JAWS (1975) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Addie, 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…
It wasn't 100% factual
So, Robert Shaw who played Quint, was a hard drinker and a nightmare to work with when he was drunk. That monologue in the film about the USS Indianapolis was one Shaw did after being too drunk the day before to get it right and they were going to scrap it. Shaw felt bad and asked Spielberg if they could do it again and I think he did it one take, and sober. One of the greatest monologues in film history.
It was about 95% factual. A distress message was sent but for various reasons it wasn't acted on.
@@regould221 he says no distress signals were sent which isn't true, they were just ignored, he got the date wrong, and he also implied that most people died from shark attacks when in reality the majority of them died from dehydration and exposure, and the shark attacks accounted for only a small fraction of deaths. Still, regardless of its relativity, it was a lot of deaths from sharks
To those saying the distress call did in fact go out and not as many died to sharks as Quint describes, we have to remember this is all from his point of view. To Quint, just a common sailor on the ship, he may not have been aware of the distress call being sent. The ship went down so quickly that he most likely believes no distress call got out. And the traumatizing encounters he had with the sharks during that ordeal most likely colored his perception of how many of his fellow sailors were killed by sharks as they waited for rescue.
Yes, "We're gonna need a bigger boat" is an iconic line, in movie history.
Was it adlibed?
@@wyrmshadow4374 Yes
Except that's not the iconic line. It's "You're gonna need a bigger boat." YOU'RE, not we're. So many people still get this wrong.
@@SurvivorBri "Luke I am your father"
@@GeorgeTropicana "Play it again Sam"
The older kid who did the shark prank with the cardboard fin, the kid on the left, is now the Police chief of the very same town they filmed the movie in. Fun little fact.
17:00 Part of why Hooper is so freaked out by the head (I mean besides the obvious) is because it's Ben Gardner, the fellow that helped him onto the dock when he first arrived on the island. "Hello back, young fella!" Imagine meeting someone fairly kind and friendly, and then being face to face with their severed head, frozen in a permanent, final, silent scream of terror.
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.
I showed this to my 7 year old daughter, when the first girl was killed my daughter said, "that's so sad, that boy has to find a new girlfriend now"
You let a 7-year-old watch Jaws?
@@vetarlittorf1807I watched it at 5 years old.
@@vetarlittorf1807LOL I saw it t like eight or nine, _in our school theater!_ I think it was for an intro on writing a "movie report" for English Class.
That was in the Philippines and some years after 1975. Suffice it to say that I couldn't write a good movie report back then, and I still can't write a good report now.
@@travisfoster1071 My aunt brought me to watch _Moonraker_ at five. Didn't remember anything aside from the shuttle scenes. Had to watch it again on a tape rental to settle it in my mind.
@vetarlittorf1807 my parents show it to me when I was six and we lived in Hawaii at the time
Addie, The USS Indianapolis story is true. It’s one of the big “lesson points” that they teach us in navy basic training. It leads into the lessons about emergency ship maintenance and evacuation.
They taught us about the Forrestal and the Cole, never once mentioned the Indianapolis to us
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It's true but it's also greatly exaggerated about the sharks being responsible for that many deaths. Most of the men were killed by either injuries from the blast or exposure. A lot of the people were scavenged by sharks and while they're definitely were people who were killed directly by the sharks, there were actually entire groups of survivors that didn't see any sharks the entire time.
I read a fantastic comment in the reaction video to this movie on another channel. The actress playing the young boy's mother was visiting some restaurant or diner or whatever, decades after, and noticed they had an "Alex Kintner sandwich" on the menu. She commented to the staff that she played his mother in this movie, and as she was leaving the owner caught up with her. Turns out HE played Alex Kintner when he was a kid (hence the sandwich), and it was the first time they had met since the making of the movie. :)
In the scene where the mother slaps Brody, the actress had never done a stage slap before. She missed it and actually smacked him upside the head. Scheider remained in character and finished the scene.
I watched the documentary and she said that she had slapped him about 15 times for that scene and Roy did great because he didn't flinch as one does automatically when they know they are about to be slapped. Amazing acting.
Lee Fierro, an unfortunate casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic but man what an indelible impact she left on this film just from her heartbreaking monologue.
