Yup, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat-up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
Remarkably, Quint’s speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is a historical fact. It really happened! His vivid description of the tragedy that resulted is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he wanted to secure the bounty and reward for killing the Great White, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge - or perhaps personal redemption - for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by killing the man-eating shark himself.
It is a true story, to some degree. The shark attack bit is a bit overplayed. The vast majority of sailors died to hydration, injuries etc. I'm in Indianapolis and we have a big memorial of it downtown, always a fascinating, heartbreaking story.
Glad you liked it. The first time I watched it in my local cinema, I hid my head under my coat many times ! In the original book, Hooper was killed in the cage. The author, Peter Benchley had a cameo part as the reporter on the beach.
@@OneAndOnlyMe I was 10 in 75. The Ben Gardner jump scare profoundly affected me. I stopped taking baths, boating, & would not swim in a lake. Ironic that I enlisted in the Navy; wanted to become an Icthiologist, & joined the Cousteau Society.
One of the two boys with the fake shark fin is now the Police Chief of Oak Bluffs, which was Amity Island in Jaws. Quint - "Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him. Ha, ha, ha, ha" "Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed an "Alex Kintner Sandwich" on the menu. She commented that she had played his mother many years ago. Jeffrey Voorhees, owner of the restaurant, ran out to meet her. He had played her son, and they hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot." Quint's monologue about the U.S.S. Indianapolis is based on true events.
Great reaction! A random bit of trivia, a few years ago the actress who played the mum of the dead kid saw on a restaurant menu 'Kittner burger' she told the waitress who she was in the film, and it turned out her former dead son was the restaurant owner. He came out and, they met for the first time in decades.
Brody was looking at his appendix surgery scar. Back then it was a common procedure to remove the appendix if there were any related health issues. Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue was based on the worst mass animal attack in history. Quint blamed all the deaths on the sharks which wasn't true, but we can excuse that because of the PTSD Quint had suffered from it. It was that PTSD which gave Quint his obsession for hunting sharks. Quint lived for revenge on all sharks and Jaws would have been his largest trophy. Brody had been frustrating Quint repeatedly by wanting to call for help on the radio. This could destroy Quint's reputation as "the shark hunter who needed help". Since Quint felt he lived through far worse without a radio, he was fine with destroying it. It was only when Jaws took down 3 barrels did Quint first realize he was in over his head.
Sharks generally don't go for humans. They get us confused with prey like seals. They take a bite, realise you're not a seal, then go away......unfortunately, that one bite can take your leg off. Some sharks are more aggressive that others. This movie was kinda singlehandedly responsible to creating the perception that sharks are monsters. A lot of wildlife experts have been pushing back against that since 1975.
That is not even remotely close to be true people were scared to go swimming I mean why would I be scared of a glass of water because a glass of water is clear you can see what's in it and the ocean is dark and gloomy you can't see Jack squat
The weird underwater noises at the very beginning were shrimp feeding. The underwater recording equipment accidentally picked these noises up so they decided to include them in the opening titties, like the shark itself was hearing them.
There is a good example of foreshadowing in this movie that everyone seems to miss: when Chief Brody is looking through books about sharks, researching the subject, while thumbing through the books, he comes across a photo of a giant shark with a compressed air tank from a diver in its mouth. Of course, this comes full circle at the end of the movie when Brody destroys the shark by shooting the compressed air tank in its jaws. I am always surprised that no one ever points that out; it seems like such an obvious oversight to me…
Great reaction 😊👏👏 I remember when I was in the military and they took us out in the Ocean and had us swim to shore. All I could think about was was this movie. 😳I was 19 then. Now ain’t no way. 😊🤣🤣
For my money, Quint's death scene is still one of, if not the, most horrific things ever shown in a fictional movie. I was 10 years old when I saw this in the theater when it was released, and it was one of the most traumatic things I had ever seen then, and I honestly can't come up with something more horrific that I've seen since then. When he is sliding towards the thrashing shark ... oh wow ... good thing Star Wars was only 2 years later! 🙂
The fact that shes in the brodys house in jaws 4 shows that she probly ended up learning that martin wanted the beach closed and her sons death wasnt martins fault.
@@HorrorFan-WrestlingFan Yes. But we were spared having to see that. But that wasn't my point. My point was that most people, perhaps including Caol, get more upset over dogs dying than people. Carol looked at all those people in the water, any of them could die, but she said "Oh no no no no no. Not the dog, not the dog!" at 6:00.
