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The story of the USS Indianapolis recounted by Robert Shaw was historically accurate.
I think he may have got the date wrong but apart from that yeah everything else is true. Robert Shaw was a fantastic actor who died way too soon.
Yah it’s all true for the most part
This was the best scene in the film. It was written by John Millius, the best screenwriter to ever live.
All except that no radio SOS was sent.
An SOS was sent out but the three radio stations that recieved it did nothing about it.
One because they thought it was a Japanese trick. One the commander had ordered the radiomen not to bother him and the final station the commander was drunk.
The fact that the US Navy tried to crucify the Capt of the Indianapolis with multiple court marshals is a crime.
His name wasn't cleared until the decades later when the records were declassified.
He seemed to imply all of the deaths were from sharks though, which was far from the case.
Alex Kintner was the boy who was attacked out on his raft -- Several decades after the filming of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.
Lee Fierro was a Martha's Vineyard resident that was in a local theater group and tried to be an extra but got cast as Alex's mother!
Furreal???
@@danielc.6659 Yeah, that's a true story. Think the story was first shared by her in an interview in 1990, iirc.
What was on the sandwich? Bbq pork?
If there's anything the last 2 years have taught us it's how INCREDIBLY realistic the mayor in Jaws is, and just how many people in power all over the country are exactly him.
I oddly couldn't believe how much JAWS is an allegory for any Major problem in society that gets ignored, especially when it came to how we all reacted to the Pandemic.
keep in mind that for coastal cities, the beach front is virtually their entire economy. This is why even liberal states were hesitant to close beaches during covid.
@@mam362 "keep in mind that for coastal cities, the beach front is virtually their entire economy. This is why even liberal states were hesitant to close beaches during covid."
Hmm, I don't think my country closed eg. beaches at all. At the height of the epidemic, they closed bars, restaurants, movie theaters, schools, festivals, concerts etc. ie. any large gatherings of people. Then, of course, they advocated social distancing, but people were still allowed to walk on the beach, walk their dog etc.
That seemed like the more sensible and balanced approach to things.
It was and is sad to see how polarizing Covid was and how easy people would become more extreme on either side of things.
Now personally I was very much in favor of sensible Covid measures, but it seems to me, that a lot of people forget the negative impacts of some of them.
You mention economy and poor people live much shorter and worse lives than eg. the middle class or higher. So if you create more poor people, it's gonna cost lives and quality of life.
We only really had a few months of being really closed down in my country and in that period of time, cancer diagnoses went down by a couple of thousand (a rather large number in proportion), in comparison to any other few months. So potentially lock downs caused delayed diagnosis and treatment of cancer or maybe missed cancer completely in thousands of people. When that was discovered, around a year later, that number of people with undiagnosed cancers from eg. 3 months of lock down, was about equal to a years worth of covid deaths.
For around a year or year and a half, we would close a school or simply a class if there was an outbreak of covid in that school or class. However, as more and more schools stayed open again, we saw large numbers of children become quite sick from regular common illnesses. Quite a few doctors and indeed health officials speculated that the prolonged lockdowns and isolation had weakened immune responses to those illnesses.
So there are and were very real negative consequences to lock downs and indeed most counter measures.
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The goal of any action or lack of action should be to save as many lives and quality of life for as many people as possible and cause the least loss of life and quality of life for as few people as possible.
That is a very tricky "calculation" to make, because there are many variables and we're not gonna get it right every time.
But I refuse to believe that ignoring things, is gonna lead to better decisions.
@@mam362 I will say this only once and I do not feel it needs any argument or elaboration:
Human Lives > The Economy
Doesn't matter whether it's a little economy or all of the economy.
Human Lives > The Economy
@@HiddenDarkHM typical libtard response. I bet you'll say it twice if I really ask nicely lol
The USS Indianapolis soliloquy by Robert Shaw remains to this day, one of the finest pieces of acting I have ever seen. His performance of Quint was an absolute masterpiece. How he did not win a best-supporting actor Oscar is absolutely baffling.
Not only an Oscar winning performance - but Shaw helped to rewrite the monologue to bring it down from 8 pages to 4.
Because the Oscars are stupid.
@@MrMichaellee5353I still love that they paid a young staffer to follow him and make sure he didn’t he drunk before filming. He was drunk for some of the cuts in the scene. They figured out he was getting the young worker drunk with him.
If memory serves, he ad-libbed the whole monologue. The story of the Indianapolis is true, but he ad-libbed his monologue about it.
Ben Gardner's head in the boat.....still making people jump after all these years! Awesome!
A testament to Spielberg's talent, considering it was filmed in the swimming pool of Verna Field's (the editor) home!
The best jump scare in cinema, todays horror filmmakers take note.
Must've seen 'Jaws' into double digits and Ben Gardner's head _still_ makes me jump.
@@anonymes2884 I was 11 and the cinema, like an old style theatre, had an 'upper circle' with steeply sloping seating. When the scare happened there was 'airborne popcorn'. I remember some of it going down the back of my T shirt.
That shit was freaky
“He plays drunk really well” 🤗 Robert Shaw was a professionally trained stage actor. He played sober even better. 🥃 he was fairly drunk all the time
Actually Shaw was hammered when he told the story in the film for real, or rather coming off being drunk. That's why it looks so real.
@@darthroden The story I heard was that Shaw thought it would be better for the monolog if he was tipsy(not drunk). But both he and Spielberg watched the playback and thought it absolutely sucked. The next day he shot it sober and nailed it. Considered one of the best monologs all time.
@@user-xo5zl2wq8c Shaw called Spielberg at 3 in the morning and asked how badly he embarrassed himself and asked to do it again. Half the scene is from the drunken take and half is from the sober take. The glassy eyed shots are the drunk ones.
