The Real Horror in JAWS (1975) is The Mayor lol - First Time Watching (Reaction)
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2024
- Hello guys :) This is my reaction to the movie JAWS. I hope you guys enjoy this video, have a good rest of the day/night. I'll see you soon.
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Even after almost 50 years this movie is still a masterpiece and stood the test of time and John Williams' score is still legendary
Amanda, one of my friends was a survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. He was the last of the Indianapolis’ US Marine Corps detachment. RIP Ed Harrell (USMC).
May God grant him rest and peace! 😞😥
Quint does his famous nail scratch on the black board ... Amanda: "Who is this legend?" 🤣🤣🤣
I believe the little boy who was dressed as a shark in the ocean is now the police chief on Martha's Vineyard where this movie was filmed. Basically he has Chief Brody's job haha.
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.
4:58 "I never guessed that corruption and greed were going to be the blood device on this movie." Brilliant!
25:00 Awesome!
You kept Quint's amazing monologue about the Indianapolis nearly intact.
So many reactors cut that out.
Robert Shaw delivered what might be the best monologue in film history right there.
Truly an amazing bit of work from a great actor.
And his story is mostly true - that event did happen.
The date is a bit off and the big mistake is that the 800 or so men who died were nearly all killed by dehydration or because they were injured in the Japanese attack and died from their wounds.
Best estimate is that about 25-50 of them died from sharks, though a few estimates go as high as 100.
Still, a true story about a terrible event where some sharks ate a bunch of US Navy personnel that were in the water for several days.
Yes. How a reactor could leave that scene out is beyond me. You don't show your reaction to one of the most famous scenes in film?
Wasnt' there a movie made about it called, the Mission of the Shark? or something?
Robert Shaw first take at the monologue was not very good as he was a bit drunk 😊 The next day after he was not he asked SS to try it again and he nailed it.
He did nail it and you could tell Amanda was riveted by his telling of the story.@@raybernal6829
Sharks would have "took the rest" though and devoured the bodies as fellow soldiers watched in horror.
Hi Amanda, I can answer a few of your questions. It was all practical effects, there wasn't any CGI in 1975 when Jaws was made. The reporter on the beach on the 4th of July was Peter Benchley, the author who wrote the book Jaws. The saltwater caused lots of problems for the mechanical shark, so showing the shark-eye view helped the believability. The shark was said to be 25 feet long and 6 tons. That converts to about 7.5 meters and over 2700 kilograms. The story about the U.S.S. Indianapolis is a true story and Quint's monologue about it didn't exaggerate much. The movie was loosely based on a string of shark attacks that happened off the New Jersey coast in July 1916. Back then, 5 shark attacks took place in the same area in a 2-week time span. Jaws is my 18th favorite movie and the mechanical shark was named "Bruce". I hope you have a great week and I wish you and yours all the best. Take care ~ Despair.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I didn't know the reporter was the author, that's really cool. If I had known before, I wouldn't have cut out his part haha. Also, seven and a half meters sounds horrifying, Jesus!. I hope you have a great week as well and thanks for stopping by :)
Plus the mechanical shark Bruce is still to this day at the Universal Studios backlot
@@TwilightLink77 I am not sure if it's still there . They took down the Jaws area attraction to make room for other space some years ago . Also the one replica they had of Bruce , made from the original molds last existing one . Was given away to a junk dealer , he kept it for a bit as a display for his business . Then i believe donated it to some museum .
Quint's monologue is actually historically wrong on several points, but never let the truth get in the way of a great speech!
You beat me to the Benchley cameo. I thought it was fantastic. He also participated in the writing of the screenplay.
Great horror flick really.
Amanda, great reactions.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe. Everyone!
40 years later, the Alex Kitner sandwich met the mom who portrayed her boy, in a restaurant!!!😮😮😮
Fun Fact: The "story" Quint tells about the Indianapolis was a true story, about its sinking and the fate of the sailors aboard
True to a point, though exaggerated for the film.
