My favourite scene in this movie is where Quint gives his monologue about the USS Indianapolis (which is a true story by the way). That scene gets me every time. Robert Shaw gave an electrifying performance in this movie.
Is there a documentary I can watch on UA-cam about this? I need it for work tomorrow so I don't get too bored sitting down and not really doing anything
"Were going back." Hahaha. Back. I saw this in high school at the La Puente drive-in, with my buddies Rick and Tiny. And that couldn't have been THAT long ago!
@@TheFSUShow24 let us be 100% accurate… No they absolutely did not ask for it. The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, by every accurate measurement, a war crime. The President of the United States intentionally targeted this civilians and killed tens of thousands of unarmed helpless men, women, and children are The only reason he and everyone and advise him on this act of genocide didn't wind up in the Hague it because we were the winners of the war. But that is exactly where he and everyone that came up with this idea belonged. That is the truth of the matter. I understand why they did it. I understand even the excuse that they gave as to why they did it. Those reasons, those excuses, will NEVER make what they did right
3 things: 1. Don't close the beaches, just post warning signs saying 'Multiple shark attacks in recent days.' Tourists would take their own chances, or not. 2. Jaws is loosely and partially based on a real event that happened in New Jersey in 1916, which has also been made into a movie and is titled "12 Days of Terror." 3. Now that you've seen Jaws, you should see HISHE'S "Jaws Comedy Recap.
People are often confused at the Mayor's and town's reluctance to close the beaches, but in a small tourist town like that, the hotels, restaurants, and other businesses can make 70-90% of their annual income during the 3 summer months. That's why one of the voices says "24 hours is like 3 weeks!"
Yes, I've heard other reactors not know what to make of it. It's easy to see the townspeople as these greedy, callous people, but they are doing seasonal work and losing time means being poor for the rest of the year.
Yeah in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (it was shot on Marth's Vinyard) they do make almost all of their income for the whole year in June July and August.
@@jamesalexander5623 The book "Jaws" was just another sleazy potboiler that Spielberg adapted into a good story. Benchley's book even had Hooper doing the nasty with Chief Brody's wife and it was her idea.
And poor Captain McVay had to take the blame for it. The poor man got so much hate mail from seamen who'd been on the ship and died after the sinking that he took his own life. The ship was sunk because it denied an escort like most heavy cruisers would have had in those waters at that time and that was at the insistence of the Pentagon.
Quint is like Ahab in Moby Dick. He's a sea captain who's obsessed with getting revenge on a giant white sea creature, and his obsession destroys him. Steven Spielberg had a mechanical shark built for this movie. It didn't work very well. He had to use it sparingly because it was broken a lot of the time. The fact that you don't see the shark through most of the movie increased the suspense and improved the film. Spielberg named the mechanical shark "Bruce," after his lawyer. The line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed. The film crew kept saying it as a joke during filming, so Roy Scheider decided to use the line at an appropriate moment. Spielberg liked it and kept it in the movie.
Yes, this is a true story, but Quint made a mistake with the date and the fact that the ship did not give a signal. In fact, Indianapolis gave a distress signal 3 times, but they were ignored at the station, considering it a trap by the Japanese.
We snickered in the movie theater when we saw this as kids. His storytelling wasn't scary at all. In fact it was the least scary part of the movie. After that scene ended, my older cousin (who got a Purple Heart from his time in Vietnam) whispered to me "What did the one shark say to the other.?" "For military rations, this food isn't half bad!" LOL!
When this was realeased it had a huge impact on peoples minds, I was a teenager and the beaches here in Australia were virtually empty that summer. Many businesses had to shut their doors. When swimming I still think of the movie and the Dun, DUN, DUN music always pops in my head haha.
I'm from Houston Texas (which is on the Gulf coast Mexico) and was literally raised on the beach. I was 7 when this came out and I STILL remember how people were slow to get in the water and if you didn't you didn't swim out as far as you did BEFORE seeing Jaws. Such a classic and the first summer blockbuster
I was 14, on the Florida Atlantic coast..... And it did freak us all out at least for that summer. Another thing I never ever did was swim in the ocean in the dark. Nope. Nope. The ocean at night against that black sky already scared me. But not being able to see if there was a shark in the dark. Quadruple nope!
I think in real-life, every boardwalk vendor hated Steven Spielberg the summer that JAWS came out. My aunt, uncle, and cousins cancelled their vacation at the beach that year.
The script, as it was originally written, has a lot more scenes with.the shark. But they had problems getting the shark to work, so they were rewriting the script on an almost daily basis. Everyone agrees that keeping the shark as a mystery for so long made it a much better movie. The reason it didn't work was because originally the controls were electric. It worked fine in fresh water but kept short circuitung in saltwater. So they changed the controls from electric to hydraulic.
Each man in the boat has a different reason for being there. Brody is there out of duty as the Chief. Hooper is there as a shark expert and sees it as an opportunity to document and study the situation. Quint appears to be there for the money but after is account of the USS Indianapolis, you know he’s there out of a deep hatred of sharks. His backstory tells us that since then he has been hunting sharks. But, it also shows that out of all 3 men, he’s the one who’s most frighten.
the one thing to understand. . with a shore town liek this , worse yet here an island .. everything revolves around the beaches and by extension tourism. . the entire economy and livelihood of these kinds of towns is almost completely dependent on beach season.. even one badseason can do some real damage. . which really helps expllain the reaction of the town business people
Not too long ago ,I was at the laundromat, and this was on the TV there. The place was packed, and everyone put down their phones and watched it. You know it was good if they put down the phones.🤣 A classic 👌
The novel explains the mayor had secretly borrowed money from the mob to help pay for Amity day to day services when there wasn’t enough tax revenue from the previous years. A bad summer would make him unable to pay it back so his life was endangered. It wasn’t just greed making him want the beaches open but fear.
The actress who played Mrs. Kitner was Lee Fierro. She was a local theater director and actor. Several decades after Jaws was filmed, she went into a sandwich shop and saw a sandwich named the “Alex Kitner Sandwich” and told the server that she had played the boy’s mother. The owner of the restaurant heard this and ran out to greet her. The owner was Jeffrey Voorhees who PLAYED Alex Kitner. They had not seen each other since the movie was filmed. Sadly, Lee Fierro passed in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Fun fact Lee Fiero, who played the woman who slapped Brodie, was in San Diego years later. She and her friend walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that they had an item called The Alex Kitner Sandwich. When Lee mentioned to the waiter that she played Alex's mom, suddenly a man ran up to her from the back room. It was the owner - and he was the actor who played her son, Alex. They had not seen each other since the film wrapped.
This movie created a long lasting fear of sharks. On an unrelated note, whenever I watch your reaction videos, I always get it in my head that I'm watching a 25-ish Kirsten Dunst with big glasses.
@@Squarecubez As I said, the fear was already there. Jaws just expanded on it. In 1969 a survey was done in Australia on which one word gave people the most emotional reaction. The word chosen was "shark". This was years before Jaws. Sharks were seen as killers in movies, cartoons, paintings and even songs long before Jaws. The image of a dorsal fin slicing through the water towards a human wasn't invented by Jaws.
