You mentioned Brody having two phones at home, side by side. Since he was Chief of Police, probably one phone was the family's home number and the other (the one he answered) was a direct police line.

@highline64

11 ай бұрын

During this timeframe police and fire chiefs and some subordinate members would have phones in their home. Often called blue or red lines.

@victorfatalys1076

11 ай бұрын

Sorry didn't saw your answer and made a comment about the same 😅

@rollomaughfling380

11 ай бұрын

Came here to say that. The reason is that back then, call waiting wasn't available in every area, and they couldn't have a situation where the Chief of Police couldn't be contacted because someone at the house was on a long call.

@thomashumphrey48

10 ай бұрын

We Had 3Phones At Home,2 Different Lines!

@thomashumphrey48

10 ай бұрын

See Jaws 2 For Your Shark Spotter Question!

"Jaws" is not just any shark film, it is and will always be THE shark film! The cast and the suspense are second to none. The three guys on the boat did some of the best acting I've ever seen.

This movie is nearly 50 years old and you three have proven it STILL works as a thriller. I saw the movie on opening day, first showing - I just turned 15 at the time. Just imagine about 1197 people like the three of you - and you get some idea of what it was like to see it in the theater. At that time, there was no cable TV, therefore no Discovery Channel, and therefore no Shark Week. At the time of the movie's release, very little was known about sharks, so this movie played on the fear with no problem - even though statistically we probably didn't know anybody who was attacked by a shark. NOW we know this movie is preposterous cause sharks simply don't do what this movie shows, and the shark's demise, well, that can't even happen. But that is where the film's genius lies: the rules are set at the beginning, and the rules are never broken, therefore we go along with it. It so totally works as an adventure/thriller, and yes, it was well known on opening day that mechanical sharks were used. Personally, I thought it looked pretty convincing in 35mm, and that didn't stop the audiences from screaming their lungs out. It should be noted that the film's most famous line ("You're going to need a bigger boat") was completely unheard probably for the first month because the initial scream followed by the reverberation drowned out the line. There was no 5.1 sound yet. I've said it in other reactions to this movie, but I wish I could put you in a time machine and have you see this movie on opening day with a full audience. It was a real experience, let me tell you. Glad you liked the movie.

@flmlvr

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, one other thing: Yes, the USS Indianapolis is a true story. But keep in mind, we don't REALLY know how many people were actually killed by sharks. Sharks are scavengers. So it's hard to say how many men died of exposure THEN the shark attacked. Hope that makes sense.

@charlieeckert4321

11 ай бұрын

I was in Seattle on opening day, but I was 19. Spielberg was so impressed with John Williams that he personally recommended him to his friend George Lucas.

@satyadasgumbyji8956

11 ай бұрын

It's been so long so long don't remember details, but book this was based on was itself inspired by a true story. I think it was in NJ & maybe a tiger shark??? swam up a canal to a popular swimming hole & kids/people disappeared? Don't know if got stuck or just found new feeding grounds but can look up & should be able to find info?..Oh yeah, & all the kids today trip when son asked what kind of ice-cream he wanted & says coffee!😅 Most don't realize was a new & delicious flavor I'd forgotten all about as never had a big sweet tooth. Back then you had Baskin Robbins, but nothing like today! As a kid in a grocery store, in a small town anway, usually only had the same ole same ole Vanilla, Chocolate, & Chocolate Chip, so Coffee was the bomb!!!😅 ✌🌎❤

@petersvillage7447

11 ай бұрын

@@satyadasgumbyji8956 You're thinking of the Matawan shark attacks of 1916 - the kid attacked in the creek was called Lester Stillwell. Today they think it was most likely a white shark...

@martinl8574

11 ай бұрын

I was 15 and lived on an island, with a South Beach. Lol. My father, my sister, and I all read the book (in one week) before we also saw the very first showing on opening day. I've never seen an audience scream when the head popped out or cheer when it blew up before or after. It was also years before I went back into the ocean at our South Beach. One of my top 10 for sure. Also the reporter on the beach was a cameo role for the author of the novel Peter benchley.

Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis was one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen in cinema. Literally, a creepy ass spooky story told within a creepy ass spooky story - a nightmare within a nightmare. Still takes my breath to this day.

48 years and Ben Gardner’s head popping out STILL scares the living crap out of everyone who watches it for the first time.

@phila3884

10 ай бұрын

The girl on the right wasn't phased. 1 out of 5 reactors just laugh.....

@NelsonWin

5 ай бұрын

​@@phila3884 she wasn't paying attention to the movie but only her friends.

For no CGI, OR TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY, THE Shark looked scary to me!! We must pay homage to those who made us teens, in the 70s & 80s, very fearful to swim in the ocean, lakes, swimming pools, ponds, & bathtubs; we were left to a real imagination, which is lacking in so many area!!

@PapaEli-pz8ff

11 ай бұрын

Lots of grown folks stopped going into the water after watching this film back then.. some for as long as 20 years.. or more

@ScientificallyStupid

11 ай бұрын

It makes me, a huge fan of sharks, happy to know that these days even people who don't know much about sharks know that what's depicted in the movie isn't typical shark behavior (see: the crazy study that just came out about the male great white shark nursery off Huntington Beach CA, where swimmers were often within feet of juvenile great whites and didn't even know it because the sharks were just chilling). BUT we didn't know back then that "sharks don't take things personally" or that they don't seek out humans as a food source or all of the other things we see this one do. We were just afraid to swim in the ocean...and lakes...and pools...and to sit on the toilet...

