@@bpora01 They really don't create them like they used to, you nailed it. Yes! That's what I'm saying too. The story was a lot more raw and emotional than I'd expected. Thank you for watching!
The studio wasn't sure how this movie would do so it released it during a slow time...the summer. Back in the day, most movies were released in the fall when people were back from their holiday travels. What happened is that JAWS started a new tradition, i.e. the summer blockbuster.
That was only initially. However, after the first test screenings in April 1975 the studio was certain it would be a huge hit so that's why they decided to release it widely in June and spent a lot of money on the advertising campaign. They knew they had a hit.
Speilberg always finds a way to create space in his films for moments of humanity. The scene between father and son is priceless. He's just been slapped for not closing the beach. He has the lives of hundreds of summer residents in his hands. He's under a lot of pressure. But he has a son who doesn't see him as the sheriff who is under fire but the father he loves and admires.
This movie holds up surprisingly well despite being approximately 50 years old. I believe this is because of the stellar acting, the great cinematography, the slow build-up of suspense and menace, the believable dialogue, the moments of levity, and the fact that the shark becomes this seemingly intelligent, clever, and malicious villain that is relentless and feels unstoppable.... well, until that grand finale where it is finally stopped. This isn't your average monster movie! RIP Quint, who delivers one of the most powerful monologues in film.
I was amazed when I rewatched it after a few years and found myself often at the edge of my seat, even though I'd already watched it several times before and knew exactly what was going to happen.
Unlike nearly all modern films the characters are completely believable and you are convinced they really are what they are portrayed to be. Very natural performances, even Mrs Brody.
@lyndoncmp5751 100%...the film holds up so well. The acting, the believable characters, the phenomenal dialogue, minimal special effects, the cinematography, the subtle humor ("let Polly do the printing" or "it's only an island is you look at it from the water" or "Hooper drives the boat, Chief") and of course the masterful monologue.
9:44 What the _"24 hours is like 3 weeks"_ statement actually means is that for every 24 hours in which summer tourists can't go to the beach will result in a loss of 3 weeks income for the small business owners of Amity Island. Remember as the mayor said, Amity is a summer town in which all the residents' livelihoods depend almost entirely on the summer tourism, much like Cape Cod, Massachusetts or Cape May, New Jersey. It wasn't meant to be an exaggeration of how long a day without the beach feels. And it's a summer holiday to boot. Closing on or around July 4th, up north in a beach town? You can't make up that kind of money.
The year-round population is close to 23,000, and in the summer there can be as many as 200,000 people on the Island. Martha's Vineyard where it was filmed
Almost every reactor laughs or mocks the lady who says that...and it's funny when they do, but yeah I 100% agree with you that it makes sense, she's talking about the economic impact.
It’s funny, because I just got back from a high priced tourist town in the Rockies for the Fourth of July, and a barista confirmed in just the 5 days they were working, they made enough to cover their rent for 3 months. It’s the same way with Lake Tahoe: as much as the cost of living is for the locals, they stick it out because they can make a lot of money in a very short time, then go on vacation.
@@phillymike3181I was born on Cape Cod a few years before the film was released, and subsequently raised there until I graduated college. I moved back 10 years ago. Yes, the Cape used to rely on summer dollars, but no longer the case for the upper Cape or mid Cape. The lower cape is still pretty summer dollar reliant.
My dad watched this movie twice back when it was released in Swedish theatres. One time to enjoy the movie, and a second time so he could enjoy everyone elses reactions to the scares. 🤣
Even after so many viewings, that shot of the water erupting into bloody foam when the boy in the yellow raft is killed hasn't lost any of its horrifying power. 😱😱😱
Don't go in the water! I saw this with our neighbors the summer it came out when I was 6 years old. My parents had no idea how traumatized I would be for a couple years after I saw it. I slept in their bedroom for years and was even scared when swimming in any pool. This movie affected me more than any other movie I have watched in my entire life. Love to watch first timers reactions!
The main reason you don't see much of the shark is a technical one. Apparently, the animatronic shark ( named "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer) kept breaking down during filming. It makes the movie SO much scarier not being able to see what's coming.
Well I'm afraid that's actually become an exaggerated myth. The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already very much a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. Besides, they could never have used Bruce in the shallow water where the beach scenes were filmed. It was a huge contraption with an enormous rig. It needed deeper water. The mechanical shark/s were only scheduled to be used in from July 1974 for the Orca based scenes when filming went out to sea. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June before they even knew the shark would go wrong. It did go wrong all through July and August, so that is definitely true, and it wasn't until September that it finally worked. The first half of the film actually was filmed pretty much on schedule believe it or not. They were only a few days behind schedule when they went out to sea in July. This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries, and skewed recollections by some folks, have exaggerated this myth. Just saying. Cheers.
@@Stogie2112 Yeah, it's such a sweet scene and really shows us and the chief why this thing needa stopping. Families and innocent lives. I love scenes like that too, they show the humanity of the situation. Thanks for watching Stogie!
Don't go in the water. The first act of Jaws is filled with great little moments that slip by: the misspelled "Corners office", the old guy who meets Brody on the street with "Hey, glasses!", Brody picking up the wrong telephone (of two identical phones) at his house, Brody hitting his head on the "Town Accountant" sign (you caught that one!). I love these little touches.
Yeah, nice little touches. Also when Brody goes out to get the paint and signs he's still got the teatowel over his shoulder and he puts his jacket on over it without realising it's still on his shoulder 😂. It's still there on the car ferry.
@@richardheinz Ohhh!!! That makes total sense! Thank you for that Richard. I should have realised, as I love coffee flavoured ice cream! Thanks for watching too
@@jtoland2333 Ahh, nice! Yeah it's a unique "artificial" type flavour that's more sweet than the actual coffee taste, so I can see why you'd like one and not the other. I used to feel more grown up getting to have it, as my parents would be drinking coffee and I was too young for it 😅
The barrels are full of air, the idea is that the more barrels on the shark, the harder it will be for it to submerge or swim and eventually it gets tired.
They always ask :can't you hear her screaming." Well if the drunk guy wasn't passed out, what would you expect him to do? Swim and get eaten by the shark too? Call for help? Who's he gonna call? A lifeguard? Coastguard? It was over once the shark caught her. Only thing the drunk guy could have done is prevented anyone else from going in the water.
Best monologue in film history. Spielberg Had the Indianapolis scene written by a couple of script writers but was unhappy with it. He approached Robert Shaw, who was also a noted playwright. and asked to rewrite the sequence. The next day Shaw shot the monologue he had rewritten. I saw this film 3 times the summer it was released.
I always love watching reactors react to the "Ben Gardiner- head popping out of the porthole" jumpscare. Most people jump right out of their chair. And you didnt disappoint ! 😁 its the jumpscare of all jumpscares; cuz your not expecting it , but youre already in a scared state and then the horrifying image of a floating head. Steven Speilberg ya'll
Jaws is my personal favorite film of all time and Robert Shaw/Quint is my favorite actor of all time. Period. ❤️🔥💯🔥🦈 You have earned yourself yet another new subscriber!
