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Spielberg was so young yet basically created the summer blockbuster with Jaws. Jaws continues to be great and absolutely re-watchable. This was/is a brilliant movie
Quint is like Captain Ahab obsessed with killing Moby Dick. That’s why he smashed the radio.
That jump scare was powerful in '75...especially when you were 7 at the time 😂
😊I was 7 Too😊☑️
I threw my popcorn behind me in the theater lol.
Quint's dislike of the younger rich college-educated oceanographer wasn't just acting. Robert Shaw (Quint) and Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) didn't get along very well with each other on set either. But, being the professionals they both are/were, they brought us a classic film.
I like that quint treats him with alot more respect after they exchanged scars. Good character development
Wow! That’s pretty cool lol
What a classic! It's more suspense than gore, which is more my style.
The fear is because it seems like it could really happen. The movie Halloween didn't stop people from trick or treating. Jaws kept them from going in the water.
Same
Yes. One of the problems of CGI, it makes it so easy to have things blow up, make monsters tramp through a city, or blood squirting everywhere. In the original Godzilla, the monster was a man in a rubber lizard suit, tramping through a miniature city, but the movie also builds up the suspense by just giving us ever more glimpses of him.
Great movie. Holds up great even decades later.
Decades? How about almost a half century?
@@encrypter46 Potato Potatoe
@@cadleo To me, the word century carries even more weight.
I was 5 in 1975 when I first saw this at the drive-in with my mom and dad. I was in the back seat and that "head" jump scared me into the front seat! 😂
I was also 5 in 1975, saw it in the theater with my parents. We spent summers at a marina sleeping on our BOAT! There was no convincing me that night after the film that there were no sharks in the lake! Scarred for life! 😂
@@112musician 🤣
I watched Jaws when I was 10 years old in 1978. I haven’t been past shin deep in the ocean since. I don’t even like swimming in fresh water if I can’t see the bottom.
This was a big film for the drive-in movie threaters 🙂
A few years after this movie came out, I kept my ATV my girlfriends parents' house near the woods and a couple miles away from a drive- in...
I would drive me or us down and watch the movie.... you could hear the girls screaming from the cars at the "jump scare" point. It was crazy.......
That fishing pole scene.... yes, you can catch a big fish with a fishing pole.
Haha! I was 7 and we were at the drive-in watching some other movie. Us kids were in the back of the station wagon looking at another screen that was playing Jaws. When the shark ate that man, it scared the crap out of me, too!
"You yell. we're out of potato salad and people say "Huh? What?". You yell we're out of beer and you've got a panic on your hands on the 4th of July."
I think Quint destroyed the radio because getting the shark himself was personal.
Just like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick.
Could be or maybe his reputation.
Quint was a trophy hunter. That's why we see all those trophy jaws in his shack. The shark is the biggest he will ever encounter. He wouldn't have anyone taking over. He was desperate for that trophy.
@@lyndoncmp5751 He had never had a shark get the best of him, this one did, he was Ahab with Moby Dick.
Yeah good point perhaps
If anyone wants to go straight to the jump scare its at 16:00. Don't worry Salvo, that one gets nearly 100% of first time watchers. It's a legendary level jump scare. 😆
Legendary indeed. One of the best in my opinion
It gets me every time!
The fact that the shark kept breaking down really is what made this movie. Not seeing the shark right off and in your face made the suspense. There is a special on the making of this movie which is very good as well.
That's become an often stated myth I'm afraid. Bruce was actually never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The first scheduled use of Bruce wasn't until the Orca based scenes out at sea. That's when it kept going wrong for months.
The early scenes were filmed without seeing the shark on purpose. Water was far to shallow to have used the mechanical contraption as well. They had a perfectly working fin contraption which they could have used but didn't want to even show that until the pond scene.
I should add that Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed. That was always going to be a major style of Jaws. Go and watch Duel and see.
I agree with these guys, Spielberg, writing and acting as well as editing is what made this movie great. The shark not working only caused delays and budget issues.
I agree, the suspense was terrific
Spielberg wasn't even sure how the shark would look in the big screen showing. They were impressed! One slight flaw in the movie, if anyone noticed. A summer day off long island, Massachusetts cape cod areas, marthas vinyard, nantucket, etc. has hundreds of boats and yachts sailing all day in that type of warm weather, but we saw none for a full day and night when they were out there.