At the town meeting, Quint felt that he didn't need to introduce himself, except to say "You all know me." But for the viewers' sake, they had the mayor mention his name.
I LOVE what you said about Quint @31:43 "This guy's gonna come off the boat, and he's gonna have a fist fight with the shark at some point."
I think that's the best thing I've ever heard to describe Quint.
The reason why Quint destroyed the radio may have been two-fold. First, Quint was to be paid $10,000 in 1975, which has the purchasing power of nearly $56,000, today. Secondly, the notoriety of hunting down and killing a giant great white shark would revive his shark souvenir business and solidify his name as a shark hunter.
No. His chemical brain makeup changed after his u.s.s mission thus making him obsessed and mentally unhinged. Had nothing to do with money, notoriety or even the act of revenge for past events.
Oh wow, these are very feasible. I agree!
@@WheresWaldo05ummm 😅
@@WheresWaldo05 I think you're both right. He did have practical reasons to want the shark all for himself but for the most part, yes, his traumatic past definitely made him into a Captain Ahab type.
Spielberg drew much upon the character of captain Ahab from Moby Dick for Quint. Ahab was singlemindedly obsessed with getting revenge on the white whale that crippled him and Quint too seemed to be obsessed with killing sharks. all the jaws from his kills on display in his shack seemed to verify this. He wanted to get this great white himself. No help from the authorities was welcome so he smashed the radio.
There are a lot of fundamental changes from the book to the film.
Not by just changing who lives and who dies and how etc.
Some are quite the dramatic character trait changes.
Hooper and the Chief's wife are the most striking changes. (they are not very good people)
But the mayor is pretty much the mayor. With one caveat. He is in bed with the mafia. They basically own the town. That is the reason he is so adamant to lie about the girl's COD.
Excellent piece of extra information. I love learning about things like that, thanks :)
Amanda, love your hair. You have to understand that in some small communities like that, summer time is when they make all of their money for the next year. So when the mayor said it's a summer town, that means that's when they get the most tourist that spend money in their town and that's how most of the townsfolk generate income. If there are no tourists, the entire community suffers for the next year.
Btw, that little boy who was first killed, he started a restaurant/diner (i've forgotten where), and the woman who played his mother just happened to be in that town and eating at that restaurant. But she didn't know her on screen son owned it. She just saw pictures from the movie on the wall and she mentioned to the waitress that that woman in the pic was her. The waitress told the owner and he came out, and it was her on screen son. It was a very cool story.
Great reaction. I totally agree about what you said at the end about how movies create visuals, and cgi used sparingly can be quite effective but a lot of movies these days rely so heavily on cgi that it totally undermines any credibility. x
The only gag in the 2016 GHOSTBUSTERS remake I like is when they go to the Mayor and beg him to listen to them and not to be like the Mayor in JAWS. He immediately gets pissed and shouts "don't EVER compare me to the JAWS Mayor!" *Everybody* knows that the JAWS Mayor is the worst mayor.
You're right about Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton). He's the driving force that sends this story in the direction it goes.
Hamilton's character is still the Mayor in "Jaws II." Politics.
Hamilton was effective as a bad guy or politically-driven figure. He plays Mr. Robinson in "The Graduate." In the original Twilight Zone, S1E2, he plays Death (literally). In an episode of another anthology TV series (which I can't remember the name of), he plays one of a gang of crooks who steal an oil truck and drive across the desert with it, and eventually kill each other over the last canteen of water (the irony being that the oil truck is now a full water tanker and the lettering on the sides just hadn't been repainted yet).
I saw the movie with the tank truck. Excellent. I can't remember the name either. Found it! 1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 5 Episode 37: "Escape to Sonoita") as Marsh
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The reason Vaughn was so adamant about not losing tourist dollars as he was heavily in debt to the Mob. That storyline (along with others) from Peter Benchley's novel we're not in the movie. One of the major reasons PB was asked to leave the set due to his voicing his displeasure with those changes.