The story Quint tells about the Indianapolis is a true story. A Val warship sunk by the Japanese. Over 1,000 men went in the water and by the time help arrived 2/3 had been eaten by sharks
This is a great movie and you made a great reaction video.. I will give you a movie suggestion for you to react too some day put it down on your list, this is a very exciting spy thriller with famous actors and a great story don't be fooled by the title its super thrilling! Marathon Man (1976)
The scene where Capt is discussing his WW2 encounter with sharks is.a true story (though enhanced a bit) . When they first shot it Robert Shaw(who played Quint)was drunk as usual but director Steven Speilberg figured it was the best they were going to get. The next morning when he sobered up RS went to SS and asked to do the scene again. That is what we got in the movie.
18:41 yes you're absolutely right the crowds there for the shark because they haven't mentioned like 10 times at the town is a summertown which means that Town makes its money during the summertime but you wouldn't know that because you can't keep your mouth shut
FYI: THE scenario where Chrissie is swimming in the ocean, silhouetted by the moon above, is an omage to THE CREATURE OF THE BLACK LAGOON: One of Speilburgs favorite movies.
Many think, that Quint acted with greed when he smashed the radio. But the truth is, Quint's biggest problem, and the very thing that got him killed, was a Mutinous crew! Both Brody & Hooper agreed Quint would be the Captain. And yet, they were constantly challenging him, questioning and Disobeying their Captain's orders. Personally, I would have thrown them both overboard. But, Quint was a good and kind man. And so, he died.
I watched Jaws when I was 10 years old in 1978. I haven’t been past shin deep in the ocean since. I don’t even like swimming in fresh water if I can’t see the bottom.
The person portraying the reporter on the beach for July 4th was Peter Benchley. The author of the book, "Jaws". He also participated in writing the script for the film. Great film. Loved watching you react to it. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
The film is an absolute masterpiece of suspense and subtle character moments and beats (like the hint that Brody was attacked by something in the water). Sadly, far too many people took the 'sharks are evil man-eaters' as the message of the movie, and it led to a lot of fear and killing/culling of sharks. Really, the movie is about humans vs. nature and how different people react to nature and to things beyond their control happening. You get ignoring/minimizing (the mayor), fear (Brody), curiosity (Hooper), and anger (Quint). In many ways the shark itself is just the impersonal stand in for nature and things beyond human control. The 'man-eater' shark is a myth, when humans are in the water with sharks (the shark's natural environment, not ours) there is of course always a risk of a bite, but that is frequently a young shark that gets confused due to various factors. There has only been one, confirmed, incidence of a single shark attacking more than one person. We don't taste very good to sharks and we have a poor amount of fat and muscle for our size, so it isn't exactly worth it for them, which is why it is usually young sharks with factors that made them confused. Incidents like the Indianapolis are a little different, as that was a large number of humans in a small area in the middle of the ocean were food is overall more scarce, with smaller sharks that are more prone to eat just about anything they can get, and things closer to our size. The famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau described those sharks, the Oceanic White Tip sharks, as by far the most dangerous species of shark.
@@zedwpd More like 90% of dogs and 10-15% of cat love "unconditionally". Some don't. They're more hard coded to ancient instincts. Anyway, unconditional love is "blind" love and will often do nothing but make someone turn a blind eye to subtle abuse and then the "blind lover" becomes something known as a "victim". A lot of people don't ponder that with animals because they are animals.
It was because of the animatronic shark's constant malfunctions that we didn't get to see it throughout most of the movie. It worked in the movie's favor, adding suspense, and giving viewers the first summer blockbuster movie.
Im afraid that's become a myth, based on the skewed and exaggerated documentaries. The shark was actually not scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The beach attack scenes were filmed early, in May and June 1974 in shallow water. Impossible to use Bruce. Spielberg kept the shark hidden by design. He was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. The mechanical shark/s were never scheduled to be used for any scenes until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's when it kept malfunctioning, all through July and August and into September. They had a perfectly good working fin contraption that they could have used throughout, but Spielberg didnt even want to show the fins until the pond scene. Later at the end of location shooting in September they filmed an insert shot of Bruce taking the Kintner dummy on the raft but even that shot, done by Joe Alves after Spielberg had already left Martha's Vineyard, showed more than intended. Alves wanted more sunshine obscuring Bruce but by the time the shot was ready the sun had moved and the shot wasn't as Alves intended. They did use it though. The first shark moment filmed on Martha's Vineyard was the holiday roast/pier scene with a completely and deliberately unseen shark. This was filmed in May 1974. At that time they didnt even KNOW that Bruce wouldn't work. Bruce was only tested in the salt water for the first time in mid June, after some shark moments had already been filmed. More details can be found in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Jaws Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Cheers.