Pretty much everyone jumps at the head! It's always a moment I look forward to in a reaction. You didn't disappoint! 😁
It's a head and upper torso, not just a head. Pay attention.
@@rollomaughfling380 LOL. Nitpick much?
@@treadstone1138 No, just have two eyes and a brain.
@@rollomaughfling380 Very harsh dude. Not necessary.
My 11-year old daughter hosted a spend-the-night party for about a dozen girlfriends--none of them had seen "Jaws".
Of course, I'm not even watching the movie when Hooper is trying to retrieve the tooth, but solely looking at all the girls with fearful anticipation on their faces solely focused on the TV--and then AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!, the explosion of panicked pre-teen pandemonium hysteria. It was priceless, and I could hardly stop laughing. (Some were crying and hugging each other afterwards.) I still smile and chuckle when I think about it.
Multiply Addie's reaction (16:52) by at least 50 times to get a sense of that moment.
Nearly 50 years later and Ben Gardener is still scaring people. I took me a while to realize that Ben Gardner is the man that greeted Hooper at the dock when he first arrived. The "Hello back." guy.
"Shark guts everywhere"
also Quint guts everywhere...
My great uncle was one of the first rescue plane pilots at the U.S.S. Indianapolis and he said the panic of sailors trying to get in, plus the panic people had when they were told there was no more room, but the next plane was 5-10 minutes away haunted him until the day he died.
Wow. I can only imagine how difficult it was for him.
I guess these situations open darkest caves of human nature much below humanity and empathy.
Did he say that After he died?
@SergioArellano-yd7ik Are you trying to be funny? I will have you know, sir, my father was stationed in the Philippines during this time. Joke as much as you want, but this is a matter of pride for our family that served. As I am proud and saddened by the original poster. You should just shut up. If you are from Espania (Spain) who cowardly excused themselves from WW1 and WW11, step back down.
"You're certifiable Quint! You know that? You're certifiable!" "Yeah yeah.''
lol, the way her voice changes on when she yells, "Ohh my Gawsh" at 24:38 is hilarious.
Fun trivia tidbit; Hooper dies in the shark cage in the book, and was slated to die in the movie as well. But when they were capturing the live footage of a cage and shark, they happened to get that incredible shot of the shark rolling on the cage. Only problem? Cage was empty. They reeeeeeeally wanted to use that shot, so they found a way, and it let Hooper live. Considering they cut a subplot where Hooper sleeps with Mrs Brody, and that was kinda his karma being killed, it probably worked out for the best.
When you said, "I don't want a kid to die." I was like oh boy probably not a good time to mention the Kintner family.
Well why would you mention it either way
*Kintner
@@rollomaughfling380 Dang it. I did not see that spelling typo. Good call. It deserves an edit for that poor boy.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" is, indeed, an iconic and oft-quoted line, you've probably heard it, or variations of it, in any number of other movies and TV shows.
Best part was, it was an ad-lib by Roy Schieder. Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel, and the screenplay writer for the film, were both FURIOUS with him when he came up with it, because they couldn't believe it hadn't occurred to THEM.
And the shark is barely in the movie, mostly because the animatronic shark was always breaking down and they couldn't film it. It was endlessly annoying on set, but Speilberg is very grateful, saying it forced him to be "more Alfred Hitchcock and less Ray Harryhausen." Speilberg had initially intended the shark effects to be the star of the film, but had to shoot around it, using camera tricks to imply the shark instead of showing it.
Live shark footage was used mostly for the shark cage attack, and this led to Hooper surviving in the film (he died in the novel). When shooting live shark footage, they captured a scene of a shark caught in the cables of the cage and rolling around over it, too awesome not to use. But the cage was empty in that shot, the stuntman having fled for his life, so to avoid continuity errors they filmed Hooper escaping from the cage. Thus, the sharks in Australia rewrote the script and spared Hooper.
Another fun fact...The "he made me do it" kid grew up to become the police chief on Martha's Vineyard, the New England coastal island where this was mostly filmed
Addie - "Oh, not the dog."
Spielberg - "The dog."
