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I Haven't read through all the comments but in response to your "It's PG comments" PG 13 didn't exist until July of 1984, so movies were either G, PG, or R and it was not determined to be violent enough to be an R at the time.
Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.
Quint's speech about the Indianapolis actually brought that tragedy to public's consciousness. For obvious reasons it wasn't talked much about at the time, and it was sort of quietly forgotten until that scene.
The fact that the tragedy continued with what happened to the Captain was a MAJOR screw up by the Military brass. What happened to the men could be considered an accident, what happened to the Captain may as well have been murder as far as I'm concerned.
It wasn't talked about because it was still confidential. The real story only had been released a few months before. That is how Howard Sackler got the story.
To this day Jaws still has some of the greatest acting I've ever seen in a film. That Indianapolis speech always gives an uneasy feeling no matter how many times I watch it.
I concur 110 percent...the whole scene of them clowning and sharing stories, to the comparing scars, to the instant tonal shift as soon as Quint mentions the Indianapolis...every bit of it is just masterclass in just about every element of filmmaking. Writing, acting, direction, lighting, cinematography, sound...it all comes together near perfect...I put it in the top of all scenes ever filmed for any movie.
Definitely one of the best scenes in the history of filmmaking. It always comes in when talking about great scenes in movies and everyone usually mentions so many details about it they noticed even if they hadn't seen the movie in years, like details about the way the light swings and certain inflections on certain words. Absolutely brilliant.
Robert Shaw was a heavy drinker and reportedly a nightmare to work with when he was drunk. The monologue scene had already been shot once but Shaw was really drunk and it wasn't very good, so they were going to just scrap that scene (can you imagine?). Shaw supposedly felt bad the next day and asked Spielberg if he could reshoot it and that's how we got that amazing performance.
Quint wasn't "acting out of fear" by destroying the radio or pushing the boat engines to destruction ... he was acting out of anger. Quint is more or less the Captain Ahab of this story. Living through the horror of seeing hundreds of his shipmates killed as a young sailor, then seeking his revenge on this maneater that's terrorizing a beach community. By destroying both the radio and engines, Quint was essentially deciding it was either kill, or be killed - in the fight with what had become his "white whale".
He was a lot like Ahab in the book.... Spoilers... In the book, Quint doesn't get eaten. Like Ahab, he drowns after getting tangled in the harpoon ropes.
PG -13 was introduced in the 80's (largely thanks to movies by Spielberg) to make a new category for movies that weren't for young kids, but were potentially appropriate for teens.
The Quint speech was actually taken from a true story of a survivor. That is why it had such an impact, because it was TRUE. Yet, the WAY it was delivered, with body ticks and voice inflection was ALL Shaw, who was basically drunk (as he was having serious drinking problems while filming) on the first take and knew that it was crap. So, on the 2nd take, he did it completely sober, possibly the first time during the entire filming schedule, and added all the "emotional elements" involved so well, that people who were thinking of firing him due to his drinking suddenly shut up and realized that this man was doing this well WHILE drunk on most scenes was far more compelling than you would have first thought.
Quint's story about the USS Indianapolis is true EXCEPT for one detail. An SOS WAS sent. All the radio listening stations either discounted or ignored the message. The US Navy hid this behind top secret classifications until the 1980's when the truth came out. Sadly this was after Captain McVay of the USS Indianapolis took his own life at the age of 70 in 1968. Some 20 years before he would be exonerated off all wrongdoing in Congress.
A true masterclass in film making and the blueprint for every blockbuster to come. Jaws doesn't appear on screen until the 1 hour 21 minute mark, and he only has approximately 4 minutes of screen time after that... less is more. The use of the fishing line and clicking noises hooks you completely. A 10/10 completely.
You had the same reaction to the shark's death as audiences did in 1975. People were standing and cheering at the end. Jaws is considered the first "summer blockbuster".
It was apparently ad-libbed, which makes it so much cuter. Just... a kid being a kid and Roy Scheider leaning into it like a real dad. Makes the scene feel that much more authentic.
I actually love how Hooper and Quint are vindicated, each in their own way. Early in the hunt, Quint tells Hooper that all his equipment is "real fine expensive gear". Hooper fires back telling Quint that shooting the shark with a rifle as a "waste of time". Yet Brody gets the kill using both Hooper's air tank and Quint's rifle.
Nat, 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…
@@arc4859 Not really. About 150 men out of 900(ish) were said to be eaten while alive, but anyone who died would have also been eaten. So when he said "The sharks took the rest." It would have been relatively accurate. Especially when you think about it from the perspective of a survivor.
@@hellsson1996 When you first hear that, do you think that sharks killed 750 of them or that sharks killed a small portion of them and then the ocean may or may not have eaten the rest who died by other means? Most would think of the former when he says that
@@arc4859 Honestly I don't think it matters. The point is, he saw hundreds of people being eaten by sharks. Does the specific number killed by the sharks matter? I really don't think they took liberties with that monologue at all. I can't say the same for the rest of the movie.
The shots with the barrels aren't meant to hit the shark's brain and kill it. The flotation of the barrels is meant to tire the shark out, slow him down and keep him near the surface. Also you would absolutely love the movie Tremors. The concept is basically "land sharks" and it's a fantastic movie.
Quint wanted to get a shot in the head though because it makes it more difficult to swim against a barrel with a harpoon buried in its head rather than its back.
Great reaction! Enjoyed watching it with you. If it hasn't been mentioned already, this movie came out in 75 and PG-13 wasn't created until 1984. Pretty huge range of movies used to fall into that PG bucket!
As someone who has a family house around this region on Cape Cod, Massachusetts this movie is a personal favorite as it was filmed on Martha’s Vineyard. Over the past few years a large seal population has moved in and of course that has brought sharks and the area has really leaned into the Jaws themed touristy stuff since then. Great reaction as always!
Quint is probably my favorite depiction of the Captain Ahab archetype in modern literature/film. Having him connected to the tragedy of the USS Indianapolis cements audience sympathy for his hatred and obsession with sharks, leading to his tragic death by his own white "whale."
The Indianapolis scene is perfection in cinema. There’s 3 plates on the table but one is still full of food because Brody is sea sick. When Quint mentions the Indianapolis, Brody is still cheerfully asking what that was while Hooper stops laughing because since he studies sharks he would have definitely have heard about the Indianapolis.
What really makes the Indianapolis scene even better is when you know tharRobert Shaw (Captain Quint) was fall down drunk and he did it in one take... Bonus trivia : Richard Dreyfuss (hopper) and Robert Shaw (Captain Quint) hated each other.
@@fraelikkriil830 : That's not what was said on the Jaws documentary by both cast and crew but, I am not an expert just watched a documentary which might not have been officially authorized. Thank you for the updated info.
So the guy with Pipit (the lab) was his actual owner. I guess while filming the scene where he’s calling the dog’s name, behind the camera, Pipit kept barking like “I’M RIGHT HERE”. So the lady who played Alex Kintner’s mom had to take the dog behind the dunes so Pipit’s barking wouldn’t interfere with production. Kind of a funny story I heard on a video based entirely on our little buddy, Pipit
I was 13 when this movie came out (summer, 1975) and was so blown away by it that i saw it about 5 times that summer (no DVDs, videos or streaming video back then, so i actually went to the theater all those times). I was convinced that i was going to be a marine biologist and atudy sharks. Sadly, i didnt stick with that dream, though I've maintained a lifelong fascination with sharks. I loved your reaction to this classic!
