Imagine watching this in theaters in 1975 with no existing tropes, and no idea what you are about to watch, in the dark. It was a true game changer. I've seen this 100000 times since then and the scene with Ben Gardner's head popping out of the hole in the boat still makes me jump every time.
There are down sides to too many movies and too much cultural literacy. We've seen and heard everything, naturally deconstructing tropes rather than enjoying the ride.
I was six, and waited for two hours with my parents. I will never forget it! It began a love for sharks that exists to this day. Watching JAWS is our family tradition. My kids love it, and their kids too!
I turned 10 in the summer of 1975 and saw Jaws in the theater 3 times that year. The kid that was bitten in half on the raft used to live in my neighborhood in Connecticut. His family moved to Martha's Vineyard right before they started filming Jaws. They auditioned local kids for the part and he got it. His younger brother was one of the kids running out of the water after the attack.
@@bfdidc6604 Bingo. You nailed it. The audience is too savvy. I did watch Jaws in the theater as a 13ish year old. Same with Star Wars. And one this is how you just didn't get spoilers that much either.
@@KevyNova Incorrect. CG was primitive but existed. They built microprocessors for Star Wars only a year or so later. Industrial light and Magic essential compiled optical effects to create new images which is technically CG work.
This movie has so many great moments and aspects. The first attack is so visceral, it almost disgusts you. It's primal and isn't just a quick attack; it's a prolonged event with her pleading and screaming. It really sets the tone for the rest of the movie. Second, I love the part where the guys are fishing from the dock and the one man gets carried out. The fact that he survives is brilliant. From that point on the audience realizes that death isn't always inevitable, and that means in each future encounter we have anticipation because they may just get out of it alive. Brilliant directing in this film.
Read the book...the first jerk was the shark biting her foot off at the ankle...Ellen & Hooper are less likable too as they have an affair which was cut from the movie and is why she's upset after leaving Brody at the dock...Brody knows and plans to kill Hooper which is why he brought his gun...
The truly brilliant thing about Jaws is not just how they use music, but how they DON'T use music. The one time they don't use music for the shark is the first time you see it completely ("you're gonna need a bigger boat") so it comes as a total surprise. Also, there isn't a note of music when Quint is devoured because Spielberg knew the screaming and sound effects would be enough. He did the same thing for the T-Rex attack in Jurassic Park.
21:05 I've seen this movie countless times. The 1st few times I noticed SOMETHING was a miss, there's a subtle something tipping us off. I watched a interview with John Williams who wrote this amazing score. He pointed out that the score IS the shark and it was NEVER to be used as some kind of "fake-out." So when the fake fin shows up and everyone freaks TF out... there's ZERO musical score. But it DOES accompany the real shark in the following scene in the pond. To me, that's brilliant!!
Great point! Everyone comments how the music is so happy and uplifting when they’re chasing after the shark, but that’s when it’s just playing with them.
And even better: the first time the shark is seen in full ("you're going to need a bigger boat") there is NO musical cue, so it comes as total shock. Brilliant.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows that. But I _have_ seen a lot of dog lovers use the "If they don't die onscreen..." trope to convince themselves that the dog just noped out of there. 😄
@@BubblyRainbowswhen Brody is running to the pond as he jumps off the bridge you can see a black Labrador laying on the bridge a fan theory is that is Pipit
I think from his war experience that Quint suffered from survivor's dilemma and harbored a latent death wish. He took extreme risks like destroying the radio and pushing the engine to failure. Thanks for this awesome reaction.
I think he hated sharks after that experience, he wanted nothing more than to kill it and put the trophy on his wall along with all the others and he destroyed the radio because he didn't want any help because he saw it as revenge.
I always thought Quint smashed the radio because he wanted money all for himself. Didn't want to share the money and credit for catching the shark with anyone else. That's why earlier when he responded to a call on the radio, he said they haven't found it yet, despite actively trying to catch it.
@@MsAppassionata Agreed. That's why he said earlier on the radio they hadn't found anything, then later destroyed the radio cause Brody was gonna tell them about the shark.
That 22:32 was a CRUMB that dropped from the mouth of that shark. I think the REASON sharks don't eat humans that often in REALITY is because they rarely even ENCOUNTER them in the first place.
They encounter humans all the time. Idiots pay to swim with them. Fact of the matter is that we just don't taste good. Shark "attacks" usually consist of the shark being curious and investigating a person. First they circle, looking at the person over. Then, the shark will brush against them. And if the shark is still curious, it bites.
I saw this at the cinema when it first came out, I was 12 (yes I’m old lol)…the theme music was enough! Talk about tension. I sat covering my eyes and the exact moment I finally looked up, that head was pulled out of the boat. The bit with Quint’s death was the worst. Overall it was utterly terrifying, especially up on the big screen. When the shark blew up, the entire audience lost its collective marbles! It was fantastic.
Well, I'll tell you this. I was born in 1953, not too many miles from the Atlantic ocean (in eastern New Jersey). My childhood was filled with trips to the shore, and swimming in the ocean. When I was 22 I was among the many (MANY) thousands in long lines to get into the theater to see this movie. I've NOT ONCE gone into the ocean since, lol. True story....and I'm sure I'm not alone, lol.
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. Also, 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 decapitated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
In the early days of this movies release, Steven Spielberg knew the time when Ben Gardener’s head would make its appearance so he would sneak into the theater just for this moment to listen to the screams. Two suggestions: Alien and the sequel Aliens.
I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I was afraid of HOTEL POOLS after seeing this film as a kid in the 70s. Somewhat related; my mom saw Psycho in the theater - by herself - and she swore she couldn't take a shower for a year; only baths.
I saw Pyscho when I was 11 yrs with my older brother. I, too, did not want to take a shower for a long time. In fact, I still think about it when I take a shower now and I am 75 ya old😂
It was ONE of the very, very few "happy accidents." I know Spielberg used a (fake) shooting star in TEMPLE OF DOOM, when Indy tells Short Round he's gonna look for "fortune and glory" a shooting star falls in the background over Indy's shoulder. He probably used it in other films (I'd imagine CLOSE ENCOUNTERS & E.T. considering they're about UFO's & aliens, it's too perfect).
The reporter on the beach on the 4th of July was portrayed by Peter Benchley. He is the author of the book, "Jaws".. He also worked on the storyline and script of the film. Great reaction / review. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Peter Benchley was on set during filming but he didn't agree with the direction that it was going and he made it be known. It got so heated he was asked to leave. Later on he was so upset at how the book and movie depicted sharks(to the point of getting put on near extinction list) he started a campaign to save sharks.
5:54 - "I hope no kids die in this movie. That's going to be a little upsetting." 😐 OMG I knew you were just 1 minute before the Kitner kid was killed. I remember seeing this movie as a kid. Literally nobody went to the beach after this movie came out. Thanks for a great reaction to an all time classic!
