Jaws (1975) - Chrissie's Last Swim Scene (1/10) | Movieclips
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
While out for a moonlight dip, young Chrissy (Susan Backlinie) is brutally attacked by the shark.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a moonlight skinny dip while her friends party on the beach. Yanked suddenly below the ocean surface, she never returns. When pieces of her wash ashore, Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) suspects the worst, but Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), mindful of the lucrative tourist trade and the approaching July 4th holiday, refuses to put the island on a business-killing shark alert. After the shark dines on a few more victims, the Mayor orders the local fishermen to catch the culprit. Satisfied with the shark they find, the greedy Mayor reopens the beaches, despite the warning from visiting ichthyologist Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) that the attacks were probably caused by a far more formidable Great White. One more fatality later, Brody and Hooper join forces with flinty old salt Quint (Robert Shaw), the only local fisherman willing to take on a Great White--especially since the price is right. The three ride off on Quint's boat "The Orca," soon coming face to teeth with the enemy.
CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1975)
Cast: Jonathan Filley, Susan Backlinie, Denise Cheshire
Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Screenwriters: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
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One of the most terrifying beginnings in movie history, and you don't even see the shark. Brilliant. Her being pulled under in mid-scream is horrifying.
Brings suspense, is the shark gonna jump scare us? Haha I'm 12 but I think I wanna see this movie. As long as u know it's fake, it's ok
+Minecraftmoderz75 you wot m8
Yes, no question....brilliant, even though it was accidental in some ways. It was originally planned to show the shark in this scene, but because it wasn't working properly Spielberg had to improvise without the shark. It is still one of the most powerful and iconic scenes I can ever remember. It really gives one an idea of what an impact it must have made when Jaws was in it's original run.
Yes, brilliant. It has everything - first you think this is just some kind of "cute" scene (boy chasing very willing girl, will they make out or not?) then suddenly you are aware that the shark is circling her and you have the suspense of "will it attack?", then the horror of realizing that it has, then that tiny moment where she is able to grab the buoy and you think that maybe, just maybe, she will survive albeit terribly wounded, then the descent into utter despair as you realize that she is done for, and then that incredible moment where right in the middle of the frenzy she is pulled under and suddenly everything goes silent, and even then a touch of wry humor as you focus on the boy, whose inebriated state has ironically probably saved him from certain death. What a swirl of different emotions all in that short 3 minutes!
Well, I can picture that 25-foot, 3-ton great white shark rocketing out of the darkness at high speed, jaws wide open with its black emotionless eyes glinting. Its victim completely unaware of what's about to become of it; then it STRIKES!!!!!!
What gets me more than anything is her crying for help right before she's pulled under. The actress playing Chrissie really does an amazing job.
A giant GWS would have ate her whole in one bite, she'd be underneath fast.
fun fact, her screaming is real because the harness was pulled too hard.
I know I'm late to your comment, but you comment on her acting she's a brilliant actor, as the harness dragged her through the water the harness broke her hip and she was screaming in pain and she started crying it made the scene so much better but was a horrible accident
Mart that i did write about 4 days ago
You probably won't believe me, but she actually wasn't strapped to a harness. A stunt man holding her leg and pulled her under
From Susan Backlinie’s Wikipedia article: “Contrary to rumor, Backlinie’s startled reaction and screams of anguish were not due to her being injured by the harness that yanked her back and forth in the water. However, she was attached to a line that was anchored to the ocean floor beneath her, and she was intentionally not warned when she would be first pulled underwater. This helped provoke a more genuine expression of surprise from her initially - but the remainder of her performance was her own as an actress”
Something else I find scary: after Chrissie gets dragged underwater and eaten, the water goes calm and there's pure silence. It's almost as if nothing happened and Spielberg was a genius to allow a few seconds of time for us to feel that the innocence of water and everything in it has now suddenly become a massive threat. And the narrative time setting is symbolic. Taking place in the early hours of the morning, it also represented what appeared to be the beginning of the shark's rampage. There are so many other great things about this opening that makes it one of cinema's most iconic scenes of all time.
