Jaws (1975) Had Us *JUMPING* In Our Seats MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!!
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- Cameron and Isaiah sit down and watch Jaws (1975) on Amazon Prime Video for Zay's very first time! if you enjoyed this reaction video please leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite moment from the movie "Jaws"!
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One of my friends, Ed Harrell, was the last surviving member of the USS Indianapolis’ Marine Corps detachment. He passed away a couple years ago. RIP Ed and all my other lost shipmates.
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Condolences to you Richard. Your friend did an extraordinary thing and he served this country. Never forget!
Fair Winds and Following Seas ⚓️
There is still one survivor named Harold Bray who is still alive, amazingly.
OMG, that gives me chills. Did he ever speak of it ?
"How come this 70s movie is making me jump scare more than modern horror movies?" Filmmaking skills, my friend. Filmmaking skills.
Substance, fine craft and humanity over just style, corporate sterility and posing. Even just in the first few minutes of the movie, the visual storytelling tells you all about Brody, what he's like, what he does, his family life and background. More importantly, Brody feels like a totally real person right away. I find most movies and characters in them now feel weirdly vapid and just actors trying to pose and maybe even always just have this odd petulant teenage attitude no-matter how old they are or what they're supposed to be.
An actual story and deep character development. We care about all of the characters.
@@AD-kv9kj Roy Sheider's portrayal of Chief Brody is one of the best "everyman" heroes in cinema history. Dude wasn't a superhero, spy, jedi, my man was just a NYC street cop who married rich (the wife got him that job as chief through her family connections) and got a cush job. He wasn't expecting none of that shark action but stood up and handled business in the face of all those greedy nutcases running the town who only cared about profits. He, Hooper and that one guy on the dock ("I hope you ain't going out with them nutcases") were the most common sense mofos on that island. Hooper's another story, my man cut that other shark open to inspect it's stomach then convinced Brody to go out there...in the middle of the night...to go looking for the real shark THEN went in the water...at night....to investigate a wrecked boat. WTF were they going to do if He and Brody found the shark that night?
Yeah, "The Lost Boys" was good too.
Remarkably, the speech delivered by Quint about the USS Indianapolis tragedy is a true story, an actual historical fact. It really happened! His story relating the incident 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 was determined to personally secure the bounty and reward for killing the shark, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge (or perhaps redemption) for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by destroying the man-eating shark himself…
He says the ship sank on July 4th, but in reality, it actually sank on July 30th.
The story is exaggerated. The way they make it sound in the movie is that sharks killed all the people in the water when in fact the vast majority of the people in the water were killed by injuries from the torpedoes or from the elements like dehydration and such. Most of the people that were eaten by sharks were scavenged. And I'm sure that there were some that were injured that were killed as well but there were actually entire groups of survivors that never encountered one single shark the entire time. So it's not really fact. Scott elements of truth that are exaggerated
@@thickerconstrictor9037its not exaggerated. Just because some men never saw a shark doesnt mean they werent terrified OF seeing one and just because some of the men were already dead or injured does not make it an "exaggeration". Its something you'll never experience so you'll continue making tone deaf statements like this. I promise you it wasnt exaggerated in the minds of the men who actually experienced it, floating in the water all night never knowing if they were next, watching their buddy next to them slowly die and getten taken under by sharks...yeah, lots of exaggeration. Go home and learn some respect child.
and the sequel to that story is Oppenheimer.
In boot camp we had days where we learned military history, and they told us the actual truth about the incident. The government blamed sharks in the water for the large death toll, when in fact the temperaure of the water caused many of the men to go out of their mind and hallucinate, and they started drowning each other. The military blamed it on sharks out of respect for the men. While some of the survivors in the water were attacked by sharks, it was nowhwere near what the reports were. It was the men doing it to each other. very sad.
Fun fact: There are sharks that can live hundreds of years 😂 They're called Greenland sharks and the oldest one found was over 400 years old I think
That sounds about right. The average lifespan of a Great White is about 50-70 years, which is a pretty terrifying idea - Bruce (the shark depicted in the film) would probably be old enough to be Brody's dad, and had spent its entire life learning to be an apex predator.
the oldest greenland shark we've found was aged between 272 and 512 years old, so we decided the average was 400. but the radiocarbon dating doesn't produce exact dates so yea.
@@nim4464 Wow, that is unbelievable. So there are sharks out there who were born in the Middle Ages?? how is that possible? As that man in Father Ted exclaimed: Fookin Hell!
@@paulinegallagher7821 theres sharks out there that have lived to see (theoretically) every US president, the french revolution, ww1 and 2, and were born at the end of the Anglo-Spanish war in 1604
Its wild
(1604, average)
@@nim4464 Oh so not quite the middle ages. I need to learn how to subtract, but yes thats pretty wild
The Cam scream was hysterical. Zay didn’t look scared. He looked in shock.
