Fun fact Lee Fiero, who played the woman who slapped Brodie, was in San Diego years later. She and her friend walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that they has an item called The Alex Kitner Sandwich. When Lee mentioned that she played Alex's mom, suddenly a man ran up to her from the back room. It was the owner - and he was the actor who played Alex. They had not seen each other since the film wrapped.
@@johnnydubya8071 Yeah even she had a long life, dying from a virus I can't imagine the pain before she died, poor woman. But that's anecdote was really sweet to know.
Wow. That was a brilliant scene on the quay side. Great piece of acting. Even Hooper's look of horror when brodie got slapped around the face. Geez i bet that hurt!
Well, to be fair, the mayor is a more complex character than it seems at first blush. His motive isn't pure greed. Note that when he says they'll only close the beaches for 24 hours, that's every EVERYONE has reacted with unfettered distaste at the idea of the beaches being closed. As he says, Amity needs summer dollars to keep running, he's doing what he thinks is best for the health of the whole town. He's WRONG, but being wrong doesn't make you evil. His breakdown in the last scene is especially telling: he starts off still talking about summer tourism, but then we see why. . . "My KIDS were on that beach." He's focusing on something, ANYTHING else to avoid thinking about the fact that he placed his kids lives in danger, he's confronted with how badly he screwed up, and does what he can to fix his mistake. Now, I'm not defending his actions, just saying those actions are more understandable here than in a lot of the shallow ripoffs where this character is just willfully stupid to the point they might as well be actively colluding with the monster.
@@erikbjelke4411 I'd like to add, in a deleted scene from Jaws 2, when the group votes to get rid of Brody as sheriff, the only one who voted to keep Brody was the mayor.
Peter Benchley was a moron, an absolute hack. A terrible writer who co-opted the plot of "Moby Dick" and turned it into trashy pulp fiction. The novel "Jaws" was just plain awful. The movie "Jaws" was brilliant, all credit goes to Spielberg.
The story that Quint ( Robert Shaw ) was telling on the boat, is true. It's about the Heavy Cruiser USS Indianapolis. During World War II. It had delivered the parts to make the bombs that were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima on Tinian Island. On their voyage out alone which they should not have been. They were torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. A lot of the survivors that went in the water were attacked and killed by sharks.
World War 2 has a million and half true incredible stories like the USS Indianapolis. You should look up the stories of Joe Kennedy Jr. and J.F.K and PT 109, or the Battle of Ramree Island. So many incredible stories, unbelievable and yet true.
You just experienced one of the greatest films of all time. The fact that you were that scared shows how well it still holds up. And it was made in the 70s.
@@marielpare8290 my father saw Jaws in a spanish theater in 1975. He came back home with a green face and he forbitten us to watch it. People in the theater were screaming all the movie.
The US Navy uses it a scenario in Basic Training. The recruits have to tread water for an extensive amount of time while BUDs divers play sharks and try to pull them under.
The cat from the Amity Gazette is Carl Gotlieb who wrote the screenplay....you guys probably wouldnt like the book....Ellen Brody is total slizzut and the shark drowns and it's anticlimactic fo sho.
It was made in 1975. I went to watch it on my own and sat next to a girl. When the head dropped down she grabbed my hand and didn't let go for the rest of the film. At the end she said thank you and left
My mom seen this movie when it was playing at the movie theater she scream when it jump out of the water people look at her like she crazy I said I would jump if i seen that thing coming at me
I love how you kids don't know who Robert Shaw is. There's a great backstory that he showed up on set drunk the day they were to film the USS Indianapolis scene. Spielberg was pissed, he came back the next day, apologized, and gave one of the greatest performances in the history of film.
As a 53 year old man who just loves this movie, I gotta tell you.... you girls actually just moved me to tears. To WATCH somebody... WATCH the movie... and gauge a reaction like yours.. tells me this masterpiece is as brilliant today as it was 46 years ago. Brilliant video.
@@davehoward22 53 also and saw this when I was in the 2nd grade. My brother (in 1st grade) had a nightmare the day we watched. He woke me and my parents up. My mom flipped the light on in our room and I saw my brother standing on his bed and he was facing the wall trying to climb it and screaming "Jaws is going to get me, Jaws is going to get me!"