She did that during the ADR session. The basically dumped water on her as she screamed then they took that recording and mapped it over the footage. Most audio you hear is recorded after filming. It’s a long repetitive process. Effective though. Right?
What made it even more effective was the movie clip name 'Chissies Last Swim'
Yeet
Great White shark drags Chrissie
I just find it funny
This scene has some real life truth to it. It's generally unsafe to swim in the ocean at dusk and nighttime, since sharks are most active at this time.
yes and also the fact there hard to see
holykiller1991 it is not safe to swim in the dark because you can't see underwater
You shouldn't swim in shark-infested water at any time.
Thanks for the info~! I learned soemthing whilst hiding in comments, for once!
Great White's aren't I the artic or far northern atlantic.. are they??
Can you just imagine being half inside a shark’s mouth literally knowing you’re about to die and you’re last couple seconds of life literally seeing yourself being eaten… legit so horrifying
I find it funny how this comment only got 7 likes, considering you have over 2mil subs
Hi shane
STOP! I can only become so engorged!
That's how Quint died
like the poor guy who was ripped apart and dragged under in egypt it was caught on video and looked like this scene
When she gets pulled off the buoy and cries "Oh my god I'm gonna die", it is the scariest thing I have ever watched and heard in my entire life. I've never been able to get it out of my head since I saw this in the theater.
That actually is scary, especially imagining yourself in that situation.
+Christian 4_Realzz I know especially if there was nothing you could do about it
RATSGAME- When a stranger calls-the REAL one?
😧
Shanna Sweger The anticipation makes it even more terrifying.
truly one of the great opening scenes in film history. epic.
Yes but it has a suspense feeling that the rest of the movie lacks. Maybe it's because this scene is darker, I don't know. But overall the movie was not as good as this scene suggested it would be, imho.
Agreed!
yes she played a great part and it made me scared to death to go in the ocean
emma duncan def!!!
emma duncan I
Fun Fact: The actress playing Chrissie is actually wearing a harness that is attached to ropes that led to the shore. On the beach, to create the effect of the shark dragging her through the water, crew members ran with the ropes from one side of the beach to the other. So, it was basically a massive game of tug-of-war.
Bonus Fun Fact: The first time the actress was pulled under the water, it was Spielberg pulling her down.
Leviticus James Extra bonus fun fact: She wasn’t told that she was being pulled underwater on purpose so they could get the reaction they did. After the first pull though it was her acting
@@picklegoose5120 Noooo no Jaws fan would ever know that!
Leviticus James I’m not sure if it’s meant to be foreshadowing or just random luck, but when the guy passes out on the beach there is a large cloud in the background that looks like a shark
and she is actually screaming in real pain, the harness snapped her hip during filming this scene.
@@lunify7055 Thats an old wives tale, never happened she even said so
This is one time being drunk saved your life!
Haha true! :-D
Crash out saved the boy
Or shag *****
Slow up! Slow down!
Dont foget bout 9/11
The scene that forever changed the way people felt about the ocean. And with good reason, it's terrifying! In reality I don't think a shark the size of Jaws could stay completely submerged during an attack like that, but who cares? The scene invokes so much primal terror. A masterpiece.
DrArchivist: Its the reason why I respect the ocean.Because of JAWS all of them Im 40 now 2019 just wont ever taste danger that way.Ignorant, stupid? FOCUS: We are the ones who invade their territory.
I mean if it grabs the legs and pulls it might be
The shark in Jaw is much larger than any real life specimen.
I remember being so freaked about this movie that I was scared. In Chicago.
In Janurary.
Lol
Not 1st time I saw it, either.
THAT is an effective movie.