That opening scene is still intense. No shark, no fin, no blood. Just her screams and our imaginations taking over. Very well done. I consider Jaws to be as close to perfect as a movie can get. The writing, the direction, the acting, the music is all at 100%.
My mother saw this in theatres when it came out. She said that people threw their popcorn in the air at some of the jump scenes, and the whole theatre cheered when the shark blew up. Also, they showed Christie's full torso in the remains that hooper examined in the original release. If you watch it again, hoopers dialog has an awkward cut as though somethings missing.
The crew having issues with the mechanical shark was the best thing that could have happened for this movie. It forced Spielberg to think outside the box with his shots, making for a more cerebral kind of horror. We don't see the shark until about halfway through and you're already scared. Simply a great accomplishment.
Well that was by design though for the first half of the film. The mechanical shark was not scheduled to be used for any scenes until July 1974. All the beach attack scenes were filmed early on in May and June, in really shallow water (waist to chest deep) so there was no way to use the huge mechanical shark. The mechanical sharks were only scheduled to be used in the deeper water out at sea for the Orca based scenes. That's where they kept malfunctioning all through July and August and didn't really work until September. That's when they got all those end shots. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. He always planned to have suspense and the unseen shark in the first half of the film. Cheers.
Fun fact: Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis was written by criminally underrated writer John Millius, who wrote "Apocalypse Now", "Conan the Barbarian", "Red Dawn", HBO's "Rome" and "Deadwood", and was the IRL inspiration for Walter Sobchek from "The Big Lebowski". Addendum: if anyone tells you Robert Shaw "rewrote" it, dont listen, he didn't. He cut it down for length because it was too long to remember because he was really drinking during filming the scene.
Well that depends who you speak to. Spielberg cites him as the author but Jaws co-writer Carl Gottlieb has always disputed that and does credit Millius' input but only alongside many others including Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale who went on to write 'Back to the Future' and says Shaw deserves the credit for bringing the best elements of the various versions together into the on screen words. “Somehow, the mythology was that Milius wrote that speech, but there were 10 versions of that speech, including my own,” Gottlieb said. “We gave them to Robert Shaw.” Gottlieb noted Shaw, at the point in his career, had already written a few novels and the play The Man in the Glass Booth “So, [Shaw] took it all, synthesized it. And one night while we are all at dinner … he came in with a handful of paper and said, ‘I think I have the pesky speech licked,'” Gottlieb recalled. “And he basically performed it for the table. And we all went, ‘Wow.’ And Steven said, ‘That’s what we’re shooting.'” Carl says "I could have easily said it was my speech. It was not my speech. Robert Shaw did that. Unfortunately, because John and Steven are close friends, Steven has always supported Milius’ version, which in my estimation, is false.”
I have owned this movie in every format since the VHS (including the special edition laserdisc) and I have watched all the supplemental materials and documentaries right up to the present day. Gottlieb tells one version of the story and Dreyfuss (and Spielberg) tell another. It seems odd the Dreyfuss would give so much credit to Shaw because they did have real personal tension on the set closely mirroring the tension between the characters. The truth is probably somewhere in between. I have seen the scripted speech and it is longer but Shaw nails the essentials even bleary-eyed drunk as he was.
11:10 Fun Fact: Several decades after the filming of "Jaws" Lee Fierro who plays Mrs. Kintner, returned to Martha's Vineyard (where "Jaws" was filmed) walked into a seafood restaurant (called "The Wharf") and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother in "Jaws" so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.
Actually, it was in New York, I believe where she walked into the restaurant. But for the most part, that's accurate. Another FUN FACT, Lee Fierro would get paid by college guys to slap them. She eventually retired from the slapping biz, but, she would make $5 a slap. For more fun info, watch THE SHARK US STILL WORKING THE IMPACT AND LEGACY OF JAWS. It's a really good documentary.
@@Kasino80 You never know! That's a really interesting theory, considering Jason Voorhees (from Friday The 13th) drowned in the lake and his mother went on a killing spree (preceding Jason's own vendetta) of the camp counsellors who let it happen - that's one hell of an amped-up take on a kid being eaten by a shark and his mother smacking the police chief across his face for similar negligence! There's a weird parallel going on, for sure!
Something I just thought about recently that makes this scene even more chilling: I always thought that the music is supposed to note the presence of the shark, so not only was Hooper inspecting a boat that the shark had attacked, it was somewhere down there with him.
I've always been so envious of my mom's experience seeing this movie. She saw it right when it came out, but she happened to be on Martha's Vineyard at the time. So, she was able to see it where it was filmed. One of my low-key favorite parts of going to MV is seeing all of the locations from the movie that are largely unchanged since they shot the film, so seeing the movie there for the first time must have been awesome.
I wasn't on Martha's Vineyard when the movie came out, but on the coast of Rhode Island...close enough to give me serious fear of going back into the ocean.
My mum also saw it during its original release as part of a double feature with the first Halloween Her and my dad also watched Friday the 13th while camping 😂
I loved the tagline for "Jaws 2"..."Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." Then 3 years later, a movie called "Blood Beach" was made. It's about a giant underground (under the beach) creature killing people by sucking them into the sand. Their tagline was "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water-you can't get to it."
My mom showed me this movie when I was a little guy, hoping it would scare me and it backfired big time! It became one of my favorite movies and it started my love for sharks! I was obsessed with sharks and still am. Such a great cast and such a great movie!
That was actually one of the calmer reactions to Ben Gardner's head I've seen from reactors. Most of them get at least a foot of air from the jump scare.
One of my favorite moments in the movie that is a great little moment that could be cut out, it wouldn’t affect the overall movie but it just adds so much humanity to it is the scene where Brodie is depressed and he notices his son copying him and then starts playing with him.
I read the original novel and Hooper is 100% different in the book - he's described as a tall, blond, muscular Adonis, he has an affair with Brody's wife which the book describes in VIVID detail, and then he dies horribly in the shark cage. Spielberg re-crafted the character to be more like himself with Dreyfuss as a stand-in for his own personality and it adds the perfect contrasting energy.
Saw the first 15 minutes of this as a kid, became scarred for life…..my fear turned me into an expert on all trivial facts about this film’s production…and finally watched it all at age 25 😅
Natalie. A little story from the what a small world dept. Years after this was filmed, the actress who played Mrs. Kitner (whose son Alex was killed) was in Seattle with family and they went into a seafood place for lunch. She spotted on the menu the Alex Kitner fish sandwich platter. She mentioned to their waitress that she had played Alex Kitners Mom in the movie. A few minutes later the owner came out to meet her. It was the guy who played her son. They had not seen each other or even spoken since the movie wrapped. Truly is a small world.
There’s a fun talk from Williams where he’s discussing the jaws theme. He approached Spielberg with his theme and Spielberg was excited to hear it. When John Williams played the famous two note motif on piano, Spielberg laughed and said “good one Johnny, Okay so where’s this theme.” It took a lot of trust from Spielberg in order for that theme to have made it onto the film.
Awesome, you fell into the old PG trap! It had a whole different meaning back in the day! I saw this at the drive-in when I was 8 BTW. It was one of the greatest movies ever made, in my opinion. Part horror, part adventure with a touch of social commentary and a dash of satire! ❤
Jaws is one of those classics that I can confidently say is FLAWLESS! Great characters, tightly paced story, perfect suspense, and masterful score. Jurassic Park is my personal favourite Steven Spielberg film, but I'd refute no one who'd say Jaws is the better blockbuster.
