The funny thing about the shark not working and not being seen for almost an hour into the movie is that many other later horror movies used the same mystery to build the fear of the antagonist. They learned by accident that a lot of the things in life that scare us the most are what we can't see.
And they all learnt it from Hitchcock... including Speilberg. He understood that imagination is more powerful that any gore fest (or monster) on screen
Another good example, in addition to the ones already noted below: David Fincher's stroke of demonic genius for the finale of "Se7en," in which we never see inside the box but have to imagine what it would look like.
As an 8 year old my sister took me to see it and I ran out of the cinema when the head popped out the the fisherman's boat and I was afraid to take a bath for a while, great film
This all revolves around the USS Indianapolis. This "hint" is given during Quint's monologue. He explains it very clearly if you listen to him. Quint escaped the "jaws of death" while many other sailors did not. He survived but only later to match the fate of his fellow-sailors later. After surviving, he went on through life with a heart of revenge, killing shark after shark after shark. It's why Batman fights crime after his parents are murdered through the heart of crime. Quint is the same way, however he had sailors waiting for him in the heart of the sea. But fate inevitably had its way at the end. It is the ultimate pay off. A beautiful, tragic story.
I wiLL never forget in the summer of 75 when I was 7 years oLd and my Mom and I went to the Century City PLitt century plaza theater to see JAWS ! ! ! What an amazing Oceananic Adventure movie it was . . .
Although none of the sequels (especially #4 The Revenge 🤮) could ever live up to the Original, the tagline for Jaws 2 was awesome - “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”. I’ve always remembered what a great tagline that was. It’s actually better than the movie itself 🤣
I always thought they ad libbed some of the dialogue in the first movie because it was so spontaneous in scenes but that’s what made Jaws different from other movies.
❤ Jaws is my favorite summer movie! Sharks scare the crap out of me, i went to an under water aquarium when i was younger. Sharks were swimming up above my head, very thick glass and i was so scared i froze up and cried the whole way 😂 i love shark movies though... 🤔 😂
104, Ben Gardner head pops out of boat, it made me and everyone in cinema " jump" it still does, the first few times is worse cos you don't expect what's coming
I'm now 57 and I remember Jaws and have seen it several times over the years . I'm still afraid of Deep waters I will not go near the oceans I'm still scared.
True story. I was 12 years old and my brother was eight. It was a Saturday afternoon and we were bored. Having a little pocket change we decided to hop on the city bus to the local mall on the south side of the city to see a movie called“jaws” there had been no publicity yet an it was also a movie we had not seen. Needless to say. It was a very silent ride on the city bus back to our home. I am now 61 and my younger brother is 57 and we still talk about that day, that movie, and the quiet ride home
I was 8 when I saw Jaws. My Dad took my Mom, brother & I to see it back in 1975. It had just come out and I remember the butterflies in my stomach knowing that this movie was scary. I managed to sit through it and love it, but that opening scene with Chrissy the swimmer, I shut my eyes as soon as she hit the water.
I want to go back and do it all over ...I am telling you the 70’s and 80’s were my decades and they were the best years of my life. Those decades were quite possibly the last best decades in America. One has to understand that America was absolutely a different place back then. It was still a treat then to get 25 cents from mom and walk uptown to the gas station to get a Coca-Cola or Pepsi or to the ice cream shop to get a CMP ice cream. We truly did not lock our doors and stayed out till after dark with our bikes and on Halloween we all went trick-or-treating without our parents when we got older at night in the cold and it was great fun.. In the summer we played outside all day and all night, The only way my mom got us home to eat was a big brass bell she had outside the sliding glass doors that she would ring to get our attention to come home for dinner. I remember wonderful 4th of July celebrations going on picnics and then mom took us to the ball park and we laid on blankets to watch the fireworks. And of course Christmas and even though it was tuff for my mom raising us she always made sure we had a great holiday . Even Easter was special in America back then... as we got older we started to go see the movies and we really did have the best movies. *Jaws, Close Encounters, , Raiders of the lost Ark, James bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, Planet of the apes, E.T, The terminator, The goonies, Friday the 13th, Batman, Back to the future* . ...To name a few.....The TV show line up on the networks were fabulous ( this was before you got 500 channels like you do today and still nothing on is good) we had Dallas, knots Landing, Falcon crest, little house, The Waltons (No not the store that destroyed America). And every night of the week a network would compete and have for example, Monday night at the movies! Tuesday night at the movies ! and they would show a major movie release. We had real holidays were we all got together and enjoyed each other’s company. We ate dinner every night together and talked not shouted at each other. We had great stores that are all but gone now in 2023 and great movie theaters and of course the MALLS! It was not the 80’s without a Mall. My very first few jobs were at the mall. First Macdonald’s and then The Gap!. Yes sir those days were GREAT! and we were very lucky to have lived them .... today I don’t even see kids outside and everyone is in fear for safety from crazy people.... I don’t recognize America now..God Bless us all ! (If you can even say that anymore).
You are spot on! I was born in 65. Saw “JAWS” at a local drive in! Remember those? The line went around the blocks of the neighborhoods. I’m sure that irritated the neighborhood! I think this younger generation will never know just how magical life used to be without cell phones, social media and not worrying about another mass shooting. Great movies back then. Now, let’s just say I stick to cable T.v. Your comment brought back a lot of great memories. I am blessed to have grown up the way I did.
@@hectormartinez9657 Yes you are 100% right and I do remember the drive in very well as we had two close to a little town I lived in at the time. I was born in 64. I am glad I was able to dig up some good times for you. I actually went into the business late in life all because of Jaws and Star Wars. I wanted to be an actor but ended up working behind the camera. It was a load of fun because in those glory days when I was so much younger I always wanted to know *How did they do that* so I got busy and ended up working on movies and commercial sets…. But boy those really were the days and I miss it all so much. Good thing we have these pictures to watch to take us back in time and that’s exactly what I do when I’m down about what’s happening in our would today, I immerse myself in the old movies. Thanks for the comment. Take care and God Bless ….. Brian
You just described my childhood and the childhood of every GenXer - makes me almost cry looking back on it all - its a place in time now frozen forever in our memories
Right on! And remember how after trick or treating you'd inhale a deep breath of ALL those candies scents combined?! I still love that smell. I just don't eat all that candy. Good idea for a candle: Full Trick Or Treat Bag scent. How about Duncan Yo Yo's? I collected them. And Clic Clacks?! Those were the days. 😂🎉
@@katrinalassberg5649 I actually came across a Halloween candle at Home Goods that smells just like that called *Candy* I still have it. Yes sir! Those were the days and we were lucky to have been able to experience them…
I recently retired as a writer for television trivia quiz shows. I did this for 25 years, and yet, I rarely say no when my favorite head writer or producer calls, and I can now work from home. It led me to working for Lucasfilm and to a thousand places I never dreamed. In 1975, I was 11 years old, I wanted to be a veterinarian, and knew, even then, the days where I would have to face a heartbreaking moment. I was a tough girl and superb Tomboy. And then I walked into a theatre, and when I walked out, I had changed my entire path in life. "That shark was fake, and THAT'S what I want to DO for a living." I wanted to be a Special Effects Technician. And two years later, Steven's pal, George released the film that sealed my doom. I don't know HOW I made it into the film industry, but I did it, and I owe every frame of my OWN biopic to "Jaws". My greatest moment was the day we set up offices on the Universal lot. Sometimes the shark would be pulled from the tour (they have a couple and swap them out) and it would be hanging in its cradle down the backlot. Every time. I'd stop on the way home, get out of the truck, and give Bruce a kiss on the nose to say goodnight. And, yep, I'm sure you've figured out that I'm a Boomer, but I'm still dressing up at conventions and I'm still a huge nerd and still a Tomboy. Never once, have I not blinked back some tears saying goodnight to Bruce. I now have friends named Carl Gottlieb, Joe Alves, Jeffrey Kramer and Roy Arbogast (who gave me a small bag full of teeth cast from Bruce's mold) and a necklace with a tooth so big I keep it in a shot glass, and even Greg Nicotero whose interview here steals all my words and feelings of that first time. It took a few years but I finally got a smacking kiss from Matt Hooper and Dreyfuss and I had that rare moment when one Wise-Ass Meets Another and you KNOW you're going to punk each other. We did. Every time I see this film I see something I never noticed. How Quint is Ahab. How everyone on the Orca plays to their defensive instincts, The Fisherman With a Score To Settle, The Scientist Who Learns He's Out Of His Depth, The New York Cop Who Unloads His .38 Because That's How You Stop A Bad Guy. There's a model of the Orca on my desk, and co-workers who can't believe that "Star Wars" isn't my favorite film, because it also did so much for me. Nope. It's all because of a shark that didn't work half the time, who I never failed to kiss goodnight, under a starry sky. If he bites you, you're hooked, and I always made sure a show had a "Jaws" question in it. I owe it all to a shark named Bruce. Farewell, and Adieu ... Grab the wheel of the Orca and go for it! Chase your own barrels, some night you'll kiss a Great White.