I screamed exactly like that the first time I watched that scene too lol. Such a good jump scare.
That shark-fin prank, lol. If you pulled something like that back in the day, you'd almost prefer taking your chances with the shark rather than facing your mom.
Might well have served them right if they'd got shot...accidentally OR OTHERWISE... 😤
"Mrs. Brown, your boys have been detain at Police Headquarters." "Ohhhh noooo! What did they do NOW????"
In hindsight those boys probably saved a lot of lives with that prank, the shark would’ve slaughtered dozens of those beach goers before it would’ve been put down or scared off by the patrol boats.
Zay, newer films' jump scares are PLACED into a story. You were scared by Jaws' jump scares because they are CRAFTED to be in a certain spot and there are specific visual and dialogue cues that happen beforehand to make you feel safe. The blood-test in THE THING is a great example. :)
If that fisherman in the sunk boat hadn't been bald-headed, he wouldn't have look half as scary.
Love that one. “We’ll test you last. Ahhh!!! Cut me loose dammit” 😂😂😂
Sorry to spoil your comment (as I entirely agree with you that 70s movies were crafted and filmed infinitely better than today's shit) but that Ben Gardner jump scare wasn't crafted to be in the film at all. It was put in after the film had wrapped when Speilberg saw a preview audience screening and wanted a big jump scare somewhere in the film as he thought it lacked it.
So that scene was filmed, inserted and John Williams rearranged his cue for the boat discovery and notched the volume up max and voila! One of the best jump scares alongside Carrie's hand popping out of her grave!
@@rnw2739 \So Spielberg crafted that jump scare after the film was done and inserted it.
HEADS UP for Ben Gardner😁
Heh heeeeeh!😂
Poor Ben. I’m afraid he got a head of himself.
@@MsAppassionatashame on you guys. Ben stuck his neck out to try and stop that monster.
@@isthatwhatemptymeans8222 🤣🤣🤣
The USS INDIANAPOLIS is a real war maritime event that happened in 1945, there are afew films based on the story.
Yeah it was horrific
Hardly any were killed by sharks. Over 90% died of dehydration and exposure. The sharks ate the bodies, and thus a myth was spawned, which Jaws magnified massively. Some of the survivors never saw a single shark the entire time.
I was in 5th grade when this movie came out in 1975. It scared EVERYBODY. Not many went swimming in the ocean that summer. When Jaws 2 was released in 1978, the tag line for the promo was “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”.
I would definitely classify Jaws as horror. It used to be found in that section in most video shops. You have a monster, four kills, severed limbs, a jumpscare with a body and buckets of blood.
JAWS encompasses several genres (thriller, action, even comedy), but first and foremost it’s a horror film. It tapped into a universal primal fear, and that fear exists to this day.
@@Strangenstein It's still unique. As were many of Spielberg's films.
The "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line was improvised on the spot by Roy Schieder
Great actor. Really liked him in The French Connection and in Marathon Man
The adventure music was, I think, meant to give us a rare moment of feeling like these guys have the advantage. John Williams is a wizard. His music absolutely saved this film!
That was a disappointing comment in the reaction. It was possibly the most inspired musical choice in the whole score.
Absolutely - it's definitely there to lighten the tension slightly, only for a few moments later to turn the screw further! Perfect synchronisation between director and composer. Proper storytelling.
I don’t know if it is that specific scene but there is a sea shanty that Quinn sings and this music is based on that same shanty.
@@davids6898 Hmm interesting, was it the one about the "bow legged ladies"? I'm gonna have to look into this, because if you're right, that would add a whole new dimension to that theme!
Saved? You can't write good music to shit visuals.
I sometimes question what is worse: the mayor's ignorance that led to the boy's death, or the horrible fashion disaster that is his choice in sports jackets.
You don't like little white anchors on a powder blue background?? That WOULD have looked fine in the 70's.
This movie was the start of "Summer Blockbusters".
Yeah, Jaws is a great film, but it murdered cinema.
Now imagine watching this, except on a 20-foot screen in a dark theater. There was popcorn in everyone's hair by the time the lights went up.
The shooting star was real and so perfectly timed. The shark that got caught on top of the cage was also not scripted. It was a real juvenile great white that swam through the scene.
actually, the shark was filmed by Ron and Valerie Taylor, in Australia. Not sure about the shooting stars.
More fake movie trivia. Amazing.
That is also a myth. The shooting star scene wasn't even filmed at night time. It was shot during the day just like the holiday roast scene and the opening attack on the girl all shot during the day with a lens that made it look like night-time. So the shooting star was added digitally and that was confirmed in a book written by Alves who confirmed that he put it in himself. Not to mention it's a calling card of Spielberg
Oh wow I remember those two. Oh Ok I saw it on a documentary on the making of jaws. Either way it was pretty cool.