28:20 "Why did he break the radio?"
Take your pick:
1. Quint is crazy.
2. Quint wants all the reward money for himself and doesn't want the Coast Guard to come in with a bigger boat so they get the reward.
3. Quint wants revenge for all his Navy buddies from the Indianapolis.
4. Quint read Moby Dick and now he's Captain Ahab and this shark is his "white whale".
5. All of the above.
Jaws is my number 1 movie of all time. Seen it well over 100 times now at only age 40 for context as to my knowledge of the film. You are close but the answer is none of thee above. Maybe one day you will figure it out though.
@@WheresWaldo05 I love your smug superiority. Perhaps in 40 years you might have figured out that that is unlikeable to say the least.
Trying to guess what you figured out, I come up with:
a. Quint is in love with the shark and is trying to seduce her with alpha male behavior.
b. Quint is an alien from Saturn and those radio waves hurt his secret hidden antennae.
c. Quint was testing his white privilege by running at a cop while brandishing a belaying pin - if a black longshoreman did that, Brody would have shot him.
d. Quint worships the shark and made sure no reinforcements would be called before valiantly offering himself as a willing human sacrifice to his piscine god.
2 and 3.
4 = Protect his reputation.
He wasn't crazy.
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 head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
"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." IMDB
0:00:00 "Jaws" is one of those movies I love seeing all the first-timer's takes on ;) such a classic
Your reactions are so much fun to watch. Thank you girl! Thank you very much! You have great smile!
Steven Spielberg's original classic horror, still holds up to this day, brilliant movie.
quint is a 20th century incarnation of captain Ahab...
Or Joe Biden. All are intelligent, focused and obsessed with winning. Trump is Biden's White Whale. And Biden has a big sharp harpoon, too!
Only 10 people worldwide died of sharks in 2023. 30 to 50 died from dog attacks in the U.S. alone in 2023. Still, I haven't been in the water since I saw this movie in 1975.
All 3 actors been in best mov😢ever! Blue Thunder is highly underrated!
Do you know that in WW2 on the same year the USS Indianapolis tragedy happened, something similar happened in Burma called Incident at the Ramree Island. After the Japanese soldiers were defeated, they escaped into the mangrove forest. 1000 soldiers went in. Only 20 came out alive. 980 soldiers were eaten by crocodiles. It went into the Guiness Book of World Records for the most numbers of humans eaten by crocodiles in one sitting
Murry Hamilton played the mayor. His acting was fantastic. How hard it must have been for everyone to HATE him for his portrayal. To me that is acting at an oscar level.
Having worked summer jobs at the Jersey shore in my youth, the statement "only 24 hours is like 3 weeks" is because these summer businesses are open only from Memorial Day to Labor Day, or about 3 months.
I read the book in 5th grade and it's stuck with me ever since. I still highly recommend it to fans of the movie. Spielberg's adaptation trims the subplots and character drama down to a tense man vs beast tale and the scene of Hooper and Quint comparing scars is A+
Quint smashes the radio because he doesn't want to be rescued. He'll kill the shark or die at sea, and like an honorable captain he goes down with The Orca.
That is the most attractive flower vase/cat coffee mug ever.
I am really enjoying your reactions.....💘your voice 💘
Here we go! Love Jaws reactions because it traumatized me at 10 years old!
This 50 yaar old film creates more tension and emotion with a few notes of music and a rubber shark than all of the CGI laden MCU movies combined. I’m happy you appreciated it. .
Amanda when you said LEGEND I was hooked
Seen it in 1975 at the theatre, it's considered to be the first ever summer blockbuster movie. After watching it I never went into the ocean again lol, at least not above my knees . His story about the Indianapolis is sadly 100% true .
Love to see your unabated glee as the various unlucky few get chomped. This IS a fun movie. You provide the most honest reactions on YT.
Loved your reaction🌹Thank you❣️
i watched on patreon last night and i watched again today. great movie, great reaction
Listen, this comment is very motivating. I'm happy to read it :)
The mayor was great. Without him there is no movie.