@Odinist

10 ай бұрын

I happened to be an avid spearfisher when the movie came out, after I saw it I bought the most powerful speargun commercially available. Like taking an elephant gun to hunt rabbits ;) Free fish will always send you back, lol. If you’re in a place where you can do it, it’s the most productive way to supply a fish fry 🦈

That shark looks better than any CGI shark

@bloodyjoe1245

10 ай бұрын

The shark looks a hell of a lot better than any cgi shark

@dr.loomis2490

10 ай бұрын

@@bloodyjoe1245 Indeed

@notreallydaedalus

3 ай бұрын

As BttF 2 predicted, even 40 years later they still look fake

@lonestarwolfentertainment7184

3 ай бұрын

Ehhh the Shark from The Shallows is pretty damn good.

@stephaniemccracken1324

2 ай бұрын

The shark was named 'Bruce' on set. And he broke down a lot!

Honestly, I think the shark holds up pretty well in most scenes. Gotta remember there was nothing close to cgi back then. The fact that the filmmakers could barely get the contraption to work at all, and yet still produced a fairly convincing shark is, to me, miraculous.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

Bruce worked quite well by the time September 1974 came around though. That's when they got all those end shots. Bruce barely worked in July and August however.

@boki1693

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, CGI really didn't start or become popular until Star Wars a few years later.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

@@boki1693 Star Wars? No it was the Abyss and Terminator 2, then Jurassic Park. Star Wars didnt have CGI until they added things for the re-releases in the late 1990s, well after those other films came out.

@Scar-Predator

10 ай бұрын

​@@boki1693the original Star Wars had no CGI. It came out in 1977.

@hokahey7236

6 ай бұрын

I used to think CGI didn't come about until the late 1970's, then I looked up the first movie to use CGI and it actually predates 'Jaws'. In fact, 'Jaws' may even have made small use of some CGI. If you notice, twice in the movie a meteor (a.k.a. shooting star) flies across the sky that may have been CGI.

5:57 Many years after the film came out Lee Fiero (Mrs. Kitner) walked into a seafood restaurant with a friend. She noticed that there was a menu item called the Alex Kitner Sandwich. She remarked that she played Alex's mother in Jaws. A few seconds later the owner came running out of the kitchen. It was Jeff Voorhees, the actor who played her son. It was the first time they saw each other since the film wrapped.

@Odinist

10 ай бұрын

What a cool story, thank you :)

@mannygee005

9 ай бұрын

Sweet story... "Mom!" "My boy, my boy...!"

Yes, indeed the speech delivered by Quint about the USS Indianapolis tragedy is a true story, an actual historical fact. It really happened! His story relating the incident 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 was determined to personally secure the bounty and reward for killing the shark, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge (or perhaps redemption) for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by destroying the man-eating shark himself…

@athens_1psvr31

11 ай бұрын

Although the story is true, the part about the numbers the sharks killed is not. The whole situation was tragic, but one less know part is that soldiers would hallucinate after drinking seawater and stabbed each other thinking they were the enemy. I got this from a survivor telling his story.

@matthewbickel3967

11 ай бұрын

Relating to his destroying the radio is a nod to moby dick in his obsession.

@grindingdeviance1864

11 ай бұрын

Never thought about the revenge/redemption angle. Good point!

@TRWilley

6 ай бұрын

@@athens_1psvr31 Most of the sharks would have fed on those that were either already dead or had gone mad from drinking seawater and had swam away from the group. Also, the sharks in question were probably Oceanic Whitetips as they live in open waters and are highly aggressive as they essentially live in a oceanic desert where they have to eat whenever they find anything that resembles food - survivors described the tips of the fins being white "like a sheet of paper."

@richardburdon3241

21 күн бұрын

that was the difference between Quint and Hooper, Quint hated sharks, and Hooper loved them. It's probably why they didn't get along at first. But after the Indianapolis story Hooper saw him differently, and after Quint's plans all failed, and after resisting Hooper's modern ways, he swallowed a lot of pride by asking Hooper what exactly he can do with these things.

If you watch till the very end of the credits.... you see Brody and Hooper get up and walk ashore. Such a nice little moment they put in.

Jaws actually gets BETTER on repeat viewing. You discover things you hadn't noticed before, little character nuances etc, especially once you get used to the scares. I see it now as a human drama with a shark. 😉 The barrels are mainly to tire the shark out so it can be tied to the boat and dragged back. Quint was part based on Frank Mundus, a Long Island shark fishermen who used the harpoon and barrel method for big great whites. Cheers.

@ransomedavis2208

11 ай бұрын

thats very true for instance i found out on the bonus features there is a real shooting star captured on film over the nite sky and they of course kept in in the movie.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

@@ransomedavis2208 A good example. Also, I didn't notice for years just how fast Bad Hat Harry climbs up to his beach hut. He's got the agility of a cat 😂.

@jameslauder3984

10 ай бұрын

@@ransomedavis2208the shooting star on the ocean is actually an omen for death.

@ransomedavis2208

10 ай бұрын

@@jameslauder3984 no way is that true ? were you aware that not far on the beach where they found the first womans remains there was actually a dead womans body found for real that apparently had been a murder victim.

I was 21 when this came out in '75 and I saw it with a friend at the Gramercy Theater on 23rd St in NY. The ENTIRE audience was yelling and screaming throughout, and clapped like crazy at the ending credits. Almost 50 years ago and it's still a kick ass movie.