Hooper is such an awesome character. They could have written him to be cowardly or arrogant, but instead they make him a really cool guy who also happens to be a nerd. And he gets to survive! I'm glad they didn't just make him fodder so only the main cool protagonist guy survives at the end. Hooper was super brave and deserved to make it through.
Great video! Love an appropriate reaction to one of the greatest jump scares in all of cinema (23:52). Another fun fact for you: Hooper died in the script, but they got such great stock footage of a real shark attacking an empty shark cage that in order to use it without creating a plot hole, they let him escape and pop back up in the end.
This film is the one that made me a film buff. About as close to a perfect film as you can get. Almost 50 years old, no CGI, and it holds up tremendously! And yes, PG in the 70s and early 80s was NOT the PG of today! I guess it makes more sense than R, as yes, there was no PG13 yet in 1975
Such iconic actors, Roy Scheider as Brody , Richard Dreyfuss as Hooper and of course Robert Shaw as Quint. Tons of movies and a few Academy Awards under their collective belts.
"The major is the villian of the movie.." This is why Natalie's is the only react channel I watch - she has great and intelligent insight, often before things happen, and its both refreshing and entertaining to watch.
YES!!! Love this movie! The blockbuster of 1975, $470 million dollars ($1.7 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget. It was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score.
I think back then the "PG" rating was meant to be more literal. "Parental Guidance" : parents be mindful of what your kids are watching and it's up to you guide their viewing habits, and not just "hey, you're kids can watch this even if they're not teens yet". That was the G rating.
That's exactly it. PG was supposed to be taken more seriously, given to movies that had some questionable content, but nothing really inappropriate. It was when Goonies and Temple of Doom pushed the boundaries of the PG rating that PG-13 was introduced, and it quickly became the de-facto rating of teen movies, leaving PG drifting without being really defined. Shrek came along, and the PG rating started to be handed out to animated movies. Then Pixar released The Incredibles and it was basically game over for the G rating. Once PG was associated with kids' movies, no one wanted a G rating anymore, because they feared it would alienate older audiences. Now, PG is the rating of family movies PG-13 is the rating for everything else, and the R rating is only sought for the pedigree of gratuitous violence or Oscar bait (while sexual content has been abandoned completely for fear of losing the more prudish foreign markets). Ratings are weird and stupid, but they're still better than the Hays Code.
Fun Fact: the news reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley, author of the book of the same name the movie is based on. He ended up hating the film in the long run because the film lead to an increase in killing sharks. He originally wrote the book to get people interested in sharks, and the movie had the exact opposite effect. I highly recommend you read the book too. Lots of big differences including Hooper and you actually end up feeling bad for the mayor when you learn there's an external factor for him keeping the beaches open.
16:08 The "Ben Gardner jump scare" was added after principal photography. Spielberg deciced he needed it to ratchet up the tension and fear. He borrowed the backyard swimingpool owned by his editor Verna Fields and used a whole bunch of powdered milk to make the water mirky.
This is the only horror movie I can think of that actually makes me sick with dread. I've watched all kinds of horror movies, many that were really brutal and suspenseful, and none of them unsettled me like this one. I think it's the kids and the dogs, as the caretaker of a kid and four dogs, and seeing how graphic the attacks are, and knowing that this kind of stuff really happens. This movie actually gave me a panic attack the last time I watched it and I had to pause and go roll around with my dogs and kiss dirt to calm down.
One of the greatest movies of all time. It was one of, if not, my first exposure to horror. My dad was watching this in the living room when I was 3, and I saw a little bit of it (Quint’s death scene), and it scared the crap out of me. But it scared me in a way that I liked, and from that point on, my love of horror began and grew.
@@ueno1 It’s a horror Thriller. A horror is a genre of literature, film, or television that is meant to startle, scare, shock, or repulse the audience. Jaws definitely falls under that category.
Something I absolutely love about this movie is how they never use the theme for fakeouts. Its always silent or different music, but if those 2 notes show up, you bet your ass that sharks comin
Fun fact. When John Williams presented the theme to Spielberg he said it was too simple and he didn't like it. They argued over it but we obviously know who won't that. And we love it that he did.
The actor who played quint apparently had a bad drinking problem and his co stars said that he was drunk in all of his scenes. I recently read that the woman who played Alex’s mother went into a restaurant years after the movie came out and she noticed that there was a lot of Jaws memorabilia on the walls so she mentioned to the waitress that she was in the movie and played the mother of the boy who was killed, the waitress told her the owner would love to meet her and went to get him and it turned out to be the guy who played Alex. The shark was supposed to be in more of the movie but the animatronic shark kept breaking down so they used footage of real sharks.
there was 3 fake sharks used and steven named it bruce why finding nemo named that shark bruce anyway real sharks were out in at the scenes where hooper was in the cage the shark that passed by was real and a shark actually got caught in a shark cage so they used that to make it look like it was attacking it
Also, Richard Dreyfuss was/is an ass and the two of them did not get along at all. Dreyfuss later admitted that he was probably too cocky at the time, considering he was so young and Shaw was a veteran. I believe
Actually, in the USS Indianapolis scene, there were two takes done. In the first one, Robert Shaw was a little drunk while filming it. The following day, by his own choice, he did the entire speech sober.
The shark was only supposed to be in it more during the second half of the film. Contrary to the myth, Spielberg didnt want to show the shark for the beach attack scenes. The mechanical shark/s were not scheduled to be used until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's where they kept malfunctioning. The water where they filmed the beach scenes was only waist to chest deep water. Impossible to use such a huge mechanical contraption in shallow water. Spielberg was a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. The shark was hidden early on by design.
Hahaha, I find it funny how Natalie called that boat a "big" boat... considering what Brody says to Quint later out on the water after he gets a look at the fish.
Yup! When “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Gremlins" came out, parents wanted something between PG and R. It was Spielberg himself (who was responsible for the two films) who heavily promoted the idea.
Classic movie, great performances and writing, and the music! Perfectly compliments the different elements of the movie, enhancing the scenes, but aside from the jump scares, my absolute favorite, character defining scene, is Quint sitting in his fighting chair, nibbling on something and the reel goes tickticktick and then it's ON! that is the scene, right there
Funny, I must have watched this movie hundreds of times. It is one of my all time favorites. I had never noticed there were dogs on the boat. Guess I was always focused on their chumming and fishing techniques.
"The shark is not even the villain." I know right? It's always the humans. Egomania, greed, cowardice... Smart script with every character bringing something to the table.
Jaws is my first memory of going to the movies as a kid, as my parents took me and my little brother to a drive-in theater! Needless to say, it was a horrific experience for everyone, due to the panicked screaming of a five-year-old (seriously dad, what were you thinking, I get you were a fan of the novel, since I remember the book laying around the house. I even tried to read some years later). Anyways, over time it became my favorite movie, and it's easy to see why: It's not a horror movie, it's not a monster movie. It is a drama about regular people in a village facing a common crisis that threatens their lives/livelihoods, and it excels in everything: direction, script and dialogue, acting, photography, editing, music, sound, and practical effects.
When i showed Jaws to my 7 year old daugher, when Chrissy was eaten my daughter said "that's so sad, that boy has to find a new girl friend now" Funniest thing I ever heard
@Kingtot My parents showed me Jaws when I was 5, and we lived in Hawaii at that time. My daughter has always loved sharks since she was 2 or three. Our local aquarium has a big shark exhibit where they let you down into a cage in the shark tank. She did that when she was 12. Needless to say she was routing for the shark.
