Just in case it wasn’t clear in the video guys - I love Jaws, both the book and the film! It’s an all time classic. So please do treat this as a slightly tongue in cheek video 😉
Brilliant film, but did it do a lot to demonise sharks as grudgeful killing machines? On a related topic are there any other truly great shark films? So many have such terrible cgi sharks. Open Water and The Reef are two I like, as they avoid avoid too much CGI:)
@@robertking6267 I liked Bait. A silly premise but fun movie. A tsunami strikes seaside town in Australia and two huge GW sharks end up in a grocery store, well one ends up in a parking garage and another ends up in a grocery store. Then a TUBI original movie by the same name but different plot. A bunch of twenty somethings enjoying a tropical vacation borrow, steal, Jet Skis, they horse around and end up crashing into each other. One is bloody that attracts a GW then it goes from there. Another is with Halli Berry as a shark tour boat operator. I forget the name.
Fun fact: when Spielberg heard John Williams score for the first time, he thought Williams was pulling his leg. A score shouldn't just be 2 notes, insisted Spielberg. But Williams told Spielberg to trust him, and he did, and that's how we got the most iconic theme in movie history.
its quite a weird meme that people remember the Jaws theme as being two notes (as you probably know) its actually quite an accomplished piece of music the has harmonies in non standard modes, key changes and not to mention the extra step down note in the main "bassline" that gives the theme all of its power. its a lot more complicated to play than most would think :-)
My little sister learned to play violin when she was in elementary school. One of the first things she was taught was the "duuuuh -ah" part to teach how the bow movement changed the note. She did make sure to tell us all that it was meant to be on a viola not a violin tho
I second this. This was a great story that didn’t get enough light. Jaws was based off of this tragedy. Would be awesome to cover it and help shed light on it
Absolutely true. Anecdotally, after becoming a father, the movie becomes something completely different than a few guys getting paid to kill a shark that terrorizes a beach.
Still one of the best films ever! I was shark mad from an early age and saw it at the cinema when it was released in 1975, I was only 13 and was totally mesmerised. What a soundtrack too!!
In all fairness, for context, when Quint tells that story and says "lifeless black eyes, like a dolls eyes", he's describing a fairly traumatic event taking place over several days. I'm rather certain that most eyes would have seemed black and lifeless to anyone who found themselves under such circumstances. Anyway, they delivered the bomb.
@andrewcsalmon Yeah well, you know. I didn't want to seem overly dramatic so I understated the event. Somewhat. I hope that you had a nice Xmas and Happy New Year man.
Another thing Jaws got wrong Was at the end of Quint's monologue, he says the USS Indianapolis went down in June. The USS Indianapolis was actually Sunk on July 29th, 1945.
For the 2-3000 years old bit; I understood it as him saying the current species of sharks have been the same for a few thousand years. I'm also guessing that was the best information they had in 1975. Obviously, that number is way off.
Man, where were you when I was in 10th grade. We dissected dog fish in biology that year, and I spent an entire class period carefully removing the jaws before smuggling them home, only to wreck them trying to preserve them by boiling them 😭.
Jaws, no doubt like loads of people here, got me into sharks and film. I saw it probably waaaaay too young, but it led me to get books on sharks and truly appreciate their wonder. The fact that it is a perfectly made film in every way leads me to overlook its ropey shark science and love it every time I watch it. Great video as always! 😊
Re the 2-3 thousands years comment, I never saw this as Brodie actually thinking this was possible or that he read it is possible in one of the books he's flipping through, instead he comes of as seriously scared and frustrated that there's not much information about sharks he can use. It's out of mental fatigue that he just makes a facetious throw-away comment, in the same way someone whose scared will say they nearly had a heart-attack after getting scared by someone.
@@thechlaxman I don't recall that, it's been a while since I watched the film. I do remember Ellen Brody however asking him if he wants to get drunk and fool around, so maybe he'd already cracked upon a bottle and that's where she got the idea from.
The beach shot was brilliantly edited and shot. Spielberg does a step zoom with organic wipes of the people walking by....then he does the dolly zoom where the foreground stays static and the background moves.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz A dolly zoom, also called a push-pull, is where the camera moves forward on a dolly while the zoom lens is widened, changing the field of view while keeping the subject in place. It's the shot where Brodie reacts to the attack in the water and the way the background expands around him indicates how small and helpless he suddenly feels. It's also sometimes called a verigo shot because Hitchcock used it to create the sense of vertigo in the film Vertigo. The organic wipes are where people cross the frame, completely blocking the lens for a frame or two. The editor cuts right at that moment to the next shot which is also completely obstructed, and as the person continues moving the focal length has increased, so with each person walking by we're focussing on what's happening further and further away.
Jaws is my favorite movie, ever. I saw it for the first time at the young age of 14, in June 1975. A true classic that does indeed stand the test of time!
Fun fact: Rodney Fox still has the original shark cage. He built for jaws on the back of his shark diving boat here in Port Lincoln, South Australia. And all the real live GWS action filmed in Port lincoln South Australia 🇦🇺 🦈
Fun fact. The beach attack scenes with the unseen shark were filmed BEFORE they even knew Bruce was going to malfunction. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. First use of Bruce wasn't planned until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes. Bruce could never have been used in the shallow waters where they filmed the beach attacks so they never planned to. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows.
