Jaws (1975) Had Us *JUMPING* In Our Seats MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!!
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One of my friends, Ed Harrell, was the last surviving member of the USS Indianapolis’ Marine Corps detachment. He passed away a couple years ago. RIP Ed and all my other lost shipmates.
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Condolences to you Richard. Your friend did an extraordinary thing and he served this country. Never forget!
Fair Winds and Following Seas ⚓️
There is still one survivor named Harold Bray who is still alive, amazingly.
OMG, that gives me chills. Did he ever speak of it ?
"How come this 70s movie is making me jump scare more than modern horror movies?" Filmmaking skills, my friend. Filmmaking skills.
Substance, fine craft and humanity over just style, corporate sterility and posing. Even just in the first few minutes of the movie, the visual storytelling tells you all about Brody, what he's like, what he does, his family life and background. More importantly, Brody feels like a totally real person right away. I find most movies and characters in them now feel weirdly vapid and just actors trying to pose and maybe even always just have this odd petulant teenage attitude no-matter how old they are or what they're supposed to be.
An actual story and deep character development. We care about all of the characters.
@@DM-kv9kj Roy Sheider's portrayal of Chief Brody is one of the best "everyman" heroes in cinema history. Dude wasn't a superhero, spy, jedi, my man was just a NYC street cop who married rich (the wife got him that job as chief through her family connections) and got a cush job. He wasn't expecting none of that shark action but stood up and handled business in the face of all those greedy nutcases running the town who only cared about profits. He, Hooper and that one guy on the dock ("I hope you ain't going out with them nutcases") were the most common sense mofos on that island. Hooper's another story, my man cut that other shark open to inspect it's stomach then convinced Brody to go out there...in the middle of the night...to go looking for the real shark THEN went in the water...at night....to investigate a wrecked boat. WTF were they going to do if He and Brody found the shark that night?
Yeah, "The Lost Boys" was good too.
Because movies were waaaay better back in the day, period.
Remarkably, the speech delivered by Quint about the USS Indianapolis tragedy is a true story, an actual historical fact. It really happened! His story relating the incident is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he was determined to personally secure the bounty and reward for killing the shark, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge (or perhaps redemption) for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by destroying the man-eating shark himself…
He says the ship sank on July 4th, but in reality, it actually sank on July 30th.
The story is exaggerated. The way they make it sound in the movie is that sharks killed all the people in the water when in fact the vast majority of the people in the water were killed by injuries from the torpedoes or from the elements like dehydration and such. Most of the people that were eaten by sharks were scavenged. And I'm sure that there were some that were injured that were killed as well but there were actually entire groups of survivors that never encountered one single shark the entire time. So it's not really fact. Scott elements of truth that are exaggerated
@@thickerconstrictor9037its not exaggerated. Just because some men never saw a shark doesnt mean they werent terrified OF seeing one and just because some of the men were already dead or injured does not make it an "exaggeration". Its something you'll never experience so you'll continue making tone deaf statements like this. I promise you it wasnt exaggerated in the minds of the men who actually experienced it, floating in the water all night never knowing if they were next, watching their buddy next to them slowly die and getten taken under by sharks...yeah, lots of exaggeration. Go home and learn some respect child.
and the sequel to that story is Oppenheimer.
In boot camp we had days where we learned military history, and they told us the actual truth about the incident. The government blamed sharks in the water for the large death toll, when in fact the temperaure of the water caused many of the men to go out of their mind and hallucinate, and they started drowning each other. The military blamed it on sharks out of respect for the men. While some of the survivors in the water were attacked by sharks, it was nowhwere near what the reports were. It was the men doing it to each other. very sad.
The USS INDIANAPOLIS is a real war maritime event that happened in 1945, there are afew films based on the story.
Yeah it was horrific
Hardly any were killed by sharks. Over 90% died of dehydration and exposure. The sharks ate the bodies, and thus a myth was spawned, which Jaws magnified massively. Some of the survivors never saw a single shark the entire time.
Fun fact: There are sharks that can live hundreds of years 😂 They're called Greenland sharks and the oldest one found was over 400 years old I think
That sounds about right. The average lifespan of a Great White is about 50-70 years, which is a pretty terrifying idea - Bruce (the shark depicted in the film) would probably be old enough to be Brody's dad, and had spent its entire life learning to be an apex predator.
the oldest greenland shark we've found was aged between 272 and 512 years old, so we decided the average was 400. but the radiocarbon dating doesn't produce exact dates so yea.
@@nim4464 Wow, that is unbelievable. So there are sharks out there who were born in the Middle Ages?? how is that possible? As that man in Father Ted exclaimed: Fookin Hell!
@@paulinegallagher7821 theres sharks out there that have lived to see (theoretically) every US president, the french revolution, ww1 and 2, and were born at the end of the Anglo-Spanish war in 1604
Its wild
(1604, average)
@@nim4464 Oh so not quite the middle ages. I need to learn how to subtract, but yes thats pretty wild
That shark-fin prank, lol. If you pulled something like that back in the day, you'd almost prefer taking your chances with the shark rather than facing your mom.
Might well have served them right if they'd got shot...accidentally OR OTHERWISE... 😤
"Mrs. Brown, your boys have been detain at Police Headquarters." "Ohhhh noooo! What did they do NOW????"