@@madawcofarreat2348what's so fake about it? I saw it on the making of jaws. What's so far fetched about a real shark swimming through a scene? Wise ass
Another good reaction, guys.
After this movie came out, "Saturday Night Live" would do these skits where a shark would come to a housewife's door and when she opened the door, it would kill her. So, for example, a housewife (usually Gilda Radner) would hear a knock on the door.
She'd walk over and call through the door, "Who is it?"
A voice on the other side of the door would call back, "Candygram."
She'd respond through the door something like, "Who would be sending me a candygram?"
It would call back, "Candygram.......land shark"
Eventually, she's say, "I'd better find out" and open the door and it would kill her.
Ok you took me waaaayyy back with that comment!! SNL was hilarious back then.😂😂
@@cflournoy1529 That was its best incarnation.
Wow memory unlocked. As soon as I started reading your comment I thought "Land Shark!" 😂 The late great SNL days.
"Jehovas witness"
@@lowbridge7070 Yeeesssss!!!! 😂😂😂😂
The dynamic is so well designed in this film. Even little things, like Quint pronouncing that the shark can't go under with three barrels and then it instantly does - which is quint eating humble pie and and nice leveller that helps the audience root for them as a unit. Although then Quint blows the engine!
The reason for the music is that the whole movie changes tone. On a rewatch, you'll see that it starts off as a thriller, and once they go out to sea, it becomes an adventure movie.
Robert Shaw, the fisherman, who offered to catch the shark, was an actor actor who played in another famous movie: Battle of the Bulge. It was a WWII movie about the Nazi's assault on the western front.
He was also the deadly Russian assassin, Nash, in the best Bond film ever made, From Russia With Love.
You're going to need a bigger tank.
Shaw also played King Henry VIII in one of the finest films of the 20th century - A Man for All Seasons.
I've seen fisherman pull a shark up onto a fishing boat and one of them was decapitated by the tail fin in one swipe. People don't realize the power of a shark, and it's teeth isn't it's only deadly weapon
A bit of clarity, in Tourist towns like this, their entire yearly economy depends on hitting the holidays as hard as they can. And yeah, even a day can ruin a business.
Not that I'm siding with the business owners/mayor etc... just to kinda give a bit more of an understanding of how important tourist season is for these seasonal towns. It's similar here in Vermont with Skiing. We get huge volumes of tourism during the winter, and there's businesses that support them throughout those months. However, in the spring/summer that dies down etc... one mild winter can cripple the tourism and in turn, the town/village/city for the next year.
Also, the Greenland Shark can live up to 400 years.
CAM, THAT SCREAM! 🤣😂
Some species of sharks can live for hundreds of years. Greenland sharks live to at least 272 years dor instance. Most only live 20-30 years in the wild though.
A huge chunk of my generation stayed out of the ocean thanks to this movie. 3 years later Piranha made some of us avoid lakes and rivers as well. I was 13 when Jaws came out. Jaws 2 is good. 3 is entertaining and ok. 4 sucks.
I also have a huge collection of shark movies thanks to Jaws. Even the *really* bad ones.😂
Imagine how much more scary that jump scare would have been if you had actually HAD YOUR EYES ON THE SCREEN! Never take your eyes off the screen in a movie like Jaws! 😂😂😂😂😂 Three lessons from the world of cinema: 1.) Never get out of the boat (apocalypse now) 2.) Never trust a Sicilian when death is on the line (princess bride) and 3.) Never take your eyes off the screen! (Jaws reaction, 2023)🤣 (just teasing you guys, it was still hilarious, great reaction.) PS: Cam is completely correct: the sequels are so bad they're funny.
Jaws 2 isn't all that bad. The others are forgettable though.
Loved this reaction, too, but yeah, you've hit upon one thing that does drive me crazy watching lots of reaction videos: people either talking over lines that are, you know, integral to the plot, lol, or turning and addressing the camera and missing something important. ;)
Jaws 2 is perfectly alright. It isn't terrible at all so what are you on about?
What turned out making this movie so iconic was alot of the problems they had making the movie especially with the practical effects with the mechanical shark....It kept breaking down and they didn't have the time to keep fixing it so they didn't use it as much as they were originally going to so thats why the effect of NOT seeing it became the psychological effect more powerful than actually seeing the shark .....It turned out the " less is more " effect made the movie even scarier....Now that's frigging luck there....