@@Squarecubez By the way Australian scientist Dr Victor Coppleson proposed the rogue shark theory of individual sharks actively hunting humans. He released a book on his findings in the 1950s called Shark Attack. The 1916 New Jersey attacks (referenced in Jaws) first gave the public masses the idea of a rogue shark. It goes back well before Jaws. 👍
Great reaction Evie! A testament to how well made this film is that it is still so effective, almost 50 years after it came out. Your comment about how the shark dies, being more creative than it just bleeding out in effect from his wounds, having been shot so many times made me smile - in the novel, that is pretty much how the shark does die. Spielberg thought it lacked impact and instead had Brody blow it up! The novel has quite a few sub-plots and differences, which Spielberg dropped. Including the mayor being in debt to the mafia, Brody's wife having a fling with Hooper, and the latter getting killed when the shark attacks him in the cage.
The reporter on the beach for July 4th is Peter Benchley. The author of the book that the film is based on. Actually a horror film. Great reaction / review. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
The very first summer blockbuster, the first movie to make 100 million at the box office and also responsible for scaring a metric buttload of people into not going in the water.
Also responsible for giving a huge negative light to sharks in general. I love this movie and sharks are my favorite animal, especially hammerheads but I wish people didn't react so badly after it hit the screen.
@TheSeventhOutlaw Ikr? At least Irwin Allen's "The Swarm" (1978) had some kind of disclaimer at the end, if I recall correctly, that bees weren't really like the way they were in the movie. I think they also did the same thing about Cuban migrants at the end of "Scarface." Or maybe that's my own Mandela Effect!
There are only two movies in history that had a cultural on the moviegoers, Jaws, everyone was afraid to go in the water that summer and The exorcist, people were passing out in theaters, praying in the street and couldn't go to sleep at, I myself seen it when I first came out and I had to go to sleep what the light on at night for almost a week. You should definitely do a reaction The exorcist, the only horror movie ever be nominated for academy award
@@karlmoles6530 people new alien was fake, but millions and millions of people believe in the devil and that's what makes the Exorcist have a cultural effect
1. Goof: Chrissie's body parts are too far up the beach to have been washed up there without a storm. 2. Boy Scouts don't need to do the mile swim to get their Merit badge. It's an accomplishment all its own. 3. Lee Fierro/Mrs. Kentner actually slapped Roy Scheider. It took 17 takes. Once was so hard it knocked his glasses off. 4. The jump scare at Ben Gardner's boat was put in on purpose by Spielberg because they were having problems with the shark "Bruce" and his appearance was delayed, and the movie needed something earlier. Works every time.🤣🤣 5. IRL Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't get along, so Spielberg used the animosity to fuel their feud onscreen. 6. The boy that said, "He made me do it' is now the Police Chief of the town where this movie was filmed. 7. Hooper was right. The fish that hit the line was a game fish. 8. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the greatest adlibs in history. It was the first time Roy actually saw Bruce. It was an ongoing trope within the filming due to budgetary problems. 9. Goof: An animal that large couldn't hit the side of the boat as rapidly as it did UNDER WATER. 10. I suspect Quint's story about the Indy gave him PTSD flashbacks and contributed to his behavior after he told the story. 11. I was in the Navy, and we were instructed to go for the eyes when confronting a shark. 12. Aside from the pool used in the Ben Gardner boat scenes, all of the shipboard scenes were filmed entirely at sea, 13. In the book not only does Hooper die but he was also having an affair with Mrs. Brody. 14. JAWS II is the only other one worth watching. It revolves around the Brody kids and their friends. Including one of the mayors' kids. 15 The third one was so bad that Scheider read the script and said NO.
12:15 Ben Gardner is the guy who helps Hooper off the boat on arrival and says "Hello to you..". He was portrayed by a local guy Craig Kingsbury who was one of the residents of Marthas Vineyard who showed the stars around the area and helped them become familiar. Robert Shaw took a real interest in him and used a lot of what he learnt in his portrayal of Quint. Unfortunately he was also quite a joker and told Shaw that most of the locals were related to each other due to incest in the small town ! Shaw believed him and even retold the gag to journalists when talking to the press about the film. The scene here was only added in post production when Steven realised he needed a jump scare during editing. He was at the film editor, Verna Fields, house and she agreed that he could use her own swimming pool to shoot the extra footage despite that meaning them having to dump milk into the water to produce the milky effect of seawater. This afterthought became one of the most famous jump scares in film history and cemented the reputation of the movie.
Spielberg had made 2 movies prior to JAWS. One was a TV Movie called, "DUEL", A THRILLER about a crazed semi truck driver. And, SUGARLAND EXPRESS; A motion picture. BOTH, I loved!!!
A stroke of luck was that the mechanical "Bruce" as he was called, didn't function that well so they were left with scenes that left a lot to the imagination (way scarier)
Having a fear of sharks and the ocean is not irrational, Evie lol Both can kill you really quickly. Now, take me for example.. I'm deathly afraid of werewolves. Like, panic attack afraid. Now *that's* irrational. 😂 So don't ever feel bad for fearing the ocean!
I'm deathly afraid of dentists and eye doctors because of the feeling of being helpless and not knowing exactly what is being done to you. I had to get stitches along my eyebrow after a piece of steel gashed me. I literally broke a huge walkie talkie in half the second I saw that needle coming close to my eye lol. The loud "CHIRP" it gave out and the pieces hitting the wall and floor even made the poor young doctor scream. I apologized profusely and had to keep reassuring her that she did nothing wrong. When she finished and walked me out to the receptionist to sign out, the whole waiting room had cleared out😂😂😂
To anyone interested - much of Jaws (and parts of the sequel Jaws 2) locations were filmed in 'Martha's Vineyard' in 'Massachusetts', USA. You can visit many of the actual locations (many of which have now been turned into tourist attractions) seen in the films. And you might even be able to meet some of the locals (who appeared in the films) that still live there today. 😁
This is true but in THE BOOK, it takes place in the Hampton's on Long Island. Spielberg changed the setting because the Hampton's were to developed for a small seaside town. But there is no stuff for the book really mentioned here. So Martha's is the place to go. Oh, you have to drive by Amityville to get to the Hampton's. So since the town in the movie is Amity, I am pretty sure thats were the author got the town name from. Benchley used to party in the Hampton's before he wrote the book. And Amityville the same town the actual Amityville Horror murders and actual house is in. But much of the house in the movie was shot mostly in NJ I believe. But the outside of the actual Amityville House does look just like it does in the movie. Good place to go for a date night to get as girl in the mood when your 17-18. LOL.
Boki, Production Designer Joe Alves was actually heading to scout out Nantucket Island but the ferries were disrupted so he checked out Martha's Vineyard instead, and found it perfect.
Glad you enjoyed this movie! It was funny seeing you predict who's gonna be shark bait, jumpscared, and funny lines you called out on some moments in the film. This movie really is a classic and no matter how many times I see that pier scene it'll always stresses me out even though I knew those guys will make it out alright. Steven Spielberg has done a fantastic job on that scene along with John Williams' performance for the film's soundtrack! :D
ONE OF THE GREATEST LINES IN FILM. IS WHEN QUINT SAYS TO RICHARD DREYFUS'S CHARACTER ( MR. HOOPER ). YOU GOT CITY HANDS MR HOOPER. YOU'VE BEEN COUNTING MONEY ALL YOUR LIFE.