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”
I love knowing that Bruce legitimately scared the crap out of the actor. He didn't know the shark was going to be so big haha
The reporter on the beach is portrayed by Peter Benchley. He's the author of the Jaws series of books and he also helped the script for the films. I couldn't help but laugh and some of your reactions. Great one man.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Like many people, read the book, then saw the movie when it first came out. Literally have not been in the ocean since, although mostly that is because I haven't been near the ocean.
At the time, everyone knew about sharks, but the book really emphasized the concept of them as a relentless eating machine. I believe in reality, in a lot of actual shark attacks, the shark takes a bite and then say "ugh," even though of course even this can be fatal.
The line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed by Roy Scheider.
Saw it the first release date. Packed theatre. Everyone screamed and then laughed nervously at the first jump scare. Not the last time.
I appreciate that you WATCHED the movie and let it play out. So many people talk throughout and ask questions, which are answered by simply watching and paying attention. Thank you.
We ALL knew you’d be jump-scared by one of the biggest jump-scares in movie history! Welcome, welcome to the club.
P.S. - just be glad you weren’t in a packed darkened movie theater with 300 other first-time watchers back in ‘75. It was hysterical. People came out of this movie looking like they’d been in a cage match.
I love Chief Brody. He's really serious about his job. He reminds me of my dad.
And Ben Gardener gets another one! This movie always makes the best reaction videos.
The great ole’ “Ben Gardner” never fails. That was epic one!!!! 😂😂🔥
I loved how Spielberg changed the script when hooper escaped the cage. He was supposed to die there but since a real shark swam through the scene and got caught on top of the cage, Spielberg kept it in the script.
The cage in the scene with a real shark shaking it, was made five times smaller than the cage that Dreyfuss was in, to emphasis how big the fake shark was.
@@pobstrel -the filming of the real shark happened here in Australia with Ron and Valerie Taylor who have done documentaries on filming real Great white sharks.
Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl...so good in that and in
this!!! And Mr. Holland's Opus.....
He was also good in Always with Holly Hunter.
And in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Richard Dreyfuss is a great actor you need to check out more of his movies. "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind", "Mr Hollands Opus", "Goodbye Girl", etc. Roy Scheider also has a long list.
Also, American Graffiti
What about What About Bob?
A must see is "Let It Ride".
We all watch jaws reactions for the Ben Gardner jump scare 🤣
That jump scare under the boat is textbook. I have yet to see any reactor NOT jump. I believe someone once mentioned in another reactor's comments that it's taught in film schools as the perfect jump scare.
It quite literally was the most unexpected moment I have ever seen in a movie
Fun fact apparently the sharks name is Bruce according to Steven Spielberg who he named after his lawyer.
It's funny how it's such a fitting name
This film created an entire genre of movies called The Summer Blockbuster.
Great review. I used to be an avid ocean swimmer and was a lifeguard. After seeing this in the movie theater, I never looked at the ocean the same again. I still swam and body surfed but never swam far out into the ocean. This movie was terrifying when it came out.
When it was first came out at the end when the shark gets it the whole audience stood up and cheered. It was so good on the big screen
This is the movie that made Spielberg Spielberg. P.S. It was a mechanical shark that you don't really see all that often as the mechanical shark didn't work right. It actually made the movie better that you don't see the shark all that often.
RIP, Pipit. You were just being a good boy. 😢
7th grade, dark theater, the friend I was with shrieked and grabbed me at the jump scare. Memories! 😂
I was 12 when I went to the theatre to see this with my older cousin... Living in So Cal we went to the beach a lot. I stopped going into the water... In the 55 years I've been watching movies this is at the top. So many different anecdotes from this movie. The author of the novel Peter Benchley is in the movie as the reporter on the beach. He was initially on the set to provide his thoughts(he also helped with the screenplay along with the man who played the publisher of the town newspaper). He disagreed with Speilberg on many of the changes especially the last parts(Hooper actually died and the shark was killed differently among others changes). The scene in the boat where they are enjoying drinking and Quint tells the WW2 story initially Robert Shaw as usual was drunk. Speilberg decided it was as good as they were going to get. The next day Shaw went to Speilberg and asked to do it again. That's what we see in the movie. 😊 A few other notes that were in the novel but not in the movie... the mayor was involved with the mob (borrowed money) which is why he was so adamant about keeping the beaches open. This was not explained in the movie. Hooper and Mrs Brody had a brief affair.
