When it was released on Blu-ray, Ben Gardner's real daughter told in an new interview. When Ben Gardner's body was found, her mother said: well, your father's stupid head was useful for something.
Every single reaction I've watched they jump so hard. Now a days where everyone is so ready to predict outcomes because every show/movie has to have a ton of twist, no one is ready for his head.
@@terryhughes7349 On further review, color me amazed as to how close those two are to each other. Looking at _Star Chamber_ footage, I see Holbrook has a deeper voice. I just figured it was a glitch in the film.
Some fun facts: The newspaper editor was played by Carl Gottlieb, the screenplay writer. The news man on the beach was Peter Benchley, the author of the original novel. Steven Spielberg ran waaaay over budget on this film. They nearly shut down the project. And the mechanical shark kept breaking down, forcing Spielberg to come up with creative ways to tell the story without showing the shark. (Also, I live in Indianapolis.)
I love how enthusiastic Lucy is with horror movies. I met and became friends with Ed Harrell. He was the last of the USS Indianapolis’ (CA-35) US Marine Corps detachment to survive the sinking and shark attacks. He passed away a couple years ago. RIP Ed.
Thank you for sharing! got to meet a couple survivors myself (Kuryla, Sospizio). I think one survivor Navy /Marine is left. I know for sure I would have not made it. I am thirsty all the time.
To record the audio of Chrissie's screams during the shark attack, they brought actress Susan Backlinie into the studio and, while she was laying on a table, poured buckets of water onto her face while she screamed, matching the timing to the film. In essence, they waterboarded her.
The reason Quint smashed the radio when Brody tried to call for help was not just out of greed since he wanted the bounty money of $10,000 (Which in today's money would be around $60,000), but also out of pride and superiority. After surviving one of the worst shark attacks in history, he decided to take pride in hunting down sharks as a way of avenging his friends who were killed by sharks. When Quint saw the huge great white, he saw it as his big chance. If Brody had called for help, then Quint would've lost that big chance. And not only was Quint a tough guy who wanted to prove that he was invincible than everybody including the shark, but he's also a boat captain. *HE'S* in charge of the boat. So when Brody went to the radio to try to call for help, Quint felt that he was challenging his authority and and daring to go against his personal wishes. So he smashed the radio out of defiance and frustration. And it's also the reason why he wore out the boat engine against Hopper's warnings. Quint basically let his own personal pride override moral judgment and he became Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick". After Captain Ahab got his leg bitten off by the white whale Moby Dick and Quint saw his friends get munched on by sharks, both men became monomaniac with a life's purpose of hunting down sea monsters out of vengeance and forcing their crews to help them at all costs, even if it meant suicide.
Saw this as a little boy with my parents...the boy on the yellow raft was HORRIFIC..was STRICTLY a swimming pool swimmer for about 10 years afterwards 😅..no lie .. EVERYBODY was ..
Don't worry, the whole East Coast of the US didn't want to either. There were some resort towns in Florida that went under. I guess that Mayor was right after all.
I stood in line to see this in the theater when it opened back in '75. I had read the book earlier in the year and was anxious to see it the opening weekend. It was a packed house and the mood shifted from excited whispers and giggling to dead silence pretty soon after the dog and the kid were attacked on the beach. Of course, the first real scream happened with Ben Gardner's head appearing the hole in his boat. Quint's death also generated a bunch of screams. Spielberg and the writers did a masterful job of wracheting up and releasing the tension throughout the film. Nice reaction guys.
The nastiest scene in this movie is not when they find the girl's remains, nor when they cut the tiger shark open. It's when Matt's getting in the shark cage. He hands Martin his glasses, and Martin holds them in his mouth. I don't even put MY OWN glasses in my mouth!
It's more of an Adventure Thriller to me. It was filmed during the Pleiades Meteor Shower so what you saw were real shooting stars in the sky. The USS Indianapolis incident is the largest mass animal attack in world history. Quint blamed all the deaths on the sharks which was not accurate, but Quint also has PTSD and blaming the sharks for everything makes sense for his character.
Amity Island is actually Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. I was lucky enough to stumble on the filming of this movie back in 74 while on vacation with family. We were annoyed at the traffic and crowds with no clue that a classic was being born. Saw half a shark, Quint's shack and a S*** load of extras. Nice reaction BTW!
My parents saw this film and the Strand movie theater on the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ. They exited the theater and saw all those beachgoers who could be lunch.
Great reaction. The "Indianapolis monologue" by Quint is one of the best in cinema history. It also has quite a bit of history to it too. Depending on who you believe, half-a-dozen different writers were involved writing that scene. I believe (Jaws Producer) Carl Gottlieb's version though. Robert Shaw (Quint) wasn't just a great actor, but also a playwright. Shaw wrote that scene, and on top of that, performed it while ACTUALLY drunk. Spielberg and the crew were so mesmerized by the performance, Spielberg forgot to yell "Cut". He only stopped filming when everyone heard a "clicking" sound. The camera had LITERALLY run out of film. One of cinema's legends.
A regatta is a boat race or series of boat races. It often includes other events around the water but the race is what defines it. My own Charleston WV use to do a massive Sternwheel Regatta (River boats with an aft paddle wheel for propulsion)
I had the exact same experience with fishing with my father. When I was very young, I used to go fishing with him, but when I was about 15, I told him, "I can't do this anymore. Killing food is one thing, but this is torturing." In the next few years after this movie came out, "Saturday Night Live" used to do skits in which a housewife hears a knock on the door. They'd play a bit of the "Jaws" theme. She calls through the door, "Who is it?" A voice would say, "Land shark." She'd say, "What?" The voice would say, "Candygram" (a telegram with candy). It would proceed to give her stupid explanations of why she should open the door and when she finally did, a shark standing there would kill her. They used to now and then do variations on that. What I've heard from experts about sharks eating people is that humans aren't on the menu but are sometimes in the way.
