priceless!
“Corners Office.” Hey Sheriff, you’re gonna need some “White Out” to fix that.
Everyone’s always so sweaty in there. I hear they keep the thermostat set to 90*
@@MikeTaffet What thermostat? Ain’t no A/C in that structure. Wasn’t in the budget most likely. Notice how the mayor was so desperate to keep the tourist season open? ‘70s were a tough time economically, man.
Should’ve let Polly do the typing.
I've always wanted a corner office.
Actually gives the partially filled out form an air of authenticity!
The guy who said he would catch the shark…great English actor…Robert Shaw..or is it Scot…the younger one who comes in to investigate..is Richard Dreyfus…who was splendid in countless movies..when he was younger…now acting for the last twenty years is just paychecks…and residuals..
Spielberg is a master of lighting and color...the beach scene when Alex Kittner is killed, everybody that has yellow on is effected by the shark.....the dog owner, alex, his mother....just amazing
She needs to watch it again. I don’t think she understood much about the story or appreciated what an amazing movie this is.
It’s rated PG because PG-13 didn’t exist yet.
Timothy Burrows, when the commercials first arrived on network television, it came with a warning: "Some material may be too intense for younger viewers". I wonder if anybody remembers that. Great film then, great film now.
I do, indeed, remember such admonitions - AND how, as often as not, they served us minors as incentive as much as deterrent. Interestingly enough, it was yet another movie from Mr. Spielberg (to wit, the second Indiana Jones movie) that finally proved to be the catalyst for the new PG-13 rating...or so, at least, popular myth has it. 😉 😎
Sooooooo happy to hear you give a shout out to John Williams who, without a doubt, gives every movie he scores an extra level. Spielberg films don’t have a fraction of the emotion without his music…
If Yoda was a character in this movie: 'Bigger boat we need."
Great Whites Sharks:
Male - 13 ft long
Female - 16ft long
These are one of the shark's sizes in real life than the 25 ft shark in the movie "Jaws"
I watched a shark documentary that states the Great White can reach 5000 pounds and 20 feet.
To this day, I still can't imagine how Robert Shaw screamed that long and that loudly without wrecking his vocal chords.
I love how long it takes to actually see the shark, yet it's still terrifying. It's genius.
Also, Quint at the end, pushing the engine too hard? He's afraid of the shark. So good.
16:47 - Great 2 for 1 Reaction. M.C and her cat over her left shoulder. The expression on the cat's face is priceless.
4:42 "This lady's probably dead now."
dang 😂
Dont know if I got more pleasure from reliving my own memories of sitting in a Chicago theatre in June of 1975 or watching your reactions to it.... Which were Identical!
At 25f a rifles gonna do bugger all , they'd need an elephant gun and even that's questionable.
Not sure if you noticed it but the falling star behind Brody was real, talk about perfect timing for a shot
and apparently SPielberg loved it so much that in all his later movies there is one at least thats what i heard
Well, if the drunk girl doesn't go swimming at the beginning, you really don't have a movie.
the 70s and 80 when parents/movie werent afraid to scare the pants off kids.. what a couple of decades i miss those times
Lol yeah😆😉💃