Movie geeks out there, if you want to know where Spielberg got all his suspense tricks from, watch a little unknown movie called....wait for it..."Psycho". And then, listen to the opening theme music to both movies. Interesting, huh? And at the jump scares in both movies, a woman screams(!?). In Jaws, the scene is underwater, so what?
Has anyone stopped to consider that Jaws is one of the most tragic love stories in the movies? Here you have a shark of of nature's greatest sea animals. This shark loves the island and it's inhabitants so much that he tries to get the tourists to leave. He just wanted them to have their peaceful island back. It was his gift to them. But the evil greedy mayor wanted these tourists anyway so he and his cronies could make money at the expense of the locals. This villainous tyrant ordered Jaws to be hunted down and killed. What was his crime you ask. It was his love for his neighbors that he sacrificed himself. Such a tragic story
Brody was a New York Cop that was shot in the line of duty. Almost being killed made him rethink about being a city cop, so he requested a transfer. Although afraid of the water, he chose Amity because of the low crime rate.
Body's scar was from an appendix. Not exactly brag worthy. Hooper died in the book. The Second film crew, who were filming sharks in Australia, got that absolutely breathtaking shot of the shark tangled in the cage. Spielberg asked was the stunt diver in the cage? No. So, they let Hooper live to use that footage.
Carol, it gets really cold 🥶 in Canada right. Imagine you couldn't have any income. How are you going to heat your home, feed your family, pay your mortgage? You might even lose your home now imagine you have young children or that you are elderly. It gets cold there too. How many people will die if they shut down the beaches the only revenue those people have for a whole year.
32:22 No, it IS a great white, but stronger, more persistent and more danger than any of the great white sharks Quint and Hooper had dealt with before.
True, it was the mayor's fault, but Brody could have pushed it until he got fired. It that hadn't made news enough and the boy got killed anyway, the following stink may have prevented the third and fourth victim.
I really enjoy your reactions. Would you consider watching a movie with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek? It's called "Desperado." Tarantino is also in it.
Everybody who watches this movie hates the mayor. Here's a couple thoughts: 1. In real life, sharks don't do this. A shark feeds, then swims away. There's really no chance that the first girl, Chrissy, and the boy, Alex, were killed by the same shark since Chrissy's shark would be a hundred miles away by the time Alex Kintner died. 2. This is a summer town that makes all their money during the summer. Closing the beaches means half the businesses go bankrupt and half the town's people go on welfare or move away. Quint even said so, right after he did the fingernails on the chalkboard scene: he said "pay up, Chief, or the whole town will be on welfare this winter." Nobody objected, they all know it's true. Given those two points, the mayor would be an idiot to close the beaches. Real mayors don't close real beaches after a shark attack. Occasionally, for just a few hours, to give the shark time to swim away. But that's it, and most of them don't do that too, because of the final point: 3. Sharks don't kill people or even bite people on purpose. If a person gets bit, it's because the shark made a mistake and it won't make it twice. So the BEST time to go into the water is right after a shark bites somebody else. That shark won't bite anybody ever again. Not sure about that third point? 250 million Americans go to U.S. beaches every year. About 50 of them get bit each year, and just 2-3 of those, on average, die from sharkbite. Also, just search for videos of great white sharks swimming with humans. You'll find hundreds of videos showing thousands of sharks around tens of thousands of humans, and nobody getting bit. "Interesting that the mayor isn't going in the water. I wonder why?" Maybe because he's being a politician. He's talking to reporters, shaking hands, making promises. He's using this crowd to DO HIS JOB.
Hay I live in a beach town, all they needed to do was to stay out of the water for a while, people can still spend money and lay on the beach just don’t go into the water for a little while. It’s been done and nobody looses money or their holiday. Remember in THIS MOVIE it’s a killer shark that people are reacting to, sharks don’t do that, to that extent, they just get confused on what you are in the water. The mayor pissed me off when he made that family go into the water. Everyone is still spending money. 😣
Everyone think Spielberg made such a gear choice saying do long to reveal the shark. The truth his, the mechanical shark caused several problems and the first sank yo the bottom of the ocean as soon as they put it in and they needed to build another. This was only Spielberg’s 2nd film, and he didn’t want any delays in what was already turning into a difficult shoot, so he shot around nor having a shark.