This movie still looks pretty good. It’s like you can see the transition from old 50’s black and white horrors and modern suspense filled ones. That’s why Spielberg is such a good director.
Lanolinlight I love old movies, going back to the 1930s, but Jaws was something else compared to anything Hitchcock did, and I love Hitchcock. Jaws was a global phenomenon and became pop culture.
This movie traumatized MILLIONS of people when it came out. Even with that, they were impressed with how good of a movie it was. I was 11 years old when this was in theaters. I really wanted to see it and my parents took me with them to see it. I was sorry I went. Of course as a teenager and an adult, and a person who researched filmmaking, it didn't bother me so much, but as a kid, thank god my mom was there to hold me.
Evie, I was 14 the summer this came out, and the theater was full of screaming, LOL! Holy moly! We'd never seen anything like this movie back in the day. So much fun! 😆
Great reaction, as usual, Evie. The theater near my home in coastal StaBarbara played Jaws all summer upon release, and most locals (cepting surfers!) were afraid to go in the water for months!
Parts of the famous 'Ben Gardner scene', arguably the greatest jump scare in film history (rarely fails on YT reactions) were shot in a swimming pool. The mechanical shark infamously kept breaking down, it was built & operated by an FX team headed by the guy who did the giant squid vs Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Odd but true: One of the kids in the 'he made me do it' fake shark fin scene recently became a police chief on Martha's Vineyard, used as Amity in the movie. You could say he becomes Brody. This movie was responsible for the term blockbuster as there were lines of people around the block to get in to see it.
The problem in Jaws that a modern audience just doesn’t understand is just how dependant small tourist towns are on big holiday income. I use to live in 1 of those towns here in the UK. 1 year back in the 80’s we had a tourist drout so many hotels, B&B entertainment venues and mobile small businesses closed down that to live many of the working adults had to move to other cities to work leaving our town like a ghost town. That was after just 1wk.
My mother saw this movie in 1975.... and she has NEVER gone swimming in the ocean since. And she lived on the coast from 1975 to 2015... The story of the USS Indianapolis, as I'm sure many other comments have mentioned, is a true story. It was days before they were even declared "missing".
This movie ruined the ocean for me as a child the same way Jason ruined camping. As an adult i see the ocean as a giant toilet for every fish out there plus we dump all our waste their too. I dont see how anyone would want to go in the water. Especially with all the sharks. Screw alll that. The woman who played Alex Kintner's mother went to a fish market and saw a sign saying the Alex Kinter special. She introduced herself and said who she was. Turns out the guy with the sign was the little boy who played Alex. Mother and son together again. In the book Brody's wife has an affair with Hooper. He also dies in the shark cage. Mythbusters showed that the tank would not blowup like it did. All the compressed air would just be expelled through the hole. It would have been funnier (to me ) if that is how the shark died, having the air tank fly out through its ass.
Love this movie it has everything tension, thrills, humor a scary shark, epic soundtrack and great actors. Its one of those films where everything clicked together just right.
Ive watched over 50 reaction videos to this classic!!!.. this is the first time the host asked, "Isn't he full, he just had a FULL meal!??" Never had the thought ... but it makes sense!! Great reaction!! Thank you..
One of my favourites. 😊 One of the things I love is how Steven Spielberg really built up the fear by what you don’t or can’t see. I wish they would do this more in Tv shows and films nowadays not just with scary stuff but with the violence too. Best left to the imagination.😊 The music for the Pier incident, when it turns round. Just AMAZING! 😊
A lot of that was because they couldn't get the shark to work most of the time. But it worked out for the best. That classic scene of Brody seeing the shark for the first time is so great.
I was 3 years old when this movie was released, and I can't specifically remember when I first saw it, probably during a re-release at some point(late 70's maybe?), as to you youngsters, that used to be a thing. As once a movie left the theaters, unless it was shown on TV, it had to be reshown at the movies to be seen again, and only the best and biggest movies got those honors. That being said, it became my favorite movie at some point, and I'm always happy to see others watch this classic for the first time.
The moment the head come out of the boat scared generations of people, and still does. I remember trying not to be scared by rewatching the scene on my TV, took me several times and never succeeded, best jump scare in the movie history, ever... A true classic that still impress today, they don't make movies like that anymore...
Hi I live in Adelaide South Australia where a lot of the under water shark footage was filmed by Ron and Valerie Tailor. Around the time this film came out they had a great white shark put in a large enclosed trailer on display in a shopping centre car park. You entered through a door and the trailer was split through the middle and the shark was in one side with a glass partition. To quote a line from Alien 2....My mother says there are no true monsters...But there are. After seeing that shark I never swam in the sea again. A few years ago an Adelaide school boy was skiing behind a speed boat off the coast and a great white swam up and took him. you'll never see me in the sea again. Great reaction. 👍🏻
I have seen Jaws over 100 times, I own all 4 jaws movies on VHS, a 25th and 30th anniversery editions on DVD, novels of the first two movies 2 copies of the original soundtrack on vinyl records,, 2 unopened packs of Jaws 2 trading cards and a Chief Brody Funko Pop figure. Needles to say I think I love Jaws.
As I recall, somewhere in my place I’ve got a book called The Jaws Log. I think it was written by Carl Gottlieb. It’s about the making of the movie. It’s a pretty good read.
I don't have quite as much memorabelia [sp], but I did take 6 flights on a 747 (thanks Airport '75) to Australia and did the shark cage excursion in 2013, 2014, and 2016. ua-cam.com/video/L37Nb0O0aqc/v-deo.html
JAWS was the first giant shark movie. Up until this time sharks in movies and tv shows were these dolphin sized fish so it startled alot of movie goers that had no idea that great Whites grew to 12 to 17 feet in length and fishermen reported seeing them twenty feet long.
The hilarious thing about that jetty ‘chasing’ the guy….the shark has to be miles ahead of it to be dragging it and given how long that chain was, no way that guy should have survived.
My #1 movie all time. I watched this the the movie theatre when it came out. Just so scary and awesome at the same time. Glad you enjoyed it. This was first summer blockbuster movie and what put Spielberg on the map. They had major problems with the mechanical shark which is why it's not really prevalent early in movie which actually worked to SS advantage to build up the suspense...
And that's how it became a bit of American lexicon to use the phrase "I think we need a bigger boat" in dangerous or difficult situations. Neighbors got their car stuck in a snowbank. I came along with my little Jeep to tow them out. It only needed to move about 15 feet to get out of the bank. Neighbor doubted it would work and told me "I think we need a bigger boat". But my lovely little battered and scarred Jeep was up to it and dragged that bugger right out. I don't worry about sharks. I live in Colorado where sharks are rare. I also don't worry about pirates or hurricanes. All excellent reasons to live inland. 😁
I saw this movie at the age of 5. For years when I swimmed in a pool alone, I always had a 99% chance mentality that a great white shark wasn't in the pool with me. But that 1% terrified me lol
This movie is not only hailed as a classic and iconic movie but it also kicked off an era of “jaws-ploitation” movies. This is a string of movies and franchises that were mostly low budget knock offs. Some of these movies are Piranha, Devil Fish, Grizzly, Cruel Jaws, Orca, and Tentacles. These movies are Super cheesy but fun to watch.