@@michaelzilkowsky2936 Thank you Michael for setting me straight. I wasn't sure what I heard was factual. Still my 3rd favorite monolog. Behind Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting and Jeff Daniels in The Newsroom.
He fought James Bond in From Russia With Love
This was Spielberg's first major film. It went way over budget and time, nearly ended his career. The mechanical shark kept breaking early on in filming, so they had to shoot the early scenes without it. But what he didn't realize is that this created greater suspense and anticipation to reveal the shark when you finally see it later in the film. In the end, this was the biggest hit of the decade until Star Wars and made Spielberg a household name.
The exorcist was the biggest hit till jaws was released. Then starwars after that
I never heard it almost ended his career. But they did have problems with the shark
To me, the odd part is that he had an earlier made-for-TV film called Duel, where he never showed the antagonist. That made the movie so much more gripping. I'm not sure if I saw it on the first airing, because I would have been 9 at the time. But it really grabbed me.
So, I'm surprised Spielberg didn't plan from the start to hide the shark. I would have thought it would be a natural choice, for him. But, apparently not. A happy accident.
Going the other direction, I really dislike the re-release of ET. In the theatrical release, you don't get a good look at ET until he's in Elliot's room. In the Director's Cut, there are three or four shots where you get to see him for a second, or even two. It *really* dilutes the power of seeing him for the first time.
It’s not his first major motion picture. It’s definitely the film that made him a household name but his first one was Duel.
@@deadbynightupbylunch Duel was more produced for TV. In Europe it came in Cinemas. Spielbergs first big Movie was Sugarland Express and the first Time he work with John Williams.
@27:23
Yes, they actually captured a shooting star during filming! Spielberg has talked about this in interviews on how serendipitous it was. I agree- shooting stars in ancient days were viewed as bad omens or portents of doom. The word “disaster” literally means “bad star”.
One of Spielberg's lasting childhood memories was his father waking him in the night unexpectedly and taking him into the desert to see a meteor shower.
If you watch closely, you can spot a shooting star in nearly every Spielberg film.
The story of the USS Indianapolis is a true story.
Though the number of deaths attributed to sharks ranges from dozens to 150. A lot, but not the 700+ implied by the story.
@@BubbaCoop
Your Wrong
880 died and 316 survived the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS
@@James_Loveless not all from sharks, which was my point.
Also, *you're
"Hundreds of sharks were drawn to the wreck by the noise of the explosions and the scent of blood in the water. After picking off the dead and wounded, they began attacking survivors. The number of deaths attributed to sharks ranges from a few dozen to 150."
They did take some dramatic liberties , USS Indianapolis Captain McVay requested for destroyer escort , that was denied and hes the only captain to be court-martialed for the loss of his ship , even if US navy lost over 350 ships in WW 2 , not a single other ship captain was court-martialed .
Or how Paul Murphy, president of the USS Indianapolis Survivors Org, said it "Captain McVay's court-martial was simply to divert attention from the terrible loss of life caused by procedural mistakes which never alerted anyone that we were missing."
This movie actually coined the term "summer blockbuster" one of the highest grossing films on opening weekend of all-time
Before then summer was the time for big awards season movie.
Yeah, it was basically "Jaws" and "Star Wars" that killed the auteur cinema movement of the late 60s/early 70s and turned the studios into blockbuster/"summer tentpole" machines. When people complain about how shitty movies have become de rigueur over the years, they have George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to thank. And audiences, of course. Studios don't make terrible movies just to make terrible movies, they make the movies that the largest number of people are most likely to pay to see.
I know a lot of people will complain about that fact as well but look at it this way: If you were an investor who invested $100 million into a film, you'd want the best odds of a return on investment. You wouldn't be saying, "Yeah, whatever, let's take a chance on this unknown writer, unknown director, and the weird-ass movie they want to make that's not like anything else that's ever made money before." Do they then possibly miss out on capturing lightning in a bottle? For sure but, at that level of money, it's the safer business move to make the movie that is least likely to lose all your money. Thus, we end up in a seemingly endless loop of shitty remakes, reboots, and reimaginings.
I bet less people swam in the ocean that summer
@@Tom_McMurtry and in pools. In fact any body of water.
@@SnappingTurtle801 I was about 12'ish or so, and our family was at the beach on a vacation. We went to see this, and my sister and I haven't been back in the ocean since.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the most famous lines from this movie. Used when you find yourself in a situation that is much worse than you had anticipated.
You're
Robert Shaw wasn't playing drunk. He was drunk. For most of the filming of this movie. Still it's an amazing performance, and that monologue about the USS Indianapolis is one of the best moments I've ever seen from any actor.
Bob Hoskins tried the same approach on the set of Super Mario Bros., to much less success.
@@Thoralmir No way. Bob was the best part of that film. His "over this" attitude for Mario was so on point.
He wasn't drunk. He tried to deliver it drunk while they were filming and there was no usable footage. He was very embarrassed and came back sober the next day and crushed it in one take. This is mentioned in multiple BTS interviews about the making of Jaws. That being said, Robert Shaw was a huge alcoholic who died a few years after filming this due to his excessive drinking.
The scene where they all drink on the boat played out in real life. Shaw convinced either Spielberg or someone that they couldn't realistically portray three guys bonding over drinks if they weren't actually drinking. As I remember they got drunk, forgot their lines but had such a good time that when time came to do the scene for real when they sobered up that there time spent drinking/ laughing and bonding ended up shinning thru in Ernest after all.