The head drop gets everyone first time. Best jump scare in history imo. Now imagine being a 10 yr old front row opening weekend in 75 didnt sleep for awhile
Fun Fact: The Tiger shark they caught and cut open was actually caught during filming the movie, so they decided to write it into the movie. That whole scene with Matt measuring it's maw, and cutting it open was not in the original script...also, on a side note, the licence plate pulled out of the tiger shark is the same plate that was removed from the tiger shark's mouth in the film "Deep Blue Sea" the makers of THAT film were paying homage to this film.
The floating head is one of the best, most effective and most iconic jump scares in movie history.
The last remaining mold of Bruce (the name the production gave the shark, named after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer; this is why the shark in FINDING NEMO is named Bruce) was used by Universal Studios for photo ops at the Amity section of their theme park in Hollywood. Eventually, it wound up being the reluctant mascot of a junkyard not far away. A few years ago, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science raised the money to purchase the shark and hire a top-notch crew of restoration artists to bring it back to movie-style glory. To this day, it is a central attraction at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, hung from the ceiling for film fans around the world to come face-to-face with Bruce and his JAWS.
What made Jaws so iconic is that we don't ever really see the shark until the end. Spielberg used the audience's own imaginations of what it must look like to create the fear in our minds. His use of the age-old theme of man vs. nature was simply masterclass in storytelling.
The shark was supposed to be seen more and earlier in the movie. Yet they had so many technical problems with it. It worked perfectly when they tested it in a pool but in the sea the salt affected the mechanism.
The shark was seen halfway through in the pond. Not at the end.
The music was the Shark. John Williams at his best.
Had "Bruce" the mechanical shark of the movie worked 100% of the time, Jaws would've been a completely different movie and probably not as intense as it was with NOT seeing the shark. Quint's speech about the Indianapolis put the whole perspective of sharks and his experience with them in a terrifying light. This movie is essentially Moby Dick, but with a shark
LOL 😆 Ben Gardner playing peekaboo has been one of cinema's best jumpscares. 🏆 ❤ 🎥
Ya didn't disappoint Addie 👍 📹
Agreed. Another good one is the alien in the duct with Tom Skeritt in Alien.
Arbogast at the top of the stairs in "Psycho" is an epic jumpscare.
Addie would be fine with a classic like "Psycho"... Adding Alfred Hitchcock to her list of directors in her extensive reaction videos collection would be more appropriate .
Definitely a jump scare that seems to get a lot of people. I always look forward to it in "Jaws" reactions. The best jump scare of all time, in my opinion, was in a certain scene in "The Haunting of Hill House" series on Netflix. I don't want to get more specific because I hold onto hope that Addie might react to it one day and I don't want to spoil it. But I am very resistant to jump scares in movies, and that was the only one ever that REALLY got me. Like... made me scream out loud levels of getting me. But what made that one even better was that there was an actual story reason for it.
"I don't want any kids to die"
Cries in Alex Kintner . . .
Pippin the dog: "Am I a joke to you?"
Addie, I loved your reaction when the shark revealed itself to Brody and Brody Said "You're gonna need a bigger boat. lol Jaws 2 is also a good movie. When it comes to the soundtrack to this movie, Only John Williams can create a song out of 2 notes that's as identifiable to everyone as this. Anyone who has seen this movie is instantly reminded of this movie when they hear those 2 notes. Years ago Universal Orlando used to have a boat ride that you can take where it's your boat full of people against the Shark. It was pretty good.
29:30 -- shooting star.. Which became a Spielberg tradition.. There's usually one in every movie since Jaws..
I highly recommend "The Thing" (1982).
Yes. That’s always a great film for RUclipsr reactions.
I highly recommend she not eat before watching The Thing,
In my opinion, JAWS is the rare exception when the movie is better than the book.
The "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line was an adlib by Roy Schneider. It fit so perfectly though, that they left it in. And it DID become one of the most iconic lines in movie history.
I love your reactions, Addie and look forward to seeing more. 🙂
The popping out head in the boat is the "a whaaat?" dude who captured the Tiger shark. One of the best jumpscares ever.