42:00 --- The barrels are to slow him and wear him down... Each barrel has an approximate lift of 250 pounds.. Trying to dive or go under means pulling an extra 250 for each barrel..
“The 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks inspired the book and movie Jaws, which were published in 1974 and 1975, respectively. The attacks occurred between July 1 and 12, 1916, during a heat wave and polio epidemic, and killed four people and critically injured one. The attacks drew national media attention, and a Barnum & Bailey lion tamer eventually put an end to the shark's reign of terror.”
I saw this movie when I was 7. My stepsister had just turned 6. Our parents took us to see it. They regretted it because they couldn’t get us to take a bath for the rest of the summer. My step grandmother resorted to hosing us off in the back yard using the garden hose as a makeshift shower. We wouldn’t even get into the plastic wading pool.
@@rickardroach9075 😎 Woah... that's heavy! ... Shark still looks fake. Great reference 👌 Also, I remember when that "fake" Universal trailer came out too 🤣 Brilliant!
The Yellow barrels are full of air which is supposed to keep the shark close to the surface and tire it out if it dives. If you get in a pool with a basketball or a football and try to dive you will see that it is basically impossible to stay submereged because the air in the ball will cause you to rise to the surface.
Hawaii has a lot of unreported shark attacks. They don't want to disturb the tourist industry. Mostly tiger sharks, but it's also a breeding ground for hammerheads
The chief and his family are from New York, but recently moved to Amity to take the job. The mayor warned him, its your first Sumner, and they mentioned they bought the house in the autumn.
Yes, the narrative of the novel goes somewhat differently than the movie. The chief was an Amity Island native, his wife came from a wealthy Boston family who basically disowned her and cut off all relations because she married a lowly small-town cop. The marriage was a good one, but she always had those thoughts about what-if and the-road-not-taken. When the shark killings began, Matt Hooper came to Amity to help, and by great coincidence he also turned out to come from the same wealthy area as Ellen, and was, in fact, the neighbor kid she used to babysit, and who always had an intense crush on her. Literary Matt Hooper wasn't movie Matt Hooper at all, not short, lovably scruffy Richard Dreyfus, but more of a tall, buff, blond surfer-boy type. A Ken doll, a Chad, as it were. And, of course, he was also a reminder of the wealth and privilege of Ellen's youth, which had had to give up. He and Ellen had a secret tryst at the local no-tell motel, which was his childhood dream come true, but which plunged her into a morass of guilt feelings. After that Martin Brody, Hooper, and Quint went out to sea to hunt the shark. When Hooper went down in the water in his shark cage, the shark forced its way in, spreading the steel bars apart with its nose and then crushing Hooper against the opposite side of the cage, killing him. In the book this is presented as almost a divine punishment for Hooper's betrayal of Martin Brody, who never did learn of what he did. I read the book sometime before I ever saw the movie, in an illustrated Reader's Digest collection, and there was an excellent picture of Hooper being crushed by the shark. I did appreciate the way Spielberg streamlined the story by eliminating the sex affair entirely (and having the Brodys be transplants from New York as a way of explaining Roy Scheider's New Jersey accent, as most people in the audience probably can't tell the difference), and I also liked Richard Dreyfus' performance. And yet I still couldn't help feeling just a little bit disappointed that Hooper survived the movie.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q You have omitted the part that Quint took an intense dislike to Hooper, dismissing him as a girly wuss and gave him hell. I think that Brody knew that Hooper had banged his wife as he tried to force him to admit it as he knew that Hooper had not spent the night with Daisy Wicker.
I saw this when it was first released at the drive-in from the roof of my sister's car. Don't go in the water! Paper Moon is a movie overlooked by reactors. Great fun watching your channel.
One thing that makes the scene where the boy gets eaten more suspenseful is that the time between the cuts from the beach to Chief Brody keep getting more & more brief
8.24 Famous in-camera shot developed by Hitchcock for Vertigo. As a movie buff, here's some trivia for you on this celluloid masterpiece that made Spielberg a global name. The mechanical shark was infamous for breaking down & was nicknamed 'Bruce' after Spielberg's lawyer. The famous jump-scare was partly shot in a swimming pool. One of the kids in the 'he made me do it' fake shark fin part is now chief of police on Martha's Vineyard, effectively becoming 'Brody'.
And to cloud up the water in the swimming pool, they poured some milk into the water. For that jump-scare shot, I think they used the swimming pool of the films editor, Verna Fields.
@@stlmopoet Thank you so much for watching! Aw wow, that means so much more than you'll know, thank you. That's one of the things I'm glad I can bring to the table, knowledge and my love for film. I'm so glad you liked the trivia too! It's great to dive deep into it all after watching the film to find out that little extra more. Have a wonderful day and seriously, thank you for the kind words!
Oh that's amazing! Thank you for letting me know this. I hadn't looked further into it, but was wondering where abouts it was. I appreciate the info, I'd love to go there one day and maybe even visit the restaurant. I love your username too! Thanks for watching
@@MoviesWithMarty I sincerely hope that there comes a day when you are able to come out this way and visit the movie locations and maybe even get to spend some time with Jeffrey.... I did get the chance to go out there and sit with him for a little while and it was absolutely wonderful.. In all seriousness... He is one of the most amazing celebrities that you could ever meet and actually spend time with.
When the child mentioned 'coffee' he was asked what kind of ice creme he wanted. In those days we called "mocha" ice creme "Coffee" ice creme. Just FYI
You misunderstood the kid in the hospital, the mom asked what he wanted and he said ice cream, coffee. It's a popular flavor in the northeast, it's also a very old flavor. I grew up in the 60's and it was one of my favorite flavors too.
Craig Kingsbury, a local eccentric, played Ben Gardner. He lived quite the life, and he was Shaw's inspiration for the character of Quint. His biography is very interesting!
Director Bryan Singer has a production company called "Bad Hat Harry Productions", the name of which comes from "Jaws". It was an early scene where Brody tells an old man "That's a bad hat, Harry."
Love the opening scene. You don’t see the shark or even any blood but you know what’s happening to her. Saw it in ‘75 and almost jumped out of my seat. It’s one of the few movies that’s better than the book. Went with family on a car trip out to Calif. Love the ocean but after seeing the movie my brother and I hardly went in. Lifeguards said it was an easy summer for them…hardly anyone went into the water. Even now I’ll go out but not past where the waves are breaking. And since we’ve passed laws to save more seals the shark population has grown. Lot’s of great whites on both coasts.