@@OrcaRebuild Thank you so much. And thank you for this documentary. I have an "Fan Made" 'Amity Surf Inn' Motel key fob on my keys, and missed getting an original barrel by two years (I swear I will have one, even if I have to win the Annual Regatta) I just scored a Beaches Closed sign (so one down) and I am using it to annoy the neighbors we hate who now think I was born in Wakanda because she came bustling over to complain about my 'fascist' flag. I told her it was a small, African nation, my father was a politician ( true) and assigned to their embassy (not true). "We use this flag to honor the ending of the year of growing, of good harvests. a time when family near and far reunite. I'm not sure how you define that as 'facist'., I miss my Wakandan family very much." (Then I went inside and watched "Andor" or something) Her attempts at apologizing to me were used up long ago, but it entertains me beyond words. So does this film. Again, thank you so much for posting this, I saw a lot of friends. Oh, and your rebuild is amazing! A true labor of love. It's crazy how many of the effect and creature design people I know got into the buiness because of this film. There's just something about it.
@@mysteryminx2619 I feel the same way, the movie hooked me in the 70's and made me a superfan by the time I was an adult. Sort of inspired my hobby as a diver (Hooper); then my career as a dive physician. Dreyfuss is one of my favourites now with this and with the Goodbye Girl, but Shaw, Dreyfuss and Scheider together on the screen are just chemistry.
I’m in Spain on holiday as a 44 yr old asking myself how many gw sharks are out there when I’m safely sitting on the beach quietly terrified.. Jaws is the reason for this! Lol… wonderful film.
This film is a masterpiece. They just don't make movies like this anymore. CGI wrecks everything these days. The amount of time, energy, and dedication that it took to make Bruce is evident. Even after all these years, that mechanical shark looks more real than any present-day CGI shark. Jaws really was ahead of its time and is the reason why I don't go past ankle deep in the ocean.
I loved that one of the major points of this documentary that was made, by Mr. Spielberg himself, was the fact that the shark continually breaking down ended up serving-not hurting-the film. In fact, Bruce is not seen until about 55 minutes into the movie. I actually think that the recent Godzilla movie, with Bryan Cranston, took a page from Jaws in that respect.
Honestly the shark in the movie looks a bit fake sometimes to me but even then I understand that they could only work with what they have and it was pretty impressive for what they could possibly do However, I sometimes still wonder how good the shark in the movie would be if they were given more time and money
It’s really nice when you find something you haven’t seen before with someone who’s been gone a long time in it. I wish Robert Shaw could’ve lived longer to talk about this movie more. Miss that guy too.
My son had absolute terror on his face at universal studios ride climax. I felt so bad for that. I was compelled to reassure him but he was stricken silent for the moment. All due to the movie..
It cant be recreated. MAYBE 10-15 years ago. But not today. Its a part of 1970s America. Plus they dont really have to remake it. They could just make a new one.
It's a classic BECAUSE the shark didn't work. We only see a little of the shark throughout the movie.... until the end. Three quarters of the movie takes place in our minds. What you can't see is far more terrifying than what you can see. Spielberg used all his skill and ingenuity to pull that off. No other current director can do this. So, why remake it? What would be the point?....
One funny thing, is that the book which Ellen and Martin Brody are reading, when telling off Michael for sitting in his sailing boat, is Valerie and John Taylor's book "In the Shark's kingdom". The Australian couple did the under water pictures for JAWS and JAWS 2. I have that book.
It's a dam shame that all the hard work, stress and trouble Spielberg went through in the making of Jaws, he wasn't nominated for best director in the Oscars.
I watched this movie 1,000 times. But, nothing can replicate the first time I saw it. 1975.14 years old. In a sold out theater. No Internet back then, so you couldn't pre-book your seats. You took what was available. I stood in line for two hours with my sister and her brother. We didn't sit together because all they had were individual seats in various spots. This made the movie more frightening. I was pinned to my seat for 2 hours. I've never experienced anything like it since. So, thank you Steven Spielberg for crafting a classic and for creating a terrifying theater experience like no other....
Today, I am a shark (and their cousins) scientist all because of this movie. Saw it for the first time on TV 24 years ago and I was just mesmerized. Nice video 😊
My uncle worked on the lighting of Jaws, those crews with all the lights and reflectors. He said it was a nightmare, the hardest thing he ever worked on.
I've watched a million movies, but there's only one other movie that instilled a psychological terror like Jaws has, and that is, The Exorcist. My knowledge of what religion really is has completely washed any lasting impact from The Exorcist, but to this day I still fear the ocean as much as I did in the 80s. The fact that there is only a 1 and 4,000,000 chance of being killed by a shark proves what a incredibly impactful film Jaws is.
Jaws has the advantage of working through things we KNOW to be real, while The Exorcist only tugs at our fears of things we HOPE are not real. Some people believe they both exist on an equal basis, but that is their problem.
After watching Jaws I was afraid to go in the swimming pool alone lol. After watching The Exorcist & the Omen Damein movies I couldn't walk into a dark room or in my dark bedroom and look at my dolls until the light was turned on
Hey Smartie !! Guess what?? The exorcist now is Much More Real than a mechanical / fake shark and actually , they , as you call them are your problem! Real, but true! I’d think more about reality and the supernatural than a fake shark, I think you’re fine when it comes to that. The supernatural different story, and yes your problem! Love to educate. Do it yourself as well. God Bless!! 🏝🏝💜🦋💎🌈
The Exorcist is a masterpiece as well. It doesn’t tell you what to believe and it doesn’t mock the faith either. God is for the faithful and them alone. Evil is easy to spot and the greatest proof of the existence of God
I say it all the time: The greatest movie ever made. You know how the funniest people dont really know they’re funny? Ever play in a garage band? You know how difficult it is to get just 4 people together, really firing on all cylinders to complete even one song with some degree of credibility. This entire movie was that very kind of fight. Spielbergs genius happened to him as he created something no one believed could be done. I mean re writing scripts, day of shooting? Technical difficulties so seemingly overwhelming 99.9% would have quit? Every single day. I was 15 when Jaws was released. Unless you lived during that era, you have no idea how impactful that movie was. It was pandemonium- people wouldnt swim in swimming pools! The movie has a “key largo” another GREAT movie, kind of aura and atmosphere. Perfectly cast, with relatively unknowns, (certainly to me anyway) and some of the greatest shots in cinematic history. Necessity created this movie. Spielberg was driving. GREAT music- its the entire package. Spielberg could have quit then and be held in as high regard as he is today. Robert Shaw IS Quint.