Im afraid that's become a myth, based on the skewed and exaggerated documentaries. The shark was actually not scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The beach attack scenes were filmed early, in May and June 1974 in shallow water. Impossible to use Bruce. Spielberg kept the shark hidden by design. He was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. The mechanical shark/s were never scheduled to be used for any scenes until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's when it kept malfunctioning, all through July and August and into September. They had a perfectly good working fin contraption that they could have used throughout, but Spielberg didnt even want to show the fins until the pond scene. Later at the end of location shooting in September they filmed an insert shot of Bruce taking the Kintner dummy on the raft but even that shot, done by Joe Alves after Spielberg had already left Martha's Vineyard, showed more than intended. Alves wanted more sunshine obscuring Bruce but by the time the shot was ready the sun had moved and the shot wasn't as Alves intended. They did use it though. The first shark moment filmed on Martha's Vineyard was the holiday roast/pier scene with a completely and deliberately unseen shark. This was filmed in May 1974. At that time they didnt even KNOW that Bruce wouldn't work. Bruce was only tested in the salt water for the first time in mid June, after some shark moments had already been filmed. More details can be found in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Jaws Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Cheers.
6:30 6 and 1/2 minutes into the movie could you please shut Henry saying how dangerous it is to go swimming right now walking across the streets just as dangerous some chill out
Brody's scar was just from having his appendix removed. That was the best scar he had to compare to the other two's. 😄
I was expecting a crazy story about it haha
Ben Gardner’s head - Jump scaring people since 1975. 😂
Yup, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat-up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
Don't you wonder why nobody ever missed him? Somebody had to have noticed he was gone.
Fifty years later, this film still holds up. Which is why it's the greatest movie ever made.
It’s really good! I love the practical effects
The reporter standing on the beach was Peter Benchley, the author of _Jaws._
Red thing: shooting star.
Remarkably, Quint’s speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is a historical fact. It really happened! His vivid description of the tragedy that resulted is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he wanted to secure the bounty and reward for killing the Great White, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge - or perhaps personal redemption - for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by killing the man-eating shark himself.
It is a true story, to some degree. The shark attack bit is a bit overplayed. The vast majority of sailors died to hydration, injuries etc. I'm in Indianapolis and we have a big memorial of it downtown, always a fascinating, heartbreaking story.
Glad you liked it. The first time I watched it in my local cinema, I hid my head under my coat many times ! In the original book, Hooper was killed in the cage. The author, Peter Benchley had a cameo part as the reporter on the beach.
Greatest jump scare scene in cinema history. I love watching people's reaction to it. I was 10 years old when I first saw it.
I was 11, at the cinema. I'll never forget it. It's been my favourite movie for 50 years.
@@OneAndOnlyMe I was 10 in 75. The Ben Gardner jump scare profoundly affected me. I stopped taking baths, boating, & would not swim in a lake. Ironic that I enlisted in the Navy; wanted to become an Icthiologist, & joined the Cousteau Society.
If you watch it backwards, it's a heartwarming tale of a shark that swims around giving legs and arms to disabled people.
That's the funniest response I've heard in a long time.🤣
@robertmaez6706 😀glad you liked it!
C’mon man, there’s no way you came up with that yourself.😂
@courtside9445 I'm happy to say I didn't. I did see that online years ago and it stuck in my head😄
One of the two boys with the fake shark fin is now the Police Chief of Oak Bluffs, which was Amity Island in Jaws.
Quint - "Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him. Ha, ha, ha, ha"
"Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed an "Alex Kintner Sandwich" on the menu. She commented that she had played his mother many years ago. Jeffrey Voorhees, owner of the restaurant, ran out to meet her. He had played her son, and they hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot."
Quint's monologue about the U.S.S. Indianapolis is based on true events.
JAWS has one of the best jump scares in cinematic history. AT 10 years old in 1975, I was truly traumatized for life!!!
I can imagine 😰
As a child our teachers always scratched the chalkboard with their fingernails to cause the class to get quite, it always worked.
Oh no.. that sounds like a nightmare! :(
To perform the cutting open of an animal, is called a Necropsy.
Brody's scar was an appendix/gall bladder scar and he was kind of embarrassed he didn't have a good story. Loved your reaction!!
Thank you! :)
This movie will never get old.
Great reaction! A random bit of trivia, a few years ago the actress who played the mum of the dead kid saw on a restaurant menu 'Kittner burger' she told the waitress who she was in the film, and it turned out her former dead son was the restaurant owner. He came out and, they met for the first time in decades.
Brody was looking at his appendix surgery scar. Back then it was a common procedure to remove the appendix if there were any related health issues.
Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue was based on the worst mass animal attack in history. Quint blamed all the deaths on the sharks which wasn't true, but we can excuse that because of the PTSD Quint had suffered from it. It was that PTSD which gave Quint his obsession for hunting sharks. Quint lived for revenge on all sharks and Jaws would have been his largest trophy.
Brody had been frustrating Quint repeatedly by wanting to call for help on the radio. This could destroy Quint's reputation as "the shark hunter who needed help". Since Quint felt he lived through far worse without a radio, he was fine with destroying it. It was only when Jaws took down 3 barrels did Quint first realize he was in over his head.