Wow this is so freaky for me, I literally just watched this movie for the first time on Tuesday at my local theater. Loved it myself so excited to see what you think.
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Can't break my streak now (sharing this on Jaws reaction videos lol). My mother saw this in theater when she was very pregnant with me. I was born July 22, 1975.
I USED TO HAVE LAND SHARK NIGHTMARES TOO!! I'm actually really glad I'm not the only one lmao. I respect and avoid them entirely but they're fascinating as scared of them as I am. Anywho, hope you enjoy the movie as much most of the rest of us do! lol
If I could ever go back in time and watch a movie during its first run in theaters Jaws would certainly be in my top 5 of choices, it must have been an absolute blast. My mom's got a great story from seeing this in 1975, when the shark comes out of the water during the chumming scene the woman sitting in front of her threw her popcorn and soda up in the air and it landed in my mom's lap
@Drforrester31 ,, same thing happened to me im sat in the cinema watching the movie , comes to the Ben Gardner scene , you get to the head evertbody jumps I get the woman who`s sat behind me`s Ice cream cornet in the back of my head & neck ....
Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis was one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen in cinema. Literally, a creepy ass spooky story told within a creepy ass spooky story - a nightmare within a nightmare. Still takes my breath to this day.
I may be wrong, but I think Ben Gardner got attacked by the shark and hid inside the boat as it was sunk. He must have been so scared that he never tried to get out and drowned.
JAWS was the first giant shark movie. My dad was co owner of a fishing boat out of Oceanside CA, and following the movie curious and scared people would pay me to take them out to try and see a large Great White as depicted in the movie. The charter clients seemed pleased with the size of the 17 foot female I kept encountering as while not 25' long like Bruce from Jaws people mostly thought of sharks from Flipper or Sea Hunt. which were much smaller.
Don't worry about it, Nat... people who saw this movie back in the day at the theaters, not only were terrified to go into the ocean, the lake, the pond, the river, etc, were even scared to slip into a bath anymore - they switched to showers... unless they were still traumatized from Psycho...
The various humorous references to this movie are a tribute. The Jaws music at the music used at the beginning of Airplane! or "The shark still looks fake" in Back to the Future II. The line "We're gonna need a bigger boat was ad-libbed.
First time watching you. "I really hope you can hear the thunder" Literally right after, I hear thunder in my neighborhood. A storm just starting. Crazy!
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Return Of The Living Dead is must see too......
I Haven't read through all the comments but in response to your "It's PG comments" PG 13 didn't exist until July of 1984, so movies were either G, PG, or R and it was not determined to be violent enough to be an R at the time.
@@kylereese4822 "Send more paramedics"
PG13 didn't exist when Jaws released
Maybe should have watched sharknado would have fit more I think
Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.
Wow
The other interesting factoid is that one of the two kids with the shark fin is now the police chief for the town it was filmed in
@@shawnmiller4781 that I did not know. :)
Quint's speech about the Indianapolis actually brought that tragedy to public's consciousness. For obvious reasons it wasn't talked much about at the time, and it was sort of quietly forgotten until that scene.
The fact that the tragedy continued with what happened to the Captain was a MAJOR screw up by the Military brass. What happened to the men could be considered an accident, what happened to the Captain may as well have been murder as far as I'm concerned.
We went over the story during the 1st week of Navy bootcamp. We did the swim and then talked about it during basic water survival.
It was relatively recent too
It wasn't talked about because it was still confidential. The real story only had been released a few months before. That is how Howard Sackler got the story.
@@captin3149it is and was typical of USN. Nothing unique about it.
To this day Jaws still has some of the greatest acting I've ever seen in a film. That Indianapolis speech always gives an uneasy feeling no matter how many times I watch it.
You must've never watched LOTR or The Revenant or 7,000 other movies
I concur 110 percent...the whole scene of them clowning and sharing stories, to the comparing scars, to the instant tonal shift as soon as Quint mentions the Indianapolis...every bit of it is just masterclass in just about every element of filmmaking. Writing, acting, direction, lighting, cinematography, sound...it all comes together near perfect...I put it in the top of all scenes ever filmed for any movie.
Richard Dreyfuss at his early best after his appearance in American Graffiti. And Roy Schieder went to A status overnight!
Definitely one of the best scenes in the history of filmmaking. It always comes in when talking about great scenes in movies and everyone usually mentions so many details about it they noticed even if they hadn't seen the movie in years, like details about the way the light swings and certain inflections on certain words. Absolutely brilliant.
Robert Shaw was a heavy drinker and reportedly a nightmare to work with when he was drunk. The monologue scene had already been shot once but Shaw was really drunk and it wasn't very good, so they were going to just scrap that scene (can you imagine?). Shaw supposedly felt bad the next day and asked Spielberg if he could reshoot it and that's how we got that amazing performance.
I love that Brody uses the gun and the tank to kill the shark - the two things that Hooper and Quint criticized each other for bringing onto the boat.
The method used to dispatch the shark in each of the first three "Jaws" movies (haven watched any others) is blatantly foreshadowed.
@@BusyBadger There's a reason Checkhov got that gun.
This film is a master class in how to create dread in an audience. It isn’t that “scary” exactly, but it gets under your skin. Really well done film.
Psychological thriller. It lingers in the mind.
@@lyndoncmp5751 psychological "horror" is more like it considering it's everyones fear in real life
@@mattlawrence1932
You could argue that, but I've never seen Jaws as a horror film. Super thriller was the term at the time. ✌
That's called being scary! 😂
@@mattlawrence1932I don't fear Sharks because I'll never go to a beach like that
Quint wasn't "acting out of fear" by destroying the radio or pushing the boat engines to destruction ... he was acting out of anger. Quint is more or less the Captain Ahab of this story. Living through the horror of seeing hundreds of his shipmates killed as a young sailor, then seeking his revenge on this maneater that's terrorizing a beach community.
By destroying both the radio and engines, Quint was essentially deciding it was either kill, or be killed - in the fight with what had become his "white whale".
He didn't want no one else getting the reward for catching the shark. Why he smashed it.
He was a lot like Ahab in the book....
Spoilers...
In the book, Quint doesn't get eaten.
Like Ahab, he drowns after getting tangled in the harpoon ropes.
PG -13 was introduced in the 80's (largely thanks to movies by Spielberg) to make a new category for movies that weren't for young kids, but were potentially appropriate for teens.
Specifically it was introduced after temple of doom.
See also, airplane lol
Yup... Though JAWS added a disclaimer to its PG rating ("May be too intense for younger children")
It was because of GREMLINS wasn't it ? 😱
@@Susqueguy01 yeah Gremlins and Temple of Doom
Nat: "The movie is PG so they aren't gonna show anything" 70s/80s cinema: "Hold my beer..."
I saw this in a theater when I was like 10. Relatively certain the people at the MPAA wanted their kids to stop nagging them about going to the beach.
right at the beginging when Nat said..."she naked...ins't this PG" and my answer was simple...its the 70's
@@michaelmiller6709 This made me laugh so hard!
The first PG13 movie ever was Indiana Jones, and the Temple of Doom. Jaws is years before that.
‘70s kids are tougher for a reason. Our PG movies had violence, gore, swearing and full frontal nudity. We weren’t sheltered.
To me, Jaws is a perfect movie. Nothing wasted. Everything matters. Just perfect.
They should've replaced 'The End' with ' Fin ' 😂
@paulbrookes Yes, it also would have been better if Amy Schumer directed it
The shark said the same: "nothing wasted, I ate everything!"