In hindsight those boys probably saved a lot of lives with that prank, the shark would’ve slaughtered dozens of those beach goers before it would’ve been put down or scared off by the patrol boats.
Yes, my son or daughter would not be able to sit down for a while after playing such a prank.
The Cam scream was hysterical. Zay didn’t look scared. He looked in shock.
I screamed exactly like that the first time I watched that scene too lol. Such a good jump scare.
I couldn't stop laughing. lol that was great.
I was in 5th grade when this movie came out in 1975. It scared EVERYBODY. Not many went swimming in the ocean that summer. When Jaws 2 was released in 1978, the tag line for the promo was “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”.
Zay, newer films' jump scares are PLACED into a story. You were scared by Jaws' jump scares because they are CRAFTED to be in a certain spot and there are specific visual and dialogue cues that happen beforehand to make you feel safe. The blood-test in THE THING is a great example. :)
If that fisherman in the sunk boat hadn't been bald-headed, he wouldn't have look half as scary.
Love that one. “We’ll test you last. Ahhh!!! Cut me loose dammit” 😂😂😂
Sorry to spoil your comment (as I entirely agree with you that 70s movies were crafted and filmed infinitely better than today's shit) but that Ben Gardner jump scare wasn't crafted to be in the film at all. It was put in after the film had wrapped when Speilberg saw a preview audience screening and wanted a big jump scare somewhere in the film as he thought it lacked it.
So that scene was filmed, inserted and John Williams rearranged his cue for the boat discovery and notched the volume up max and voila! One of the best jump scares alongside Carrie's hand popping out of her grave!
@@rnw2739 \So Spielberg crafted that jump scare after the film was done and inserted it.
I would definitely classify Jaws as horror. It used to be found in that section in most video shops. You have a monster, four kills, severed limbs, a jumpscare with a body and buckets of blood.
JAWS encompasses several genres (thriller, action, even comedy), but first and foremost it’s a horror film. It tapped into a universal primal fear, and that fear exists to this day.
@@Strangenstein It's still unique. As were many of Spielberg's films.
It's generally classified as a thrilller
I sometimes question what is worse: the mayor's ignorance that led to the boy's death, or the horrible fashion disaster that is his choice in sports jackets.
You don't like little white anchors on a powder blue background?? That WOULD have looked fine in the 70's.
HEADS UP for Ben Gardner😁
Heh heeeeeh!😂
Poor Ben. I’m afraid he got a head of himself.
@@MsAppassionatashame on you guys. Ben stuck his neck out to try and stop that monster.
@@isthatwhatemptymeans8222 🤣🤣🤣
Pointless Fun Fact: The scene when Hooper finds Ben Gardner's head as filmed in post production in editor Verna Fields' swimming pool.
Best reaction to this movie EVER. Stay cool, guys.
Jaws was a full on horror classic. Saw it as a kid and was terrified to go in the water. Scared the crap out of me.
Older movies always seem too slow for younger people, because their attention spans have been fried from the distractions of cellphones and the internet. It's not that the movies are actually slow, because they're not.
I think you are absolutely right cause this generation is trained to have very short attention span and shallow depth of thinking.
The "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line was improvised on the spot by Roy Schieder
Great actor. Really liked him in The French Connection and in Marathon Man
The adventure music was, I think, meant to give us a rare moment of feeling like these guys have the advantage. John Williams is a wizard. His music absolutely saved this film!
That was a disappointing comment in the reaction. It was possibly the most inspired musical choice in the whole score.
Absolutely - it's definitely there to lighten the tension slightly, only for a few moments later to turn the screw further! Perfect synchronisation between director and composer. Proper storytelling.
I don’t know if it is that specific scene but there is a sea shanty that Quinn sings and this music is based on that same shanty.
@@davids6898 Hmm interesting, was it the one about the "bow legged ladies"? I'm gonna have to look into this, because if you're right, that would add a whole new dimension to that theme!
Saved? You can't write good music to shit visuals.
I've seen fisherman pull a shark up onto a fishing boat and one of them was decapitated by the tail fin in one swipe. People don't realize the power of a shark, and it's teeth isn't it's only deadly weapon
This movie was the start of "Summer Blockbusters".
Yeah, Jaws is a great film, but it murdered cinema.
Yes, when going to the movies felt great!
*Fun Fact:* The eyes of Great Whites aren’t actually pitch black. They do in fact have dark blue pupils that are a bit difficult to see at first from afar, but once you notice it up close, you’ll see it all the time. Plus, it gives them a greater sense of how intelligent they really are by how they observe things around them, usually always looking at the camera wondering what it is.
Also, most Sharks have very standard eyes. Either slit eyes like a cat as seen on Reef Sharks, or round eyes like a dog as seen on Threshers and Blue Sharks. It’s actually pretty cute how they side-eye at the camera.
Now imagine watching this, except on a 20-foot screen in a dark theater. There was popcorn in everyone's hair by the time the lights went up.
I was eleven, and afraid to sit on the toilet because there was water in it 😅
What turned out making this movie so iconic was alot of the problems they had making the movie especially with the practical effects with the mechanical shark....It kept breaking down and they didn't have the time to keep fixing it so they didn't use it as much as they were originally going to so thats why the effect of NOT seeing it became the psychological effect more powerful than actually seeing the shark .....It turned out the " less is more " effect made the movie even scarier....Now that's frigging luck there....