Thank you for such an insightful comment!
Sharks generally don't go for humans. They get us confused with prey like seals. They take a bite, realise you're not a seal, then go away......unfortunately, that one bite can take your leg off. Some sharks are more aggressive that others. This movie was kinda singlehandedly responsible to creating the perception that sharks are monsters. A lot of wildlife experts have been pushing back against that since 1975.
In the book, by Peter Benchley. MATT HOOPER IS KILLED,by the great white shark. He had an affair with Ellen Brody.
I like the decoration of the clapper in the background very movie appropriate
Thank you :)
when jaws came out, people were afraid to be near A GLASS OF WATER! 😂 great reaction! 👍☺
Yeah, you knew you were affected by the movie when you would be looking around in a pool as a kid.
Just like _Psycho_ made us afraid of the shower. 🚿 🔪
Truth. I was afraid of a local lake in Indiana. Lol
@@orangeandblackattackI won’t go swimming, even in fresh water, if I can’t see the bottom
That is not even remotely close to be true people were scared to go swimming I mean why would I be scared of a glass of water because a glass of water is clear you can see what's in it and the ocean is dark and gloomy you can't see Jack squat
What a great reaction...thank you for taking the time to do it.Looking forward to what come next. Have a great weekend.
his scar was so minor (likely appendix) that he was ashamed to discuss it
I think it’s from being shot. That’s why he’s the police chief in Amity now, and not working in NYC, where he’s from.
The weird underwater noises at the very beginning were shrimp feeding. The underwater recording equipment accidentally picked these noises up so they decided to include them in the opening titties, like the shark itself was hearing them.
I always found those sounds pretty eerie, especially when the main theme starts soon after. Very ominous and sets up what's about to happen
There is a good example of foreshadowing in this movie that everyone seems to miss: when Chief Brody is looking through books about sharks, researching the subject, while thumbing through the books, he comes across a photo of a giant shark with a compressed air tank from a diver in its mouth. Of course, this comes full circle at the end of the movie when Brody destroys the shark by shooting the compressed air tank in its jaws. I am always surprised that no one ever points that out; it seems like such an obvious oversight to me…
Great reaction 😊👏👏 I remember when I was in the military and they took us out in the Ocean and had us swim to shore. All I could think about was was this movie. 😳I was 19 then. Now ain’t no way. 😊🤣🤣
Jaws is a classic!! I love this movie :)
It’s so good!
For my money, Quint's death scene is still one of, if not the, most horrific things ever shown in a fictional movie. I was 10 years old when I saw this in the theater when it was released, and it was one of the most traumatic things I had ever seen then, and I honestly can't come up with something more horrific that I've seen since then. When he is sliding towards the thrashing shark ... oh wow ... good thing Star Wars was only 2 years later! 🙂
When the boy´s mother slaps Brody you´re partly right: yes, it´s mainly the mayor´s fault, but she doesn´t know that. So it´s good writing.
The fact that shes in the brodys house in jaws 4 shows that she probly ended up learning that martin wanted the beach closed and her sons death wasnt martins fault.
a good thing about the power of voting.. the Mayor of Jaws one is STILL the mayor in Jaws 2 after all that happens
That’s insane!
7:02 "OMG, it's the kid?"
Yeah, but at least it isn't the dog...
You do know the shark killed the dog before killing the kid that is why the guy couldn't find it and the bit of wood was just floating in the water
@@HorrorFan-WrestlingFan Yes.
But we were spared having to see that.
But that wasn't my point.
My point was that most people, perhaps including Caol, get more upset over dogs dying than people.
Carol looked at all those people in the water, any of them could die, but she said "Oh no no no no no. Not the dog, not the dog!" at 6:00.
Great reaction Carol, your very animated and I love the laughs and smiles! Keep being awesome! I say that respectfully of course!
The story Quint tells about the Indianapolis is a true story. A Val warship sunk by the Japanese. Over 1,000 men went in the water and by the time help arrived 2/3 had been eaten by sharks
every single jaws reaction video has some dork that has to say this... we dont care, stfu...
The movie that started the summer blockbuster.
Yep. They called it a blockbuster because the people blocked up the theater trying to get in.
Really?!
28:52 yes it's back that's why the movie is called Jaws and not called not take one shot at it and swims away and never comes back
This is a great movie and you made a great reaction video.. I will give you a movie suggestion for you to react too some day put it down on your list, this is a very exciting spy thriller with famous actors and a great story don't be fooled by the title its super thrilling!
Marathon Man (1976)
That red thing you saw was a shooting star. There was 2 of them.
Thanks!