@P Maybe I was very obviously talking about great white sharks. This is like me saying a fictional housecat is bigger than any of it's kind in real life and you reply with "But lions are way bigger than this." lol
My heart breaks when she screams “it hurts!” and being thrashed around in the water like that... this scene was so well acted by her, gives me chills 😰 absolutely terrifying
The screams were real
i think she was wearing a harness and her hip joint got dislocated
@@ku.rea_ No. That was a false rumor.
is dis movie fake
apparently she wasn’t acting
I think what made this scene scarier is that we couldn't see what the shark was doing. Like did it take her legs? Was there a side of her missing? No. It just happened and we couldn't do anything but imagine what was going on!
Daniel C I read the book years ago, and during this part of the story, she feels a yank. She reaches down, and feels a stump where her lower leg is missing. Her nerves were severed, so she didn't feel the actual bite. Horrifying.
Nguyen e.lol,
Earl Clark What? But she is screaming 'it hurts so much'
Daniel C It was kinda scary...but it's sharks, right? Other than that the shark in the movie was meant to be a megladon, an extinct shark that existed back in the dinosaur days that were extremely dangerous.
(they ate tortoises that were as big as a human by the way)
It's 2020 and Chrissie's death scene still scares the s... out of me.
Chrissy: u think -_-
Same yo.
Same.
@@STARBurst-bz1id 😂
One of the worst things I’ve ever done is to force my six-year-old nephew to watch Jaws at night. That was the worst thing I’ve ever done
When she screams: it hurts!
That is just so painful to watch. This will forever be the most realistic shark attack in movie history.
Im not sure but i believe this ladies harness snapped and broke her hip in this scene... :/
Ok nvm i was wrong, the rumor was false. Her acting was good tho
@@lightningmcgeequeen8091 When doess sh scream it hurts? I heard her scream no, God, Help. But not it hurts. Her acting was really good.
@@scamila17 she screams both.
It's definitely not a realistic shark attack, but it is still incredibly effective horror nonetheless.
Susan Backlinie should have been nominated for SOMETHING.
Truly one of the most realistic and terrifying death scenes in cinema history! As she's holding on to the buoy the doom and resignation she conveys is heartbreaking and utterly believable...amazing performance!
I am surprised there is no Oscar category for cameo or short appearances.
The Oscar for best snackfood goes too...
@@EpicMovieCompilations shut up
Oscar for best non-acted reaction
JAWS kept us out of the water.
PSYCHO kept us out of the shower.
MODERN MOVIES keep us out of the theatre.
Statler and Waldorf: Dohhh ho ho ho ho!
And FREDDY KRUGER kept us from sleeping.
Brad Whitehead
The Ring kept us away from our TV.
Darkness Falls kept us out of the dark.
When a Stranger Calls kept us from answering the phone.
rip us we can never wash our selves, no water no shower
Brad Whitehead and George Clooney kept us out of the theater.
My mom was 18 when she saw this movie in theaters and said she was terrified by this scene and so was everyone in the theater
I always thought Jaws was to gruesome to be a PG at the time
@@robwilliamson6181 agree. At that time they only had pg or rated r ratings.
I'm damn sure it must be shocking for anyone seeing this in 1975.
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. You are correct
PG-13 didn’t exist until 1984 due to Temple of Doom and Gremlins
Saw this at a drive inn with my mom and brother in 1975. I was in the backseat of our VW Bug watching this movie. I was nine. Incredible nightmares that night.
Probably one of the most disturbing movie scenes in cinema history!
+soulkiss31 Chrissie would agree...
Yes, no question....it seems just as disturbing today.
Not even close lol, it is scary though.
@@BLANK-rk4ju what's scarier
I think the "get out of the water scene" was WAY more terrifying than this. Damn the trauma it gave me and my friends.
My mom and I met Susan Blacklinie (Chrissy) a couple months ago at a horror convention.
We were passing by her booth, and my mom, who had actually been watching a "Jaws" documentary right before we left for the convention earlier that day, was like, "OH MY GOD, THAT'S THE FIRST VICTIM FROM 'JAWS'!", and the next thing I knew, my mom was talking with her about the behind-the-scenes of the movie for probably a good 10 minutes!