Quint's monologue about the USS Indianapolis is really one of the best monologues in all of film. Robert Shaw just crushes it.
The Quint speech was actually taken from a true story of a survivor. That is why it had such an impact, because it was TRUE.
Yet, the WAY it was delivered, with body ticks and voice inflection was ALL Shaw, who was basically drunk (as he was having serious drinking problems while filming) on the first take and knew that it was crap. So, on the 2nd take, he did it completely sober, possibly the first time during the entire filming schedule, and added all the "emotional elements" involved so well, that people who were thinking of firing him due to his drinking suddenly shut up and realized that this man was doing this well WHILE drunk on most scenes was far more compelling than you would have first thought.
He’s getting a statue right next town over in Benicia, Ca! The actual Navy vet, not Robert Shaw. Although Mr. Shaw is very deserving.
I was going to post this but you beat me to it. Also Shaw didn't like Dreyfuss and bullied him relentlessly during the filming of the movie.
Quint's story about the USS Indianapolis is true EXCEPT for one detail.
An SOS WAS sent. All the radio listening stations either discounted or ignored the message.
The US Navy hid this behind top secret classifications until the 1980's when the truth came out.
Sadly this was after Captain McVay of the USS Indianapolis took his own life at the age of 70 in 1968. Some 20 years before he would be exonerated off all wrongdoing in Congress.
@@mattfroeming640 Richard Dreyfuss has spoken out definitively against the rumour of a beef between himself and Shaw. Google is your friend.
@@rollomaughfling380 he should look for the video of Dreyfuss in tears talking about meeting Shaw's grandkid.
A true masterclass in film making and the blueprint for every blockbuster to come. Jaws doesn't appear on screen until the 1 hour 21 minute mark, and he only has approximately 4 minutes of screen time after that... less is more. The use of the fishing line and clicking noises hooks you completely. A 10/10 completely.
Shark’s name is ‘Jaws’?😂😂😊
@@bronson1392 It's "Bruce" :)
Best scene in the movie imo
Also the very start where the poor girls i attacked (all under the water so they don't have to show anything) and then she's abruptly dragged under...
You had the same reaction to the shark's death as audiences did in 1975. People were standing and cheering at the end. Jaws is considered the first "summer blockbuster".
The scene between Brody and his son at the dinner table, when he is mimicking him is, so goddamn wholesome, sweet, and beautiful.
I love that scene, the little boy is so cute
It was apparently ad-libbed, which makes it so much cuter. Just... a kid being a kid and Roy Scheider leaning into it like a real dad. Makes the scene feel that much more authentic.
I actually love how Hooper and Quint are vindicated, each in their own way. Early in the hunt, Quint tells Hooper that all his equipment is "real fine expensive gear". Hooper fires back telling Quint that shooting the shark with a rifle as a "waste of time". Yet Brody gets the kill using both Hooper's air tank and Quint's rifle.
That’s the best insight I’ve ever heard about this movie. Well said.
Probably my favorite movie. Quint's monologue is just perfect. Great movie, great cast, great performances by the entire cast.
Nat, 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…
The story is true, but they took some liberties. Most of the crew was died from dehydration or drowning
@@arc4859 Not really. About 150 men out of 900(ish) were said to be eaten while alive, but anyone who died would have also been eaten. So when he said "The sharks took the rest." It would have been relatively accurate. Especially when you think about it from the perspective of a survivor.
@@hellsson1996 When you first hear that, do you think that sharks killed 750 of them or that sharks killed a small portion of them and then the ocean may or may not have eaten the rest who died by other means? Most would think of the former when he says that
@@arc4859 Honestly I don't think it matters. The point is, he saw hundreds of people being eaten by sharks. Does the specific number killed by the sharks matter?
I really don't think they took liberties with that monologue at all. I can't say the same for the rest of the movie.
Quint is Ahab.. The shark is his white whale.
The shots with the barrels aren't meant to hit the shark's brain and kill it. The flotation of the barrels is meant to tire the shark out, slow him down and keep him near the surface.
Also you would absolutely love the movie Tremors. The concept is basically "land sharks" and it's a fantastic movie.
I know. Just thought it would also be great if they could somehow hit him in a weak spot and get it over with 😅
@NatalieGoldReacts Technically, everything's a weak spot with sufficient velocities.
Quint wanted to get a shot in the head though because it makes it more difficult to swim against a barrel with a harpoon buried in its head rather than its back.
"There's 2 dogs? ohmyGod!"
There's funny, and there's naturally funny. You're hilarious under stress, Natalie.
Great reaction! Enjoyed watching it with you. If it hasn't been mentioned already, this movie came out in 75 and PG-13 wasn't created until 1984. Pretty huge range of movies used to fall into that PG bucket!
As someone who has a family house around this region on Cape Cod, Massachusetts this movie is a personal favorite as it was filmed on Martha’s Vineyard. Over the past few years a large seal population has moved in and of course that has brought sharks and the area has really leaned into the Jaws themed touristy stuff since then. Great reaction as always!
Quint is probably my favorite depiction of the Captain Ahab archetype in modern literature/film. Having him connected to the tragedy of the USS Indianapolis cements audience sympathy for his hatred and obsession with sharks, leading to his tragic death by his own white "whale."
I love your screenname.
The Indianapolis scene is perfection in cinema. There’s 3 plates on the table but one is still full of food because Brody is sea sick. When Quint mentions the Indianapolis, Brody is still cheerfully asking what that was while Hooper stops laughing because since he studies sharks he would have definitely have heard about the Indianapolis.
What really makes the Indianapolis scene even better is when you know tharRobert Shaw (Captain Quint) was fall down drunk and he did it in one take...
Bonus trivia : Richard Dreyfuss (hopper) and Robert Shaw (Captain Quint) hated each other.
@@abbyboyd5111actually they stitched together several drunk and sober takes for that scene iirc
@@fraelikkriil830 : That's not what was said on the Jaws documentary by both cast and crew but, I am not an expert just watched a documentary which might not have been officially authorized. Thank you for the updated info.
Q: How did the police know that the girl who got eaten by jaws had dandruff?
A: They found her Head and Shoulders on the beach.
Thanks Dad!
*Tsk tsk* no just no 🤦♂️
Duh dum, tssh. 🥁
PDAM DISHOOOO! ~Trid
Fintastic pun! Very jawesome pun! 🙃
So the guy with Pipit (the lab) was his actual owner. I guess while filming the scene where he’s calling the dog’s name, behind the camera, Pipit kept barking like “I’M RIGHT HERE”. So the lady who played Alex Kintner’s mom had to take the dog behind the dunes so Pipit’s barking wouldn’t interfere with production. Kind of a funny story I heard on a video based entirely on our little buddy, Pipit
I was 13 when this movie came out (summer, 1975) and was so blown away by it that i saw it about 5 times that summer (no DVDs, videos or streaming video back then, so i actually went to the theater all those times). I was convinced that i was going to be a marine biologist and atudy sharks. Sadly, i didnt stick with that dream, though I've maintained a lifelong fascination with sharks. I loved your reaction to this classic!
It's amazing how no other shark movie comes close to the quality of Jaws
Put some respect on The Meg my g
@@MrHimiStringerDon’t disrespect Jaws like that
I thought deep blue sea was a good one.
Deep Blue Sea is a better shark movie.
Bruh sharknado is the bomb
My cousins tied me up with duct tape and forced me to watch it so… You’ve got this 😂
This is a collab I had no idea I wanted to see, but now I 'm very much hoping for one in the future!
@jamesmif Same! A colab between these two would be amazing!