52:09 Actually there was very little chance of other Sharks being drawn to the blood. There aren't as many Sharks in the Northeast waters of the US as there is down sourh and out west. Remember earlier in the film, Hooper said man eating sharks are "very rare in these waters." That's one reason why initially everyone was so skeptical about the existence of a Shark
I love that this 1975 movie uses the term "karateeing". And an old lady no less. What I mean is, you tend to think of such bending language as a newer trend and it's cool to see it's always been a thing. When the guy offers to kill the shark for $10,000, remember this is 1975 and there is inflation over time. Back then, I'm guessing that would be equivalent to about $30,000 in today's money. 38:08 She's supposed to say it! :D
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie on TV when I was a kid. They show the people panicking and running out of the water. The announcer is droning on in that 70s era movie trailer voice, "Jaws. Rated PG. May be too intense for children" I turned to my older sister and said "May be 2/10ths are for children ??" "What ?" I never understood what that guy was saying at the end.
What an Awesome reaction! As an 18 year old, this movie kept me from going into the ocean, but the exorcist released at same time made me lock the car doors on way home! Both classic, exorcist based on true events. Peace from Northern Michigan.
I think because of his WWII experience that Quint suffered from survivor's dilemma causing him to have a latent death wish and why he took such extreme risks. Great reaction. Thank you.
I saw the film when it first came out, many were so terrified after watching this film, they stayed out of the water that summer. Also read the book and if you like to read, the characters have different relationships, very interesting. Great review and I always enjoy your points of view with life, thank you.
I saw this in the theater the summer it opened. I was 14 and there with 4 of my buddies. The theater was packed, D&L. You should have heard the screaming, LOL! 😆 Thanks for sharing this one. Oh, and Sharknado is a LOT of fun, LOL!
Hi Dan n Lucy really enjoyed your reaction too this amazing film, Quint is my favourite charactor and honestly the best thing about the film, his monologue is just pure cinematic gold and a masterclass in how to deliver a great speech, also the reason for not showing the shark much (named Bruce after Spielbergs lawyer), it's because half the time it never worked properly so the barrels played the role of the shark, also the news reporter on the beach was Peter Benchley the author of the book that the screenplay was based on, they also cut out a few things like the Mayor owing money to the New York Mafie which is why he wanted the beaches open so much, and also that Matt Hooper has an affair with Chief Brody's wife.
Couldn't agree more about Robert Shaw performance! But everyone is great in this one 😋 Hooper having an affair with Brody's wife does seem to be a pointless plot, Im glad they didn't include it xD
From the Internet: Question: Why does Steven Spielberg use shooting stars in his films? Answer: As with many elements of his cinematic style, Spielberg uses shooting stars in some of his films because of an episode during his childhood. One night, when Steven was a boy, his father Arnold unexpectedly ushered him out of bed and put him in the car for what would be a defining journey. It would be the first time Steven witnessed the beauty of space first-hand. It would be the first time he saw a meteor shower up close. It would be the starting point for his interest in space, and his use of shooting stars. Shooting stars can also be seen in Spielberg's movie classic "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind."
You should watch one of Steven Spielberg's first movies called Duel 1971. A drama of a business man in his car getting chased through the mountains of the southwest by a 18 wheeler truck.✌️❤️
And Duel had a lot of suspense, not showing the truck driver etc. It wasn't by accident that the shark is kept hidden early on. That was by design. That was Spielberg's style at the time. Close Encounters has some suspense as well. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film.
I would tend to agree with you on that but after all these years since, I now believe that it actually could be called a horror movie. Horror movies are generally unrealistic fiction. This story is fiction and can never happen in real life. The reason is that Great White sharks, or any shark, are not intelligent animals. They are actually large fish with no brains whatsoever. Mainly just instinct, so the idea of the shark fighting with our crew on the boat and getting revenge on them could never happen. That behavior is more like that of a Killer Whale (Orca) because Orcas are intelligent and there have been stories of Orcas attacking boats trying to get revenge on whalers back in the day for killing one of their own. There's even a little known movie called 'Orca: The Killer Whale', which came out a couple of years after Jaws, which is about that sort of thing. It stars Richard Harris, (Dumbledore from the first two Harry Potter movies). Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, suffered a lot of guilt because Jaws made fishermen all over the world go out and almost make the Great White sharks extinct, thinking that these sharks were creatures out to kill people. Benchley became heavily involved in the conservation and protection of the Great White sharks and all other sharks as well. I believe that Shark Week was created partly for the purpose of getting the public to better understand sharks and not to fear them so much.
@realitycheck5376 Nearly everything in Jaws has happened at some point in time, even ramming and sinking boats. Jaws condensed these incidents into one story and exaggerated it. It's not horror like werewolves and vampires, which clearly don't exist. It's only really the end part where the shark starts chasing after the boat that wouldn't happen. Fishermen were already causing a decline in great white shark numbers. Quint was part based on Frank Mundus of Montauk Long Island. Off South Australia, shark fishing for great whites was already well known, and the sharks there were already declining in number, as the book about the filming of Blue Water White Death in 1971 points out. Also, commercial gill net and long line by-catch had started to take a big toll. The grey nurse shark off Eastern Australia was almost wiped out by spear fishing in the 1950s and 1960s. Nothing to do with Jaws, that. Then along came the terrible Asian shark finning industry. This was way more devastating for sharks than anything Jaws caused. Without Jaws there wouldn't have been the mass boom in shark research. Jaws initiated that because of the mass interest, and researchers got given money to go out and find more about sharks. There was (compared to today) very little field research on sharks prior to Jaws. Before Jaws it was only the Taylors and Fox (not even scientists) who were out there trying to find more information on great white sharks. Jaws changed all that more or less overnight. The flip side to Peter Benchley is that he also said he was thrilled that Jaws made lots of kids become interested in sharks and were not horrified by them but were fascinated instead and that he got thousands of letters from kids who thought sharks were cool. Benchley said that he was gratified by that.
