JAWS (1975) Movie Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Film Commentary & Trivia
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I can see why it's the favourite film of many!
I'd heard so many little things about this film, quotes or little parts that other films like "The Master Of Disguise" (2002) had referenced.
I'm SO glad I finally got to see this. It has great cinematography too!
Plus, there's some real great tension built before the shark is revealed, which is just topped off with the terrifying thought that a Great White Shark could be circling the boat at any moment.
I hope you enjoy my reaction!
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1:04:12 Trivia
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They don't write characters like Quint anymore. Frankly Shaw should have at least been nominated for an oscar for that monologue.
Mr Shaw....also a gifted writer had a hand in editing that monologue
@@bpora01 They really don't create them like they used to, you nailed it. Yes! That's what I'm saying too. The story was a lot more raw and emotional than I'd expected. Thank you for watching!
John Milius wrote Quint's Indianapolis monologue after Spielberg requested it from him.
And when you hear Robert Shaw's real clipped English accent and voice you realise how well Shaw 'became' Quint.
@@lyndoncmp5751 In the novel Quint is from Bermuda.
The studio wasn't sure how this movie would do so it released it during a slow time...the summer. Back in the day, most movies were released in the fall when people were back from their holiday travels. What happened is that JAWS started a new tradition, i.e. the summer blockbuster.
That was only initially. However, after the first test screenings in April 1975 the studio was certain it would be a huge hit so that's why they decided to release it widely in June and spent a lot of money on the advertising campaign. They knew they had a hit.
9:44 What the _"24 hours is like 3 weeks"_ statement actually means is that for every 24 hours in which summer tourists can't go to the beach will result in a loss of 3 weeks income for the small business owners of Amity Island. Remember as the mayor said, Amity is a summer town in which all the residents' livelihoods depend almost entirely on the summer tourism, much like Cape Cod, Massachusetts or Cape May, New Jersey. It wasn't meant to be an exaggeration of how long a day without the beach feels.
And it's a summer holiday to boot. Closing on or around July 4th, up north in a beach town? You can't make up that kind of money.
The year-round population is close to 23,000, and in the summer there can be as many as 200,000 people on the Island. Martha's Vineyard where it was filmed
Almost every reactor laughs or mocks the lady who says that...and it's funny when they do, but yeah I 100% agree with you that it makes sense, she's talking about the economic impact.
Not exactly "income" but 3 weeks of winter expenses. (My family owned cottages on Cape Cod that they rented at the time of the movie.)
It’s funny, because I just got back from a high priced tourist town in the Rockies for the Fourth of July, and a barista confirmed in just the 5 days they were working, they made enough to cover their rent for 3 months.
It’s the same way with Lake Tahoe: as much as the cost of living is for the locals, they stick it out because they can make a lot of money in a very short time, then go on vacation.
This movie holds up surprisingly well despite being approximately 50 years old. I believe this is because of the stellar acting, the great cinematography, the slow build-up of suspense and menace, the believable dialogue, the moments of levity, and the fact that the shark becomes this seemingly intelligent, clever, and malicious villain that is relentless and feels unstoppable.... well, until that grand finale where it is finally stopped. This isn't your average monster movie! RIP Quint, who delivers one of the most powerful monologues in film.
I was amazed when I rewatched it after a few years and found myself often at the edge of my seat, even though I'd already watched it several times before and knew exactly what was going to happen.
Unlike nearly all modern films the characters are completely believable and you are convinced they really are what they are portrayed to be. Very natural performances, even Mrs Brody.
why speilberg is speilberg
The main reason you don't see much of the shark is a technical one. Apparently, the animatronic shark ( named "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer) kept breaking down during filming. It makes the movie SO much scarier not being able to see what's coming.
The few times we do see it, I wish we hadn't.