Just watched your Serentiy yesterday. Great reaction. You definitely cried more than I did when I first saw it.
bahahaha omg 😂
So basically as an adult she is kinky now is what she means.
That opening scene is still intense. No shark, no fin, no blood. Just her screams and our imaginations taking over. Very well done. I consider Jaws to be as close to perfect as a movie can get. The writing, the direction, the acting, the music is all at 100%.
The part where she's begging to God right before sinking in the water still gets me!
@@satyendrandonibanerjee8682
The actress, Susan Backlinie, ad-libbed that part.
Back to the Future
One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. A master class in "less is more "
Yeah, movies today don't make you use your imagination, they just dump a pile of inclusive & diverse blood and guts on your lap.
My mother saw this in theatres when it came out. She said that people threw their popcorn in the air at some of the jump scenes, and the whole theatre cheered when the shark blew up. Also, they showed Christie's full torso in the remains that hooper examined in the original release. If you watch it again, hoopers dialog has an awkward cut as though somethings missing.
The crew having issues with the mechanical shark was the best thing that could have happened for this movie. It forced Spielberg to think outside the box with his shots, making for a more cerebral kind of horror. We don't see the shark until about halfway through and you're already scared. Simply a great accomplishment.
Well that was by design though for the first half of the film. The mechanical shark was not scheduled to be used for any scenes until July 1974. All the beach attack scenes were filmed early on in May and June, in really shallow water (waist to chest deep) so there was no way to use the huge mechanical shark.
The mechanical sharks were only scheduled to be used in the deeper water out at sea for the Orca based scenes. That's where they kept malfunctioning all through July and August and didn't really work until September. That's when they got all those end shots.
Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. He always planned to have suspense and the unseen shark in the first half of the film.
Cheers.
You know it's gonna be good when Nat spends 5 and a half minutes procrastinating
Fun fact: Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis was written by criminally underrated writer John Millius, who wrote "Apocalypse Now", "Conan the Barbarian", "Red Dawn", HBO's "Rome" and "Deadwood", and was the IRL inspiration for Walter Sobchek from "The Big Lebowski".
Addendum: if anyone tells you Robert Shaw "rewrote" it, dont listen, he didn't. He cut it down for length because it was too long to remember because he was really drinking during filming the scene.
Always a pleasant surprise to see some love for John Millius!
LOL... he was drunk during the scene because he said if they were supposed to be drunk, he'd do it drunk.
Well that depends who you speak to. Spielberg cites him as the author but Jaws co-writer Carl Gottlieb has always disputed that and does credit Millius' input but only alongside many others including Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale who went on to write 'Back to the Future' and says Shaw deserves the credit for bringing the best elements of the various versions together into the on screen words.
“Somehow, the mythology was that Milius wrote that speech, but there were 10 versions of that speech, including my own,” Gottlieb said. “We gave them to Robert Shaw.” Gottlieb noted Shaw, at the point in his career, had already written a few novels and the play The Man in the Glass Booth “So, [Shaw] took it all, synthesized it. And one night while we are all at dinner … he came in with a handful of paper and said, ‘I think I have the pesky speech licked,'” Gottlieb recalled. “And he basically performed it for the table. And we all went, ‘Wow.’ And Steven said, ‘That’s what we’re shooting.'”
Carl says "I could have easily said it was my speech. It was not my speech. Robert Shaw did that. Unfortunately, because John and Steven are close friends, Steven has always supported Milius’ version, which in my estimation, is false.”
And there's the mythology that's emerged since.
I have owned this movie in every format since the VHS (including the special edition laserdisc) and I have watched all the supplemental materials and documentaries right up to the present day. Gottlieb tells one version of the story and Dreyfuss (and Spielberg) tell another. It seems odd the Dreyfuss would give so much credit to Shaw because they did have real personal tension on the set closely mirroring the tension between the characters. The truth is probably somewhere in between. I have seen the scripted speech and it is longer but Shaw nails the essentials even bleary-eyed drunk as he was.
11:10 Fun Fact: Several decades after the filming of "Jaws" Lee Fierro who plays Mrs. Kintner, returned to Martha's Vineyard (where "Jaws" was filmed) walked into a seafood restaurant (called "The Wharf") and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother in "Jaws" so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.
Holy crap, that is WILD! That's some trippy serendipity-doo-dah!
You can't write stuff like that.
@@BlackieNuffhis name is literally Vorhees...did that take the name for Jason after this kid?
Actually, it was in New York, I believe where she walked into the restaurant. But for the most part, that's accurate.
Another FUN FACT, Lee Fierro would get paid by college guys to slap them. She eventually retired from the slapping biz, but, she would make $5 a slap. For more fun info, watch THE SHARK US STILL WORKING THE IMPACT AND LEGACY OF JAWS. It's a really good documentary.
@@moon-moth1 Who's Michael Kintner? There were only two Kinters in movie. Mrs Kintner, and Alex Kinter.
@@Kasino80
You never know! That's a really interesting theory, considering Jason Voorhees (from Friday The 13th) drowned in the lake and his mother went on a killing spree (preceding Jason's own vendetta) of the camp counsellors who let it happen - that's one hell of an amped-up take on a kid being eaten by a shark and his mother smacking the police chief across his face for similar negligence! There's a weird parallel going on, for sure!
“Craaaabs, in her haaaand… Oh that’s really devastating.”
Why did that crack me up so much?!?! 😂👍🏼
Something I just thought about recently that makes this scene even more chilling: I always thought that the music is supposed to note the presence of the shark, so not only was Hooper inspecting a boat that the shark had attacked, it was somewhere down there with him.
I've always been so envious of my mom's experience seeing this movie. She saw it right when it came out, but she happened to be on Martha's Vineyard at the time. So, she was able to see it where it was filmed. One of my low-key favorite parts of going to MV is seeing all of the locations from the movie that are largely unchanged since they shot the film, so seeing the movie there for the first time must have been awesome.
I wasn't on Martha's Vineyard when the movie came out, but on the coast of Rhode Island...close enough to give me serious fear of going back into the ocean.
My mum also saw it during its original release as part of a double feature with the first Halloween
Her and my dad also watched Friday the 13th while camping 😂
"RUN!...SWIM!
I loved the tagline for "Jaws 2"..."Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." Then 3 years later, a movie called "Blood Beach" was made. It's about a giant underground (under the beach) creature killing people by sucking them into the sand. Their tagline was "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water-you can't get to it."
Blood beach was a cool low budget horror.
My mom showed me this movie when I was a little guy, hoping it would scare me and it backfired big time! It became one of my favorite movies and it started my love for sharks! I was obsessed with sharks and still am. Such a great cast and such a great movie!
That was actually one of the calmer reactions to Ben Gardner's head I've seen from reactors. Most of them get at least a foot of air from the jump scare.
As a kid, this scene what got me the most.
One of my favorite moments in the movie that is a great little moment that could be cut out, it wouldn’t affect the overall movie but it just adds so much humanity to it is the scene where Brodie is depressed and he notices his son copying him and then starts playing with him.
It's immortalized for good reason. Between the thematic score, its perfect cast, and gut-punch of a thrill, Jaws is still very much alive.
I read the original novel and Hooper is 100% different in the book - he's described as a tall, blond, muscular Adonis, he has an affair with Brody's wife which the book describes in VIVID detail, and then he dies horribly in the shark cage. Spielberg re-crafted the character to be more like himself with Dreyfuss as a stand-in for his own personality and it adds the perfect contrasting energy.