This movie is a masterpiece at creating tension and suspense. I am so happy you watched it! And yes, we ALL jumped when the head pops up. I saw it in the theaters with my dad when it first came out. not sure they'd allow kids to watch it now. 😀
Amazing that it's only PG, huh?
What I love about the holiday roast scene is that the shark has to be well ahead of the pier for the chain to be taut & for it to be pulling it. So how that guy escaped is a mystery. 😂😂😂
We're talking *1975* dollars so the *$3,000* offered is *$17,000* & the *$10,000* he demanded is equivalent to *$57,000* today in *2023*
"Is dropping things just your thing????" is the funniest line ever. I think that EVERY time I see this movie. Stick your arms inside man and quit letting stuff go!
fun story: decades after this movie Mrs. Kintner walked into a small restaurant and noticed a they had an 'Alex Kintner Sandwich' on their menu. she mentioned she had played his mother in the movie and the worker went into the back and came out with Jeffery Voorhees (such a cool name) who was the actor who'd played Alex. he owned the shop. and they hadn't seen each other since filming 🦈😁
fun fact, my teacher rex shot the underwater stuff, he lied to Spielberg about having underwater experience. when he got the call he just looked up the water temperature info in his cinematographer manual (real thing), recited it and got hired.
The score of Jaws is done by the legendary composer John Williams. He has done many many many memorable scores such as Star Wars, Jaws, Jurrasic Park, Indiana Jones, Superman & Harry Potter to name a few.
In the late 70s on "Saturday Night Live," every now and then they'd do a skit where a shark would come to someone's house and knock on the door. Typically, a housewife would call through the door, "Who is it?" You'd hear the characteristic "Jaws" music and the voice on the other side of the door would call back something like "Candygram." The housewife would call back "Who?" and the voice would call back "Land shark......candygram" or something like that. She'd answer the door and the shark would kill her. They had a lot of fun doing crazy skits based on this movie.
I think it was Chevy Chase as the Land Shark.
Best one had the lady saying, "Wait, you're that shark, aren't you?"
"I'm really only a dolphin, ma'am."
"Oh, well in that case..."
John Belushi played Hooper in one sketch, he did a good Dreyfuss impression, he later played his character from goodbye girl
This is a movie that will always hold up. For 1975, this was well ahead of its time. Robert Shaw stole the show. Talking of sea-based movies Addie - could you do a reaction video for "The Poseidon Adventure"?
Crazy that Spielberg was only 27 when he made Jaws. The start of a legendary career.
That is something I've never really thought about until seeing it typed out here, the fact that he was 27 when he made this is insane, a true master of his craft
The USS Indianapolis story is true. It really was sunk by a Japanese sub (it was the last major vessel lost of the entire war, which ended just a few weeks after the sinking. In fact, the Japanese sub that sunk the Indianapolis got home just in time to find out about the Japanese surrender), and the survivors really weren't found for days afterwards. Most guys died of exposure in the tropical sun without food or fresh water, and the sharks showed up in huge numbers to feed on both the living and the dead until a rescue effort could be mounted.
Though many sailors died of injuries, exposure, and thirst, it was 50 a day to the sharks. That's horrifying.
Addie
That mother played by Lee Fierro searching for her son, Alex Kintner, many years later after filming, went to a local restaurant with some of her friends for lunch. This restaurant had a specialty sandwich called "Alex Kintner". Reason for this sandwich is that owner of the restaurant is former kid actor named Jeffery Voorhees, who played Alex Kintner. One of Jeffery's employees informed him that his "mom" came in for lunch. Jeffery went over to her table and reunited with Lee, 1st since filming that scene.
I love Addie. And not many people notice them come ashore in the credits.
Got to be honest, I've seen this film countless times and never noticed that they came ashore!
@@rikmoran3963 i expect that few people notice, as few people, pre-Marvel, ever expected there to be much interesting things happening during the credits.
Not many people watch credits :(
The most trivial of all Jaws trivia is that one producer/director (who has since become persona non grata in the industry for reasons) named his production company (Bad Hat Harry productions) after a random line that Roy Scheider utters in the film. And the production company stinger at the end of each episode of a very successful TV show he produced used that line: "That's some bad hat, Harry".