Well I'm afraid that's actually become an exaggerated myth. The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already very much a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. Besides, they could never have used Bruce in the shallow water where the beach scenes were filmed. It was a huge contraption with an enormous rig. It needed deeper water. The mechanical shark/s were only scheduled to be used in from July 1974 for the Orca based scenes when filming went out to sea. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June before they even knew the shark would go wrong. It did go wrong all through July and August, so that is definitely true, and it wasn't until September that it finally worked. The first half of the film actually was filmed pretty much on schedule believe it or not. They were only a few days behind schedule when they went out to sea in July. This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries, and skewed recollections by some folks, have exaggerated this myth. Just saying. Cheers.
@@HuntingViolets It looks fine in most shots.
It's so many people's favorite film, because, it is a legitimately amazingly well shot, well written, and, well acted film.
A lot of people make this mistake. His son means coffee flavored ice cream. I think it was more popular in the 70's.
@@richardheinz Ohhh!!! That makes total sense! Thank you for that Richard. I should have realised, as I love coffee flavoured ice cream!
Thanks for watching too
That was one of my favorite flavors as a kid. I don't like coffee, but I love the ice cream!
@@jtoland2333 Ahh, nice! Yeah it's a unique "artificial" type flavour that's more sweet than the actual coffee taste, so I can see why you'd like one and not the other.
I used to feel more grown up getting to have it, as my parents would be drinking coffee and I was too young for it 😅
Coffee is Steven Spielberg's own personal favorite ice cream flavor.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q Another reason to like Spielberg!
Robert Shaw SHOULD'VE gotten an Oscar for his role as Quint.
Yeah, he really should have! Very compelling and believable. Thanks for watching!
or for The Deep
Apparently Shaw made too many enemies at Hollywood for that to happen.
@@ExUSSailor I agree too. Especially his USS Indianapolis monolog!
Best monologue in film history. Spielberg Had the Indianapolis scene written by a couple of script writers but was unhappy with it. He approached Robert Shaw, who was also a noted playwright. and asked to rewrite the sequence. The next day Shaw shot the monologue he had rewritten. I saw this film 3 times the summer it was released.
It occurs to me that Quint's SOUL was taken by sharks the night the USS Indianapolis went down, he just didnt know it.
Since that day, he was a shell of a man: Quint never had kids, got a regular job. The man Quint COULD have been --- his hopes, dreams, skills, love, life, all he could ever be --- never came out of the water that night, June 1945. He might have been a carpenter, football coach, a church deacon, a grandfather, shanty singer.
Just the opposite, Quint never left the water: he spent his life staring back at the ocean, returning to it, returning TO sharks, looking them in their dead eyes, trying to give his body back to the one shark that already bit his soul in half 3 decades ago
Interestingly, it could have been that same shark.
Even after so many viewings, that shot of the water erupting into bloody foam when the boy in the yellow raft is killed hasn't lost any of its horrifying power. 😱😱😱
1:33:40 The tagline for _Jaws 2_ was "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...".
Don't go in the water. The first act of Jaws is filled with great little moments that slip by: the misspelled "Corners office", the old guy who meets Brody on the street with "Hey, glasses!", Brody picking up the wrong telephone (of two identical phones) at his house, Brody hitting his head on the "Town Accountant" sign (you caught that one!). I love these little touches.
Yeah, nice little touches. Also when Brody goes out to get the paint and signs he's still got the teatowel over his shoulder and he puts his jacket on over it without realising it's still on his shoulder 😂. It's still there on the car ferry.
The marketing line for Jaws 2 was - Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water...
Dont go in the water is some good advice. This film scared everyone out of the water, and i mean in inland, freshwater lakes as well😂
"Jaws" did for the ocean what "Psycho" did for showers.
I saw this movie when I was 7. My stepsister had just turned 6. Our parents took us to see it. They regretted it because they couldn’t get us to take a bath for the rest of the summer. My step grandmother resorted to hosing us off in the back yard using the garden hose as a makeshift shower. We wouldn’t even get into the plastic wading pool.
The chief and his family are from New York, but recently moved to Amity to take the job. The mayor warned him, its your first Sumner, and they mentioned they bought the house in the autumn.
According to the book he was born in Amity, joined the police force as a patrolman and worked his way up to become police chief.