This film could've been a massive disaster as the shark kept breaking down. They ended up using less footage and it worked in the movie's favor and was more suspenseful. Wonderful reaction.
The story that QUINT has told about the U S S INDIANAPOLIS, is a true historical event!!! There are 2 movies about this WWII EVENT. "Mission of the Shark", & most recently, "INDIANAPOLLIS, Men of Courage"!
I remember seeing this in the summer of 75 , the start of the summer block buster . Every time i go in the ocean since then i think of the possibility of sharks
No he's not. Jonathan Searle is Police Chief of Oaks Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard where Jaws was filmed. Amityville is on Long Island nearly 300 miles away.
Mr. Speilberg is 76 as of 5-5-23. 13:48 I might be sick, but I love the vandalism on that billboard. 19:20 The barrels are to wear the shark out as he tries to submerge to where the oxygen/water mix is more favorable to breathing through his gills.
The Story Quint told of the Indianapolis actually happened. Brody knew he couldn't kill the shark instantly by stabbing it, but like Bull Fighters, the cuts are meant to make the animal bleed enough to weaken it. A good way to De-stress after watching this is to go take a long soak in the bathtub! hehehe
Evie, your line about the shark not being full is the funniest quote I have ever heard while watching Jaws. You did it so straight faced too, which makes it even funnier. Thanks for your reaction Evie. I’ll be back….to watch more of your reactions. Cheers from Down Under.💯👍🇦🇺
Very good reaction, even though you said very little during the movie, I could see that you were into it. I really enjoyed your summary after it was all over. Talking about Quint's death coming full circle after his Indianapolis speech is spot on. Also liked that you were impressed by how the shark looked. I remember the producers were concerned when before the movie was released if the shark would get laughs by the audience. People knew that it was a mechanical shark. It didn't matter. The audiences were screaming in terror and the rest is history. Thank you @EvieReacts for watching this movie. I will now subscribe to your channel.
@@johnLennon255 - yes Hooper & Ellen Brody have an affair, subplot, in the novel (which was removed from the movie's script - Why? Probably because it might have bogged the story down in the film's running time or Spielberg & the producers thought it might have not have been necessary to keep in - would be my guess 🤷). Also the reason why Mayor Vaughn wants to keep the beaches open is a lot more clearer in the book (because the mayor and other city officials were loaned money from the mob and the mob expected repayment on the loans soon which added a lot more problems for the Mayor...the movie removes that entire mob subplot. Again, probably due to decreasing the film's running time I'm guessing 🤷)....Also (no spoilers) the ending of the book is very different (and better leaves the story open for a sequel book than the movie does - however the movie ending is a lot more satisfying in my opinion than the book ending). The book (and it's sequel novel Jaws 2) is worth a good read nonetheless 😁
This was not the first blockbuster. It's a World War 2 term. It isn't even the first movie to be called a blockbuster. Even that happened decades earlier.
Was 16 when this movie came out. Everyone was talking about it. There were even spots on the nightly news regarding the mania this movie caused. Never got around to seeing it at the theater. Always bummed me out that I didn't. Loved your reaction. Love your channel.
By coincidence, the first fatal shark attack of 2023 was in Mexico by a Great White in Mexico. "A fisher was recently decapitated by a 19-foot-long (5.8 meters) great white shark while diving for ax tripe, a scallop-like mollusk in Mexico."
Are we terrible to say "eat the people but NOT the dog!"? I said the same thing! These people are so money hungry! This movie scared a lot of people out of the water back then. I saw it at the show when it first came out. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the most famous movie lines ever. The mechanical shark used for the movie was named "Bruce" but it was never given a name in the movie. Quint, the owner of the boat, was played by the great Robert Shaw. He is an excellent actor & you should watch him in THE STING with Paul Newman & Robert Redford. It's a great movie!! Love your reaction!
If we can look past the obvious flaws here and there, Jaws is a masterpiece. For most part the practical effects is great. Especially considering how hard it was for the crew to even get the damn shark to work in the salt water. I also love the movie soundtrack. You can't even come close to find a horror movie with a soundtrack like this in the previous 30 years. Shoutouts to the girl in the beginning that did an amazing job. If you get attacked by a massive great white this is how you'd react in real life.
It's not irrational at all! I had a friend in Nova Scotia, that's a fisherman he's said he'd rather deep throat a cactus than go swimming in the sea. If you watch it backwards, it's a story of a shark that keeps vomiting up people until it forces the mayor to open the beaches...
Your risking people's lives shutting down the beach. A whole town of people. This is a little island in the northeast which gets very cold in the winter. Everyone in town depends on the summer dollars to pay their mortgage, feed their family and heat their homes!
My favourite scene in this movie is where Quint gives his monologue about the USS Indianapolis (which is a true story by the way).
That scene gets me every time. Robert Shaw gave an electrifying performance in this movie.
Is there a documentary I can watch on UA-cam about this? I need it for work tomorrow so I don't get too bored sitting down and not really doing anything
"Like a doll's eyes"
"It's not even the guy, it's just two dumb @sses." LOL!
"Were going back." Hahaha. Back. I saw this in high school at the La Puente drive-in, with my buddies Rick and Tiny. And that couldn't have been THAT long ago!
By the way, the story told about the USS Indianapolis is true, which makes it all the more horrific.
@Jeanluc Perez they asked for it.
Shouldn't have done that early morning attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan started it.
@@TheFSUShow24 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they did
@@TheFSUShow24 let us be 100% accurate… No they absolutely did not ask for it.
The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, by every accurate measurement, a war crime.
The President of the United States intentionally targeted this civilians and killed tens of thousands of unarmed helpless men, women, and children are
The only reason he and everyone and advise him on this act of genocide didn't wind up in the Hague it because we were the winners of the war.
But that is exactly where he and everyone that came up with this idea belonged.
That is the truth of the matter.
I understand why they did it. I understand even the excuse that they gave as to why they did it.
Those reasons, those excuses, will NEVER make what they did right
@Jeanluc Perez your a pickle puffer?
3 things:
1. Don't close the beaches, just post warning signs saying 'Multiple shark attacks in recent days.' Tourists would take their own chances, or not.
2. Jaws is loosely and partially based on a real event that happened in New Jersey in 1916, which has also been made into a movie and is titled "12 Days of Terror."
3. Now that you've seen Jaws, you should see HISHE'S "Jaws Comedy Recap.
People are often confused at the Mayor's and town's reluctance to close the beaches, but in a small tourist town like that, the hotels, restaurants, and other businesses can make 70-90% of their annual income during the 3 summer months. That's why one of the voices says "24 hours is like 3 weeks!"
Yes, I've heard other reactors not know what to make of it. It's easy to see the townspeople as these greedy, callous people, but they are doing seasonal work and losing time means being poor for the rest of the year.
What you learn from the book is the Mayor was in hock to the Mob. .... A whole different kind of shark .... But just as deadly!
Yeah in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (it was shot on Marth's Vinyard) they do make almost all of their income for the whole year in June July and August.
@@jamesalexander5623 The book "Jaws" was just another sleazy potboiler that Spielberg adapted into a good story. Benchley's book even had Hooper doing the nasty with Chief Brody's wife and it was her idea.
