First Time Watching - Jaws (1975)
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I read the book and saw the movie in the theaters in 1975 when I was 12. I have never gone in the ocean since without thinking of this movie, and there are a lot of people from my generation that never looked at the ocean the same way again.
The story that Quint tells about the shark attack during WWII in the Philippines Sea is based on a true story. In 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by the Japanese Navy. There were 1,195 aboard. The 890 survivors faced exposure to dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the ocean.
The tension is real! Well done Verdy, you were very brave.
What a movie!
Hi Verdy, I was 15 when I saw Jaws in 1975. When Ben Gardner’s head popped out of that hole, the entire theater screamed. My entire row jumped back in fear! I saw the film nine more times. Anticipating that moment, I turned around and watched the crowd in the theater. Discovering what would be watching reactors do now. I bought tickets for friends to see the film with me, just to enjoy watching them scream! I haven’t seen you in a while, Verdy. You have a beautiful smile.
I'm a little younger, at 50. But I watched Jaws as a kid back in the early 80's, and the Ben Gardner scene was by far the scariest thing I'd seen, even though I was watching stuff like The Thing and American Werewolf in London at an early age. Wish I could have been there in the cinema on release to see that reaction!
I saw Jaws at 10 years old on Block island ,.120 miles west of where the movie was filmed. To make it worse,.. fisherman stuck a 2500 Lb Dead mako shark in front of the theater for effect. Ben Gardner’s head is the Best jump scare in Hollywood history. I remember 100 screaming and jumping into the lap of the people behind them. Other scenes,.. people were vomiting,.. running out into the lobby. Epic!!!! What an experience. Didn’t go swimming for years!!!
@@SirHilaryManfatAfter seeing Jaws so many times, I became aware of an optical illusion with Ben Gardner’s head. The light and shadow on the head create the illusion of teeth in a shark’s jaws. When the head moves towards the camera, your subconscious sees a shark with open jaws lunging at you and you scream! Watch that scene in slow motion and try to see it.
I was in first grade. Didn't see the movie until years later, but I do remember all the grownups were carrying around the book with the shark on front.
I was 5 when it came out. My parents wouldn't let me watch it until years later. I knew the movie existed but I didn't see it at the time.
In 1975 my dad had a fishing boat out of Oceanside Ca. After JAWS came out scared but curious people paid me to take them out looking to see a large Great White Shark for themselves. While most of the sharks were 10 to 12 footers several times I came across the same 17 foot female that hung around San Clemente Island. While she wasn't as big as the 25 long anamatronic shark from the movie she impressed my charter clients.
Yea, a total classic! Top 3 best movies of all time.
The very first summer block buster flick. Still holds up. Good story telling.
-Sage
Thank you for this one!😁 it’s my movie! This came out in 1975 and it was the summer before my last year of high school. I’m on vacation with my family and we saw this in the afternoon in the movie theater. At night, my brother and I were swimming in the hotel swimming pool and we were so creeped out! We kept looking around us in the water! Great memory for me! 😁
You're probably my age. I was scared to use a TOILET after watching Jaws. ; )
@@user-Chris.Alger11 I wouldn't sit on a toilet for a week. I was 5 when I first saw this movie and my older siblings teased me that 'Jaws' (since we all thought that was the shark's name) might jump out of the toilet and bite off my dangly bits.
some movies live forever (like BenHur) and this is one of them. Verdy's reaction is so cool, love how she hides behind her hand.
I was 20 when this came out in the theaters. I've never gone in the ocean since---all these years. I've been on vacation to Hawaii, Bahamas, and Caymens. And I stayed on the beach. I can't do it. It ruined me with the ocean for life. I live on the Great Lakes... we have a saying "No salt. No sharks. No worries." So that works for me.
Good reaction. Thank you!
Fifty years(!) and it still feels stunningly fresh.
Btw this was a really stressful watchalong with you, lol.
Great reaction!
... "That's one way to start a movie." lol
My favorite film of all time! Glad you enjoyed it!
The best movie I had ever seen in the theatre. It was epic then and It still is today. Great reaction. Even in the 70's they made some great movies.