It was (and still is) one of the greatest creature features to date. The sense of isolation at sea whilst being hunted down by a freak sized shark is supremely terrifying. Apart from Jaws 2 (not a bad sequel), the subsequent movies should never have been made. Nothing beats the original
Fun Fact: hooper was meant to die in the shark cage but footage that show the shark ripping apart the cage was just so incredible he changed the script to include it
Some interesting facts about “Jaws.”This is the movie that started the “summer blockbuster event” movies. Prior to “Jaws,” summer was considered a slow time to release movies because movie execs thought people would rather be outside enjoying the summer weather vs. inside a dark movie theater. This was also the movie that put Steven Spielberg on the map. He directed “Jaws” when he was only 27. To give you an idea how big a movie phenomenon “Jaws” was, it came out of nowhere and rocketed to the #1 biggest box office champ of all-time domestically in just 60 days, unadjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, by the end of it’s run 6 months later around Christmas 1975, Jaws” was #4 all-time. It remains the #7 biggest domestic box-office hit in movie history adjusted for inflation. If you are younger than 24, you have not seen a movie blockbuster at theaters in the US as big as “Jaws” was. “Titanic” barely beat it during it’s initial release in 1997-98. Since “Jaws” release in 1975, only the original “Star Wars” (1977) and “ET” (1982) were clearly bigger movie hits. The movie had such an impact that beach attendance was down significantly in 1975. Watching you two react to this unbelievably intense movie brought back a lot of memories. “Jaws” is the only movie I have ever seen where you could feel the authentic fear, thrills, and tenseness of the audience. Audiences actually stood up and cheered TWICE near the end of the movie each of the 5 times I saw it in 1975. They gave it a standing ovation - for a movie! For me, a 15 year-old kid in the summer of 1975, it was a magical time. I got my Beginners Permit to drive, I had my first crush on a girl, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” and I saw “Jaws.” It’s one of my favorite movies because, not only is it a great movie, but it’s my favorite summer growing up!
This movie has made me scared of swimming in the open ocean for my entire life, yet I love how Spielberg crafted this so well. So, every time I see a younger generation reacting to the same things I did, just reinforces how well this is shot. How he builds the tension right up to when you first see the shark, and then cranks it up, and tells an awesome story.
@@mister2628 Yep, and we were one of them that couldn’t afford it. Although late that very summer we were able to afford a window air conditioner for our living room. Yet another reason it’s my favorite summer!! :)
Great comment. Didn't know all of that, how awesome. Jaws has always been my favorite movie since I saw it as a kid. I never stopped loving sharks after seeing it, and they remained my favorite animal most of my life (now tied with koalas). Also, many people don't know.... This is Based on a True Story: 1916, New Jersey coastline, a hungry rogue shark terrorized a stretch of about 40 miles between July 1 and July 14th starting on Long Beach Island and ending in Matawan, NJ where it uncharacteristically went 1 mile into a freshwater river for its final 2 victims. A total of 4-5 people died and a couple more were bitten, but survived. They hired a shark hunter and believed they found the culprit, which was a younger Great White shark, when they caught it within a couple of miles from the final attacks. It was national news, and even President Woodrow Wilson got involved in trying to catch the shark.
"If you are younger than 24, you have not seen a movie blockbuster at theaters in the US as big as “Jaws” was. “Titanic” barely beat it during it’s initial release in 1997-98." Makes sense since movies are all remakes and cliches now, or they just have no originality. Notice how both Jaws and Titanic (along with S.W. and E.T.) were all completely original at the time they were released, they appealed to all ages (family friendly), most were spectacles, and were incredibly well-written and well-made. There's a very good reason nothing in the last 24 years has entered this bracket. Youngsters today think they've seen a great movie, but people who were around in the 70s-90s know they're overhyped and it's more like wishful thinking that they saw a classic like these were.
My dad and I saw this in 75 when I was 11... he still teases my 60 year old ass about the dock scene... where the shark is pulling the dock after the guy, and his pal is screaming 'SWIM!!!'. Apparently, I was about to climb my seat during that scene!!! He said after that, I seemed ok. I thought the head popping out scene was the wildest. I remembered the jump-scare the most.
As a bunch of fourteen year olds me and my mates watched this at the flicks when it was first released, the same thing happened to us my mate jumped into my lap. I read the book before watching the film and on the back cover it said read the first five pages and you will buy this book. So true because I did.
@@cpmf2112 Not that I ever heard and I have the kind of memory that remembers stuff like that. Of course this movie was made in the Seventies, there were movies in that same time period. Where Mob guys would come and pretty much censor movies of any mention of the Mob.
Fun fact: Recentl, the actress who played Alex Wintners mom went into a deli and spotted some 'Jaws' memorabilia. After talking with the owner and mentioning she was in the film, it turns out the owner was the guy (then kid) who played her on screen son that got killed.