I grew up at a lake in northern Idaho and after watching this movie, my whole water world was ruined. Everytime I was out in the lake, I was always looking down to make sure nothing was coming up at me from the deep blue water. Excellent reaction!

@kellifranklin4432

11 ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean. After seeing this movie I never went swimming in the ocean again and I certainly never learned how to snorkel properly. This is the most effective horror movie I've ever seen because I'm 56 and I'm still terrified of being bitten in half if I were to go snorkeling! Lol

@darrendixon3191

11 ай бұрын

@@kellifranklin4432 I went snorkeling on Maui 5 years ago and yes, I was constantly doing a 360 head turn all the time.

@Nic-ye2yz

11 ай бұрын

CDA?

Hey kids, I was there the summer of 74 while filming on Martha's Vineyard. We had no idea what they were filming until we asked somebody. I was only 14 but my mom say's we saw half the shark and a few tents, and a testimony to the genius of Spielberg to make that broken, ass cheesy shark looks so terrifying in the final edit! 😁

@ransomedavis2208

11 ай бұрын

no way how lucky are you, wish i had a time machine so i could go back then and watch it being made,i would love to vist some day, im in the uk,

@justjack0715

11 ай бұрын

@@ransomedavis2208 I wish I could go back too. I didn’t appreciate it like I should have because I did not know what they were filming in the impact, it would have. I was just a kid who’s on a boring day trip with his family wanting to go home to his friends. 😆

One phone would be a dedicated police line (since he lives in the chief's cottage), the other is their regular household line.

I saw this movie when it came out in the theater. As a pre-teen, I immediately insisted my father help me make a wooden shark fin. Perfectly shaped a spray painted. I would take it to the beach house and scare everyone out of the water. My little brother refused to get in the pool, if I had it. My mother would joke that the film made her so fearful of the water, she refused to sit on the toilet for two weeks after viewing. Almost fifty years later, it's still a great film.

I recently heard that, when Spielberg read the book, he was rooting for the shark because the characters were so unlikable. Hooper was originally supposed to be eaten, but when the real shark experts in Australia were shooting footage of real great whites, a shark got tangled in a special cage, built smaller to make the sharks look bigger, and tore it apart. The cage was empty and Spielberg wanted to use the incredible footage so they rewrote the script so that Hooper gets away. I saw this when it came out. I was 9. Scared the crap out of me. Put me off swimming, even in a pool for a long time. I still don’t like the ocean. Jaws has become my favorite movie of all time.

FYI, although the mechanical shark had lots of problems and didn't look that great if you looked too closely at it, I'll just add to your shark fear by noting that sharks do actually jump out of the water and onto boats. They don't land on the boats on purpose, but it does happen. Great white sharks are famous for leaping out of the water, because they attack their prey - seals - by speeding up at them from below so fast they leave the water by yards sometimes. Full flight. It's as terrifying as it sounds. Thought I'd share that. ;)

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

I think it looks great in most shots.

@NemeanLion-

11 ай бұрын

@@lyndoncmp5751looks better than some of the cgi garbage they use nowadays.

@totallytomanimation

11 ай бұрын

I saw this as a kid when not was released and we all kind thought a shark surging out of the water onto the boat was a leap, if ya know what I mean. Ironically, about a decade later, some guys who were out shark fishing - catching and killing sharks, especially Great White, as sport became an unfortunate by product of the success of this movie - anyway, in the struggle with the Great White they were F'n with, The Shark did actually launch itself onto their boat, swamped it, and they needed the coast guard to rescue them before they sunk. I remember seeing it on the news and reading about it in the newspaper. Reality mimics Art.

@pubreacts

10 ай бұрын

Well now I won't feel safe on boats anymore. Thanks for that😆

@jenfries6417

10 ай бұрын

@@pubreacts You're welcome! 😁

No one has ever reacted to my favorites. Sgt York starring Gary Cooper, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, Patton starring George C Scott, Bride Over The River Kwai starring Alec Guiness (Obiwan Kenobi), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller. Now for the movies other have done, Any Clint Eastwood Movie (and there re a lot of them from the Dirty Harry Series, to The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, etc. Also anything Alfred Hitchcock with my favorite being Rear Window.

JAWS is a perfect movie. Story, action, characters, casting it’s all spot-on perfection. Good reaction and I noticed you weren’t reacting to it like it was a mechanical special effect. That’s great editing and direction.

"Jaws" is the first movie to be called a summer blockbuster. The USS Indianapolis story is the largest mass animal attack in history. Quint tells it with a little bias as some deaths were due to dehydration, drinking of sea water, exposure, etc.

This film still being enjoyed by the kids today warms my elderly millenial heart. It's such a classic. In my top 15 of all time and top 5 horror movies of all time.

Spielberg was only 27 years old when he directed this. this movie gave rise to the term blockbuster.

Imagine never having heard of Jaws and sitting in a theater on opening day after waiting outside on a hot summer June in a line that stretched around the block for an hour. Compare your first experience to sitting in a darkened theater watching on the big screen with a captive audience of 300. Watching Jaws on a laptop in a well lit room could never compare to my experience as an eight year old (the movie was originally rated PG) all those many years ago. I was terrified and traumatized…and yet, it’s one the best memories I’ve ever had as a child.