Great reaction, that was fun!! This is the movie that changed everything. Prior to Jaws, summer was considered a slow season and the better movies were saved for other times But , I believe the production delays caused them to release this in June The marketing on the film was brilliant. The book Jaws, came out about a year before the film and they timed the release of this film with the release of the paperback version of the book, which everybody had and was talking about , creating a huge buzz, they also did a wide release of the film, which I believe was unusual at the time. I liked the second Jaws, I thought it was suspenseful and fun. The third and fourth were pretty low budget and not worth it.
I like the third one. It's cheesy fun.
For what it's worth, the third had some of the most amazing 3D I've ever seen in the theater. The 80's dual projector 3D tech actually looks better than most digital 3D today.
@@gallendugall8913 very cheesy!!!
@@zatoichi1 I think it had some good moments, but the bad acting of the lead female and the shots of the shark at the end killed it for me.
That shot of the shark thrashing on top of the cage is an actual great white who got caught in the wires and violently broke free of it. It was such a dramatic moment that they kept it and changed the script.
@9:54 it is now believed that some species, like Greenland Sharks, can live over 500 years. You have to remember that it's been almost 50 years since this movie was made. We know a lot more now than we did then. Many studies of ocean wildlife at the time, were more or less in their infancies.
But see, even you didn't know that sharks can live hundreds and hundreds of years. So maybe they can live 1000, we just haven't found one yet. The ocean is a big place.
Cheers!
I named my first dog, 'Hooper." She was a girl. I loved Matt Hooper. I hated it when Quint died, but there were lots of clues and foreshadowing. I wouldn't have trimmed anything. The reason the Mayor felt he couldn't shut down the town was because the entire town depended upon the summer income for a living. In the meetings, none of the business owners wanted the beaches shut down. They are a seasonal town that makes their only income from the summer tourists. The fourth of July was the biggest money-making time of the year. If you see the ending, you do see them reach the shore. My rating was always 10/10. Like Halloween 1978! Jaws is one of the perfect movies. The mayor did the right thing when he signed to pay Quint to kill the shark and THEY did kill the shark.
I lived in a summer resort town for a while. If you don't make money in summer, you likely to go bankrupt.
@billolsen4360
This is all true, and if you have ever lived in a resort town, you understand his motives completely.
If you read the book, you know that the mayor was also mixed up with some shady charactors, and there is "other" money from unknown origins involved.
My mom took me to see this at a reshowing at a drive-in back in '81, I was around 5yrs old. I fell in love with the movie and the shark. As a result I learned all I could about sharks, which lead me to dinosaurs. ❤️ To this day, to me, sharks a adorable and beautiful. You might see what I mean when if you check out vids of people, in the real world, hanging out with, feeding, petting and chilling with various kinds of sharks!
If you love this film, btw, I HIGHLY recommend the 30th anniversary documentary of the making of the film. It's as good as the film! Great reaction!
If nobody else told you here's how the barrels work. Sharks, being so ancient they never evolved gill muscles to send oxygen from the water through their bloodstream. They have to keep swimming for the water to flow over their gills.If they stop swimming they die.
Attaching the barrels to sharks wears them out. Eventually, they stop swimming and die.
If you pay close attention, you'll spot a shooting star in nearly every Spielberg film. In this case, it was serendipity that a real meteor was captured.
This is why you will never see me in beaches, lakes or ponds!!! Lol
Gen X here. Remember when this was in the theaters. My uncle had a beach house in Huntington Beach, CA. We would spend every weekend there during the summer. I remember many of us cousins were literally too scared to go into the ocean when this movie came out. We were even to scared to go into swimming pools. And we weren’t the only ones. When Jaws 2 came out the tag line on the tv commercial said “Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water”.
Greenland Sharks are actually the longest living vertebrate on our planet with an average lifespan estimated at 250 years but likely surpasses 500 years. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
I was going to mention this. Some fish ages can be estimated from specific bones, but sharks don’t have any, so it’s hard to be sure.
This is an early Steven Spielberg film, and in it he captured an actual shooting star in the background. Every film he ever made after this film he included a shooting star cuz he considered it lucky
I can't help but think that, at that very moment, Spielberg made a wish that his grandest ambitions would one day be realized. 😄
"24 hours is like 3 weeks!" Possibly meant money wise. The whole reason this was an issue was that its a summer town. Maybe 1 day in the summer = 3weeks during the rest of the year
Stopped by to say thx for reaction to Jaws.
It’s a classic from 1975. Seeing it as a 10yr old in the theater…. Let’s just say I still sit on beach while grandkids play in the water (making fun of me cause I won’t go in the ocean.). Thx again.
Fun fact: The shark was originally supposed to be in the film a lot more, clearly seen. The crew were having all kinds of problems with getting it to work, so Spielberg worked around it by having it mostly hidden and that turned out to be a brilliant idea. Your imagination really works on you throughout the film until you get a good view later.
I used to work at a video store, and on Sundays when the store was packed, I would put this movie on. Everyone would stop and watch because that opening scene is so terrifying. My best friend grew up on the island this was filmed on & didn't go into the water for decades after that.