Another good reaction, guys.
After this movie came out, "Saturday Night Live" would do these skits where a shark would come to a housewife's door and when she opened the door, it would kill her. So, for example, a housewife (usually Gilda Radner) would hear a knock on the door.
She'd walk over and call through the door, "Who is it?"
A voice on the other side of the door would call back, "Candygram."
She'd respond through the door something like, "Who would be sending me a candygram?"
It would call back, "Candygram.......land shark"
Eventually, she's say, "I'd better find out" and open the door and it would kill her.
Ok you took me waaaayyy back with that comment!! SNL was hilarious back then.😂😂
@@cflournoy1529 That was its best incarnation.
Wow memory unlocked. As soon as I started reading your comment I thought "Land Shark!" 😂 The late great SNL days.
"Jehovas witness"
@@lowbridge7070 Yeeesssss!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Robert Shaw, the fisherman, who offered to catch the shark, was an actor actor who played in another famous movie: Battle of the Bulge. It was a WWII movie about the Nazi's assault on the western front.
He was also the deadly Russian assassin, Nash, in the best Bond film ever made, From Russia With Love.
You're going to need a bigger tank.
Shaw also played King Henry VIII in one of the finest films of the 20th century - A Man for All Seasons.
The shooting star was real and so perfectly timed. The shark that got caught on top of the cage was also not scripted. It was a real juvenile great white that swam through the scene.
actually, the shark was filmed by Ron and Valerie Taylor, in Australia. Not sure about the shooting stars.
More fake movie trivia. Amazing.
That is also a myth. The shooting star scene wasn't even filmed at night time. It was shot during the day just like the holiday roast scene and the opening attack on the girl all shot during the day with a lens that made it look like night-time. So the shooting star was added digitally and that was confirmed in a book written by Alves who confirmed that he put it in himself. Not to mention it's a calling card of Spielberg
Oh wow I remember those two. Oh Ok I saw it on a documentary on the making of jaws. Either way it was pretty cool.
@@madawcofarreat2348what's so fake about it? I saw it on the making of jaws. What's so far fetched about a real shark swimming through a scene? Wise ass
The dynamic is so well designed in this film. Even little things, like Quint pronouncing that the shark can't go under with three barrels and then it instantly does - which is quint eating humble pie and and nice leveller that helps the audience root for them as a unit. Although then Quint blows the engine!
This is my all-time favorite movie. I even have the shark from the poster tattooed on my back. First saw this one in September 1979 when the movie aired on ABC. I was five at the time, and since it was a Sunday night, I had kindergarten the following day. I was allowed to watch the beginning of it, but then the 9PM bedtime hit, and I was supposed to go to bed. However, the door to me and my little brother's bedroom didn't latch, and since my brother was asleep on the couch with my parents, I kept sneaking out of the bedroom and hid behind the recliner at the entrance of the family room where the movie was still playing. When a commercial came on or one of my parents would get up, I'd quickly head back to the bedroom and wait until the coast was clear again. I got to about the part where the Orca breaks down, and Mom caught me. She laughed and said that since the movie was almost over then I might as well finish watching it.
It was in the summer of 2004 when CAPA down in Columbus was doing their summer movie series. The first weekend was Jaws. I was second in line for the first showing. Seeing my favorite movie on the big screen for the first time with an audience was an awesome experience with the screams, laughs at the funny parts, and everybody in front of me literally coming up out of their seats when Ben Gardner's head popped into view.
Jaws 2 is the best of the sequels and the only other Jaws movie in my collection. The third and fourth are worth a watch, but the quality went downhill fast.
Some other creature features you guys should watch are Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), Piranha (1978), and Alligator (1980).
I feel like the 'happy hunting' music is intended to be from the perspective of the shark.
I actually like the way they ended it. But (and not to spoil or anything, but this is pretty minor); in Jaws 2, the same guy is still the mayor, and it's supposed to be a couple of years later. Otherwise, I strongly recommend Jaws 2. It isn't quite at the mastery level of the original, but it is a lot of fun. Also the cinematography in it is breathtaking. It's the most beautiful color palette I've ever seen in a movie - - it's worth seeing it for that.
It was a very lucky capture of a shooting star that was passing by at that moment.
@9:54 it is now believed that some species, like Greenland Sharks, can live over 500 years. You have to remember that it's been almost 50 years since this movie was made. We know a lot more now than we did then. Many studies of ocean wildlife at the time, were more or less in their infancies.
But see, even you didn't know that sharks can live hundreds and hundreds of years. So maybe they can live 1000, we just haven't found one yet. The ocean is a big place.
Cheers!
500 to 1000 years, to paraphrase Hooper, "just swimming and eating and making little sharks!"
The scene inside the boat when they're comparing scars and Quint tells his story about his ship being torpedoed and sunk, and the following shark attacks really happened. It's a true story. It adds a deep layer to Quint and it elevates the film above what is basically a monster movie.
A bit of clarity, in Tourist towns like this, their entire yearly economy depends on hitting the holidays as hard as they can. And yeah, even a day can ruin a business.