Some of the greatest movie quotes of all time are in this movie

I saw “Jaws” about a week after it came out in ‘75. I was 15. I saw a line of people snaking out of a large shopping mall going clear around the end of it out of site while I was across the street pumping gas. “What the heck’s going on over there?” I asked the gas station attendant. “Oh, it’s that new movie, “Jaws.” It’s been like that for over a week now.” “Holy crap! It must be pretty good!” I saw it with my sister a few days later and was stunned. Packed theater. People screaming and shouting at the characters what to do. A surprising amount of laughs, too, at the spot-on realistic craziness that took over the town, and the interplay between the characters, especially between Quint and Hooper (and the Chief’s timidity). And, something I’ve hardly ever seen at a movie theater: a standing ovation at the end. Not once for “Jaws,” but twice: when something happens at the end (I don’t want to spoil it), and when the end credits rolled. A standing ovation for a movie? Really? But I understood why. Most people left the theater pretty drained, but satisfied. “Jaws” went on to become the #1 movie of all time domestically in just 60 days, not adjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, “Jaws” remains the #7 top domestic movie moneymaker of all time. Since it came out in the Summer of 1975, only “Star Wars.” “E.T.,” and “Titanic” have surpassed it, again, adjusted for inflation. And “Titanic” took several nation-wide re-releases to surpass it. There would be no “Shark Week” every year now if not for”Jaws.” It’s one of those iconic movies that came out of nowhere to hit a nerve, and not only make a huge amount of money, but to make a lasting imprint on pop culture and the way movies are released. It started the trend of saturation booking for summer blockbusters, to make an “event” movie that everyone just HAD to see. And, in my opinion, having personally seen what it did to audiences in ‘75, it remains the best, almost perfect, summer blockbuster movie.

This was a case in which the movie was better than the novel. One of the several reasons is because in the novel, Hooper is a son-of-beech who seduces Brody's wife and gets eaten by the shark in the end. Glad you caught the foreshadowing of the air tanks. Yes, the story of the USS Indianapolis is true. Notice Hooper is in frozen awe in the background as Quint tells the story. "We're gonna need a bigger boat" is the best known quote from the movie, but "Bruce's Theme" of "DUM dum DUM dum DUM dum" is also a quote in itself. The direction in this film is extremely good, and it's worth watching just to study the direction. This and "Duel" represent Spielberg's earliest important works, and are two of his best because he had relatively little money to play with for special effects.

@michaelccozens

10 ай бұрын

Eh, I dunno about the novel. It was an interesting contemplation on the dynamics of small holiday towns, class divides, economics, relationships (IIRC, Brody's marriage is already on the rocks before Hooper shows up), etc. The movie is great, but went in a decidedly different direction. One can prefer one to the other, but they're also trying to do different things, which I think is worth remembering.

I have never heard anyone ever say before that this shark looks bad. It's always been the complete opposite.

$3,000 reward in 1975 is $17,000 now. What Quint wanted was $10,000, which is now $57,000. The USS Indianapolis story is true although they got the date wrong for some reason. Most people miss them walking out of the water during the credits.

@buzbom1

11 ай бұрын

I remember regular gas back then here in New Hampshire was an average weekly .60 cents a gal. Gas used to stay the same price for like weeks, not controlled like today by the stock exchange by the hour. .................man.........................60 cents a gallon. I remember my dad complaining it was going to cost a fortune to fill the Dodge van.

@SPAMDAGGER22

11 ай бұрын

@@buzbom1 that's about 3.50 per gallon today, not much less than today's average of 3.71. Although the fluctuations are crazy, this price is up 13 cents/gallon from a week ago.

@mikemclaughlin3306

11 ай бұрын

He was drunk during the scene. If you watch carefully, you can tell the spliced 2 takes together.

Hi! This is Sarah - I am really, really sorry for peaking the mic so much... Here are some warning time stamps for the mild peaks (one at 7:03, one at 15:47, and just me being loud at 18:34 and 25:39). Simon put on headphone warnings for the louder ones. Again -- sorry! Will try not to do that again...

@zedwpd

11 ай бұрын

👍

@TTM9691

11 ай бұрын

You have nothing to apologize for! You are a GREAT reactor! The last thing we want you to do is feel inhibited! The headphone warnings were funny! (i'm watching on speakers so it doesn't matter). You just react naturally and the technical details will be sorted later! I had to watch each scary part three times because each of you are such distinctive, yet totally different reactors! Hope that doesn't mess up your algorithm! I hope you continue to make reaction videos, you guys are a great reaction team! Individually, I'd watch any one of you guys do a reaction to a movie I know and like. All together, it's even more special!

@dunringill1747

11 ай бұрын

Best part of the reactions is the appropriate screaming or gasping, so don't hold back. We got the headphone warnings so no worries there.

@michaelccozens

10 ай бұрын

Every decibel the film-makers can wring from you warms their terrifying hearts. Don't hold back on our account! We came to see honest reactions from real people, and if that means headphones gotta die, so be it. The warnings are appreciated, though; thanks!

@Widdermaker

10 ай бұрын

If you didn’t scream at the appropriate parts, I’d have been disappointed. “Jaws” made a LOT of people scream in 1975 and has every year since. And it will continue to do so long after all of us are gone. It’s so terrifying because shark attacks can and do happen (the New Jersey beaches shark attacks in 1916 were an inspiration for the book and movie). And shark attacks are gruesome. “Jaws” came out a couple of years after “The Exorcist.” To make sure people understood that the movie was, like “The Exorcist,” about terror, the “Jaws” movie trailer ends with: “None of man’s fantasies of evil can compare to the reality of… Jaws.” “Jaws… see it before you go swimming.” Very effective…

Easily my favorite movie. Quint's monologue is still one of the best things I've ever watched.