It was funny as hell to see my MOM be the fangirl for once instead of me! XD
Kul lol
If I'd seen the shark they used to manage Jaws I'd get a few good photos
Really? Was she an old woman. Not too old.
Very cool
@Bruno mostly it was but they used footage of a real Great white at a few points
A few things for me added to the power of the scene:
She seemed kinda like the shy one in the group that no one really noticed it cared about. She ran into the water because she thought she might have fun with someone who paid attention to. The dark waters swallowed her up as she screamed for God to save her. She died out there all alone with no one to help or care. It was also like the scene was saying "not even God can help you"
Damn that hits deep
The most honest moments in this for me is when she does that hyperventilating at 1:40 and when she's holding onto the buoy and mumbling to herself. Gets me every time
I thought I was the only one who payed attention the hyperventilating..just the little things like that add to the effects
@@DTB1995 what's hyperventilating?
@@ONLYOUSSEMA when your breathing way to heavily
@@xslicer69x13 thank you
Love it. That's why it feels real.
The scene that traumatized audience for generations.
Well one of many. There's also the face melting from Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Jaws scene that really got me was from one of the sequels. When the guy goes out to clear a buoy at night and the shark sinks the ship. Like. On a boat you should be safe, but that scene is now burned into my mind.
Apparently both American and Canadian beaches in the Great Lakes lost summer business because of Jaws.
For it was the fishermen kill
I used to be scared of sharks IN POOLS. Not the brightest of kids.
The stark contrast between the horror of the attack and the peaceful scene of the guy passed out on the shore safe and sound
Chrissie had a really bad dandruff problem, they found her head and shoulders on the beach
@@allthekingshorses7178I know (April 3rd,2024 and April 5th,2024/🙂).
The moral of the story: alchohol saves lives.
lol
No, it doesn't- this was a one in a million chance. The moral of the story is not to go swimming in shark-infested water.
Or.. Just don't even go to the beach or learn to swim. Avoid it all ...;-;
@@verkaforever even without the shark rip currents at night can get ya too
@@verkaforever It's a joke.
This is not only scary, but SO sad too.
yeah
Nah it’s hilarious.
@@GoldenMushroom64 how is it hilarious
No it's funny 😂
The mother of the child that got eaten in the film died of corona virus last yr
What makes this scene even more disturbing and none chilling is her sudden change of reaction...At 1:41 she’s confused and shaking but as soon as she’s pulled down and she comes back up at 1:43 she is screaming, probably because she saw exactly what we couldn’t see. Which was a Great White Shark tearing her in two. Followed by her screaming the words “it hurts”...Absolutely Horrifying.
After when we see that she started screaming, you can see her like checking the water to see where the shark was
She didn't see a Great White Shark. She saw a harness, pulled by Steven Spielberg. As somebody else noted, she actually says "I need a sec....I need a sec...." at one point when the harness pulling got too rough, though he keeps going, and finally pulls her under.
This scene is literally terrifying 👏🏻👏🏻😳 not knowing what's happening under the water and letting the imagination run wild is more scary then anything they could of ever put on screen 👏🏻👏🏻
Spielberg is a genius
IKR I wil NEVER SWIM IN THE OCEAN
Agreed. And ya this scene was so terrifying the first time I saw it.
Agreed. And ya this scene was so terrifying the first time I saw it.
You should read the book if you haven’t. In it Chrissy feels a strong tug on her leg at first and just thought she snagged something, when she reaches down her leg she feels what’s left of her calf muscle and bone.
It’s absolutely chilling.
"what's your name again?"
"Chrissy!"
Psh like it mattered, lol
Exactly! LOL!
+115361799429527656199 I meant that it didn't matter if he knew her name or not, she was finna die anyway.
Sydney O'Bier I agree with symney...or whatever her name was it honestly does not matter, the only thing that mattered was clothes where coming off.
ruchittenme I see what you did there 😆
ruchittenme Well, flesh was coming off actually.