That kind of character is rife in late 60s and 70s pulp novels, Spielberg made a good call there.
I remember in the novel, the shark breaks the surface with hooper in its mouth and Brody, shooting at the shark , hits hooper in the hard.
Saw the first 15 minutes of this as a kid, became scarred for life…..my fear turned me into an expert on all trivial facts about this film’s production…and finally watched it all at age 25 😅
Natalie. A little story from the what a small world dept. Years after this was filmed, the actress who played Mrs. Kitner (whose son Alex was killed) was in Seattle with family and they went into a seafood place for lunch. She spotted on the menu the Alex Kitner fish sandwich platter. She mentioned to their waitress that she had played Alex Kitners Mom in the movie. A few minutes later the owner came out to meet her. It was the guy who played her son. They had not seen each other or even spoken since the movie wrapped. Truly is a small world.
There’s a fun talk from Williams where he’s discussing the jaws theme. He approached Spielberg with his theme and Spielberg was excited to hear it. When John Williams played the famous two note motif on piano, Spielberg laughed and said “good one Johnny, Okay so where’s this theme.” It took a lot of trust from Spielberg in order for that theme to have made it onto the film.
Awesome, you fell into the old PG trap! It had a whole different meaning back in the day! I saw this at the drive-in when I was 8 BTW. It was one of the greatest movies ever made, in my opinion. Part horror, part adventure with a touch of social commentary and a dash of satire! ❤
Also, this was before PG-13 was even a thing at all.
Jaws is one of those classics that I can confidently say is FLAWLESS! Great characters, tightly paced story, perfect suspense, and masterful score. Jurassic Park is my personal favourite Steven Spielberg film, but I'd refute no one who'd say Jaws is the better blockbuster.
Just saw it in a theater on the 4th of July. Seeing on the big screen and hearing the audience reacting to it is a great experience.
The most enduring quality of the movie is the actors/script. It's just a good story with well written characters and talented actors.
Hooper is such an awesome character. They could have written him to be cowardly or arrogant, but instead they make him a really cool guy who also happens to be a nerd. And he gets to survive! I'm glad they didn't just make him fodder so only the main cool protagonist guy survives at the end. Hooper was super brave and deserved to make it through.
Great video! Love an appropriate reaction to one of the greatest jump scares in all of cinema (23:52). Another fun fact for you: Hooper died in the script, but they got such great stock footage of a real shark attacking an empty shark cage that in order to use it without creating a plot hole, they let him escape and pop back up in the end.
This film is the one that made me a film buff. About as close to a perfect film as you can get. Almost 50 years old, no CGI, and it holds up tremendously!
And yes, PG in the 70s and early 80s was NOT the PG of today! I guess it makes more sense than R, as yes, there was no PG13 yet in 1975
I just wanted to say, your procrastination at the beginning was adorable. 😂🤣
Such iconic actors, Roy Scheider as Brody , Richard Dreyfuss as Hooper and of course Robert Shaw as Quint. Tons of movies and a few Academy Awards under their collective belts.
"The major is the villian of the movie.."
This is why Natalie's is the only react channel I watch - she has great and intelligent insight, often before things happen, and its both refreshing and entertaining to watch.
YES!!!
Love this movie!
The blockbuster of 1975, $470 million dollars ($1.7 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget.
It was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score.
I think back then the "PG" rating was meant to be more literal. "Parental Guidance" : parents be mindful of what your kids are watching and it's up to you guide their viewing habits, and not just "hey, you're kids can watch this even if they're not teens yet". That was the G rating.
That's exactly it. PG was supposed to be taken more seriously, given to movies that had some questionable content, but nothing really inappropriate.
It was when Goonies and Temple of Doom pushed the boundaries of the PG rating that PG-13 was introduced, and it quickly became the de-facto rating of teen movies, leaving PG drifting without being really defined.
Shrek came along, and the PG rating started to be handed out to animated movies. Then Pixar released The Incredibles and it was basically game over for the G rating. Once PG was associated with kids' movies, no one wanted a G rating anymore, because they feared it would alienate older audiences.
Now, PG is the rating of family movies PG-13 is the rating for everything else, and the R rating is only sought for the pedigree of gratuitous violence or Oscar bait (while sexual content has been abandoned completely for fear of losing the more prudish foreign markets).
Ratings are weird and stupid, but they're still better than the Hays Code.
Fun Fact: the news reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley, author of the book of the same name the movie is based on. He ended up hating the film in the long run because the film lead to an increase in killing sharks. He originally wrote the book to get people interested in sharks, and the movie had the exact opposite effect. I highly recommend you read the book too. Lots of big differences including Hooper and you actually end up feeling bad for the mayor when you learn there's an external factor for him keeping the beaches open.
What is the name of the book?
@@MrRobschnieder ........... Jaws
Every time Nat said “Hooper is too cool to die”, that is literally true (changing the script after seeing Dreyfus’s acting).
@@danielpopp1526 Fuck really? I always thought it was called like blood in the water or something my bad lmaooo
Is it true the mayor kept the beaches open because of the mob?
No fair that you have thunder and lightning! My favorite kind of weather, I love it when Mother Nature get cranky.
16:08 The "Ben Gardner jump scare" was added after principal photography. Spielberg deciced he needed it to ratchet up the tension and fear. He borrowed the backyard swimingpool owned by his editor Verna Fields and used a whole bunch of powdered milk to make the water mirky.
This is the only horror movie I can think of that actually makes me sick with dread. I've watched all kinds of horror movies, many that were really brutal and suspenseful, and none of them unsettled me like this one. I think it's the kids and the dogs, as the caretaker of a kid and four dogs, and seeing how graphic the attacks are, and knowing that this kind of stuff really happens. This movie actually gave me a panic attack the last time I watched it and I had to pause and go roll around with my dogs and kiss dirt to calm down.
Ever seen Requiem For A Dream?
We never see the dog die, so as far as I'm concerned the dog saw the shark coming and got the hell out of there.
Jaws did for suspenseful films what Die Hard did for action films; changed the game!
One of the greatest movies of all time. It was one of, if not, my first exposure to horror. My dad was watching this in the living room when I was 3, and I saw a little bit of it (Quint’s death scene), and it scared the crap out of me. But it scared me in a way that I liked, and from that point on, my love of horror began and grew.
not horror
@@Spottedfeather I would say a movie that made generations terrified of going in the water definitely deserves the title of “horror.”
More like a thriller than horror.
@@ueno1 It’s a horror Thriller. A horror is a genre of literature, film, or television that is meant to startle, scare, shock, or repulse the audience. Jaws definitely falls under that category.
@@ueno1 I would call this "horror thriller" or "suspense horror" It utilizes the thriller aspect and suspense techniques to elicit horror.
Something I absolutely love about this movie is how they never use the theme for fakeouts. Its always silent or different music, but if those 2 notes show up, you bet your ass that sharks comin
Fun fact. When John Williams presented the theme to Spielberg he said it was too simple and he didn't like it. They argued over it but we obviously know who won't that. And we love it that he did.
The actor who played quint apparently had a bad drinking problem and his co stars said that he was drunk in all of his scenes.
I recently read that the woman who played Alex’s mother went into a restaurant years after the movie came out and she noticed that there was a lot of Jaws memorabilia on the walls so she mentioned to the waitress that she was in the movie and played the mother of the boy who was killed, the waitress told her the owner would love to meet her and went to get him and it turned out to be the guy who played Alex.
The shark was supposed to be in more of the movie but the animatronic shark kept breaking down so they used footage of real sharks.