What was a "Blockbuster" before the now dead video store chain? A film that blew the doors off of expectations of box office receipts. And before that? A bomb that the Allies dropped on the Axis with an explosive power that was SO devastating, that it could nearly destroy an entire city block.
You can see Brody and Hooper both stepping back onto shore just as the credits finish. Even if it isn't a 'happy' ending, I find their victory and survival very uplifting.
@@PodreyJenkin138 I agree it's happy in a lot of ways. I just meant it's not entirely happy because Quint died before they defeated the shark, and so did other people like the kid Alex, and the woman at the start and so on.
@@BenBanjo87 The events of the beginning of the movie dont count towards whether or not a movie had a happy ending or not. Thats why its called...the ending.
@@ThatSamoanGuy don't even try man... Appreciate ur efforts but this guy, if you go back and read his comment divulges no less than 4 crucial moments in the movie. I just don't understand why people just can't say they liked the movie and welcome other people to watch it. It should be a law that details of ANY movie can not be revealed. When I was younger that pretty much was the "rule". Sorry, for the rant, just aggravates me when that happens. Oh well the times they are a changing....some just don't know any better I guess.... BTW, ur comment was perfect.
Interesting fact about Peter Benchley, the author of the novel this movie was based on: He later in life expressed his regrets about ever writing the novel, because he felt it heavily influenced the shark hysteria and as a consequence, radical hunting of sharks around the world. His novel was also as much commentary on US society in the seventies as it was about a killer shark, but that part was essentially left out of the movie, as it was "not Hollywood enough". Benchley then became an advocat for the preservation of the oceans and encouraged young people to get into marine biology to get a better understanding of the oceans and sharks.
Yes, he apologised many times. And the novel, at least, is way more "scientific" than the movie, although in the time the novel was written the knowledge about white sharks, and the real behaviours they have, were very limited, so there is a lot of things that are wrong in the novel as well.
@@davida7153 It's also in a way more grim, with the mayors desperate attempts to keep the beach open being explained with him knee-deep in debt with some mafiosi and Brodys wife cheating on him with Hooper. Plus Hooper being eaten alive in the shark cage and Brody being the sole survivor at the end of the novel.
And the theatre was pitch black, too. As soon as the music started everhyone was kinda crunched down in their seats. lol We had to wait in line for 2 hours just to get tickets. We watched it again later that day, too.
Robert Shaw's performance as Captain Quint is in my top five all time acting performances. I just get lost in his character. He is the modern version of "Moby Dick's" Captain Ahab.
@@robertbretschneider765 I didn't know that! I would never swim in amity waters just on principle, but now I wouldn't go in within...crap the whole east coast. Lol I grew up in Cali and used to boogie board as a kid growing up. I'll stick to cliff jumping in the Sierra Nevada range and Cascades up here in Seattle where I'm at now. Only thing to watch out for there is rocks😜. Not being eaten alive.
@@robertbretschneider765 Well I've never heard about this outside of urban legends. Do you have sources for this assumption ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard
@@robertbretschneider765 Not exactly. Peter Benchly's orignal book was loosely inspired by the 1916 shark attacks at the Jersey resort town of New Haven. There is some dispute as to whether the shark involved was a young great White or a Bull Shark. Here are some links: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/150702-shark-attack-jersey-shore-1916-great-white www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shark-attacks-that-were-the-inspiration-for-jaws-15220260/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916 www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160713-the-true-story-of-jaws
Fun fact there are about 4 great whites that were just tagged and tracked off the jersey shore earlier this week. The largest was measured being a 20ft female so only 5 feet shorter than “Bruce” in the movie
Gwen King, Sadly that has become a myth. The shark isn't seen much for the first half of the film by design. Bruce was not scheduled to be used until July 1974 for the Orca based scenes. The beach scenes were filmed in May and June. This is all noted in The Jaws Log and Memories From Martha's Vineyard. Much more of the shark WAS due to be shown during the Orca scenes, but not for the beach scenes. Not beyond the (very early) storyboards. Cheers.