You guys should read the book. When Crissie is swimming she feels something scratch her leg. She reaches down and can feel her warm blood pouring out of where her once leg was. The mama shark has completely taken it off. Then she thrashes her around, as if she's playing with her food much like a cat would before taking her down. WE❤LOVE ❤YOUR ❤CHANNEL 😊
JAWS is definitely a horror movie. It's for sure a Horror Thriller as a whole because of it's elements all around, I personally like to call it a Horror Adventure movie because that just sounds badass but bottom-line, it should always be celebrated as a horror movie (and just a cinema masterpiece as a whole)
Quint. The quintessential dude with no f**ks to give. The head jump scare is one of the best ever. Have you guys seen “Alien?”
"How much did the shark pay those kids to be a distraction?" ...BEST commentary EVER! 😆
If you notice in the climax of the movie, you can see the shark missing a tooth which especially shows when he's up by Martin on the pole of the boat. That's where the missing tooth found in Gardener's destroyed boat came from
This was the very first summer blockbuster movie. I remember seeing it when I was 14 with my best friend and my younger brother (my mom said I had to take him with us). My brother got popcorn and I got a drink. We were so terrified that we couldn’t eat or drink. My friend asked us “are you going to eat that? Are you going to drink that?” So she got everything while we slid further and further down into our seats trying to hide behind the seats in front of us.😂
My parents took me to see this movie when it came out. I was 12. It traumatized me! I was never able to go swimming in the ocean again and I was never able to learn to really snorkel because I was terrified of a shark coming up behind me and biting me in half. All these decades later and this is, at least for me, the scariest movie I've ever seen. I mean, I couldn't go back in the water! Lol
Your reaction is understandable. What I can’t figure out is the people who were terrified about going swimming in a pool or taking a bath. 😂😂😂
Weird fact that the mechanical shark in this film was nicknamed Bruce by the film makers & that’s why in Finding Nemo the Shark is called Bruce as a nod to jaws
An instant classic and the first film to make people legitimately afraid to go in the water.
The shark was named Bruce after Spielberg’s lawyer. Lol, true story.
Fun fact: the oldest known shark fossils date back further than the oldest known specimens of tree fossils… yeah sharks are older than trees.
The "you're gonna need a bigger boat" bit has a great story attached. None of the actors had seen the shark animatronic at that point and when it suddenly appeared like that Roy Scheider's reaction is completely legit.
After reading Gottlieb’s extensive notes, Spielberg asked if he would join the Jaws production and help to redraft the troubled script adaptation of Peter Benchley’s best-seller. Gottlieb quit his day job.
The infamous line from Jaws, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat," came about during those rewrites.
“It was an overlap of a real-life problem combined with the dilemma of the characters onscreen,” Gottlieb says of the origins of the line. The real-life problem being a barge (named by the cast and crew S.S. Garage Sale), which carried all the lights and camera equipment and craft services, was steadied by a small support boat that was too tiny to manage the job.
Gottlieb recalls: “[Richard] Zanuck and [David] Brown were very stingy producers, so everyone kept telling them, ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.’ It became a catchphrase for anytime anything went wrong - if lunch was late or the swells were rocking the camera, someone would say, ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.'”
Roy Scheider, who played Brody in the movie, ad-libbed the line at different points in his performance throughout filming. But the one reading that made it in to the final cut of the movie was after the suspenseful first look at the great white shark. Says Gottlieb, “It was so appropriate and so real and it came at the right moment, thanks to Verna Field’s editing.”
FYI. Roys reaction shot to the shark was filmed 2 weeks after the shark surfacing.
Any time I start to feel like I’ve done anything cool with my pathetic life I remember Steven Spielberg was only 26 when he directed this and it knocks me right back down where I belong.
This was shot in Martha's Vineyard. I grew up in Maine, and went there as a little girl. My sister told me that was where Jaws was filmed, and despite loving to swim I DID NOT swim during that visit. :D
Re: Shark age. Greenland Sharks are believed to live at least 250 years and may live as long as 500+
I was 12 when this movie came out. I had just finished reading the book and was already a little terrified. Saw this in the theaters and to this day, I have never looked at the ocean the same way. Pretty safe to say that this movie traumatized my generation😳
I was much younger when it came out but my father would not let me see it. I actually saw Jaws 2 in theaters before the first movie, which I later caught on cable.
I love that NERF has been transformed into a verb!
Susan Backline at her audition : " You have 3 lines Chrissy , Swimming and come on in the water.
John Milius wrote the dialogue about the USS Indianapolis for Steven Spielberg. I recommend the original Conan the Barbarian. Arnold Schwarzenegger first real movie. By John Millius. He also wrote most of Apocalypse Now. And Steven Spielberg's 1941 action war comedy.