I was about 13 when I saw this movie in the theater, and Ben Gardners head rolling out of the hole totally jump scared me, and I remember my large Coke being thrown in the air as I slid back in my seat!
I was 23 when this came out. It started the tradition of the summer blockbuster. Imagine that jump scare with 400 to 500 people screaming. One funny thing was seeing everyone leaving the theater and no color in their faces.
The first young lady who was attacked was on The Johnny Carson show and said there were 2 scuba divers on each side of her with ropes tied around her waist. During the "attack" they would pull back and forth with the ropes. She said she was in so much pain and had bruises on her waist for weeks afterward.
Salvo, there is no measure to give you an idea of how ginormous this film was when it came out at the beginning of the summer - no less! JAWS merch was EVERYWHERE!! To this day, EVERYONE jumps at that head popping out of the boat - it’s great!!!! This is considered to be the first film they called a “blockbuster.” I was lucky to see this in a packed theater of screaming people!! OMG!!! That was so much fun!! John Williams’ soundtrack is FANTASTIC - now iconic - EVERYONE recognizes those first notes. The news reporter you see on the beach is actually Peter Benchley, author of the best-selling book JAWS. This film is a great way to celebrate the beginning or even end of the summer. It was filmed in Martha’s Vineyard, by the way.
In England we had to wait until Christmas 1975 before it was released here so there was an even bigger build up of anticipation because we had heard so much about it for 6 months.
In Back To The Future II, where they travel from the late 1980's to 2015, they depict sequels of Jaws still playing, including a holographic one which bears down on Marty - after being freaked out, he exclaims "but it still looks fake."
16:02 I saw this in the theater when it came out in 1975, the whole audience screemed and moved back as one when this guys head came out of the boat. Same reaction as you had!
This movie is what gave the kids of my generation the fear of taking baths.
Seriously, though, the author of this book expressed some regret for his writing about sharks, which he felt indulged already present fear and false belief about sharks, and he became an advocate for marine conservation.
Jaws is not a "Horror" film. Yes it does elicit feelings of fear and trepidation but it is primarily an adventure / thriller .
I agree
the Indianapolis is a true story.and he doesn't want the
money , he wants the shark
I saw this at a movie theater when it first came out. I think I was 11 or 12. It was absolutely frightening. The entire theater screamed the first time Jaws popped out of the water. It was epic.
The reason why Quin was acting like that is bc he is being a Ahab...From Moby Dick. In other words he is taking it personal.
Seen Jaws as 9yr old in theaters.
To this day I still sit on the beach while grandkids go swimming in ocean (and of course, they tease me).
When Jaws was released, I was working at a local theater and predicted it would become the #1 film of all time, up to that point, and I was right. I had read the hugely successful novel and knew it would translate great to the screen.
The jump scare that got you, Salvo, is legendary. Some of us who worked at the theater would stand in the back of the theater when the head propped out of the hole, just to witness the audience reaction; because, the screams would erupt and popcorn would literally fly into the air, that scene scared the audiences so much. And still does, amiright? What a classic film!! ❤✌
In 1975, I'd read the book too before seeing the movie and imo it's the rare time when the film surpasses the novel.
In the book Hooper's a jerk who's having an affair with Brody's wife. Quint is just as unlikeable, he's grumpy and antisocial and he murders pregnant dolphins (I wish I was kidding) to get their fetuses because they make the ultimate shark bait.
In the film Hooper is a likeable character and that monologue Quint gives about surviving the U.S.S. Indianapolis was added to the script and really gives us a glimpse into Quint's backstory.
I was only 13 when I read Jaws, I got in so much trouble when my folks found out!
Because the book has that steamy sex scene, it was forbidden to read by our church, which meant that I had to read it, lol.
@@scottcortmeister4164 like you, I was happy with the changes from the book to the screen. In the book, Hooper's death didn't make me sad, but in the movie I was happy he survived. Jaws just goes to show that movie adaptations with major character alterations can work really well.
@@scottcortmeister4164 The book was filthy, I was 11 when I read it. An early education for sure!
@@MoeRon-ry2zr I hadn't thought about Peter Benchley's Novel Jaws since I read it all those years ago but I agree with you, it was filthy and didn't need to be.
It was also strange... I remember one scene early on in the book where the author is setting up Ellen Brody's boredom and frustration in her marriage. Before the shark attacks, Chief Brody comes home from a hard day's work, kisses his wife but doesn't ask her how her day was because he has to pee really bad.