@@Stogie2112 The back of the VHS, DVD and Blue Ray describes the film variously as suspense chiller, action adventure, action suspense, edge of your seat suspense, gripping adventure. Never "horror" anywhere. Spielberg said "it's not a horror film". 😊
Quint was played by Robert Shaw, who in real life was a refined Englishman with a completely different accent and voice. An extremely intelligent man who also wrote novels and plays. He edited down and rewrote the USS Indianapolis monologue himself.
@jonhenry8268 No, Shaw rewrote and edited it down days before. Shaw only got out of it (drunk) on one day. He did drink a lot but he was usually a functioning drinker that actually got even better while drinking. There are no other stories from the Jaws filming where Shaw's drinking caused production delays. Only that one day when they first tried filming the USS Indianapolis monologue. That was about the only time. Shaw even acted while having serious sea sickness. When Shaw shouts out "starboard Hooper ain't ya watching it" Shaw had terrible sea sickness but his professionalism got the scene done. He collapsed after he shouted that out. Like the shark not working, Shaw's drinking issues have become exaggerated over time.
There are so many film notes... This is based on a novel by Peter Benchley (who's in the movie as the reporter)and assisted in the screenplay (with the man who played the newspaper publisher). He was on set and had disagreements with Steven Speilberg especially the last 30 minutes. Enough so that he was asked to leave the set. There are many differences between the movie and the novel but to me is the reasoning why the mayor is acting the way he is. He's indebted to the mob and needed the tourists dollars. 😊
My best friend's cousin, once removed (father's cousin), was aboard the Indianapolis... he did not come back. His mother was never the same... when she was at functions with naval personnel present, including my friend, she would sometimes ask them if they knew her son (she was occasionally confused about whether he was missing, presumed dead). 👼🏼🕊👼🏼🕊👼🏼🕊👼🏼🕊👼🏼
So, as you saw it's not really a horror movie (although everyone thinks that before they watch), or even a monster movie. In my opinion, it is mostly an adventure movie, with some real peril for the main characters. And a well-done adventure movie at that.
If you want to expand the Steven Spielberg film experience, I would suggest watching his action thriller movie that I believe he made as a film student: it is called DUEL(1971) . It is very good and shows young Spielberg's skills in film-making.
You cut the part where Quint tells the chief to start the engine (the chief radios the Coast Guard instead). I believe that this explains why Quint destroys the radio. There's a burning of the ships analogue to Cortez, also, as a potential explanation.
I don't see the Cortez analogy. Quint intends to go back home. He just wants to go home victorious. It's definitely an Ahab analogy. A fight to the death.
@@Randsurfer, do you mean that Quint is an Ahab-like character generally? Or does Ahab specifically sabotage lines of retreat in _Moby Dick?_ (I haven't read the story.)
This movie is definitely a top 10 if you could only have 10 movies forever. I have 2 different books about how the movie was made, see Carl Gottlieb, also one of the screenplay writers of the movie. His book is titled "The Jaws Log". There's something to be said when practical and mechanical effects are done right, even if it is almost 50 years old. Beats the shit out of CGI which makes every movie look like 2-200 people all on a stage with a blue curtain behind them while they do their shit, and then in the digital editing stage they remove the blue screen and paint in the mountains or 5'000 orcs. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is, they look like bad Disney movies and unrealistic. For further info on real flicks see "The French Connection" and films by directors Alfred Hitchcock,Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and believe it or not the best tough guy in the late '60s to the mid 80's, Clint Eastwood. See "The Unforgiven" "Gran Torino" and "Dirty Harry".
Thank you. Trivia: During the scene on the beach we see a T.V. news reporter; dressed in his fine suit the reporter is played by Peter Benchley, the author of the original book. Later while the Orca is at sea a shooting star is seen in the sky; this isn't special effects, the film crew were simply lucky enough to capture a real shooting star.
I saw this in the theater when it came out, I was 3 and I saw all the good films when I was "too young" lol TBF I was afriad to take a bath for a week. Lol
This ending is more exciting than the book. The book ended with the shark dying because of an earlier harpoon wound. No explosion. Also, in the book, Hooper had an affair with Chief Brody’s wife which made the tension interesting.
The actress that played Brody's wife has been quoted saying she's glad it wasn't part of movie as it did not add to the movie especially since other changes Spielberg made to the film. IMHO the reasoning why the mayor acting the way he did not being revealed in the movie was huge.
Scientists believe that sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs, before trees even. The species of shark that is known to live the longest is the Greenland shark. It's hard to tell their exact age, because they don't know enough about them and they have no bones at all, but a study using a technology that dates crystals found in the lenses of their eyes, found a female shark that they estimated to be at least 272 years old, though they believe it's possibly as old as 512.
Yes there are a lot of Portuguese,and descendents of both Portuguese and cape Verde. Live on Martha's vineyard. Also where the Kennedy family live. There's a lot of Portuguese and cape Verde that live in the New England area. A big fish industry are. Originally whaler seaports.✌️❤️🇺🇸
With Halloween coming up she's going to have to watch all the famous slasher movies she seems to love death a lot. Started with the classics Halloween Friday the 13th child's Play nightmare on elm Street etc
It’s funny you referred to them as “Hippies” in the opening scene, as there is nothing showing they are, literally everyone then had the same hairstyle and clothes.