"THE WIND AND THE LION" was his best, also he wrote for APOCOLYPSE NOW
Not if you ask Carl Gottlieb, co-writer and star of Jaws. He has always had issue with Spielberg citing Milius as the writer and says his involvement was talked up because they are friends. He says Shaw deserves the credit. The original treatment was written by Howard Sackler and was two pages long - Spielberg incorrectly claims it was just two paragraphs. He then asked other friends including Robert Zemeckis and his Back to the Future co-writer Bob Gale to have a crack and yes Milius was involved. In fact Gottlieb says there were about 10 versions of the speech including his own and they were all given to Robert Shaw who had written plays before. He took them all and came up with the final draft. He brought it to dinner with the director and crew and told them he "had that pesky speech licked..." He performed it there for them and once complete Speilberg said: "That's what we're shooting.." The input from Milius wasn't even in person, they only ever spoke over the phone. As Carl says, "...who are you going to believe, the guy who wasn't there who claims to have written it or the guy who WAS - but claims he didn't ?"
Robert Shaw re-wrote that monologue. He changed it, and it is a masterpiece.
I think the reason saying why some parts were slow because at the time the editing wasn't very fast pace. But then in 1977 when Star Wars came out, it brought a whole new level of not just special effects and sound, but fast paced editing. Remember my dad telling me that story that on Star Wars saying it was like nothing like i've seen before.
Sharks have no bones EXCEPT the jaws, upper and lower. That's what Capt. Quint had hanging all over his shop was bony shark jaws.
Just an interesting tid-bit-- they use shark cartilage to make artificial skin for burn victims and to reinforce badly broken bones until their own real bone can re-grow and heal. It is naturally resistant to infection. Sharks never get infections and that's a good thing considering they get all scared up by other sharks in feeding frenzies and they're just as viscous while making baby sharks.
This shark in the story was supposed to be 25 to 30 feet long. At the time of the movie no Great White had been documented to be larger than 20 ft. but just shortly after a 30 footer was found and confirmed and years later they actually found a 38 ft. Great White.
Loved your review. Well thought out analyzing.
2:28 - 😂😂😂
4:23 - bruh I’m weak 😂
It was a very lucky capture of a shooting star that was passing by at that moment.
Solid 10. It being so old but still as scary but unlike most action films it has great character development, real characters, no over sentimental scenes with tacky music, no guys with sixpacks but real people, the anti-hero we can all relate to becoming the real hero by just doing everything to survive, great scenery and camera work and the soundtrack in amazing. This is what you want in a movie.
The scene inside the boat when they're comparing scars and Quint tells his story about his ship being torpedoed and sunk, and the following shark attacks really happened. It's a true story. It adds a deep layer to Quint and it elevates the film above what is basically a monster movie.
“You’re going to need a bigger boat!!!!!!!!” 49 YEARS AGO TODAY STEVEN SPIELBERG RELEASED HIS NEW MOVIE ON PETER BENCHLEY FAMOUS NOVEL, JAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEXT YEAR JAWS WILL BE CELEBRATING 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!!! We saw this in theaters back in 2020, which was awesome!!!!!!! THE FIRST SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER!!!!!!!!!!!
It sometimes irks me that in order to make the movie tighter, Spielberg and Carl Gottlieb decided to leave out the subplot in the novel that informs us that the reason Mayor Vaughn is so terribly desperate to get paying vacationers onto Amity's beaches is because he'd persuaded certain underworld hierarchs to invest rather heavily in the island's interests. He wasn't concerned one jot about the shark because he knew darn well that there were worse predators out there to scare _him._ 😏
I went to Maui and because of seeing this movie I couldn't go in the ocean. I kept freaking out and swimming hella fast to get out if I saw anything underwater
Imagine seeing this film as an 11 year old in theaters in 1975. I never went in the water at a beach 🏖 to this day. Now I love the movie, I have JAWS t shirts, boat shoes , the book…but I’m not going near that water 😂 and you realize it’s like over 30 minutes before we even see Bruce (the mechanical sharks 🦈 on set name) but that damn music is terrifying enough. They said Bruce often would not work and Steven Spielberg had to film around him, or not film him at all in some scenes.
I was 3. Was scarred to take a bath for 2 weeks. Lol
I was 9 when I saw it in the theater with my father and a friend. I was traumatized for a while. Didn’t go in the ocean deeper than my knees for a few years.