This has surely got to be one of the worst ways to die.
In the middle of the ocean at night, being dragged around by something you’re unable to see, alone with no help around for miles and without a stitch of clothing on. Poor Chrissie.
Moral of the story don’t just swim at random
@@GamingWithAlex279
Sharks are not man eaters though we taste terrible
I still get chills down my spine during this scene.
Hey Sean what do you think of Halloween 3?
Never saw it.
Well John Carpenter director of Halloween wished to take the series in a new direction by making it an anthology series with a new story each year. In this case he made a story where a man named Cochrian makes masks that kill children when they watch his commercial on Halloween night.
me too :O
Me too what?
I'm telling you the sea gives me the creeps. You can only see the top of it, an inch into it is often a mystery just looking down at the waves. The top is flat, yet there's so much down below.
Benchley describes the ocean floor sweeping away deeper and deeper out to sea in the run up to Alex's death, and it didn't bear thinking about. It can be as much as 3 miles or more deep for endless thousands of miles.
If i can't touch the bottom, i'll not be swimming in it. Yet she goes swimming in the bloody dark.
+Kelly14UK You know funnily enough, although the actress - Susan Backlinie - was a professional stuntwoman, she's quoted saying in Matt Taylor's making-of book that she hated swimming in the dark and it gave her the creeps. Luckily for her, most of this scene was done during the day, using camera filters - she only had to swim in the dark once, I believe, but still...
+BlondeCurlsBlueEyes When i was a lot younger i had a picture of a guy absailing down a concrete structure, in broad daylight. It was a scene from The Heroes of Telemark, and in the film, the scene was set at night. I'm wondering if Quint's Speech was filmed at night, a creepy scene. I think there's a whale crying out in one of those scenes.
+Noodles37UK I think it was filmed in the small hours of the morning, though I'm not certain; they may have been using filters again, it proved much trickier for them to film on the water than they expected. I do know that Robert Shaw was a little drunk while doing it though haha, what a fun guy
@Gamerbutz123 I thought it was only 5%?
You'll be pleased to know: most shark attacks occur in just a few feet of water :) 😃
So eerie..the quiet ending makes it so chilling.
After all these years and this scene still gives me the chills.
Rest in Peace, Susan Backline. I may have not seen you in a lot of films, but this scene will always remain the scariest horror scene I have ever witnessed. We don't see the shark. It is music, the cable work, the dark setting, and, most importantly, your acting that made this scene so powerful and memorable.
That's because this was her only role she's ever done
@@bellamovie2 - Nope. She was in several films. She even parodied her Jaws scene in a comedy called 1941.
This scene is by far the greatest ever made. True fear was how she acted and it was astonishing.
The screams were real , she had a harness on and crew members tied ropes along each side of the beach and all of the crew members just pulled it side to side like tug a war and they didn’t tell her they were gonna pull her underwater , she broke 2 ribs
@@skyhart5643 Wow!
Consider that a Lesson to NEVER swim at dusk, dawn, and night! Shark Attacks are greater and possible at that time! O_O
Some got attack in broad daylight as well.
That's true, it usually happens if you're too far from the shore or if you're bleeding
Fidel Guerrero Mythbusters proved that sharks prefer fish blood over human blood :P
***** this was filmed in daylight...called night by day fiming technique,,its why it looks so dreamy..just learned that myself from the site
Fidel Guerrero Actually sharks never sleep. So you're incorrect. Sharks are always out swimming around.
The scariest part of this scene is that we see Chrissie being attacked, but we don't see the attacker. The most convincing and terrifying shark isn't the animatronic shark. It's the shark that we don't see for the first half of the movie.
Yeah
@@luciferemo6666
Bruce was actually going to be seen more in the movie.
This is why you should never go Night swimming in the ocean
I agree, Sonic! Your hatred for water is now validated!😉
Atlantic or Pacific mainly, most other water expanses in the world are reasonably safe.....the only aquatic life you're likely to encounter outside of those 2 'big ones' aren't capable of killing you.