I believe Spielberg caught a shooting star while filming. I read recently that the other streaking light was actually an Easter Egg for the upcoming Close Encounter of the Third Kind. I have not verified this anywhere else.
The scenes were shot during August of 1974 due to issues with “Bruce”, the mechanical shark. That was during the annual Perseid meteor shower, so it’s very likely that they were real.
It is a great film. Unfortunately, marine biologists have enormous problems with it.. The "territoriality" thesis articulated in this film has been pretty well debunked since. Sharks are rovers, they don't stick around a location. They just eat and swim on. The shark that killed the girl would have probably been gone the next day, and would not have come back. He'd be very far by the time the boy got killed. And probably half-way across the ocean by the time the Quint expedition got started. I know the mayor is supposed to play the villain in this movie, but his response is actually correct. Sure close the beaches for 24 hours just in case, but there's really no point beyond that. The shark is long gone. That is the usual recommendation followed by modern beach authorities to shark attacks today. (Of course, very little was known of about sharks back in 1975, so much of it was guesswork; this movie is responsible for generating a lot of interest in studying sharks and better understanding their behavior.)
4th of July and the monies are coming in. But not that evening or the 5th of July or any day afterwards. If people can't swim at your beach they will go somewhere else.
43:00 Those are actual falling stars. They filmed on the ocean. You poor young people, don't even know the real thing when you see it. That must be disorienting.
25:44 Ben Gardner’s head claims another victim! 😂
Jump-scaring people for nearly 50 years.
When it was released on Blu-ray, Ben Gardner's real daughter told in an new interview. When Ben Gardner's body was found, her mother said: well, your father's stupid head was useful for something.
Good ole’ Ben,.. “ Strikes again”. In 1975 in the theater,.. a person vomited next to me and ran out into the lobby!!!🤮😂😂😂✌️
However many hours were spent making that prop, my opinion, time well spent.
Every single reaction I've watched they jump so hard. Now a days where everyone is so ready to predict outcomes because every show/movie has to have a ton of twist, no one is ready for his head.
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is watching reactors meet Ben Gardner.
On it being the first blockbuster. Jaws was a summer movie, and it earned summer dollars!
We’re a movie theater, we need summer dollars!
Actor Murray Hamilton, who played Mayor Larry Vaughn, hated his character. He saw the Mayor as THE villain of the film.
Hal Holbrook played the Mayor, (took me the whole reaction to remember that name.)
@@arraymac227 No, it was Murray Hamilton
@@terryhughes7349 On further review, color me amazed as to how close those two are to each other. Looking at _Star Chamber_ footage, I see Holbrook has a deeper voice. I just figured it was a glitch in the film.
@@arraymac227 ... Murray Hamilton played the mayor. Check the cast listing for the movie.
@@arraymac227 ... I posted a reply to you, but this dammed UA-cam thing made it disappear. 😯 I hate UA-cam!!
There was actual meteor shower during filming. They just kept it in.
Spielberg puts a shooting star in his films. check out the rest of them.
Fun fact- one of those kids with the cardboard fins is actually now sheriff in a town where they filmed this
did you hear the story about alex kitner (vorhees) being a waiter and meeting his film mother? quite amazing.
@@happyapple4269 yeah, it was great.
Some fun facts: The newspaper editor was played by Carl Gottlieb, the screenplay writer. The news man on the beach was Peter Benchley, the author of the original novel. Steven Spielberg ran waaaay over budget on this film. They nearly shut down the project. And the mechanical shark kept breaking down, forcing Spielberg to come up with creative ways to tell the story without showing the shark. (Also, I live in Indianapolis.)
I love how enthusiastic Lucy is with horror movies.
I met and became friends with Ed Harrell. He was the last of the USS Indianapolis’ (CA-35) US Marine Corps detachment to survive the sinking and shark attacks. He passed away a couple years ago. RIP Ed.
Thank you for sharing! got to meet a couple survivors myself (Kuryla, Sospizio). I think one survivor Navy /Marine is left. I know for sure I would have not made it. I am thirsty all the time.
To record the audio of Chrissie's screams during the shark attack, they brought actress Susan Backlinie into the studio and, while she was laying on a table, poured buckets of water onto her face while she screamed, matching the timing to the film. In essence, they waterboarded her.
The town of Amity respected and trusted Ben Gardner. He always kept an eye out for trouble. 👁
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The scene with the grieving mother was the pivot point of the story and Chief's character.
"PSYCHO Girlfriend" How dare you 🙂
7:09 Oh, I get it 🙂
Also @ 11:56 😂
That's why we love her. She can be scarier than the movies villain
She's also a lawyer. And she figured out the ending way ahead of time. But she was still beaten by Ben Gardner.
5:00 A trashcan with smoke there? LOL!!!!!! No, a new unused metal "trashcan" is perfect for STEAMING crabs, lobsters, corn on the cob and potatoes.
The reason Quint smashed the radio when Brody tried to call for help was not just out of greed since he wanted the bounty money of $10,000 (Which in today's money would be around $60,000), but also out of pride and superiority. After surviving one of the worst shark attacks in history, he decided to take pride in hunting down sharks as a way of avenging his friends who were killed by sharks. When Quint saw the huge great white, he saw it as his big chance. If Brody had called for help, then Quint would've lost that big chance. And not only was Quint a tough guy who wanted to prove that he was invincible than everybody including the shark, but he's also a boat captain. *HE'S* in charge of the boat.
So when Brody went to the radio to try to call for help, Quint felt that he was challenging his authority and and daring to go against his personal wishes. So he smashed the radio out of defiance and frustration. And it's also the reason why he wore out the boat engine against Hopper's warnings.