It occurs to me that Quint's SOUL was taken by sharks the night the USS Indianapolis went down, he just didnt know it. Since that day, he was a shell of a man: Quint never had kids, got a regular job. The man Quint COULD have been --- his hopes, dreams, skills, love, life, all he could ever be --- never came out of the water that night, June 1945. He might have been a carpenter, football coach, a church deacon, a grandfather, shanty singer. Just the opposite, Quint never left the water: he spent his life staring back at the ocean, returning to it, returning TO sharks, looking them in their dead eyes, trying to give his body back to the one shark that already bit his soul in half 3 decades ago
My father served in the Navy..he always had a plaque of the USS Indianapolis....never talked about it.. didn't realize what happened until i saw this movie...some things dads don't wanna havta tell their kids about i guess 🇺🇸🦅great movie..
I would recommend the movie Duel from 1971, also by Spielberg. Jaws is kind of a spiritual sequel to Duel about an average guy getting into conflict with a truck driver. I saw the film when I was very young and just like Jaws made people scared of the water, Duel made me terrified of semi trucks for many years. I think you would like it. Cheers.
Originally the shark was going to have more on camera time but the animatronic shark (Bruce, named after Spielbergs lawyer) would not work most the time. So Spielberg improvised and wrote scenes without it. I think it did escalate the tension and greatly improved the film. Spielberg is a genius even when things aren't going right.
You know the thing about a like button is it has lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes and when you push it doesn't even seem to be living, until it registers the like and then you're happy!
@@gallendugall8913 Now THAT is amazing 😜😏 I don't know why, but it reminds me SO much of a 'like button' mention in a Mr Ballen video 🤣 If you've not seen his videos, check out one and you'll see what I mean haha. Thank you for this! It made me chuckle
It was coffee ice cream he wanted not hot coffee. They were from NY, coffee ice cream and iced coffee were popular decades before many parts of the country.
Oh, ok. I could never understand why reactors don’t know that the kid meant ice cream after his mother asks him what flavor he wants. I’m from NYC and didn’t realize that coffee ice cream was made popular by my city before everywhere else.
Mid-reaction review: Little me: Scheider and Ricky D are my boys! Grown-up me: Robert Shaw is the best ever! Post-film me: 😮 Lovely reaction to one of the best, friend! ❤️🥂
Haha, I went through something similar. Younger me: Wow, that old dude Robert Shaw is a great actor. Middle-aged me: Um... is crazy drunken poet-orator captain Quint kind of sexy?!
Right before the zoom shot you liked is a series of "slices" that also zoom in but in single shots, usually when someone is crossing in front of Brody, back and forth, leading to the single long zoom in. The filming at water level is also really effective.
Nearly 90 percent of the cast were locals and local actors to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, including Elizabeth Lee Fierro who portrayed Mrs. Kintner. She passed on April 5, 2020 from Covid complications.
@@jollyjakelovell4787 Yeah! I hadn't realised until the trivia part, it's so cool they did that. Much better and more authentic than having to hire people to pretend to be the locals. Plus, it's exciting to be part of it too. Oh no!! I didnt realise Fierro had passed away as well! Thank you for letting me know 🥺 Also, thank you for watching
Shark attacks on humans are rare, but there are some steps you can take to reduce your risk of being bitten: Avoid certain times Don't swim at dawn, dusk, or in the dark when sharks are most active. Also avoid swimming right after a storm. Avoid certain areas Stay close to shore and avoid murky water, deep channels, and waters with known discharges or sewage. Also avoid areas where people are fishing, especially if there are signs of baitfish or feeding activity, like diving seabirds. Avoid certain behaviors Don't swim if you're bleeding from an open wound or menstruating, as sharks can smell blood. Also avoid harassing or trying to touch sharks, and don't wear shiny jewelry or bright colors, as they can resemble fish scales or shark prey. Be aware Look for signs that a shark might be near, such as circling birds, splashing water, or feeding seals and dolphins. If you do see a shark, try to keep it in sight and slowly swim backwards towards shallow water. You can also use an electrical pulse device (ESD) to repel the shark.
Saw Jaws on opening Day as a pre-teen in the summer in the mid-70's in Miami back in the day before the multiplexes. This huge theatre was jam packed with people sitting on the aisle floor. I sat on the cement floor 5 rows deep in front of the front row! (Talk about fire hazard!). From that day on I have never entered the ocean past knee deep. With that being said I can't think of one movie , no matter how good, that is better than the book it is based on. P.S. You are my favorite movie reactor, I love your insightful commentary!
I have watched several reactions to this film and yours is my favorite by far... a brilliant mix of compassion, intelligence, and smartassery. **chef's kiss** I was 13 when this movie came out. My friends and I went to see it on opening night. The ticket line literally wrapped around the block. Hence, the term block-buster. I had read the book prior to seeing the film, so I thought I was prepared. LOL, no. The storyline is close enough to the book, but the film so much more visceral because of Spielberg's directing and Williams' score. And yes, this movie put them both on everyone's radar. My take on the Dreyfuss/Shaw situation is that Dreyfuss IS Hooper (arrogant but talented little jerk) and Shaw IS Quint (hard drinking, intelligent but generally belligerent). Oh, and the reason you haven't heard about the other Jaws movies is because they are all rubbish! So, don't go in the water.
Such a great reaction to this classic. Great editing, spoke just enough to keep me engaged, didn't yak on and on like so many tend to do and kept me invested the whole time. That's rare in reactions today so kudos to you here. Special thanks for leaving in the bulk and jist of Quints Indianapolis speech. Subscribed.
If you want another film by Steven Spielberg that's Jaws like, may I recommend Duel (1971). Spielberg stated that if it wasn't for Duel, he never would have gotten the chance to direct Jaws. It's definitely worth checking out.
@@haraldputensen7955 You're very welcome Harold!! Apologies I didn't get a chance to say thank you until now. I hope you're doing well and I really appreciate the support
Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women, and a RUclips Jaws party with marvelous Marty! I haven't seen this in so long and it's such fun watching it with you! I cracked up laughing when your head went bobbing across the screen early on, and your American accent & commentary as the tourists arrived was priceless. 'Oh darlin, we'll have such a lovely day at the beach. OH my GOD, where's my foot gone.' 😂 What a great film. I had forgotten just how good-looking it is, with SO many beautifully lit and composed shots. The score is iconic and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the most widely recognized movie theme in existence. I know you're a fan of Our Flag Means Death, so I thought you'd enjoy that the musical cue with ominous cello used sometimes for Blackbeard/Ed is likely a tribute to it, especially given that Ed is associated with shark imagery. (You can hear it at the beginning of s1e3, and at the end of the same episode when he makes his grand entrance and first meets Stede.) I share your enthusiasm for the famous contra zoom/dolly zoom shot! It really puts you *right there* with Brody, sharing his terror. The same technique is used in Severance to great effect. (I think you'll love it and I'm so excited it's on your list. Season 2 airs in 6 months, woohoo!) Thanks again for your reaction, Marty...and don't go in the water. 😮🦈
You mentioned you like sea shanties. If you haven't heard of them yet the a cappella groups Home Free, VoicePlay, and the Bass Gang have reawakened interest in that style the last few years. Chance of Home Free wrote Skull and Bones for the Ubisoft game and the Bass Gang did their own version of it t add to HF's three.