There's actually a movie "Orca" that is similar themed that came out a couple of years after this. The difference is that the animal villain is a Killer Whale.

@AutoPilate

11 ай бұрын

I remember that one, watched it in the theater. Among a bunch of Jaws clones that came out after the original trying to cash in on the craze this was one of the better ones.

@Educated2Extinction

11 ай бұрын

And that the only documented orca attacks on people involved ones in captivity.

3:20 he has two separate phone lines because he’s chief of police. One line is his personal line, the other is for police business.

The 3 Quintessential Quint moments: 1 Fingernails down the blackboard, unholy and unforgivable. 2 The monologue, all the more nightmarish for it being real. 3 Perhaps the most horrendous death in cinematic history.

It remains my all time favorite movie. I’ll take those shark effects over any CGI sharks they use today. A lot of theaters still show the film during July every year, and I go every time. The theater is always full to which shows it’s lasting legacy. One of my sisters took me to see it in 1975 when I was 5 and it scared me but I loved the characters. Quints death haunted me though. The shark biting down and blood shooting out of Quints mouth was a horrifying image at that age haha. Anyways, my all time favorite movie ❤

Jaws was written by Mr. Peter Benchley. His novel was inspired by the 1916 shark attacks, in a 3 day period, in Matawan Creek, & the New Jersey shore. The Shark attacks were most likely caused by the BULL SHARK, & THE GREAT WHITE SHARK.

The story about the sailors being eaten by sharks is the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. They were on a top secret mission to deliver the war head for the first nuclear bomb to be dropped on Japan. Because they were never officially there, after they delivered their cargo they were denied an escort on their way back to Hawaii. They were stalked by a Japanese submarine and sank after being hit by a torpedo. Most of the grew that survived the explosion were eaten by sharks. There’s a movie about it staring Nicholas Cage.

@thomashumphrey48

10 ай бұрын

There's A Documentary about it Hosted By Richard Dreyfuss!

@michaelccozens

10 ай бұрын

IIRC, the Indianapolis has the unhappy distinction of being the only craft sunk by another "kamikaze" invention of the Imperial Japanese Navy, that being a human-guided torpedo.

Jaws was the first movie in history to make more than $100 million dollars. The reporter in the blue suit is the actual screenwriter. The tv reporter on the beach is the real author who wrote the book Jaws. In the novel, the mayor had gambling debts with the mob, so yes he was going to keep the beaches open. Jaws 2 is a decent sequel , but 3 and 4 aren't that good.

Fun Fact: The shark that got caught on top of the cage was a real juvenile great white that accidentally swam through the scene. Great choice leaving it in.

I’ve seen Jaws so many times, and even though I know it’s coming, the dead body under the boat still gets me every time.

The actress who played the grieving mother just passed away last year I think. Just a bit of trivia. Still one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. Saw it with my mother when it first came out. Great job ✌️

Close-up's of actors used to be reserved for when a character had something important to say. An important part of the story or plot being brought to the viewers attention. For example, when the characters are discussing their injuries lightheartedly, it's a wide shot. But as soon as Quint starts telling the story of the Indianapolis, the camera gets up close and personal. We get to look him right in the eye as he speaks directly to the viewer about the horrors of war. Modern movies use close-ups on everything, cheapening the effect.

Yes the Indianapolis story is true as stated.

When this movie came out it created not only a nationwide fear of sharks, but of water also. I remember people saying they were afraid of going into rivers, swimming pools - I was afraid to close my eyes in the shower!

the dog on the beach died, too. I think you missed it. The dog owner was like "Pippin? Pippin?" all you see: Pippin's stick.

This movie still holds up. For the 70's, the shark was extremely scary. I saw this when it came out, on vacation at the beach. 😮

Yes, the USS Indianapolis was really torpedoed by a Japanese submarine at the end of the war in 1945. It brought part of the Uranium atomic bomb to Tinian, an island. Its mission was so secret that after it sank, no one knew to look for survivors. The men who were rescued were spotted accidentally by a PBY Catalina patrol aircraft. Once they were located, the survivors were rescued by aircraft that could land on the water.

I’m so glad I found your channel. It was great watching you react to this film. A funny note, when I saw it in the theatres when it came out many people threw their popcorn in the air when the man’s head popped through the bottom of the boat lol. I know they had a huge amount of trouble shooting this film because Bruce, the mechanical shark, kept sinking. Although Spielberg had directed before this was his big break. Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel, later expressed regret for how sharks were demonized after the film. Of course, they are a top ocean predator, they are necessary to the ecosystem, and unfortunately, many species have been hunted to the brink of extinction and extinction itself. Your comments were so thoughtful. I’m afraid I’ve seen some of the GenZ, KZread’s showing kids who don’t even know how many dimes make up a dollar. You were all so intelligent, I loved your comments on film technique. I worked in film for 10 years. I love that you mentioned Chekhov’s gun. Your reaction was fun, as much fun as a reaction to jaws can be lol. I look forward to watching more.

There are two phones because he is the police chief. One is his home line, the other is his police line.

This is considered the first ever big summer blockbuster movie. Good reaction. Thanks.

Jaws was an iconic classic film precisely because it WASN'T cheesy. Good react!

Someone pulled a 6 ft shark from a river last month. If it's fed by the ocean they can swim up it. The Indianapolis was a real ship that delivered the bomb for WWll and yes sailors were eaten by sharks. Jaws is loosely based on a true story if you want to look it up. Enjoy your vacation.

@Hexon66

11 ай бұрын

I think you meant if the river feeds into an ocean. Leaving aside the hydrological cycle and tidal estuaries, no oceans directly feed rivers.