The scene where Capt is discussing his WW2 encounter with sharks is.a true story (though enhanced a bit) . When they first shot it Robert Shaw(who played Quint)was drunk as usual but director Steven Speilberg figured it was the best they were going to get. The next morning when he sobered up RS went to SS and asked to do the scene again. That is what we got in the movie.
18:41 yes you're absolutely right the crowds there for the shark because they haven't mentioned like 10 times at the town is a summertown which means that Town makes its money during the summertime but you wouldn't know that because you can't keep your mouth shut
I watched the head jump scare 4 times. That never gets old .😱
To quote Stephen Speilberg. JAWS is the spiritual successor to 1971's DUEL.
FYI: THE scenario where Chrissie is swimming in the ocean, silhouetted by the moon above, is an omage to THE CREATURE OF THE BLACK LAGOON: One of Speilburgs favorite movies.
Many think, that Quint acted with greed when he smashed the radio. But the truth is, Quint's biggest problem, and the very thing that got him killed, was a Mutinous crew!
Both Brody & Hooper agreed Quint would be the Captain. And yet, they were constantly challenging him, questioning and Disobeying their Captain's orders.
Personally, I would have thrown them both overboard. But, Quint was a good and kind man. And so, he died.
I watched Jaws when I was 10 years old in 1978. I haven’t been past shin deep in the ocean since. I don’t even like swimming in fresh water if I can’t see the bottom.
I totally get that. Watching this movie as a 10 year old would be terrifying
34:19 oh my God he can see the shark its like Hooper has eyes
The person portraying the reporter on the beach for July 4th was Peter Benchley. The author of the book, "Jaws". He also participated in writing the script for the film.
Great film. Loved watching you react to it.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Fact: The biggest jumpscare is the underwater scene with the head - when the shark isn't even around.
...and was a last minute addition during editing, shot in a swimming pool!
6:48 Doggone! 😠
The scene with Brody and his youngest son hits especially hard now that I’m a dad with a three year old son. ❤️
The film is an absolute masterpiece of suspense and subtle character moments and beats (like the hint that Brody was attacked by something in the water). Sadly, far too many people took the 'sharks are evil man-eaters' as the message of the movie, and it led to a lot of fear and killing/culling of sharks. Really, the movie is about humans vs. nature and how different people react to nature and to things beyond their control happening. You get ignoring/minimizing (the mayor), fear (Brody), curiosity (Hooper), and anger (Quint). In many ways the shark itself is just the impersonal stand in for nature and things beyond human control.
The 'man-eater' shark is a myth, when humans are in the water with sharks (the shark's natural environment, not ours) there is of course always a risk of a bite, but that is frequently a young shark that gets confused due to various factors. There has only been one, confirmed, incidence of a single shark attacking more than one person. We don't taste very good to sharks and we have a poor amount of fat and muscle for our size, so it isn't exactly worth it for them, which is why it is usually young sharks with factors that made them confused. Incidents like the Indianapolis are a little different, as that was a large number of humans in a small area in the middle of the ocean were food is overall more scarce, with smaller sharks that are more prone to eat just about anything they can get, and things closer to our size. The famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau described those sharks, the Oceanic White Tip sharks, as by far the most dangerous species of shark.
Thank you for your comment! I don’t know a lot about sharks, but it’s good to know that they are not out there just waiting for us hehe
In all the reactions I have seen of this movie every time they seem more concerned with the dog being eaten over the people.
Dogs love unconditionally, people don't.
@@zedwpd More like 90% of dogs and 10-15% of cat love "unconditionally". Some don't. They're more hard coded to ancient instincts. Anyway, unconditional love is "blind" love and will often do nothing but make someone turn a blind eye to subtle abuse and then the "blind lover" becomes something known as a "victim". A lot of people don't ponder that with animals because they are animals.
37:15 you know I just can't get over how smart you are what's your first clue that starts going to die soon
It was because of the animatronic shark's constant malfunctions that we didn't get to see it throughout most of the movie. It worked in the movie's favor, adding suspense, and giving viewers the first summer blockbuster movie.
Im afraid that's become a myth, based on the skewed and exaggerated documentaries. The shark was actually not scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The beach attack scenes were filmed early, in May and June 1974 in shallow water. Impossible to use Bruce. Spielberg kept the shark hidden by design. He was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows.
The mechanical shark/s were never scheduled to be used for any scenes until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's when it kept malfunctioning, all through July and August and into September.
They had a perfectly good working fin contraption that they could have used throughout, but Spielberg didnt even want to show the fins until the pond scene. Later at the end of location shooting in September they filmed an insert shot of Bruce taking the Kintner dummy on the raft but even that shot, done by Joe Alves after Spielberg had already left Martha's Vineyard, showed more than intended. Alves wanted more sunshine obscuring Bruce but by the time the shot was ready the sun had moved and the shot wasn't as Alves intended. They did use it though.