4:52 Addie: " I don't want a kid to die"
Movie: "Oh i don't care what you want muahaha"
And this is the majesty of true film making. A 50 year old movie which still get's a complete freak out when a rubber head appears because you don't get to see the monster and you build it up in your own mind. The music, the shots etc all lead to your internal tension being so high that it actually doesn't matter that the monster is a patently fake fibreglass shark.
Today, you'll see the monsters multiple times in the trailer, eg. Meg. No surprises, no tension. I think the ability to make a CGI spectacle has gone a hell of a long way to ruin true suspense.
When John Williams played the theme music for Spielberg the 1st time, he thought it was a joke, laughed and asked him for the real music. Later he said how much that music added to the movie.
Fun fact: John's son, Joseph Williams, also has a career in music. Among other things, he sang with the band Toto.
Hey, Addie! This is the very first summer blockbuster from 1975!
Hollywood altered its business model to showcase tentpole attractions during the summer as a result of the huge success of "Jaws". The next six summers were dominated by "The Omen", "Star Wars", "Grease", "Alien", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
Spielberg inadvertently helmed one of the few movies actually made in the open sea because his inexperience with such an endeavor's logistical difficulties was outweighed by a naive demand for authenticity. In retrospect, he has admitted it should have been made in a tank on a studio lot. However, his rookie mistake yielded a thrilling sea adventure!
The Alex Kintner beach scene with Roy Scheider's tense vigil getting continually interrupted is a master class in suspense.
The friction and camaraderie of three very different men in a small boat is the heart of the movie and Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw's chemistry is phenomenal. The three guys complement each other beautifully. I love it when they compare scars and both the oceanographer and sea dog are covered in wounds earned wrangling nature whereas poor landlubber Brody just has an appendectomy scar! It's hilarious.
Robert Shaw is a legendary actor/playwright and should have gotten an Oscar for his two monologues. Shaw re-wrote the scene in which he chillingly recounts the true-life 'Indianapolis' incident his character survived with details like sharks with dolls' eyes that roll over white and random horrific death. By contrast, his pitch to the town council is brimming with steely bravado. "$10,000 for me by myself. For that, you get the head, the tail, the whole damned thing." Shaw was also a legendary drunk and was completely soused through most of the production!
Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss had a major personality conflict during the shoot. In what was probably a combination of method acting, genuine antipathy and boozy bullying, Shaw derided and emasculated Dreyfuss daily challenging him to perform physical feats beyond his ability. Spielberg liked the real tension it created and only interfered once when Shaw challenged Dreyfuss to jump from the top of the 'Orca's mast!
Roy Scheider's line about needing a bigger boat was a total ad-lib that has entered the general lexicon!
The two shooting stars caught on film were pure cinematographic serendipity!
Quint's past trauma with sharks and Jaws' apparent wiliness get under Quint's skin to the point that killing the beast becomes an Ahab-like vendetta which is why Quint destroys the radio and pushes the boat beyond its limits.
In the Peter Benchley book, Hooper has an affair with Brody's wife and does not escape the cage. Chief Brody is the sole survivor.
None of the four sequels match the artistry of the first film but the second one is diverting enough if you're in the mood for shark horror.
Another reactor to this film stated that the movie is a metaphor for 2020! In fact, comedian Jim Carrey, who is an outspoken critic of the former administration, tweeted that the Prez had become Amity Mayor Larry Vaughn by virtue of his downplaying our national crisis in the media and urging an accelerated re-opening strategy despite having evidence to the contrary.
Richard Dreyfuss met Robert Shaw's granddaughter a few years ago. He made Richard quite emotional and the video is here on RUclips. It seems to have given Richard a lot of closure.
8:05 And that’s a big reason why this is still such a great horror story. That’s the biggest rule of horror: no one is truly safe, and everyone can die.
Ben Gardner's head is one of the most iconic jump-scares in cinematic history, and you did not disappoint, lol.
It's a great jump scare but was not in the original filming. Spielberg felt something was needed and they filled (I think it was his own pool) with the boat and dirtied up the water so they could get the dead head shot. Talk about great directing and filming.
This is one of my favorite movies and it almost ended Spielberg's career. The reason you don't see the shark too much in the movie is because for over 70 days of shooting the mechanical shark would break. Not wanting to fall further behind and reshoot, he decided to keep the shark hidden and use music as its main cue.