@@alpacka18 I'm sure I exaggerated a bit in my comment. Your reply seems a bit more true to the stories I've heard about it. Either way, he was a phenomenal actor, and the three of them in that scene together is a kind of magical moment in cinema.
The white liquid is actually stomach acid. It's completely natural to see that when you open the stomach of any carnivore.
@@essexginge9167 LOL!!! I'm not going fall for trick questions like that!
@@danielburns8199 THAT IS A YES !!!
@@staggeredpotato6941 Damn . . . . . .
"I brought red and white, I didn't know what you were having ... is anyone eating this?"
They probably used milk on-set.
Nice reaction and yes, the story of the "USS INDIANAPOLIS" was indeed a true story. 880 men died, 316 survived. Unfortunately this was top secret, so very few people at that time knew about this mission. There is also (among others) a relatively new movie about this from 2016 with Nicolas Cage : "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage".
Haven't seen the Nicholas Cage one, but I used to watch the 1991 movie Mission of the Shark a lot as a kid.
@@Galiant2010 By far a better version of the story, in my opinion.
The Nicolas Cage movie is pretty good too. The court-martial trial is very sad.
That movie was amazing. They did the CO so wrong. I am glad his name was cleared.
The Nicolas Cage movie was also top secret... most people have never heard of it.
It's amazing how well this movie still holds up nearly 50 years after its release. Definitely one of the best movies of all time.
Great reaction video!
I was seven the year this was released, and so me and my family went to see this at the drive-in. Since then, I have not gone back in the ocean, and it took me weeks to go back into the 4 foot above ground pool we used to have in the backyard. This movie has traumatized generations.
You might wanna try “Tremors”. A near perfect story and screenplay, and essentially “land jaws” with genuine terror but more humor. A fantastic cast too. One of my all time favorites.
Great film. And unlike the people in Jaws, the characters on Tremors act like real human beings facing something unknown.
Also Lake Placid is fun too.
I love tremors
I approve of all of these suggestions. And I'd add Crawl to the list. I expected it to be a bad B-movie, but it was actually enjoyable!
My wife and I were fortunate enough to see Tremors in its initial release at the Pearlridge Drive-In in Aiea, Hawaii. IMO, Tremors is IDEAL for drive-in viewing.
They actually did capture a shooting star on film. It wasn't added afterwards.
Believe me some of my generation are still afraid to go in the ocean. After watching this at 14 I'm one of them. The movie *Orca* didn't help either.
*Piranha* from the 70's is good as well but kind of gory.
Two shooting stars from two different shots?
@@jp3813 One is real and I think the other was added with special effects.
One of them was E.T. His ship landed near Eliot's neighborhood. 😉
Not to mention "Jell" about the killer jelly-fish!
On wait.... I may have imagined that 😀
There are several takes on what the shooting star were.
Some say they are true, some say they were added afterwards due to Spielberg fascination with shooting stars since he was a child and saw a meteor shower (almost all Steven movies have shooting stars), and some say it was a wink to his next movie "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" (which mean they were added afterwards to resemble ufos).
Shaw's delivery, the complete tone shift and the deep silence from the other men...these are moments that elevate films from aged entertainment to eternal classics.
Fighters make fights, actors make movies.
Fun Fact: the inspiration for this was an actual series of shark attacks on the Jersey Shore in 1916. 5 people died and the shark, suspected bull shark, swam up Matawan Creek
Bull sharks can swim in fresh and salt water.
And the plot is borrowed from the Ibsen play "Enemy of the People".
Fyi: The USS Indianapolis story and the shooting star were both real.
As was Robert Shaw’s drunkenness throughout production!
The saddest part about this story, is how little politicians have changed in the last 50 years.
more like 5000 years
Don't be silly, they used to be so much more human.
Politicians are nothing more than puppets for the rich and corporations.
You can read accounts of politics from the Roman times and before. Politicians have ALWAYS been politicians.
They're worse.
That scene with Quint recalling the USS Indianapolis is one of my favorite all time scenes.
Movie trivia: The shark almost never worked right and Spielberg had to find creative ways to to finish scenes without the shark. Like the barrels, the girl being pulled under, just showing the fin, showing the boat move because of the rope, using the video from the shark's perspective, showing the inside of the boat being broken instead of actually showing the shark hitting the boat: all of that was because at the time the mechanical shark was not working or it looked fake. Spielberg said it actually made the movie a lot better. ALso Spielberg has gone on record saying he wished he hadn't made the movie because of how it impacted sharks
What I love about seeing younger people react to Jaws is that they mostly tend to think that the shark is pretty realistic! Even back when the movie was released, it was a bit of joke that she shark looked fake, and was even referenced in Back the Future Part II. Modern audiences don't seem to mind though, and I think it might have something to do with the overabundance of CG effects these days: the shark in Jaws is unavoidably, unapologetically real, and I think that adds a certain something to how our subconscious reacts. It might not move quite right sometimes, but it's definitely THERE and that counts for a lot.
I saw this movie when it was released and never thought it looked fake. That came much later
It's the sequels that are notorious for looking fake.
No one thought this shark looked fake in 1975. It was the sequels when the shark looked more and more fake. Hence the reference in back 2 the future part 2.
You also had top tier actors working with these practical elements, too. Quint's death was made all the more horrifying by his final screams.
And as someone pointed out once, the basic problem is that actual sharks look like fake plastic sharks
USS Indianapolis was he ship,that delivered the atomic bombs to the island the planes launched from. It’s mission was so top secret that the US Navy didn’t realize she was missing for almost a week.
Parts. Not the whole bomb. It was all the uranium though.
1) The Meg, while no Jaws, was lots of fun! Jason Statham vs a giant shark...that movie damn near sells itself.