This was always one of my favorite movies, I saw it in a drive in theater back when I was 14! Don't go in the water! Always enjoy your reactions, keep up the great work!
I read the book after seeing the movie. I do that a lot. There were a lot of things left out of the movie, such as the relationship between Sheriff Brody's wife and the shark scientist (Richard Dreyfus's character).
I loved both the book and the movie. The book filled in back stories, but I loved how the film shed it to the minimal components which centered on the key relatiobships and actions. In the book Hooper also dies which leaves only Brody. I saw it in the theaters during the original run. One of my favorites since,
I used to be terrified of water, and that opening scene still makes me anxious. The reason we didn’t see more of the shark (named Bruce) was because it kept malfunctioning. As frustrating as that must’ve been for them, it made the movie better.
Well that's unfortunately become an exaggerated myth I'm afraid. The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. They could never have used Bruce in the shallow water where the beach scenes were filmed anyway. The mechanical shark/s were only scheduled to be used from July 1974 for the Orca based scenes when filming went out to sea. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June before they even knew the shark would go wrong. It did go wrong all through July and August so that is definitely true and it wasn't until September that it finally worked but the first half of Jaws actually was filmed pretty much on schedule. They were only a few days behind schedule when they went out to sea in July. That's when all the big problems began. This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries, and skewed recollections by some folks, have exaggerated this myth. Just saying. Cheers.
This was a number one bestseller. I always meant to read it because my sister had a copy (when we lived at my mother's), but I never did. Benchley later felt his book played into false beliefs about sharks and worked for preservation of sharks and marine life. Shaw's son has said that he did not like Dreyfuss.
This is my favourite movie. It has wonderful character arcs, the best scare in movie history for me (the head in the hull of the boat), the best monologue (Quint on surviving hell on Earth after the Indianapolis sank) and the victims weren't just a body count (I felt so awful for Alex, and his mother grieving and finding out they knew about the shark). It's one of the few movies I have zero issues with.
I've only recently found your channel. I'm so glad I did. Not only is your commentary wonderful but your revealing of the little known personal tidbits about everything and everyone related to the film is awesome.
Thanks, Marty! 🦈 I was 7 when this came out. I didn't seen it in the cinema... but I remember seeing people read the novelization of it on the schoolbus. I was finally able to see it on cable, about a year later.
Less is indeed more when it comes to monster movies. The more you see the monster, the more it loses its horror. Ridley Scott & Co. said as much when they made "Alien". To paraphrase: If they had shown the entire alien, it would have just looked like some guy in a rubber suit.
And contrary to the modern myth, the shark was kept hidden in the first half of the film by design. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for any of the beach attack scenes.
Great movie and a very good reaction video, another good movie following in the theme of ocean adventure during those years is The Deep (1977) Don't go in the water
In the book, Brodie was the only survivor. The mayor and council were under pressure from mobsters to stay open. Hooper had a one nighter with Mrs Brodie. Don’t go in the water
They don't write characters like Quint anymore. Frankly Shaw should have at least been nominated for an oscar for that monologue.
Mr Shaw....also a gifted writer had a hand in editing that monologue
@@bpora01 They really don't create them like they used to, you nailed it. Yes! That's what I'm saying too. The story was a lot more raw and emotional than I'd expected. Thank you for watching!
John Milius wrote Quint's Indianapolis monologue after Spielberg requested it from him.
And when you hear Robert Shaw's real clipped English accent and voice you realise how well Shaw 'became' Quint.
@@lyndoncmp5751 In the novel Quint is from Bermuda.
The studio wasn't sure how this movie would do so it released it during a slow time...the summer. Back in the day, most movies were released in the fall when people were back from their holiday travels. What happened is that JAWS started a new tradition, i.e. the summer blockbuster.
That was only initially. However, after the first test screenings in April 1975 the studio was certain it would be a huge hit so that's why they decided to release it widely in June and spent a lot of money on the advertising campaign. They knew they had a hit.
Speilberg always finds a way to create space in his films for moments of humanity. The scene between father and son is priceless. He's just been slapped for not closing the beach. He has the lives of hundreds of summer residents in his hands. He's under a lot of pressure. But he has a son who doesn't see him as the sheriff who is under fire but the father he loves and admires.
Liked your reaction.
Saw Jaws as a child in theaters in 1975.
It’s a brilliant, iconic film.
It's so many people's favorite film, because, it is a legitimately amazingly well shot, well written, and, well acted film.
@@ExUSSailor yes. The story is never really about rhe shark but rather a social commentary, well-scripted into very good entertainment
This movie holds up surprisingly well despite being approximately 50 years old. I believe this is because of the stellar acting, the great cinematography, the slow build-up of suspense and menace, the believable dialogue, the moments of levity, and the fact that the shark becomes this seemingly intelligent, clever, and malicious villain that is relentless and feels unstoppable.... well, until that grand finale where it is finally stopped. This isn't your average monster movie! RIP Quint, who delivers one of the most powerful monologues in film.
I was amazed when I rewatched it after a few years and found myself often at the edge of my seat, even though I'd already watched it several times before and knew exactly what was going to happen.
Unlike nearly all modern films the characters are completely believable and you are convinced they really are what they are portrayed to be. Very natural performances, even Mrs Brody.
why speilberg is speilberg
@lyndoncmp5751 100%...the film holds up so well. The acting, the believable characters, the phenomenal dialogue, minimal special effects, the cinematography, the subtle humor ("let Polly do the printing" or "it's only an island is you look at it from the water" or "Hooper drives the boat, Chief") and of course the masterful monologue.
9:44 What the _"24 hours is like 3 weeks"_ statement actually means is that for every 24 hours in which summer tourists can't go to the beach will result in a loss of 3 weeks income for the small business owners of Amity Island. Remember as the mayor said, Amity is a summer town in which all the residents' livelihoods depend almost entirely on the summer tourism, much like Cape Cod, Massachusetts or Cape May, New Jersey. It wasn't meant to be an exaggeration of how long a day without the beach feels.
And it's a summer holiday to boot. Closing on or around July 4th, up north in a beach town? You can't make up that kind of money.
The year-round population is close to 23,000, and in the summer there can be as many as 200,000 people on the Island. Martha's Vineyard where it was filmed
Almost every reactor laughs or mocks the lady who says that...and it's funny when they do, but yeah I 100% agree with you that it makes sense, she's talking about the economic impact.
Not exactly "income" but 3 weeks of winter expenses. (My family owned cottages on Cape Cod that they rented at the time of the movie.)
It’s funny, because I just got back from a high priced tourist town in the Rockies for the Fourth of July, and a barista confirmed in just the 5 days they were working, they made enough to cover their rent for 3 months.