Since you were wondering, the song Quint sings at 20:31 is a traditional sea shanty. The significance is in the opening words - "Farewell and adieu." He's telling Hooper that if he takes that cage into the water with that shark, goodbye!
Yes, an old Royal Navy song dating from the Peninsula War vs Napoleon when the British were in Spain.
One of the kids who pulled the shark prank was recently elected sheriff of the town where Jaws was filmed.
We got it Amanda. CGI is like animation-really good animation, but your brain sees the CGI. In this movie, our brains saw (see!) a shark. For real.
The song Quint was singing as they were preparing to set sail was called, "Adieu and Farewell/Spanish Ladies", though he changed the words regarding the destination as per the situation in the movie" - the actual destination in the song is England. This is a very old song.
and that same actor sang that same song in a movie back in the 1950s.
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…
I was only 10 when I saw this. When the head rolled out of that boat, well, I've still never experienced a greater jump scare than I did that day in that darkened theatre.
The reason Quint was so calm when he told Brody to put out the fire was that he deliberately started the fire to distract Brody from using the radio. He smashed the radio later in order to protect his $10,000 ($54,000 in today's money) bounty on the shark. This was spelled out by Quint in dialogue that was cut: 'You hired me, didn't you? It's my $10,000. It's my shark.' No reactor today ever gets exactly why Quint smashes the radio, although I don't remember being at all confused about it prior to reading the script - so inflation may be the reason it's less obvious.
A little goose-egg, one of the 2 little brats that pulled the shark fin prank became the sherrif of the island a few years ago. Pretty cool...lol
And the Kitner boy opened a restaurant on Martha's Vineyard (where location shooting was done) included on the menu is "The Alex Kitner Sandwich". A customer came in one day and saw that and asked to speak to the owner... That customer was the woman who played his mother 😊
This was entertaining! Great job Amanda!
Hi Amanda,
The story about the USS Indianapolis and the sharks was true. RIP.
There's the 2016 movie USS Indianapolis : Men of Courage if anyone wants to see more on that true story.
the guy whose head scared Hooper was the one who said "Hello Back" to him on the dock
I never understood why Spielberg didn't put more emphasis on this character or putting across that this was that guy. It took me a gazillion viewing to realise that this was the same dude. Maybe after they found the boat and Brody said his name, we could have seen his face in some flashback.
I believe that guy also was the inspiration for the character of Quint .
Quint didn't need to explain who he was to the townfolk. He started his diatribe with, "Y'all know me..." He's the local "crazy man", and everyone knows it.
Yeah, you have discovered a 1970's blockbuster that was based somewhat on a Real Shark attack on a coastal town in NJ. Yes, the mayor was an idiot thinking about money only, instead of safety of the public. I still remeber as a kid everyone looking around on the beach for sharks when this movie came out.
The shark used for this movie is an attraction for tourists at Universal Studios in Hollywood
3 tons is 6 thousand pounds, great reaction
"Misbehaved sharks" LOL! BTW- I would think you could show a dead fish on youtube. Great review.
Hahah, well it wasn't necessarily because it was dead, it was more because it was hanging and covered in blood.
@@amandamiquilenaThat makes sense.. I think the characters in this film are so well written and acted. Don't know if you recognized "Hooper" is Richard Dreyfus from "What About Bob?" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" .. If you haven't seen those, you might want to add them to your list.. =] both are great movies especially Close Encounters another Spielberg classic, and maybe somewhat overlooked..
Hi Amanda , I enjoy your reaction of jaws🦈 Best part is Brody shooting the shark.
Let me tell you a story my dad did solve this movie the first time he came to the world in 1975 in theaters the old theaters.
