Just a spectacular movie, the kinda movie that you will never ever forget watching for the very first time. The 3 guys who hunted the shark where outstanding in there roles & there chemistry was unmatched. Robert Shaw was as good an actor as you will ever see. Dreyfus & Schinider rounded out the cast in such a way it was truly cinema gold. Thank God the story line of Hooper & Ellen having an affair was never written in. That would have taken away from the real star of the movie which was the shark. My only disappointment was that the movie wasn’t perhaps an extra hour longer.
Highly doubtful today a movie studio would triple their original budget on a director making his second feature film; thank God they were patient, the movie cost 8 million to make and made over 260 million and gave us one of the great pieces of film making ever created.
they (the studio) were'nt patient; universal wanted to stop production when it went over. the film had a good producer who kept them at bay from the director - like any good producer should. same with star wars.
In a way, I feel Hooper likely could have been played by various actors….but Dreyfuss nails it and the team chemistry is unparalleled. Meaning - Quint & Brody are iconic, Hooper not so much.
It was a great move to remove all of the needless subplots from the novel. Ellen’s affair and the mafia forcing the mayor to keep the beaches open were both unneeded in the long term. Even in the book, the first five or so chapters focus on the shark, which is solid. Then the next five or so chapters have barely anything to do with the shark be just focus on melodrama, before focusing on the shark for the rest of the novel. So it’s rather clunky with how it does a hard shift in the middle, and frankly, I don’t think that part works in the novel. Even Spielberg said that he was rooting for the shark because he disliked the three guys that go out to hunt it.
Derek Roberts I suppose his purpose wasn't to make the characters likeable. Instead, he wanted to explore themes that went beyond the shark, such as class differences, greed and infidelity.
... and gets the year of The French Connection wrong (1971, not 1972)... ... and falsely says that Spielberg lets the audience believe Hooper is dead. Still, it's a good documentary.
Awesome first book for Benchley. And he did ‘Beast’ for tv, starring William Peterson (Gil Grissom), it’s a very good film. I think it was a book also, though they didn’t mention it here. The Deep is a large embarrassment as to Jacqueline Bissett’s character, extreme exploitation, a mystery as to how she would have agreed to that so it must have been manipulation or worse.
Would be so easy to kill jaws, couple of sticks of TNT dynamite in the water once it came close and booom! the shark would float belly up like a goldfish from explosive pressure crushing its brain like a grape.
no movie has came close to scarring me then JAWS..one of the best film's ever!!!
The first dvd I bought, ever, upon getting a newfangled ‘dvd player.’ Probably around’97 or ‘98, for my son and I. It’s so great.
Just a spectacular movie, the kinda movie that you will never ever forget watching for the very first time. The 3 guys who hunted the shark where outstanding in there roles & there chemistry was unmatched. Robert Shaw was as good an actor as you will ever see. Dreyfus & Schinider rounded out the cast in such a way it was truly cinema gold. Thank God the story line of Hooper & Ellen having an affair was never written in. That would have taken away from the real star of the movie which was the shark. My only disappointment was that the movie wasn’t perhaps an extra hour longer.
JAWS is my all time favourite film. I have the movie poster in my living room.
Highly doubtful today a movie studio would triple their original budget on a director making his second feature film; thank God they were patient, the movie cost 8 million to make and made over 260 million and gave us one of the great pieces of film making ever created.
they (the studio) were'nt patient; universal wanted to stop production when it went over. the film had a good producer who kept them at bay from the director - like any good producer should. same with star wars.
The Greatest Movie Ever Made Still Keeps People Out Of The Water!
This movie changed my life. Good upload
Jaws is one of the finest films ever made.
Shaw didn’t want to play Quint because he hated the novel, but his wife and secretary convinced him to sign on. Kudos to those two.
Why did Robert Shaw didn't and to play quint or hated the novel didn't it reunite him Richard d Zanuck and David brown from 1973s sting
Priceless documentary. Thanks for posting
In a way, I feel Hooper likely could have been played by various actors….but Dreyfuss nails it and the team chemistry is unparalleled.
Meaning - Quint & Brody are iconic, Hooper not so much.
National phobia? INTERNATIONAL phobia. Jaws was a worldwide cultural phenomenon.
Cameron Burge I am even afraid to swim between the shark nets, and I live in Australia.
Can you imagine Roy Scheider saying “balls” every other scene in the movie? 😆
It's way more interesting when it's talking about the book. I wish there was more dedicated to it.
It was a great move to remove all of the needless subplots from the novel. Ellen’s affair and the mafia forcing the mayor to keep the beaches open were both unneeded in the long term. Even in the book, the first five or so chapters focus on the shark, which is solid. Then the next five or so chapters have barely anything to do with the shark be just focus on melodrama, before focusing on the shark for the rest of the novel. So it’s rather clunky with how it does a hard shift in the middle, and frankly, I don’t think that part works in the novel. Even Spielberg said that he was rooting for the shark because he disliked the three guys that go out to hunt it.
In 1974 Peter Benchley created a novel about a shark called Jaws.
In 1975 Steven Spilberg created a film about a shark
22:41 I love what Carl Gottlieb says here
Interesting and absorbing documentary about this edge of sat movie. Thanks for uploading.
A simply beautiful film.
it always seemed to me that Benchley didnt like his charecters he was writing about. Speilberg made them likable.
Derek Roberts oh yeah, definitely. Spielberg even said he was rooting for the shark at the end of the book
Derek Roberts I suppose his purpose wasn't to make the characters likeable. Instead, he wanted to explore themes that went beyond the shark, such as class differences, greed and infidelity.
It's not terribly comforting when a documentary about _Jaws_ uses a photo of the shark from _Jaws: The Revenge._
... and gets the year of The French Connection wrong (1971, not 1972)...
... and falsely says that Spielberg lets the audience believe Hooper is dead.
Still, it's a good documentary.
"Smile, you son of a bitch! "
You're gotta need a bigger boat, classic!!!!
Awesome first book for Benchley.
And he did ‘Beast’ for tv, starring William Peterson (Gil Grissom), it’s a very good film. I think it was a book also, though they didn’t mention it here.
The Deep is a large embarrassment as to Jacqueline Bissett’s character, extreme exploitation, a mystery as to how she would have agreed to that so it must have been manipulation or worse.
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The book was vastly inferior to the film.
Yes
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Would be so easy to kill jaws, couple of sticks of TNT dynamite in the water once it came close and booom! the shark would float belly up like a goldfish from explosive pressure crushing its brain like a grape.
@@Tiffany.1970 Quint tried that. Never worked. Realistically throwing a grenade in his mouth would do the job. Actually that was done in Jaws 3.
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