It’s the same way with Lake Tahoe: as much as the cost of living is for the locals, they stick it out because they can make a lot of money in a very short time, then go on vacation.
@@phillymike3181I was born on Cape Cod a few years before the film was released, and subsequently raised there until I graduated college. I moved back 10 years ago. Yes, the Cape used to rely on summer dollars, but no longer the case for the upper Cape or mid Cape. The lower cape is still pretty summer dollar reliant.
My dad watched this movie twice back when it was released in Swedish theatres. One time to enjoy the movie, and a second time so he could enjoy everyone elses reactions to the scares. 🤣
Even after so many viewings, that shot of the water erupting into bloody foam when the boy in the yellow raft is killed hasn't lost any of its horrifying power. 😱😱😱
Don't go in the water! I saw this with our neighbors the summer it came out when I was 6 years old. My parents had no idea how traumatized I would be for a couple years after I saw it. I slept in their bedroom for years and was even scared when swimming in any pool. This movie affected me more than any other movie I have watched in my entire life. Love to watch first timers reactions!
The main reason you don't see much of the shark is a technical one. Apparently, the animatronic shark ( named "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer) kept breaking down during filming. It makes the movie SO much scarier not being able to see what's coming.
The few times we do see it, I wish we hadn't.
Well I'm afraid that's actually become an exaggerated myth. The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already very much a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. Besides, they could never have used Bruce in the shallow water where the beach scenes were filmed. It was a huge contraption with an enormous rig. It needed deeper water. The mechanical shark/s were only scheduled to be used in from July 1974 for the Orca based scenes when filming went out to sea. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June before they even knew the shark would go wrong. It did go wrong all through July and August, so that is definitely true, and it wasn't until September that it finally worked. The first half of the film actually was filmed pretty much on schedule believe it or not. They were only a few days behind schedule when they went out to sea in July. This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries, and skewed recollections by some folks, have exaggerated this myth. Just saying. Cheers.
@@HuntingViolets It looks fine in most shots.
18:15 The "Give us a kiss" scene is one of the best in the entire film. 👍👍
@@Stogie2112 Yeah, it's such a sweet scene and really shows us and the chief why this thing needa stopping. Families and innocent lives.
I love scenes like that too, they show the humanity of the situation. Thanks for watching Stogie!
The best part is the "get out of here" line. Cracks me up.
Don't go in the water. The first act of Jaws is filled with great little moments that slip by: the misspelled "Corners office", the old guy who meets Brody on the street with "Hey, glasses!", Brody picking up the wrong telephone (of two identical phones) at his house, Brody hitting his head on the "Town Accountant" sign (you caught that one!). I love these little touches.
Yeah, nice little touches. Also when Brody goes out to get the paint and signs he's still got the teatowel over his shoulder and he puts his jacket on over it without realising it's still on his shoulder 😂. It's still there on the car ferry.
A lot of people make this mistake. His son means coffee flavored ice cream. I think it was more popular in the 70's.
@@richardheinz Ohhh!!! That makes total sense! Thank you for that Richard. I should have realised, as I love coffee flavoured ice cream!
Thanks for watching too
That was one of my favorite flavors as a kid. I don't like coffee, but I love the ice cream!
@@jtoland2333 Ahh, nice! Yeah it's a unique "artificial" type flavour that's more sweet than the actual coffee taste, so I can see why you'd like one and not the other.
I used to feel more grown up getting to have it, as my parents would be drinking coffee and I was too young for it 😅
i LOVE coffee flavored ice cream
Coffee is Steven Spielberg's own personal favorite ice cream flavor.
The barrels are full of air, the idea is that the more barrels on the shark, the harder it will be for it to submerge or swim and eventually it gets tired.
They always ask :can't you hear her screaming."
Well if the drunk guy wasn't passed out, what would you expect him to do?
Swim and get eaten by the shark too?
Call for help? Who's he gonna call?
A lifeguard? Coastguard?
It was over once the shark caught her.
Only thing the drunk guy could have done is prevented anyone else from going in the water.
He said "You may be a big yahoo in the lab, but out here you're just supercargo."
The marketing line for Jaws 2 was - Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water...
Best monologue in film history. Spielberg Had the Indianapolis scene written by a couple of script writers but was unhappy with it. He approached Robert Shaw, who was also a noted playwright. and asked to rewrite the sequence. The next day Shaw shot the monologue he had rewritten. I saw this film 3 times the summer it was released.
dont forget that the scene we see in the movie was done in one take when Shaw finally sobered up enough to do it.
The Chief Brody joyous yell after explosion is so awesome.
I always love watching reactors react to the "Ben Gardiner- head popping out of the porthole" jumpscare. Most people jump right out of their chair. And you didnt disappoint ! 😁 its the jumpscare of all jumpscares; cuz your not expecting it , but youre already in a scared state and then the horrifying image of a floating head. Steven Speilberg ya'll
"Don't go on the edge of the boat."
😄 That's the only way to the front. It's a common design.
Very good point haha. I was just not wanting him to put himself out there as lunch haha. Thanks for watching
Jaws is my personal favorite film of all time and Robert Shaw/Quint is my favorite actor of all time. Period. ❤️🔥💯🔥🦈 You have earned yourself yet another new subscriber!
22:48. "Ben Gardner's Boat" on the soundtrack. That was when I fell in love with film music.
Robert Shaw. One of the best English actors to ever have lived.
42:00 --- The barrels are to slow him and wear him down... Each barrel has an approximate lift of 250 pounds.. Trying to dive or go under means pulling an extra 250 for each barrel..
Frank Mundus caught a 17 footer off Montauk with two barrels. The inspiration for Quint.
“The 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks inspired the book and movie Jaws, which were published in 1974 and 1975, respectively. The attacks occurred between July 1 and 12, 1916, during a heat wave and polio epidemic, and killed four people and critically injured one. The attacks drew national media attention, and a Barnum & Bailey lion tamer eventually put an end to the shark's reign of terror.”
Robert Shaw SHOULD'VE gotten an Oscar for his role as Quint.
Yeah, he really should have! Very compelling and believable. Thanks for watching!
or for The Deep
Apparently Shaw made too many enemies at Hollywood for that to happen.
@@ExUSSailor I agree too. Especially his USS Indianapolis monolog!
Dont go in the water is some good advice. This film scared everyone out of the water, and i mean in inland, freshwater lakes as well😂
"Jaws" did for the ocean what "Psycho" did for showers.
I saw this movie when I was 7. My stepsister had just turned 6. Our parents took us to see it. They regretted it because they couldn’t get us to take a bath for the rest of the summer. My step grandmother resorted to hosing us off in the back yard using the garden hose as a makeshift shower. We wouldn’t even get into the plastic wading pool.
1:33:40 The tagline for _Jaws 2_ was "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...".
Nice! That's a great tagline to follow up. Is the second film as good? I've heard some mixed reviews? Thanks for watching Rickard!