This is way I don't swim in the ocean at all
They mostly come out at night. Mostly.
Ughhh the calmness and the silence after her crying out is just soooo perfectly well done. Steven Spielberg needs to do another monster movie
“Slow down! I’m not drunk!!” Passes out on the beach...
Now that's really drunk
Special props to John Williams for the music in this scene. The man is a genius.
It's two notes
E. F
E. F
EFEFEFEFEDEFEFEF
The best detail here is the subtile Shark Theme short parts mixed into the mystic beautiful music as we first se her from beneath. It really brings that feeling that almost everything´s alright, but in the same time the Shark has seen her, and her fate is already sealed - still playing the beatiful music. A creepy thought indeed.
this guy proves that drinking can save your life
lol
ZipKip
STOP At 01:55 and then you read this comment *LOL!*
👍 👌 🍺 🍺 😎 😴
Titanic as well, I mean one guy had enough alcohol in his system to prevent him from freezing to death in the water.
Yeah, at least from the dangers of the water.
I actually had a chance to meet Susan Backlinie a few months ago who played as Chrissie, the 1st victim in Jaws, and she was such a sweet woman! We went back and forth on questions and she even told me she sometimes feels paranoid when she goes to the beach of a possible strange coincidence happening lol. It was incredible to meet her! Jaws is easily one of my all time favorites!
This scene haunts me every time I get in the water. Regardless if it's a lake or the ocean or even a pool. So simple. No shark, no gore. Just her screams and your imagination going haywire.
so scary
Imagine that audition for this role:
"DEAR GOD HELP MEEEEEE" :: Gurgling::
XD
Well, she did a damn good job, though...LOL
0:04
I love the way she says swimming I can't its hilarious
Could you turn the brightness down some. It's blinding me. Thanks.
Mr sarcasm
Yeah please turn it down I can't even see anything lmao
Wow seriously
Fr smh 🙄
Lol
I first saw this movie when I was 10 years old and this was the scene that I could never get out of my head afterwards. Her screams were terrifying. It's the most descriptive shark attack scene in the novel too. Peter Benchley wrote what was going through her mind. When she was trying to swim away, she wasn't sure her whole body was even still there. Well done, Jaws for making me even too scared to go in the bathtub as a child
R.I.P. Susan Backlinie. You'll always be remembered as Chrissie from Jaws.
1946-2024 =(
This is the best opening scene to any movie ever
Yea a shark attack at the begging of a movie
Phill Wow you just made my day miserable.
This scream and Jurassic Park. I would say Jurassic Park is the worst of the three even though it's my favorite movie
@@thickerconstrictor9037 Jurassic Park sucks
@@apony8339 wtf no it does not
Steven Spielberg was indeed much ahead of his time with movies like Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jurassic Park, Hook, Saving Private Ryan....the the list is endless...Guess Jaws was not only a cult movie of its time but in the history of movies ever made..Only a director of that class can make a movie like Jaws not showing the shark almost half way through the movie yet it gave almost all the audience a chill running down our spine...Sir....it was a treat to have been an audience for your movies and a blessing to have been able to view your movies this life...Love from India....
Don't forget the goonies!
You forgot E.T. ;)
@@lifewiththatonepreppy Spielberg didn't direct The Goonies, Superman director Richard Dinner did, Speilberg was an executive producer of that film
@@samosler4009 Ooohhh... ok, thanks for the info, but still a great movie!
Schindler's list, too.
That bump, where she is initially pulled under for the first time , is common behaviour for really big sharks. Many shark attack victims don't even realise they have been attacked or feel the pain of extensive injuries at the start. Many witnesses to attacks say they never saw it coming. Not so much as a dorsal fin shown here. Her brilliant acting and the way this was shot make this scene absolutely terrifying.
Not sure if you guys noticed but at 2:03 that mumbled scream is used again when Alex Kintner is being attacked by the shark.
Just noticed that
One of the saddest and most disturbing scenes in movie history.