A couple of the pictures in the book Chief Brodie looks through are of Rodney Fox who actually survived a real Great White attack at a beach here in South Australia just a few kilometers up the road from where I live. Footage of the real sharks in Jaws were shot by him on the west coast of South Australia, about 200km from where I grew up. We'd go to Port Lincoln in the summer holidays and there'd be warning posters with Rod's picture after the shark attack up around town. After seeing Jaws at a drive-in theatre as a kid in 1976 I haven't been in the ocean since lol
I read a report lately that one of the boys with the fake shark fin is now either an Officer or the Chief of Police on Amity Island.
One needs to have a little empathy for the mayor. He was in a tough position. In the ferry scene, he pointed out that the town was dependant on 'summer dollars.' Unfortunately money is needed to run anyplace, and the beaches were this place's major source of income.
Like most major decisions, it often takes a tragedy of sorts to force actions to be taken.
Exactly. And he was just the front man. The rest of the town council were complicit including the medical examiner and the newspaper editor. He is nervous during the town meeting when he has to tell all the local businesses people that the beaches will be closed. He's not acting on his own for his own benefit.
The head gets everybody. Everybody jumps. I'm pretty sure even Stephen King twitched a little. 💀🦈
In '74 watching it the big screen as an 11 year old. Ummm yeah the whole theater jumped and screamed in unison 😁
Yep, it was raining popcorn and back then it was the good extra butter (REAL) kind. @@raybernal6829
Woop. As the shark said of Alex Kintner's lilo... let's roll it!
2:15 "He fell asleep?"
More like passed out.
Large quantities of alcohol were involved.
Another amazing reaction
There was an actual Survivor from the US Indianapolis that spent the rest of his life killing sharks in Revenge. Robert Shaw may have played his character as Quint.
I from Boston and happened to be on Martha's Vineyard during the filming of this movie and couldn't see much, but I did see one of the half sharks and Quint's shack. Of course I had no idea I was witnessing a classic! 👍👍👍👍👍
awesome reaction Amanda . yeah old school movies and stories were cool 😁
I've often said the mayor should have dollar signs instead of anchors on his jacket.
I spent half my childhood in Massachusetts. A friend's father was a cop who was in that boat!
27:40 "Is Quint Irish?"
No, he's a New York/Massachusetts longshoreman.
But the actor, Robert Shaw, was born in England with a Scottish father, and move to Scotland for several years as a child, then to Cornwall, so his accent is from all over the UK - everywhere BUT Ireland.
He is trying to pull off that regional longshoreman accent and not doing a terrible job of it.
If he did it right, you and I couldn't understand him without subtitles, so it's a simplified, easy to understand longshoreman accent, Hollywood style, colored by a bit of his UK accent underneath.
I'm from the Massachusetts shore and the movie was filmed on the island of Martha's Vineyard off of Cape Cod and the only people with correct accents are the local actors and, for some reason, Brody's oldest kid since the parents don't have one. Quint's accent is like none I ever heard more 18th century pirate than New England- maybe Canadian maritime.
He did a hell of a job portraying a fisherman from New England . Not bad for a British guy . They made the right choice casting him .
And he patterned Quint speaking after Martha's Vineyard locals Craig Kingsbury and Lynn Murphy.
However since he sings an old Royal Navy song and mentions the Battle of Waterloo it could be that he's was an immigrant from Britain as a boy.
Hi Amanda, the mayor is just thinking about his constituents. They are on a small island in the northeast where it gets very cold in winter. The only income they have is the summer in order to be able to heat their homes, pay their mortgage or rent. Pay their mortgage for their business. Feed their family. How many might die next winter? If they can't pay their bills. Shark attacks happen in real life and the beaches don't close.
I remember watching this in the theater, which is weird because I would have been 2 or 3 years old. What were my parents thinking? 😄 I still remember being especially horrified by Quint’s death.
I read somewhere in the paper one those boys who played the prank with cardboard shark fins was later elected Sheriff in Martha's Wineyard where this was filmed where this was filmed.
In the novel the Mayor was so reluctant to close the beaches because he owed a lot of money to the Mafia. They cut that from the movie because Spielberg felt it wasn't needed. Personally, I feel it worked for the book, but the movie really didn't need it.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" was an ad lib by Roy Schnieder - it wasn't in the script.