Yes, the narrative of the novel goes somewhat differently than the movie. The chief was an Amity Island native, his wife came from a wealthy Boston family who basically disowned her and cut off all relations because she married a lowly small-town cop. The marriage was a good one, but she always had those thoughts about what-if and the-road-not-taken.
When the shark killings began, Matt Hooper came to Amity to help, and by great coincidence he also turned out to come from the same wealthy area as Ellen, and was, in fact, the neighbor kid she used to babysit, and who always had an intense crush on her. Literary Matt Hooper wasn't movie Matt Hooper at all, not short, lovably scruffy Richard Dreyfus, but more of a tall, buff, blond surfer-boy type. A Ken doll, a Chad, as it were. And, of course, he was also a reminder of the wealth and privilege of Ellen's youth, which had had to give up. He and Ellen had a secret tryst at the local no-tell motel, which was his childhood dream come true, but which plunged her into a morass of guilt feelings.
After that Martin Brody, Hooper, and Quint went out to sea to hunt the shark. When Hooper went down in the water in his shark cage, the shark forced its way in, spreading the steel bars apart with its nose and then crushing Hooper against the opposite side of the cage, killing him. In the book this is presented as almost a divine punishment for Hooper's betrayal of Martin Brody, who never did learn of what he did.
I read the book sometime before I ever saw the movie, in an illustrated Reader's Digest collection, and there was an excellent picture of Hooper being crushed by the shark. I did appreciate the way Spielberg streamlined the story by eliminating the sex affair entirely (and having the Brodys be transplants from New York as a way of explaining Roy Scheider's New Jersey accent, as most people in the audience probably can't tell the difference), and I also liked Richard Dreyfus' performance. And yet I still couldn't help feeling just a little bit disappointed that Hooper survived the movie.
Hawaii has a lot of unreported shark attacks. They don't want to disturb the tourist industry. Mostly tiger sharks, but it's also a breeding ground for hammerheads
You know the thing about a like button is it has lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes and when you push it doesn't even seem to be living, until it registers the like and then you're happy!
@@gallendugall8913 Now THAT is amazing 😜😏 I don't know why, but it reminds me SO much of a 'like button' mention in a Mr Ballen video 🤣 If you've not seen his videos, check out one and you'll see what I mean haha. Thank you for this! It made me chuckle
Very witty 😂
The one on here looks like a hand.
“The 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks inspired the book and movie Jaws, which were published in 1974 and 1975, respectively. The attacks occurred between July 1 and 12, 1916, during a heat wave and polio epidemic, and killed four people and critically injured one. The attacks drew national media attention, and a Barnum & Bailey lion tamer eventually put an end to the shark's reign of terror.”
Ben Gardiner...scaring the pants off folks since 1975. 😅
@@hobbievk5119 🤣 Most definitely! Scaring the bejesus out of us all. Haha! Thank you for watching!
"Don't go in the Water!" .... I have not been in the Ocean since the day I saw this in 1975! I'm 72 years old.
The fact that there are many sequels to Jaws makes the Jaws 19 reference funny. Don't go in the water!
I always love watching reactors react to the "Ben Gardiner- head popping out of the porthole" jumpscare. Most people jump right out of their chair. And you didnt disappoint ! 😁 its the jumpscare of all jumpscares; cuz your not expecting it , but youre already in a scared state and then the horrifying image of a floating head. Steven Speilberg ya'll
The news reporter from the beach is actually Peter Benchley, Author of the book Jaws.
"Don't go on the edge of the boat."
😄 That's the only way to the front. It's a common design.
The "contra-zoom" was first used in Hitchcock's "Vertigo".
The kid was not requesting coffee. He was requesting coffee ice cream which is delicious.
18:15 The "Give us a kiss" scene is one of the best in the entire film. 👍👍
@@Stogie2112 Yeah, it's such a sweet scene and really shows us and the chief why this thing needa stopping. Families and innocent lives.
I love scenes like that too, they show the humanity of the situation. Thanks for watching Stogie!