The Mayor served his purpose of representing a town too focused on tourism (and with the economics of the 70's, it was no small thing), making highly questionable decisions related to that idea, and eventually getting land-lover Brody locked into boarding the Orca and hunting down the shark. Had this film been a social or political drama, then more time could be spent of the Mayor...but this an action-mystery-thriller, and besides, he really is a secondary character. The same could be said about extending the ending. Watching the surviving victorious heroes swim for the sunset...errr shore was the best ending for this quintessential Summer Blockbuster (one that started and defined the genre). Going back to the Mayor only takes away from the their triumph over a seemingly unstoppable foe.
I feel like the 'happy hunting' music is intended to be from the perspective of the shark.
I actually like the way they ended it. But (and not to spoil or anything, but this is pretty minor); in Jaws 2, the same guy is still the mayor, and it's supposed to be a couple of years later. Otherwise, I strongly recommend Jaws 2. It isn't quite at the mastery level of the original, but it is a lot of fun. Also the cinematography in it is breathtaking. It's the most beautiful color palette I've ever seen in a movie - - it's worth seeing it for that.
I’ve lived on Martha’s Vineyard all my life. I remember going down to the beach to watch Spielberg shoot scenes for this movie. My friends and I were never afraid of sharks because we saw Bruce, the mechanical shark, fail all the time.
The poison is strychnine but all poisonous chemical labels have the word " poison" as a requirement in bold letters. The actual name of the contents is above the "poison " label.
After telling us Zay has never seen the movie before, he says at 7: 13 "I forgot about the dog- I thought the dog got away safe". Sprung!
I saw this in the theater when it was first released - and I cannot begin to describe the hysteria this caused! Lines around the block! It spawned all kinds of merchandise: T-shirts, blankets, lunch boxes, beach towels, etc. People were actually NOT going into the water at the beaches! This absolutely is the best of the Jaws films. The actors are top of the line. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, (who does a cameo as the reporter on the beach) it is a sort of twist on the Moby Dick story - where instead of just one man obsessed with catching the shark (whale, in the Melville story), you have the "old school sailor" who is obsessed to the point of insanity, the contemporary marine biologist who uses new methods to try to catch the shark and then there's Brody, who is afraid of water - and he goes along with them. It was nominated for 4 academy awards and won 3: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score (John Williams). It was filmed in Martha's Vineyard, and is considered the 1st "blockbuster" film. Spielberg did not want to be involved in any sequels.
sadly, my parents who were in their twenties in that year didn't see this movie when it came out since they aren't big time horror fans and thought JAWS looked ridiculous for a movie about a killer shark. My dad never gets scared at all in horror movies. none lol. Million years later, where i am in my thirty's now, i tried very hard for my dad (mom already past away in 90's) to check out the movie since he is a BIG TIME SPEILBERG fan in so many movies but never saw this one. Did he actually watch it? YES! even though it didn't scare him he thought it was pretty good. But he did watch it the second time during COVID - 19 (with me there) and saying it just got way more entertaining and fun. REason cause of the terrible havoc letting the beaches be open while its spreading like crazy for only thinking of making money and not care of risking the beach goers. Just like that Mayor in Jaws to just keep the beach open while their is a shark on the loose.
Actually, the novel, and therefore the movie too, was based on a series of actual shark attacks, which occurred in 1916 I believe.
24hrs IS like three weeks in terms of lost renevenu, when you make 98 % of your yearly proffits in three months.
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The Greenland shark (or sleeper shark, _Somniosus microcephalus_ ) is the oldest confirmed vertebrate species: *500 years old.* It reaches sexual maturity around age 150. Science didn't know that in 1975.
17:32 yes, Cam, we feel your pain.
LOL, in 1975 when this came out, I was in my early teens and the whole family went to see it. We were visiting with relatives, and one of my dad's younger brothers went with us to see it. He was sitting next to me, holding a drink in one hand and popcorn in the other, and when THAT part happened, my uncle threw everything he was holding and the rows behind us and in front of us was showered in popcorn and drink!
If Jaws launched Steven Spielberg's career, Schindler's List sent it into orbit (and won him an Oscar). Please watch it ASAP.
Heavens, man, he'd been in orbit in the popular mind since at least *E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial* came out a decade previously. I presume you were referring to his acceptance as a great director by the Academy? 🧐
@@goldenager59 Yes and no. Steven Spielberg made some great movies between Jaws and Schindler's List. But he didn't get the Oscar for E.T. And Schindler's List made more money worldwide than E.T. and made him more of a household name worldwide. Oh, and I doubt he would have gotten a standing ovation for winning the Oscar for E.T. or any of his other previous movies.
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Got the 🖼️. 😉
@greggthompson959 And also “Jurassic Park” the same year as “Schindler’s List.” (Speaking of which, could those 2 movies BE any different from each other?)
33:30 There's a fan joke that this light makes Jaws a crossover with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, another Spielberg masterpiece and considered by many to be his best film. Certainly a sci-fi genre-maker, shit's absolutely amazing.
T'was a real shooting star got lucky while filming.