Then there's this scene where Ellen is listening while he pees and it goes on and on and Brody's wife is wondering how many cups of coffee he had drank and how much his bladder could hold. Ellen can't wait for him to finish so she can talk about her day but then Brody ignores her, setting up the affair with Hooper later on.
It would have been a far different film if they had left that other stuff in, lol.
The Ben Gardner scene is the greatest jump scare in film. If you ever get a chance to see Jaws in a cinema, you’ll hear the loudest scream of your life.
The USS INDIANAPOLIS really happened. I live in Indianapolis and there's a beautiful monument on display at the white river park.
I was there when this was filmed on Martha's Vineyard back in 74 and back then it was a fairy tale as sharks were rare in Ma. But now? There's so many in and around N.E. due in part to warmer waters and the abundance of seals. BTW,I got to see part of the shark and Quint's shack and many extra actors too.
I was also there on Martha’s Vineyard when Jaws was shot. My father and I were thrown off the set by Steven Spielberg himself. You couldn’t have 2 people in a sunfish sailboat while filming the Orca scenes.
This was the very first summer blockbuster.
This movie began the summer blockbuster craze, during the seventies!
Watching this movie mirrored is rough
I don’t know how many years it took me to get over the head jump. Scared me every time and I knew it was coming. What impresses me is the authentic acting in this. The subtleties make it like you’re watching reality.
Robert Shaw plays Quint. Great actor in "PELHAM 123" "THE STING" AS KING HENRY VIII IN "A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS" AND MUCH MORE!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
So happy to come home from work and see this reaction! Jaws is in my top 5 favorite movies.
Ben Gardiner...scaring the pants off people since 1975.
My favorite movie. 🎉
Read the book, and Hooper and Quint died.
If it hasn’t been mentioned yet, Lee Fierro, who played the mother of Alex Kintner in Jaws, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed on the menu that they sold an "Alex Kintner sandwich." She mentioned that she played his mother in Jaws. The owner ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot. He owns The Wharf Pub in Edgartown, Massachusetts.
The Ben Gardner jump scare is Iconic. It never fails! Quint destroys the radio because the battle against the shark is personal. The whole story of the Indy and his shop full of shark trophies come full circle in that moment. He's out for revenge, money is icing. There's another movie like this but with a Killer Whale.. it's dark! came out in 1977 and is also a revenge movie but with a different perspective!
I was 10 years old when I saw this in the theaters. I was sitting in the last row of the theater. When the chief was chumming and the shark came out of the water, I jumped out of my seat and hit my head on the back wall of the theater. Just imagine this movie was rated PG. Today it would be rated PG-13. I was 10 years old. This film was scary. I did not want to go nearer any water and that happened to many people.
The story about the USS Indianapolis is a true story. There’s a fantastic book about it called In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton. Highly recommend it.
I was 16 y.o. when this came out and it had a huge impact on me. My family had a book called Shark! that I had already read. The last 150 pages listed every known shark attack around the world. I had also read Peter Benchley's novel that the film is based on. I'm not sure I knew much about Steven Spielberg at the time, although I really liked a TV movie he had directed called Duel, and he directed a few episodes of Columbo, a show I loved. I saw the movie first, then forced my family to go see it. The reason you don't see the shark very much is because the robot shark kept breaking down. So Spielberg had to be extremely inventive in telling the story. I don't think the film would have been as good if the robot had worked every time they used it. I also heard that they named the shark Bruce, but I'd always heard it was after the accountant in charge of the film's budget. Years later Jaws 3-D was shot in Orlando, FL, my hometown, and I got to be an extra in the bar scene where the 4 young stars meet up the first time. This movie has had a big part in my life.
What a Great cast for me Robert Shaw stole the show he was a classic old school actor he sadly died from a Heart Attack in County Mayo in Ireland and his ashes where scattered in the town called Tourmakeady in Mayo in 1978
The USS Indianapolis speech is a real story...
You said, referring to Quint, "I need a whole movie about this guy, I want his whole backstory..."
Great minds think alike, that's exactly the film that Steven Spielberg proposed to make instead of Jaws 2, which is largely considered to be an unnecessary sequel.
Spielberg wanted to make a prequel that covered Quint's experience in WW2, culminating with his surviving the U.S.S. Indianapolis..