The most powerful character moment in the story is Quint's monologue. And most people will say that. But my choice for most powerful character moment for our main character Brody, is when Mrs Kintner accuses him. Audience members think, no it isn't his fault. The mayor tells Brody no, it isn't your fault. But Brody deadpan disagrees with everyone except Mrs Kintner. And for the rest of the movie we know. Brody is someone who keenly feels a sense of personal responsibility. And that is why when the guy who is petrified of the ocean and sharks starts going out in boats to chase a killer shark, we don't even question it. Because the movie has shown us exactly why he's about to do it. You can buy prescription lenses for face masks. So he can see in the face mask, even if his glasses are pretty strong.
Also - remember no internet. All there was at that time was the newspaper and the nightly national and local news. And this took place just 3 days before the 4th of July. If you didn't read the paper or watch the news on the one night the story ran you would have had no way of knowing anything.
This little factoid makes it into every comment section of a Jaws video..... Alex Kintner was the boy who was attacked out on his raft -- Several decades after the filming of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.
In the script, Hooper (college boy) does get eaten by the shark. However, when the crew left the camera rolling and a shark came by it got caught on the top of the cage. Speilberg loved the footage and used it (what is in the film). As the cage was empty in that scene, they had to rewrite and re-shoot to make Hooper live. The up-close shot of Hooper's face is someone else in Speilberg's swimming pool as part of the rewrites/shoots.
Thanks so much for your review. As was said before there was no CGI. It was all real live physical special effects. What was so amazing to me is that,because of the many, many times the shark wasn’t working, Steven Spielberg had to come up with so many incredible and clever ways to not show the shark, but keep the suspense. I think that, in and of itself, made this movie so much better, so much more suspenseful, so much more exciting BECAUSE you didn’t see the shark. And so many times people’s imaginations are so much better than anything they could put on film. Steven Spielberg and his crew were incredible with this movie. Now you can understand why this is a classic.
I wouldn’t swim in my neighbors pool after watching this in 75… that’s what a massive culture shock this movie gave the nation.. considered Hollywoods first BLOCKBUSTER…
Dude?? the shooting star was added on an Oxberry animation stand in post production. Not the least of which is the scene you're talking about was filmed in the middle of the day.
I crept out of bed as a little kid and snuck onto the stairs to watch this through the gap in the living room door while my folks were watching it one night, but gave myself away when I screamed in horror at the dead guy's head suddenly appearing! 😱😂 My folks were mad at me and I had nightmares for a few days after. Lol
Nov. 1979 JAWS made its television debut on ABC. I was 6 years old and my parents made an exception and let me stay up to watch it. When the Ben Gardner corpse jump scare happened, my parents both looked at each other with big Cheshire Cat grins while I turned whiter than a sheet of paper. I needless to say, I had nightmares that night.😅
Salut de Cannes. The french title of this movie is " Les dents de la mer" literally " Teeth of the sea". "Jaws" in french means " Mâchoires". That's it ladies & gentlemen. Bonne nuit.
The first attack on skinny-dipping chrissie was filmed in broad daylight, and filters were added later to make it appear dark. If you look around on the internet you can find unfiltered versions of that scene which show pretty much all that Susan Backlinie has to offer.
Forget about the fun reaction to this movie...the girl reacting was 'adorable'!! She made the reaction so fun! Amazing smile, amazing eyes and cutest laugh! You won me on my first time on your channel. Can't wait to see more of your reactions and how cute you will be! Thanks so much and keep smiling 😍🙂👍
Jaws is my all-time favorite movie, ever since I was a little kid, and seeing people react to it for the first time is always super interesting. This was so great and hilarious. Thank you!!
2 fun facts. Scene where head pops out of boat was filmed in a swimming pool with milk poured in to make it murky. Younger kid with the fake fin is now a cop where Jaws was made.
Great reaction! 😊 This is a great classic! Honestly, it took me until I was in my 20s before I could actually get through all of this movie. The key is not to watch it on a big screen tv. LOL! Composer John Williams did the musical score for this movie. He's a legend! Once you get more into Steven Spielberg(who directed this one) directed films, you'll hear more of his music. Speaking of shark movies, I highly recommend at least the first shark parody movie "Sharknado". And for some more Steven Spielberg directed films, I very highly recommend the Indiana Jones movie series, "E.T. the Extraterrestrial", "Saving Private Ryan", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Hook", and the original "Poltergeist"(for Halloween). And you've already done the first "Jurassic Park". Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊
Ok iam 60yrs old and I remember seeing this in the cinema, not sure if I sneaked in or was with a Adult ,anyway I having watched it since. Scared the shit out of me.
From IMDB "Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot." one of the 2 boys with the fake fin is now Mayor of the town where this was filmed.
This is a real classic that has been enjoyed by generations of people over the decades, it's so brilliant. Watching this you can see why Spielberg is a legendary director, the way he builds up tension is amazing
I loved the wire work in the beginning where the girl is getting pulled from one side to the other in the water by several crew hands. However the last pull where she doesn't come up is actually Steven Spielberg pulling the line because he didn't trust anyone else with the timing.
The shark was actually a failure, the director had to change the way he filmed it so we could 'see it without seeing it'. Among other things, the music of John Williams brought it to life and giving him his first Oscar for Original Score. Masterpiece. It was practically the voice and heartbeat of the shark. It was deemed such an integral part of the film's success that Spielberg said the score was 50 per cent responsible for it. “Jaws” would wind up winning three Oscars. Best Editing/Best Sound Editing/Original Score. Apart from Best Picture. That last one went to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.” Spielberg had to wait until “E.T.” in 1983 for a Best Director bid, and “Schindler's List” in 1994 for a win and again for Saving Private Ryan in 1999.
He didn't ask for ice cream and coffee. His mom asked if he wanted ice cream, and the kid states "coffee". He's stating the flavor he wants. Coffee ice cream was one of the biggest sellers in the '70's and is actually still pretty popular today in certain areas.
Since I didnt live anywhere near the ocean, watching this as a kid I figured I was safe. Scarred, but safe. However... When I went to my town's local pool that I frequented all the time afterward... Looking at the deep expansive pool from my favorite diving board suddenly went from joy to horror. For the first time I felt actual fear as I sunk to the bottom. The open space actually terrified me. Even after surfacing, not being able to see all around me as I swam made me fully paranoid that Jaws was there somewhere. I felt so numb getting out of there that I stuck to the shallow end for the rest of the day.
Your emotions and comments were just to cool and fun. Great job, you made the video fun. This was the movie when it came out, a lot of people couldn't even finish watching it.
The opening scene the actress playing Chrissie was pulled by ropes by two crew men. They pulled her so violently that they cracked some ribs so her screams were real ...