Not that I'm siding with the business owners/mayor etc... just to kinda give a bit more of an understanding of how important tourist season is for these seasonal towns. It's similar here in Vermont with Skiing. We get huge volumes of tourism during the winter, and there's businesses that support them throughout those months. However, in the spring/summer that dies down etc... one mild winter can cripple the tourism and in turn, the town/village/city for the next year.
Also, the Greenland Shark can live up to 400 years.
I live in a really northeast tourist area. There were three sitings in one day off one town. Beaches remained open.
@@lisatiptoes I worked in a resort town in the Rocky Mtn at 19yo for 1 summer. Last day of July, flash flood hit, went down the canyon road that most tourists took to get up there, killed 141. August was gone, everyone was so stunned that the merchants didn't grieve too much over the lost revenue, even tho a few went broke.
If nobody else told you here's how the barrels work. Sharks, being so ancient they never evolved gill muscles to send oxygen from the water through their bloodstream. They have to keep swimming for the water to flow over their gills.If they stop swimming they die.
Attaching the barrels to sharks wears them out. Eventually, they stop swimming and die.
Quint. The quintessential dude with no f**ks to give. The head jump scare is one of the best ever. Have you guys seen “Alien?”
Fun fact: The shark was originally supposed to be in the film a lot more, clearly seen. The crew were having all kinds of problems with getting it to work, so Spielberg worked around it by having it mostly hidden and that turned out to be a brilliant idea. Your imagination really works on you throughout the film until you get a good view later.
"Fairwell and Adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies.. Fairwell and Adieu to ye ladies of Spain.." ⛱️🦈
Gen X here. Remember when this was in the theaters. My uncle had a beach house in Huntington Beach, CA. We would spend every weekend there during the summer. I remember many of us cousins were literally too scared to go into the ocean when this movie came out. We were even to scared to go into swimming pools. And we weren’t the only ones. When Jaws 2 came out the tag line on the tv commercial said “Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water”.
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The Greenland shark (or sleeper shark, _Somniosus microcephalus_ ) is the oldest confirmed vertebrate species: *500 years old.* It reaches sexual maturity around age 150. Science didn't know that in 1975.
Do they break out with acne at around 130yo?
@@billolsen4360
Nope, instead they get a parasitic shrimp attaching itself to its eyeball, so the shark becomes effectively blind. It's really yucky, look it up.
@@billolsen4360
I guess the _Ommatokoita elongata_ parasite worm hanging onto its eye ball might count (look it up, it's really, like, yuck!). Sleepers are effectively blind their entire adult lives and navigate from smell.
Cams girly scream when the severd head appeared from the hole in the boat. Hilarious!
Fairly new subscriber. You two young men are hilarious to an old guy like me. Love y'all.
Yeah, hilarious. It's a horror movie and they laughed all the way through it
Some species of sharks can live for hundreds of years. Greenland sharks live to at least 272 years dor instance. Most only live 20-30 years in the wild though.
A huge chunk of my generation stayed out of the ocean thanks to this movie. 3 years later Piranha made some of us avoid lakes and rivers as well. I was 13 when Jaws came out. Jaws 2 is good. 3 is entertaining and ok. 4 sucks.
I also have a huge collection of shark movies thanks to Jaws. Even the *really* bad ones.😂
The reason for the music is that the whole movie changes tone. On a rewatch, you'll see that it starts off as a thriller, and once they go out to sea, it becomes an adventure movie.
The name of the boat is Orca. There's a horror movie with that name, too.
Orca's on of the species that has sharks as their prey. Maybe that's why Quint named his boat that.
I wouldn’t go swimming at night no matter how much you offered to pay me. I am a decent swimmer but I find the thought of doing that terrifying.
Btw - Your scream and reaction during the jump scare when Hooper finds the tooth was priceless. 😂😂😂 I love watching reactions where people have not seen this film. It was even more frightening in the movie theater when EVERYONE nearly pissed themselves. Lol.
"How much did the shark pay those kids to be a distraction?" ...BEST commentary EVER! 😆
Omg the faces on you guys with the woman scratching her nails on the black bord 😂
It was a guy scratching his nails on the chalkboard, but yes lol
Stopped by to say thx for reaction to Jaws.
It’s a classic from 1975. Seeing it as a 10yr old in the theater…. Let’s just say I still sit on beach while grandkids play in the water (making fun of me cause I won’t go in the ocean.). Thx again.
Sad JAWS fact: Not too long after the movie came out JAWS novel author Peter Benchly's maid came in and told him she was taking time off immediately after seeing the movie. Her son served on the Indianapolis, and she just found out how he died. What happened to the Indianapolis was heavily classified when the book was written, and first published, but it was declassified around the time the movie was about to start filming. Not a fun way to find out a horrible fact about the loss of a loved one. Also, the Indianapolis speach as it appeared in the final cut was written by Quint actor Robert Shaw.
If you notice in the climax of the movie, you can see the shark missing a tooth which especially shows when he's up by Martin on the pole of the boat. That's where the missing tooth found in Gardener's destroyed boat came from
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Ahahahah 😂
I love you 2 so much watching your reactions. Glad you enjoyed Jaws
18:11 "a tooth the size of a shot glass".
I always thought that was the weirdest size comparison to cone up with!
Aye, matey, but ya know them rich college boys, always gettin' plastered at the Frat House
Sharks have no bones EXCEPT the jaws, upper and lower. That's what Capt. Quint had hanging all over his shop was bony shark jaws.