The first shark moment filmed on Martha's Vineyard was the holiday roast/pier scene with a completely and deliberately unseen shark. This was filmed in May 1974. At that time they didnt even KNOW that Bruce wouldn't work. Bruce was only tested in the salt water for the first time in mid June, after some shark moments had already been filmed.
More details can be found in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Jaws Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor.
Cheers.
Getting drunk and passing out saves lives. lol
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He looked at his lower right side.
I think he was maybe looking at an appendix scar like mine! ;)
That makes sense. I thought there was a crazy story behind it
Movie geeks out there, if you want to know where Spielberg got all his suspense tricks from, watch a little unknown movie called....wait for it..."Psycho". And then, listen to the opening theme music to both movies.
Interesting, huh? And at the jump scares in both movies, a woman screams(!?). In Jaws, the scene is underwater, so what?
I’ll check it out!
Has anyone stopped to consider that Jaws is one of the most tragic love stories in the movies? Here you have a shark of of nature's greatest sea animals. This shark loves the island and it's inhabitants so much that he tries to get the tourists to leave. He just wanted them to have their peaceful island back. It was his gift to them. But the evil greedy mayor wanted these tourists anyway so he and his cronies could make money at the expense of the locals. This villainous tyrant ordered Jaws to be hunted down and killed. What was his crime you ask. It was his love for his neighbors that he sacrificed himself. Such a tragic story
yep bens head makes me scream every 1000 times ive seen jaws
13:02 such a good scene
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Great reaction Carol!
haha Great appropriate reactions Carol.
Chief Brody's scar was probably from an appendix operation. He wisely decided not to mention it.
Brody was a New York Cop that was shot in the line of duty. Almost being killed made him rethink about being a city cop, so he requested a transfer. Although afraid of the water, he chose Amity because of the low crime rate.
37:50 that’s Quint😳
Body's scar was from an appendix. Not exactly brag worthy. Hooper died in the book. The Second film crew, who were filming sharks in Australia, got that absolutely breathtaking shot of the shark tangled in the cage. Spielberg asked was the stunt diver in the cage? No. So, they let Hooper live to use that footage.
17:14 Ah, yes, the severed head of Ben Gardner claims another wonderful jumpscare!
Carol, it gets really cold 🥶 in Canada right. Imagine you couldn't have any income. How are you going to heat your home, feed your family, pay your mortgage? You might even lose your home now imagine you have young children or that you are elderly. It gets cold there too. How many people will die if they shut down the beaches the only revenue those people have for a whole year.
Totally. I honestly didn’t think about that :( I get it now :/ it’s complicated
I think The Chief’s Scar was just from having surgery
32:22 No, it IS a great white, but stronger, more persistent and more danger than any of the great white sharks Quint and Hooper had dealt with before.
It’s also a mutant, above average size, wider, bigger head, mouth and thusly also bigger JAWS
Such a great movie!
It is indeed
Ben Gardner will have the longest career in history.
Classic movie
I love everything shark! The reaction is great! ❤❤
BRAVO!!! Great reaction! =8-D
8:06 😂😂😂
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Check out the movies Deep Blue Sea(1999) and Halloween(1978).
There's an apparently a Jaws 2025 Sequel to this 1975 classic coming and Richard Dreyfuss will be in it RIP Robert Shaw and Roy Schider
This is faker than the wrestling you watch
True, it was the mayor's fault, but Brody could have pushed it until he got fired. It that hadn't made news enough and the boy got killed anyway, the following stink may have prevented the third and fourth victim.
FYI: Robert Shaw, who played QUINT, did not like Richard Dreyfuss!
The scar is from an appendectomy. Best not mentioned !
Oh yes… not as cool
Robert Shaw was an underrated actor
36:28 really is he dying what's your first clue I could never figure that out
Ohhhh My ❤!!! 😮😅😂
Muito bom 🤩🤩🤩
Jaws 2 is decent. I like it a lot!
3 and 4 a fucking laughable.
Thanks for reacting to this gem!
I’ll check them out! Thanks :)
scariest movie ever made saw it when i was 17 in 2001 on vhs
I can imagine 😨
I really enjoy your reactions. Would you consider watching a movie with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek? It's called "Desperado." Tarantino is also in it.
I’ll check it out!
This is movie 😱😳🤯
Everybody who watches this movie hates the mayor.
Here's a couple thoughts:
1. In real life, sharks don't do this. A shark feeds, then swims away. There's really no chance that the first girl, Chrissy, and the boy, Alex, were killed by the same shark since Chrissy's shark would be a hundred miles away by the time Alex Kintner died.