2) Not only does nothing happen to the mayor in the movie, he's still the mayor in Jaws 2.
Watching you guys react to this is more fun than you can imagine. My family saw this in the movie theater in 1975, and when the head came out of the boat, EVERYBODY screamed their lungs out. At school, no one could talk about anything else. Jaws stands alone in this genre. I don't think anyone did it better. The only thing that comes close is maybe Titanic, in which the monster is the iceberg, and stupidity reigns among the responsible.
Bruce - the name of the shark (after Spielberg's lawyer) kept breaking down and costing a shit tonne of money which led to the suspense of not showing the shark at all.
It also had another nickname by the crew: the great white turd because it refused to work
I saw Jaws at a theater in Idaho when I was 8 years old. It was one of the best experiences I've ever had going to the movies. That scene of Bill Gardner's boat made the entire audience scream at the same time. And at the end when Brody blew up the shark the audience cheered like they were at the Super Bowl.
Cool!
"That's so weird that people still want to do that" (i.e. leave the beaches open). As an American, I can say that this town's attitude is VERY on brand for us.
"Yeah, kids are dying horrific deaths, but what about my profits and my property?"
Guys I’ve seen this reaction twice, that’s how good it is! Another man versus beast movie is the ghost and the darkness starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. Definitely a hidden gem very well written very well acted, based on true events really suspenseful and super solid. Definitely a little scary as well!
A great (white shark) movie! 🙂
Interesting fact: Peter Benchley, the writer of the novel Jaws that the movie is based on and named after, later started regretting writing about sharks in such a sensationalistic and quite untrue way and he became an advocate for marine conservation.
His better book is The Deep. The movie was better than Jaws IMO.
@@jeffcocco7123 Benchley wrote _Jaws_ in a few weeks. This was back in the day when you could tell publishers you have a great idea and they'd throw money at you to write it. If you didn't write it, you'd owe the advance.
He also makes a cameo here in this movie as the reporter on the beach!
20:00 Unfortunately, prior to the success of Jaws, sharks weren't endangered. The original novel's author, Peter Benchley, actually regrets writing the book and has since worked as an activist for shark conservation.
Most still are not endangered, just a few species.
Someone was going to write it sooner or later. The plot is based on primordial fear.
I am just waiting for the video argueing that the shark is the good guy a la the Karate Kid notion that Johnny Lawrence is the good guy.
That was short lived, hence Shark Weeks that everybody does. Sharks are protected again
@@tristramcoffin926 You might say the game Maneater is like that, after all: it's a story about revenge from the shark's point of view.
The live shark footage was shot in Australia, primarily the cage scene. The scene were the shark shakes the cage apart actually happened because the shark in question got his tail caught in the rigging and understandably panicked. The real sharks were about 12-13 ft in length, which is more along the size of a grown great white.
This film shows Spielberg's brilliance, because he knew how to craft the suspense and build up the dread of the shark so well that, even after all these years and how fake the shark honestly looks, you just don't care because by the time you see it, the terror of its presence is so well-established that it's still scary and effective.
The Mayor is still the Mayor in Jaws 2 which shows how important local elections are.
No one else wants the job
Except this time it is one of his kids thats killed…
"Everyone's talking over each other all the time"
A very, very, very famous Spielberg trademark. All of this films have at least one moment of multiple conversations happening at once. Some of his films - like JAWS - are packed with those bits.
SPV Films: Because it's realistic. haha
"The Thing From Another World" from the 1950s also had a lot of this throughout the movie. It's a lot of the reason the film is still fun and effective even after 70 years.
I love overlapping dialogue in films. Especially films from the 70s
The young man who played Mr.Hooper is the one and only Richard Dreyfus. A few years later he would play a role that would solidify his career in one of the best movies I have watched ever. It is called Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. This is another movie you should watch.
I love the line from ghostbusters 2016 "dont be like the mayor from jaws!"
"NEVER COMPARE ME TO THE JAWS MAYOR!!"
The film that put Spielberg on the map was “Duel” an amazing thriller. “Jaws” was the film that made Spielberg a household name.
@@ThreadBomb Filmed where I live, in Santa Clarita/Canyon Country, CA, just north of LA. I ended up on that road after moving here, and got the erie feeling I'd seen it before, and that I was in danger :)
He actually used the same sound effect that was used in Duel when the shark is sinking.
Road rage
He invented the summer blockbuster with this movie.
Robert Shaw's character had a vendetta against sharks ever since the Indianapolis incident. To him, killing the shark was intensely personal.
Yes, that's why he broke the radio. The was the battle between him and not any shark, but "the" shark - the shark that haunted his dreams.
@@minnesotajones261 He never left those waters. Most sane people wouldn't go near the sea again. But, he seemed fated to die in that way
You get a real Captain Ahab - Moby Dick kind of feel to the story.
In the uncut version you see the shark swim by Brody`s son, with the guy in the small red boat in its mouth. That`s why the kid was in a "coma". That scene was very impactful. The story he told about the USS Indianapolis was a true story. It was the deadliest shark attack EVER as 150 sailors from USS Indianapolis was eaten alive after the warship was sunk in WW2.
In the opening sequence the girl swimmer was wearing a leather harness that was attached, via ropes and rings on the sea bed, to two teams of guys that could pull her through the water in different directions. In one of the takes both teams accidentally pulled at the same time, causing the actress to be pulled under and fracturing several ribs at the same time. Not knowing she was genuinely injured they continued with the take and, in the time honoured tradition concerning takes where a stunt person is injured, it's that take that's in the film.
Her cries of "Oh God! It hurts!" and her screams if pain as she's dragged across the screen are genuine.
If I may, I humbly suggest you watch Spielberg’s “Duel” next. It’s an even bigger suspense thriller than “Jaws”.