"Even in the 70's" ? A strong argument can be made that the period from 1969 to 1980 is the golden age of America film.
I enjoyed seeing you watch this. At the time this came out it was so scary. People were afraid to go in the water.
I saw this in the movie theater the week it came out in 1975. I was 13 years old. I probably went back to see it a dozen times that summer. It really was the first "summer blockbuster."
Jaws is true classic cinema.
Thank you verdy channel, I have watched this movie since we had it on vhs at 5 years old, love it, and Bruce the shark. Great in depth review, hope you enjoyed it and looking forward to your upcoming reaction videos. All of the best. Greetings from south Africa. ❤😎👍🦈🦈🦈
Hard to believe it’s 50 years old this year! Great job here! 👍🏻
It shows how there are different people in the world. Some wouldn't go near the water after watching this. And on the other hand, going down in cages to watch sharks also became very popular with some...
When I was a kid (about 12) my family went to Universal Studios. It was about a year after this film. They had a full scale replica of the shark hanging upside down from a scaffolding so you could stand in the mouth for photos.
Wow. Did you not get a photo taken? I'd have got my photo taken with that for sure.
Hi Verdy loved your reaction to Jaws especially your cringing too john williams score we in Australia live with great white sharks i remember in the 70's my big brother telling me how people in the audience were lifting their feet off the cinema floor so jaws wouldn't bight their legs off and on the news here in Australia this movie effected people so much they wouldn't swim in the 70's
This scared me as a kid. Thank you beautiful and gorgeous Verdy for another video.
The sheriff is yelling does anybody have a gun, ya like I'm carrying one in my bathing suit, hilarious!
starts watching movie about shark
*constant worry face*
the FIRST blockbuster, and not many have matched it's impact since
it will always be an astonishing movie
you should watch 1941 next
then ghost shark ...
the entire sequence when brody drops the wrecked cage back into the water, and quint looks out and stares almost knowing the fate that lies before them ... and then THE shot of jaws, that long long shot of it passing the camera, and launching itself onto the bow ... i think that is the BEST EVER series of shots in cinema! made even more terrifying by the low rumbling sound, and quint's horrible demise!
truly a movie for the reactors to watch, yours was awesome, especially the "get this MERDEing shark out ma boat" look ...
then SPOOKIES ... also a movie with a simile from this movie, that legit gave me a nightmare!
obviously the REEL star of the show is BRUCE THE SHARK, should have won an oscar for his performance!
and then ROAR THE MOST DANGEROUS MOVIE EVER MADE ... to calm yourself after a long day of TERROR!!!
i watched it when it premiered on uk television on october 8th 1981, and I didn't hide my eyes, i was never that kind of kid ... but boy the everlasting impression still lives on.
A really great reaction Verdy, very enjoyable.
Wonderful reaction! Another great movie from the same time is the exorcist! If jaws troubled you, exorcist will give you nightmares! Wish you the best! Peace from Northern Michigan!
Just like when someone suggested The Thing, I have to say I don't think she's quite ready for The Exorcist. Did you see how disturbed she was watching this? I'm sure she'll do reactions to both in time, but let's phase her slowly in, not traumatise the poor girl.
Great reaction to one of my favourite movies, AV! ❤
A few years ago, I got to see JAWS in theatres in 3D. It was so cool. The shots that are right along the water's surface made it feel like I was IN the water.
That sounds awesome! That would freak me out lol
I love the way Verdy watches from behind her hand during the graphic bits. I do the same thing.
I'd already been getting into films since I was about 7 but seeing this at a small local cinema, with my cousin 1 summer afternoon when I was 11 changed my life and I was a massive film buff from that point on. Still amazed that even after all this time it's not lost an ounce of it's impact. For my money it's down to what so many modern filmmakers miss. It's not about the monster, it's not about the gore, it's about the script and the characters. The way relate to other humans is timeless and unless a film has that it's forgettable.
Thankfully some writers and directors do understand this, hence the reason we have Alien, Tremors, Exorcist etc.