The best part is the "get out of here" line. Cracks me up.
You misunderstood the kid in the hospital, the mom asked what he wanted and he said ice cream, coffee. It's a popular flavor in the northeast, it's also a very old flavor. I grew up in the 60's and it was one of my favorite flavors too.
It's been mentioned many times in the comments.
We rarely get it over here in the UK, but I agree, it's the best flavour. 👍
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Speilberg always finds a way to create space in his films for moments of humanity. The scene between father and son is priceless. He's just been slapped for not closing the beach. He has the lives of hundreds of summer residents in his hands. He's under a lot of pressure. But he has a son who doesn't see him as the sheriff who is under fire but the father he loves and admires.
Craig Kingsbury, a local eccentric, played Ben Gardner. He lived quite the life, and he was Shaw's inspiration for the character of Quint. His biography is very interesting!
So was Lynn Murphy, who helped out with the boats and who towed the sea sled shark.
1:04:44 -- Jeff still lives on the island and still owns the pub called "The Wharf". -- He loves his fans and is very gracious with his time..
Oh that's amazing! Thank you for letting me know this. I hadn't looked further into it, but was wondering where abouts it was. I appreciate the info, I'd love to go there one day and maybe even visit the restaurant.
I love your username too!
Thanks for watching
@@MoviesWithMarty I sincerely hope that there comes a day when you are able to come out this way and visit the movie locations and maybe even get to spend some time with Jeffrey.... I did get the chance to go out there and sit with him for a little while and it was absolutely wonderful.. In all seriousness... He is one of the most amazing celebrities that you could ever meet and actually spend time with.
8.24 Famous in-camera shot developed by Hitchcock for Vertigo. As a movie buff, here's some trivia for you on this celluloid masterpiece that made Spielberg a global name. The mechanical shark was infamous for breaking down & was nicknamed 'Bruce' after Spielberg's lawyer. The famous jump-scare was partly shot in a swimming pool. One of the kids in the 'he made me do it' fake shark fin part is now chief of police on Martha's Vineyard, effectively becoming 'Brody'.
And to cloud up the water in the swimming pool, they poured some milk into the water. For that jump-scare shot, I think they used the swimming pool of the films editor, Verna Fields.
The Yellow barrels are full of air which is supposed to keep the shark close to the surface and tire it out if it dives. If you get in a pool with a basketball or a football and try to dive you will see that it is basically impossible to stay submereged because the air in the ball will cause you to rise to the surface.
42:00 --- The barrels are to slow him and wear him down... Each barrel has an approximate lift of 250 pounds.. Trying to dive or go under means pulling an extra 250 for each barrel..
Frank Mundus caught a 17 footer off Montauk with two barrels. The inspiration for Quint.
One thing that makes the scene where the boy gets eaten more suspenseful is that the time between the cuts from the beach to Chief Brody keep getting more & more brief
I have to say your hit rate of genuinely great films is exceptionally high. Good quality control :)
The Chief Brody joyous yell after explosion is so awesome.
Originally the shark was going to have more on camera time but the animatronic shark (Bruce, named after Spielbergs lawyer) would not work most the time. So Spielberg improvised and wrote scenes without it. I think it did escalate the tension and greatly improved the film. Spielberg is a genius even when things aren't going right.
Nearly 90 percent of the cast were locals and local actors to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, including Elizabeth Lee Fierro who portrayed Mrs. Kintner. She passed on April 5, 2020 from Covid complications.
@@jollyjakelovell4787 Yeah! I hadn't realised until the trivia part, it's so cool they did that. Much better and more authentic than having to hire people to pretend to be the locals. Plus, it's exciting to be part of it too.
Oh no!! I didnt realise Fierro had passed away as well! Thank you for letting me know 🥺 Also, thank you for watching
the girl who played chrissie just died
@@deborahpaley21 Noo! 😫😢 Oh that's so sad... thank you for letting me know. I can't believe another one has left us
Coffee ice cream.