And the music "Farewell and Adieu to you Fair Spanish Ladies" foreshadowed Quint's death. They played that music after he sang it when you saw him often. It was in the background to let you know he would die. My favourite stand-out line was "Smile you son-of-a-BOOM!" And Brodie's reaction was amazing! It was such a good movie for so many reasons. Spielberg is a master. We all cheered and stood up in the theatres when it first came out. I have watched it about 25 times!!

I was 15 years old when this came out in 1975 and saw it at the theater with my church group. That summer at the beach was interesting. Completely packed, but not a whole lot of people going in the water. Watching Jaws every summer is now a tradition for me.

Funny you should mention how great the screenplay was for this movie. Another miracle of the troubled production. When filming began, the script was not complete. Carl Gottlieb wrote the shooting script daily. He would write pages every night and they would be filmed the next day. Quint's Indianapolis dialogue was attempted by three different writers. The final version was written by the actor himself, Robert Shaw, who had also been a playwright.

Peter Benchley the author of the book Jaws plays the TV news reporter on the beach during the Fourth of July.

my father took me to the cinema to watch this film when I was 8 years old... after this he no longer had to worry about me going too far from the shore when swimming in the sea 😅

25:11 this underwater sequence was filmed in Australia by shark experts Ron and Val Taylor. They used a little person in a miniature cage to make the real great white shark look bigger. Because the real shark got tangled in the rigging and the stunt performer escaped, Hooper survived in the movie, but died in the book.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

Well the small stuntman Carl Rizzo didn't escape. He wasn't even in the cage. He didn't want to go in the cage again after his first dive. He was too terrified. The cage was completely empty when the shark got entangled in the lines. Rizzo was still on the small support boat Skippy where the cage was attached to. Cheers 👍

As a teenager, I saw Jaws in the theater in the summer of 1975, and remember tons of people that went to the beach that summer would not go in the ocean deeper than their knees.

3:50 Spielberg didn't think the way Chrissie's remains looked real enough, so he had a female crew mumber lie on the beach and partially covered her with sand.

The Actor who plays Quint (the shark boat Captain) is celebrated British actor Robert Shaw. Also in The Sting, From Russia With Love, Force 10 from Navarone, The Battle of the Bulge, A Man for All Seasons, The Deep, Battle of Britain, The Dam Busters and so many more.

Two films cover the story of the Indianapolis that I know of. Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991) and a far more recent one "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage" (2016). You should watch "Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story" (2021) however. She was the diver who filmed the live sharks for the Jaws film.

Don't know if anyone answered this, but there are two phones because one is the actual family house phone and the other is a direct line to the police station.

12:51 I know I'm not the only one who laughed out loud when she said that at the start of THIS scene

It's good to see you young people still vulnerable to the impulses of this movie!

The purpose of the barrels believe it or not is to drown the shark. See sharks must constantly move and swim to keep water flowing over their gills. It's how they breathe. The barrels tire the shark out, slow it down and eventually immobilize and drown it. Jaws however, isn't your average Great White.

@blairhaffly1777

11 ай бұрын

The primary purpose of using barrels is to exhaust and keep the animal near the surface. It's mainly associated with whaling.

One thing that was pointed out recently in another analysis of Jaws is that what happens to Quint echoes his story of the USS Indianapolis - the "high pitch screaming" and the being "bitten in half" - I had never put the two together but now that I see it I can't unsee it...

There's a deleted scene which explains why Sean is badly traumatised from the shark attack in the pond - the rower is still trapped in the sharks mouth as the shark goes to attack Sean, but the rower who is clearly dying, pushes Sean out of the way as a last act. It's on the bluray and quite unnerving. Also check out the photo of the deleted scene of the shark attack on the kid on the raft, that's horrific. Additional fact - the reporter on the beach is actually Peter Benchley, the author of the Jaws novel.

The shark really isn't the villain of the movie, it's the money grubbing mayor and the city council.

@TTM9691

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely. And strangely, we never get satisfaction! They all live! Hell, the mayor even gets re-elected in the dopey sequel! (just one more reason to laugh at it! Even at 9 years old, I was like....."they didn't get rid of the mayor?"lol. Seriously: Murray Hamilton KILLED it as the mayor. The scenes with him, Brody and Hooper are fantastic. If people like Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton or Lorraine Gray didn't nail their parts, the movie would have been way less enjoyable to get through. Hamilton could not be better cast as the mayor. Roy Scheider is fantastic, totally underrated. And Dreyfuss is hilarious doing Dreyfuss! Classic.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

What most people miss is that the old guy the mayor tells to get in the water is one of the town council members. He's sitting next to the mayor in the town hall meeting and gets out of the car on the little ferry when the mayor warns Brody about closing the beaches.

AS scared as we were, there was nothing cooler than to wear a Jaws t shirt to school.

The U.S.S. Indianapolis story was a real story that happened during WWII. When Brody said “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, that was an ablib. It also is the most misquoted saying.

13:46 Ben got'em again. 😆

Interesting you think there was something the Sheriff could do. The coroner said it wasn’t a shark that killed the girl. He had to rely on “the expert” who flat out lied.

Best Jaws reaction. Well done. And no, you will never find me in the ocean either!

P.S. Great White Sharks are the Only Fish that Actually Stick their Heads Out of the Water to Look at Things and Try To Figure Them Out... like they have some abilities of Reasoning/Critical Thinking. They're Definitely the Smartest & Deadliest Fish in the World...

