I love it when they find the dead old man with no legs and it's like OH HORROR and then the dude is just like stone cold, 'I'll go get a shovel' absolutely phenomenal.
You know, I saw this movie when it first appeared on TV, and have never seen it since. I don't even know if it ever played on any cable channels since then! I've really got to see it again after listening to this. I mean Dante and Sayles...? How could this not be a big hit!
I thought Tarantino was a big Pauline Kael fan. Kael famously wrote that "Jaws" was a comedy, and not just any comedy - a Woody Allen comedy. In other words - a Jewish comedy - complete with a yutz Keystone cop who doesn't know the bow from the stern and a crazed goyum sailor bloodlusting after a fish who ends up eating him. She was totally right too. Read the novel, the movie is something totally different. "Jaws" awaits its true director.
Reading the book for the first time back in the day was a really enjoyable experience for all the reasons I didn’t expect, the affairs of Brody’s wife and all the drama and character depth propelling the novel were really engrossing, with lots of funny slice of life moments. I have to reread that again it’s been years but I remember enjoying flying through it both times. Never heard that analysis by Kael, that’s interesting I’ll keep that in mind when I crack open my copy next time. I do feel like I recall Brody being a total ineffectual dork and Richard Dreyfuss’ character being a smarmy prick.
@@chasedwards9626 The shark is Brody's id the same way the birds in "The Birds" are Lydia's (the co-dependent mother resentful of any other women in her son Mitch's life). It's no mistake the shark's first victim is a blonde female hippie having sex on the beach w/ a virtual stranger. Brody is introduced immediately thereafter as being jealous of his upper class younger wife while simultaneously lusting after the young girls w/ their "bouncing breasts." When the thorax of the first victim is found her breast is described as "deflated" right after Brody's dreams of "bouncing breasts" are described. It's loaded w/ Freudian symbolism. Brody attacks Matt Hooper on the boat for sleeping w/ his wife and when the shark has Hooper in his mouth, Brody shoots Hooper "accidentally" not the shark. When Quint harpoons the shark he yells "I CAN SEE YOUR DICK" (and he can, it's described when the shark jumps out of the water). The town's mayor is also in debt w/ the Mafia and has to flee town, the town itself is barely 500 ppl, it's not the Southhampton-sized town Spielberg made it out to be. The victim kills are described horrifically, and the original storyboards captured the book exactly, it would've gotten an X-rating, particularly the kill where it breaches like a rocket shooting the boy up in the air, crushed him in his teeth, and the boy's legs are described as being the only thing left spirally down in the ociean. Again, the novel has yet to be filmed, Spielberg shot something else, he didn't shoot "Jaws."
I love it when they find the dead old man with no legs and it's like OH HORROR and then the dude is just like stone cold, 'I'll go get a shovel' absolutely phenomenal.
You know, I saw this movie when it first appeared on TV, and have never seen it since. I don't even know if it ever played on any cable channels since then! I've really got to see it again after listening to this. I mean Dante and Sayles...? How could this not be a big hit!
I thought Tarantino was a big Pauline Kael fan. Kael famously wrote that "Jaws" was a comedy, and not just any comedy - a Woody Allen comedy. In other words - a Jewish comedy - complete with a yutz Keystone cop who doesn't know the bow from the stern and a crazed goyum sailor bloodlusting after a fish who ends up eating him. She was totally right too. Read the novel, the movie is something totally different. "Jaws" awaits its true director.
Reading the book for the first time back in the day was a really enjoyable experience for all the reasons I didn’t expect, the affairs of Brody’s wife and all the drama and character depth propelling the novel were really engrossing, with lots of funny slice of life moments. I have to reread that again it’s been years but I remember enjoying flying through it both times.
Never heard that analysis by Kael, that’s interesting I’ll keep that in mind when I crack open my copy next time. I do feel like I recall Brody being a total ineffectual dork and Richard Dreyfuss’ character being a smarmy prick.
@@chasedwards9626 The shark is Brody's id the same way the birds in "The Birds" are Lydia's (the co-dependent mother resentful of any other women in her son Mitch's life). It's no mistake the shark's first victim is a blonde female hippie having sex on the beach w/ a virtual stranger. Brody is introduced immediately thereafter as being jealous of his upper class younger wife while simultaneously lusting after the young girls w/ their "bouncing breasts." When the thorax of the first victim is found her breast is described as "deflated" right after Brody's dreams of "bouncing breasts" are described. It's loaded w/ Freudian symbolism. Brody attacks Matt Hooper on the boat for sleeping w/ his wife and when the shark has Hooper in his mouth, Brody shoots Hooper "accidentally" not the shark. When Quint harpoons the shark he yells "I CAN SEE YOUR DICK" (and he can, it's described when the shark jumps out of the water). The town's mayor is also in debt w/ the Mafia and has to flee town, the town itself is barely 500 ppl, it's not the Southhampton-sized town Spielberg made it out to be. The victim kills are described horrifically, and the original storyboards captured the book exactly, it would've gotten an X-rating, particularly the kill where it breaches like a rocket shooting the boy up in the air, crushed him in his teeth, and the boy's legs are described as being the only thing left spirally down in the ociean. Again, the novel has yet to be filmed, Spielberg shot something else, he didn't shoot "Jaws."