@@joetravieso3542 Spielberg says "I really wanted to do it (the Chrissie attack) without showing the shark. What could be REALLY scary is not seeing the shark"" Spielberg, very early on when planning the film and getting the story boards drawn, did want to show the shark or some of it but that changed after settling on the Bruce contraption. When the film crew arrived on Martha's Vineyard for shooting there were no plans to use Bruce for the beach scenes. Bruce simply couldn't be used in the 4ft shallow State Beach waters anyway. According to Carl Gottlieb the filming was only 5 days behind schedule (bad weather day losses) when they went out to sea. It was there that Bruce kept malfunctioning. Bruce didn't malfunction during any of the beach scene because he wasn't used for them when they were filmed in May and June 1974. Only a fin contraption (towed) was used for the pond scene. That worked well enough. Only at the end of location shooting did they do some pick up shots for two beach scenes in Katama Bay (Alex Kintner being taken on the raft and the red rowboat guy getting munched) and Bruce worked fine for those. Edit. Spielberg HAS at times contradicted himself via false memory and his humble manner and that is where the confusion comes in. Cheers.
This movie was a smash hit when it came out in the ‘70s. Back in the ‘70s TV was literally G rated; zero cussing, zero nudity, and only “clean” TV approved violence. If you wanted to get more of a scare or adrenaline rush from boundary pushing or taboo breaking stuff you had to go to the movie theater. When I saw Jaws in the theater in 1975 I was a kid and it definitely scared me as it was much more intense than what I usually watched on TV. I have only seen Jaws once and that was almost 50 years ago, I’m looking forward to seeing how you girls react to this. Being a boy at the time, I did not scream (that would have been humiliating for a boy to do back in the day) but I was scared and it came out as nervous laughter during the movie. Looking forward to seeing clips of this after all these years. Thanks for posting!😀
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis (the ship that Quint says he served on during WW2) is in fact a real story. All the information in Quint’s monologue about how The Indianapolis was sunk after delivering the Hiroshima bomb is unfortunately true; since the mission was so secret, no one in the navy even knew that the ship was missing until the first survivors were spotted in the ocean 3 days later.
Sadly, the captain of the Indianapolis was court-martialed and found guilty of dereliction of duty. It wasn't until decades later that he was exonerated. The incident effectively ended his Navy career.
@@YKB1966 McVay was the only US Navy captain to be court martialed for losing their ship during the entire war. He died by suicide later in life. It wasn't until the Clinton Administration that he was exonerated of fault for the loss of the ship.
A real story that still, for the sake of the movie, is "amended": the vast majority of the men who died in the water did not die from shark attacks, but from hypothermia. Still, some died in shark attacks, but all the rest of it -- the numbers who died and who were rescued, that no one knew they were "late" because their secret mission to deliver the Bomb was SO secret, etc. -- is all true.
I understand Robert Shsw rewrote the speech the night before and delivered it in one take. He deserved the Oscar for that performance. There are other films with performance of such calibre, Burl Ives in The Big Country 1958 to name but one.
Correction, Robert Shaw was drunk for the first take but the outcome was terrible. He apologised to Spielberg and they reshot it when he was sober - that's the version in the movie.
You watch this movie, constantly feeling unnerved, and yet you NEVER see the shark the first hour and 20 minutes of the movie! That’s great filmmaking!
Probably because the film crew had such a difficult time making the prop shark work. It kept malfunctioning on them even sinking at certain points throughout film making. Good thinking on Spielberg 's part for using the yellow barrels to great effect. It ended up working better than if he had been able to show the shark more in the film.
"Jaws" is the quintessential example of how the "less is more" principle. Themalfunctions with the mechanical shark forced Spielberg to show less of it than originally intended... and that ended up making it even more effective. Sme thing as in the original "Alien".
The name they gave the shark was Bruce. The producers for “Finding Nemo” were friends with Steven Speilberg and the Great White that’s in Nemo was named after Bruce.
@@Jedi4Life-u5y Jaws almost sounds like "jafs" , in norwegian it means to take a bite out of something. Jaws is called "Haisommer" (shark summer) in Norway , they could make a parody with wolves : "Vargsommer" , lol......
23:35 “Did he die?” “Yeah, oh yeah.” That reaction & response was SOO funny but was also heartbreaking bcuz of how sweet you both are. I just know his death really broke your hearts 😢
This was genuinely hilarious. And not in a disrespectful way. It means this masterpiece of a film still works! It’s amazing to see a few things… 1.) there are people out there who haven’t seen these classic films 2.) they don’t know what happens even through pop culture spoilers 3.) the film still works 4.) the film still works!