Just an interesting tid-bit-- they use shark cartilage to make artificial skin for burn victims and to reinforce badly broken bones until their own real bone can re-grow and heal. It is naturally resistant to infection. Sharks never get infections and that's a good thing considering they get all scared up by other sharks in feeding frenzies and they're just as viscous while making baby sharks.
This shark in the story was supposed to be 25 to 30 feet long. At the time of the movie no Great White had been documented to be larger than 20 ft. but just shortly after a 30 footer was found and confirmed and years later they actually found a 38 ft. Great White.
Loved your review. Well thought out analyzing.
Fun fact: the oldest known shark fossils date back further than the oldest known specimens of tree fossils… yeah sharks are older than trees.
Solid 10. It being so old but still as scary but unlike most action films it has great character development, real characters, no over sentimental scenes with tacky music, no guys with sixpacks but real people, the anti-hero we can all relate to becoming the real hero by just doing everything to survive, great scenery and camera work and the soundtrack in amazing. This is what you want in a movie.
"24 hours is like 3 weeks!" Possibly meant money wise. The whole reason this was an issue was that its a summer town. Maybe 1 day in the summer = 3weeks during the rest of the year
Thanks for the info
I named my first dog, 'Hooper." She was a girl. I loved Matt Hooper. I hated it when Quint died, but there were lots of clues and foreshadowing. I wouldn't have trimmed anything. The reason the Mayor felt he couldn't shut down the town was because the entire town depended upon the summer income for a living. In the meetings, none of the business owners wanted the beaches shut down. They are a seasonal town that makes their only income from the summer tourists. The fourth of July was the biggest money-making time of the year. If you see the ending, you do see them reach the shore. My rating was always 10/10. Like Halloween 1978! Jaws is one of the perfect movies. The mayor did the right thing when he signed to pay Quint to kill the shark and THEY did kill the shark.
I lived in a summer resort town for a while. If you don't make money in summer, you likely to go bankrupt.
@billolsen4360
This is all true, and if you have ever lived in a resort town, you understand his motives completely.
If you read the book, you know that the mayor was also mixed up with some shady charactors, and there is "other" money from unknown origins involved.
The "you're gonna need a bigger boat" bit has a great story attached. None of the actors had seen the shark animatronic at that point and when it suddenly appeared like that Roy Scheider's reaction is completely legit.
After reading Gottlieb’s extensive notes, Spielberg asked if he would join the Jaws production and help to redraft the troubled script adaptation of Peter Benchley’s best-seller. Gottlieb quit his day job.
The infamous line from Jaws, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat," came about during those rewrites.
“It was an overlap of a real-life problem combined with the dilemma of the characters onscreen,” Gottlieb says of the origins of the line. The real-life problem being a barge (named by the cast and crew S.S. Garage Sale), which carried all the lights and camera equipment and craft services, was steadied by a small support boat that was too tiny to manage the job.
Gottlieb recalls: “[Richard] Zanuck and [David] Brown were very stingy producers, so everyone kept telling them, ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.’ It became a catchphrase for anytime anything went wrong - if lunch was late or the swells were rocking the camera, someone would say, ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.'”
Roy Scheider, who played Brody in the movie, ad-libbed the line at different points in his performance throughout filming. But the one reading that made it in to the final cut of the movie was after the suspenseful first look at the great white shark. Says Gottlieb, “It was so appropriate and so real and it came at the right moment, thanks to Verna Field’s editing.”
FYI. Roys reaction shot to the shark was filmed 2 weeks after the shark surfacing.
I saw this in the theater when it was first released - and I cannot begin to describe the hysteria this caused! Lines around the block! It spawned all kinds of merchandise: T-shirts, blankets, lunch boxes, beach towels, etc. People were actually NOT going into the water at the beaches! This absolutely is the best of the Jaws films. The actors are top of the line. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, (who does a cameo as the reporter on the beach) it is a sort of twist on the Moby Dick story - where instead of just one man obsessed with catching the shark (whale, in the Melville story), you have the "old school sailor" who is obsessed to the point of insanity, the contemporary marine biologist who uses new methods to try to catch the shark and then there's Brody, who is afraid of water - and he goes along with them. It was nominated for 4 academy awards and won 3: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score (John Williams). It was filmed in Martha's Vineyard, and is considered the 1st "blockbuster" film. Spielberg did not want to be involved in any sequels.
sadly, my parents who were in their twenties in that year didn't see this movie when it came out since they aren't big time horror fans and thought JAWS looked ridiculous for a movie about a killer shark. My dad never gets scared at all in horror movies. none lol. Million years later, where i am in my thirty's now, i tried very hard for my dad (mom already past away in 90's) to check out the movie since he is a BIG TIME SPEILBERG fan in so many movies but never saw this one. Did he actually watch it? YES! even though it didn't scare him he thought it was pretty good. But he did watch it the second time during COVID - 19 (with me there) and saying it just got way more entertaining and fun. REason cause of the terrible havoc letting the beaches be open while its spreading like crazy for only thinking of making money and not care of risking the beach goers. Just like that Mayor in Jaws to just keep the beach open while their is a shark on the loose.