One final note: tanks of air don't explode. There's no explosive in there. Just air. If you break off the nozzle, the tank can shoot across a room like if you let go of a balloon before you tie the stem. No explosion. It's too bad. I think the author created what you said, "the worst possible scenario" and then didn't know how to save Brody or kill the shark. But. All he had to do was have Quint carry a couple cans of gasoline. You know, in case he runs out of gas at sea. Brody could throw THAT into the shark and shoot it. OK, OK, gasoline doesn't explode either. So shoot the gasoline, the shark's mouth and face are covered it in, then throw in a flare. Still a great movie if you don't think about it too much. Loved your reaction! I hope this doesn't scare you out of the water like it did me back in 1975!
Most people don't know that the tanks wouldnt blow up and when Brody tripped over them when they first got on the boat, Hooper said be careful with these tanks or they could blow up and people just believed it.
Also I don't think you can blame the author for the exploding oxygen tank idea since I think they killed the shark in a completely different way in the book.
@@eddhardy1054 You are correct. My bad. I haven't read that book since it was new, but I've seen the movie a hundred times and forgot that they killed the shark differently. Thanks for the correction. Now I blame Steven Spielberg for wanting an explosion instead of a quiet, simple fade away.
Quint's story about the USS Indianapolis is almost true and it's one of Hollywood's greatest monologues ever. the only part that's truly inaccurate is that almost all the men who died didn't die from sharks but rather from injuries they suffered when their ship was hit by torpedoes, or from exposure and dehydration. The actual estimates of shark deaths run as low as 10-12 men, or as high as 100 men, but not 6 per hour and not 800 men.
@@eddhardy1054 Well, that is one way to interpret it, but it's a stretch. He actually said "So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest." Yes, maybe he meant to say "So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, almost all of them died of exposure and the sharks ate them after they died,. If he meant to say the second one, saying it the way he did was extremely misleading. Also, he said "Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’ and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’ they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y’know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. " It's pretty clear he's talking about sharks attacking living men who scream as they're being eaten. It's also clear that the hundred men lost is about sharks killing them. When he said "they averaged six an hour" that's a direct reference to the previous bit about sharks attacking living men. 5 days, 24 hours a day, 6 shark attacks per hour equals 720 killed by sharks, which is pretty close to the number he claimed at the end. That's his story in his own words. I love that monolog. Gives me chills every time I hear it. And the look on Hoopers face the instant Quint mentions the Indianapolis sells it even more. But historically, it just didn't quite happen the way he told it (or very strongly implied it).
Peter Benchley, the writer of the original book and wrote the script for Jaws, became a conservationist and expressed regret over portraying sharks as killing machines.
I was about 24 yrs old when I saw this movie. Never have I been so tense and nervous. I Squeezed my husband arm so hard that I left marks on it. I have NEVER swam in the ocean again. Nor will I again. This music and movie is a classic.
Hello sweetheart shout out from the US Marine Corps! I absolutely loved your reaction to this movie . I hope you watch Interstellar I would love to see your reaction to that! But you said at 38:28 a dog didn't die?! What about Pippin?! Right b4 the boy got ate! Kekek
Every time I tell people this is the scariest film ever to me, they say it's dated or that it's not that bad. I'm glad to see someone else absolutely horrified by Jaws. It's a masterpiece. Fun fact: Brody forgot the line he was supposed to say and gave us the "bigger boat" improvisation instead, which became such an iconic line.
The dog Pippin did die; they just didn't show the kill. I saw this at the theater when it first came out. It was only 2 years after going to see The Exorcist. We had some great movies in the 70s.
The original blockbuster So, fun fact. Hooper was supposed to die in the cage. But the way they filmed that was with real sharks, a 3/4 size cage and a little person. While they were setting up to shoot a shark got tangled in the rigging as you can see around 35:13. The footage was great but now they had to come up with a reason for why the cage was empty. So they re-wrote Hooper escaping and surviving.
I remember watching this movie by peaking over the dashboard of my mothers car at the drive in. That was a shooting star that you saw. Pippet the dog was eaten by the shark. A couple big things that were different in the movie from the novel. First, Brody's wife and Hooper have an affair. She meets him at his hotel room. The shark does get Hooper out of the cage and actually jumps out of the water with him in it's mouth for Brody and Quint to see. Quint does die but by drowning, not eaten. They kill the shark with harpoons and the line attached to one of them gets tangled up around Quint's leg and as the shark sinks, it pulls him in the water and he gets pulled down with it and drowns. So Brody is the only one that survives. It was fun watching you react to this movie classic. Especially the underwater part when Hooper was checking out Ben Gardner's boat. I was waiting to see how you handled that and wasn't disappointed. The scene showing Quint getting eaten stayed with me for quite a long time. Actually it is still there a little bit. I grew up in Southern California and about 8 miles from the beach. This movie really did have an impact on people and going into the water. It took me two years to get back into body surfing. Didn't go in more than waste deep water for those two years. Eventually much of the fear went away but there was always some left. I knew there were some attacks in Central and Northern Cal but never heard of anything in Southern Cal where I was. Little did I know back then that right off of Santa Monica, is where Great Whites give birth. Now with drones flying all over the place, young Great Whites, 5 to 9ft long, are seen right along the coast in the surf all the time. Right amongst people. Since then there has been a couple of fatal attacks in Southern California. I have been living about 30 miles from the beach for the last 35 years and haven't been for a very long time now. But back in high school and first two years of college, I was at the beach a lot during the summer and always in the water. Anyway sorry for going on and on. Again great reaction and will be looking for more of them. Take care and always be safe.
Nice watching you watch an old movie!! I saw this when I was 8 yrs old stopped taking baths, going to the deep end in a pool! And my family went to padre island right after I saw this!!! So much fun for me!!!
Unfortunately, I have been to a beach that crowded, during the July 4th week. It was awful. Now, I only go after the season ends. One year, I spent Thanksgiving at the beach. It was wonderful. No crowds and everything discounted. Heated indoor pool. Had seafood instead of turkey.😊
Terrified by a stinker, eh? Same. When I was 5, I was terrified to insomnia by the old Vincent Price classic "House on Haunted Hill"-the "heads" in the suitcase. Laughably fake, but not when I was 5. Vincent Price, as it turns out, is terrifying. RIP Price.
Glad you enjoyed the movie it's quite a wild ride Glad you didn't shut off the movie Glad you made it through the movie bravo❤ This is one of my all-time favorite shark movies My second favorite shark movie is called deep Blue Sea Don't want to ruin it for you if you do watch it it's quite an interesting ride and quite an interesting idea with sharks❤
28:30 -- fun fact...........for one of these takes, Robert Shaw was NOT "acting" drunk. He was actually hammered and he mostly screwed up his first run at the story of the Indianapolis. Asked Spielberg for a second chance, and on the next night he nailed it.