Jaws on Wheels
Great film. Classic.
Definitely catch Duel. It was a made-for-TV movie that was later released to theaters. Relentless suspense.
I watched it a couple of weeks ago and actually enjoyed it more than Jaws. I can't believe it was a tv movie (okay, the voiceover monologues are a giveaway.)
To this day I'm still cautious around trucks from seeing Deul at a young age
I was a biology student here in Chile in 1992. I had a professor, an expert in sea fauna and he had to collaborate identifying the animal that apparently killed a scuba diver fisherman whose remains got ashore. The body was complete except for one arm, shoulder and head. He told us that the bite mark was clean like cut by a saw with the clear shape of the jaw. Real life attacks can be more terrifying and gruesome than any movie, I tell you, we saw the pictures of that case. The white liquid is gastric acid mixed with water and "food" liquids. It's really accurate that some species swallow random objects to get ballast. This movie has some special effects problems but the way they manage suspense and real scientific info is amazing. But turning the Mayor the devil- shark would have started Shraknado franchise some decades before its time 😸 Great video guys!
Robert Shaw’s “ drunk acting” was enhanced by the fact that he was legitimately hammered for most of the shoot.
The Indianapolis story was a real event. As for acting drunk while Quint told the story, he really was drunk. And he was causing great concern for the filming crew. But he surprised everyone.
"were sharks an endangered species back then?" No, but they were after this film came out. Peter Benchley regretted his book and worked for years after to educate people about sharks.
One of my favorite thrillers. FYI:
Sharks were not as endangered in 1975 as they are now. In fact, this movie and the novel it's based on by Peter Benchley triggered a huge spike in anti-shark feeling and the popularity of shark sport-fishing, which contributed to over-fishing. Peter Benchley regretted that, since he wasn't trying to make the shark seem like such a monster. Ever since then, he has been an advocate for education and conservation on sharks. Footnote: Peter Benchley played the news reporter on the beach in the scene where the boys in the boat get attacked, for anyone who watches the full movie.
The USS Indianopolis story is true.
The shooting stars were real. It happens sometimes when filming on location outdoors at night. I've noticed it in a few movies over the years - "The Revenant" with Leonardo DiCaprio, for instance, is a recent one.
This movie, btw, invented both the summer blockbuster and the jump scare. I saw it in 1975, and when the dead man's head popped out of the hole in the boat, soda and popcorn went flying all over the theater. It was great.
Most people think the police chief, Brody, is the unskilled observer character, but the beginning of the movie kind of skims over his character background. He's not just a small-town cop, but a NYPD cop who moved out of the high-danger city to take over as chief on this little suburban island for his family's sake. He actually is a sharpshooter, so it made sense that, at the end of the day, his skill came in handy, even though he originally had no plan to take over from the two fish experts, Quint and Hooper. I think the book went into his background more, while the movie just dropped coded references to NYC.
Robert Shaw, who played Quint, was a phenomenal actor who needs to be remembered more by current movie watchers. He was an alcoholic (he didn't just "play" drunk), had anger issues, was a total pain to work with, but he was brilliant, and I think his portrayal of Quint was almost too subtle. It took me several viewings to be able to interpret this character. Quint is Captain Ahab and the shark is his Moby Dick. We see him as this big game hunter of sharks, then we get the Indianapolis monologue, and it's left to us to put it together as to why he hunts sharks and why he's so determined to get this shark. It's money, but it's also more than that. Then when this super-fish does what no other shark has ever done - dive with three barrels attached, after damaging the boat so much - that's the first time he starts to get scared. Maybe he starts thinking in terms of the monster of his nightmares, right? When he pushes the boat too hard, heading back for land, he's talking tough, but he's really running for his life. For another good Robert Shaw performance, try the original 1974 version of "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."
By the way, all those overlapping voices, fragmented dialogue, and people crossing the frame was the signature "cinema verite" style of the 1970s. Hundreds of movies look and sound like that from that decade. I enjoy it.
Finally, I think they actually did just sink a boat for this movie.
I would only say that Jaws didn’t invent the jump scare. Films like Psycho and Wait Until Dark had them.
But it did perfect it.
I think the fragmented dialogue and people talking over one another just adds to the tension. The audience knows the shark threat is real. Chief Brodie knows its real. But while he's trying to look for the danger he has the oblivious whining to him about parking spaces, blocking his view, etc. It all adds to that tension and frustration and helps add some extra oomph to the action scenes.
I think Jaws causing a huge spike in anti-shark feeling is an exaggeration. If you look at the statistics of shark deaths per year in the 70s it raised at the average rate with maybe a small spike. The movie made sharks famous and scary but it causing shark genocide is VERY questionable. I need more evidence.
Brilliant comment. 👍🦈
Fun trivia for you, the line "Gunna need a bigger boat." was actually an inside joke not in the script. They were out on the Orca (the boat) for hours at a time and the crew had a tiny little motor boat that would bring them their lunch and other supplies for the film. It was constantly overloaded and everyone kept saying "We're gunna need a bigger boat." So the line was adlibbed and it fit so well and delivered so well they kept it in.
His reaction to the jump scare is also great
"He plays drunk really well."
I heard somewhere that Robert Shaw was actually wasted a good bit during filming.
So it's very likely that he was seeing double during this shoot. And he absolutely owned it.