Haha. *Voice over loudspeaker* The Film is still working. The film is still working. Okay, and I realize most people on here won't have a clue what I'm doing there. There is a documentary on the making of this film in which they talk about all the problems they had with the shark. The reason you don't see the shark for over half the film was an accident. They were having so many issues with it that they ended up having to show as little of it as possible, and put off showing it for as long as they could. They used the barrels as a way to show the viewer the shark's movements and suggest what it was doing because they couldn't show the shark itself. It just so happened that not seeing the shark made the movie even scarier. The filmmakers fondly named the shark Bruce. On the set, problems with Bruce were so frequent that everyone regularly heard the the guy working with the team calling out over a loudspeaker, 'The shark is not working. The shark is not working." There is a documentary special on the impact of Jaws on movie making and the world in general. I believe there is a book of it too. Both are titled, "The Shark Is Still Working."
Fun reaction. As for the shark looking "fake", a lot of people these days think that anything that isn't CGI looks fake, even though CGI often looks faker than anything. This movie was a blast to watch in theaters with a packed audience full of people who hadn't seen it and didn't know what to expect. Because of this, I saw it 13 times during its first run. It's nice to see that it still has a big effect on people even now when they're watching it on a TV screen at home.
I know what you means. Its strange hearing younger folks say the shark looks fake, when they are used to watching modern films with all their clearly fake backgrounds (skies, oceans) and even explosions and fire. They look fake to me, being brought up on real films like Jaws, Deliverance etc which were filmed on location in real settings and not in studios with green screen and GCI backgrounds.
I was a very young kid when this came out, but even then I remember people saying the shark looked "fake". When I finally saw the movie, I thought it looked fine...definitely good enough to be scary. However, Spielberg was never quite satisfied with how the shark looked, so he had the shark edited out as much as possible...which ended up being a brilliant decision, because it gave the film its suspense.
Because the US government blamed him for it and court-martialed him in a sham of a trial. Despite the Japanese submarine commander testifying that there was nothing the US captain Charles B Mcvay III could have done, because of this Charles received dozens of letters from crewmembers families accusing him of getting their loved one’s killed. He was exonerated in 2000 by then President Bill Clinton.
@@_S0LUS_ Ironically, the commander of the Japanese submarine I-58, Mochitsura Hashimoto, had his entire family in Hiroshima where the first atomic bomb blew up over a week later, killing them all. He testified that no action Mcvay could have done would have prevented the torpedoes from hitting the Indianapolis as he'd fired a whole spread in a wide arch. Zig-zagging would not have prevented at least one of the two torpedoes that hit the ship from getting through.
One of the finest movies. One of the best directed movies. One of the best music scores, and best acted by Shaw. Just a masterclass, and all before digital and composite shots. Also the first blockbuster.
There's nothing like watching Jaws in the seventies in a movie theater. The big screen, the big shark, the big soundtrack, the big dark theaters, scared the shyte out of everyone. Watching it in a little tv screen today with an obvious machine shark might be corny, but back then, it worked.
What do you mean “corny” and “obvious machine shark” and “back then?” It’s still a fantastic movie and far from corny and the shark looks great and it very clearly still works
I saw it in a local imax theater a few years ago for the 40th anniversary, and it was great. I've seen Jaws literally 100+ times, but that was the last time, as I've experienced it fully, no need to rewatch lol.
A car full of us saw this at the drive-in on the original release... and went swimming after the flick... on a full moon night... more than a couple of us had some serious problems once in the water, couldn't get to the island quick enough. Still gives me the heebie-jeebies when I think of it.
I saw Jaws in the theater with my girlfriend when we were in high school; she dug her fingernails into my forearm throughout most of the movie. Still one of my favorite movies of all time, about as perfect as a movie can be.
Yes, he ad-libbed the line. But there was also a story behind it. The production crew often complained that they need a bigger boat to haul all the necessary equipment. The words "We're gonna need a bigger boat" were said a lot.
That's the beauty of JAWS, they hardly show the shark at all until the movie's closer to being over, they just give you more subtle hints that it's there. That way when they actually *do* show the shark, it's that much more impactful.
I was 8 years old when I saw this movie. My mother had gone to see it first to make sure her kids could handle it. People were screaming in the theater and my mother said I was glued to the screen and never flinched. Still one of my top favorite movies to this day. Love seeing the young ones reaction and it still scares people as it did in 1975.
I was roughly the same age when I saw it and the town I grew up in was much like the town in the movie. It left an impression. Especially as we had Orcas where we lived, which are bigger than the shark in the movie.
I was 11 that summer, but in germany we had a rating 16 for that movie. My elder brother was that impressed about and i was a huge fan of monsters (of course) so i try to see it and it works...but it scares me that hard so i hab fear about open water many many years.