Not showing the source of terror to elevate the anxiety of the audience is a classic method used by filmmakers. Tony Curtis starred as "The Boston Strangler" but you only see him for a matter of SECONDS in the movie. Claude Rains played "The Invisible Man" but you only get to see him in the closing scene of the movie.
I like the puzzled expression when Quint crushes the 1970's steel beer can with his hand. It was actually an impressive feat of strength back then.
No one in America produced steel beer cans after the 1950s. WTF are you talking about?
@@rollomaughfling380 I may be mistaken about the material. What I'm talking about is that cans at the time were made of much stronger material and were hard to crush with one hand. I was about 14 when this movie came out and I had a hard time crushing cans with both hands. I was just wondering if younger people understood the scene.
@zowkon I was a child in the seventies and I remember when steel beverage cans were readily available and aluminum pop cans were novelties.
1. The Ben Gardner jump scare was shot after principal photography wrapped. Spielberg decided he needed that shot, so he borrowed his editor's backyard pool and poured a whole bunch of milk into it to make the water mirky.
2. The script had to be changed a lot because the shark kept breaking. When they built it they had electronic controls, which worked fine in fresh water but kept short circuiting in salt water. They had to change over to hydraulic controls. But the absence of the shark made the movie much more suspenseful ... and better.
The acting was tremendous and the mechanical shark is still more believable than CGI 100% Great job!
"The shark is working! The shark is working! The boat is sinking!"
I would disagree about the mechanical shark being believable, but it's extremely impressive given the limitations of the time. Everyone involved in the film used what they had to the absolute best of their abilities and came up with a pretty good end product! Huge respect.
This is my personal #1 movie of all time, and I can't remember when I first saw it, or how many times I've seen it up to this point, but it never gets old. It's always great to see others see it for the first time, as it's the closest I ever get to seeing it new all over again, so thanks for the ride.
Some fun facts:
The barrels were something Steven Spielberg made up for the movie so that people would know where the shark was. It's not something used by fishermen.
Hooper was supposed to die but they got some great footage of a real shark with an empty diving cage so they had to change the script.
The Indianapolis speech was based on real events but the actor had forgotten his lines so he made up the numbers and date.
Most of the extras were people who lived on the island.
In the book, Hooper is the one that kills the shark by poisoning it before he dies.
Fun and oddball fact: The same year this movie came out, The Ideal toy company released a kids' game based on it. It included a plastic shark, propped up on its lower fins, and a hinged lower jaw that was held up with a rubber band. You pulled the jaw down and filled it with plastic junk, like a bone, a fish skeleton, a broken wheel, etc. Then the players took turns using a plastic "gaffing pole" (stick with a hook on the end) to remove one piece of junk at a time. The player who removed the piece that made the jaw snap shut was the loser.
I was eight when this movie came out and I wasn't allowed to go see it, but I had the game. :)
The shark which Spielberg named Bruce after his lawyer was broken for most of the production. The terror comes from “where is it?” Just like Alien.
Addi: "why do you live here?" Dog: "Fine, I'm movin out!"
The shark who was nicknamed 'Bruce' barely worked through filming. It is a testament to Spielberg and his genius.
John Williams won an Academy Award for his JAWS score!!! So damned ICONIC. WHEN I SAW JAWS, IN 75, when I was 10 years old, I couldn't even swim in a swimming pool. No Baths!! No lake swims!!! Ironically, in 1986, at 21, I joined the United States Navy!! I so much desired to be a submariner or an Icthiologist, because of JAWS!!!
Richard Dreyfus’s character Matt Hooper was supposed to die at the end in the cage scene but they happened to get real footage of a shark attacking a cage and it was too good not to include. The footage though, clearly shows the cage as empty so they had to change the scene to have Hooper escape.
I love the use of silence in this movie. Spielberg and Williams know exactly when use music and when not to. The moments where the shark takes its victim under the water and then silence, like neither were ever there. Incredible.
the son not moving actually saved his life, sharks go for movement, and he wasnt moving much
Quint: "Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women!" Addie: Best frown ever!