A couple things to know about the time period the movie is in. In the 1970s, most people outside of the fishing industry and some surfers on the west coast knew very little about sharks. They were definitely not an endangered species back then. It wasn't until after this movie became a gigantic hit that a surge in interest in sharks started, and spawned things like Shark Week on the eventual Discovery Channel. Also, a summer town like Amity literally makes all it's tax revenue and all the money for it's local businesses in the 3 summer months, because it's in the Northeast and those are really the only months the beach is swimmable due to temps. Shutting them down for even a few days could put someone on welfare for the rest of the year. Finally, it's in the book, but not the movie, that the mayor was in debt to the NY mob for paying for medical expenses for his wife. He gave them rental properties on the island to earn the money back for them, and closing down the beaches meant no income and no repayment on what he owed them (and likely cement shoes).
And the mayor is one of the most infuriating characters in cinema history, right up there with Paul Reiser in Aliens. Quint is AHAB chasing the white whale. He's loathed sharks since the Indianapolis sank, and no shark since then has ever gotten the better of him until this one. Rationality went out the window.
Sharks aren't endangered now. They are one of the most dominant lifeforms on the planet.
@@redrick8900 Holy shit dude. Read a book or something. more than 300 species of shark are threatened with 17 of the pelagic species alone on the brink of extinction.
@@bridgethaines7127 Almost like he is written that way!
The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, so this was just becoming an issue people were aware of.
I remember hearing a comedian say "Dude, the year Jaws came out? I didn't even take a SHOWER for the rest of that year..."
When that first, average-sized shark was caught, Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) should have explained to the townspeople that this couldn't be the right shark because "we're only half-way through the movie..."
Robert Shaw was truly impressive in this movie.
This movie gave so many people the heebee jeebees about swimming in the oceans. In the rivers. In the lakes. In the streams. Heck I was a little kid , who after seeing this movie, about a week later was standing on the edge of this community swimming pool at the apartments we lived in at the time. Trying to decide of I was going to walk away or risk jumping into it and a friggin chlorine water swimming pool shark shows up to bite me!
(of course there was no such thing but if there was it would show up and bite me!)
The ‘pond’ sequence is based roughly on the real historical shark attacks that inspired the novel that Jaws is adapted from. I forget the exact place name, but it took place on the New England Coast in the first half of the Twentieth Century. There were multiple attacks over a short time that all involved Bull Sharks, possibly a single one attacking swimmers in a fresh water estuary by a small coastal leisure town. Bull Sharks birth and nurse their young in freshwater, upstream in coastal rivers. Kind of like a scarier version of Salmon swimming upstream. lol
I know it was in New Jersey in 1916, read about it years ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
@@gregall2178 I was watching "Shark Week" a few years ago and they covered the New Jersey shark attacks and when they got to the shark swimming upriver and attacking people I went, "Holy cow, that's like two miles from here!" I'd been living here for years and had no idea.
@@myeckwaters I had one of those "Holy Cow!" moments when watching "The Changeling" with Angelina Jolie. Turns out I had been driving by the chicken farm site for years...
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"He plays drunk well" 😆😆 lmao
I have only heard a whole cinema audience cheer as one in two films. When Chief escaped in the cuckoos nest and when the shark got it.
For reference, $10,000 in 1975 would be around $56,000 today. Also, in a resort beach tourist town, the hotels, restaurants and tourist industries make about 70-90% of their annual income in the three months of June, July and August. That's why 24 hours is like 3 weeks.
22:29...Come on guys, give Benchley and Spielberg some credit, yes people do fish for sharks exactly like that.
As a kid, I played a 10' blue on a 30lb line for 10 minutes, before the line was cut because I was on a charter boat and the captain figured I was wasting people's paid time.
The meteor's you spotted in a couple of scenes are there because they were filming during the Perseid meteor showers. Just a cool happenstance, like all the black squirrels in the background of shots in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World".
The squirrels were Perseids too?
"I used to hate the water"
"I can't imagine why"
I don't know why but that's one of my favourite lines
when this film came out in theaters, my mother brought my older sister and grandmother to go see it.
thing is... my grandmother and grandfather spent several decades going to the gulf coast any weekend possible.... spending most of the time deep sea fishing but also plenty of time on the beach etc. They new that environment very well.
So.... during the film my grandmother sat between my mother and sister with them clutching her on each side screaming....along with everyone else in the theater while my grandmother just rolled with laughter each time the shark appeared on screen.
To my grandmother it was a comedy because she experienced that environment first hand for decades.........
oh, and my grandmother was a TOTAL BADASS of epic proportions.
Duel was he's first movie - nearly without any lines at all.
He made American Graffiti before making JAWS.
@@TommyBBQBessinger That was George Lucas ;-)
Duel is an amazing film in it's own right. Wish these new reactors would add it to their list to react to. YES, Duel was Steven Spielberg's first feature-length directorial debut. Glad you mentioned this.
Night Gallery was his first movie. Sugarland Express was his first feature film.
I think one of the most powerful lines to define Brody is when his deputy tells him Mrs Kintner is wrong to blame him and Brody says 'No she's not.' Because he knows he shouldn't have caved, he should have been dragged kicking and screaming away from closing that beach.
Personal accountability, we could use more people that understand it.
The USS Indianapolis event actually happened, presumably mostly like that.
The shooting stars in the footage are real.
Nah, the stars were added in post. I was disappointed to find that out.
Such a good movie. We came for the shark, but stayed for the amazing interaction between three men on a boat.
"Somebody punch this guy in the face.....several times!!!". I laughed so hard, I woke up everyone in the house!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Steven Spielberg's first movie was a TV movie called _Duel_ which is essentially _Jaws_ on land in the form of a 18 wheeler truck. It's very good.
It's amazing how effective this film is when you don't even SEE the shark for a long time into it. Also amazing that Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss were in their 20s making this film. Some would say that Spielberg's 'breakout' film was 'Duel' in 1971, about a driver in a car being chased by a mysterious, unseen driver of a semi truck. But 'Jaws' was the one that made him a household name.