I lived in Satellite Beach Fla when this movie came out. I was two blocks from the Atlantic and swam almost daily...until, lol.
This movie slowed me down for awhile.
Classic thriller. I like the way you put your hand in front of your face when you're scared.
Verdy is beyond cute.❤
Yes they trained a 25 foot great white shark. That's how they made the movie. His name was Bruce lol.
Here's a funny story: Decades after this film, the actress who played Alex Kitner's mom went into a seafood restaurant and saw that the menu had an "Alex Kitner sandwhich". She asked the waiter about it and told him that she had acted in the movie as Mrs. Kitner. The waiter said, "I'll be right back" and went to get the owner. The owner came out and re-introduced himself to her: "Hello Mother, I was the little boy who played your son, Alex." Reunited after all those years!
Great reaction. Hope to see you do more horror/thrillers. I have a feeling you'll only see half of the movies, though, hiding behind your hand like that lol.
She's galeophobic mate - it means she has an extreme and irrational fear of sharks (and spiders and snakes and vomiting it seems - although I wonder what happens when she vomits). I think a galeophobic shows great courage to react to this movie. Most galeophobics can trace their fear of sharks back to this movie, she was galeophobic independent of seeing this movie. What a trooper.
John Williams did so many fantastic soundtracks, that it's mind boggling!
With Spielberg, you know that there will be enough reality in the movie, that it will be plausible.
THAT's what makes it so scary!
Ole’ Ben Gardner’s claims another victim.😂 Best jump scare in cinema history. Saw this in (1975) at 10 years old. Imagine 100 people screaming and jumping backwards into the lap of the people behind them. Others we’re running out into the lobby vomiting. I saw Jaws on and island 120 miles from where the movie was shot. Some fishermen for maximum effect put a 2500 pound Mako shark in front of the theater. Didn’t go swimming for years. Epic!!! Best movie of my time,.. next to Star Wars and Close encounters.🔥🔥🔥😀✌️
A huge mechanical shark was used for filming. The crew named it "Bruce." Someone here said that a trained shark was used. You can't train a real great white shark. In fact, "Bruce" gave many problems at the beginning of filming, due to various malfunctions, which is why the shark is barely shown in the first half of the film. This failure was exploited, thanks to Spielberg's talent, to increase the sense of terror using pure cinematic resources. Later, in the Disney film "Finding Nemo" a huge shark that wants to befriend the fish is named "Bruce" as a nod to the animatron in "Jaws."
Awesome Reaction......
PG-13 was created 1 Jul 1984, "Red Dawn" with Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen was the first movie to be released with the rating.... 9 years after Jaws.....
Part of the reason you don't see the Shark very much is cause they had on-going mechanical issues with "Bruce" the mechanical shark........
BTW.... If you watch the credits ALL the way through you see them arrive on the Beach/Shore...... It is not considered a Post Credit scene cause the video behind the credits is a long shot and is not cut.....
I remember when this movie came out...many people were terrified of the water for months after this movie. I remember watching hundreds of people screaming on the beach and running out of the water after a piece of driftwood floated by.
That boat scene 😱🥶🫣
I was 9 years old when I saw this with my parents. The scene where the guys head that's missing an eye, floats past the hole in that boat, OMG that scared the be-Jesus out of me, and I had nightmares of it for weeks afterwards, even though I knew and understood it was make-believe and a movie! To this day I can still vision that scene in my mind! Scary!
I was also 9 - I remember when I was the only one at the pool I had to jump in the deep end and swim as fast as I could to the shallows while looking behind me to make sure Jaws wasn't coming. lol
Just found your channel today and subscribed because I'm already hooked! Sending good vibes from Kentucky!😊 Also wanted to add the shark is partially animatronic but fell into disrepair so Greg Nicotero(effects artist on walking dead and 600 films) rebuilt it so it can now be shown in museums. I got to meet him and the shark (who they named Bruce) at a convention about ten years ago. Very cool guy.
Welcome to the party my friend. She's going to be doing The Green Mile next, and it promises to be spectacular (I've seen the full version). Her Shawshank reaction gets a lot of love, make sure you catch that if you haven't yet.