And poor Captain McVay had to take the blame for it. The poor man got so much hate mail from seamen who'd been on the ship and died after the sinking that he took his own life. The ship was sunk because it denied an escort like most heavy cruisers would have had in those waters at that time and that was at the insistence of the Pentagon.
Quint is like Ahab in Moby Dick. He's a sea captain who's obsessed with getting revenge on a giant white sea creature, and his obsession destroys him.
Steven Spielberg had a mechanical shark built for this movie. It didn't work very well. He had to use it sparingly because it was broken a lot of the time. The fact that you don't see the shark through most of the movie increased the suspense and improved the film. Spielberg named the mechanical shark "Bruce," after his lawyer.
The line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed. The film crew kept saying it as a joke during filming, so Roy Scheider decided to use the line at an appropriate moment. Spielberg liked it and kept it in the movie.
The scariest part of this movie is when he's telling the story about the Indianapolis . And that's because it's based on a true story .
Yes, this is a true story, but Quint made a mistake with the date and the fact that the ship did not give a signal. In fact, Indianapolis gave a distress signal 3 times, but they were ignored at the station, considering it a trap by the Japanese.
@@reyk3524 I know that part , I saw a bio on it .
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We snickered in the movie theater when we saw this as kids. His storytelling wasn't scary at all. In fact it was the least scary part of the movie. After that scene ended, my older cousin (who got a Purple Heart from his time in Vietnam) whispered to me "What did the one shark say to the other.?"
"For military rations, this food isn't half bad!" LOL!
His story while moving was mostly false. The sharks were going after the bodies of the sailors who died of their injuries and exposure not the living.
When this was realeased it had a huge impact on peoples minds, I was a teenager and the beaches here in Australia were virtually empty that summer. Many businesses had to shut their doors. When swimming I still think of the movie and the Dun, DUN, DUN music always pops in my head haha.
I'm from Houston Texas (which is on the Gulf coast Mexico) and was literally raised on the beach. I was 7 when this came out and I STILL remember how people were slow to get in the water and if you didn't you didn't swim out as far as you did BEFORE seeing Jaws. Such a classic and the first summer blockbuster
I was 14, on the Florida Atlantic coast..... And it did freak us all out at least for that summer. Another thing I never ever did was swim in the ocean in the dark. Nope. Nope. The ocean at night against that black sky already scared me. But not being able to see if there was a shark in the dark. Quadruple nope!
Most shark attacks on swimmers, are in about 3 to 6 feet of water.
I think in real-life, every boardwalk vendor hated Steven Spielberg the summer that JAWS came out. My aunt, uncle, and cousins cancelled their vacation at the beach that year.
The script, as it was originally written, has a lot more scenes with.the shark. But they had problems getting the shark to work, so they were rewriting the script on an almost daily basis. Everyone agrees that keeping the shark as a mystery for so long made it a much better movie.
The reason it didn't work was because originally the controls were electric. It worked fine in fresh water but kept short circuitung in saltwater. So they changed the controls from electric to hydraulic.
Each man in the boat has a different reason for being there. Brody is there out of duty as the Chief. Hooper is there as a shark expert and sees it as an opportunity to document and study the situation. Quint appears to be there for the money but after is account of the USS Indianapolis, you know he’s there out of a deep hatred of sharks. His backstory tells us that since then he has been hunting sharks. But, it also shows that out of all 3 men, he’s the one who’s most frighten.
the one thing to understand. . with a shore town liek this , worse yet here an island .. everything revolves around the beaches and by extension tourism. . the entire economy and livelihood of these kinds of towns is almost completely dependent on beach season.. even one badseason can do some real damage. . which really helps expllain the reaction of the town business people
Not too long ago ,I was at the laundromat, and this was on the TV there. The place was packed, and everyone put down their phones and watched it. You know it was good if they put down the phones.🤣 A classic 👌
Quint asks for $10,000 in 1975. Today that is over $55,000
The novel explains the mayor had secretly borrowed money from the mob to help pay for Amity day to day services when there wasn’t enough tax revenue from the previous years. A bad summer would make him unable to pay it back so his life was endangered. It wasn’t just greed making him want the beaches open but fear.
The actress who played Mrs. Kitner was Lee Fierro. She was a local theater director and actor. Several decades after Jaws was filmed, she went into a sandwich shop and saw a sandwich named the “Alex Kitner Sandwich” and told the server that she had played the boy’s mother. The owner of the restaurant heard this and ran out to greet her. The owner was Jeffrey Voorhees who PLAYED Alex Kitner. They had not seen each other since the movie was filmed. Sadly, Lee Fierro passed in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Fun fact Lee Fiero, who played the woman who slapped Brodie, was in San Diego years later. She and her friend walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that they had an item called The Alex Kitner Sandwich. When Lee mentioned to the waiter that she played Alex's mom, suddenly a man ran up to her from the back room. It was the owner - and he was the actor who played her son, Alex. They had not seen each other since the film wrapped.
This movie created a long lasting fear of sharks.
On an unrelated note, whenever I watch your reaction videos, I always get it in my head that I'm watching a 25-ish Kirsten Dunst with big glasses.
you are close right,ist KERSTIN dunst..her sister
I'm getting Gwyneth Paltrow vibes...
Jaws didn't create the fear of sharks. The fear of sharks was already there. Jaws just tapped into and expanded on that fear.
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As I said, the fear was already there. Jaws just expanded on it. In 1969 a survey was done in Australia on which one word gave people the most emotional reaction. The word chosen was "shark". This was years before Jaws.
Sharks were seen as killers in movies, cartoons, paintings and even songs long before Jaws. The image of a dorsal fin slicing through the water towards a human wasn't invented by Jaws.
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By the way Australian scientist Dr Victor Coppleson proposed the rogue shark theory of individual sharks actively hunting humans. He released a book on his findings in the 1950s called Shark Attack.
The 1916 New Jersey attacks (referenced in Jaws) first gave the public masses the idea of a rogue shark.
It goes back well before Jaws. 👍
Great reaction Evie! A testament to how well made this film is that it is still so effective, almost 50 years after it came out. Your comment about how the shark dies, being more creative than it just bleeding out in effect from his wounds, having been shot so many times made me smile - in the novel, that is pretty much how the shark does die. Spielberg thought it lacked impact and instead had Brody blow it up! The novel has quite a few sub-plots and differences, which Spielberg dropped. Including the mayor being in debt to the mafia, Brody's wife having a fling with Hooper, and the latter getting killed when the shark attacks him in the cage.
The Indianapolis scene gave me some ptsd as an 11 year old kid. Nothing like envisioning a shark with doll eyes biting you in half. Nightmare fuel.
The reporter on the beach for July 4th is Peter Benchley. The author of the book that the film is based on. Actually a horror film.
Great reaction / review.
As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
The very first summer blockbuster, the first movie to make 100 million at the box office and also responsible for scaring a metric buttload of people into not going in the water.
I didn't even want to get in a swimming pool for a while there.🤣
Also responsible for giving a huge negative light to sharks in general. I love this movie and sharks are my favorite animal, especially hammerheads but I wish people didn't react so badly after it hit the screen.
@TheSeventhOutlaw Ikr? At least Irwin Allen's "The Swarm" (1978) had some kind of disclaimer at the end, if I recall correctly, that bees weren't really like the way they were in the movie. I think they also did the same thing about Cuban migrants at the end of "Scarface." Or maybe that's my own Mandela Effect!