Not seeing the shark so long was a product of the issues Spielberg had with the mechanical sharks they built, which kept failing.
Technically, “Duel” was a TV movie. Not that it matters…
@@EastPeakSlim True, but he saw how effective it was. He used the same technique in Jurassic Park with the T-Rex. Yea, you see dinosaurs fairly early on...but none of them are very dangerous. Both the velociraptors and T-Rex are kept hidden for suspense. Genius, imo.
As a marine biologist, I have such a love/hate relationship with this movie.
I love it for its accuracy. To answer your questions, yes! Tiger sharks are known as the “garbage cans” of the sea. It’s not uncommon to find tigers who have eaten tires! The markings on the model were spot on as well. Also, the rod and reel section was fairly true. Lots of people go out fishing for sharks specifically (though now it’s mostly small reef sharks, since many others are naturally protected).
I also hate it because of its impact on public opinion. Many to answer your other question, the vast majority of shark species weren’t endangered during the making of this film. Jaws had such a shock and awe factor that made moviegoers and the fishing community hunt sharks en masse. By the early ‘90s, shark fishing tournaments and public opinion had put many of the most common species on the endangerment list. Before jaws, sharks were predators that coast-dwellers had to keep away from. After jaws, all sharks were considered man-eaters
I hate fucking idiots like Vic Hislop and all of those macho goofballs who want to haul these amazing creatures out of the sea and onto a dock just to stand there like some macho idiot getting his picture taken with a "Big one". Hey look at me. It is guys like Vic Hislop that make me want to puke. The whole macho shark hunter thing after this film came out. Fuck off all of you macho idiots. You're not tough guys landing the big one. You're raping nature of an amazing animal.
Hall and Oates have a lot to answer for!
These Hollywood liberal types are always such hypocrites. They will get involved with animal welfare issues and preach down to the rest of us, but if they can make a few bucks demonizing an entire species, and nearly causing the species extinction, they will do it in a heartbeat.
The line “that’s some bad hat Harry” is where the production company Bad Hat Harry came from. This movie is quoted everywhere and in everything. Talk about changing cinema and having a lasting impact
You NEED to watch Duel, Spielberg's first movie. It's amazing how he was able to do so much with so little.
Yes. Please watch Duel. It's great
I only saw it a couple of weeks ago and call it Spielberg's pizza Margherita. If you can impress with such simple ingredients, it's clear that you're really good at what you do.
Duel was a made for tv movie and it's great. Not sure if it was a movie of the week....
The story about the USS Indianapolis is true...not just a story or inspired
The way they are fishing for the shark is indeed the actual way people catch sharks, marlins, and sailfish.
When you realize youre halfway through the movie and scared shitless and you havent even seen the shark yet. Also the speech about the Indianapolis was written by John Milius and then Robert Shaw added some stuff. Milius is also who the character of Walter is modeled after in The Big Lebowski. Milius also wrote on the Conan movie and another great 80's movie Red Dawn which you should watch.
Spielberg's actual directorial debut, "Duel", is a definite must see. Was originally an "ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week" but was so good the studio extended it and released it theatrically. I consider it one of my favorite movies of all time.
I loooooved Duel as a kid, but nobody I talk to has ever heard of it! Such a masterpiece of suspense and dread, with an ending perfectly suited to the film.
I watched it several times as a kid, on German TV. Recently downloaded it, and watched it again. It's still a bloody good movie.
I loved "Duel" too. Best part is, it's based on a true story- definitely adapted for a movie, but still some truth to it!
@@RogCBrand Actually, the _very_ best part is they couldn't try to remake it today, like they try to remake any great movie from the past. This movie takes place "B.C." (before cells) and that's one of the key plot points, David Mann cannot call for help. NOWADAYS he'd just get on his cell phone and have help there before the story got going.
@@WmTRiker Yeah, that's a great point! Also, there are so many movies that were done badly- those are the ones they should try to remake and improve on. I really hate it when they seem to just remake good movies, and only make pale, lifeless imitations of the original!
The people who lived in the little town where Jaws was filmed were offered the opportunity to be extras. The woman who slapped the cop was one of those locals. She says people have asked her to slap them several times over the years.
Yes this was Steven Spielberg's breakthrough to being considered a great director. He followed it up with Close Encounters and he was off to the races with huge hit after hit.
Spielberg was visiting John Williams, and Williams wanted to play him his idea for the movie's score. So he played it on the piano, starting with those two bass notes, and Spielberg thought he was just pulling his leg.
Me watching this movie 20+ years ago: "It's unrealistic that people are arguing to keep the beaches open just for businesses when people are actually dying."
Me watching this in 2020+: "Oh..."
The British Prime Minister compared himself favourably to "The Mayor in Jaws" in the summer of 2020.
@@scfm1684 Yeah, the villains never really realize they are the villain, even in real life. At least we (Americans) didn't re-elect ours like they did for Jaws 2.
A large part of the mayor's refusal to accept that a gigantic shark is running around eating people is that nothing like that had ever happened in Amity before - or anywhere else in the region. And no one had any hard evidence of the existence of a huge shark. The evidence presented to him was largely circumstantial and/or indirect.
On the other hand, a summer resort community lives or dies by the summer tourist trade. Closing the beaches and scaring off the tourists, who could just make other plans for the season, would devastate the town. So it's not like the mayor's priorities are unreasonable. Brody wasn't a local, hadn't been on the job long and didn't really come from a seaside community. So the idea that he might be overreacting is hardly unwarranted. Just as it's likely Brody wasn't considering the costs of the safety policies that he was advocating, but only their benefits. But the costs are actual and entirely predictable. The benefits are hypothetical. If they close the beaches, business *will* suffer. If they close the beaches lives *might* be saved. Or might not, if the shark exists and/or if it has already moved on to other hunting grounds...or died unbeknown to the town.