The scene with the kid copying dad at the dinner table wasn't scripted. Between takes the little kid just started doing that so they decided to film it and add it to the movie.
The shooting star and the shark when he is thrashing on the shark cage we're both real. The shark thrashing was something national geographic had filmed and they used it in the movie
Here's a fact. In the 1980s Jane Fiero, the lady who's son was killed and she slapped Chief Brody, was visiting a restaurant in San Diego. She read the menu and saw an item called the Alex Kitner sandwich. She told the server what part she played in the movie only to have the cook run out from the kitchen! He told her HE WAS ALEX KITNER!!! They hadn't seen each other since the shoot. It was a great reunion!!!!! The ending of this movie was different from the book. In the book Hooper didn't make it. On the way back to shore, Brody eats him!😊
Oh...you have no idea: there's: Ouija Shark (1&2, yes it got a sequel) and Shark Exorcist (and yes...1&2). Both involving people attacked by a phantom shark (and there's probably more out there)🦈🦈😈😈👻👻🦈👻👻😈
Great reaction! Early Spielberg was so good at suspense… “Duel” was another effective one. You might also want to see “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” another big classic.
9:20 - The comment about "not seeing the shark yet" was actually due to mechanical issues with the shark. When they first started filming, the shark kept breaking. So they had to film it without seeing the shark. You don't see it until later in the film. As it turned out however, this made the movie WAY scarier. Not seeing the shark made it an "unknown monster" below the water. This is why the film was a hit. Filmmakers have studied the success of this film and applied it to their films. You notice how most scary movies and dramas keep the villain or monster hidden for the early part of the film? This movie set the standard.
Saw this when I was about 7 years old at a Drive-in. I didn't like the ocean before and I liked it even less after seeing this. Of course I ended up joining the Navy.
Not or the dog, AND the dog. Jaws is one of the few perfect films. The massive and ubiquitous production problems all helped the movie in the end. BTW, people always pick on the mayor, as they should, but he is really being pushed by the townsfolk to keep things open. Just as today, the “pillars of the community” are frequently the most vicious, they just find a way to do it with plausible deniability.
There's a subplot from book not brought up in movie. The mayor is involved with The Mafia and owes money which is why he is so against closing the beaches. One of many subplots not in movie from book.
Just to point out about the line of "24 hours is like 3 weeks", it really was. Amity is supposed to be a summer town, they make the bulk of their money for the year in two to three months. Every day there wasn't someone on the beach, that's three weeks of someone having to go on welfare in the winter. Sure, the mayor wanting to keep the beach open despite the presence of the shark is terrible, but it's either keep the beaches open or some family or business leaves. And a place like that, that's the death knell for a summer town, because when one leaves, more than a few follow.
Love this! So proud of you and also, it was the 70s! much less sensitive crowd in cinema to show what they show. Also, this movie is PG13!! Crazy. Enjoy!
People are usually unprepared for how frightening and traumatizing Jaws is. It taps into something primordial. When I saw it, it changed how I viewed the sea. To this day I don't go in the ocean.
Imagine watching this in theaters in 1975 with no existing tropes, and no idea what you are about to watch, in the dark. It was a true game changer. I've seen this 100000 times since then and the scene with Ben Gardner's head popping out of the hole in the boat still makes me jump every time.
There are down sides to too many movies and too much cultural literacy. We've seen and heard everything, naturally deconstructing tropes rather than enjoying the ride.
I was six, and waited for two hours with my parents. I will never forget it! It began a love for sharks that exists to this day.
Watching JAWS is our family tradition. My kids love it, and their kids too!
I turned 10 in the summer of 1975 and saw Jaws in the theater 3 times that year. The kid that was bitten in half on the raft used to live in my neighborhood in Connecticut. His family moved to Martha's Vineyard right before they started filming Jaws. They auditioned local kids for the part and he got it. His younger brother was one of the kids running out of the water after the attack.
@@bfdidc6604 Bingo. You nailed it. The audience is too savvy.
I did watch Jaws in the theater as a 13ish year old. Same with Star Wars.
And one this is how you just didn't get spoilers that much either.
I did watch it in the theater and that scene was a legit jump scare. Theater just erupted in screams. Followed by nervous laughter.
No CGI... All animatronics and physical special effects...
It’s a miracle that not seeing the shark that much worked in the movie’s favor, seeing as working on this movie was a disaster.
And some real footage of a living shark.
Well back then even the most expensive cgi was extremely horrible
@@dannore8077back then, there was no CGI.
@@KevyNova Incorrect. CG was primitive but existed. They built microprocessors for Star Wars only a year or so later. Industrial light and Magic essential compiled optical effects to create new images which is technically CG work.
The story that Quint tells, about the USS Indianapolis, is essentially true.
Also, Robert Shaw(R.I.P.) adlibbed that line.
He got the date wrong. The Indianapolis was torpedoed on July 30th, not June 29th 1945.
@@aspieanarchist5439Wrong. He didn't ad-lib it. He did write most of it, though.
Have you seen The Two Towers? When Aragorn kicks the helmet, Viggo Mortensen screamed because he really broke his toe.
Every viewer ever: Don't kill the dog! Oh they wouldn't kill a kid! Steven Spielberg: HOLD MY BEER!
After all, the little boy's death is in the book.
@@galandirofrivendell4740 Well so is Matt Hooper's but they didn't do that in the movie :D
All viewers: They wouldn’t kill the kid?
As a kid from the 70’s, we were expendable and lucky to get out alive 😂
This movie has so many great moments and aspects. The first attack is so visceral, it almost disgusts you. It's primal and isn't just a quick attack; it's a prolonged event with her pleading and screaming. It really sets the tone for the rest of the movie. Second, I love the part where the guys are fishing from the dock and the one man gets carried out. The fact that he survives is brilliant. From that point on the audience realizes that death isn't always inevitable, and that means in each future encounter we have anticipation because they may just get out of it alive. Brilliant directing in this film.
Read the book...the first jerk was the shark biting her foot off at the ankle...Ellen & Hooper are less likable too as they have an affair which was cut from the movie and is why she's upset after leaving Brody at the dock...Brody knows and plans to kill Hooper which is why he brought his gun...
It never ceases to amaze me how many reactors simply don't grasp the context of the "24 hours is like three weeks" line.
I grew up in a summer town, so it's always made sense to me...
“I hope no kids get killed in this. Or the dog! Don’t kill the dog!”
Those comments were ill-timed. 😏
The truly brilliant thing about Jaws is not just how they use music, but how they DON'T use music. The one time they don't use music for the shark is the first time you see it completely ("you're gonna need a bigger boat") so it comes as a total surprise. Also, there isn't a note of music when Quint is devoured because Spielberg knew the screaming and sound effects would be enough. He did the same thing for the T-Rex attack in Jurassic Park.