Jaws 1 classic, Jaws 2, extremely good, the rest should have not been made... I wonder if they will do something for the 50th anniversary in two years time?
I saw it in LA in 1975 when it was first released. Fresh and new. The fellow I saw it with and I were working in cue cards at the time on Hollywood Squares and many other TV game shows. It blew us both away and taught us so much about film making. This is a wonderful documentary about the making of a classic!
Sadly today and since the 70's, every disaster/monster movie has an estranged husband or wife, and or a child of a divorced couple. It's weak writing when they have to resort to cheap tactics to pull emotion from the audience.
One thing I don’t understand. Is in all these documentaries about Jaws. They never talk about the scene when Quint gets eaten. That was a very powerful moment in the movie. And I’ve always wanted to know how they shot it. But it’s the one scene they never discuss.
1:27:38 I am very pleased to say that this mold has been brought, refurbished, and is now on display at the Los Angeles academy museum of motion pictures. As it is well deserved
For the Past 5 years I do a JAWS Movie Night in my backyard on a big projection screen. I theme the entire party out from food to drinks to candy and snacks and put out all my JAWS memorabilia. And I have a ton of it including an autographed JAWS movie poster, The Orca Boat Model, Action Figures, Shark Teeth, Themed Lighting to replicate ocean waves and sound effects. You name it, I do it all and wish I could show you guys photos of it all, so that any of you major JAWS Fans that may be interested in creating something like this in your own backyard. I have about 40 guests show up every summer for my Annual JAWS movie Night Event! I’m such a JAWS Fanatic that I literally have to Celebrate this movie every summer! I must have watched this video on UA-cam alone about 20 times already and it’s not even the actual movie! Lol! 🦈
As a kid during that summer of 1975, sharks were all we talked about…. We loved getting scared! It even spilled over into the summer of 1976. There was a huge shark mania that was sort of mirrored by dinosaur mania 20 years later, with the release of Jurassic Park . Mr Spielberg is truly a genius for the ages. Makes me sad that the era of the great summer blockbuster seems to be ending.
I was born in 1960 and everything you said brought me back to that time! We were gone all day riding our bikes, skating with the skates you attached to your shoes, playing baseball with whatever kids showed up, and knew to be home when it got dark. We never ran out of things to do, swimming at the public pool, going to movies with friends in the afternoon or the drivein, we would all pile in the car and have the best time! Going to the gas station for penny candy, finding snakes and snapping turtles, and taking them home to show mom! Lol Taking my dog with me everywhere, knocking on friends doors to ask if your friend can come out and play, imaginations running wild, riding horses, watching the Wizard of Oz once a year excited when it came on tv! Friends all trick or treating together without parents coming along. Slumber parties! I remember my whole family went together to watch Jaws and it still came into my mind when I went whale watching in Maui and I was dangling my foot in the water and remembered Jaws and pulled my foot out of the water with a feeling of panic! Lol Remember snow fights and building snow forts? My dad would build a fire in the snow and we would roast hot dogs and marshmallows! Thank you for taking me back in time to all those wonderful memories!
To see and hear Robert Shaw, Peter Benchley and Roy Scheider so many years after they have passed is a wonder of modern technology. May they all Rest in Peace.
Jaws! I was 10 years old and my mother let me go with a friend and his mom. To this day when that head pops out of that boat, I still jump back. Great film. Classic cinema.
@@scaleworksRC Can you imagine being famous for slapping and have people coming up to you and asking you to slap them. That's freaky, obsessive and hilarious at the same time. 😧😂😚
Stephen Spielberg managed to create suspense magic by utilizing the situation with the troubled mechanisms of Bruce, and making it a master stroke by not showing the shark for most of the movie. Literally reminding humanity of the fact that we fear most what we can't see. And the ocean is truly a beautiful but terrifying world altogether, hence why we have not even conquered the ocean yet even.
I have a bunch of ”comfort” movies I can watch anytime , over and over. American grafiti , Jaws , Slap shot , Cannonball run , The Warriors , Alien , Animal house , Blade runner , Escape from New York , The Thing , 1941 , Raiders of the lost ark , Vacation , Christmas vacation , The Goonies , The terminator , The Breakfast club , Aliens , Back to the future , Die hard , The princess bride , Dazed and confused , and T2. If I’m zapping around the channels , and any of them is on , I usually watch it to the end.
I was 14 when I saw it, and when the shark chomped down on Quint then blood was spitting out of his mouth. I was literally on the floor of the movie theater crying.
That scene has to be the grisliest scene in the movie. I love blood and gore, but I ALWAYS close my eyes when the shark bites Quint. Not because it's scary, but because it looks so excrutiatingly painful!
I always thought the music was reflecting the shark moving it's tail fin. Left....... right........ left....... right....... left, right, left, right, leftrightleftrightLEFTRIGHTLEFTRIGHT, pretty clear that it's the shark coming nearer and faster. And, you're just sitting there, horrified :D I can't imagine this film without that score.
One of the true great flix of our lifetime. Pray it never gets remade and tarnish its legacy. Still scares me every time I watch it! Thats the hallmark of a great picture.
The fucking absolute height of self centeredness to think that a remake somehow tarnishes the legacy of one of the fucking top movies on the AFI list of all time… you know they made three absolutely trash fucking sequels to the movie right? But those don't tarnish the Jaws legacy…? Jaz became a literal fucking punchline it back to the future part two… But that didn't tarnish the legacy? But a remake would… Because poor little guy would get sad… Poor little guy… How do you find a safe space on the Internet?
It’s sad that they took down the ride at Universal in Orlando. Very fond memories of that ride while growing up. Now, it’s apart of the Harry Potter world. Sad … But not that mad. 😝
My brother was absolutely obsessed with this series as a kid , had the jaws lunchbox and all the toys and everything in between , even wanted to become a marine biologist as early as grade 2 ! this movie ment alot to him .
Thanks for posting this. It is very much of its time, and yet is also timeless for many. Yes I remember watching it first at the cinema, and yes again, there was a large part of viewers who jumped a mile, at the face in the boat scene. Such a shame that so many who were involved are no longer with us.
What sucks is I know there is like a 3-4 hour version of this doc, I saw the leaked copy online like 12 years ago (give or take) before Universal bought the rights and it discussed the other films as well. It sucks that there is no copy of that floating around anywhere.
I was 10 yrs old when Jaws came out. Great memory of my folks taking my sister and I to the drive-in. It remains my favorite movie ever. I started the Jaws fan club in my neighborhood. I was Jaws for Halloween. I had the Jaws game and other shark toys. Because of this movie, I became obsessed with sharks. I even got a shark tattoo. To this day my mom still buys me shark stuff. This video is amazing. Good to know I am not alone in my love for Jaws. Thank you and a big Thank you to Mr. Spielberg ❤️🦈
I was 10, also. 10 or 11. I remember it was the first 'PG' film I was allowed to go to without my parents. I went with my sister and a friend. The scariest part to me was when Brody was throwing the chum and makes a funny comment. As we were laughing, Jaws came up out of the water. Whoa! The next summer, our family went to Florida for the first time and my stepdad and I drifted out a little too far on our rafts. When we realized it, I abandoned my raft and started swimming as hard and fast as I could toward shore, leaving my stepdad. I laugh about it now, because he was nervous because he wasn't the strongest swimmer but I was nervous because I just knew that Jaws was underneath me. Still love the movie.
For me Jaws is like that classic bit of Americana. Its like the Saturday Evening post come to life. All of those classic Summer posters and paintings of times at the beach. Remembering back to the Summers of 75 as a kid. I get such a ridiculously huge feeling of nostalgia watching Jaws. It is a landmark film.