Isurus glaucus (Müller & Henle 1839) was an actual name used for mako sharks back in the early/mid 20th century, and it's only after Garrick (1967)'s work on Isurus that the hot mess of that genus became clearer, and that was the basis of Compagno (1984)'s account for makos. Many sources around the 1970's would've had I. glaucus as the valid name.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 more so into Killer Whales, but nonetheless love sharks and Jaws. I grew up watching Jaws and have pry seen it over 100 times in my life. Never ever dawned on me to dig into the flaws of the movie tbh. 👍
What about the ending where Brody shoots the tank, and the shark explodes like an oil refinery? It's a great ending but knowing that it can't happen in real life requires some suspension of disbelief.
Well, back in the 70s, it could have happened. Aluminum scuba tanks were still new (being introduced in 1973) and the alloys weren't perfect. The Luxfer company (which produced tanks sold under their own brand name and the U.S. Divers brand) used lead as part of their 6351 alloy mixture to cut down on costs, and if things went just right (re: wrong) during the smelting of the metals and the molding of the tank, you could get a concentration of soft lead in part of the tank. Now that didn't happen too often, but when it did, if the tank was overfilled, over-pressurized during hydrostatic testing, or happened to get struck in just the right way at that exact spot, the tank could rupture. Usually it didn't flat-out explode and the air would simply rush out of the hole created, possibly pushing the tank around wildly, which is still dangerous, but I believe there were two fairly well publicized accounts of tanks that did blow big time. The modern 6061-T6 aluminum alloy (put on the market by Luxfer in 1988) completely removed lead from the equation to eliminate this, but obviously the damage was done. My SCUBA instructor in 2010 wanted to make sure we had a knowledge of the history of the technology as well as how to use it. Sometimes, he said, you may be stuck using older gear and it's beneficial to know it inside and out.
I dont remember anyone complaining about this until Mythbusters experimented in the 2000s and even they didn't know what was going to happen beforehand.
Yup. You're right. But still an amazing film. Really about the 3 dudes anyway. Great cinematography. Great script. Great lines. Good sociology... a true classic.
Brodie wasnt suggesting sharks live 2 or 3 thousand years, he was just saying that as far as we know, they could have almost any life span. I recall seeing that in a shark book in the 70s
@@dr.sommercamp3435 Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone straight to my head!
The part about sharks having black eyes ( dolls eyes) actually came from Schneider. All the actors sat with Carl Gottlieb and added different parts to the speech.
The Shark Bytes narrator said it at the start: in 1975 very little was known about sharks. Very little. Jaws sparked not only sparked an interest of the general public it sparked much of the research that has proven or disproven the film itself.
Even though they did they still did great for the small amount of knowledge known about sharks back then. Love your videos DON'T EVER STOP MAKING THEM. I'VE GOTTA BE YOUR OLDEST FAN❤
Waitaminnit, I never thought Brody was saying individual sharks live to be thousands of years old??? I always assumed he was talking about years of existence as a species! We now know some species lived alongside some dinosaurs, along with frogs and mosquitoes!😊
We don't see his severed head. It looks like it's still attached to his body. I explain it that Gardner's boat was attacked by the shark and he hid below deck (like Tina in Jaws 2) and the shark kept ramming the boat and Gardner had a heart attack and died, remaining in his hiding spot as water came in. A fish took out his eye, or a piece of splintered wood did.
It's long been known there are Great Whites in the Med, however I'm not sure if there are any confirmed attacks on humans, probably because their main food sources there aren't things like seal and sealions so they're less likely to make mistakes.
No mention of Jaws attacking and killing the Orca near the start of the film? We know some Orcas hunt and eat Great Whites but I've never heard of the reverse.
I think "Black December" also contributed to the rogue shark theory where 9 shark attacks happened on the Natal coast in South Africa in a space of a few weeks (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_December)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the cage sequence with Hooper in the first Jaws movie had a couple of scenes where it was a real shark? Like when the shark thrashed the cage around once Hooper got out safely?
Craig Anthony Ferreira wrote about a shark called The Submarine in False Bay that was thought to be 23 feet but never confirmed. But considering how shark population has gone down, there might've been bigger when there were more.
@@Badficwriter Yep, contrary to what some say the Submarine was a real shark, about 7 m long. Extremely big but not exaggerated like in the Discovery documentary. Ferreira is one of the foremost experts on great whites and when he says a shark was 7 m, it was 7 m.
@@CycoSven69I have his book. His description of the Submarine is not far fetched. He encountered it four times. One time it swam right alongside his 6 metre boat and it was at least a metre longer. He also said it's head looked small compared to it's enormous body mass. We know great white sharks can get over 20ft. The Seven Star Lake specimen looks over 20ft, and the bite mark on Jack Rochette in the 1960s and 5 huge bites on a dead whale examined by Colin Ostle of the Western Australian Department of Fisheries in 1972 indicated great white sharks in the mid 20s.