21:05 I've seen this movie countless times. The 1st few times I noticed SOMETHING was a miss, there's a subtle something tipping us off. I watched a interview with John Williams who wrote this amazing score. He pointed out that the score IS the shark and it was NEVER to be used as some kind of "fake-out." So when the fake fin shows up and everyone freaks TF out... there's ZERO musical score. But it DOES accompany the real shark in the following scene in the pond.
To me, that's brilliant!!
Great point! Everyone comments how the music is so happy and uplifting when they’re chasing after the shark, but that’s when it’s just playing with them.
And even better: the first time the shark is seen in full ("you're going to need a bigger boat") there is NO musical cue, so it comes as total shock. Brilliant.
I've watched this dozens of times and never caught that. I love the attention to detail in old films.
The dog did die, btw. That's what the stick shot indicated
I'm pretty sure everyone knows that. But I _have_ seen a lot of dog lovers use the "If they don't die onscreen..." trope to convince themselves that the dog just noped out of there. 😄
@@BubblyRainbowswhen Brody is running to the pond as he jumps off the bridge you can see a black Labrador laying on the bridge a fan theory is that is Pipit
I have never understood people who get more upset by the dogs death than the kids
I think from his war experience that Quint suffered from survivor's dilemma and harbored a latent death wish. He took extreme risks like destroying the radio and pushing the engine to failure. Thanks for this awesome reaction.
like n the story of moby Dick
I think he hated sharks after that experience, he wanted nothing more than to kill it and put the trophy on his wall along with all the others and he destroyed the radio because he didn't want any help because he saw it as revenge.
I always thought Quint smashed the radio because he wanted money all for himself.
Didn't want to share the money and credit for catching the shark with anyone else.
That's why earlier when he responded to a call on the radio, he said they haven't found it yet, despite actively trying to catch it.
@@bigdaddy741098Well, he also didn’t want to have to share $10,000 with anyone else on the Island.
@@MsAppassionata Agreed. That's why he said earlier on the radio they hadn't found anything, then later destroyed the radio cause Brody was gonna tell them about the shark.
Only Spielberg could make us absolutely terrified by a piece of dock wood chasing a man in the me water. Brilliant.
Try the Spielberg movie Duel. You never see the antagonist right through to the end of the movie.
That 22:32 was a CRUMB that dropped from the mouth of that shark.
I think the REASON sharks don't eat humans that often in REALITY is because they rarely even ENCOUNTER them in the first place.
They encounter humans all the time. Idiots pay to swim with them. Fact of the matter is that we just don't taste good. Shark "attacks" usually consist of the shark being curious and investigating a person. First they circle, looking at the person over. Then, the shark will brush against them. And if the shark is still curious, it bites.
"Jaws" is the granddaddy of all shark movies and an instant classic.
I saw this at the cinema when it first came out, I was 12 (yes I’m old lol)…the theme music was enough! Talk about tension. I sat covering my eyes and the exact moment I finally looked up, that head was pulled out of the boat. The bit with Quint’s death was the worst. Overall it was utterly terrifying, especially up on the big screen. When the shark blew up, the entire audience lost its collective marbles! It was fantastic.
I felt the very same way watching sharknado.
Movies in 1975 weren't doing this kind of stuff. Leave it to Spielberg to change everything.
@@jmo8934 Do not make me laugh. Sharknado doesn't even come close to Jaws.
Was 11 when I forced my dad to take me to see this movie. For the next week, I swore that a shark was going to pop out of the shower head and get me.
I was 9 when I saw it in the theater in 1975. Traumatized me for a while. Lol
26:59 - "You're gonna need a bigger boat." The most famous line from this film.
If you work in the tourist industry and make 90% of your annual income between June and August, 24 hours IS like three weeks.
Well, I'll tell you this. I was born in 1953, not too many miles from the Atlantic ocean (in eastern New Jersey). My childhood was filled with trips to the shore, and swimming in the ocean. When I was 22 I was among the many (MANY) thousands in long lines to get into the theater to see this movie. I've NOT ONCE gone into the ocean since, lol. True story....and I'm sure I'm not alone, lol.
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.
Also, 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 decapitated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
I'm not sure his head was severed, you see his FACE mostly
In the early days of this movies release, Steven Spielberg knew the time when Ben Gardener’s head would make its appearance so he would sneak into the theater just for this moment to listen to the screams.
Two suggestions: Alien and the sequel Aliens.
Thanks ive seen them both many times & think of them as classic cinema@@THOMMGB
"Don't kill the kid..."
"Don't kill the dog..."
Uh... Uh... Uhm... How should I say this?...
I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I was afraid of HOTEL POOLS after seeing this film as a kid in the 70s. Somewhat related; my mom saw Psycho in the theater - by herself - and she swore she couldn't take a shower for a year; only baths.
I saw Pyscho when I was 11 yrs with my older brother. I, too, did not want to take a shower for a long time. In fact, I still think about it when I take a shower now and I am 75 ya old😂
I've watched dozens of Jaws reactions. You were the first to cut in your reaction to the shooting stars. They were real meteorites caught on footage
It was ONE of the very, very few "happy accidents." I know Spielberg used a (fake) shooting star in TEMPLE OF DOOM, when Indy tells Short Round he's gonna look for "fortune and glory" a shooting star falls in the background over Indy's shoulder. He probably used it in other films (I'd imagine CLOSE ENCOUNTERS & E.T. considering they're about UFO's & aliens, it's too perfect).
The reporter on the beach on the 4th of July was portrayed by Peter Benchley. He is the author of the book, "Jaws".. He also worked on the storyline and script of the film.
Great reaction / review.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
And for those we don't want to be be all that safe, we say, "Bless his heart"
@@billolsen4360 ROTFLMAO So true!. Even if the person is an absolute A-hole.
Peter Benchley was on set during filming but he didn't agree with the direction that it was going and he made it be known. It got so heated he was asked to leave. Later on he was so upset at how the book and movie depicted sharks(to the point of getting put on near extinction list) he started a campaign to save sharks.
5:54 - "I hope no kids die in this movie. That's going to be a little upsetting." 😐 OMG I knew you were just 1 minute before the Kitner kid was killed. I remember seeing this movie as a kid. Literally nobody went to the beach after this movie came out. Thanks for a great reaction to an all time classic!
The most powerful character moment in the story is Quint's monologue. And most people will say that.
But my choice for most powerful character moment for our main character Brody, is when Mrs Kintner accuses him. Audience members think, no it isn't his fault. The mayor tells Brody no, it isn't your fault. But Brody deadpan disagrees with everyone except Mrs Kintner. And for the rest of the movie we know. Brody is someone who keenly feels a sense of personal responsibility. And that is why when the guy who is petrified of the ocean and sharks starts going out in boats to chase a killer shark, we don't even question it. Because the movie has shown us exactly why he's about to do it.