I remember going to see Jaws. It was exciting and scary, and the theater went wild throughout the movie. Saw it every time they re-released it in theaters, and I went back to the theater to see it on the 40th anniversary showing. I had a Jaws t-shirt and a shark pillow. I have watched it at least once a year on dvd since. My favorite movie. And the best made movie of its genre I think. This was action, adventure and suspense. It scared the crap out of you and we loved it!
Saw it on the 40th Anniversary in 2015 at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. The crowd went wild during the famous scenes like, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”. I had never seen it before in a theater even though I was 15 when it came out in 1975. It’s better on the big screen. The acting was superb throughout, including all the extras. Murray Hamilton as the mayor was fantastic in all his scenes but especially when he and Brody and Hooper are discussing cutting open the tiger shark. The psychological struggle on his face about having to deal with the needs of the townsfolk (and keeping his job) and the needs of safety and the law is a master class in acting. He was a great actor.
Jaws has been my favorite movie ever since I was a kid. I even had the Jaws game where you have the little fishing poles and you fish out the stuff from Jaws' mouth. I also saw Jaws in concert at the State Theater on October 30, 2022. The New Jersey Orchestra played the whole movie's score and it was awesome.
It came out when I was 8. I remember it terrified me and my friends and even scared my big brother. Yet we couldnt wait to see it again. We lived near the Ohio river. We were scared to go swim in the river. It truly was a great movie. Great actors.
The shot of the shark opening its mouth wider before attacking Alex Kitner was very effective. I'm sorry the in-camera outtake wasn't preserved. I saw the still in a magazine before seeing the movie and that image was frightening.
From the first second Jaws to the last second, this movie entertains you like no other movie. It's also those little things that does it for me like for example; when Hooper visits Brody in his house with red wine and white wine he said to his wife he likes to talk with her husband and she says So do I. Jaws is not just a creature feature but also an incredible feast for compelling dialogs between characters.
Show me the way to go home, Im tired and I wana go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and its gone right to my head. Where ever I may roam, by land or sea or foam, you will always hear me singing this song... Show me the way to go home ⚓🌊🦈
I was 16 when it came out, I'm an adrenaline junky, I played hockey, jumped quarries over a 100', rode motorcycles my whole life, and a lifeguard, grew up on the ocean, literally a water baby, swim like a fish, waterskiing, after I saw this movie, I literally looked around while I took a shower,lol, in our swimming pool, only right after I saw it, but that's how impactful it was on me, I noticed at the beach I worked, people weren't going out far in the ocean, it was insane.
The music was a huge reason, the fact that the shark broke down a lot, they had to use the camera as the sharks point of view, and that made you use your imagination.
There was so much talent associated with this movie, but a lot of credit must go to the editor who made a cohesive brilliant movie out of the footage collected on location. The innovation of having the sound of the next scene before the cut of next scene is widely used today, but groundbreaking then.
I'm a Jaws fanatic fan and have read all the books and even taught Jaws instead of Moby Dick to my college students. I've seen all the documentaries on Jaws but this is the absolute best!!...thank you...one of my five favorite films of all time and I teach literature and film.
In Plymouth, Michigan back in 1976 I snuck into the Penn theater to see Jaws. I was 14 at the time and the movie was rated R. To this day I still think about it whenever I go waste deep into the ocean. That is as far as I will go. This is still one of my favorite movies. I do wonder, however, how many sharks have been needlessly killed out of peoples fears or desires to collect revenues off of the animals teeth and jaws. Thankfully, there are people like Jonathan Bird and his UA-cam channel "Blue World" that are helping to educate people on the true nature of these amazing animals.
Sharks were being hunted and fished for long before Jaws came out. Jaws only enhanced the interest in shark fishing. I'd argue that Jaws has done more good for sharks than bad. There are countless scientists, researchers, activists, and fisherman who use the catch and release method, all because of Jaws.
And just like that I am 13 years old, in the theater, falling in love with every moment, every character, every fear.
The funny thing about the shark not working and not being seen for almost an hour into the movie is that many other later horror movies used the same mystery to build the fear of the antagonist.
They learned by accident that a lot of the things in life that scare us the most are what we can't see.
Mr Barlow in the original Salem’s Lot is a prime example of that.
Also, there were a few horror movies that also used the same idea of not showing a lot of blood and gore.
Predator comes to mind. You never saw him until way into the movie.
And they all learnt it from Hitchcock... including Speilberg. He understood that imagination is more powerful that any gore fest (or monster) on screen
Another good example, in addition to the ones already noted below: David Fincher's stroke of demonic genius for the finale of "Se7en," in which we never see inside the box but have to imagine what it would look like.
As an 8 year old my sister took me to see it and I ran out of the cinema when the head popped out the the fisherman's boat and I was afraid to take a bath for a while, great film
I was the same age,, my mom had to go to K Mart to buy a few night lights 😆😆
Jaws. Puts the bite on everyone. Still watch it in 2023.🦈🦈🦈
This all revolves around the USS Indianapolis. This "hint" is given during Quint's monologue. He explains it very clearly if you listen to him. Quint escaped the "jaws of death" while many other sailors did not. He survived but only later to match the fate of his fellow-sailors later. After surviving, he went on through life with a heart of revenge, killing shark after shark after shark. It's why Batman fights crime after his parents are murdered through the heart of crime. Quint is the same way, however he had sailors waiting for him in the heart of the sea. But fate inevitably had its way at the end. It is the ultimate pay off. A beautiful, tragic story.
I wiLL never forget in the summer of 75 when I was 7 years oLd and my Mom and I went to the Century City PLitt century plaza theater to see JAWS ! ! ! What an amazing Oceananic Adventure movie it was . . .
Percy Rodrigues . What a voice
Although none of the sequels (especially #4 The Revenge 🤮) could ever live up to the Original, the tagline for Jaws 2 was awesome - “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”. I’ve always remembered what a great tagline that was. It’s actually better than the movie itself 🤣
I always thought they ad libbed some of the dialogue in the first movie because it was so spontaneous in scenes but that’s what made Jaws different from other movies.
❤ Jaws is my favorite summer movie! Sharks scare the crap out of me, i went to an under water aquarium when i was younger. Sharks were swimming up above my head, very thick glass and i was so scared i froze up and cried the whole way 😂 i love shark movies though... 🤔 😂
104, Ben Gardner head pops out of boat, it made me and everyone in cinema " jump" it still does, the first few times is worse cos you don't expect what's coming
I'm now 57 and I remember Jaws and have seen it several times over the years . I'm still afraid of Deep waters I will not go near the oceans I'm still scared.
True story. I was 12 years old and my brother was eight. It was a Saturday afternoon and we were bored. Having a little pocket change we decided to hop on the city bus to the local mall on the south side of the city to see a movie called“jaws” there had been no publicity yet an it was also a movie we had not seen. Needless to say. It was a very silent ride on the city bus back to our home. I am now 61 and my younger brother is 57 and we still talk about that day, that movie, and the quiet ride home
Oh boy I see where this story is going 👀
It could become an episode in a TV serie...with some paranormal/misterious detail...THE SILENT RIDE
I was 8 when I saw Jaws. My Dad took my Mom, brother & I to see it back in 1975. It had just come out and I remember the butterflies in my stomach knowing that this movie was scary. I managed to sit through it and love it, but that opening scene with Chrissy the swimmer, I shut my eyes as soon as she hit the water.