Actually, the novel, and therefore the movie too, was based on a series of actual shark attacks, which occurred in 1916 I believe.
45:05 In Peter Benchley's novel, the oxygen tank is in the shark's mouth because Hooper's lifeless torso was in there. So Hooper did help kill the shark.
SPOILERS: In the book the shark died of it's wounds. It was shot, stabbed, and just plain beat down and exhausted from those barrels too. The shark and crew really went at it and just like in the movie, the shark was winning that battle. It killed Hooper and Quint was collateral damage. It was just about to get Brody, who was prepared to die at that point so he closed his eyes and started praying but after a few seconds he looked and saw that the shark had just suddenly stopped a few feet in front of him, died and sank. It had a heart attack or something. Quint also wasn't eaten in the book, he was dragged behind the shark on a line and drowned. Brody watched as both Quint and the shark sank into the sea. Hooper was killed in the book and I heard he was too in the movie but the audience test liked him too much so they reshot the scene where he survives. If you watch you can sorta tell where they re-edited it, there's a cut where the shark originally got him in the cage but they recut and added the scenes of him escaping to the bottom then meeting back up with Brody after.
@@desmoove I like my ending better, even though its wrong :)
@@powerpointpaladin6911 I prefer movie Hooper surviving, he was much more likeable than his book version, who was a snobby rich guy who looked down on Brody and the community. SPOILERS: in the book he also already knew Brody's wife, she used to date his older brother and he ended up having an affair with her before he went out with Brody and Quint to hunt the shark. In fact, Brody and Hooper didn't get along that well in the book, neither did Brody and the wife. She was a bored housewife and they were having marital issues. Brody seemed kinda pissed that she was liking the attention the shark brought. Most of the characters in the movie are better people than their book counterparts. Quint and the mayor are pretty much the same in both versions though.
@@desmooveIt wasn't a heart attack. It just bled out. It was bleeding from all those harpoon shots.
@17:33, that was awesome. LOL! Saw this movie opening day with a packed theater. There were screams, jumping, and popcorn flying all over the place when that scene came up. My favorite moment in the movie was Quint's monologue about the USS Indianapolis, which was a true story. You could hear a pin drop in the theater., that's how well his acting grabbed the audience and kept them hooked.
Any time I start to feel like I’ve done anything cool with my pathetic life I remember Steven Spielberg was only 26 when he directed this and it knocks me right back down where I belong.
Actually he was 27
Great reaction, that was fun!! This is the movie that changed everything. Prior to Jaws, summer was considered a slow season and the better movies were saved for other times But , I believe the production delays caused them to release this in June The marketing on the film was brilliant. The book Jaws, came out about a year before the film and they timed the release of this film with the release of the paperback version of the book, which everybody had and was talking about , creating a huge buzz, they also did a wide release of the film, which I believe was unusual at the time. I liked the second Jaws, I thought it was suspenseful and fun. The third and fourth were pretty low budget and not worth it.
I like the third one. It's cheesy fun.
For what it's worth, the third had some of the most amazing 3D I've ever seen in the theater. The 80's dual projector 3D tech actually looks better than most digital 3D today.
@@gallendugall8913 very cheesy!!!
@@zatoichi1 I think it had some good moments, but the bad acting of the lead female and the shots of the shark at the end killed it for me.
My parents took me to see this movie when it came out. I was 12. It traumatized me! I was never able to go swimming in the ocean again and I was never able to learn to really snorkel because I was terrified of a shark coming up behind me and biting me in half. All these decades later and this is, at least for me, the scariest movie I've ever seen. I mean, I couldn't go back in the water! Lol
Your reaction is understandable. What I can’t figure out is the people who were terrified about going swimming in a pool or taking a bath. 😂😂😂
30:30 Wrong. Different sharks, different eyes. Some look like cat’s eyes. When cage diving with Great Whites, when they came close I could see a very deep blue iris, moving, as it checked things out. From a distance, black, up close, surprisingly different. Inquisitive.
Alot of people don't know this but the barrel system they use to track it with is actually a method of hunting and killing sharks. See Sharks never sleep so their constantly swimming in order to keep breathing, the barrel is meant to tire the shark to the point where it will lose it's strength and die. It takes a CONSIDERABLE amount of energy to swim underwater especially with a air filled barrel stuck to ya, so the shark is constantly swimming down and using up access energy to stay underwater. Eventually the shark becomes too tired and the barrel will force them to the surface. Another reason why sharks dive down is because Sharks are one of the few species in the world that will cannibalism one another if their hungry enough, so they not only dive down for safety but safety from each other.
That shot of the shark thrashing on top of the cage is an actual great white who got caught in the wires and violently broke free of it. It was such a dramatic moment that they kept it and changed the script.
I think the reason saying why some parts were slow because at the time the editing wasn't very fast pace. But then in 1977 when Star Wars came out, it brought a whole new level of not just special effects and sound, but fast paced editing. Remember my dad telling me that story that on Star Wars saying it was like nothing like i've seen before.
My mom took me to see this at a reshowing at a drive-in back in '81, I was around 5yrs old. I fell in love with the movie and the shark. As a result I learned all I could about sharks, which lead me to dinosaurs. ❤️ To this day, to me, sharks a adorable and beautiful. You might see what I mean when if you check out vids of people, in the real world, hanging out with, feeding, petting and chilling with various kinds of sharks!