@@MoviesWithMarty Never seen it. _Jaws 19_ is iconic, though.
@@rickardroach9075 😎 Woah... that's heavy! ... Shark still looks fake. Great reference 👌 Also, I remember when that "fake" Universal trailer came out too 🤣 Brilliant!
The Yellow barrels are full of air which is supposed to keep the shark close to the surface and tire it out if it dives. If you get in a pool with a basketball or a football and try to dive you will see that it is basically impossible to stay submereged because the air in the ball will cause you to rise to the surface.
Hawaii has a lot of unreported shark attacks. They don't want to disturb the tourist industry. Mostly tiger sharks, but it's also a breeding ground for hammerheads
Quint smashing up the radio is his Ahab moment. the shark is his Moby Dick, and he can't have anyone take that away from him.
The chief and his family are from New York, but recently moved to Amity to take the job. The mayor warned him, its your first Sumner, and they mentioned they bought the house in the autumn.
According to the book he was born in Amity, joined the police force as a patrolman and worked his way up to become police chief.
Yes, the narrative of the novel goes somewhat differently than the movie. The chief was an Amity Island native, his wife came from a wealthy Boston family who basically disowned her and cut off all relations because she married a lowly small-town cop. The marriage was a good one, but she always had those thoughts about what-if and the-road-not-taken.
When the shark killings began, Matt Hooper came to Amity to help, and by great coincidence he also turned out to come from the same wealthy area as Ellen, and was, in fact, the neighbor kid she used to babysit, and who always had an intense crush on her. Literary Matt Hooper wasn't movie Matt Hooper at all, not short, lovably scruffy Richard Dreyfus, but more of a tall, buff, blond surfer-boy type. A Ken doll, a Chad, as it were. And, of course, he was also a reminder of the wealth and privilege of Ellen's youth, which had had to give up. He and Ellen had a secret tryst at the local no-tell motel, which was his childhood dream come true, but which plunged her into a morass of guilt feelings.
After that Martin Brody, Hooper, and Quint went out to sea to hunt the shark. When Hooper went down in the water in his shark cage, the shark forced its way in, spreading the steel bars apart with its nose and then crushing Hooper against the opposite side of the cage, killing him. In the book this is presented as almost a divine punishment for Hooper's betrayal of Martin Brody, who never did learn of what he did.
I read the book sometime before I ever saw the movie, in an illustrated Reader's Digest collection, and there was an excellent picture of Hooper being crushed by the shark. I did appreciate the way Spielberg streamlined the story by eliminating the sex affair entirely (and having the Brodys be transplants from New York as a way of explaining Roy Scheider's New Jersey accent, as most people in the audience probably can't tell the difference), and I also liked Richard Dreyfus' performance. And yet I still couldn't help feeling just a little bit disappointed that Hooper survived the movie.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q You have omitted the part that Quint took an intense dislike to Hooper, dismissing him as a girly wuss and gave him hell. I think that Brody knew that Hooper had banged his wife as he tried to force him to admit it as he knew that Hooper had not spent the night with Daisy Wicker.
I saw this when it was first released at the drive-in from the roof of my sister's car. Don't go in the water! Paper Moon is a movie overlooked by reactors. Great fun watching your channel.
I would second Paper Moon! Wonderful movie and wonderful acting!
Ben Gardiner...scaring the pants off folks since 1975. 😅
@@hobbievk5119 🤣 Most definitely! Scaring the bejesus out of us all. Haha! Thank you for watching!
One thing that makes the scene where the boy gets eaten more suspenseful is that the time between the cuts from the beach to Chief Brody keep getting more & more brief
I have to say your hit rate of genuinely great films is exceptionally high. Good quality control :)
I had never bothered to think about the first attack being at sunrise! Hell of a way to start the day!!!
"Don't go in the Water!" .... I have not been in the Ocean since the day I saw this in 1975! I'm 72 years old.
The news reporter from the beach is actually Peter Benchley, Author of the book Jaws.
0:06 Marty! You could have called it a WHALE of a film. What a missed opportunity. 😭
8.24 Famous in-camera shot developed by Hitchcock for Vertigo. As a movie buff, here's some trivia for you on this celluloid masterpiece that made Spielberg a global name. The mechanical shark was infamous for breaking down & was nicknamed 'Bruce' after Spielberg's lawyer. The famous jump-scare was partly shot in a swimming pool. One of the kids in the 'he made me do it' fake shark fin part is now chief of police on Martha's Vineyard, effectively becoming 'Brody'.
And to cloud up the water in the swimming pool, they poured some milk into the water. For that jump-scare shot, I think they used the swimming pool of the films editor, Verna Fields.
Don't go in the water. Your knowledge of film makes your review much better than others I've seen. Also appreciated the trivia.
@@stlmopoet Thank you so much for watching! Aw wow, that means so much more than you'll know, thank you. That's one of the things I'm glad I can bring to the table, knowledge and my love for film. I'm so glad you liked the trivia too! It's great to dive deep into it all after watching the film to find out that little extra more.
Have a wonderful day and seriously, thank you for the kind words!
1:04:44 -- Jeff still lives on the island and still owns the pub called "The Wharf". -- He loves his fans and is very gracious with his time..
Oh that's amazing! Thank you for letting me know this. I hadn't looked further into it, but was wondering where abouts it was. I appreciate the info, I'd love to go there one day and maybe even visit the restaurant.
I love your username too!
Thanks for watching
@@MoviesWithMarty I sincerely hope that there comes a day when you are able to come out this way and visit the movie locations and maybe even get to spend some time with Jeffrey.... I did get the chance to go out there and sit with him for a little while and it was absolutely wonderful.. In all seriousness... He is one of the most amazing celebrities that you could ever meet and actually spend time with.
The "contra-zoom" was first used in Hitchcock's "Vertigo".
When the child mentioned 'coffee' he was asked what kind of ice creme he wanted. In those days we called "mocha" ice creme "Coffee" ice creme. Just FYI
You misunderstood the kid in the hospital, the mom asked what he wanted and he said ice cream, coffee. It's a popular flavor in the northeast, it's also a very old flavor. I grew up in the 60's and it was one of my favorite flavors too.
It's been mentioned many times in the comments.
We rarely get it over here in the UK, but I agree, it's the best flavour. 👍
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Craig Kingsbury, a local eccentric, played Ben Gardner. He lived quite the life, and he was Shaw's inspiration for the character of Quint. His biography is very interesting!
So was Lynn Murphy, who helped out with the boats and who towed the sea sled shark.
Director Bryan Singer has a production company called "Bad Hat Harry Productions", the name of which comes from "Jaws". It was an early scene where Brody tells an old man "That's a bad hat, Harry."