My lil bro was 10 and when we saw the head pop out, he pulled the lady in front of us, long hair hahaha
I snuck in (me, my brother and sister were actually supposed to be watching Benji 2)
I want to go back and do it all over ...I am telling you the 70’s and 80’s were my decades and they were the best years of my life. Those decades were quite possibly the last best decades in America. One has to understand that America was absolutely a different place back then. It was still a treat then to get 25 cents from mom and walk uptown to the gas station to get a Coca-Cola or Pepsi or to the ice cream shop to get a CMP ice cream. We truly did not lock our doors and stayed out till after dark with our bikes and on Halloween we all went trick-or-treating without our parents when we got older at night in the cold and it was great fun.. In the summer we played outside all day and all night, The only way my mom got us home to eat was a big brass bell she had outside the sliding glass doors that she would ring to get our attention to come home for dinner. I remember wonderful 4th of July celebrations going on picnics and then mom took us to the ball park and we laid on blankets to watch the fireworks. And of course Christmas and even though it was tuff for my mom raising us she always made sure we had a great holiday . Even Easter was special in America back then... as we got older we started to go see the movies and we really did have the best movies. *Jaws, Close Encounters, , Raiders of the lost Ark, James bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, Planet of the apes, E.T, The terminator, The goonies, Friday the 13th, Batman, Back to the future* . ...To name a few.....The TV show line up on the networks were fabulous ( this was before you got 500 channels like you do today and still nothing on is good) we had Dallas, knots Landing, Falcon crest, little house, The Waltons (No not the store that destroyed America). And every night of the week a network would compete and have for example, Monday night at the movies! Tuesday night at the movies ! and they would show a major movie release. We had real holidays were we all got together and enjoyed each other’s company. We ate dinner every night together and talked not shouted at each other. We had great stores that are all but gone now in 2023 and great movie theaters and of course the MALLS! It was not the 80’s without a Mall. My very first few jobs were at the mall. First Macdonald’s and then The Gap!. Yes sir those days were GREAT! and we were very lucky to have lived them .... today I don’t even see kids outside and everyone is in fear for safety from crazy people.... I don’t recognize America now..God Bless us all ! (If you can even say that anymore).
You are spot on! I was born in 65. Saw “JAWS” at a local drive in! Remember those? The line went around the blocks of the neighborhoods. I’m sure that irritated the neighborhood! I think this younger generation will never know just how magical life used to be without cell phones, social media and not worrying about another mass shooting. Great movies back then. Now, let’s just say I stick to cable T.v. Your comment brought back a lot of great memories. I am blessed to have grown up the way I did.
@@hectormartinez9657 Yes you are 100% right and I do remember the drive in very well as we had two close to a little town I lived in at the time. I was born in 64. I am glad I was able to dig up some good times for you. I actually went into the business late in life all because of Jaws and Star Wars. I wanted to be an actor but ended up working behind the camera. It was a load of fun because in those glory days when I was so much younger I always wanted to know *How did they do that* so I got busy and ended up working on movies and commercial sets…. But boy those really were the days and I miss it all so much. Good thing we have these pictures to watch to take us back in time and that’s exactly what I do when I’m down about what’s happening in our would today, I immerse myself in the old movies. Thanks for the comment. Take care and God Bless ….. Brian
You just described my childhood and the childhood of every GenXer - makes me almost cry looking back on it all - its a place in time now frozen forever in our memories
Right on! And remember how after trick or treating you'd inhale a deep breath of ALL those candies scents combined?! I still love that smell. I just don't eat all that candy. Good idea for a candle:
Full Trick Or Treat Bag scent. How about Duncan Yo Yo's? I collected them. And Clic Clacks?! Those were the days. 😂🎉
@@katrinalassberg5649 I actually came across a Halloween candle at Home Goods that smells just like that called *Candy* I still have it. Yes sir! Those were the days and we were lucky to have been able to experience them…
I recently retired as a writer for television trivia quiz shows. I did this for 25 years, and yet, I rarely say no when my favorite head writer or producer calls, and I can now work from home. It led me to working for Lucasfilm and to a thousand places I never dreamed. In 1975, I was 11 years old, I wanted to be a veterinarian, and knew, even then, the days where I would have to face a heartbreaking moment. I was a tough girl and superb Tomboy. And then I walked into a theatre, and when I walked out, I had changed my entire path in life. "That shark was fake, and THAT'S what I want to DO for a living." I wanted to be a Special Effects Technician. And two years later, Steven's pal, George released the film that sealed my doom. I don't know HOW I made it into the film industry, but I did it, and I owe every frame of my OWN biopic to "Jaws". My greatest moment was the day we set up offices on the Universal lot. Sometimes the shark would be pulled from the tour (they have a couple and swap them out) and it would be hanging in its cradle down the backlot. Every time. I'd stop on the way home, get out of the truck, and give Bruce a kiss on the nose to say goodnight. And, yep, I'm sure you've figured out that I'm a Boomer, but I'm still dressing up at conventions and I'm still a huge nerd and still a Tomboy. Never once, have I not blinked back some tears saying goodnight to Bruce. I now have friends named Carl Gottlieb, Joe Alves, Jeffrey Kramer and Roy Arbogast (who gave me a small bag full of teeth cast from Bruce's mold) and a necklace with a tooth so big I keep it in a shot glass, and even Greg Nicotero whose interview here steals all my words and feelings of that first time. It took a few years but I finally got a smacking kiss from Matt Hooper and Dreyfuss and I had that rare moment when one Wise-Ass Meets Another and you KNOW you're going to punk each other. We did. Every time I see this film I see something I never noticed. How Quint is Ahab. How everyone on the Orca plays to their defensive instincts, The Fisherman With a Score To Settle, The Scientist Who Learns He's Out Of His Depth, The New York Cop Who Unloads His .38 Because That's How You Stop A Bad Guy. There's a model of the Orca on my desk, and co-workers who can't believe that "Star Wars" isn't my favorite film, because it also did so much for me. Nope. It's all because of a shark that didn't work half the time, who I never failed to kiss goodnight, under a starry sky. If he bites you, you're hooked, and I always made sure a show had a "Jaws" question in it. I owe it all to a shark named Bruce. Farewell, and Adieu ... Grab the wheel of the Orca and go for it! Chase your own barrels, some night you'll kiss a Great White.
That is amazing!
@@OrcaRebuild Thank you so much. And thank you for this documentary. I have an "Fan Made" 'Amity Surf Inn' Motel key fob on my keys, and missed getting an original barrel by two years (I swear I will have one, even if I have to win the Annual Regatta) I just scored a Beaches Closed sign (so one down) and I am using it to annoy the neighbors we hate who now think I was born in Wakanda because she came bustling over to complain about my 'fascist' flag. I told her it was a small, African nation, my father was a politician ( true) and assigned to their embassy (not true). "We use this flag to honor the ending of the year of growing, of good harvests. a time when family near and far reunite. I'm not sure how you define that as 'facist'., I miss my Wakandan family very much." (Then I went inside and watched "Andor" or something) Her attempts at apologizing to me were used up long ago, but it entertains me beyond words. So does this film. Again, thank you so much for posting this, I saw a lot of friends. Oh, and your rebuild is amazing! A true labor of love. It's crazy how many of the effect and creature design people I know got into the buiness because of this film. There's just something about it.
@@mysteryminx2619 I feel the same way, the movie hooked me in the 70's and made me a superfan by the time I was an adult. Sort of inspired my hobby as a diver (Hooper); then my career as a dive physician. Dreyfuss is one of my favourites now with this and with the Goodbye Girl, but Shaw, Dreyfuss and Scheider together on the screen are just chemistry.
Wow brilliant 👏
I’m in Spain on holiday as a 44 yr old asking myself how many gw sharks are out there when I’m safely sitting on the beach quietly terrified.. Jaws is the reason for this! Lol… wonderful film.
This film is a masterpiece. They just don't make movies like this anymore. CGI wrecks everything these days. The amount of time, energy, and dedication that it took to make Bruce is evident. Even after all these years, that mechanical shark looks more real than any present-day CGI shark. Jaws really was ahead of its time and is the reason why I don't go past ankle deep in the ocean.