Quint basically let his own personal pride override moral judgment and he became Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick". After Captain Ahab got his leg bitten off by the white whale Moby Dick and Quint saw his friends get munched on by sharks, both men became monomaniac with a life's purpose of hunting down sea monsters out of vengeance and forcing their crews to help them at all costs, even if it meant suicide.
I agree that it was mostly out of pride. It absolutely was is mission and obsession in life!
First time I’ve seen someone LAUGH when the shark attacks the little boy Alex. 🤦♂️
Them bonding over their scars, is so....MAN 😅😅😂😂🔥🔥❤❤
I like how quint treats hooper with alot more respect after that
I grew up in Massachusetts from 77-85. A friend's dad was one of the cops in that little boat!! He was a real cop.
Its so great when you recognize places and people on movies! 😋
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on youtube... Brilliant film love Robert Shaws speech.
To quote Stephen Speilberg JAWS is the spiritual successor to 1971's DUEL.
Duel’s such a great film. I wish more people reacted to it.
Still never saw that one 🤔
@@ptthatswhatshesaid there's one thing you can do to change that.
It's a fantastic movie!👍👍@@ptthatswhatshesaid
Saw this as a little boy with my parents...the boy on the yellow raft was HORRIFIC..was STRICTLY a swimming pool swimmer for about 10 years afterwards 😅..no lie .. EVERYBODY was ..
Don't worry, the whole East Coast of the US didn't want to either. There were some resort towns in Florida that went under. I guess that Mayor was right after all.
@@stinkbug4321 i KNOW...I'm in NY! 😂 The origin story was New Jersey I believe..scary 😀👍
_Tremors_ is a better follow up for _Jaws_ than any of the sequels.
Agreed!
Jaws 2 if you want the Brody family follow up
Jaws 2 is a far better film than Tremors.
'Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.' ~Bion
Next Up: JAWS Girlfriend has a lot of fun watching PSYCHO...?
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I stood in line to see this in the theater when it opened back in '75. I had read the book earlier in the year and was anxious to see it the opening weekend. It was a packed house and the mood shifted from excited whispers and giggling to dead silence pretty soon after the dog and the kid were attacked on the beach. Of course, the first real scream happened with Ben Gardner's head appearing the hole in his boat. Quint's death also generated a bunch of screams. Spielberg and the writers did a masterful job of wracheting up and releasing the tension throughout the film. Nice reaction guys.
The nastiest scene in this movie is not when they find the girl's remains, nor when they cut the tiger shark open. It's when Matt's getting in the shark cage. He hands Martin his glasses, and Martin holds them in his mouth. I don't even put MY OWN glasses in my mouth!
It's more of an Adventure Thriller to me. It was filmed during the Pleiades Meteor Shower so what you saw were real shooting stars in the sky.
The USS Indianapolis incident is the largest mass animal attack in world history. Quint blamed all the deaths on the sharks which was not accurate, but Quint also has PTSD and blaming the sharks for everything makes sense for his character.
alot of soldiers died also from dehydration and hunger but yeah i cant imagine being in a situation like that
Amity Island is actually Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. I was lucky enough to stumble on the filming of this movie back in 74 while on vacation with family. We were annoyed at the traffic and crowds with no clue that a classic was being born. Saw half a shark, Quint's shack and a S*** load of extras. Nice reaction BTW!
Thank you! ☺️
Always wondered if people would have noticed that such an influential movie was being made xD
8:10 I love any scene that shows a real, live typewriter in action! 😆
I wish I could go back to 1977 and watch this for the first time again. I was 7 and it changed my life! ❤
the youngest kid with the fake fin became sherrif on that island about 3 yrs ago
Saw this in the theater when it was released. When Charlie was trying to get on the dock I almost broke my girlfriend’s hand. 😫
My parents saw this film and the Strand movie theater on the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ. They exited the theater and saw all those beachgoers who could be lunch.
A regatta is a boat race.
Or a series of such races, also the related events is included with the term but the race is the defining factor of the word.
Great reaction. The "Indianapolis monologue" by Quint is one of the best in cinema history. It also has quite a bit of history to it too. Depending on who you believe, half-a-dozen different writers were involved writing that scene. I believe (Jaws Producer) Carl Gottlieb's version though. Robert Shaw (Quint) wasn't just a great actor, but also a playwright. Shaw wrote that scene, and on top of that, performed it while ACTUALLY drunk. Spielberg and the crew were so mesmerized by the performance, Spielberg forgot to yell "Cut". He only stopped filming when everyone heard a "clicking" sound. The camera had LITERALLY run out of film. One of cinema's legends.
"Jaws 2" is not a bad film. It's worth a watch. After that, there are no sequels worth watching.
Second best shark movie ever.
For me, Jaws 2 is a slasher movie: (teenagers, killer disfigured.....). Directed by one french🤙🇫🇷
From what I have seen, Spielberg has little understanding of hydrodynamics. But he makes entertaining films.
in the book the shark and Quint died together just like Ahab and Moby Dick
The fishing rod and reel that Quint uses is typical for catching any large game fish such as marlin or swordfish.
Jaws had a $9 million budget.
In today's dollars it would be $52,745,520.45.
A regatta is a boat race or series of boat races. It often includes other events around the water but the race is what defines it. My own Charleston WV use to do a massive Sternwheel Regatta (River boats with an aft paddle wheel for propulsion)
I had the exact same experience with fishing with my father. When I was very young, I used to go fishing with him, but when I was about 15, I told him, "I can't do this anymore. Killing food is one thing, but this is torturing."