I wish critics would mention 50 things Jaws got right instead of 5 things that were terribly wrong. 🦈 (Critic Definition) A person who "judges" the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works, especially one who does so professionally. Hmmm I think something is brewing up.
Jaws made me afraid to go in the ocean as a kid… or any water in general for a while. It also began my lifelong obsession with creature features and my love of science. I even thought for a while about becoming a marine biologist. Sometimes I still wish I had. I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched this film or made other people watch it. 🦈 Love the video, as with all your film breakdowns!
In regards to the sharks behaviour (and I have heard many people say in reality sharks dont act like the shark in jaws) it is said twice by the main characters "have you ever known a great white do this before?" To which the answer is *no" both times. Its as if the shark in jaws is a unique case and is killing in a murderous way, not to survive. Jaws is the michael myers of sharks!
Yeah this guy doesn't get subtlety in how average people communicate and is taking too much stock into specific words and not what he is implying It is why richard dryfus hating that other actor in real life played so well on screen cause hooper is the over educated autistic arsehole character and brody is the dumb normal guy(jock turned adult wife and too many kids cause he can't even figure out unprotected sex gets women pregnant) and quint is the cool badass that doesn't give a fock that neither of them are that comes as comic relief to their drama
@@gtrdeath28064212 yeah...cause the guy was subtly thinking that sharks have been around for a grand total of 2000-3000 years...I think that would be an even worse take, mate 🤣🤣
@@aldobonaso3481 as a person that has to remind myself I am autistic a normal person gets it... there is such a thing as not having to be too literal to the point you become an arrogant prick
Great video. I actually played a extra in a movie called Mission of the sharks. I was one of the sailors in the water after the ship sunk. Years later I caught the part with Quinn talking about the men in the water, and realized it was the movie I was in
Actually had a Great White come out of the water and rest it's pectoral fins on the stern rail of the American Angler at Guadelupe Island in 2011 after I gaffed a tuna and hauled it over the rail. Ol' Bessie didn't appreciate me taking her snack away...
I grew up doing a fair bit of shark fishing and we used to just put the jaws on the roof of the shelter on the quay and let the flies and weather do the cleaning. It worked pretty well.
I remember Hopper making funny faces at Quint. I mimicked it once in high school, and a teacher asked me, the same question she asked Hooper when she first saw that moment in JAWS. "How old are we today?" Funnier was, at the time, my glasses looked a lot like Hooper's.
My sister got me a Lego Jaws project kit for Christmas and I had much fun putting it together. I've since been checking out You Tube videos about "Jaws" cuz I haven't seen it, probably since it came out. Fun movie but I'm not a "Trekkie" about it or nuthin'. The thing that had struck me is the changes that have happened in our understanding of oceanic creatures since 1975. Now, sharks are cool, misunderstood good guys and dolphins are dangerous, raping psychopaths. Kinda reminds me of Woody Allen's movie, "Sleeper," where he wakes up after being cryogenically frozen for decades and now chocolate cake and cigars are considered "good for you." The more things change, the more they stay insane. 😁
My first career choice was oceanographer. I was born in Bahamas. My love for dolphins and sharks drew me to it. After several other career choices and experiences like in film and music, I ended up working in animal rights.
I'm new to your YT channel, pretty new subscriber, yes. And I haven't watched all your videos, so can you also make a "real life" video on the Sharknado movies (🤭). If you haven't done it then.... - Btw, I grew up with Ron and Valery Tyler's series, the one about exploring the great white shark. And, thank so much for sharing the best Shark Show on You Tube 💯👍💯
Good video. But I think you may have interpreted what Quint said about sharks having black eyes a bit too literally. He did go on to say that their eyes looked dead until they bit you. A metaphor for how evil sharks are, which is obviously a mistake in itself.
I saw Richard Dreyfuss at fan expo aka budget comicon. He had some to say about jaws but everyone could tell he was at the mercy of old age unfortunately. He somehow went from Jaws to the atrocities of the holocaust in a single conversation point during his panel.
I have been surfing in the South West Australia since 1960 (not so much now - age has caught up with me). This is a shark hot spot area and I've had contact with sharks a few times, but never been attacked.
It amazes me that in my lifetime we've basically learned everything we now know about Great White Sharks. We were just learning about why shark attacks happened when I was in elementary school
Rogue shark theory is bs. But to be honest, I feel like the mistaken identity theory is bs too. Sharks sometimes hunt and kill humans and I feel they are just too smart to mistake a human on a surfboard for a seal. If we are honest, we all know that they look almost nothing alike.
@ nice analogy…..Like in Egypt to that unfortunate Russian Edit; Also, many many attacks occur on surfers in places that seals don’t exist. I think we have to be honest about sharks. Rarely, they attack and sometimes kill people. We shouldn’t make silly excuses for them, like ‘mistaken identity’ theory. They are not monsters, but they are apex predators and we are in their domain.
@ yeah, thanks Kris. I just did. I agree with you that it happens, but I don’t believe it’s the silver bullet answer that many others do, to why sharks attack people. Love your work, Kris. If you keep making vids, I’ll keep watching them. 👍
Just in case it wasn’t clear in the video guys - I love Jaws, both the book and the film! It’s an all time classic. So please do treat this as a slightly tongue in cheek video 😉
Was the scene with Chrissy, the night swim, correct or over dramatized?