I’m not sure she got that. It’s from a “song.”
Oh, I love to go swimming
With bow-legged women
And swim between their legs.
In the show M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter actually sang that once.
Deep Blue was the biggest Great White recorded. She was 20' and 2500kg; just slightly smaller than the fictional Jaws.
Fun Fact #2: The story Quint tells about the USS Indianapolis is a true story, and Robert Shaw ad-libbed the whole scene.
One of my favourite behind the scenes stories comes from this film. They had a version of the Orca designed to sink then refloat itself. One day it proved to be better at the first part than the latter to no-one's gret surprise considering all the tech problems on this movie. Cue mild panic and Spielberg on a megaphone directing rescue boats in with cries of "get the actors off the boat". A sound recordist who'd been tucked away below deck jumps up, holding the recording gear above his head, and yells "F the actors, save the sound department!". Spielberg: "Get the *actors* off the boat!". As a nice aside they actually took the cameras that went down with the boat, dumped the film into buckets of sea water and managed to get the film developed without too many issues though I suspect there was a rather confused lab worker.
The chief getting blamed/slapped by the mom was just so harsh! He tried to close the beaches
8:44 that clip against your background, is just perfect.
Addie jumps and screams holding up her karate hands." That wasn't so bad" 😇🌷🩷🌹❤️
Listening to you screaming "Get out of the water!" reminded me of one of my aunts who wouldn't go into the water for years after seeing this movie. She wasn't the only person who wouldn't go in the water for a long time after seeing this movie. She lived in Florida, Kansas probably would have been a better place for her after this movie.
"I don't want a kid to die." Uh, yeeeahh, about that ...
The movie is based on a novel by Peter Benchley (who played the reporter on the beach)... The novel is excellent and the movie leaves out a few dub plots ... Hooper and Ellen had an affair... The mayor was involved with The Mafia which is why money is important to him... Hooper dies during his dive in cage... The way the shark is destroyed was different...
Confirmed: Addie is never going in the water again without a Navy destroyer under her feet lol.
To answer your question during the first attack: He can't hear it. For starters, he's too drunk. But even if he wasn't, sound traveling over water can be interesting. I grew up by the ocean and went to the beach often. The roar of the waves crashing can obscure a lot of sounds. Also, she was out by a channel marker which is usually quite a ways out from the shoreline. So that would make it even harder for the sound to make it to him if he was sober.
Addie
Production crew of this movie nicknamed mechanical shark as "Bruce" after Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer. Original mold used for closeups was found in a local junkyard few years ago. After being restored, crew mounted "Bruce" at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures back in 2020.
This is the movie that made both Richard Dreyfuss [the marine biologist] and director Stephen Spielberg big time stars. And probably composer John Williams as well. Any sequel that followed this first Jaws movie was substandard in my book.
Fun fact: the enormous shark puppet used in the movie was referred to as Bruce during filming. It was named after Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer.
Addie
I lived in Florida since 1972. When this movie came out, no one wanted to go in the ocean in 1975.
29:26 Here, when you asked what that was in the sky, it was a shooting star. It’s not CGI, it was a happy accident that it happened to go through the scene. I thought that was so cool when I heard the story.
Also, the boat is named Orca. They didn’t know then that Orcas actually hunt great white sharks…. Just to eat their liver. It wasn’t discovered until after 2000, if I’m not mistaken.
Ben Gardiners head still scares almost 50 years later
I live on the West Coast of Florida. Now that drones are available to the public, it's common to see pictures of sharks swimming between people and/or the beach even if your in only 4 feet of water without swimmers even knowing the sharks are there. I once saw a woman pick up a baby shark only ~ 6 inches long. While she was holding it, the head snapped around and it took a clean edged chunk of meat out of her hand about the size of a penny...
For the parts with the live shark, a 16 foot shark was used. A dwarf doubled for Richard Dreyfuss inside a miniature cage to scale up the shark.
The head jump scare was shot after the film was already finished. They used one of the crew's swimming pools and poured milk in it to make it more murky. There are a lot of interesting facts about the movie. Like they didn't intend to not show the shark for the first half of the movie, but the shark kept malfunctioning. And like when John Williams brought Spielberg the score for the film (da-duh da-duh), Spielberg thought he was joking.