Great call Salvo, it's great hanging out, take care and much success to you and your channels. Love your musical reactions as well...
Thank you Scott
if you take into account dreyfuss was playing his own age in jawss(25) hes had at least five years of studying sharks so he was confident when he went diving
My dad fished off Cabo San Lucas with a serious fisherman. Caught 3 Swordfish!!!🐟🐟🐬🐋🐳
Roy Scheider, the Chief, ad-libbed that famous line about needing a bigger boat. That war story Quint told about the war and the soldiers being eaten by sharks is supposed to be true. Hello from sunny Florida 🌞🌴
You watched and heard all of what Quint said and then say “he wants that money”. How could you still think it had anything to do with money. Quint doesn’t look money-motivated to me!!!
That was fun. Think about human behavior and thought processes. Quint was after revenge. (The character, Quint).
Old movies are pretty great. Not old to me. I saw it in theater in Laredo Tx with my 5 sisters.
I was 9 or 10.
Ben Gardiner never fails to get people with that jump scare. That face bobs up so unexpectedly after he finds the tooth.
Literally perfect timing
Love that side eye to the camera when the dog appeared. 😄😄😄😄
fun fact, the scene where hi son is mimicing him happened for real during a break so speilberg put it into the movie
Nearly 50 years old... hard to believe, huh?
One of my favorite lines was when Matt was getting the cage. He tried to spit into his googles to help reduce fogging. He didn't have any. He was literally scared spitless...
Ben Gardner is still undefeated.
Jaws is considered the first Blockbuster movie. The name came from the lines being around the block. However, My buddies and I as 13 year olds, saw the Exorcist a few years earlier and the lines were pretty dam long for that as well. My friends older sister, took us in as long as we promised not to sit anywhere near her and her friends during the movie.
The book has the story set in the Hamptons on Long Island. But the movie was shot at Martha's Vineyards because Spielberg thought the Hampton's were to "built up" for a sleepy new England town setting. The author, Peter Benchley, got the idea when he read about a series of famous shark attacks in NJ around 1920 or so. And he thought it would make a good story to have some shark attacks in the Hamptons. Benchley used to party with his rich friends in the Hampton's and on the way there from Manhattan, he had to pass through a town called Amityville. Where I am sure Benchley got the name of Amity from. I bring that up because the actual Amityville Horror House, another famous 70's movie, is in the town of Amityville Long Island. The Amityville horror was inspired by a true story about a teen who murdered his family in Amityville in the late 60's or early 70's.
Oh, Quint is modeled after a famous shark fisherman that fished off of Montauk Long Island in the 50's and 60's.
Robert Shaw (Quint) was a legend! Watch The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) he is brutal in that. It is GREAT action thriller!!
My father took me and my sister to see it. We literally waited in line for 2 and a half hours to get into the theater. This movie was so popular there were lines were around the block to see it. My wife and I watch it every July 4th weekend. Great reaction.
When my friend and I saw Jaws when it first came out, the girls in front of us threw popcorn up and on my friend when that "jump scare" happened. Great movie...
Fun fact: Quint’s story about the USS Indianapolis is true.
The animatronic shark they were to use for filming rusted and kept breaking. The solution was to film without showing the shark and it made the movie that much more frightening
That's become an often stated myth I'm afraid. Bruce was actually never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. The first scheduled use of Bruce wasn't until the Orca based scenes out at sea. That's when it kept going wrong for months.
The early scenes were filmed without seeing the shark on purpose. The water was far too shallow to have used the mechanical contraption. They had a perfectly working fin contraption which they could have used but didn't even want to use that until the pond scene.
Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil showed.
Bruce was not scheduled to be used until July 1974. The beach attack scenes were all filmed in May and June. The first shark incident filmed was the pier/holiday roast scene. That was filmed in late May in just waist deep water. At that point they had no idea Bruce was going to malfunction. They didn't know that until late June. The shark was deliberately kept hidden by design, for suspense. Same with the Chrissie and Alex Kintner attacks.
This is all in The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb and Memories From Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor. Unfortunately the documentaries have skewed and exaggerated things and now people think the shark broke down from the beginning, which it didn't. The problems with the shark were only out at sea for the Orca based scenes in July, August and into September.
Cheers.
Quint’s Indianapolis story is truly the best. It causes it of us to use our mind’s to visualize the scene and personalize the terror. Didn’t need any special effects.