If you love this film, btw, I HIGHLY recommend the 30th anniversary documentary of the making of the film. It's as good as the film! Great reaction!
You guys should read the book. When Crissie is swimming she feels something scratch her leg. She reaches down and can feel her warm blood pouring out of where her once leg was. The mama shark has completely taken it off. Then she thrashes her around, as if she's playing with her food much like a cat would before taking her down. WE❤LOVE ❤YOUR ❤CHANNEL 😊
You two are a little dorky, and I LOVE IT!!!
I was about 10 years old when my babysitter took us to see this. I was so traumatized that I didn't even want to get in the swimming pool! LOL!
I was first mate on a charter fishing boat in the keys for several years. Back then, you didn't have the engineering that reels have today nor did we have the type of line that we have today. Leader lines, nylon line, all of that was brand new.
You absolutely would have to dump water onto a spinning reel to keep it from overheating and not only snapping the line but completely sort of exploding the real itself.
That being said, in 1987, I caught a 52 lb cow dolphin (mahi mahi) on an ugly stick and 12 lb test (a bass reel).
It took me five and a half hours to get it into the boat and, tore all the muscles in both shoulders.
A fish will take a line, dive and then relax.
You real in as much line as possible, (What he's wearing is called a fighting belt and gimble. The gimbal rocks in the fighting belt to allow you to move the pole. We also have fighting chairs where you can brace your feet up against them to add leverage.)
When a fish is tired, it will actually rest sideways and it's literally impossible to pull a fish up when it is resting sideways.
The only time you can get it towards you is when it's nose is faced towards you. They can rest for long periods of time and you have to keep the tension on that line or, you'll lose the fish.
Add to that the fact that I didn't think it was worth it to enter the dolphin contest that year, I lost first prize. She was the biggest dolphin brought in that day.
My all time favourite movie. Great reaction. Subbed.
Robert Shaw (Quint) and Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) actually hated each other on set and were constantly bickering; Shaw made sure to annoy him just for the laughs, and just to get a kick out of the character. That, aside from MAJOR technical issues with the mechanical shark, shooting schedule (they were over 100 days late), budget…… the way Spielberg pulled it off, stuck with the project and made it happen this classy, is amazing; to this day, almost 50 years later, he still has some dreams/nightmares about the mess it was to film this movie, as he said in a behind the scenes documentary. I guess this does work for horror after all
End credits should have stills of Hooper and Brody running through the town hall with grenades and whatnot.
I had to pause this at 4:00 to comment on the first scene up to this point. First of all... the dude was drunk and passed out on the beach when she went into the water. He was worthless to help her. Also you guys made me laugh when she grabbed the buoy and you guys said "Climb on it." LOL at that point she didn't have any legs left or they were mangled at least. It's a huge Great White Shark ! - It's ok. I still gave your video a thumbs up and I will now watch the rest. 😉
Re: Shark age. Greenland Sharks are believed to live at least 250 years and may live as long as 500+
I Googled it. He is correct, Sharks have no bones.
An instant classic and the first film to make people legitimately afraid to go in the water.
Imagine how much more scary that jump scare would have been if you had actually HAD YOUR EYES ON THE SCREEN! Never take your eyes off the screen in a movie like Jaws! 😂😂😂😂😂 Three lessons from the world of cinema: 1.) Never get out of the boat (apocalypse now) 2.) Never trust a Sicilian when death is on the line (princess bride) and 3.) Never take your eyes off the screen! (Jaws reaction, 2023)🤣 (just teasing you guys, it was still hilarious, great reaction.) PS: Cam is completely correct: the sequels are so bad they're funny.
Jaws 2 isn't all that bad. The others are forgettable though.
Loved this reaction, too, but yeah, you've hit upon one thing that does drive me crazy watching lots of reaction videos: people either talking over lines that are, you know, integral to the plot, lol, or turning and addressing the camera and missing something important. ;)
Jaws 2 is perfectly alright. It isn't terrible at all so what are you on about?
This is an early Steven Spielberg film, and in it he captured an actual shooting star in the background. Every film he ever made after this film he included a shooting star cuz he considered it lucky
I can't help but think that, at that very moment, Spielberg made a wish that his grandest ambitions would one day be realized. 😄
Mayor: "My kids were on that beach too."...Yeah, only because you MADE them go, butthead.
The drunk banter between Quint and hooper, was one of the best scenes, because these guys were bonding, after a shaky start, they actually had respect for each other, but the look on your guy’s faces, you just don’t get it!
"My kids were on that beach too." - The shark wasn't on the beach.
This was the first time I noticed the chief barely ate his meal on the boat while the other two with a lot of 'sea time' had no issues. Just as the shark knocks.
33:30 There's a fan joke that this light makes Jaws a crossover with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, another Spielberg masterpiece and considered by many to be his best film. Certainly a sci-fi genre-maker, shit's absolutely amazing.
T'was a real shooting star got lucky while filming.
You guys really took me back. LOL. Your reactions to this awesome movie were classic!!!! I saw it first run at the Hllsboro Theater in Tampa back in 1975, and the place was packed, and everyone was screaming. So much fun. The very end of the movie as the credits roll you can see Brody and Hooper heading to shore. Right before the screen goes dark, they both stand on the beach. IMO, the greatest movie of all time.