You can buy prescription lenses for face masks. So he can see in the face mask, even if his glasses are pretty strong.
I'm loving your reaction video to JAWS 👍 ❤ 🎥 Ben Gardner playing peek-a-boo has been an epic reaction scene 😊LOL
Also - remember no internet. All there was at that time was the newspaper and the nightly national and local news. And this took place just 3 days before the 4th of July. If you didn't read the paper or watch the news on the one night the story ran you would have had no way of knowing anything.
The television spots for Jaws were run during every station break. Trust me!! everyone in the USA knew about this film before it opened.
This little factoid makes it into every comment section of a Jaws video.....
Alex Kintner was the boy who was attacked out on his raft -- Several decades after the filming of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.
In the script, Hooper (college boy) does get eaten by the shark. However, when the crew left the camera rolling and a shark came by it got caught on the top of the cage. Speilberg loved the footage and used it (what is in the film). As the cage was empty in that scene, they had to rewrite and re-shoot to make Hooper live. The up-close shot of Hooper's face is someone else in Speilberg's swimming pool as part of the rewrites/shoots.
Thanks so much for your review. As was said before there was no CGI. It was all real live physical special effects. What was so amazing to me is that,because of the many, many times the shark wasn’t working, Steven Spielberg had to come up with so many incredible and clever ways to not show the shark, but keep the suspense. I think that, in and of itself, made this movie so much better, so much more suspenseful, so much more exciting BECAUSE you didn’t see the shark. And so many times people’s imaginations are so much better than anything they could put on film. Steven Spielberg and his crew were incredible with this movie. Now you can understand why this is a classic.
You're right. But the scenes where Bruce worked were great.
Spielberg was 26 years old when he made this film.
Allow that to sink in.
Great reaction. So happy younger generations of movie goers appreciate this timeless classic.
I wouldn’t swim in my neighbors pool after watching this in 75… that’s what a massive culture shock this movie gave the nation.. considered Hollywoods first BLOCKBUSTER…
Fun one, Kayly! I saw this in the theater with a bunch of my friends the summer it came out. You should have heard the screams! 😆
The shooting star was real! They were lucky enough to get it on film.
The shooting star was cell animation added in post production
@@roquefortfilesI hear back and forth on this. Such a strange thing to add.
@@Bluesit32 Not if you know Steven's history. Not at all strange
Dude?? the shooting star was added on an Oxberry animation stand in post production. Not the least of which is the scene you're talking about was filmed in the middle of the day.
I love watching people react to movies I love.Your video is one of the best.Good.honest,intelligent.Keep it up.
I crept out of bed as a little kid and snuck onto the stairs to watch this through the gap in the living room door while my folks were watching it one night, but gave myself away when I screamed in horror at the dead guy's head suddenly appearing! 😱😂
My folks were mad at me and I had nightmares for a few days after. Lol
Nov. 1979 JAWS made its television debut on ABC. I was 6 years old and my parents made an exception and let me stay up to watch it. When the Ben Gardner corpse jump scare happened, my parents both looked at each other with big Cheshire Cat grins while I turned whiter than a sheet of paper. I needless to say, I had nightmares that night.😅
I love seeing this reacted to! I saw it at 10 years old and didn't speak for a day after I think! LOL
Salut de Cannes. The french title of this movie is " Les dents de la mer" literally " Teeth of the sea". "Jaws" in french means " Mâchoires". That's it ladies & gentlemen. Bonne nuit.
The first attack on skinny-dipping chrissie was filmed in broad daylight, and filters were added later to make it appear dark. If you look around on the internet you can find unfiltered versions of that scene which show pretty much all that Susan Backlinie has to offer.
When this movie first came out in the theatres , I can still remember people running out of the theaters feeling sick 🤢🤮😂😂
Hotdogs will do that.
@@happyapple4269 so will nachos !!! 🤢🤢😂😂😂🤣
LOL...when that head popped out of the boat hole, I jumped up along with you but was holding onto my mouse when I jumped out of the channel as well.
Forget about the fun reaction to this movie...the girl reacting was 'adorable'!! She made the reaction so fun! Amazing smile, amazing eyes and cutest laugh! You won me on my first time on your channel. Can't wait to see more of your reactions and how cute you will be! Thanks so much and keep smiling 😍🙂👍
Jaws is my all-time favorite movie, ever since I was a little kid, and seeing people react to it for the first time is always super interesting. This was so great and hilarious. Thank you!!
Great reaction! It was so fun watching you freak out over this great movie!
2 fun facts. Scene where head pops out of boat was filmed in a swimming pool with milk poured in to make it murky. Younger kid with the fake fin is now a cop where Jaws was made.
Great reaction! 😊
This is a great classic! Honestly, it took me until I was in my 20s before I could actually get through all of this movie. The key is not to watch it on a big screen tv. LOL!
Composer John Williams did the musical score for this movie. He's a legend! Once you get more into Steven Spielberg(who directed this one) directed films, you'll hear more of his music.
Speaking of shark movies, I highly recommend at least the first shark parody movie "Sharknado".
And for some more Steven Spielberg directed films, I very highly recommend the Indiana Jones movie series, "E.T. the Extraterrestrial", "Saving Private Ryan", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Hook", and the original "Poltergeist"(for Halloween). And you've already done the first "Jurassic Park".
Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊
Ok iam 60yrs old and I remember seeing this in the cinema, not sure if I sneaked in or was with a Adult ,anyway I having watched it since.
Scared the shit out of me.
From IMDB "Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot."
one of the 2 boys with the fake fin is now Mayor of the town where this was filmed.
This is a real classic that has been enjoyed by generations of people over the decades, it's so brilliant. Watching this you can see why Spielberg is a legendary director, the way he builds up tension is amazing
I loved the wire work in the beginning where the girl is getting pulled from one side to the other in the water by several crew hands. However the last pull where she doesn't come up is actually Steven Spielberg pulling the line because he didn't trust anyone else with the timing.
I saw Jaws in the theater when I was 4. It has kept me out of the water for nearly 50 years. 😂
The shark was actually a failure, the director had to change the way he filmed it so we could 'see it without seeing it'. Among other things, the music of John Williams brought it to life and giving him his first Oscar for Original Score. Masterpiece.
It was practically the voice and heartbeat of the shark. It was deemed such an integral part of the film's success that Spielberg said the score was 50 per cent responsible for it.
“Jaws” would wind up winning three Oscars. Best Editing/Best Sound Editing/Original Score.
Apart from Best Picture. That last one went to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.” Spielberg had to wait until “E.T.” in 1983 for a Best Director bid, and “Schindler's List” in 1994 for a win and again for Saving Private Ryan in 1999.