Jaws is iconic. It kicked off the tradition of the summer blockbuster. It's one of Spielberg's first movies and it's not only influential, but the director learned some hard lessons in filmmaking. After this movie, there was a worldwide increase in shark hunting, which got so bad, Peter Benchley, the author of the novel on which the movie is based, became a very vocal advocate for shark conservation. Jaws was a phenomenon with far reaching effects. One final note: your comment about us knowing less about the ocean than space is apocryphal. While it's true, we have explored less of the ocean than we would like, to say that we know more about an infinitely vast universe than a relatively predictable ecosystem is a touch hyperbolic.

Couple of cool facts. 1. The mechanical sharks didn't work as they wanted so they chose to not show it very often. They used the yellow floats/the floating dock to show the shark is there. 2. The story of the USS Indianapolis was true. They delivered the atomic bomb. Mission so secret that when they were sunk, it took awhile for anyone to realize they were missing. 3. This is THE movie where the term "Blockbuster" was created. 4. This is also the second film that was proven to change people's behavior. For years after it came out, people stayed away from beaches. (The first was the movie "Psycho" where people stopped taking showers.)

13:46 LOL don't feel bad, everyone jumps when Ben Gardner's head pops out of the hole.

I saw this movie in the theater as a kid, and it remains the best crowd reactions movie ever. I also haven’t been in the ocean deeper than my knees ever since….nice to see a younger generation still enjoying this film. The shark didn’t work very well, and broke down all the time, so he’s not in the movie nearly as much as expected. I think it makes the movie a lot more suspenseful. Enjoyed watching your video! Thanks for posting.

Spielberg was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock in his directing of 'Jaws'. You should check out some of Hitchcock's films such as 'Strangers on a Train', 'North By Northwest', 'Psycho', and 'The Birds'.

About the USS Indiannapolis: my great grandfather was attached to that ship when the US entered WW2. He was moved to a different ship the october before it was sunk. Anyways, most sharks are not inherently bloodthirsty, but they are typically hungry. They test-bite to verify potential for food. And great whites prefer live prey, which is part of the reason they can't survive long in captivity.

The second phone is cause he's chief of police, that's his business line rather than the home phone. I've seen this movie thirty times and never noticed, good on you hahaha

The stats of the USS Indianapolis are factual. Over 1100 men went in, and only 316 survived the sharks.

Fun to see your reactions. Another good early Spielberg suspense film you might like is “Duel”, and if you’d like to see young Richard Dreyfus in another classic movie I’d suggest checking out “American Grafitti”.

@bigsarge8795

11 ай бұрын

Two of my personal favorites right there

@StromBugSlayer

9 ай бұрын

Or Close Encounter

13:49 Spielberg realized he needed more tension and fear, so he filmed this scene after he returned to California. Hr used a pool belonging to his editor Verna Fields, and a bunch of powdered milk to make the water cloudy.

Fun fact, the TV-reporter that does his little piece at the beach and interviews the mayor is Peter Benchley. Benchley wrote the novel the film is based on, and did a first draft of the script. The novel is quite different from the film, and while Benchley was good with most of the changes that Gottlieb and Spielberg did, he was very much opposed to the blowing up of the shark at the end. In the novel, the shark dies because of the multiple injuries it suffered. But after he saw the film himself, he recanted and said that Spielberg was 100% in the right to blow it up. 😅 A major difference from the novel is that Brody is the only survivor. Hooper is portrayed as a spoiled brat and even has an affair with Brody's wife. Brody's wife used to date Hooper's older brother and she is very unhappy in her marriage to Brody, especially regarding the financial side of things. The subplot about the mayor's involvement with the mob was also axed from the movie script.

Great white sharks use an attack method called "bite and wait" where they wait for their prey to die after the initial bite though they will also eat live prey as well . The whole "test bite" thing is not all encompassing when talking about shark bites as some sharks are known to enjoy human if given the opportunity .

@mikemclaughlin3306

11 ай бұрын

Bull sharks

@bryanobrien2726

11 ай бұрын

@@mikemclaughlin3306 Yep , bull sharks are notorious for eating anything they can get their teeth into and also for being able to live in freshwater for long periods of time , bad combination .

Jaws is actually Moby Dick - back when every high school kid would have [or pretended to] have read Moby Dick. Captain Ahab hunts the sperm whale that bit off his leg; and Quint (Robert Shaw), a grizzled Amity fisherman, longs to hunt the great white shark that killed his friends in the water when the Indianapolis went down.

@mikemclaughlin3306

11 ай бұрын

Spielberg turned it into Moby dick. They cut whole swaths out of the book and boiled it down to this.

@JamesJoyce12

11 ай бұрын

@@mikemclaughlin3306 Moby Dick is usually around 425 pages in its various editions - so no surprise there were cuts

@mikemclaughlin3306

11 ай бұрын

@JamesJoyce12 yeah I was talking about the cuts made to the novel, jaws, in order to have it resemble the Moby dick story

There are more modern shark movies like "Deep Blue Sea" that have worse special effects than "Jaws" and that film came out in 1975. You have to hand it to the special effects team for coming up with an animatronic shark that didn't really look that bad and in some shots was downright terrifying and it was filmed in the open ocean. The shark was nicknamed "Bruce" and it often stopped working when they needed it most. Since there was so little usable footage from day to day, this forced Spielberg (who was in real jeopardy of being fired from the film) and the cast to improvise much of the plot and the dialog and make a lot of it up during the filming process, and sometimes scene to scene. Lorraine Gary (Mrs. Brody) said that the cast became like a small repertory theater company because of having to meet the challenges of constant rewrites in Martha's Vineyard and coming up with a bunch of ad libbed lines in the moment. Robert Shaw (Quint) was a noted playwright and stage and screen thespian, so he was a big help too. Richard Dreyfuss also had a background as a stage actor and knew how to think on his feet. The movie became better for it because the story was less about the shark and more about the characters. The real anticipation and terror came from not seeing the shark for as long as possible.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