@@FrancisXLord The shawshank reaction is what broght me here actually. Does she do full reactions on patreon or sync ups? Thinking of joining
@@melneth3119 Indeed she does, and you don't need your own copy since there's synced video. Best of all, it doesn't have all the crap you have to add to the film screen image to get it up on UA-cam - the film footage is absolutely clear of that.
@@FrancisXLord That's awesome thanks! Definitly be joining payday :)
I LOVE YOU ALREADY! I haven't seen your reaction, watched Chiefs and Bills, yet it's 11:07 and I have Booze (Jameson) and You! As we say in the South, "Yeh, C'mon!:" My top 7 movie of all time.
Its hard being a Bills fan
“You're gonna need a bigger boat”🤭 🖖❤
I still use this quote now, it comes in very handy, just switch 'boat' for another appropriate noun. ; )
@@user-Chris.Alger11 Yeah, I sent a meme around the office recently. Martin Brody with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. The caption reads: 'YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER SERVER'. So you're not the only person who does that.
Here for Ben Gardner's starring role 😂😂😂
This will be entertaining! Way to go Verdy!👍🏻
I first watched this film aged 10 in 1975 with my parents at the cinema. Mind was 💥Literally didn’t swim in the sea for about a year after! 😂Enjoyed watching this again from the perspective of someone watching it for the first time! The shark was a big mechanical shark & thet interspersed this with footage of real white sharks. There’s a great book called ‘The Making of The Movie Jaws’ that provides a detailed breakdown of how they made this game changing film. 🙌🏼🦈
My family and I were on vacation in Martha's Vineyard at the time of the filming of this classic and we saw Quint's shack, one of the half sharks and a ton of extras. We had no idea it would be a blockbuster but it was awesome! 😁
always like to watch first timers watch this classic movie - 50 years old but doesn't age.
I'm from Tennessee but we went to Florida for vacation every year when I was young and I swam in the ocean the whole time. THEN when JAWS first came to a Tennessee theater near me I went to see it. I have not been in the ocean since. I'm 65yo and have NOT been eaten by a shark. I feel like I made the right decision. 😂
🤣 Yeah, you could be onto something there. I saw Jaws when I was 5, and never learned to swim. I haven't been eaten by a shark or drowned, so I think I made the right decision too.
Great reaction to a classic movie. Also, love the icons lightsaber on the bookcase.
She's so into Star Wars, which unfortunately she saw before reacting to any film. It would have been great to see her first time watching.
It's almost painful to see her watch it. The hand over the eyes is telling. Stay golden, Verdy. Most of the rest of us are long gone.
It was actually really uncomfortable to edit. She didn't tell me she was galeophobic (an intense fear of sharks) after I suggested this film to her. She faced her fear all the same. What a trooper.
Fun reaction Verdy.
This was Spielbergs first big budget Hollywood movie and bought him freedom to make whatever he wanted with zero interference from the studios.
The novel is excellent and I highly recommend it (for those who actually still read books 🙂).
This movie is a masterclass in filmmaking, sound, and editing.
Duel was big budget. The studio had to have given him at least $23.99 to make that bad boy.
The Jaws book is good, yeah. And quite different to the movie. I like them both but the movie is iconic.
@@mattp6089 Duel's budget was $450,000. Maybe that was big budget at the time for a TV movie, I don't know. It only had a theatrical release in Europe. In the US it was a TV movie of the week on CBS.
@ That was the nature of my $23.99 joke, yes. Duel was very low budget.
@@mattp6089 Oh... It was a joke? Okay. Still don't get it, maybe I'm a bit dumb. Sorry.
The Jaws 2 book is better than the Jaws book in my opinion, and the opinion of many who have read both.
Jaws is the GOAT!