In the next few years after this movie came out, "Saturday Night Live" used to do skits in which a housewife hears a knock on the door. They'd play a bit of the "Jaws" theme. She calls through the door, "Who is it?" A voice would say, "Land shark." She'd say, "What?" The voice would say, "Candygram" (a telegram with candy). It would proceed to give her stupid explanations of why she should open the door and when she finally did, a shark standing there would kill her. They used to now and then do variations on that.
What I've heard from experts about sharks eating people is that humans aren't on the menu but are sometimes in the way.
Landshark..!!..
A great film. You guys should watch "Requim for a Dream" (2000), it's a great and raw film about dealing with adversity.
I believe this launched the Summer blockbuster
52:09 Actually there was very little chance of other Sharks being drawn to the blood. There aren't as many Sharks in the Northeast waters of the US as there is down sourh and out west. Remember earlier in the film, Hooper said man eating sharks are "very rare in these waters." That's one reason why initially everyone was so skeptical about the existence of a Shark
I love that this 1975 movie uses the term "karateeing". And an old lady no less. What I mean is, you tend to think of such bending language as a newer trend and it's cool to see it's always been a thing.
When the guy offers to kill the shark for $10,000, remember this is 1975 and there is inflation over time. Back then, I'm guessing that would be equivalent to about $30,000 in today's money.
38:08 She's supposed to say it! :D
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie on TV when I was a kid. They show the people panicking and running out of the water. The announcer is droning on in that 70s era movie trailer voice,
"Jaws. Rated PG. May be too intense for children"
I turned to my older sister and said "May be 2/10ths are for children ??" "What ?"
I never understood what that guy was saying at the end.
What an Awesome reaction! As an 18 year old, this movie kept me from going into the ocean, but the exorcist released at same time made me lock the car doors on way home! Both classic, exorcist based on true events. Peace from Northern Michigan.
I love to point out the TV reporter doing the story on the beach is actually Peter Benchley, the man that wrote the novel Jaws.
Speaking of Speilberg + Dreyfuss, you should watch _Close Encounters of theThird Kind._
I think because of his WWII experience that Quint suffered from survivor's dilemma causing him to have a latent death wish and why he took such extreme risks. Great reaction. Thank you.
I saw the film when it first came out, many were so terrified after watching this film, they stayed out of the water that summer. Also read the book and if you like to read, the characters have different relationships, very interesting. Great review and I always enjoy your points of view with life, thank you.
Thank you ☺️ and I always find interesting noticing the differences between books and their adaptations
I saw this in the theater the summer it opened. I was 14 and there with 4 of my buddies. The theater was packed, D&L. You should have heard the screaming, LOL! 😆 Thanks for sharing this one. Oh, and Sharknado is a LOT of fun, LOL!
There is REAL shark footage filmed by Ron and Valerie Taylor, two marine conservationists from Australia and actually filmed there.
Hi Dan n Lucy really enjoyed your reaction too this amazing film, Quint is my favourite charactor and honestly the best thing about the film, his monologue is just pure cinematic gold and a masterclass in how to deliver a great speech, also the reason for not showing the shark much (named Bruce after Spielbergs lawyer), it's because half the time it never worked properly so the barrels played the role of the shark, also the news reporter on the beach was Peter Benchley the author of the book that the screenplay was based on, they also cut out a few things like the Mayor owing money to the New York Mafie which is why he wanted the beaches open so much, and also that Matt Hooper has an affair with Chief Brody's wife.
And when you see and listen to the real Robert Shaw, a refined and intelligent Englishman, it brings it home even more what an acting performance.
Couldn't agree more about Robert Shaw performance! But everyone is great in this one 😋
Hooper having an affair with Brody's wife does seem to be a pointless plot, Im glad they didn't include it xD
From the Internet:
Question: Why does Steven Spielberg use shooting stars in his films?
Answer: As with many elements of his cinematic style, Spielberg uses shooting stars in some of his films because of an episode during his childhood. One night, when Steven was a boy, his father Arnold unexpectedly ushered him out of bed and put him in the car for what would be a defining journey. It would be the first time Steven witnessed the beauty of space first-hand. It would be the first time he saw a meteor shower up close. It would be the starting point for his interest in space, and his use of shooting stars. Shooting stars can also be seen in Spielberg's movie classic "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind."
Lovely story, except it has been told many times that he puts shooting stars in movies because the real one that he captured in Jaws was so good.
You should watch one of Steven Spielberg's first movies called Duel 1971. A drama of a business man in his car getting chased through the mountains of the southwest by a 18 wheeler truck.✌️❤️
That was a "made for TV movie" that was common programing back then and an excellent suggestion. 😊
And an episode of The Incredible Hulk borrowed like half of its content from that movie.
I agree 100%. I saw DUEL when it first aired. A classic horror movie if ever there was one. The tanker came across as a real monster.
And Duel had a lot of suspense, not showing the truck driver etc. It wasn't by accident that the shark is kept hidden early on. That was by design. That was Spielberg's style at the time. Close Encounters has some suspense as well. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film.
Jaws is not a horror movie. Are there terrifying moments? Yes. But it's more an adventure/thriller.
"Jaws" can't be labeled as just one type of film. It's like "Alien", as both are suspense-thrillers with horror mixed in.