I was an usher at the local theatre when this came out. It sold out every show for almost four months. Since I knew when all the really sudden shark-jump-out-at-you moments were, I'd go in just before those moments to watch the popcorn and soft drinks fly, which they invariably did.
This movie came out in 1975 and it was HUGE as a box office draw. I remember my mother using Quint's death as a teachable moment the thing he hated in the end is what killed him...that sticks in my mind even all these years later. You guys are so cute together and enjoy the Popcorn in Bed reactions!!!
Well, actually, the unresolved trauma of not being rescued soon enough is what Quint is really fuming about, which ultimately leads to his own demise. If he could forgive the delayed rescue of the Indianapolis, he might have been more keen to let Brody radio for help. However, that's a less interesting movie.
@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison Interestingly the Quint character just drowns in the Benchley novel after harpooning the shark he gets entangled and is dragged under and drowns so your Ahab reference is entirely valid, Melville's Moby Dick novel is a lesson of how hatred and the pursuit of revenge never ends well a theme used over and over in stories down through the ages.
I remember when this hit the theaters, and people lined up around the block to see it. We were stunned. It was a new phenomenon. This really was the very first summer blockbuster. Happened again the next summer with Star Wars (though that had a bit of a slower build to blockbuster status). And the motion picture biz was forever changed. (I'm not altogether sure it was for the better.) Fun sister act, guys.
I remember when HBO and cable hit homes. The movie they used to sell the idea of watching movies in your own home was JAWS. I was both scared to death and amazed at how far technology had come.
@@sabrecatsmiladon7380 18-24 inches... for a high powered rifle with a large caliber bullet, however, lower velocity lower mass/caliber bullets can be lethal for someone in much deeper water versus a high velocity, greater mass/caliber bullets, a 9mm handgun can be lethal up to 8 to 10 ft. deep.
I actually had a chance to meet Susan Backlinie a few months ago who played as Chrissie, the 1st victim in Jaws, and she was such a sweet woman! We went back and forth on questions and she even told me she sometimes feels paranoid when she goes to the beach of a possible strange coincidence happening lol. It was incredible to meet her! Great reaction once again!!! Jaws is easily one of my all time favorites! Great reaction ladies!
@akyhne She said that it was an honor for her to be the opening kill to such an iconic movie, and that Spielberg was a very polite and generous man to work with
This movie was the very first "Summer Blockbuster". Also, the story Quint tells about the USS Indianapolis is a true story. The largest recorded shark attack in history. Roughly 850 men went into the water and they pulled 317 out 5 days later. The rest were lost to their injuries, dehydration, exposure, and shark attacks.
Fun fact. A few years later in his less well received film 1941 Spielberg had an homage scene to Jaws where a woman goes skinny dipping and encounters a Japenese submarine. He used the same actress.
Carly: *covers her face in horror* Cassie: *pulls Carly's hand down* We don't do that here... This was so funny reaction. So many memorable jump scares and quotes from both of you 😂 Hope Carly joins us again in the future! 🎉
Yes, the age ratings were a little different back then. That's what I love about some reaction videos. "It's PG, it can't be that bad." A little later *horrified screams*
I saw this in the theaters at 3 and LOVED it. It never scared me. It fascinated me. I became obsessed with Great Whites as a result. I couldn't stop drawing them or looking out at the water at the beach hoping to see one. Jaws remains probably the best summer movie of all time.
Brody isn't panicking in the beginning, because he's the chief of police. He has to remain calm in the public eye. Would you want the person in charge of your safety panicking and not thinking straight?
In a show on the making of this film they said Spielberg and the main screenwriter worked late each night redoing what they thought was unworkable dialogue, sometimes only having a ready script as the sun came up.
I watched this movie in a filled theater when it first came out, and when the shark first came out of the water, many people came out of their seats in the theater. In 1975 this movie was setting new marks in realism. And Capt Quint's story about the deliver of the a-bomb was a true story, about the crew being eaten by sharks.
Carly: So she just died. In the first 3 min of the movie. Cassie: Maybe that means we’re ... that’s it. Lol’d so many times. The rocket launcher was a good one too. Great reaction, and your sis was lovely and funny.
What great reactions!! It's even scarier in the dark, on the big screen. In the theater, when the head pops through the hole...the folks in front of me were so startled that their bucket of popcorn went airborne and showered kernels over both of our rows!! 😳 Single greatest response to a moment on screen that I've ever seen! BTW, the theater was packed and everyone screamed at the same spots that you two did! 👍🏻😃
As Quint was sliding into the shark's mouth, furiously kicking in a panic to get away, when you said "Not this way, not for him" ... tears, man, you totally got the entire tragic arc of this character. Great reaction.