Your English is so much better now, I don't know whether I like that or not. I liked you struggling for English equivalents back in the day 😁
About 25 years ago, my wife and I took scuba diving lessons in an Ohio hotel swimming pool so we could go to Cancun on our honeymoon and go scuba diving off the coast of Cozumel. There’s a famous area there and it’s considered the second best place in the world to scuba dive, behind the great barrier reef in Australia. Anyway when you dive there is a strong current. The boat drops you off, and you sink down to the bottom, then let the current carry you along, and when you surface, the boat is there to meet you. It was an amazing experience. It’s like being on another planet almost. Anyway when we all surfaced, there was one person missing. That person was never seen again. It’s quite possible a shark might’ve gotten her eventually, but we don’t really know.
In fairness Bob, it could have been a lot of other things besides. That person could have become disorientated and swam off in the wrong direction, perhaps there was a fault with their breathing apparatus, I mean there's a lot of things that could've caused them to disappear. I think humans often make sharks the culprits when there's so many other things that could've happened when someone disappears.
@ i’m just saying that once she was lost, I’m sure something ate her. Most likely something like a shark.
1. Jaws was the first "Summer Blockbuster".
2. Boy Scouts don't need to do the mile swim to get their merit badge. It's an accomplishment all its own.
3. Lee Fierro/Mrs. Kentner actually slapped Roy Scheider. It took 17 takes. Once was so hard it knocked his glasses off.
4. The jump scare at Ben Gardner's boat was put in on purpose by Spielberg because they were having problems with the shark "Bruce" and his appearance was delayed, and the movie needed something earlier. Works every time.🤣
5. IRL Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't get along, so Spielberg used the animosity to fuel their feud onscreen.
6. The boy that said, "He made me do it' is now the Police Chief of the town where this movie was filmed.
7. Hooper was wrong. The fish that hit the line was "our fish".
8. To me the best scene framing work was the pullback to the vandalized Welcome sign.
9. Movie magic: An animal that large couldn't hit the side of the boat as rapidly as it did UNDER WATER.
10. I suspect Quint's story about the Indy gave him PTSD flashbacks and contributed to his behavior after he told the Indianapolis story. It' personal.
11. I was in the Navy, and we were instructed to go for the eyes when confronting a shark.
12. Aside from the pool used in the Ben Gardner boat scenes, all of the shipboard scenes were filmed entirely at sea,
13. In the book not only does Hooper die, but he was also having an affair with Mrs. Brody.
14. JAWS II is the only other one worth watching. It revolves around the Brody kids and their friends. Including the mayor's son.
15 The third one was so bad that Scheider read the script and said NO.
Note: Regarding "Drowning the shark", sharks need water flowing through its gills to provide oxygen. Sharks stop swimming, no oxygen. The more you know.🧐
Quint's story is based on what actually happened to the Indianapolis and its crew.
The story of the mechanical shark, Bruce, is that it malfunctioned so much that it didn't get seen as much as planned, which made the movie better.
What a great movie! Scary sometimes, yes, but an amazing adventure with terrific, well-developed characters. It's in my top five of best of all time.
According to Joe Alves, almost all shots they planned of the shark were achieved. It just took a long time. The shark was hidden in the first half of the film by design.
Excellent reaction. Thanks.
First, I love watching your videos. You are so beautiful… Second, I was fortunate enough to see that movie when I was six years old at the movie theater… It changes your life trust me.
Quite a while after watching this movie I went snorkeling in shallow water while on holiday.
I was looking more or less straight down, I could see some small fish... when some idiot in a tiny sailing dingy sailed right past my head!!!!
A tiny dingy keel never looked more like a shark, and never looked so big.
Hard to describe the fear, but 100% I blame this movie! 😂😂😂
27:53-Ya handled that better than most reactors, sweetie...More often it's " AIIIIIIEEEEEEE" and a jump!
1:08:10 Her reaction at this moment made me laugh pretty hard. Great video, thanks Verdy!
I'm glad you said that, as that was my suggestion for the thumbnail image that she passed on.
14:32 "I'm wondering if the sharks big or if it's small?" 😂😂
I read the book shortly after seeing the movie and I have never forgotten the descriptive phrase "tattered flesh". It described what the first victim felt when she touched her leg after the first shark bite. This move was the first summer blockbuster movie. Thanks for sharing your reaction.