I loved that one of the major points of this documentary that was made, by Mr. Spielberg himself, was the fact that the shark continually breaking down ended up serving-not hurting-the film. In fact, Bruce is not seen until about 55 minutes into the movie. I actually think that the recent Godzilla movie, with Bryan Cranston, took a page from Jaws in that respect.
@@MrDuneedon yes, totally agree!!
Honestly the shark in the movie looks a bit fake sometimes to me but even then I understand that they could only work with what they have and it was pretty impressive for what they could possibly do
However, I sometimes still wonder how good the shark in the movie would be if they were given more time and money
I saw the movie in theaters when I was 5 yrs old, I've never recovered!!
Terrified!!
Good to hear Roy Scheider's voice again. Miss him.
You know you can hear his voice in all his movies too right? You sound like you stumbled upon something rare.
It’s really nice when you find something you haven’t seen before with someone who’s been gone a long time in it. I wish Robert Shaw could’ve lived longer to talk about this movie more. Miss that guy too.
Absolutely. He was a wonderful actor.
@@martymcfly3253 😂
@@paulwoodford1984 what is there to laugh at about that?
Even funnier is I’m 48 now . I live in a coastal town in Ireland , where we have no dangerous sharks , and I still can’t swim , because of this film
My son had absolute terror on his face at universal studios ride climax. I felt so bad for that. I was compelled to reassure him but he was stricken silent for the moment. All due to the movie..
I live in Ireland too and I’m the same can’t go in the water at all 😅
Yera….get out in it!!
@@dfahey205I can’t even shower! 😂
@@johnmc3862Was in achill island a few years ago all my family were in the water I wouldn’t touch it 😂
I hope Hollywood never remakes Jaws. It's a flawless masterpiece.
It cant be recreated. MAYBE 10-15 years ago. But not today. Its a part of 1970s America.
Plus they dont really have to remake it. They could just make a new one.
They should do a movie about the making of the movie.
@@lyndoncmp5751 or a miniseries
It's a classic BECAUSE the shark didn't work. We only see a little of the shark throughout the movie.... until the end. Three quarters of the movie takes place in our minds. What you can't see is far more terrifying than what you can see. Spielberg used all his skill and ingenuity to pull that off. No other current director can do this. So, why remake it? What would be the point?....
Actually, the original one can't be remade because Spielberg won't allow it.
One funny thing, is that the book which Ellen and Martin Brody are reading, when telling off Michael for sitting in his sailing boat, is Valerie and John Taylor's book "In the Shark's kingdom". The Australian couple did the under water pictures for JAWS and JAWS 2. I have that book.
Me too! Did a project on sharks in school in the pre Internet days and that book was my main source material
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That's a great detail, thanks!
ron taylor not john 👍
cool you got that book,you should upload a video of you having a look through it
Spielberg had already shown how great a director and filmmaker he was by the time of ' Jaws ' with the brilliant
' Duel ' from 1971.
It's a dam shame that all the hard work, stress and trouble Spielberg went through in the making of Jaws, he wasn't nominated for best director in the Oscars.
Travisty
That's Hollywood for you.
I watched this movie 1,000 times. But, nothing can replicate the first time I saw it. 1975.14 years old. In a sold out theater. No Internet back then, so you couldn't pre-book your seats. You took what was available. I stood in line for two hours with my sister and her brother. We didn't sit together because all they had were individual seats in various spots. This made the movie more frightening. I was pinned to my seat for 2 hours. I've never experienced anything like it since. So, thank you Steven Spielberg for crafting a classic and for creating a terrifying theater experience like no other....
One of the best movie themes ever. This score by John Williams definitely helped towards Jaws major success
OK Mr Film Critic pipe down...
@@TheVanillatech what you blabbering about?
@@simonwells733 People who talk in cliches can shampoo my crotch.
Yes when Roy Scheidner left after two which out I believe august 1979 they should have stopped altogether.
Today, I am a shark (and their cousins) scientist all because of this movie. Saw it for the first time on TV 24 years ago and I was just mesmerized. Nice video 😊
My uncle worked on the lighting of Jaws, those crews with all the lights and reflectors. He said it was a nightmare, the hardest thing he ever worked on.
I've watched a million movies, but there's only one other movie that instilled a psychological terror like Jaws has, and that is, The Exorcist. My knowledge of what religion really is has completely washed any lasting impact from The Exorcist, but to this day I still fear the ocean as much as I did in the 80s. The fact that there is only a 1 and 4,000,000 chance of being killed by a shark proves what a incredibly impactful film Jaws is.
Jaws has the advantage of working through things we KNOW to be real, while The Exorcist only tugs at our fears of things we HOPE are not real. Some people believe they both exist on an equal basis, but that is their problem.
After watching Jaws I was afraid to go in the swimming pool alone lol. After watching The Exorcist & the Omen Damein movies I couldn't walk into a dark room or in my dark bedroom and look at my dolls until the light was turned on
Hey Smartie !! Guess what?? The exorcist now is Much More Real than a mechanical / fake shark and actually , they , as you call them are your problem! Real, but true! I’d think more about reality and the supernatural than a fake shark, I think you’re fine when it comes to that. The supernatural different story, and yes your problem! Love to educate. Do it yourself as well. God Bless!! 🏝🏝💜🦋💎🌈
Love Jaws to death the Exorcist is extremely overrated it gets sucked of way too much imo.
The Exorcist is a masterpiece as well. It doesn’t tell you what to believe and it doesn’t mock the faith either. God is for the faithful and them alone. Evil is easy to spot and the greatest proof of the existence of God
I say it all the time: The greatest movie ever made. You know how the funniest people dont really know they’re funny? Ever play in a garage band? You know how difficult it is to get just 4 people together, really firing on all cylinders to complete even one song with some degree of credibility. This entire movie was that very kind of fight. Spielbergs genius happened to him as he created something no one believed could be done. I mean re writing scripts, day of shooting? Technical difficulties so seemingly overwhelming 99.9% would have quit? Every single day. I was 15 when Jaws was released. Unless you lived during that era, you have no idea how impactful that movie was. It was pandemonium- people wouldnt swim in swimming pools! The movie has a “key largo” another GREAT movie, kind of aura and atmosphere. Perfectly cast, with relatively unknowns, (certainly to me anyway) and some of the greatest shots in cinematic history. Necessity created this movie. Spielberg was driving. GREAT music- its the entire package. Spielberg could have quit then and be held in as high regard as he is today. Robert Shaw IS Quint.
Nearly 50 years old and still THE best film going with sharks other films dont match to this one ❤
Jaws 1 classic, Jaws 2, extremely good, the rest should have not been made... I wonder if they will do something for the 50th anniversary in two years time?
I absolutely love that they included Percy Rodriguez in this; his narration of the trailer is fantastic.
I was today years old when I learned that Star Trek's Commodore Stone was the voice of every movie trailer I was when I was a kid. 👍
The movie wasn't just a good scare, it had an excellent story and character development.
This is so cool. I will still watch Jaws anytime it’s on. Scared me straight out of the ocean decades ago.
Same. lol
Saw it just a few weeks ago in the brand new 3D-Real in the theater. It was flawless.
The lines around the theaters at that time were incredible!
I saw it in LA in 1975 when it was first released. Fresh and new. The fellow I saw it with and I were working in cue cards at the time on Hollywood Squares and many other TV game shows. It blew us both away and taught us so much about film making. This is a wonderful documentary about the making of a classic!
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Was the mechanical shark amazing to you upon first seeing the film or did it come off as being too fake?
Grew up in the 90s but damn I wish I was a kid / teen growing up in the 80s..life looked so much more fun and wholesome
I was always glad Spielberg left out the affair between Hooper and Mrs Brody it was completely unnecessary in the book
Sadly today and since the 70's, every disaster/monster movie has an estranged husband or wife, and or a child of a divorced couple. It's weak writing when they have to resort to cheap tactics to pull emotion from the audience.