The tiger shark on the dock in the movie was real, It was caught in Florida and they chartered a plane to fly it to the filming location.
Lol...."those kids should be sent to prison for that " love the reaction 🤣🤣
I don't know what they were thinking when the shark just moed 2/3 of its body length out of the water, but otherwise the animatronics kooked great. They had a lot of trouble with it so scaled it back, which increases the suspense.
Mythbusters did the air tank in the shark's mouth getting shot.
The tank doesn't explode, but the escaping air out of the hole acts like a rocket. They said the shark might have been able to expel it, but that's a long shot.
Most likely it'd have a tank stuck down its gullet with a lot of internal injuries. Blasting past its gills and down its neck area.
The did a test where an air tank with the regulator top knocked off, blasted through 1 and half of another cinder-block walls.
It'd be a dead shark, if not blown to chunks.
Great reaction, Amanda!!! 👏👏👏👏 You're beautiful!!! Love from America!!! 🥰❤️🌹
That girl who died at the start had bad dandruff. They know because they found her Head & Shoulders on the beach.
I never visit a seaside destination without my anchor print sport coat.
A wonderful reaction to a wonderful movie, very much looking forward to first blood, keep the great content coming,
I’m old. Both Jaws and The Exorcist were the top two horror films at the time.
Great Reaction
this moivie is Moby Dick, Quint smashed the radio because it's HIS shark, not the coast guards
Great to see you again, Amanda. Hope your move went OK.
14:07 When I saw this in the cinema when it came out, the whole audience jumped and screamed at the same time. It was quite something.
Awesome reaction. Thanks.
That's why I'm scared of sharks, because I don't want to be suctioned like a noodle.
"so many legs!" you are so dorky. i love it.
13:04...Hi Amanda! 👋✌️ The white fluid coming out of the shark is digestive acid from its stomach.
The shark didn't attack the kid because he wasn't moving. The thing about people swimming and splashing around in the ocean is that this type of activity is very similar to what a shark would see from a prey animal in some type of distress. That is why sharks usually attack humans.
Nice top Amanda. I like the colours. Kind of 70's.
Hi Amanda!😊 Look at you with your new robot arm for your microphone!🎙😉 They filmed this here locally on the island of Martha's Vineyard in the Boston area. The books author and screenwriter (Peter Benchley) has a cameo on the beach as the reporter. Amity is a mainly a Summer town here, and they make their money from tourists. The island actually gets hit by very cold weather in the winter time. I got stranded there once in the winter due to a storm when I went to a wedding. The full body animatronic shark was named "Bruce" after Stephen Spielberg's lawyer. 3 US tons = 6000 US pounds or 2721.55 kilograms. I see some other conversions here that are not accurate. Great reactions to the FIRST EVER Summer Blockbuster, Amanda!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏
An interesting fact about great whites that the movie got right; is that they are one of the only that fish practice "spyhopping" - basically lifting its head out of the water to have a look around.
When Jaws came out in theaters, I was vacationing in Nantucket, a small island just a few miles away from Martha’s Vineyard where the Jaws was filmed. I was 11 years old and my parents were wise enough not to left me go the film. It was a big deal but all of the islanders thought it was ridiculous. On a sad note, for several summers, fishermen kept throwing baby sharks on the beach to let them die. It caused a big outrage by environmentalists.
I used to admire environmentalists. Not anymore.
You missed it in the 70s when I seen it in the theater when I was a young kid around 10. I went to the beach the next day and I didn't remember that I watched Jaws the day before until I got out of the water 😅
31:54 yeah that makes perfect sense a boxing match between a man and a shark
The demise of the shark could never really happen as depicted in the movies. The television show Mythbusters tested an air tank, and the worst that could happen would be pushing the shark backwards from the force of air escaping the tank where it was ruptured.
The tanks are made fairly thick (I think about 2 inches), so as to prevent such an explosion.