There are only two movies in history that had a cultural on the moviegoers, Jaws, everyone was afraid to go in the water that summer and The exorcist, people were passing out in theaters, praying in the street and couldn't go to sleep at, I myself seen it when I first came out and I had to go to sleep what the light on at night for almost a week. You should definitely do a reaction The exorcist, the only horror movie ever be nominated for academy award
Alien produced as many bad reactions as The Exorcist. But that's it.
I would say Psycho was one. It made people not want to shower with the shower curtain closed.
@@karlmoles6530 people new alien was fake, but millions and millions of people believe in the devil and that's what makes the Exorcist have a cultural effect
@@jjack-zm4sr Well I was there in the theater, heard them scream, heard them vomit, saw them run
John Carpenter’s Halloween scared the total crap out of folks when it came out, too.
1. Goof: Chrissie's body parts are too far up the beach to have been washed up there without a storm.
2. Boy Scouts don't need to do the mile swim to get their Merit badge. It's an accomplishment all its own.
3. Lee Fierro/Mrs. Kentner actually slapped Roy Scheider. It took 17 takes. Once was so hard it knocked his glasses off.
4. The jump scare at Ben Gardner's boat was put in on purpose by Spielberg because they were having problems with the shark "Bruce" and his appearance was delayed, and the movie needed something earlier. Works every time.🤣🤣
5. IRL Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't get along, so Spielberg used the animosity to fuel their feud onscreen.
6. The boy that said, "He made me do it' is now the Police Chief of the town where this movie was filmed.
7. Hooper was right. The fish that hit the line was a game fish.
8. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the greatest adlibs in history. It was the first time Roy actually saw Bruce. It was an ongoing trope within the filming due to budgetary problems.
9. Goof: An animal that large couldn't hit the side of the boat as rapidly as it did UNDER WATER.
10. I suspect Quint's story about the Indy gave him PTSD flashbacks and contributed to his behavior after he told the story.
11. I was in the Navy, and we were instructed to go for the eyes when confronting a shark.
12. Aside from the pool used in the Ben Gardner boat scenes, all of the shipboard scenes were filmed entirely at sea,
13. In the book not only does Hooper die but he was also having an affair with Mrs. Brody.
14. JAWS II is the only other one worth watching. It revolves around the Brody kids and their friends. Including one of the mayors' kids.
15 The third one was so bad that Scheider read the script and said NO.
*"We don't have to wait 40 minutes for somebody to, that's cool"*
12:15 Ben Gardner is the guy who helps Hooper off the boat on arrival and says "Hello to you..". He was portrayed by a local guy Craig Kingsbury who was one of the residents of Marthas Vineyard who showed the stars around the area and helped them become familiar. Robert Shaw took a real interest in him and used a lot of what he learnt in his portrayal of Quint. Unfortunately he was also quite a joker and told Shaw that most of the locals were related to each other due to incest in the small town ! Shaw believed him and even retold the gag to journalists when talking to the press about the film. The scene here was only added in post production when Steven realised he needed a jump scare during editing. He was at the film editor, Verna Fields, house and she agreed that he could use her own swimming pool to shoot the extra footage despite that meaning them having to dump milk into the water to produce the milky effect of seawater. This afterthought became one of the most famous jump scares in film history and cemented the reputation of the movie.
"Jaws " is brilliant because it's a Suspense Movie, a Monster Movie, an Adverture Movie, a Chase Movie and untimately a Buddy Movie!
Spielberg had made 2 movies prior to JAWS. One was a TV Movie called, "DUEL", A THRILLER about a crazed semi truck driver. And, SUGARLAND EXPRESS; A motion picture. BOTH, I loved!!!
A stroke of luck was that the mechanical "Bruce" as he was called, didn't function that well so they were left with scenes that left a lot to the imagination (way scarier)
I remember seeing JAWS at a drive in theater. So cool! Loved your reaction to this legendary movie.
Having a fear of sharks and the ocean is not irrational, Evie lol Both can kill you really quickly. Now, take me for example.. I'm deathly afraid of werewolves. Like, panic attack afraid. Now *that's* irrational. 😂 So don't ever feel bad for fearing the ocean!
I'm deathly afraid of dentists and eye doctors because of the feeling of being helpless and not knowing exactly what is being done to you. I had to get stitches along my eyebrow after a piece of steel gashed me. I literally broke a huge walkie talkie in half the second I saw that needle coming close to my eye lol. The loud "CHIRP" it gave out and the pieces hitting the wall and floor even made the poor young doctor scream. I apologized profusely and had to keep reassuring her that she did nothing wrong. When she finished and walked me out to the receptionist to sign out, the whole waiting room had cleared out😂😂😂
To anyone interested - much of Jaws (and parts of the sequel Jaws 2) locations were filmed in 'Martha's Vineyard' in 'Massachusetts', USA. You can visit many of the actual locations (many of which have now been turned into tourist attractions) seen in the films. And you might even be able to meet some of the locals (who appeared in the films) that still live there today. 😁
This is true but in THE BOOK, it takes place in the Hampton's on Long Island. Spielberg changed the setting because the Hampton's were to developed for a small seaside town. But there is no stuff for the book really mentioned here. So Martha's is the place to go. Oh, you have to drive by Amityville to get to the Hampton's. So since the town in the movie is Amity, I am pretty sure thats were the author got the town name from. Benchley used to party in the Hampton's before he wrote the book. And Amityville the same town the actual Amityville Horror murders and actual house is in. But much of the house in the movie was shot mostly in NJ I believe. But the outside of the actual Amityville House does look just like it does in the movie. Good place to go for a date night to get as girl in the mood when your 17-18. LOL.
Boki,
Production Designer Joe Alves was actually heading to scout out Nantucket Island but the ferries were disrupted so he checked out Martha's Vineyard instead, and found it perfect.
@@lyndoncmp5751 A happy accident indeed. :)
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So true. 👍
4:04 -- for a sense of scale.. The Mayor's Caddy is about the size of the shark..
Glad you enjoyed this movie! It was funny seeing you predict who's gonna be shark bait, jumpscared, and funny lines you called out on some moments in the film. This movie really is a classic and no matter how many times I see that pier scene it'll always stresses me out even though I knew those guys will make it out alright. Steven Spielberg has done a fantastic job on that scene along with John Williams' performance for the film's soundtrack! :D
ONE OF THE GREATEST LINES IN FILM. IS WHEN QUINT SAYS TO RICHARD DREYFUS'S CHARACTER ( MR. HOOPER ). YOU GOT CITY HANDS MR HOOPER. YOU'VE BEEN COUNTING MONEY ALL YOUR LIFE.
I went to the local drive in when it came out and could hear people everywhere screaming when the face popped out of the boat 😂
A fear of sharks is definitely not irrational!!!😂
Between Pyscho ruining showers and JAWS ruining swimming and Piranha running toilets.......well you get the point
This movie still looks pretty good. It’s like you can see the transition from old 50’s black and white horrors and modern suspense filled ones. That’s why Spielberg is such a good director.
Alfred Hitchcock would like to have a word with you.
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I love old movies, going back to the 1930s, but Jaws was something else compared to anything Hitchcock did, and I love Hitchcock. Jaws was a global phenomenon and became pop culture.