The mayor is framed by the movie as an idiot because we, the audience, know from the outset that he's wrong about the shark. But we benefit from a perspective that no one in the movie has. We know the shark exists because that's the entire premise of the movie. The movie could just as easily have been framed from the mayor's perspective where he's dealing with an hysterical new sheriff apparently panicking over nothing only to ultimately discover that the sheriff, despite all of his overreactions and bad arguments, was actually right all along. And let's face it, portraying politicians in a bad light is always going to be popular in movies. They're really convenient bad guys. Just like corporate execs are really convenient bad guys. Especially when you only see the story from the perspective of the people (i.e. the protagonists) opposed to them.
The villain is quite often not actually a villain. He's just someone with a different relationship to the situation. A different understanding based on either a lack of knowledge the hero has, possession of knowledge the hero doesn't have or both combined with different goals than the hero has. He's not actually a villain. He's an antagonist. And he's quite often not wholly wrong.
@@flatebo1 Thanks for this. From his position, it's not an unrealistic stance to take.
@@Eidlones And making it seem that people are villains because their ability to feed their families, pay for shelter and food, buy necessities, and survive are directly effected by their businesses staying open is easy for people who don't have those worries to do. They see in black and white terms.
They don't hear or care about the conversations outlining how the summer business is the life blood of the tiny community, so they can survive from the end of the current summer to the beginning of the following summer; otherwise, they struggle on welfare for the year.
To many city and suburban types, people who live in those circumstances (close to nature in the fields, seas, mountains, etc.) are often looked down on as uneducated unwashed. They have as many names as levels of contempt for these types, yet have a fit when prices skyrocket for the things these same people put in the stores. Then, these small and independent business owners are condemned as selfish and greedy.
It's in what a lot of what people write in the comment sections for Jaws, and it's pretty sad
You could watch "The Fly" from 1986. You could call that thing a "monster".
Simone's reaction to Quint's death was a lot like the one I had on first viewing. I was nine years old at the drive-in, and that summer I spent far too much time scanning for fins in the waves of Lake Huron as my older brothers told me that sharks often swam up through the St. Lawrence River.
I saw this twice in the theater, when I was 13. I didn't see it again for over ten years, when I rented it on VHS.
What really struck me the second time was how much humor there is in this movie. Spielberg is a master at playing suspense off of humor. Hooper had a lot of good lines. Hooper and Quint together, of course. Brody and his wife, and with his kids. Some of the minor characters. Little bits of levity, often to regulate the tension.
It's amazing how, after all of these years Bruce is still frightening people
"Are there any other big monster kind of movies?" JURASSIC PARK!!!
That was the first blockbuster movie. People went back to see it over and over the summer of '75.
The Indianapolis incident was accurately accounted by Quint (Shaw's character) -- which was why he smashed the radio. it wasn't about money for him. It was personal.
Quint's death is pretty damn brutal. Good job in holding down your lunch.
I still can't watch Quint's death.
Lol, "he plays drunk really well." He actually was drunk on set most of the time. He delivered those lines drunk IRL if I recall behind the scenes correctly. We travel back to the past in the first parts of the movie. When we get on the Orca and in the ocean the movie becomes timeless and, I feel, could happen in any time.
“You know the thing about a shark..he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes. When he comes at ya it don’t seem to be livin. Till he bites ya; and those black eyes roll over white and oh you hear that terrible high pitched screamin, the ocean turns red…inspite of all the poundin and the hollerin….they all come in and uh…rip you to pieces”. Quint - JAWS 1975
The first shooting star was real, and the second one was added in post after they realized how awesome it was.
The multiple scenes where people are talking over each other may seem chaotic, but extremely realistic. The point was to make this seem as real as possible and for the audience to feel like they are there.
Tremors (1990) if you haven't seen it already. Good fun monster movie.
If you guys loved “Jaws”, then you’ll like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” from two years later. Spielberg directed and Richard Dreyfus’s in the lead. Great movie, and similar in many ways to this. An everyman facing something bigger than he can imagine, the whole 70’s vibe, thrilling, emotional, etc. Spielberg was on a roll during this time. “Jaws”, “Clise Encounters”, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, all within a six-year span!
20:16 -- No, in 1975 sharks were not on the endangered list yet. We didn't know how many were out there until we started studying them.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. EXCELLENT movie. :D
Fantastic movie!
Weren't sharks an endangered speices back then?
Well, they were after this film was released and everyone went batshit crazy killing every shark they could find
Such an iconic film with a stellar cast. Richard Dreyfuss is just brilliant, as is Roy Scheider, but Robert Shaw's performance has been very highly acclaimed by actors of many generations.
The scene on the boat near the end of the film where Dreyfuss and Shaw's character gain a mutual respect by comparing scars is incredible. Humour, heartfelt, the scene builds and then you're captivated by Shaw's telling of the sinking of the Indianapolis during WWII.
I encourage you to seek out Dreyfuss being interviewed on and Irish chat show, where he talks about meeting Shaw's granddaughter and you will gain an insight into just how strong a connection they really had.
Lots of other great Dreyfuss films, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, Stakeout, but a somewhat hidden gem for me is Mr Holland's Opus, which just had me balling by the end.
It’s so great watching young people react to classic movies. Brilliant direction, storytelling and performances. Their amazement is based on the fact that so few modern films get all these elements right nowadays. You have to go back several decades to find truly great filmmaking in the mainstream.