I would tend to agree with you on that but after all these years since, I now believe that it actually could be called a horror movie. Horror movies are generally unrealistic fiction. This story is fiction and can never happen in real life. The reason is that Great White sharks, or any shark, are not intelligent animals. They are actually large fish with no brains whatsoever. Mainly just instinct, so the idea of the shark fighting with our crew on the boat and getting revenge on them could never happen. That behavior is more like that of a Killer Whale (Orca) because Orcas are intelligent and there have been stories of Orcas attacking boats trying to get revenge on whalers back in the day for killing one of their own. There's even a little known movie called 'Orca: The Killer Whale', which came out a couple of years after Jaws, which is about that sort of thing. It stars Richard Harris, (Dumbledore from the first two Harry Potter movies). Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, suffered a lot of guilt because Jaws made fishermen all over the world go out and almost make the Great White sharks extinct, thinking that these sharks were creatures out to kill people. Benchley became heavily involved in the conservation and protection of the Great White sharks and all other sharks as well. I believe that Shark Week was created partly for the purpose of getting the public to better understand sharks and not to fear them so much.
@realitycheck5376
Nearly everything in Jaws has happened at some point in time, even ramming and sinking boats. Jaws condensed these incidents into one story and exaggerated it. It's not horror like werewolves and vampires, which clearly don't exist. It's only really the end part where the shark starts chasing after the boat that wouldn't happen.
Fishermen were already causing a decline in great white shark numbers. Quint was part based on Frank Mundus of Montauk Long Island. Off South Australia, shark fishing for great whites was already well known, and the sharks there were already declining in number, as the book about the filming of Blue Water White Death in 1971 points out. Also, commercial gill net and long line by-catch had started to take a big toll. The grey nurse shark off Eastern Australia was almost wiped out by spear fishing in the 1950s and 1960s. Nothing to do with Jaws, that. Then along came the terrible Asian shark finning industry. This was way more devastating for sharks than anything Jaws caused.
Without Jaws there wouldn't have been the mass boom in shark research. Jaws initiated that because of the mass interest, and researchers got given money to go out and find more about sharks. There was (compared to today) very little field research on sharks prior to Jaws. Before Jaws it was only the Taylors and Fox (not even scientists) who were out there trying to find more information on great white sharks. Jaws changed all that more or less overnight.
The flip side to Peter Benchley is that he also said he was thrilled that Jaws made lots of kids become interested in sharks and were not horrified by them but were fascinated instead and that he got thousands of letters from kids who thought sharks were cool. Benchley said that he was gratified by that.
@@Stogie2112 The back of the VHS, DVD and Blue Ray describes the film variously as suspense chiller, action adventure, action suspense, edge of your seat suspense, gripping adventure.
Never "horror" anywhere. Spielberg said "it's not a horror film". 😊
Now you can watch Mallrats.
Quint was played by Robert Shaw, who in real life was a refined Englishman with a completely different accent and voice. An extremely intelligent man who also wrote novels and plays. He edited down and rewrote the USS Indianapolis monologue himself.
I heard that it was edited spontaneously due to his drunken state. Apparently he spent quite a bit of time in that condition.
@jonhenry8268
No, Shaw rewrote and edited it down days before. Shaw only got out of it (drunk) on one day. He did drink a lot but he was usually a functioning drinker that actually got even better while drinking. There are no other stories from the Jaws filming where Shaw's drinking caused production delays. Only that one day when they first tried filming the USS Indianapolis monologue. That was about the only time.
Shaw even acted while having serious sea sickness. When Shaw shouts out "starboard Hooper ain't ya watching it" Shaw had terrible sea sickness but his professionalism got the scene done. He collapsed after he shouted that out.
Like the shark not working, Shaw's drinking issues have become exaggerated over time.
There are so many film notes... This is based on a novel by Peter Benchley (who's in the movie as the reporter)and assisted in the screenplay (with the man who played the newspaper publisher). He was on set and had disagreements with Steven Speilberg especially the last 30 minutes. Enough so that he was asked to leave the set. There are many differences between the movie and the novel but to me is the reasoning why the mayor is acting the way he is. He's indebted to the mob and needed the tourists dollars. 😊
so now you MUST react to "Sharknado!"
This was filmed during the annual Pleiades Meteor Shower, and the red thing was a shooting start.
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A regatta is a series of boat races and 4th of july is the national holiday to celebrate the independence.
My best friend's cousin, once removed (father's cousin), was aboard the Indianapolis... he did not come back.
His mother was never the same... when she was at functions with naval personnel present, including my friend, she would sometimes ask them if they knew her son (she was occasionally confused about whether he was missing, presumed dead).
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Thanks, guys. Fish expiring do not bother me, but I've always been grateful that you can't hear them scream. 😎
So, as you saw it's not really a horror movie (although everyone thinks that before they watch), or even a monster movie. In my opinion, it is mostly an adventure movie, with some real peril for the main characters. And a well-done adventure movie at that.
I would call it a suspense-thriller drama, with some horror elements in it. Films like this one can't be labeled with just one word.
@ p. yea , to me it's a retelling of the classic old novel / movie. ' Moby dick'
Jaws was never called a horror film in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
If you want to expand the Steven Spielberg film experience, I would suggest watching his action thriller movie that I believe he made as a film student: it is called DUEL(1971) . It is very good and shows young Spielberg's skills in film-making.
You cut the part where Quint tells the chief to start the engine (the chief radios the Coast Guard instead). I believe that this explains why Quint destroys the radio. There's a burning of the ships analogue to Cortez, also, as a potential explanation.
Cortez combined with Captain Ahab.
I don't see the Cortez analogy. Quint intends to go back home. He just wants to go home victorious. It's definitely an Ahab analogy. A fight to the death.
@@Stogie2112 You think Cortez did not want to return home via victory? He did in fact return via victory.
@@Randsurfer, do you mean that Quint is an Ahab-like character generally? Or does Ahab specifically sabotage lines of retreat in _Moby Dick?_ (I haven't read the story.)
@@dumy187 Generally. Ahab is obsessed with catching Moby Dick which leads to his death.
If you like to see corpses in a variety of conditions, you'll love the series “Bones”
Some of the cage scenes were 2nd unit filming in Australia with a midget in the wetsuit in the cage to make the real shark circling it to look bigger.