Fun fact for you. When the kid asked for ice cream and coffee, he added the coffee as an ad lib and Spielberg liked it and kept it in.
He didn't ask for ice cream and coffee. His mom asked if he wanted ice cream, and the kid states "coffee". He's stating the flavor he wants. Coffee ice cream was one of the biggest sellers in the '70's and is actually still pretty popular today in certain areas.
Since I didnt live anywhere near the ocean, watching this as a kid I figured I was safe. Scarred, but safe. However...
When I went to my town's local pool that I frequented all the time afterward...
Looking at the deep expansive pool from my favorite diving board suddenly went from joy to horror.
For the first time I felt actual fear as I sunk to the bottom. The open space actually terrified me.
Even after surfacing, not being able to see all around me as I swam made me fully paranoid that Jaws was there somewhere.
I felt so numb getting out of there that I stuck to the shallow end for the rest of the day.
We got scorpions & rattlesnakes where I live so dry land is not guarantee of safety, bwahhahahaha. 🥴
The shooting star was real, just happened to be filming when it appeared, because of it, Spielberg puts a shooting star in all his movies
Shooting star is cell animation. The scene was shot in the middle of the day.
Quint was based on Frank Mundus. Frank was my friend's Dad's neighbor in Montauk,Ny .
Your emotions and comments were just to cool and fun. Great job, you made the video fun. This was the movie when it came out, a lot of people couldn't even finish watching it.
The opening scene the actress playing Chrissie was pulled by ropes by two crew men. They pulled her so violently that they cracked some ribs so her screams were real ...
One final note: tanks of air don't explode.
There's no explosive in there. Just air.
If you break off the nozzle, the tank can shoot across a room like if you let go of a balloon before you tie the stem.
No explosion.
It's too bad.
I think the author created what you said, "the worst possible scenario" and then didn't know how to save Brody or kill the shark.
But.
All he had to do was have Quint carry a couple cans of gasoline. You know, in case he runs out of gas at sea.
Brody could throw THAT into the shark and shoot it.
OK, OK, gasoline doesn't explode either.
So shoot the gasoline, the shark's mouth and face are covered it in, then throw in a flare.
Still a great movie if you don't think about it too much.
Loved your reaction!
I hope this doesn't scare you out of the water like it did me back in 1975!
Most people don't know that the tanks wouldnt blow up and when Brody tripped over them when they first got on the boat, Hooper said be careful with these tanks or they could blow up and people just believed it.
Also I don't think you can blame the author for the exploding oxygen tank idea since I think they killed the shark in a completely different way in the book.
@@eddhardy1054 You are correct.
My bad.
I haven't read that book since it was new, but I've seen the movie a hundred times and forgot that they killed the shark differently.
Thanks for the correction.
Now I blame Steven Spielberg for wanting an explosion instead of a quiet, simple fade away.
@@blakewalker84120 That I can't disagree with. 😊
I was 22 when this movie came out and took a "blind date" to see it. She freaked out and ruined what I was hoping was going to be a great first date.
Shooting stars are a signature to most Stephen Spielberg movies.
The first modern monster movie, the first summer blockbuster, and the film that launched Stephen Spielberg's career. That's quite a resume!
Quint's story about the USS Indianapolis is almost true and it's one of Hollywood's greatest monologues ever.
the only part that's truly inaccurate is that almost all the men who died didn't die from sharks but rather from injuries they suffered when their ship was hit by torpedoes, or from exposure and dehydration.
The actual estimates of shark deaths run as low as 10-12 men, or as high as 100 men, but not 6 per hour and not 800 men.
To be fair to Quint what he said is "the sharks took the rest." This doesn't mean they killed the rest, just that they disposed of the bodies.
@@eddhardy1054 Well, that is one way to interpret it, but it's a stretch.
He actually said "So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest."
Yes, maybe he meant to say "So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, almost all of them died of exposure and the sharks ate them after they died,.
If he meant to say the second one, saying it the way he did was extremely misleading.
Also, he said "Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’ and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’ they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y’know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. "
It's pretty clear he's talking about sharks attacking living men who scream as they're being eaten.
It's also clear that the hundred men lost is about sharks killing them.
When he said "they averaged six an hour" that's a direct reference to the previous bit about sharks attacking living men.
5 days, 24 hours a day, 6 shark attacks per hour equals 720 killed by sharks, which is pretty close to the number he claimed at the end.
That's his story in his own words.
I love that monolog.
Gives me chills every time I hear it.
And the look on Hoopers face the instant Quint mentions the Indianapolis sells it even more.
But historically, it just didn't quite happen the way he told it (or very strongly implied it).
@@blakewalker84120 To be fair to Quint again yeah what he said might have been a tad misleading but...he was very very drunk at the time.
@@blakewalker84120 Also I don't think you mentioned he got the date wrong 😉😊
Peter Benchley, the writer of the original book and wrote the script for Jaws, became a conservationist and expressed regret over portraying sharks as killing machines.
I was about 24 yrs old when I saw this movie. Never have I been so tense and nervous. I
Squeezed my husband arm so hard that I left marks on it. I have NEVER swam in the ocean again. Nor will I again. This music and movie is a classic.
Hello sweetheart shout out from the US Marine Corps! I absolutely loved your reaction to this movie . I hope you watch Interstellar I would love to see your reaction to that! But you said at 38:28 a dog didn't die?! What about Pippin?! Right b4 the boy got ate! Kekek
14:51 -- not scripted, just improvised by the kid and Roy.
Every time I tell people this is the scariest film ever to me, they say it's dated or that it's not that bad. I'm glad to see someone else absolutely horrified by Jaws. It's a masterpiece. Fun fact: Brody forgot the line he was supposed to say and gave us the "bigger boat" improvisation instead, which became such an iconic line.
The dog Pippin did die; they just didn't show the kill. I saw this at the theater when it first came out. It was only 2 years after going to see The Exorcist. We had some great movies in the 70s.
The original blockbuster
So, fun fact. Hooper was supposed to die in the cage. But the way they filmed that was with real sharks, a 3/4 size cage and a little person. While they were setting up to shoot a shark got tangled in the rigging as you can see around 35:13. The footage was great but now they had to come up with a reason for why the cage was empty. So they re-wrote Hooper escaping and surviving.