Brilliant film, but did it do a lot to demonise sharks as grudgeful killing machines? On a related topic are there any other truly great shark films? So many have such terrible cgi sharks. Open Water and The Reef are two I like, as they avoid avoid too much CGI:)
@@robertking6267 I liked Bait. A silly premise but fun movie. A tsunami strikes seaside town in Australia and two huge GW sharks end up in a grocery store, well one ends up in a parking garage and another ends up in a grocery store. Then a TUBI original movie by the same name but different plot. A bunch of twenty somethings enjoying a tropical vacation borrow, steal, Jet Skis, they horse around and end up crashing into each other. One is bloody that attracts a GW then it goes from there. Another is with Halli Berry as a shark tour boat operator. I forget the name.
Ahhhh come on mannn. For the time? I know you know the score
@@kla631ah yes, Dark Tide! I quite liked that one:)
In fairness, one thing they got right: They really did need a bigger boat.
😂😂😂
Can't argue with that!
Haha yep
The budget was only $5000 shy of a bigger boat!
@scottjuhnke6825 One of the greatest lines in movie history. That line was also ad libbed
Fun fact: when Spielberg heard John Williams score for the first time, he thought Williams was pulling his leg. A score shouldn't just be 2 notes, insisted Spielberg. But Williams told Spielberg to trust him, and he did, and that's how we got the most iconic theme in movie history.
its quite a weird meme that people remember the Jaws theme as being two notes (as you probably know) its actually quite an accomplished piece of music the has harmonies in non standard modes, key changes and not to mention the extra step down note in the main "bassline" that gives the theme all of its power. its a lot more complicated to play than most would think :-)
My little sister learned to play violin when she was in elementary school. One of the first things she was taught was the "duuuuh -ah" part to teach how the bow movement changed the note. She did make sure to tell us all that it was meant to be on a viola not a violin tho
I'd actually be really interested in you covering the Jersey shore shark attacks of 1916.
Ooh yes! And the 1957 South Africa attacks known as “black December”, they’re also said to have inspired the book & film
Yeah that would be awesome
I second this. This was a great story that didn’t get enough light. Jaws was based off of this tragedy. Would be awesome to cover it and help shed light on it
Greenland shark still alive the specimen is over 500 years old so it's possible.
Not me , I'm tired of hearing about the same old attacks. The story has been told a million times already.
Jaws isn't about the shark, but human dynamics.
Your deeper than me...all I got was the shark message.😊
Absolutely true. Anecdotally, after becoming a father, the movie becomes something completely different than a few guys getting paid to kill a shark that terrorizes a beach.
@John-g6p8w The book makes that ending really bitter though, because Hooper cheated with Brody's wife.
The shark is just a metaphor for Brody’s alcohol addiction.
Yep. It's about the people who have to deal with the shark.
When a film is this good I can overlook all manner of ‘imperfections’
There’s no complete truth in journalism either. It’s about entertainment.
Still one of the best films ever! I was shark mad from an early age and saw it at the cinema when it was released in 1975, I was only 13 and was totally mesmerised. What a soundtrack too!!
Me too! I lived beside the sea (still do!) and didn't swim in it for years. And the first time I went back in I got bitten. By a boxer dog!
Me too!
Same! I was 14 though and had read the book ❤
In all fairness, for context, when Quint tells that story and says "lifeless black eyes, like a dolls eyes", he's describing a fairly traumatic event taking place over several days. I'm rather certain that most eyes would have seemed black and lifeless to anyone who found themselves under such circumstances. Anyway, they delivered the bomb.
I never heard the black eyes weren't black until a few years ago. Nobody questioned it until recently.
“fairly” traumatic…?
@andrewcsalmon Yeah well, you know. I didn't want to seem overly dramatic so I understated the event. Somewhat. I hope that you had a nice Xmas and Happy New Year man.
(random future shark bait):
What kind of shark is it?
(Hooper):
Tiger shark
(Random future shark bait):
Ah whaaaaat?
Another thing Jaws got wrong Was at the end of Quint's monologue, he says the USS Indianapolis went down in June. The USS Indianapolis was actually Sunk on July 29th, 1945.
its wrong but its possible that Quint thought it was June
@MrChickennugget360 I think Robert Shaw just misstated the date. His character (Quint) would have the correct date seared into his brain.
@@borregofmaybe not since their bomb mission has been so secret. No calendar had been sent. ;)
For the 2-3000 years old bit; I understood it as him saying the current species of sharks have been the same for a few thousand years. I'm also guessing that was the best information they had in 1975. Obviously, that number is way off.
Yeah I thought he meant evolution at some point.
That would be even crazier. They knew better than that 100 years ago, let alone 50.