This is still one of the most disturbing deaths ever portrayed on screen, and a lot of it has to do with the actress's performance. Her transition from joy, to a brief moment of confusion, and then finally to desperate terror is so genuine.
Facts. Few opening scenes in horror movies left an impact like this one. Scary and sets up the rest of the movie perfectly. To this day still one of the scariest opening scenes to a horror movie ever
"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."
Here lies the body of Mary Lee. Died at the of age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.
I see you brought your rubbers!
Keep in mind, this was 1975. I can't imagine how shocking this could be for people watching the original Jaws back then.
The fact that this scene still holds up perfectly all these years later shows what a great movie this is. It's as simple as you can get. No blood or over the top special effects. Just her being dragged around and screaming. We don't see the shark at all. Not even a fin. But sometimes the imagination can be far scarier than anything they could show on screen. This scene is proof of that. Terrifying, masterpiece of a film.
So who is going to post the next indepth analysis comment of how Speilberg created this scene "the tension, the imaginative fear, the screams" and thus is one of the greatest in cinema history?
Omg hi I'm a huge fan!!!!!!
Since it's been 4 years, allow me.
When I was little I used to think Jaws was a real shark :P
Jen well they did use real sharks in this movie so....
*YEAH!!!*
They used an animatronic and a puppet for the shark scenes.
@@GojiBoiEarth1964 Not in the caaaa-aaage. Lol
bruh who goes swimming at like 8:00 PM when its dark out
This movie is absolutely flawless. It goes from sheer, unrelenting horror, to comedic satire, to adventure, and back again, and it does so without ever skipping a beat. Bafflingly good.
The part that gets me is when she screams "God please help" right before she's pulled under.
The opening scene of Jaws is so underrated and never really discussed. The acting she does is unbelievable. The first bump, - shock. The second bump, complete fear, realization, massive adrenaline rush and short gasps hyperventilating. Just insane. And the way she’s leaning slightly forward from the abdominal pain from being in the sharks mouth while screaming “God please help” before being dragged under. Then complete silence. Horrifying to watch and to think about because it’s really happened to people. For me one of the top 10 intense scenes in movie history.
There's so many comments about that her ribs and hips was broken during the scene and she was crying out that it hurts but in a radio interview Susan Blacklinine who played Chrissie denied that it was true. Steven Spielberg filmed it in the actual ocean though and never showed the built shark claiming it'd just be a diver grabbing her leg instead. The reaction was just real terror. That's the beauty of Spielberg
And They Had To Take The Shots for Susan to Go under because the water was cold
R.I.P Susan Backfire, thank you for being apart of my entertainment and encourage me not to go in the water, you were a great actor and stunt person, I miss you gracefully
Because of this movie, I got so scared of sharks that I refused to swim in the ocean for 2 years and even made me think that if I went into the deep side of my pool at night, that Jaws would grab my legs and eat me! THIS MOVIE SCARRED ME
Me to. I was only 10
Sharks attack in water only a few feet deep.
Just sayin' 😌
Came here after watching that guy get killed by a Tiger shark in Egypt.. yeah Spielberg had this attack down to perfection.
What's unique is the audience knows it's a shark but the idea that she has no idea what it is. The absolute terror one would feel in that situation is unfathomable.
totaly agree, its scary on so many levels... like at what point did she realise what was even happening
Icon, ....Simply Iconic. I've watched thousands of Movies, but this Scene was just a Masterpiece.
rest in peace Susan backline 1946 -2024
This movie, JAWS, didn't mess around whatsoever in capturing your intense attention. From the very first scene, which was gut wrenching to say the least, it had you until the closing credits scrolled down the screen. This scene was devastating to the mind of a 16 year old like me at the time, but Quint's demise had me crying, squirming, and screaming in my seat. Shaw's SS Indianapolis monologue was totally UNFORGETTABLE, as was this entire movie. Never liked the sequels . . . never mess with the original of anything!!!
The only movie made when alcohol actually saved a life.