Wikipedia says great white sharks can live to be 70 years old, maybe more, and that they are considered Vulnerable in their conservation status, partly because so many people try to kill them because of this movie. Real sharks don't get as big as 25 feet long: males are 11 - 13 feet long and females are 15 - 16 feet. In the book, part of the reason the mayor wanted to keep the beaches open was that he owed a lot of money to the mob and was desperate not to lose money from closing the beaches.
Zay: are those coconut crabs?
Cam: Have you never seen a coconut crab?
Lmao, definitely not coconut crabs.
If Jaws launched Steven Spielberg's career, Schindler's List sent it into orbit (and won him an Oscar). Please watch it ASAP.
Heavens, man, he'd been in orbit in the popular mind since at least *E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial* came out a decade previously. I presume you were referring to his acceptance as a great director by the Academy? 🧐
@@goldenager59 Yes and no. Steven Spielberg made some great movies between Jaws and Schindler's List. But he didn't get the Oscar for E.T. And Schindler's List made more money worldwide than E.T. and made him more of a household name worldwide. Oh, and I doubt he would have gotten a standing ovation for winning the Oscar for E.T. or any of his other previous movies.
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Got the 🖼️. 😉
@greggthompson959 And also “Jurassic Park” the same year as “Schindler’s List.” (Speaking of which, could those 2 movies BE any different from each other?)
He was already established by Schindler’s list
I used to work at a video store, and on Sundays when the store was packed, I would put this movie on. Everyone would stop and watch because that opening scene is so terrifying. My best friend grew up on the island this was filmed on & didn't go into the water for decades after that.
The shark was named Bruce after Spielberg’s lawyer. Lol, true story.
36:38 note the name of the boat, Orca, is also the name of a movie that came later which is about an orca on a killing spree.
It sometimes irks me that in order to make the movie tighter, Spielberg and Carl Gottlieb decided to leave out the subplot in the novel that informs us that the reason Mayor Vaughn is so terribly desperate to get paying vacationers onto Amity's beaches is because he'd persuaded certain underworld hierarchs to invest rather heavily in the island's interests. He wasn't concerned one jot about the shark because he knew darn well that there were worse predators out there to scare _him._ 😏
This was the very first summer blockbuster movie. I remember seeing it when I was 14 with my best friend and my younger brother (my mom said I had to take him with us). My brother got popcorn and I got a drink. We were so terrified that we couldn’t eat or drink. My friend asked us “are you going to eat that? Are you going to drink that?” So she got everything while we slid further and further down into our seats trying to hide behind the seats in front of us.😂
"I liked your story! Here's another." That is such a good quote lol
The $3000 bounty would be about $18,000 today. The $10K that Quint asks would be about $60K today.
Big fan of you guys!! 😃 Terrific review (I loved how you noticed about Spielberg trying to emulate how it is being in the water!). In your review, I believe, you forgot one VERY important thing: the musical score. John Williams did one of THE most iconic musical scores in the history of cinema with Jaws (and I think won an Oscar for the music). Otherwise, well done guys!
I didn’t notice till this viewing… quint’s arm flying through the air after the shark blew up….
Greenland Sharks are actually the longest living vertebrate on our planet with an average lifespan estimated at 250 years but likely surpasses 500 years. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
I was going to mention this. Some fish ages can be estimated from specific bones, but sharks don’t have any, so it’s hard to be sure.
The author of the book, Peter Benchley, said years later and still says that he deeply regrets writing this story. It started a panic about sharks that has lasted until this very day. Sharks have been hunted as if they were killers, when the vast majority of sharks (even great whites) have little to no interest in humans at all. Benchley thought he was writing a great story, but it turned out to be the worst thing ever to happen to those creatures, a real disaster.
Indeed...Benchley went on a campaign to help save the Great Whites after the film because he felt bad about the aftermath.
People keep saying that they have no interest in humans, but they keep eating us, just as they have throughout human history. Even if they do not intend to eat us, their bite often does so much damage that we don't survive. They are not mindless killers, as portrayed in this movie, they usually bite humans for a reason, for food or to get us out of the area that they are feeding in. Mistaken identity does occasionally happen, but not as often as some people claim, and accidental bites are even more rare. Sharks know that we are not seals or sealions, as we look, smell and swim differently than them, but we also give off a different electrical field than them too. There have been occasions where sharks have attacked humans while they were swimming with dolphins or seals, but there is not a single recorded incident of a shark attacking a dolphin or seal while a human was present, so this indicates that sharks are not mistaking us for something else.
If you pay close attention, you'll spot a shooting star in nearly every Spielberg film. In this case, it was serendipity that a real meteor was captured.
The Mayor served his purpose of representing a town too focused on tourism (and with the economics of the 70's, it was no small thing), making highly questionable decisions related to that idea, and eventually getting land-lover Brody locked into boarding the Orca and hunting down the shark. Had this film been a social or political drama, then more time could be spent of the Mayor...but this an action-mystery-thriller, and besides, he really is a secondary character. The same could be said about extending the ending. Watching the surviving victorious heroes swim for the sunset...errr shore was the best ending for this quintessential Summer Blockbuster (one that started and defined the genre). Going back to the Mayor only takes away from the their triumph over a seemingly unstoppable foe.