I read the book after seeing the film also, and actually remember those words as well (and I was just a kid). I also remember my brain wouldn't process how the shark just died, as I'm reading it I'm not taking the words in, I'm just imagining Brody shooting at a tank in the shark's mouth. My mind wouldn't let go of that ending.
Author Peter Benchley was the "Reporter" on the beach. Spielberg did the 1st rope pull on the girl at the beginning. I was in 7th grade in Va Beach when the movie came out. We used to be beach rats, but only went to the Base Pools after the movie 🦈
Un grand classique de mon enfance et indémodable... par chance, pour ma culture cinématographique, ma mère me laissait très jeune regarder tous les pires films possibles. 😂
Thank you Verdy...😌
When this movie came out I was getting into surfing. It didn't stop me, but I was more vigilant scanning the area while waiting for waves.
14:27 - Great White sharks frequently attack in shallow water.
The known powerful scene in the movie is Quint's monologue and fair enough.
For me another very powerful scene is when Mrs Kintner accuses Brody of being responsible for her son's death and he agrees with her. We're protesting that the town leaders wouldn't let him do his job, that he was hamstrung from doing more. But Brody is thinking he should have done it anyway and damn the consequences. And now, we know how strong his personal sense of responsibility is. He's going to get the job done from that point on. And that begins to really solidify Brody's motivation. We have the guy who is a cop whose responsibility is to people on dry land, who is petrified of the ocean, and when later he goes out on the water to kill this shark anyway, we buy his motivation completely.
Excellent observation. You hear so many reactors say it was solely the Mayor who was to blame. Brody, an off-islander, was chosen for the role of Chief of Police (in the script I've read, although not made blatant in the film) because he wasn't someone's brother or son or father, etc. It was so that he could be unbiased in the application of the law.
He let his worries, about not being accepted in his new role by the islanders, sway his decision to accept what the Mayor was telling him and not insist the beaches were closed. It's a weakness in his character at the start of the movie that he overcomes by the time he is marching the Mayor around the hospital and telling (not asking) the Mayor to sign the voucher to hire Quint.
Great reaction, Verdy. I appreciate your genuine reactions and that you don't "ham it up" for the camera and for clicks. The shark, nicknamed Brucie, was in fact a mechanical shark which apparently gave the production crew no end of trouble - this is why it's rarely seen in the movie. Looking forward to your "Raiders" reaction.
Definitely love that she doesn't ham it up. She said to me (her editor) in an email that she worried she didn't talk as much as other reactors. I told her that any conscious effort to change how she reacts would make the reaction artificial. We love her just the way she is.
They actually eventually got nearly all of the planned shots of the shark though when it worked at the end of location shooting and even included some unplanned shots. According to production designer Joe Alves.
The shark was hidden in the first half of the film by design.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Yeah I've kind of always agreed with your point my friend. It's just difficult to argue that without someone saying 'but Spielberg said this in an interview'. Lies were often told to make articles more interesting and those lies became today's myths. Like the lie that Robert Shaw was drunk when he delivered his Indianapolis monologue - not a total fabrication but skewing the truth which is that they reshot the monologue when he was sober.
I mean look, this is Steven Spielberg we're talking about. The idea that he wouldn't know how much more frightening he could make the shark by not showing it, even then, is absurd to me. Of course he knew. He's far from a dumb filmmaker.
@@FrancisXLord Agreed. Leave the talking for the end. Great job on the editing BTW especially those visual tricks you use to keep her from getting copyright strikes.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Good to know. I was always under the impression the lack of a visible shark for most of the movie was a happy accident.
Hehe.. that s-word could have sounded like the es.. umm.. ti word. ;p
This movie has thee most terrifying jumping scare and foreboding theme song in cinema history. Glad you enjoyed it.