Love the opening scene. You don’t see the shark or even any blood but you know what’s happening to her. Saw it in ‘75 and almost jumped out of my seat. It’s one of the few movies that’s better than the book. Went with family on a car trip out to Calif. Love the ocean but after seeing the movie my brother and I hardly went in. Lifeguards said it was an easy summer for them…hardly anyone went into the water. Even now I’ll go out but not past where the waves are breaking. And since we’ve passed laws to save more seals the shark population has grown. Lot’s of great whites on both coasts.
It occurs to me that Quint's SOUL was taken by sharks the night the USS Indianapolis went down, he just didnt know it.
Since that day, he was a shell of a man: Quint never had kids, got a regular job. The man Quint COULD have been --- his hopes, dreams, skills, love, life, all he could ever be --- never came out of the water that night, June 1945. He might have been a carpenter, football coach, a church deacon, a grandfather, shanty singer.
Just the opposite, Quint never left the water: he spent his life staring back at the ocean, returning to it, returning TO sharks, looking them in their dead eyes, trying to give his body back to the one shark that already bit his soul in half 3 decades ago
Interestingly, it could have been that same shark.
There's so much to that quote "I will never put on a life jacket again"
Great review! I subscribed because of how much I enjoyed your critique.
The fact that there are many sequels to Jaws makes the Jaws 19 reference funny. Don't go in the water!
The sending people back to the beach is like covid19 decisions.
My father served in the Navy..he always had a plaque of the USS Indianapolis....never talked about it.. didn't realize what happened until i saw this movie...some things dads don't wanna havta tell their kids about i guess 🇺🇸🦅great movie..
Was your father on the Indianapolis?
@@Stogie2112 thank God no😅
@@kevinslayzak1214 …That’s good to hear. 👍👍
@@Stogie2112 he died few years ago..still never said anything...was more "respect for brothers in arms" i believe.. 👍..
I would recommend the movie Duel from 1971, also by Spielberg. Jaws is kind of a spiritual sequel to Duel about an average guy getting into conflict with a truck driver. I saw the film when I was very young and just like Jaws made people scared of the water, Duel made me terrified of semi trucks for many years. I think you would like it. Cheers.
Originally the shark was going to have more on camera time but the animatronic shark (Bruce, named after Spielbergs lawyer) would not work most the time. So Spielberg improvised and wrote scenes without it. I think it did escalate the tension and greatly improved the film. Spielberg is a genius even when things aren't going right.
You know the thing about a like button is it has lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes and when you push it doesn't even seem to be living, until it registers the like and then you're happy!
@@gallendugall8913 Now THAT is amazing 😜😏 I don't know why, but it reminds me SO much of a 'like button' mention in a Mr Ballen video 🤣 If you've not seen his videos, check out one and you'll see what I mean haha. Thank you for this! It made me chuckle
Very witty 😂
The one on here looks like a hand.
Well done. I'd steal it, but my guess is that you watch other Jaws reactions too! 😝
It was coffee ice cream he wanted not hot coffee. They were from NY, coffee ice cream and iced coffee were popular decades before many parts of the country.
Oh, ok. I could never understand why reactors don’t know that the kid meant ice cream after his mother asks him what flavor he wants. I’m from NYC and didn’t realize that coffee ice cream was made popular by my city before everywhere else.
1:34:00 --- Jaws II, isn't that bad.. But the films after that... Don't go in the water...
Mid-reaction review:
Little me: Scheider and Ricky D are my boys!
Grown-up me: Robert Shaw is the best ever!
Post-film me: 😮
Lovely reaction to one of the best, friend! ❤️🥂
Haha, I went through something similar.
Younger me: Wow, that old dude Robert Shaw is a great actor.
Middle-aged me: Um... is crazy drunken poet-orator captain Quint kind of sexy?!
The beer Quint is drinking is Narragansett from Rhode Island. Absolute swill, I don't know if they even make it anymore.
They do. I had a Jaws commemorative 12-pack. But it was sacrificed at a BBQ.
"absolute swill"
Probably meant to accompany his home made stuff, which Brody (a boozer!!!) spat out 😂
Definitely still do which as our friend just stated Jaws Anniversary logos recently 🦈❤️🔥
I buy Narragansett every summer.
Right before the zoom shot you liked is a series of "slices" that also zoom in but in single shots, usually when someone is crossing in front of Brody, back and forth, leading to the single long zoom in. The filming at water level is also really effective.
JAWS HAS THE JUMP SCARE OF ALL JUMP SCARES!
Nearly 90 percent of the cast were locals and local actors to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, including Elizabeth Lee Fierro who portrayed Mrs. Kintner. She passed on April 5, 2020 from Covid complications.
@@jollyjakelovell4787 Yeah! I hadn't realised until the trivia part, it's so cool they did that. Much better and more authentic than having to hire people to pretend to be the locals. Plus, it's exciting to be part of it too.
Oh no!! I didnt realise Fierro had passed away as well! Thank you for letting me know 🥺 Also, thank you for watching
the girl who played chrissie just died
@@deborahpaley21 Noo! 😫😢 Oh that's so sad... thank you for letting me know. I can't believe another one has left us
35:40 -- The movie was shot on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (Off the coast of Massachusetts and a stones throw from Long Island where I am..)
You're not moving to Martha's Vineyard unless you're a millionaire, kiddo!
The kid was not requesting coffee. He was requesting coffee ice cream which is delicious.
Great reaction, Marty. Oh, and don't go in the water. After seeing Jaws in 1975 I was leery of the bath tub.
I just subscribed, your editing is amazing and you're hilarious.
Shark attacks on humans are rare, but there are some steps you can take to reduce your risk of being bitten:
Avoid certain times
Don't swim at dawn, dusk, or in the dark when sharks are most active. Also avoid swimming right after a storm.
Avoid certain areas
Stay close to shore and avoid murky water, deep channels, and waters with known discharges or sewage. Also avoid areas where people are fishing, especially if there are signs of baitfish or feeding activity, like diving seabirds.
Avoid certain behaviors
Don't swim if you're bleeding from an open wound or menstruating, as sharks can smell blood. Also avoid harassing or trying to touch sharks, and don't wear shiny jewelry or bright colors, as they can resemble fish scales or shark prey.
Be aware
Look for signs that a shark might be near, such as circling birds, splashing water, or feeding seals and dolphins. If you do see a shark, try to keep it in sight and slowly swim backwards towards shallow water. You can also use an electrical pulse device (ESD) to repel the shark.
Saw Jaws on opening Day as a pre-teen in the summer in the mid-70's in Miami back in the day before the multiplexes. This huge theatre was jam packed with people sitting on the aisle floor. I sat on the cement floor 5 rows deep in front of the front row! (Talk about fire hazard!). From that day on I have never entered the ocean past knee deep. With that being said I can't think of one movie , no matter how good, that is better than the book it is based on. P.S. You are my favorite movie reactor, I love your insightful commentary!
31:24 you're damn right that that's a great shot!
Oh and 35:25
Ahh thank you! Yeah and something that comes to mind with 35:25 is "Into the mouth of the beast" too... like the cannister too lol
Such a great film. Still holds up almost 50 years after its release date.