Quint's story regarding the sharks in the water was his own account of his experience in the real life sinking of the USS Indianapolis incident in July, 1945. Most of the survivors who died after the sinking were taken by sharks. Quint is not only a World War 2 Navy veteran, but also a survivor of PTSD!!!
Actually, most of the people on the Indianapolis died from exposure from the sun and drinking sea water which was poisonous. There were sharks, but only a very few attacks.
If I'm not mistaken the Indianapolis was the ship that was involved with the delivery of the first Atomic Bomb to the Island of Tinian where the Enola Gay took off from.
@@mikemuir0178 We don't really know how many were taken by sharks. I find 'very few' to be suspect as once there's blood in the water, a group of sharks will often go wild and bite anything around them, including other sharks. Exposure was certainly the bigger killer though, especially with many of the sailors already being wounded from the sinking itself.
@@davidcox1899 Correct, and was nearly sunk on the way to Tinian but the Japanese sub captain who spotted her decided he couldn't get a decent shot (and was morally repulsed by the idea of using Kaiten - piloted torpedoes - of which his sub had two).
“ We’re gonna need a bigger boat” is a line that has been repeated many times since the movie, applying the thought to many different scenarios when the supplies available, vs supplies needed. 😀
One of my favorite scenes in a mediocre movie was when Richard Dreyfiss and Emilio Estevez are playing a game. One is giving movie quotes the other trying to guess the movie. Estevez's Character's clue is, "you're gonna need a bigger boat," and Dryfuss's (a co-star in Jaws) character doesn't get the answer.
Looks like somebody did not understand your comment. The effects in this movie were very realistic. As for CGI, They ought to keep that under raps until they figure out how to make it look real.
@@TheRealCARCHARO Yeah... That's what he said. No CGI in "Jaws". He was talking about people who think CGI looks real("Terrible judges of quality and craft") when compared to the non-CGI effects from "Jaws". Ben Jammin is fully aware there was no CGI in "Jaws". Read his comment again.
The Mayor is one of the most misunderstood charactor in the movie, next to Quint. It isn't greed that is motivating the Mayor, it's politics. The townspeople are overwhelmingly merchants and landlords. In a summer destination town, 90% of their yearly income is made from April to August. They have to survive the rest of the year on what they make. Everyone laughs at the lady who shouts, "24 hours is like three weeks, but in terms of earning, its true. They will lose three weeks of income in two days. So, the mayor is trying to do what's best for the people, but is also in denial about how big this problwm is. He wants to believe it was a freak incident unlikely to happen again. Im not saying he was justified, only that Mayor Vaugh isn't as one dementional as you might think. Hes actually very complex.
@24:50 - as they reach land, notice the shape of the beach and the grass, it resembles a shark head. With the clump of seaweed the eye. Very clever (and I'm sure it was intentional)
when i was a kid,i actually fell in love with sharks,thanks to this movie,and in reality,they are really fascinating animals unless you're between their teeth
_"unless you're between their teeth"_ Well, not to nitpick, but there is at least one amazing woman who has had her arm between the teeth of a lot of sharks and definitely considers that among the most fascinating experiences - th-cam.com/video/G8LmxwOgBhA/w-d-xo.html 🥰
Unfortunately and sadly, the movie had an awful side effect after where thousands of sharks were brutally and senselessly slaughtered. Peter Benchley would say years later that he wished that the movie had never been made.
Omg, this was too funny. Jaws is my all-time favorite movie so your reactions were HYSTERICAL. Some fun facts: the girl at the beginning literally had a rope tied to her leg and they pulled her under at random, almost drowning her for real. The scar contest were real scars the actors had. I believe the shark was meant to be seen a lot more, but they had sooo much trouble with it that it was used less which actually helped the film’s suspense. The animatronic shark’s name was Bruce. Finally, in one of the crowd scenes there is a woman in the crowd who it is believed may have been the murder victim the lady of the dunes. The victim was murdered not long after filming in an area not too far from there, and I don’t believe she was every identified and the murder was never solved. I hope you do more horror movies! Your reactions were so funny, but you probably shouldn’t do anything like Midsommar or Hereditary… I don’t think you guys could handle those lol. Very entertaining video!
I wouldn’t say Quint’s death was deserved but he did have a Captain Ahab level obsession… he hunted Shark’s because he hated them but that’s also inviting a Shark-based death; and he endangered the other two men so that he could fight this one to the death!