Director Bryan Singer has a production company called "Bad Hat Harry Productions", the name of which comes from "Jaws". It was an early scene where Brody tells an old man "That's a bad hat, Harry."
The beer Quint is drinking is Narragansett from Rhode Island. Absolute swill, I don't know if they even make it anymore.
They do. I had a Jaws commemorative 12-pack. But it was sacrificed at a BBQ.
"absolute swill"
Probably meant to accompany his home made stuff, which Brody (a boozer!!!) spat out 😂
Definitely still do which as our friend just stated Jaws Anniversary logos recently 🦈❤️🔥
It was coffee ice cream he wanted not hot coffee. They were from NY, coffee ice cream and iced coffee were popular decades before many parts of the country.
Oh, ok. I could never understand why reactors don’t know that the kid meant ice cream after his mother asks him what flavor he wants. I’m from NYC and didn’t realize that coffee ice cream was made popular by my city before everywhere else.
When the child mentioned 'coffee' he was asked what kind of ice creme he wanted. In those days we called "mocha" ice creme "Coffee" ice creme. Just FYI
1:34:00 --- Jaws II, isn't that bad.. But the films after that... Don't go in the water...
There is no doubt about it - the Movie Gods were with this film. Yes, it was a pain in the ass to film no doubt about it, but it was still filmed at the right time. One of the reasons the movie still works nearly 50 years later - and Spielberg would concur - is that they used 1974 technology. Face it, maybe CGI would make the shark look more real etc. etc., but the fact is that because it was a mechanical shark, that mean to the audience the shark was actually there, and in some of the shots it does look phony (if only you saw it in 35 mm in it's original run you'd see it looked fairly convincing), you KNOW the shark was present with those actors. I just don't think CGI Technology would have worked as well. Okay, maybe it would still be an okay film, but I can assure you that the finished product would not stand the test of time like this one does - and will continue to do so. That out of the way, I just turned 15 when this film came out in 1975 and I saw it on opening day, first showing. To give you an idea of how the audience reacted, Brody says "Come out and chum some of this shit", the shark pops out of the water, and the scream and reverberation continues to the point where the most famous line of the movie was drowned out. I never knew the line was there until I saw it for maybe the 5th time, and the crowds had died down by then. But the experience of seeing this film has never been matched in terms of shear thrills and excitement. I can only hope before I go down the tunnel of light, maybe another film will come along that will cause the same reaction, but I seriously doubt it. But it's okay to hope.
I saw this when it was first released at the drive-in from the roof of my sister's car. Don't go in the water! Paper Moon is a movie overlooked by reactors. Great fun watching your channel.
I would second Paper Moon! Wonderful movie and wonderful acting!
Liked your reaction.
Saw Jaws as a child in theaters in 1975.
It’s a brilliant, iconic film.
Right before the zoom shot you liked is a series of "slices" that also zoom in but in single shots, usually when someone is crossing in front of Brody, back and forth, leading to the single long zoom in. The filming at water level is also really effective.
The barrels are full of air, the idea is that the more barrels on the shark, the harder it will be for it to submerge or swim and eventually it gets tired.
I had never bothered to think about the first attack being at sunrise! Hell of a way to start the day!!!
31:29 think he meant “coffee” as to which flavor ice cream he wanted 😂.
0:06 Marty! You could have called it a WHALE of a film. What a missed opportunity. 😭
Robert Shaw. One of the best English actors to ever have lived.
I would recommend the movie Duel from 1971, also by Spielberg. Jaws is kind of a spiritual sequel to Duel about an average guy getting into conflict with a truck driver. I saw the film when I was very young and just like Jaws made people scared of the water, Duel made me terrified of semi trucks for many years. I think you would like it. Cheers.
Mythbusters tested the "shooting oxygen tank in a shark's mouth" three separate times and never got it to explode. The air just gushed out.
@@d.-_-.b ...Spielberg's technical advisors told him the same thing and Spielberg told them if the audience was still in their seats at that time it wouldn't matter.