It’s amazing that 49 years later’ Jaws merchandise still sells like hotcakes on Martha’s Vineyard
I remember watching this movie by peaking over the dashboard of my mothers car at the drive in. That was a shooting star that you saw. Pippet the dog was eaten by the shark. A couple big things that were different in the movie from the novel. First, Brody's wife and Hooper have an affair. She meets him at his hotel room. The shark does get Hooper out of the cage and actually jumps out of the water with him in it's mouth for Brody and Quint to see. Quint does die but by drowning, not eaten. They kill the shark with harpoons and the line attached to one of them gets tangled up around Quint's leg and as the shark sinks, it pulls him in the water and he gets pulled down with it and drowns. So Brody is the only one that survives. It was fun watching you react to this movie classic. Especially the underwater part when Hooper was checking out Ben Gardner's boat. I was waiting to see how you handled that and wasn't disappointed. The scene showing Quint getting eaten stayed with me for quite a long time. Actually it is still there a little bit. I grew up in Southern California and about 8 miles from the beach. This movie really did have an impact on people and going into the water. It took me two years to get back into body surfing. Didn't go in more than waste deep water for those two years. Eventually much of the fear went away but there was always some left. I knew there were some attacks in Central and Northern Cal but never heard of anything in Southern Cal where I was. Little did I know back then that right off of Santa Monica, is where Great Whites give birth. Now with drones flying all over the place, young Great Whites, 5 to 9ft long, are seen right along the coast in the surf all the time. Right amongst people. Since then there has been a couple of fatal attacks in Southern California. I have been living about 30 miles from the beach for the last 35 years and haven't been for a very long time now. But back in high school and first two years of college, I was at the beach a lot during the summer and always in the water. Anyway sorry for going on and on. Again great reaction and will be looking for more of them. Take care and always be safe.
Nice watching you watch an old movie!! I saw this when I was 8 yrs old stopped taking baths, going to the deep end in a pool! And my family went to padre island right after I saw this!!! So much fun for me!!!
I agree with you - the deep ocean & what lies within it! It’s so scary! Even the idea of ships down there scares me for some reason!
5:18 -- For a sense of scale.. The shark is the size of the Mayor's Cadillac ....
Unfortunately, I have been to a beach that crowded, during the July 4th week. It was awful.
Now, I only go after the season ends. One year, I spent Thanksgiving at the beach. It was wonderful. No crowds and everything discounted. Heated indoor pool. Had seafood instead of turkey.😊
Terrified by a stinker, eh? Same. When I was 5, I was terrified to insomnia by the old Vincent Price classic "House on Haunted Hill"-the "heads" in the suitcase. Laughably fake, but not when I was 5. Vincent Price, as it turns out, is terrifying. RIP Price.
Glad you enjoyed the movie it's quite a wild ride Glad you didn't shut off the movie Glad you made it through the movie bravo❤
This is one of my all-time favorite shark movies My second favorite shark movie is called deep Blue Sea Don't want to ruin it for you if you do watch it it's quite an interesting ride and quite an interesting idea with sharks❤
28:30 -- fun fact...........for one of these takes, Robert Shaw was NOT "acting" drunk. He was actually hammered and he mostly screwed up his first run at the story of the Indianapolis. Asked Spielberg for a second chance, and on the next night he nailed it.
The scene with the kid copying dad at the dinner table wasn't scripted. Between takes the little kid just started doing that so they decided to film it and add it to the movie.
The shooting star and the shark when he is thrashing on the shark cage we're both real. The shark thrashing was something national geographic had filmed and they used it in the movie
The shark is, shot by the legendary Ron & Valerie Taylor, But the star was added in post.
According to Spielberg it was real
Here's a fact. In the 1980s Jane Fiero, the lady who's son was killed and she slapped Chief Brody, was visiting a restaurant in San Diego. She read the menu and saw an item called the Alex Kitner sandwich. She told the server what part she played in the movie only to have the cook run out from the kitchen! He told her HE WAS ALEX KITNER!!! They hadn't seen each other since the shoot. It was a great reunion!!!!!
The ending of this movie was different from the book. In the book Hooper didn't make it. On the way back to shore, Brody eats him!😊
Bruce was great when he worked. Bruce was the name they gave the animatronic shark.
Ghost Shark! Lol. That sounds ridiculous. Will have to check it out for a laugh, if I can find it.
Oh...you have no idea: there's:
Ouija Shark (1&2, yes it got a sequel) and Shark Exorcist (and yes...1&2). Both involving people attacked by a phantom shark (and there's probably more out there)🦈🦈😈😈👻👻🦈👻👻😈
@@joshuah9109 , omg. 💀
I don't understand why they went out on the sea in that old ass boat, when Mr. Hooper owed one that's state of the art....
Great reaction! Early Spielberg was so good at suspense… “Duel” was another effective one. You might also want to see “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” another big classic.
You caught all the foreshadowing. Very impressive. I don't remember if I did because I saw it 49 years ago and was pretty young.
9:20 - The comment about "not seeing the shark yet" was actually due to mechanical issues with the shark. When they first started filming, the shark kept breaking. So they had to film it without seeing the shark. You don't see it until later in the film.
As it turned out however, this made the movie WAY scarier. Not seeing the shark made it an "unknown monster" below the water. This is why the film was a hit.
Filmmakers have studied the success of this film and applied it to their films. You notice how most scary movies and dramas keep the villain or monster hidden for the early part of the film? This movie set the standard.
You're the only reviewer who has ever mentioned the shooting star!
A lot of people think it was a UFO and not a shooting star. 😮
Saw this when I was about 7 years old at a Drive-in. I didn't like the ocean before and I liked it even less after seeing this. Of course I ended up joining the Navy.
I kinda hate to tell her that even though we don’t see it the dog did indeed get eaten.
Not or the dog, AND the dog.
Jaws is one of the few perfect films. The massive and ubiquitous production problems all helped the movie in the end. BTW, people always pick on the mayor, as they should, but he is really being pushed by the townsfolk to keep things open. Just as today, the “pillars of the community” are frequently the most vicious, they just find a way to do it with plausible deniability.
Haha yeah. Was gonna say… poor Pipet!
There's a subplot from book not brought up in movie. The mayor is involved with The Mafia and owes money which is why he is so against closing the beaches. One of many subplots not in movie from book.
Don't worry. I'm sure Pipit saw the shark and got the hell out of there.
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The first “Summer Blockbuster”. Still holds up today.
The shooting star 🌠 was authentic. They just happened to catch it on camera
Stop spreading misinformation
Just to point out about the line of "24 hours is like 3 weeks", it really was. Amity is supposed to be a summer town, they make the bulk of their money for the year in two to three months. Every day there wasn't someone on the beach, that's three weeks of someone having to go on welfare in the winter. Sure, the mayor wanting to keep the beach open despite the presence of the shark is terrible, but it's either keep the beaches open or some family or business leaves. And a place like that, that's the death knell for a summer town, because when one leaves, more than a few follow.
Love this! So proud of you and also, it was the 70s! much less sensitive crowd in cinema to show what they show. Also, this movie is PG13!! Crazy. Enjoy!
People are usually unprepared for how frightening and traumatizing Jaws is. It taps into something primordial. When I saw it, it changed how I viewed the sea. To this day I don't go in the ocean.