Noticing the shark eyes tracking back to you honestly makes them more menacing 😂
Agreed but for me, it's pretty sick to see their eyes looking at you and I would feel more connected to them seeing that. But... that's just me XD
@@Sharkhuahuayeah,just remember that connection you feel to the shark is the same connection that piece of steak feels to your fork.....😂
@@TheMattC9999 haha it's not actually like that though, they would try to determine if we are food or not, but I get what you're saying lol
Man, where were you when I was in 10th grade. We dissected dog fish in biology that year, and I spent an entire class period carefully removing the jaws before smuggling them home, only to wreck them trying to preserve them by boiling them 😭.
Oh no!!! This is a disaster 😂
Jaws, no doubt like loads of people here, got me into sharks and film. I saw it probably waaaaay too young, but it led me to get books on sharks and truly appreciate their wonder. The fact that it is a perfectly made film in every way leads me to overlook its ropey shark science and love it every time I watch it. Great video as always! 😊
It got me out of the oceans.
Shark science was ropey at the time, even citing the great white as cold blooded until Ron Taylor showed otherwise in I think it was 1973.
Re the 2-3 thousands years comment, I never saw this as Brodie actually thinking this was possible or that he read it is possible in one of the books he's flipping through, instead he comes of as seriously scared and frustrated that there's not much information about sharks he can use. It's out of mental fatigue that he just makes a facetious throw-away comment, in the same way someone whose scared will say they nearly had a heart-attack after getting scared by someone.
If I remember he's also been drinking during that scene.
@@thechlaxman I don't recall that, it's been a while since I watched the film. I do remember Ellen Brody however asking him if he wants to get drunk and fool around, so maybe he'd already cracked upon a bottle and that's where she got the idea from.
The beach shot was brilliantly edited and shot. Spielberg does a step zoom with organic wipes of the people walking by....then he does the dolly zoom where the foreground stays static and the background moves.
Absolutely!
I didn't understand a word, but it sounds brilliant.
Yes, what a great sequence!👍
@@Pogouldangeliwitz A dolly zoom, also called a push-pull, is where the camera moves forward on a dolly while the zoom lens is widened, changing the field of view while keeping the subject in place. It's the shot where Brodie reacts to the attack in the water and the way the background expands around him indicates how small and helpless he suddenly feels. It's also sometimes called a verigo shot because Hitchcock used it to create the sense of vertigo in the film Vertigo.
The organic wipes are where people cross the frame, completely blocking the lens for a frame or two. The editor cuts right at that moment to the next shot which is also completely obstructed, and as the person continues moving the focal length has increased, so with each person walking by we're focussing on what's happening further and further away.
@@WaterShowsProd It's people like you who won't let me complain in peace!
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Happy Sharkmess nonetheless, I guess! 🦈🧑🎄
Jaws is my favorite movie, ever. I saw it for the first time at the young age of 14, in June 1975. A true classic that does indeed stand the test of time!
Fun fact: Rodney Fox still has the original shark cage. He built for jaws on the back of his shark diving boat here in Port Lincoln, South Australia. And all the real live GWS action filmed in Port lincoln South Australia 🇦🇺 🦈
I remember growing up the white shark life span was estimated at 25-30 years. And now we know it’s close to triple that.
The actress who played Chrissy in Jaws just recently died in May of this year at 77.
I am now 60, saw Jaws as a kid, and all the celebrities I grew up with are almost gone... unnerving, to say the least. 😮
@@bigd4561 On old headstones they used to inscribe: Where I am now, one day you will be.(Para) Some of the actors in Jaws are still alive.
@@kla631 Yup. Time flies. Happy holiday season to you!
All this time I assumed the shark got her!
(Sorry - bad taste)
@redpillnibbler4423 fair game!
Fun fact. The beach attack scenes with the unseen shark were filmed BEFORE they even knew Bruce was going to malfunction. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. First use of Bruce wasn't planned until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes.
Bruce could never have been used in the shallow waters where they filmed the beach attacks so they never planned to. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows.
If you’re in the water with a shark, his eyes look black. The survivors of the Indianapolis all stated this.
Isurus glaucus (Müller & Henle 1839) was an actual name used for mako sharks back in the early/mid 20th century, and it's only after Garrick (1967)'s work on Isurus that the hot mess of that genus became clearer, and that was the basis of Compagno (1984)'s account for makos. Many sources around the 1970's would've had I. glaucus as the valid name.
Yes. I remember it from an old book I used to have.
Plus I'm certain Dreyfuss does say Longimanus. I always heard it as that.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I do hear longimanus as well, just a very soft "L".
5 things they didn’t know 50 years ago, but we now know…?
Vending machines kill more people per year than are killed by sharks.
I didn't know vending machines could swim.
Well, if you tie someone to a vending machine and then toss it overboard...💀
What?! Jaws is flawed?! What about Sharknado?! What about Deep Blue Sea?! The Meg?! Say it ain’t so! Oh, the humanity! 🦈
I know he has nothing better to do than to criticize Steven Spielberg's 1975 masterpiece Jaws.
@LEViathan2313, What video did you watch? He didn’t criticize the film, he pointed out scientific errors in the script. Big difference.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 I didn't know he was a scientist. My bad 👨🏻🔬
@LEViathan2313, No worries man. Check out some of his other videos if you’re into sharks. Good content.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 more so into Killer Whales, but nonetheless love sharks and Jaws. I grew up watching Jaws and have pry seen it over 100 times in my life. Never ever dawned on me to dig into the flaws of the movie tbh. 👍
Gotta love that I watched this film yesterday, now randomly get this recommendation.