Fun fact - one of the kids with the fake fin is now Chief of Police in the main town on Martha's Vineyard.
I saw jaws 2 before i saw the first jaws movie.
When jaws 2 came out in 1978, i was 9 years old. For a couple of years I was going to the movies once a week, every week, with my then best friend. We were fanatics about the movies.
When jaws 2 came out, it was one of the many movies we went to see. Thanks to the publicity surrounding jaws 2, there were theaters who decided to show the first jaws movie. So, naturally, my friend and i eventually went to see it. I liked jaws 2, but the first jaws turned out to be even way more better.
Best reaction to this movie EVER. Stay cool, guys.
"My kids were on that beach too." - The shark wasn't on the beach.
This was the first time I noticed the chief barely ate his meal on the boat while the other two with a lot of 'sea time' had no issues. Just as the shark knocks.
Older movies always seem too slow for younger people, because their attention spans have been fried from the distractions of cellphones and the internet. It's not that the movies are actually slow, because they're not.
I was first mate on a charter fishing boat in the keys for several years. Back then, you didn't have the engineering that reels have today nor did we have the type of line that we have today. Leader lines, nylon line, all of that was brand new.
You absolutely would have to dump water onto a spinning reel to keep it from overheating and not only snapping the line but completely sort of exploding the real itself.
That being said, in 1987, I caught a 52 lb cow dolphin (mahi mahi) on an ugly stick and 12 lb test (a bass reel).
It took me five and a half hours to get it into the boat and, tore all the muscles in both shoulders.
A fish will take a line, dive and then relax.
You real in as much line as possible, (What he's wearing is called a fighting belt and gimble. The gimbal rocks in the fighting belt to allow you to move the pole. We also have fighting chairs where you can brace your feet up against them to add leverage.)
When a fish is tired, it will actually rest sideways and it's literally impossible to pull a fish up when it is resting sideways.
The only time you can get it towards you is when it's nose is faced towards you. They can rest for long periods of time and you have to keep the tension on that line or, you'll lose the fish.
Add to that the fact that I didn't think it was worth it to enter the dolphin contest that year, I lost first prize. She was the biggest dolphin brought in that day.
The barrel is also supposed to keep the shark close to the surface but doesn't work. This movie should have won best picture. It has everything, the acting, the camaraderie of these men, the story, the shark, the music, the cinematography, the foreshadowing. How Quint is like Captain Ahab; he will not give up! There are a few shooting stars in this movie. My favourite line is "Smile, you son of a BOOM!" I love how the music "Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies" plays often when you see Quint..." That music with the barrel lets you know how easily and merrily the shark swims, no matter how many barrels they shoot into it. This movie came out when I was 12 and traumatized my whole generation. We couldn't swim in pools or have a bath comfortably! I think of Jaws whenever I go swimming to THIS DAY! The trailers for it were genius! I still remember them!
OMG, Zay, you missed the severed head jump scare. That was a shooting star you saw in the sky. It happens twice in the movie. This was such a scary, suspenseful movie back in 75. I saw it at the theatre when it came out, on vacation, at the beach. To this day I no longer go swimming in the ocean.
The $3000 bounty would be about $18,000 today. The $10K that Quint asks would be about $60K today.
I think it’s a great piece of horror/suspense thriller. It is very character driven. They do a good job at getting you invested. It also has some horrific scenes to be sure. There is a subtle message in there as well about how being a good leader means making decisions that are unpopular and considering the opinions and perspectives of others. Additionally bad leadership can lead to crisis and tragedy.
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Ahahahah 😂
I love you 2 so much watching your reactions. Glad you enjoyed Jaws
Jaws came out in US theaters June 20, 1975. My mother saw this when she was 8 months pregnant with me lol, I was born July 1975.
People were afraid to go into SWIMMING POOLS after this film came out!
K that’s just silly.
The name of the boat is Orca. There's a horror movie with that name, too.
It's Martha's Vineyard. My family and I started going on vacation there two years after Jaws came out (luckily I didn't see it until 1978.) I remember putting our car on the car ferry and riding over...
They discover that the Greenland shark can live at least to over 800 years.
As someone from New Jersey, it's bittersweet to know that something tragic occurred where you live, but inspired one of the most defining films of history...
That is an incorrect assertion. The Jersey shore attacks were not the inspiration for Jaws. That is a myth. The inspiration for Jaws and you can find interviews with Peter benchley as well as his widow stating this, was when he saw an article in a magazine with a picture of Frank mundus and a 4,500 lb great white that he caught. And it got Peter benchley thinking what would it be like if a rogue great white bigger than that one terrorize that Island community. The Jersey shore attacks were mentioned but had no inspirational value to Peter benchley whatsoever
The story about the Indianapolis was a real story.