Check out crimson tide with Denzel Washington and gene hackman
Another great shark movie is "Deep Blue Sea"
That's in no way a great shark movie. Jaws 2 is better than that.
I have seen this movie several times before and this is the first time I've noticed, at 13:57 there is a drawing of a little man in the sharks mouth.
This movie is definitely a top 10 if you could only have 10 movies forever. I have 2 different books about how the movie was made, see Carl Gottlieb, also one of the screenplay writers of the movie. His book is titled "The Jaws Log". There's something to be said when practical and mechanical effects are done right, even if it is almost 50 years old. Beats the shit out of CGI which makes every movie look like 2-200 people all on a stage with a blue curtain behind them while they do their shit, and then in the digital editing stage they remove the blue screen and paint in the mountains or 5'000 orcs. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is, they look like bad Disney movies and unrealistic. For further info on real flicks see "The French Connection" and films by directors Alfred Hitchcock,Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and believe it or not the best tough guy in the late '60s to the mid 80's, Clint Eastwood. See "The Unforgiven" "Gran Torino" and "Dirty Harry".
This is the first major movie to ever film on the open ocean. Between that and the problems with Bruce the shark it was a very troubled shoot.
The first half of the film was pretty much on schedule. The second half when they went out to sea was where the real problems began, yes indeed.
Thank you.
Trivia: During the scene on the beach we see a T.V. news reporter; dressed in his fine suit the reporter is played by Peter Benchley, the author of the original book. Later while the Orca is at sea a shooting star is seen in the sky; this isn't special effects, the film crew were simply lucky enough to capture a real shooting star.
I saw this in the theater when it came out, I was 3 and I saw all the good films when I was "too young" lol TBF I was afriad to take a bath for a week. Lol
Yeah the things in the sky were shooting stars or ufos coming to take jaws back to jupiter 😂
This ending is more exciting than the book. The book ended with the shark dying because of an earlier harpoon wound. No explosion. Also, in the book, Hooper had an affair with Chief Brody’s wife which made the tension interesting.
The actress that played Brody's wife has been quoted saying she's glad it wasn't part of movie as it did not add to the movie especially since other changes Spielberg made to the film. IMHO the reasoning why the mayor acting the way he did not being revealed in the movie was huge.
Scientists believe that sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs, before trees even. The species of shark that is known to live the longest is the Greenland shark. It's hard to tell their exact age, because they don't know enough about them and they have no bones at all, but a study using a technology that dates crystals found in the lenses of their eyes, found a female shark that they estimated to be at least 272 years old, though they believe it's possibly as old as 512.
Yes there are a lot of Portuguese,and descendents of both Portuguese and cape Verde. Live on Martha's vineyard. Also where the Kennedy family live. There's a lot of Portuguese and cape Verde that live in the New England area. A big fish industry are. Originally whaler seaports.✌️❤️🇺🇸
Very interesting!
With Halloween coming up she's going to have to watch all the famous slasher movies she seems to love death a lot. Started with the classics Halloween Friday the 13th child's Play nightmare on elm Street etc
Finally, a Jaws reaction video where we can forgo the ridiculous 'ice cream/coffee' debates.
Fishing for fun is really just training fish to be careful about what they put into their mouths.
The Film Rant channel with the Sharknado Pitch Meeting video is extra funny.
It’s funny you referred to them as “Hippies” in the opening scene, as there is nothing showing they are, literally everyone then had the same hairstyle and clothes.
Quint's telling of the Indianapolis was true. It happened just as he told the story.
From what I've read though they are unsure how many sailors actually were bitten by sharks. Sharks don't like the taste of human flesh... 😎
Animatronic is the word for which you were searching.
Check out the movies Deep Blue Sea(1999) and Halloween(1978).
Deep Blue Sea is crap.
Halloween I showed it to her now xD Deep Blue Sea not yet
The reporter on the beach Is the one that wrote the book
And he actually worked I TV news as a writer before the book.
Ben Gardner for the win.
When you lose track of what's going on in the movie because you're thinking of what to say next, is a good sign you're talking too much.
I believe Spielberg caught a shooting star while filming. I read recently that the other streaking light was actually an Easter Egg for the upcoming Close Encounter of the Third Kind. I have not verified this anywhere else.
The scenes were shot during August of 1974 due to issues with “Bruce”, the mechanical shark. That was during the annual Perseid meteor shower, so it’s very likely that they were real.
If Quint went alone, he would of got it.
The movie was 100% better on a real big screen you got the feeling you were in the water with them.✌️❤️
It is a great film. Unfortunately, marine biologists have enormous problems with it.. The "territoriality" thesis articulated in this film has been pretty well debunked since. Sharks are rovers, they don't stick around a location. They just eat and swim on. The shark that killed the girl would have probably been gone the next day, and would not have come back. He'd be very far by the time the boy got killed. And probably half-way across the ocean by the time the Quint expedition got started. I know the mayor is supposed to play the villain in this movie, but his response is actually correct. Sure close the beaches for 24 hours just in case, but there's really no point beyond that. The shark is long gone. That is the usual recommendation followed by modern beach authorities to shark attacks today. (Of course, very little was known of about sharks back in 1975, so much of it was guesswork; this movie is responsible for generating a lot of interest in studying sharks and better understanding their behavior.)
4th of July and the monies are coming in. But not that evening or the 5th of July or any day afterwards. If people can't swim at your beach they will go somewhere else.
i cant miss this :)
43:00 Those are actual falling stars. They filmed on the ocean. You poor young people, don't even know the real thing when you see it. That must be disorienting.
Jaws 2 is good.
Perfect film