Jaws. The only movie that leaves people scared even in the daytime.
Running a bath..
I think Brody said that sharks were around for thousands of years not live that long
Jaws still blows me away every single time I watch it.
What about the ending where Brody shoots the tank, and the shark explodes like an oil refinery? It's a great ending but knowing that it can't happen in real life requires some suspension of disbelief.
Well, back in the 70s, it could have happened. Aluminum scuba tanks were still new (being introduced in 1973) and the alloys weren't perfect. The Luxfer company (which produced tanks sold under their own brand name and the U.S. Divers brand) used lead as part of their 6351 alloy mixture to cut down on costs, and if things went just right (re: wrong) during the smelting of the metals and the molding of the tank, you could get a concentration of soft lead in part of the tank. Now that didn't happen too often, but when it did, if the tank was overfilled, over-pressurized during hydrostatic testing, or happened to get struck in just the right way at that exact spot, the tank could rupture. Usually it didn't flat-out explode and the air would simply rush out of the hole created, possibly pushing the tank around wildly, which is still dangerous, but I believe there were two fairly well publicized accounts of tanks that did blow big time. The modern 6061-T6 aluminum alloy (put on the market by Luxfer in 1988) completely removed lead from the equation to eliminate this, but obviously the damage was done. My SCUBA instructor in 2010 wanted to make sure we had a knowledge of the history of the technology as well as how to use it. Sometimes, he said, you may be stuck using older gear and it's beneficial to know it inside and out.
@@KamenRiderGumo I have watched so many death stories about pressure.
I dont remember anyone complaining about this until Mythbusters experimented in the 2000s and even they didn't know what was going to happen beforehand.
Have to be honest if I saw a shark coming at me, I wouldnt be checking out his eyes LOL.
Yup. You're right. But still an amazing film. Really about the 3 dudes anyway. Great cinematography. Great script. Great lines. Good sociology... a true classic.
Brodie wasnt suggesting sharks live 2 or 3 thousand years, he was just saying that as far as we know, they could have almost any life span. I recall seeing that in a shark book in the 70s
'Black eyes, like a doll's eyes!'
"Fair well and adieu my fair spanish ladies..."
@@dr.sommercamp3435 Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone straight to my head!
Here’s to swimmin with bow-legged women!
@@dr.sommercamp3435farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain.
Its a hollywood flick. Just enjoy it for what it is.
That's what I'm saying. 🦈
When the shark is eating Quint, it's eye's don't roll over white.
That's because the animatronics didn't have the ability to do it.
The part about sharks having black eyes ( dolls eyes) actually came from Schneider. All the actors sat with Carl Gottlieb and added different parts to the speech.
Merry Christmas!! 🎉🎊🎄
I have an old shark species book of South Africa by Leonard Compagno next to my computer.
I use it to come up with passwords 😊
That's a fantastic idea. I usually use the names and dates of battles. I might start on sharks for a bit of variety! And Merry Christmas to you too!
@grendelgrendelsson5493 you need to use it like an enigma machine 🙂
🎉🎊🎄
Great idea ❤
just out of curiosity, do you know that Dreyfuss himself inserted that dialogue impromptu? It wasn't in the script?
The Shark Bytes narrator said it at the start: in 1975 very little was known about sharks. Very little. Jaws sparked not only sparked an interest of the general public it sparked much of the research that has proven or disproven the film itself.
Spot on.
Even though they did they still did great for the small amount of knowledge known about sharks back then. Love your videos DON'T EVER STOP MAKING THEM. I'VE GOTTA BE YOUR OLDEST FAN❤
How old are you ?
@rottweilerfun9520 over 50 I'll just say that 😆 🤣
@@punk24 Strange then, that you write like one of the youngest. 😉
@praguepersona9624 bless your lil heart troll much little timmy
@@punk24 yeah, thanks for confirming that it wasn’t a joke, just a statement of fact.
One of the best films of all time 👌🏻👌🏻
A couple of recent fatalities from shark attacks - one in Australia, one in Egypt.
Waitaminnit, I never thought Brody was saying individual sharks live to be thousands of years old??? I always assumed he was talking about years of existence as a species! We now know some species lived alongside some dinosaurs, along with frogs and mosquitoes!😊
Love being early. As an obsessed jaws fan I loved this! I think no less of this movie. It’s still amazing!
When it came to shark knowledge, they needed a bigger book.
I was a little kid when I saw this with my Dad.... I was afraid to even take a shower for a week when we got home...
Nice timing! I just finished reading the novel yesterday
Thank Google for that. Google can even pick up things you say. Be talking about a subject then a week later it's on your phone.
Google voice don't need to be turned on. It's always on in the background
Masterful thumbnail game, sir!
Great thumbnail!
#6: There's no possible way Ben Gardner's decapitated head could have ended up below deck.
We don't see his severed head. It looks like it's still attached to his body. I explain it that Gardner's boat was attacked by the shark and he hid below deck (like Tina in Jaws 2) and the shark kept ramming the boat and Gardner had a heart attack and died, remaining in his hiding spot as water came in. A fish took out his eye, or a piece of splintered wood did.