Saw it when it first premiered on the TV in the very late 70's.. Wish i seen it in the Cinema.. just for that jump scare.. lol
Great reaction beautiful ❤ so many fun notes on this movie my favorite of all time. I saw it with my cousin at the theater in summer of '75 here in So Cal where we spend a lot of time at the beach 😎 There are many differences in the novel and the movie. The major one to me is not explaining why the mayor acts the way he did. He is indebted to the Mob as he took out s "loan" and needed to earn the money to pay them back. Hooper and Mrs Brody had a brief affair. The Orca came back everyday did not stay out. Hooper did get killed by the shark. The shark did not get killed the way it was in the movie. The story told by Quint regarding the USS Indianapolis was true though how many men died by shark was never known in fact some of those crew members never saw any sharks. When Robert Shaw(Quint) initially delivered that speech he was drunk as he was usually... Afterwards Spielberg figured that was the best he was getting the next day Shaw went to Spielberg and asked to do the scene again. That is what we see in the movie 😊
All quite accurate my friend, well done. Although there is actually one shot still in the film where Shaw is drunk. Look for the continuity error in the placement of Hooper in the background. In those days, when they shot it the second time, they probably didn't even have the dailies to check the actors' positions. So, when they cut briefly between the day of Shaw sober and the day of him drunk, there's a blatant continuity error.
Right out of the gates, you mentioned John Wiliams for the music, BEFORE even mentioning Spielberg. Yay!!! 'Music makes the movie' always makes the movie, in my book.
It was after seeing this film that I switched from taking baths, to taking showers.
27:24 That scene gave me nightmares for YEARS. Everyone was freaked out by this movie and the seaside tourism economy took a hit due to it. It was crazy. People who had grown up on the ocean refused to go back into the water for many years after this movie. This is the first "Slasher" movie on the sea.
Just like "Alien" is the first slasher movie in space (ALSO, a must see). You're a bit sensitive, but the movie is just too good to miss. Make sure to watch it on a bright, sunny day. The next movie "Aliens" wraps it up in a somewhat less scary, action/slasher movie that REALLY wraps up the storyline VERY well. It's the only two you need to watch, even though there are more.
Great reaction
It took fifty years for me to realize this, after watching these reactions, that when Hooper lost the Great White's tooth from Ben Garner's boat he should have said to the mayor that they still had to examine the boat and do an autopsy on Garner to determine what happened. It never came up and it seems no one even questioned why Hooper never mentioned it including myself until now.
I believe because when the discussion scene was filmed, they didn't yet know Ben Gardner was going to 'surprise' Hooper. That was not yet changed. I don't know what the original 'surprise' was.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I read the script last year actually, and Ben Gardner's head was always supposed to be sticking out of the bottom of the boat. In the script however, his head doesn't pop out of the hole like that. Hooper just looks up and spots it. I believe the reason that Ben Gardner wasn't mentioned in the conversation with the Mayor is that he wasn't attacked by the shark, only the boat was, and he died of some injury caused while the boat was being rocked by shark impacts presumably.
The script, by the way, was a really boring read (so much of the dialogue was improvised by the actors). But it did clear up a few questions I had like, 'Why did they cut to a close up shot of the lance before Quint climbs up the ladder?' I did a whole video breaking down Jaws that you might be interested in, my friend. Follow my name to my channel. I gave up making videos of my own, because they take too long for me to grow an audience, but there's a breakdown of Jaws and one of Halloween (1978) there still.
@@lyndoncmp5751 The point is Ben Garner already surprised Hooper. The discussion with the mayor happened afterwards.
Great to see you, as always! I saw this first on video when I was 8 or 9...way too young lol. Watching Quint getting eaten didn't sit well with me haha
🦈 John Williams does the incidental music for all of Spielberg's films. They're a team like Tim Burton & Danny Elfman. 😎👍
Except The Color Purple (1985), that was Quincy Jones.
In the novel, it is explained that the mayor owes money to the Mob and they don't want the beaches closed.
I saw this in Ocean City, MD, USA, while on vacation in the summer of '75. I was only 8 years old. It was PG as they didn't have a PG-13 back then. Made for an uncomfortable rest of my trip haha🦈
Great reaction young lady! 👍
AT 33:24 THE little boy under the shark fin is now the Sheriff of Nan Tucket where this movie was made.
actually it was filmed in Marthas vineyard next island west of Nantucket also the 2 boys that play the chief's sons are actually from the vineyard
Did you catch the shooting star in one of the scenes? I've lost count of how many times I've seen this movie over the years. Your reactions made this the best one of them all.