More than just a problem, it contributed to Robert Shaws untimely death
there was 3 fake sharks used and steven named it bruce why finding nemo named that shark bruce anyway real sharks were out in at the scenes where hooper was in the cage the shark that passed by was real and a shark actually got caught in a shark cage so they used that to make it look like it was attacking it
Also, Richard Dreyfuss was/is an ass and the two of them did not get along at all. Dreyfuss later admitted that he was probably too cocky at the time, considering he was so young and Shaw was a veteran. I believe
Actually, in the USS Indianapolis scene, there were two takes done. In the first one, Robert Shaw was a little drunk while filming it. The following day, by his own choice, he did the entire speech sober.
The shark was only supposed to be in it more during the second half of the film. Contrary to the myth, Spielberg didnt want to show the shark for the beach attack scenes. The mechanical shark/s were not scheduled to be used until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's where they kept malfunctioning. The water where they filmed the beach scenes was only waist to chest deep water. Impossible to use such a huge mechanical contraption in shallow water. Spielberg was a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. The shark was hidden early on by design.
Hahaha, I find it funny how Natalie called that boat a "big" boat... considering what Brody says to Quint later out on the water after he gets a look at the fish.
*_Jaw, in 1977, was rated PG because PG-13 did not exist until 1984._*
Yup! When “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Gremlins" came out, parents wanted something between PG and R. It was Spielberg himself (who was responsible for the two films) who heavily promoted the idea.
The studio realized it was a “strong” PG, though: All movie posters and trailers included the warning, “May be too intense for younger audiences.”
Classic movie, great performances and writing, and the music! Perfectly compliments the different elements of the movie, enhancing the scenes, but aside from the jump scares, my absolute favorite, character defining scene, is Quint sitting in his fighting chair, nibbling on something and the reel goes tickticktick and then it's ON! that is the scene, right there
Funny, I must have watched this movie hundreds of times. It is one of my all time favorites. I had never noticed there were dogs on the boat. Guess I was always focused on their chumming and fishing techniques.
"The shark is not even the villain." I know right? It's always the humans. Egomania, greed, cowardice... Smart script with every character bringing something to the table.
Jaws is my first memory of going to the movies as a kid, as my parents took me and my little brother to a drive-in theater! Needless to say, it was a horrific experience for everyone, due to the panicked screaming of a five-year-old (seriously dad, what were you thinking, I get you were a fan of the novel, since I remember the book laying around the house. I even tried to read some years later). Anyways, over time it became my favorite movie, and it's easy to see why: It's not a horror movie, it's not a monster movie. It is a drama about regular people in a village facing a common crisis that threatens their lives/livelihoods, and it excels in everything: direction, script and dialogue, acting, photography, editing, music, sound, and practical effects.
When i showed Jaws to my 7 year old daugher, when Chrissy was eaten my daughter said "that's so sad, that boy has to find a new girl friend now"
Funniest thing I ever heard
You showed it to your 7 year old daughter? XD
@Kingtot My parents showed me Jaws when I was 5, and we lived in Hawaii at that time. My daughter has always loved sharks since she was 2 or three. Our local aquarium has a big shark exhibit where they let you down into a cage in the shark tank. She did that when she was 12. Needless to say she was routing for the shark.
So happy that you mentioned Chekov’s Gun. It’s my favorite movie trope to look for.
25:45. They didn't give him the line. The actor wrote them himself. Legend!
Yes it’s scary. But it’s also an amazing movie. The characters are fantastic, the performances are top notch. So great.
Wow this is so freaky for me, I literally just watched this movie for the first time on Tuesday at my local theater. Loved it myself so excited to see what you think.
Just when you thought it was safe to get back into RUclips 🤣Been loving your summer blockbuster reactions Nat. It's been a nostalgic ride 🤗 Natalia sleeping on the job as usual 🤣 Thanks Cameron for getting this video out for us on Shark Awareness Day 🦈💛
Can't break my streak now (sharing this on Jaws reaction videos lol). My mother saw this in theater when she was very pregnant with me. I was born July 22, 1975.
I USED TO HAVE LAND SHARK NIGHTMARES TOO!! I'm actually really glad I'm not the only one lmao. I respect and avoid them entirely but they're fascinating as scared of them as I am. Anywho, hope you enjoy the movie as much most of the rest of us do! lol
bahahaha I’m not alone! 😂
There was a cartoon back in the 90s called Land Sharks
SNL had a skit with Land Sharks
Don't ever watch the movies Sand Sharks, Ice Sharks or Ghost Shark then. They're B grade movies but they might bring those nightmares back.
@@rtm27 "Flowers...."
The original blockbuster
*summer blockbuster
If I could ever go back in time and watch a movie during its first run in theaters Jaws would certainly be in my top 5 of choices, it must have been an absolute blast. My mom's got a great story from seeing this in 1975, when the shark comes out of the water during the chumming scene the woman sitting in front of her threw her popcorn and soda up in the air and it landed in my mom's lap
1933 New York premiere of King Kong for my time travel movie.
Or the exorcist to see people freak out
@Drforrester31 ,, same thing happened to me im sat in the cinema watching the movie , comes to the Ben Gardner scene , you get to the head evertbody jumps I get the woman who`s sat behind me`s Ice cream cornet in the back of my head & neck ....
@@brianjones7907 Lol, suddenly getting a cold slap on the back of the neck during that moment would've freaked the hell out of me
Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis was one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen in cinema. Literally, a creepy ass spooky story told within a creepy ass spooky story - a nightmare within a nightmare. Still takes my breath to this day.
Natalie is by far the best person you could ever hope to watch a movie with :D
I may be wrong, but I think Ben Gardner got attacked by the shark and hid inside the boat as it was sunk. He must have been so scared that he never tried to get out and drowned.
It's important to face our fears at one point.
JAWS was the first giant shark movie. My dad was co owner of a fishing boat out of Oceanside CA, and following the movie curious and scared people would pay me to take them out to try and see a large Great White as depicted in the movie. The charter clients seemed pleased with the size of the 17 foot female I kept encountering as while not 25' long like Bruce from Jaws people mostly thought of sharks from Flipper or Sea Hunt. which were much smaller.
Thanks for reacting to this iconic movie. It aged well, like a fine wine.
I don't think anyone says STFU as good as Natalie here. Just perfect.
I'm surprised no one has made a parody called "Jews" like a Mel Brooks film.
Don't worry about it, Nat... people who saw this movie back in the day at the theaters, not only were terrified to go into the ocean, the lake, the pond, the river, etc, were even scared to slip into a bath anymore - they switched to showers... unless they were still traumatized from Psycho...
the best part of this film was the script, the dialogue and robert shaw's acting. a modern pirate if there ever was one.
I love how whenever Quint is shouting on his ship, he just sounds like a 100% authentic, straight-up pirate 🏴☠️🦜🏴☠️🦜🏴☠️
The various humorous references to this movie are a tribute. The Jaws music at the music used at the beginning of Airplane! or "The shark still looks fake" in Back to the Future II. The line "We're gonna need a bigger boat was ad-libbed.
This is my favourite film of all time. A true masterpiece.
Rewatching this post-covid made the whole "This is a summer town" bit really stand out.
Great reaction and analysis, particularly of the three men.
First time watching you. "I really hope you can hear the thunder" Literally right after, I hear thunder in my neighborhood. A storm just starting. Crazy!
Loving the idea of Sharks that float through the air at head height, patrolling our streets, feasting on anyone they find.