One thing I don’t understand.
Is in all these documentaries about Jaws.
They never talk about the scene when Quint gets eaten.
That was a very powerful moment in the movie.
And I’ve always wanted to know how they shot it.
But it’s the one scene they never discuss.
Exactly, yes I think the same and ask myself why??
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It was real that's why. 😂
My favorite movie! I just so wish people hadn’t gone after sharks because of a book of fiction. Sharks aren’t monsters!
its not just the visual spectacle ......its the story and the characters
So the Jaws poster was the 20th century's most popular meme?
1:27:38 I am very pleased to say that this mold has been brought, refurbished, and is now on display at the Los Angeles academy museum of motion pictures. As it is well deserved
Excellent!
That s wonderful!
I remember seeing this movie at the drive-in when I was like 4 years old. This movie made me deathly afraid of water, yet interested in sharks.
For the Past 5 years I do a JAWS Movie Night in my backyard on a big projection screen. I theme the entire party out from food to drinks to candy and snacks and put out all my JAWS memorabilia. And I have a ton of it including an autographed JAWS movie poster, The Orca Boat Model, Action Figures, Shark Teeth, Themed Lighting to replicate ocean waves and sound effects. You name it, I do it all and wish I could show you guys photos of it all, so that any of you major JAWS Fans that may be interested in creating something like this in your own backyard. I have about 40 guests show up every summer for my Annual JAWS movie Night Event!
I’m such a JAWS Fanatic that I literally have to Celebrate this movie every summer!
I must have watched this video on UA-cam alone about 20 times already and it’s not even the actual movie! Lol! 🦈
Wow that sounds epic!
I still watch it once a year during Shark Week.
As a kid during that summer of 1975, sharks were all we talked about…. We loved getting scared! It even spilled over into the summer of 1976. There was a huge shark mania that was sort of mirrored by dinosaur mania 20 years later, with the release of Jurassic Park . Mr Spielberg is truly a genius for the ages. Makes me sad that the era of the great summer blockbuster seems to be ending.
Spielberg is a child predator
I think “seems” is a bit hopeful
@@theowlsarenotwhattheyseem69 yeah. It’s over.
We've got our music and movie libraries.
I'm 52, I'm showing my 12 year old little by little.
It's really too bad that JJ Abrams has turned out to be kind of a dud. He was being set up to be the next Spielberg for a couple of years there.
I still bust this classic feature film out at least once every summer and I probably always will. The shark is most definitely STILL working!
Please I watch it at least 5 times per summer
The original bruce is terrifying
I was born in 1960 and everything you said brought me back to that time! We were gone all day riding our bikes, skating with the skates you attached to your shoes, playing baseball with whatever kids showed up, and knew to be home when it got dark. We never ran out of things to do, swimming at the public pool, going to movies with friends in the afternoon or the drivein, we would all pile in the car and have the best time! Going to the gas station for penny candy, finding snakes and snapping turtles, and taking them home to show mom! Lol Taking my dog with me everywhere, knocking on friends doors to ask if your friend can come out and play, imaginations running wild, riding horses, watching the Wizard of Oz once a year excited when it came on tv! Friends all trick or treating together without parents coming along. Slumber parties! I remember my whole family went together to watch Jaws and it still came into my mind when I went whale watching in Maui and I was dangling my foot in the water and remembered Jaws and pulled my foot out of the water with a feeling of panic! Lol Remember snow fights and building snow forts? My dad would build a fire in the snow and we would roast hot dogs and marshmallows! Thank you for taking me back in time to all those wonderful memories!
MALE children have a fascination with sharks and dinosaurs?! Excuse me, but I know plenty of GIRLS with that same fascination…including ME!
Lighten up, it’s not that serious
He didn't say that they didn't, he said probably every boy did, which is probably true.
To see and hear Robert Shaw, Peter Benchley and Roy Scheider so many years after they have passed is a wonder of modern technology. May they all Rest in Peace.
Jaws! I was 10 years old and my mother let me go with a friend and his mom. To this day when that head pops out of that boat, I still jump back. Great film. Classic cinema.
Ya I snuck in from watching Bambi, I was 9 , at that head moment it freaked the Hell out of me,,
The reaction shot of Dreyfuss to Brody being slapped is one of the greatest one second clips you're ever going to see out of ANY movie.
And the fact that the lady went on slapping for years and lost count.. 😆
It really is a very realistic reaction and is a great shot
Probably cause she was really slapping him
@@scaleworksRC Can you imagine being famous for slapping and have people coming up to you and asking you to slap them. That's freaky, obsessive and hilarious at the same time. 😧😂😚
Stephen Spielberg managed to create suspense magic by utilizing the situation with the troubled mechanisms of Bruce, and making it a master stroke by not showing the shark for most of the movie. Literally reminding humanity of the fact that we fear most what we can't see. And the ocean is truly a beautiful but terrifying world altogether, hence why we have not even conquered the ocean yet even.
What an awesome movie thanks for the memories.
thank god that the mechanical shark never worked
and thank god for john williams....his score was the best fx on the movie
I have a bunch of ”comfort” movies I can watch anytime , over and over. American grafiti , Jaws , Slap shot , Cannonball run , The Warriors , Alien , Animal house , Blade runner , Escape from New York , The Thing , 1941 , Raiders of the lost ark , Vacation , Christmas vacation , The Goonies , The terminator , The Breakfast club , Aliens , Back to the future , Die hard , The princess bride , Dazed and confused , and T2. If I’m zapping around the channels , and any of them is on , I usually watch it to the end.
25:05 this is the guy that was the loan shark in Rocky 👍
I was 14 when I saw it, and when the shark chomped down on Quint then blood was spitting out of his mouth. I was literally on the floor of the movie theater crying.
That scene has to be the grisliest scene in the movie. I love blood and gore, but I ALWAYS close my eyes when the shark bites Quint. Not because it's scary, but because it looks so excrutiatingly painful!
Yep, I still look away. I saw that way too many times on VHS as a kid
by far one of the best movies i have seen. todays movies get ruined by special effects so jaws to me looked as real as you would see one in real life
WERE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT classic line. GREAT MOVIE.
every summer is JAWS season for me. Every year i watch the movie often between May and August
I always thought the music was reflecting the shark moving it's tail fin. Left....... right........ left....... right....... left, right, left, right, leftrightleftrightLEFTRIGHTLEFTRIGHT, pretty clear that it's the shark coming nearer and faster. And, you're just sitting there, horrified :D I can't imagine this film without that score.
😤 He was robbed of 2 more Oscars: Best Picture and Best Director 😓😓😓
One of the true great flix of our lifetime. Pray it never gets remade and tarnish its legacy. Still scares me every time I watch it! Thats the hallmark of a great picture.
I don't know it seems like if they remade it you'd have another chance to make yourself a victim about something…
The fucking absolute height of self centeredness to think that a remake somehow tarnishes the legacy of one of the fucking top movies on the AFI list of all time… you know they made three absolutely trash fucking sequels to the movie right? But those don't tarnish the Jaws legacy…? Jaz became a literal fucking punchline it back to the future part two… But that didn't tarnish the legacy? But a remake would… Because poor little guy would get sad…
Poor little guy… How do you find a safe space on the Internet?
Shhh! Don't jinx it! Hollywood has run out of ideas, so they probably will attempt a reboot.
It’s sad that they took down the ride at Universal in Orlando. Very fond memories of that ride while growing up. Now, it’s apart of the Harry Potter world. Sad … But not that mad. 😝
My brother was absolutely obsessed with this series as a kid , had the jaws lunchbox and all the toys and everything in between , even wanted to become a marine biologist as early as grade 2 !
this movie ment alot to him .
George Costanza is your brother?
Series? I take it your brother also liked the sequels? Including “The Revenge?”