This movie traumatized MILLIONS of people when it came out. Even with that, they were impressed with how good of a movie it was. I was 11 years old when this was in theaters. I really wanted to see it and my parents took me with them to see it. I was sorry I went. Of course as a teenager and an adult, and a person who researched filmmaking, it didn't bother me so much, but as a kid, thank god my mom was there to hold me.
Evie, I was 14 the summer this came out, and the theater was full of screaming, LOL! Holy moly! We'd never seen anything like this movie back in the day. So much fun! 😆
Same here.
Great reaction, as usual, Evie.
The theater near my home in coastal StaBarbara played Jaws all summer upon release, and most locals (cepting surfers!) were afraid to go in the water for months!
Parts of the famous 'Ben Gardner scene', arguably the greatest jump scare in film history (rarely fails on YT reactions) were shot in a swimming pool. The mechanical shark infamously kept breaking down, it was built & operated by an FX team headed by the guy who did the giant squid vs Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Odd but true: One of the kids in the 'he made me do it' fake shark fin scene recently became a police chief on Martha's Vineyard, used as Amity in the movie. You could say he becomes Brody. This movie was responsible for the term blockbuster as there were lines of people around the block to get in to see it.
The problem in Jaws that a modern audience just doesn’t understand is just how dependant small tourist towns are on big holiday income. I use to live in 1 of those towns here in the UK. 1 year back in the 80’s we had a tourist drout so many hotels, B&B entertainment venues and mobile small businesses closed down that to live many of the working adults had to move to other cities to work leaving our town like a ghost town. That was after just 1wk.
My mother saw this movie in 1975.... and she has NEVER gone swimming in the ocean since. And she lived on the coast from 1975 to 2015...
The story of the USS Indianapolis, as I'm sure many other comments have mentioned, is a true story. It was days before they were even declared "missing".
This movie ruined the ocean for me as a child the same way Jason ruined camping. As an adult i see the ocean as a giant toilet for every fish out there plus we dump all our waste their too. I dont see how anyone would want to go in the water. Especially with all the sharks. Screw alll that.
The woman who played Alex Kintner's mother went to a fish market and saw a sign saying the Alex Kinter special. She introduced herself and said who she was. Turns out the guy with the sign was the little boy who played Alex. Mother and son together again.
In the book Brody's wife has an affair with Hooper. He also dies in the shark cage.
Mythbusters showed that the tank would not blowup like it did. All the compressed air would just be expelled through the hole. It would have been funnier (to me ) if that is how the shark died, having the air tank fly out through its ass.
Love this movie it has everything tension, thrills, humor a scary shark, epic soundtrack and great actors. Its one of those films where everything clicked together just right.
Ive watched over 50 reaction videos to this classic!!!.. this is the first time the host asked, "Isn't he full, he just had a FULL meal!??"
Never had the thought ... but it makes sense!!
Great reaction!! Thank you..
I love Quint, too! He’s based on the legendary Long Island,NY fishing boat captain, Frank Mundus.
One of my favourites. 😊 One of the things I love is how Steven Spielberg really built up the fear by what you don’t or can’t see. I wish they would do this more in Tv shows and films nowadays not just with scary stuff but with the violence too. Best left to the imagination.😊 The music for the Pier incident, when it turns round. Just AMAZING! 😊
A lot of that was because they couldn't get the shark to work most of the time. But it worked out for the best. That classic scene of Brody seeing the shark for the first time is so great.
I was 3 years old when this movie was released, and I can't specifically remember when I first saw it, probably during a re-release at some point(late 70's maybe?), as to you youngsters, that used to be a thing. As once a movie left the theaters, unless it was shown on TV, it had to be reshown at the movies to be seen again, and only the best and biggest movies got those honors. That being said, it became my favorite movie at some point, and I'm always happy to see others watch this classic for the first time.
The original summer blockbuster. Jaws and Star Wars changed everything.
"Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars"
-Freddy Mercury (Bicycle Race)
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Pipit the dog is a sadly unlamented victim of the shark.
one of the kids with the fin is now sheriff on that island
1:23 This was Spielberg's first-ever box-office success. He's 76 today, but was only 28 when Jaws was released.
@2:30 "Like we don't have to wait like 40 minutes for someone to die. That's cool." It's so fun to play with context. :)
The moment the head come out of the boat scared generations of people, and still does.
I remember trying not to be scared by rewatching the scene on my TV, took me several times and never succeeded, best jump scare in the movie history, ever...
A true classic that still impress today, they don't make movies like that anymore...
Most directors are too concerned about making a effects film look slick, not enough storytelling, too much CGI.
weird deleted scene in this is that Quint is actually down there spying on them cutting up the Tiger Shark.
6:32 Neon Joe😂😂
I got a little nibble from a shark once nice scar to remember my fear is rational 😂😂
Hi I live in Adelaide South Australia where a lot of the under water shark footage was filmed by Ron and Valerie Tailor. Around the time this film came out they had a great white shark put in a large enclosed trailer on display in a shopping centre car park. You entered through a door and the trailer was split through the middle and the shark was in one side with a glass partition. To quote a line from Alien 2....My mother says there are no true monsters...But there are. After seeing that shark I never swam in the sea again. A few years ago an Adelaide school boy was skiing behind a speed boat off the coast and a great white swam up and took him. you'll never see me in the sea again. Great reaction. 👍🏻
I have seen Jaws over 100 times, I own all 4 jaws movies on VHS, a 25th and 30th anniversery editions on DVD, novels of the first two movies 2 copies of the original soundtrack on vinyl records,, 2 unopened packs of Jaws 2 trading cards and a Chief Brody Funko Pop figure. Needles to say I think I love Jaws.
As I recall, somewhere in my place I’ve got a book called The Jaws Log. I think it was written by Carl Gottlieb. It’s about the making of the movie. It’s a pretty good read.
I don't have quite as much memorabelia [sp], but I did take 6 flights on a 747 (thanks Airport '75) to Australia and did the shark cage excursion in 2013, 2014, and 2016.
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@@michaelzilkowsky2936 Close. Memorabilia. 🙂
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The TV news reporter on the beach during the 4th of July is Peter Benchley the author of the book Jaws.
so many nightmares this movie gave me! A classic from my youth!
At one movie theater. The crowd so large, waiting to get in. That the concrete cracked. Giving us the term, "Blockbuster".
JAWS was the first giant shark movie. Up until this time sharks in movies and tv shows were these dolphin sized fish so it startled alot of movie goers that had no idea that great Whites grew to 12 to 17 feet in length and fishermen reported seeing them twenty feet long.
The saddest part of this film was the stick with no dog.
The hilarious thing about that jetty ‘chasing’ the guy….the shark has to be miles ahead of it to be dragging it and given how long that chain was, no way that guy should have survived.
People always say that. They don't mind seeing people tortured or killed but not an animal.
My #1 movie all time. I watched this the the movie theatre when it came out. Just so scary and awesome at the same time. Glad you enjoyed it. This was first summer blockbuster movie and what put Spielberg on the map. They had major problems with the mechanical shark which is why it's not really prevalent early in movie which actually worked to SS advantage to build up the suspense...