In the book, Brodie was the only survivor. The mayor and council were under pressure from mobsters to stay open. Hooper had a one nighter with Mrs Brodie. Don’t go in the water
I used to be terrified of water, and that opening scene still makes me anxious. The reason we didn’t see more of the shark (named Bruce) was because it kept malfunctioning. As frustrating as that must’ve been for them, it made the movie better.
Well that's unfortunately become an exaggerated myth I'm afraid. The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. They could never have used Bruce in the shallow water where the beach scenes were filmed anyway. The mechanical shark/s were only scheduled to be used from July 1974 for the Orca based scenes when filming went out to sea. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June before they even knew the shark would go wrong. It did go wrong all through July and August so that is definitely true and it wasn't until September that it finally worked but the first half of Jaws actually was filmed pretty much on schedule. They were only a few days behind schedule when they went out to sea in July. That's when all the big problems began. This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries, and skewed recollections by some folks, have exaggerated this myth. Just saying. Cheers.
What was said about Jaws during its first theatrical run was that "there wasn't a dry seat in the house."
Wow! All the times I've seen this and never knew the reporter was Peter Benchley.
Less is indeed more when it comes to monster movies. The more you see the monster, the more it loses its horror.
Ridley Scott & Co. said as much when they made "Alien". To paraphrase: If they had shown the entire alien, it would have just looked like some guy in a rubber suit.
And contrary to the modern myth, the shark was kept hidden in the first half of the film by design. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for any of the beach attack scenes.
After Jaws came out in movie theaters, people were freaked out about going into the ocean. They kept remembering the sharks point of view, looking at all those tasty arms and legs....
Shark attacks on humans are rare, but there are some steps you can take to reduce your risk of being bitten:
Avoid certain times
Don't swim at dawn, dusk, or in the dark when sharks are most active. Also avoid swimming right after a storm.
Avoid certain areas
Stay close to shore and avoid murky water, deep channels, and waters with known discharges or sewage. Also avoid areas where people are fishing, especially if there are signs of baitfish or feeding activity, like diving seabirds.
Avoid certain behaviors
Don't swim if you're bleeding from an open wound or menstruating, as sharks can smell blood. Also avoid harassing or trying to touch sharks, and don't wear shiny jewelry or bright colors, as they can resemble fish scales or shark prey.
Be aware
Look for signs that a shark might be near, such as circling birds, splashing water, or feeding seals and dolphins. If you do see a shark, try to keep it in sight and slowly swim backwards towards shallow water. You can also use an electrical pulse device (ESD) to repel the shark.
JAWS HAS THE JUMP SCARE OF ALL JUMP SCARES!
In Jaws, the Mayor is not the villain. The villain is US..people
I've noticed that people --- even highly educated and smart reactors --- seem to blame the mayor instead of blaming PEOPLE. When you think about it, the mayor is a SUPERB public servant: he KNOWS the people so well that he knows the will of the people who elected them BEFORE they even tell him. They voted for a man who makes decisions THEY want.
You heard them in that town meeting:
PEOPLE: "Are you going to close the beaches?"
Brody speaking for the officials, INCLUDING the mayor.:" Yes. Yes. we are."
PEOPLE: groaning. unhappy. shuffling "48 hours like THREE WEEKS"
The villain isnt the shark - he's doing what sharks do (looking for food and eating it).
The villain isnt the mayor - he's doing what mayor's do (the will of their constituents)
The villain is the people - our own self interest ABOVE our fellow man. (think Covid)
The villian is US. The mayor's villainy reflect OUR villainy.
Most reactors and viewers cant see it, or dont want to.
This was a number one bestseller. I always meant to read it because my sister had a copy (when we lived at my mother's), but I never did. Benchley later felt his book played into false beliefs about sharks and worked for preservation of sharks and marine life.
Shaw's son has said that he did not like Dreyfuss.
The most horrifying thing in this movie is the sport jackets worn by the mayor!
I think they should come out with a Larry Vaughn Collection of sports coats just for fun!
It works even better if you wear one of Judge Smails' hats.