I say series because it was a series of movies , and I won't pretend to know the names but I know he loved them all surly some more then others
Thanks for posting this. It is very much of its time, and yet is also timeless for many.
Yes I remember watching it first at the cinema, and yes again, there was a large part of viewers who jumped a mile, at the face in the boat scene. Such a shame that so many who were involved are no longer with us.
The shark is definitely still working in my world….Jaws is one of my faves to this day, my go to.
What sucks is I know there is like a 3-4 hour version of this doc, I saw the leaked copy online like 12 years ago (give or take) before Universal bought the rights and it discussed the other films as well. It sucks that there is no copy of that floating around anywhere.
Yep I saw that
I knew I wasn't crazy! I've seen it, I was wondering where some of the content went, since this documentary has the same name
I am a huge fan of Jaws and this was excellent ❤❤
I could never make out what was going on when Alex is killed. It’s all flippers and fins 😅
that's the point
I was 10 yrs old when Jaws came out. Great memory of my folks taking my sister and I to the drive-in. It remains my favorite movie ever. I started the Jaws fan club in my neighborhood. I was Jaws for Halloween. I had the Jaws game and other shark toys. Because of this movie, I became obsessed with sharks. I even got a shark tattoo. To this day my mom still buys me shark stuff. This video is amazing. Good to know I am not alone in my love for Jaws. Thank you and a big Thank you to Mr. Spielberg ❤️🦈
I was 10, also. 10 or 11. I remember it was the first 'PG' film I was allowed to go to without my parents. I went with my sister and a friend. The scariest part to me was when Brody was throwing the chum and makes a funny comment. As we were laughing, Jaws came up out of the water. Whoa! The next summer, our family went to Florida for the first time and my stepdad and I drifted out a little too far on our rafts. When we realized it, I abandoned my raft and started swimming as hard and fast as I could toward shore, leaving my stepdad. I laugh about it now, because he was nervous because he wasn't the strongest swimmer but I was nervous because I just knew that Jaws was underneath me. Still love the movie.
For me Jaws is like that classic bit of Americana. Its like the Saturday Evening post come to life. All of those classic Summer posters and paintings of times at the beach. Remembering back to the Summers of 75 as a kid. I get such a ridiculously huge feeling of nostalgia watching Jaws. It is a landmark film.
I remember going to see Jaws. It was exciting and scary, and the theater went wild throughout the movie. Saw it every time they re-released it in theaters, and I went back to the theater to see it on the 40th anniversary showing. I had a Jaws t-shirt and a shark pillow. I have watched it at least once a year on dvd since. My favorite movie. And the best made movie of its genre I think. This was action, adventure and suspense. It scared the crap out of you and we loved it!
Saw it on the 40th Anniversary in 2015 at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. The crowd went wild during the famous scenes like, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”. I had never seen it before in a theater even though I was 15 when it came out in 1975. It’s better on the big screen. The acting was superb throughout, including all the extras. Murray Hamilton as the mayor was fantastic in all his scenes but especially when he and Brody and Hooper are discussing cutting open the tiger shark. The psychological struggle on his face about having to deal with the needs of the townsfolk (and keeping his job) and the needs of safety and the law is a master class in acting. He was a great actor.
Jaws has been my favorite movie ever since I was a kid. I even had the Jaws game where you have the little fishing poles and you fish out the stuff from Jaws' mouth. I also saw Jaws in concert at the State Theater on October 30, 2022. The New Jersey Orchestra played the whole movie's score and it was awesome.
shame they dont come over to london on tour. my favourite movie of all time
It came out when I was 8. I remember it terrified me and my friends and even scared my big brother. Yet we couldnt wait to see it again. We lived near the Ohio river. We were scared to go swim in the river. It truly was a great movie. Great actors.
I was 9 and still love jaws today. With all the shark movies that came out over the years none of them could ever beat the original classic Jaws🦈🦈
Speilberg should have got the Oscar.
The shot of the shark opening its mouth wider before attacking Alex Kitner was very effective. I'm sorry the in-camera outtake wasn't preserved. I saw the still in a magazine before seeing the movie and that image was frightening.
I luv this documentary...thanks for showing this😊😊😊
From the first second Jaws to the last second, this movie entertains you like no other movie. It's also those little things that does it for me like for example; when Hooper visits Brody in his house with red wine and white wine he said to his wife he likes to talk with her husband and she says So do I. Jaws is not just a creature feature but also an incredible feast for compelling dialogs between characters.
That’s a 20 footer…. 25, 3 tons of him 👍😂
Protect EVERY SHARK worldwide. Thank you. From : SHARK RESEARCH Opal & Silver Coasts (EU)
Wow, I so don't give a sh!t what Kevin Smith has to say about anything, especially Jaws.
Show me the way to go home,
Im tired and I wana go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago and its gone right to my head.
Where ever I may roam, by land or sea or foam, you will always hear me singing this song...
Show me the way to go home ⚓🌊🦈
Nooooooo! 🦈 😁
12:47 is one of my favorite scenes. It’s a very wholesome moment between Brody and Sean. Like father, like son.
I think this is one of the few times that the movie was better than the book
All these years later, the fear of the shark....is STILL working. How ironic.
I was 16 when it came out, I'm an adrenaline junky, I played hockey, jumped quarries over a 100', rode motorcycles my whole life, and a lifeguard, grew up on the ocean, literally a water baby, swim like a fish, waterskiing, after I saw this movie, I literally looked around while I took a shower,lol, in our swimming pool, only right after I saw it, but that's how impactful it was on me, I noticed at the beach I worked, people weren't going out far in the ocean, it was insane.
As a kid after seeing jaws I was scared to be in the bathtub
The music was a huge reason, the fact that the shark broke down a lot, they had to use the camera as the sharks point of view, and that made you use your imagination.
I adore Richard Dreyfuss and this makes me love that man even more😄❤
There was so much talent associated with this movie, but a lot of credit must go to the editor who made a cohesive brilliant movie out of the footage collected on location. The innovation of having the sound of the next scene before the cut of next scene is widely used today, but groundbreaking then.
Love this movie. Watch it every year, I never go in the sea. Have the book as well. xx
I'm a Jaws fanatic fan and have read all the books and even taught Jaws instead of Moby Dick to my college students. I've seen all the documentaries on Jaws but this is the absolute best!!...thank you...one of my five favorite films of all time and I teach literature and film.
Go to www.jawsob.com and find out about the Book of Quint novel, and the Jaws Obsession Podcast.
Seriously? You subjected your students to Jaws over Melvilles classic? Whats next? The Dandy comic, instead of Shakespeare?
Teachers these days...
I love Melville, btw, but I did what I had to. Go away
@@markbrodie2784 Sounds to me like you did what *you* wanted to. Like far too many other teachers.
@@markbrodie2784Love it!
I just saw the play, The Shark Is Broken, on Wednesday night in NYC. This documentary is a fantastic accompaniment to that production!
In Plymouth, Michigan back in 1976 I snuck into the Penn theater to see Jaws. I was 14 at the time and the movie was rated R. To this day I still think about it whenever I go waste deep into the ocean. That is as far as I will go. This is still one of my favorite movies. I do wonder, however, how many sharks have been needlessly killed out of peoples fears or desires to collect revenues off of the animals teeth and jaws. Thankfully, there are people like Jonathan Bird and his UA-cam channel "Blue World" that are helping to educate people on the true nature of these amazing animals.
Sharks were being hunted and fished for long before Jaws came out. Jaws only enhanced the interest in shark fishing. I'd argue that Jaws has done more good for sharks than bad. There are countless scientists, researchers, activists, and fisherman who use the catch and release method, all because of Jaws.
@@OrcaRebuild That is really good to know. Thank you!
My favorite movie of all time. Perfection.
My top #1 movie of all times, a truly classic masterpiece .