The #1 thing they got wrong-
Not awarding the Best Supporting Actor to Robert Shaw
He was the Film's highlight! Not even the Shark.
He was billed as a lead actor. His name came first. There were 3 lead roles in Jaws.
Hamilton and Gary were the supporting actor/actress.
Thanks for this video, I love learning new shark facts with you every week! :D
07:16
That one has got to be a cat shark
Only cats have eyes that judge-y lmao
Spot on! Judgie little sharks
Yoo Kris, did you see that a white shark was spotted in Southern France back in November? Crazy, right?
Love the vids! Keep up the great work!
It's long been known there are Great Whites in the Med, however I'm not sure if there are any confirmed attacks on humans, probably because their main food sources there aren't things like seal and sealions so they're less likely to make mistakes.
No mention of Jaws attacking and killing the Orca near the start of the film? We know some Orcas hunt and eat Great Whites but I've never heard of the reverse.
I think "Black December" also contributed to the rogue shark theory where 9 shark attacks happened on the Natal coast in South Africa in a space of a few weeks (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_December)
I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head
Boiling shark jaws, briefly, does let you reposition them, if you wanted to do such a thing.
Yes,always useful I find.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the cage sequence with Hooper in the first Jaws movie had a couple of scenes where it was a real shark? Like when the shark thrashed the cage around once Hooper got out safely?
Cousteau had a book called Shark in the mid 80s that listed great whites as up to 25 feet long
Not impossible at all despite what some TH-cam great white "experts" tell you.
Craig Anthony Ferreira wrote about a shark called The Submarine in False Bay that was thought to be 23 feet but never confirmed. But considering how shark population has gone down, there might've been bigger when there were more.
@@Badficwriter Yep, contrary to what some say the Submarine was a real shark, about 7 m long. Extremely big but not exaggerated like in the Discovery documentary. Ferreira is one of the foremost experts on great whites and when he says a shark was 7 m, it was 7 m.
@@CycoSven69I have his book. His description of the Submarine is not far fetched. He encountered it four times. One time it swam right alongside his 6 metre boat and it was at least a metre longer.
He also said it's head looked small compared to it's enormous body mass.
We know great white sharks can get over 20ft. The Seven Star Lake specimen looks over 20ft, and the bite mark on Jack Rochette in the 1960s and 5 huge bites on a dead whale examined by Colin Ostle of the Western Australian Department of Fisheries in 1972 indicated great white sharks in the mid 20s.
It's ONLY a movie Gee Wiz RELAX & CHILL 😎 😊😊🤣🤣🤣
I wish critics would mention 50 things Jaws got right instead of 5 things that were terribly wrong. 🦈
(Critic Definition) A person who "judges" the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works, especially one who does so professionally. Hmmm I think something is brewing up.
Hello. Good Afternoon Kris 🦈🦈 Happy Shark Sunday 🦈🦈 Happy Holidays to you and your family 😊😊
Jaws made me afraid to go in the ocean as a kid… or any water in general for a while. It also began my lifelong obsession with creature features and my love of science. I even thought for a while about becoming a marine biologist. Sometimes I still wish I had.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched this film or made other people watch it. 🦈
Love the video, as with all your film breakdowns!
Leave Jaws alone! It's an all time classic and the first summer blockbuster!!
In regards to the sharks behaviour (and I have heard many people say in reality sharks dont act like the shark in jaws) it is said twice by the main characters "have you ever known a great white do this before?" To which the answer is *no" both times. Its as if the shark in jaws is a unique case and is killing in a murderous way, not to survive. Jaws is the michael myers of sharks!
The most important thing Jaws got right: It's entertaining
I always thought when Brody mentioned the "age" that he was referring to the existence of sharks as a whole and not the length of a specific life span
Yeah this guy doesn't get subtlety in how average people communicate and is taking too much stock into specific words and not what he is implying
It is why richard dryfus hating that other actor in real life played so well on screen cause hooper is the over educated autistic arsehole character and brody is the dumb normal guy(jock turned adult wife and too many kids cause he can't even figure out unprotected sex gets women pregnant) and quint is the cool badass that doesn't give a fock that neither of them are that comes as comic relief to their drama
@@gtrdeath28064212 yeah...cause the guy was subtly thinking that sharks have been around for a grand total of 2000-3000 years...I think that would be an even worse take, mate 🤣🤣
@@aldobonaso3481 as a person that has to remind myself I am autistic a normal person gets it... there is such a thing as not having to be too literal to the point you become an arrogant prick
Great video. I actually played a extra in a movie called Mission of the sharks. I was one of the sailors in the water after the ship sunk. Years later I caught the part with Quinn talking about the men in the water, and realized it was the movie I was in
It was a movie about a fictitious shark. What did you expect, a documentary style with scenes in line with reality?
Next your gonna tell me a shark can’t follow someone down to the Bahamas like in jaws 4
They can eat helicopters, though, can't they?