The fact that they opened the film with the best kill was really genius. None of the other attacks compared to this one.
Today, April 24, 2016. I saw Jaws (1975 Theatrical Version) at the Arclight Cinemas in Pasadena, California. An amazing masterpiece, I will never forget this day, the day I saw one of the greatest masterpieces of all time in a movie theatre just like in June 20, 1975.
Aged 7. December 27th 1975. UK. A Saturday. Dad took me.
I seen it at the theater too , I was 13 and it is my favorite movie ever.
Aged 8, Dad made me watch it. I thought it was gonna be about the big guy from the James Bond movies!
My Dad took me to see The Man Who Would Be King just before i was 8. I didn't know where to look when the girl took her clothes off in front of Michael Caine.*****
I saw it at age 11.
1:29 Genius orchestration.The way John Williams plays a messy mashed spread chord, a bit like sitting on a piano, but using the SAME instruments he just used to make the playful, mysterious, underwater music, shows us the party has suddenly and abruptly come to a halt.
Her acting was amazing, whoever she is..she was ahead of her time,gives me chills every time .
her name chrissie in the move but her real name is susan backlinie
This actress deserved a damn Oscar, she scared the shit out of me when I first saw this.
If this movie was released in the theaters today it would get an R rating for this scene alone.
You're right. Which is weird because you don't see a drop of blood, the thing attacking her, nor her body being torn apart. Just sheer panic and terror 🦈
one of the scariest eerie scene in cinematic history
Jesus. This scene is still terrifying after all these years.
After the few first yanks I've wondered if she knew it was a shark.
One of the very best movies made. So ironic that even Spielberg initially didn't think it would be a hit. When the filming ran seriously over budget, the studio considered shutting down the whole project.
RIP Susan Backlinie 1946 - 2024
And the era of hot chicks getting kill in horror movies is born.
Throbbing Freedom I think it went on before JAWS. And was in many Comic books.
@carlitos puruncajas psycho debuted multiple years before both films and started the trend(hence the shower scene)
I know I'm late, but happy 45th anniversary Jaws.
so scary
That scene was iconically epic. R.I.P. Susan Backlinie.
The number one scariest moment of all time according to Bravo.
coming back here after reading that susan backlinie, the 1st victim in this scene just passed away, RIP
Rest in peace Susan Blacklinie, your screams and your death scene made a whole generation fear the ocean. 👏🏻🌊
If this scene didn't freak you out, then there is something really wrong with you
It didn't.
The reason why I did not get freaked out with this cause it’s not real.(duh lol)
I would say it’s a good scene to begin in a movie and it sounded very realistic good job to who ever played Chrissie.
Think twice of what you say. I animated a naked female baby getting murdered by a drunk landlord. That scene makes this one look normal.
Those who didn't freak out from this movie, like me, is because it was filmed in 70s, and at that time, things couldn't be so scary and realistic. I would freak out if it was filmed 2020.
Happy 40th Anniversary, Jaws! :)
And happy 5th anniversary comment
RIP Susan Backlinie
2:32 Most frightening shot in the whole movie. Looks like the ocean always does when you go in it for a swim at the beach, and you can't even tell it could be right there waiting for you
RIP to the actress
I just found out, Rest In Peace Susan Backlinie
actress Susan Backlinie, who played the above role of Chrissie Watkins died today , 13th of May 2024. This was not just the most scary scene in jaws but the most incredible too
RIP Susan Backlinie ❤️🙏🏻
The best opening to a movie I have ever seen. Truly terrifying, and a masterclass in filmmaking. Credit to Stunt swimmer, Susan Backlinie. Amazing performance.
Love the Cinematography and Score in this one scene.
There you go. Never swim in the sea at night. No joke.
moatguy don't swim in the ocean at all
The dark brings out the worst in animals mostly on land.
Lakes Are Less Danegrous Cuz There Are 0 Sharks
moatguy go to a leisure centre
If you want to swim at night, go to pool.