The USS Indianapolis story is essentially true. The ship delivered the nukes and was under radio silence. It was sunk by the Japanese, and a lot of its men were eaten by sharks. For years, its captain was unfairly blamed. His conviction at court martial was eventually overturned, but he eventually took his own life
"Why aren't you going in the water?"
"Because, there is a shark out there and he will bite my wiener right of."
This was the very first of what we now know as the summer blockbuster movie. The OG. People were absolutely terrified to go in the water after seeing this movie. It wasn't technically a horror or scary movie. It was as you said suspense. Hello from sunny Florida 🌞🌴
I grew up on the coast about a mile from the beach. We swam in the ocean all the time... until this came out and we went to see it in the theaters. Nobody wanted to go in swimming after this. Also Richard Dreyfus (Hooper) did a great job in his roll (as did Quint). I would recommend "Close Encounters of the Thrid Kind".
Saw at the theater many times, Ben Gardner scaring the crap outta people for nearly 50 years! Thanks
Ha! One of the most famous jump scares!
People were more concerned about the beaches being closed than people getting eaten
The story Quinn told about a ship sinking and sharks attacking the sailors was largely true. In WW II the ship Indianapolis sank, with 900 sailors going into the sea. Hundreds of sharks gathered, picking off the weak & wounded first and then going after the others. The exact number isn't known, but as many as 150 sailors may have been taken by sharks, with others dying from exhaustion, sun stroke, and other causes. Only a few were rescued.
I bet you'll find it scarier once you're in the ocean next! One of my all time favorites. I couldn't swim in the pool alone for the rest of the summer.
This movie came out the year I was born. I watched it for the first time when I was about 1.5 years old. I have the entire thing memorized I’ve watched it so much! 😂 Definitely one of the best films ever made! And will always be my favorite!
The 70s and the 90s were cinematically brutal. Nothing off limits. Confronting societal shit
Trying to steer the world. It worked for a while. Sigh….
Spielberg wanted more screen time with the shark but the the model of the one they were using had many issues so he decided to do it more in intent than actual sight of it which made the story much more compelling
Regarding using the fishing line initially. Some very large great white sharks have been caught on rod and reel. Up to 17 ft and nearly 3,500 pounds. Quint likely thought the shark would be 17 or 18ft, which is still huge. As soon as he saw it was 25ft he ditched the rod and reel and went straight for the harpoon and barrel method, which was a method used by some fishermen such as Frank Mundus who fished out of Montauk, Long Island and in 1964 caught a 4,500 pound great white by sinking two harpooned and barrels into it. This was part inspiration for Quint.
I was 10 when my dad took me to the theater. I FOR SURE Believed that shark 🦈 could be under my seat 💺!
P.S. I love your faces during this! 🦈🙄
Quint is one of the all time great screen characters. His soliloquy about the Indianapolis is also an all-time great.
This movie was filmed before Jaws came out, so the people in it didn't know to be afraid of sharks yet.
Huh?
@rustyconifer1444
The likes of Chrissie and Alex Kintner were not thinking of sharks. They hadn't seen Jaws.
Im so glad to see you react to this movie. I've seen many times. I love when Quint talks about the Indianapolis, It's gets me everytime. TY SalvoG
I saw this in the theater when I was 12 with my friends! We screamed at the head!
At the cinema, in 1975, the head bit is where my mother screamed, and made me (a 9 year old) jump out of my skin.
Actually, the very last scene when Brody and Hooper swim right into the shark carcass area - where the seagulls are - is by far the most dangerous situation in the whole movie, lol.
An Iconic movie with a classic jump scare. One scene I like pointing out is when Jaws goes under with 3 barrels and Quint realizes for the first time that he is in over his head.
The USS Indianapolis is in our history books as the largest mass animal attack on man. Quint's story is exaggerated on the number of deaths all being shark related. He is an interesting character driven by PTSD. No doubt shark hunting is his way of handling the memory with payback. Jaws could have been his greatest victory and he was obsessed with killing it.
Chief Brody's constant need to call on the radio for help was frustrating Quint. Quint had already survived the Indianapolis without a radio, so he felt confident enough to smash that one. The money was only part of his motivation. Quint was obsessed (like Captain Ahab to Moby Dick). He wasn't going to let any help come in and steal away his latest shark conquest. Besides that, if word gets around that a prolific shark hunter had to call for help - his shark hunting business would probably be over.
I think he knew when he first saw the shark.