2. This is a summer town that makes all their money during the summer. Closing the beaches means half the businesses go bankrupt and half the town's people go on welfare or move away. Quint even said so, right after he did the fingernails on the chalkboard scene: he said "pay up, Chief, or the whole town will be on welfare this winter." Nobody objected, they all know it's true.
Given those two points, the mayor would be an idiot to close the beaches.
Real mayors don't close real beaches after a shark attack. Occasionally, for just a few hours, to give the shark time to swim away. But that's it, and most of them don't do that too, because of the final point:
3. Sharks don't kill people or even bite people on purpose. If a person gets bit, it's because the shark made a mistake and it won't make it twice. So the BEST time to go into the water is right after a shark bites somebody else. That shark won't bite anybody ever again.
Not sure about that third point?
250 million Americans go to U.S. beaches every year. About 50 of them get bit each year, and just 2-3 of those, on average, die from sharkbite.
Also, just search for videos of great white sharks swimming with humans. You'll find hundreds of videos showing thousands of sharks around tens of thousands of humans, and nobody getting bit.
"Interesting that the mayor isn't going in the water. I wonder why?"
Maybe because he's being a politician.
He's talking to reporters, shaking hands, making promises.
He's using this crowd to DO HIS JOB.
Hay I live in a beach town, all they needed to do was to stay out of the water for a while, people can still spend money and lay on the beach just don’t go into the water for a little while. It’s been done and nobody looses money or their holiday.
Remember in THIS MOVIE it’s a killer shark that people are reacting to, sharks don’t do that, to that extent, they just get confused on what you are in the water. The mayor pissed me off when he made that family go into the water. Everyone is still spending money. 😣
You are from Canada what part of Canada because you sound like you have a little bit of an accent. Just curious.
I have a Brazilian accent. I’ve been living in Canada for years, but was born in Brazil hehe 🙃
38:11 clearly you understand how the birds and the bees work but a male shark cannot have babies
If male Sharks didn't have babies, there would never be anymore sharks.
Bigot! It’s 2025!
Male Sharks can change their name to Loretta and have babies if they want to!
Bigot! Its 2025!
Male sharks can change their name to Loretta and have babies if they want to!
This shark was likely female they are much bigger than males
Everyone think Spielberg made such a gear choice saying do long to reveal the shark. The truth his, the mechanical shark caused several problems and the first sank yo the bottom of the ocean as soon as they put it in and they needed to build another. This was only Spielberg’s 2nd film, and he didn’t want any delays in what was already turning into a difficult shoot, so he shot around nor having a shark.
Im afraid that's become a myth, based on the skewed and exaggerated documentaries. The shark was actually not scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The beach attack scenes were filmed early, in May and June 1974 in shallow water. Impossible to use Bruce. Spielberg kept the shark hidden by design. He was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows. The mechanical shark/s were never scheduled to be used for any scenes until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's when it kept malfunctioning, all through July and August and into September. They had a perfectly good working fin contraption that they could have used throughout, but Spielberg didnt even want to show the fins until the pond scene. Later at the end of location shooting in September they filmed an insert shot of Bruce taking the Kintner dummy on the raft but even that shot, done by Joe Alves after Spielberg had already left Martha's Vineyard, showed more than intended. Alves wanted more sunshine obscuring Bruce but by the time the shot was ready the sun had moved and the shot wasn't as Alves intended. They did use it though. The first shark moment filmed on Martha's Vineyard was the holiday roast/pier scene with a completely and deliberately unseen shark. This was filmed in May 1974. At that time they didnt even KNOW that Bruce wouldn't work. Bruce was only tested in the salt water for the first time in mid June, after some shark moments had already been filmed. More details can be found in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Jaws Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Cheers.
28:37 Did you really ask what a shooting star was?
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Great reaction. Welcome to Jaws! Please do not bother with any of the sequels.
The chief had and an appendectomy. So his scar was from surgery. Didn't want to bring it up, I guess......
That makes more sense :)
37:39
Dogs suck
6:30 6 and 1/2 minutes into the movie could you please shut Henry saying how dangerous it is to go swimming right now walking across the streets just as dangerous some chill out
28:50 do you know if everyone took a shot of tequila for every time you say the words oh my God in a movie average single person would be wasted
Make it every time Schieder says “ _Christ_ “ or _Jeesus…_
and you’re on!
Carol! Read all about the Alex Kitner Sandwich story!
Ten more minutes mom?
More like ten more bites!
_munchmunchmunch_
The sheriff's scar was from a apendisidus surgery. Not as manly as the other two.