I've always admired and yearned for little anchors emblazoned over my attire.
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this movie. I've never seen any of the sequels, nor do I have any interest in doing so. In fact, I prefer to pretend that they don't exist. Maybe I'd feel differently if they had a better reputation, but I just think that Jaws is one of those movies that's perfect on its own and didn't need a part 2 or part 3 or 4. Don't go in the water.
Great reaction to watch. I also adore King Kong from 1975 or '76, with Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
Fabulous reaction video, and great trivia along with that wonderful footage! But never forget…don’t go in the water! 🦈
This is my favourite movie. It has wonderful character arcs, the best scare in movie history for me (the head in the hull of the boat), the best monologue (Quint on surviving hell on Earth after the Indianapolis sank) and the victims weren't just a body count (I felt so awful for Alex, and his mother grieving and finding out they knew about the shark). It's one of the few movies I have zero issues with.
18:30 -- Unscripted and spontaneous . Much to his credit, Spielberg left it in and it became a favorite tender moment in this film..
The book has major differences from the movie. I remember the book is romance, sex novel. The boat goes out and come back in every night for weeks. Meanwhile, Hooper is schtupping Brody's wife in hotel rooms. Hooper dies during the cage scene.
The movie is much better.
I bought the book when I was 13 or 14, and my mom said, "Oh, that was such a great movie. I want to read that when you're done." The book was much more adult than I was expecting at that age. When my mom read the book, she took it and I never saw it again, and I had a very uncomfortable discussion with her.
Don't go in the water.
Steven Spielberg read the book & said the characters were so unlikeable that he was rooting for the shark.
@@learobinson4450 LMAO. I never knew that, but I believe it.
Don’t go in the water! Thank you SO much for not cutting the film down to half an hour! Enjoyed your reaction and comments very much. 👍
I find it kind of unbelievable that a Moray Eel bit through a wet suit along his arm. People commonly hand feed Moray Eels, so he must have been totally oblivious to get bitten like that by Moray Eel.
None of the sequel Jaws films compare to the first.
The barrels Quint uses to bring the sharks up, and slow them are filled with trapped air. They are sealed beer kegs. If you want to see how effective these could be, fill a LARGE container with just air, and water tight seal it. THEN go into a pool, and try to pull it under the water and KEEP it under, then try to move it around without it pulling itself back up to the surface. IT IS EXTREMELY hard to do. The USS Indianapolis monologue is based on accurate, and true historical facts. There was a USS Indianapolis, it did deliver the Hiroshima bomb, and it was sunk by Japanese torpedos, and most of the crew either drowned, died from drinking sea water due to thirst, injuries, or shark attacks. Many WERE killed by sharks. Remember, "Don't Go in the Water!!!"
This movie did 1 of three things , 1 fear sharks , 2 wanna murder sharks & 3 (ME) love, learn & respect & want to protect sharks. Without them WERE ALL DEAD
Besides your editing talents you have a charisma that leaps out of the screen....you could easily be a presenter....hopefully your passions will earn for you and make you comfortably self sufficient.
Ant and Dec step aside....its time for Marty!!!
The suspense for thls classic came from the fact that they could not get the animatronic shark to work and had to film something....was a brilliant stroke of luck.
There are a few "making of" videos on youtube
Don't go in the water!!
11:31 --- The kids were cast from locals and that honestly was a bit of a mistake.. Martin and family were from NYC but the kids have a thick New England accent for having been there such a short amount of time..
Unless you’re from the area, no one would notice. I’ve been watching reactions to this movie for about two years now, and if you had never pointed it out, I would not have connected the kids accents with where they were supposed to be from.
This mivie was also partially responsible for Great White sharks being put on the endangered species lists for decades.
Shark hunting was at an all time high.
The behavior of real sharks is nothing like this book and movie portrayed. They don't target humans.
In turn the seal population exploded because the shark population declined.
They migrated to new areas closer to where they're were more humans swimming, surfing, etc.
Which led to more attacks.