24:38 "OH MY GAH!" lmao. Great reaction Addie, I really enjoyed this one.
Jaws is the perfect example of how less can be more. Before Jaws Speilberg had only worked in TV (with Peter Falk asking what he was doing not shooting movies) with only one TV movie under his belt called “Duel” which is also a great movie. The shark animatronic was constantly malfunctioning during the shoot. Not to mention the fact other ships would be seen off in the distance and they had to wait endlessly until it was out of the shot. The actor playing quint would be to drunk at times. Richard Dreyfus (Hooper) got fed up and threw his bottle in the ocean. You can image how well that went. Finally Spielberg came up with idea of using the camera as the sharks perspective and was able to save the movie with that decision. Jaws had the privilege of becoming the very first summer blocker buster movie in history! And Spielberg was able to make any movie he wanted given the monster hit this movie was!
“YOU JUST CARE ABOUT GETTING A PHOTO?!”
Well, yeah, that would be the largest Great White ever recorded, he’s a marine biologist that specializes is sharks, of course he wants the photo.
25:16 -- for a sense of scale.. The Mayor's Caddy is about the size and weight of the shark....
Made me laugh when I read that most of the cast and crew would spend hours sitting around because Bruce (the animatronic shark) often wouldn't work right so everyone had to spend time waiting for repairs.
Addie: “oh I don’t want a kid to die”
The rest of us: 😳😳😳
I think one of the reason it holds up so much and still scares people is that you dont really see the shark much. It mimics our real fear of the ocean and you just dont know where a shark is and that scares us. Then this movie uses the story to "sell" the fear and you just dont need to see it much to make it terrifying. Thinking "what lies beneath"
Martha's Vineyard, the real-life "Amity Island" is right in the migratory path of many great white sharks, who all come visit during the tourist season to feast on the seals that congregate along Cape Cod. Contrary to what the movie would have you believe, it still is safe to swim at the beaches, as long as you stay TF away from the seals (sharks can't tell the difference between you and a seal _until_ they bite you.) Also, the sharks themselves are almost never more than 8-10 feet long.
You don't know half of what you think you know.
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 I know that's a pointless and obnoxious comment.
@@Blazingstoke Why do sharks mistake humans from seals though? I thought they were highly intelligent creatures. Don't they have strong smell? Humans obviously smell different. Don't they have great eye-sight as well, and hearing?
I believe all their senses are strong, the hearing, the scent, the sight , they even see color i believe. Also, they have an extra sense, the ampuls of Lorenzini, tiny holes in the snout which can detect electric motion.
@@Firemarioflower I'm not sure about "highly intelligent", though they're certainly smarter than we used to give them credit for. Still, the (very rare) times that shark attacks happen are often in situations where the shark is confused, or curious, or visibility in the water is poor, etc. and biting something is how they figure out what it is.
This movie has the distinction of having created phobias, everything from going into the ocean to taking a shower. Most of it was not created by the shark that you see, but the one you don’t. The Indianapolis delivered the first atom bomb, and it was sunk on the return trip. Just think how the world might be different had she never made it to her destination. My wife’s father was on the ship and lost three fingers fighting off a shark during the rescue operation. He would not talk about it except to say that he wouldn’t be here if not for the fact that his commander hadn’t lost his ability to command and gave his men hope.
Funny thing is, is that this was filmed off the coast of Massachusetts and they just announced the other day that because of the resurgence of seals of the coast, Cape Cod now has one of the densest populations of great whites in world!
Addie: Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) also stars as Mr Holland in "Mr Holland's Opus"- a great movie for someone like you as it is about the impact of a music teacher. He was nominated for an Oscar in the lead role in that film.
One of the best films ever made without doubt. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the lines of cinema history and pop culture in general. The "Indianapolis" scene by Robert Shaw is one of the best acting performances ever imo. Shaw wrote that speech himself, based on true events, and performed it the first time while drunk. Spielberg and the crew filming it were so mesmerized by his performance, Spielberg forgot to say "Cut". They only stopped filming when they could hear a clicking sound as the camera had run out of film. One of cinema's best legends.