Actually had a Great White come out of the water and rest it's pectoral fins on the stern rail of the American Angler at Guadelupe Island in 2011 after I gaffed a tuna and hauled it over the rail. Ol' Bessie didn't appreciate me taking her snack away...
I would also like to see you discuss the jersey attacks of 1916.
There is Jaws and there are Jaws knockoffs.
So... territoriality is something the movie got right. Not wrong.
@@nickcharles1284 territoriality in sharks these days has a different meaning to what they used in the film (and back in the 70s)
@@SHARKBYTES What I mean is that it wasn't wrong - in 1977. It was the prevailing belief, based on what they knew.
I grew up doing a fair bit of shark fishing and we used to just put the jaws on the roof of the shelter on the quay and let the flies and weather do the cleaning. It worked pretty well.
"You wouldn't believe the crime rate in new york: Rape, murder, you have to walk the kids to school..." - "Really? You want a prezzel?"😂
I remember Hopper making funny faces at Quint. I mimicked it once in high school, and a teacher asked me, the same question she asked Hooper when she first saw that moment in JAWS. "How old are we today?" Funnier was, at the time, my glasses looked a lot like Hooper's.
I think Brody was being flippant about the 2000-3000 year old sharks.
My sister got me a Lego Jaws project kit for Christmas and I had much fun putting it together. I've since been checking out You Tube videos about "Jaws" cuz I haven't seen it, probably since it came out. Fun movie but I'm not a "Trekkie" about it or nuthin'.
The thing that had struck me is the changes that have happened in our understanding of oceanic creatures since 1975. Now, sharks are cool, misunderstood good guys and dolphins are dangerous, raping psychopaths. Kinda reminds me of Woody Allen's movie, "Sleeper," where he wakes up after being cryogenically frozen for decades and now chocolate cake and cigars are considered "good for you."
The more things change, the more they stay insane. 😁
Merry Christmas Kris!
I did find reference to Isurus glaucus in 2 publications, Linnaeus, 1758 and Müller & Henle, 1839, maybe they just used those as references
To be fair Ive seen a few shark docs get Makos and Blues mixed up so yeah Hooper may have had a point.
My first career choice was oceanographer. I was born in Bahamas. My love for dolphins and sharks drew me to it.
After several other career choices and experiences like in film and music, I ended up working in animal rights.
That was a very good video 👍 🦈 i wish you a nice christmas time 🎄🎁🙂
I'm new to your YT channel, pretty new subscriber, yes. And I haven't watched all your videos, so can you also make a "real life" video on the Sharknado movies (🤭). If you haven't done it then....
- Btw, I grew up with Ron and Valery Tyler's series, the one about exploring the great white shark.
And, thank so much for sharing the best Shark Show on You Tube 💯👍💯
Just wait until you hear what every Super hero movie got wrong........geesh.
Good video. But I think you may have interpreted what Quint said about sharks having black eyes a bit too literally. He did go on to say that their eyes looked dead until they bit you. A metaphor for how evil sharks are, which is obviously a mistake in itself.
I saw Richard Dreyfuss at fan expo aka budget comicon. He had some to say about jaws but everyone could tell he was at the mercy of old age unfortunately. He somehow went from Jaws to the atrocities of the holocaust in a single conversation point during his panel.
He likely confused Jaws with Jews.
They definitely will be talking about The Shallows in decades to come, it's brilliant
Nobody I know talks about it even now. It was a forgettable mediocrity.
I have been surfing in the South West Australia since 1960 (not so much now - age has caught up with me). This is a shark hot spot area and I've had contact with sharks a few times, but never been attacked.
The eyes bit immediately made me think of Bruce and Chum from Finding Nemo :D
Jaws was a horror movie, not a documentary
I bet you’re gonna pick Jurassic parks understanding of the science at the time too
It amazes me that in my lifetime we've basically learned everything we now know about Great White Sharks. We were just learning about why shark attacks happened when I was in elementary school
Rogue shark theory is bs. But to be honest, I feel like the mistaken identity theory is bs too. Sharks sometimes hunt and kill humans and I feel they are just too smart to mistake a human on a surfboard for a seal. If we are honest, we all know that they look almost nothing alike.
Thats the way I feel about it too. For instance, I don't really like peanut butter cups. Once in a while though, I'll eat one.
Yep. We are on the menu when in the water, end of story.
@ nice analogy…..Like in Egypt to that unfortunate Russian
Edit; Also, many many attacks occur on surfers in places that seals don’t exist. I think we have to be honest about sharks. Rarely, they attack and sometimes kill people. We shouldn’t make silly excuses for them, like ‘mistaken identity’ theory. They are not monsters, but they are apex predators and we are in their domain.
Did you guys watch the video we did about mistaken identity a few weeks back? Check it out if not 😁🦈
@ yeah, thanks Kris. I just did. I agree with you that it happens, but I don’t believe it’s the silver bullet answer that many others do, to why sharks attack people. Love your work, Kris. If you keep making vids, I’ll keep watching them. 👍
100% agree about shark eyes... Especially bull sharks are definitely not lifeless, it even looks like a thought process behind them.
I found the video interesting.I would love to see a film about the Killer Whale.I would call it ‘The Black Sail’.