Great movie, great smile and survived one of the biggest jumpscares. Ready first the next scary movie!
I love watching your reactions :)
Every child said "I will never go into the water again" after seeing his movie the first time. But, by the time they grew up to be college students, they all went to Sprin Break and creqted the Girls Gone Wild video series. 😂
A few years back a ocean going tug boat capsized and sunk in 300 feet of water. The ship sank very quickly before any of the crew could get out. As it was very early, most of the crew were asleep.
However, the ships cook woke up early and was in the washroom when the world turned up-side-down. With amazing luck the washroom did not fill completely, leaving a small air pocked. 3 days after the sinking a group of divers showed up to recover the bodies of the crew.
One of the divers, on his first body recovery was already pretty work up when a human hand came into view. The diver reached out, but when he grabbed the hand, the hand grabbed him back.
The diver screamed like a little girl. After he got over this shock he realized there was air just above his head. I poked his head out of the water and was surprised to fine a living man.
They successfully rescued the man, but that was not the end of the story. The former ships cook became a rescue diver himself. He got a job with the same contractors who rescued him and by arrangement, he was assigned to partner with the diver who had saved him.
This movie destroyed the business of municipal swimming baths for about six months. I remember this from my childhood, lol.
I was about 21 when I first saw this, so not dissimilar from you. I was always wary of entering any sea after that. I remember doing snorkelling when aged 27 and still had thoughts of sharks attacking. It certainly affected me.
When I was about 31 and had my 18 month old daughter in the sea at thigh level, we were surrounded by jelly fish and I got badly stung on the legs. Nearest I ever got to a shark attack, thank goodness.
Great movie though and still better from the sequels. The bit that scared me the most was the dead man in the boat.
After the first scene, you can say: Alcohol can save your life.
This movie, back then, made most of the world afraid to get in the water!
The reason Quint smashed the radio when Brody tried to call for help was not just out of greed since he wanted the bounty money of $10,000 (Which in today's money would be around $60,000), but also out of pride and superiority. After surviving one of the worst shark attacks in history, he decided to take pride in hunting down sharks as a way of avenging his friends who were killed by sharks. When Quint saw the huge great white, he saw it as his big moment. If Brody had called for help and they got rescued by the Coast Guard, then Quint would've lost that big opportunity. Not only was Quint a tough guy who wanted to prove that he was more invincible than everybody, including the shark, but he's also a boat captain. *HE'S* in charge of the boat.
So when Brody went to the radio to try to call for help, Quint felt that he was challenging his authority and daring to go against his personal wishes. So he smashed the radio out of defiance and frustration. It's also the reason why he wore out the boat engine against Hopper's warnings.
Quint basically let his own personal pride override moral judgment, and he became Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick." After Captain Ahab got his leg bitten off by the white whale Moby Dick and Quint saw his friends get munched on by sharks, both men became monomaniac with a life's purpose of hunting down sea monsters out of vengeance and holding their crews hostage and forcing them to help them at all costs, even if it meant suicide.
I personally believe the greatest reason is the trophy. Quint was a trophy hunter. Shark jaws are all over his shack, including the 16 footer he mentioned caught off Montauk. That's the one the camera looks through as the Orca departs.
The shark was the ultimate. Quint wanted to kill the ultimate and display it's jaws. Nobody was going to come along and deny Quint his ultimate victory.
Hi Verdy, I changed my b&w photo to a more current picture, I switch them now and then, this picture was taken in Phuket. 👍🏾😇
If you're ever interested in another Steven Spielberg movie that was very well done but much more tame than this is a very early movie he produced for TV called, "Duel", which is a gripping tale of a weak husband who gets into a confrontation with a man trying to kill him. I highly recommend that movie so you can see how well Spielberg was at producing movies at such a young age. It's guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Thanks for this amazing react, Thanks S2
We need a bigger boat Verdy!!! 😅
the reporter on the beach is the author of the book