And that's how it became a bit of American lexicon to use the phrase "I think we need a bigger boat" in dangerous or difficult situations. Neighbors got their car stuck in a snowbank. I came along with my little Jeep to tow them out. It only needed to move about 15 feet to get out of the bank. Neighbor doubted it would work and told me "I think we need a bigger boat". But my lovely little battered and scarred Jeep was up to it and dragged that bugger right out.
I don't worry about sharks. I live in Colorado where sharks are rare. I also don't worry about pirates or hurricanes. All excellent reasons to live inland. 😁
The reason why they don't show a lot of the shark is because they had a lot of mechanical problems with the shark
I saw this movie at the age of 5. For years when I swimmed in a pool alone, I always had a 99% chance mentality that a great white shark wasn't in the pool with me. But that 1% terrified me lol
This movie is not only hailed as a classic and iconic movie but it also kicked off an era of “jaws-ploitation” movies. This is a string of movies and franchises that were mostly low budget knock offs. Some of these movies are Piranha, Devil Fish, Grizzly, Cruel Jaws, Orca, and Tentacles. These movies are
Super cheesy but fun to watch.
This film could've been a massive disaster as the shark kept breaking down. They ended up using less footage and it worked in the movie's favor and was more suspenseful.
Wonderful reaction.
The story that QUINT has told about the U S S INDIANAPOLIS, is a true historical event!!! There are 2 movies about this WWII EVENT. "Mission of the Shark", & most recently, "INDIANAPOLLIS, Men of Courage"!
The original mechanical shark used in this movie is now used as a tourist attraction at Universal Studios in Hollywood.
They quit using Bruce in 1990.
@@aceldamia9114 Went there in 2014 - it was still there 🤷♂️
I remember seeing this in the summer of 75 , the start of the summer block buster . Every time i go in the ocean since then i think of the possibility of sharks
Fun Fact:
The little kid with the fake shark fin that said “He made me do it.” is now the actual mayor of the real Amityville!!
No he's not. Jonathan Searle is Police Chief of Oaks Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard where Jaws was filmed. Amityville is on Long Island nearly 300 miles away.
I cleaned a theater when this came out. Popcorn everywhere.
25:09 "Are you kidding? He lost it?!" I know, right?! First the tooth and now this. He should be called Butterfingers!
Mr. Speilberg is 76 as of 5-5-23. 13:48 I might be sick, but I love the vandalism on that billboard. 19:20 The barrels are to wear the shark out as he tries to submerge to where the oxygen/water mix is more favorable to breathing through his gills.
The Story Quint told of the Indianapolis actually happened.
Brody knew he couldn't kill the shark instantly by stabbing it, but like Bull Fighters, the cuts are meant to make the animal bleed enough to weaken it.
A good way to De-stress after watching this is to go take a long soak in the bathtub! hehehe
7:38 This is such a fun sequence. I can just imagine the pitch: "You see, this guy is in the water being chased . . . by the DOCK!" 🤦♂😝
@7:26 lol Possibly the best take on that scene ever. Yep, just two dumbasses... @8:03 Yep. 😂
Evie, your line about the shark not being full is the funniest quote I have ever heard while watching Jaws. You did it so straight faced too, which makes it even funnier. Thanks for your reaction Evie. I’ll be back….to watch more of your reactions. Cheers from Down Under.💯👍🇦🇺
Very good reaction, even though you said very little during the movie, I could see that you were into it.
I really enjoyed your summary after it was all over. Talking about Quint's death coming full circle after his Indianapolis speech is spot on. Also liked that you were impressed by how the shark looked.
I remember the producers were concerned when before the movie was released if the shark would get laughs by the audience. People knew that it was a mechanical shark.
It didn't matter. The audiences were screaming in terror and the rest is history.
Thank you @EvieReacts for watching this movie.
I will now subscribe to your channel.
The book is also quite good. I read it at 11 and it has stuck with me ever since.
Is it true hooper sleeps with brodys wife? Ive never read the book before
Wait there's a book??? that's cool hahah
@@johnLennon255 - yes Hooper & Ellen Brody have an affair, subplot, in the novel (which was removed from the movie's script - Why? Probably because it might have bogged the story down in the film's running time or Spielberg & the producers thought it might have not have been necessary to keep in - would be my guess 🤷). Also the reason why Mayor Vaughn wants to keep the beaches open is a lot more clearer in the book (because the mayor and other city officials were loaned money from the mob and the mob expected repayment on the loans soon which added a lot more problems for the Mayor...the movie removes that entire mob subplot. Again, probably due to decreasing the film's running time I'm guessing 🤷)....Also (no spoilers) the ending of the book is very different (and better leaves the story open for a sequel book than the movie does - however the movie ending is a lot more satisfying in my opinion than the book ending). The book (and it's sequel novel Jaws 2) is worth a good read nonetheless 😁
@@eviereacts Yes, written by Peter Benchley.
@@eviereacts The news host was Peter Benchley on around the town the writer of the book....
The first Blockbuster and also prevent people from swimming. 😅
This was not the first blockbuster. It's a World War 2 term. It isn't even the first movie to be called a blockbuster. Even that happened decades earlier.
Since you asked, Steven Spielberg is 76 now. Which means he was around 27 when he filmed this.
In the book Chief Brody's wife and Hooper had an affair
Was 16 when this movie came out. Everyone was talking about it. There were even spots on the nightly news regarding the mania this movie caused. Never got around to seeing it at the theater. Always bummed me out that I didn't. Loved your reaction. Love your channel.
By coincidence, the first fatal shark attack of 2023 was in Mexico by a Great White in Mexico.
"A fisher was recently decapitated by a 19-foot-long (5.8 meters) great white shark while diving for ax tripe, a scallop-like mollusk in Mexico."
Are we terrible to say "eat the people but NOT the dog!"? I said the same thing! These people are so money hungry! This movie scared a lot of people out of the water back then. I saw it at the show when it first came out. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the most famous movie lines ever. The mechanical shark used for the movie was named "Bruce" but it was never given a name in the movie. Quint, the owner of the boat, was played by the great Robert Shaw. He is an excellent actor & you should watch him in THE STING with Paul Newman & Robert Redford. It's a great movie!! Love your reaction!
Thanks for this. 👍big outlander fan here too....trying to fill in the space until the rest of the season comes back...in 2024!
In response to the old man swimming. I can hold my breath for more than 2 mins,so I scare the shit out of people when I go to the lake lol
If we can look past the obvious flaws here and there, Jaws is a masterpiece. For most part the practical effects is great. Especially considering how hard it was for the crew to even get the damn shark to work in the salt water.
I also love the movie soundtrack. You can't even come close to find a horror movie with a soundtrack like this in the previous 30 years.
Shoutouts to the girl in the beginning that did an amazing job. If you get attacked by a massive great white this is how you'd react in real life.
if you liked the movie, i can recommend orca from 1977
It's not irrational at all! I had a friend in Nova Scotia, that's a fisherman he's said he'd rather deep throat a cactus than go swimming in the sea. If you watch it backwards, it's a story of a shark that keeps vomiting up people until it forces the mayor to open the beaches...
Your risking people's lives shutting down the beach. A whole town of people. This is a little island in the northeast which gets very cold in the winter. Everyone in town depends on the summer dollars to pay their mortgage, feed their family and heat their homes!