The mechanical shark was never scheduled to be used for any of the beach attack scenes though. They were all filmed in May and June 1974 in just waist to chest deep water. Too shallow for the huge mechanical shark and it's mechanical apparatus. The pier/holiday roast scene was the first shark incident filmed, in late May. At that point they didn't even know the mechanical shark/s wouldn't work. It didn't even get wet until mid June. Bruce was not scheduled to be used until July, when they went out to sea for the Orca based scenes. That's where it went wrong all through July and August. The first half of the film was filmed smoothly though and more or less on schedule. The actors had much input and suggested scenes and dialogue even during the first half of the film when they weren't worrying about the shark because the early drafts of the screenplay were not that great. The shark was definitely hidden early on by design. Spielberg was already a suspense director as Duel and Something Evil shows.

@dan_hitchman007

11 ай бұрын

@@lyndoncmp5751 The more I watch, the more I think this information is not as accurate as you think. The production was plagued by troubles with the shark and other logistics more often than initially thought.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

@dan_hitchman007 Im correct. As I said the technical issues plagued the film on July and August 1974 when they went out to sea to use Bruce for the Orca based scenes. The beach scenes were filmed according to plan, in May and June. Jaws wasn't behind schedule much when they went out to sea. THAT is when all the serious problems happened. Not during the filming of the beach attack scenes. They never scheduled Bruce to be used in the 3ft to 4ft shallow water at Joseph Sylvia State Beach and Harthhaven. The pier/holiday roast scene with a completely unseen shark was filmed May 24th in just 3ft of water. Bruce didn't even get tested on the water until June 15th. The shark was kept hidden in the first half of the film on purpose. Details are in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. The documentaries confuse the issue. Because the shark didn't work out at sea in July and August and the film went way over schedule, too many people now assume the whole film was plagued by a non working shark. This is not so. Filming for Jaws began on May 2nd 1974. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for any scenes until the first week of July.

The reason for the 2 phones is one is personal and the other is the hot phone for the sheriff/police business.

This movie was influenced on the Jersey shore shark attack where for the longest time everyone blamed the great white when the real culprit were some bullsharks. I knew it was bullsharks the second there were reports of people being attacked in rivers at that time because bullsharks can thrive in freshwater.

Quint destroys the radio just as Ahab refuses to listen to the pleas from his men in Moby Dick. He’s obsessed. The collection of shark jaws in his shop reveal the depth of his obsession. He’s seeking vengeance for the 800 men of the Indianapolis.

That was a good call on Quint's "territoriality". As evidenced by his vast collection of jaws, Quint has spent his life seeking retribution for his experiences on the Indianapolis. Smashing the radio is his Ahab moment, when he really commits to seeing the shark dead by his hand, even at the cost of his own life. Vengeance consuming and all that. It's easy to dunk-on the Mayor, and not entirely unwarranted, but Benchley's novel goes into the situation a little more closely. It's made clear that Amity is very much a small town on the edge of survival, and that even a minor interruption to their summer season could mean people not having enough money for food and warmth over the coming winter, ending the community. It's kinda like how every sci-fi movie starts with the "crazy" scientist being ignored, when, 99% of the time, ignoring the outlier possibilities is probably the right thing to do, but not in this instance. There's also a whole "townies v tourists" class-divide angle to the book, as well as more of the Quint/Hooper conflict between rich urban academics and more rural working-class folks. You guys have some great interactions and observations. Thanks for sharing your reaction! It's cool to see these classics through new eyes, and it opens a lot of interesting areas for discussion, especially around the changing cultural context of this now-almost-50-year-old film.

My parents took me to the theater to see this when it first came out. I was 11. It traumatized me so badly that I was never able to learn how to snorkel and I stopped swimming in the ocean after this movie. For me this is the best horror movie I've ever seen. I'm still not over it! Lol! Enjoyed y'alls reactions and commentary. New sub here.

the movie term Blockbuster was created after/during this films release. The crowds were so long that they were lining up around the block. It's the best film and they done a fantastic job with the shark. All mechanical and hydraulics took a battering while in the ocean filming, bloody salt water. For 1975 they done a brilliant job and for me practical effects are better than a lot of CGI you see today. But the shark not working all the time was a kinda hidden blessing as they used many other ways to highlight the shark being there without seeing it - the pier, the music, the yellow barrels - all brilliant by Spielberg and co. 10/10 movie

A show just opened on broadway called (I think) The Shark is Broken. It’s about the making of the movie and all the problems making it. It is written by Robert Shaw’s son. He also stars in it and looks exactly like his dad

When the guy was in the shark cage, it was an actual shark. You can’t even look it up a actual great white shark attacked him when they were filming and he actually wasn’t supposed to get away and was supposed to get eaten. I am not joking you can look it up.

I lived in Massachusetts as a kid, 1977-85. I loved that accent! I was friends with a kid whose dad was a cop. He was one of the cop extras in that boat with the boys pretending to be a shark.

That was during WW2 when that happen about sinking of the Indianapolis