"Don't go in the water!"
the book goes more in depth with the characters. the book has the shark as one of the main characters also.
Ron and Valerie Taylor are shark experts
Ron sadly passed away in 2012 but Valerie is still alive.
Ron Taylor was the first man to take underwater footage of a great white shark, in the mid 1960s.
In the book, the Chief’s wife and hooper have “a thing”.
Don’t go in the water! - - - Good show.
@@carlossantiago9955 Thank you so much Carlos and for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you're having a wonderful Saturday
I read the book after seeing the movie. I do that a lot. There were a lot of things left out of the movie, such as the relationship between Sheriff Brody's wife and the shark scientist (Richard Dreyfus's character).
I was really glad they left that out. The characters were all a lot more likable in the film, which made me care a lot more.
The shark probably didn’t attack Michael because sharks are attracted to movement and distress of their prey. Since Michael went into shock he froze still and the shark lost interest. It was actually part of a longer scene where the boatman saved Michael’s life by grabbing onto him while he was in the sharks mouth and threw him out of the way. The scene was deemed too gruesome so they cut it to make it that Michael keeping still was what saved him.
The barrels are used to slow sharks down and tire them out so eventually the hunters can catch it easily. If Quint had managed to get the barrels closer to the head it could have slowed the shark down quicker as there would have been more drag for the shark to pull.
Actually the book was terrifying & much darker. Hooper has an affair with the Sheriff's wife & is eaten by the shark when he goes into the cage. The only one to survive is the Sheriff.
If you want another film by Steven Spielberg that's Jaws like, may I recommend Duel (1971). Spielberg stated that if it wasn't for Duel, he never would have gotten the chance to direct Jaws. It's definitely worth checking out.
16:52 --- Long Island native here.. Yes, we have all kinds of sharks including great whites..
I saw this movie with my mother when I was 7 years old. We would go to the movies every weekend during the summer as we did not have air conditioning. We would pack a lunch and hit the Matinee , as it was cheaper, then spend the day going from room to room watching movies. It was a great time for us. I saw Pg and R rated movies I really had no business seeing, Like Excalibur, The Howling, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Greatest Little Whorehouse in Texas, Smokey and the Bandit. Name a movie from the mid to late 70s and I've probably seen it.
Don't go in the water, Marty!
@@bluefriend62 Ahh thank you Scott!! I appreciate you watching too 😎👍 I hope you're well!
All those motel owners on Cape Cod HAD to love this....
I loved both the book and the movie. The book filled in back stories, but I loved how the film shed it to the minimal components which centered on the key relatiobships and actions. In the book Hooper also dies which leaves only Brody.
I saw it in the theaters during the original run. One of my favorites since,
Thanks, Marty! 🦈 I was 7 when this came out. I didn't seen it in the cinema... but I remember seeing people read the novelization of it on the schoolbus. I was finally able to see it on cable, about a year later.
Me: "One hour forty? Is this the whole unedited movie with commentary?"
But I enjoyed all the trivia too.
If you haven't watched Spielberg's movie "Duel", you ought to check it out because Spielberg himself claimed that Jaws has remnants of Duel in it and when you watch it you'll understand why. Duel was a made for TV movie but still fairly well done to the point it will likely have you on the edge of your seat through most of that movie. It's a hidden gem.
I read the novel in the Spring of ‘75 when I was in the 8th grade. I don’t remember if I knew the movie’s release was imminent (my paperback was not a movie tie-in edition), but I loved the novel.
My whole family went to see the movie on opening weekend… we lived in a smallish town and it was the first time I remember a movie opening all over the country on the same day… we usually had to wait four months or so before we could see the latest movies. So it was exciting that we got to see JAWS with the rest of the country!
At the time I loved the book and movie fairly equally (basic plot was unchanged, but the characterizations-especially Matt Hooper-were radically changed). Subsequent re-reads made me realize that the movie was infinitely better than the book. The novel is a disposable piece of pulp fiction. The movie is (disguised) art!
[Update: Don’t go in the water 😉]