31:29 think he meant “coffee” as to which flavor ice cream he wanted 😂.
16:52 --- Long Island native here.. Yes, we have all kinds of sharks including great whites..
The most horrifying thing in this movie is the sport jackets worn by the mayor!
I think they should come out with a Larry Vaughn Collection of sports coats just for fun!
It works even better if you wear one of Judge Smails' hats.
I've always admired and yearned for little anchors emblazoned over my attire.
You have to be really well off to live in Martha's Vinyard. The Kennedys have a summer residents there. So that tells you it ain't cheap.
I have watched several reactions to this film and yours is my favorite by far... a brilliant mix of compassion, intelligence, and smartassery. **chef's kiss**
I was 13 when this movie came out. My friends and I went to see it on opening night. The ticket line literally wrapped around the block. Hence, the term block-buster. I had read the book prior to seeing the film, so I thought I was prepared. LOL, no. The storyline is close enough to the book, but the film so much more visceral because of Spielberg's directing and Williams' score. And yes, this movie put them both on everyone's radar.
My take on the Dreyfuss/Shaw situation is that Dreyfuss IS Hooper (arrogant but talented little jerk) and Shaw IS Quint (hard drinking, intelligent but generally belligerent).
Oh, and the reason you haven't heard about the other Jaws movies is because they are all rubbish! So, don't go in the water.
Such a great reaction to this classic. Great editing, spoke just enough to keep me engaged, didn't yak on and on like so many tend to do and kept me invested the whole time. That's rare in reactions today so kudos to you here. Special thanks for leaving in the bulk and jist of Quints Indianapolis speech. Subscribed.
If you want another film by Steven Spielberg that's Jaws like, may I recommend Duel (1971). Spielberg stated that if it wasn't for Duel, he never would have gotten the chance to direct Jaws. It's definitely worth checking out.
Danke!
@@haraldputensen7955 You're very welcome Harold!! Apologies I didn't get a chance to say thank you until now. I hope you're doing well and I really appreciate the support
Fabulous reaction video, and great trivia along with that wonderful footage! But never forget…don’t go in the water! 🦈
Don’t go in the water! Thank you SO much for not cutting the film down to half an hour! Enjoyed your reaction and comments very much. 👍
Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women, and a RUclips Jaws party with marvelous Marty! I haven't seen this in so long and it's such fun watching it with you!
I cracked up laughing when your head went bobbing across the screen early on, and your American accent & commentary as the tourists arrived was priceless. 'Oh darlin, we'll have such a lovely day at the beach. OH my GOD, where's my foot gone.' 😂
What a great film. I had forgotten just how good-looking it is, with SO many beautifully lit and composed shots.
The score is iconic and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the most widely recognized movie theme in existence. I know you're a fan of Our Flag Means Death, so I thought you'd enjoy that the musical cue with ominous cello used sometimes for Blackbeard/Ed is likely a tribute to it, especially given that Ed is associated with shark imagery. (You can hear it at the beginning of s1e3, and at the end of the same episode when he makes his grand entrance and first meets Stede.)
I share your enthusiasm for the famous contra zoom/dolly zoom shot! It really puts you *right there* with Brody, sharing his terror. The same technique is used in Severance to great effect. (I think you'll love it and I'm so excited it's on your list. Season 2 airs in 6 months, woohoo!)
Thanks again for your reaction, Marty...and don't go in the water. 😮🦈
Reactor #5,672 that didn't realize "coffee" meant coffee ice cream. 🙃
You mentioned you like sea shanties. If you haven't heard of them yet the a cappella groups Home Free, VoicePlay, and the Bass Gang have reawakened interest in that style the last few years. Chance of Home Free wrote Skull and Bones for the Ubisoft game and the Bass Gang did their own version of it t add to HF's three.
This was always one of my favorite movies, I saw it in a drive in theater back when I was 14! Don't go in the water! Always enjoy your reactions, keep up the great work!
I read the book after seeing the movie. I do that a lot. There were a lot of things left out of the movie, such as the relationship between Sheriff Brody's wife and the shark scientist (Richard Dreyfus's character).
I was really glad they left that out. The characters were all a lot more likable in the film, which made me care a lot more.
I loved both the book and the movie. The book filled in back stories, but I loved how the film shed it to the minimal components which centered on the key relatiobships and actions. In the book Hooper also dies which leaves only Brody.
I saw it in the theaters during the original run. One of my favorites since,
I used to be terrified of water, and that opening scene still makes me anxious. The reason we didn’t see more of the shark (named Bruce) was because it kept malfunctioning. As frustrating as that must’ve been for them, it made the movie better.
Well that's unfortunately become an exaggerated myth I'm afraid. The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. They could never have used Bruce in the shallow water where the beach scenes were filmed anyway. The mechanical shark/s were only scheduled to be used from July 1974 for the Orca based scenes when filming went out to sea. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June before they even knew the shark would go wrong. It did go wrong all through July and August so that is definitely true and it wasn't until September that it finally worked but the first half of Jaws actually was filmed pretty much on schedule. They were only a few days behind schedule when they went out to sea in July. That's when all the big problems began. This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries, and skewed recollections by some folks, have exaggerated this myth. Just saying. Cheers.
This was a number one bestseller. I always meant to read it because my sister had a copy (when we lived at my mother's), but I never did. Benchley later felt his book played into false beliefs about sharks and worked for preservation of sharks and marine life.
Shaw's son has said that he did not like Dreyfuss.
Wow! All the times I've seen this and never knew the reporter was Peter Benchley.
This is my favourite movie. It has wonderful character arcs, the best scare in movie history for me (the head in the hull of the boat), the best monologue (Quint on surviving hell on Earth after the Indianapolis sank) and the victims weren't just a body count (I felt so awful for Alex, and his mother grieving and finding out they knew about the shark). It's one of the few movies I have zero issues with.
Coffee ice cream.
I've only recently found your channel. I'm so glad I did. Not only is your commentary wonderful but your revealing of the little known personal tidbits about everything and everyone related to the film is awesome.
Thanks, Marty! 🦈 I was 7 when this came out. I didn't seen it in the cinema... but I remember seeing people read the novelization of it on the schoolbus. I was finally able to see it on cable, about a year later.
Less is indeed more when it comes to monster movies. The more you see the monster, the more it loses its horror.
Ridley Scott & Co. said as much when they made "Alien". To paraphrase: If they had shown the entire alien, it would have just looked like some guy in a rubber suit.
And contrary to the modern myth, the shark was kept hidden in the first half of the film by design. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for any of the beach attack scenes.
Great movie and a very good reaction video, another good movie following in the theme of ocean adventure during those years is
The Deep (1977)
Don't go in the water
In the book, Brodie was the only survivor. The mayor and council were under pressure from mobsters to stay open. Hooper had a one nighter with Mrs Brodie. Don’t go in the water