Can you IMAGINE what he was feeling moments before his feet slid into the shark's mouth, though? Because he'd seen it first hand. That moment of panic. That was the one thing he had been thinking about, dreaming about, agonizing over his entire adult life. Obsessing over it so much to the point that it recedes back into his subconscious so he's always thinking about it. Now it's happening, and that shark is MASSIVE.
Quint character is legendary in part because of his gruesome death. Imagine him dying by drowning like in the novel, it would be a let down for the character.
I love how Spielberg didn't lower his standards for script and acting because it was "only" a scary/monster movie. Same for The Thing, Star Wars, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Alien, LOTR. Every genre deserves the highest standards of movie making...
If they're new to horror and can't handle it too well the The Thing 1982 will send them into orbit lmfao I mean it's my favorite horror but maybe they should build up to it 😆
Seriously one of the greatest adventure films of all time. LOVE this movie, and yes, it's scary as hell. That's the point! And the reason you don't see the shark earlier is that they couldn't get it to work properly... so they just showed you a lot more stuff that INDICATED the shark was around. Nothing more frightening than what you can't see! Fantastic storytelling in this movie!
As I watched them watching Jaws I noticed as the movie goes on you see more and more of the shark-- first a fin, then some of its body when it eats the kid on the raft, then its head and mouth when it's in the pond, finally the whole thing once the men go out on the boat. Very well directed.
Pretty sure they invented the shark pov shot. That was just as scary to see it approach its prey, know it's coming, and be on the edge of your seat waiting for it.
Officially this was the first ever summer blockbuster. It kicked off the summer 🎥 trend that continues to this day. It also kept millions of people of the beach that summer.
Great fun! I'd recommend "Duel" which was a Spielberg movie a few years before this. Spielberg always said that he felt Jaws was almost a remake of Duel (for reasons that would become clear if you watch it!). Also, the noises of the shark sinking when it was shot are slowed down audio from the end of Duel, which again would make sense if/when you see it!
@@padfolio Did happen, the men made circles like the old British squares hammering the water and shouting and the sharks circled in. Most memorable testimony was when a sailor tried to wake a friend and the body tipped as he had no bottom. When the flying boat rescue plane finally landed they could not take off because the survivors climbed all over it to get out of the water.
@joemaloney1019 The sharks mainly ate the dead and didn't attack the living to the extent that's portrayed by Quint, but the rest is pretty much correct. Still one of the best monologues in any film though.
My parents went to see Jaws, and us kids went to see a Disney film. It was over first so we walked into their theater just after the shark blew up and the whole screen turned red. I remembered that my whole life.
Fun fact Lee Fiero, who played the woman who slapped Brodie, was in San Diego years later. She and her friend walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that they has an item called The Alex Kitner Sandwich. When Lee mentioned that she played Alex's mom, suddenly a man ran up to her from the back room. It was the owner - and he was the actor who played Alex. They had not seen each other since the film wrapped.
She died in 2020 due to covid 😔
@@johnnydubya8071 Yeah even she had a long life, dying from a virus I can't imagine the pain before she died, poor woman. But that's anecdote was really sweet to know.
Bruh....that's a great story!!
Cool!
Wow. That was a brilliant scene on the quay side. Great piece of acting. Even Hooper's look of horror when brodie got slapped around the face. Geez i bet that hurt!
One of the funniest memes I've ever seen said: "If you think voting doesn't matter, remember that the mayor in Jaws 1 is still the mayor in Jaws 2."
Tbh, that proves that voting doesn’t matter and someone actually in charge will just choose someone to be a mayor lol.
😅 love that one
😂yes
Well, to be fair, the mayor is a more complex character than it seems at first blush. His motive isn't pure greed. Note that when he says they'll only close the beaches for 24 hours, that's every EVERYONE has reacted with unfettered distaste at the idea of the beaches being closed. As he says, Amity needs summer dollars to keep running, he's doing what he thinks is best for the health of the whole town. He's WRONG, but being wrong doesn't make you evil. His breakdown in the last scene is especially telling: he starts off still talking about summer tourism, but then we see why. . . "My KIDS were on that beach." He's focusing on something, ANYTHING else to avoid thinking about the fact that he placed his kids lives in danger, he's confronted with how badly he screwed up, and does what he can to fix his mistake. Now, I'm not defending his actions, just saying those actions are more understandable here than in a lot of the shallow ripoffs where this character is just willfully stupid to the point they might as well be actively colluding with the monster.
@@erikbjelke4411 I'd like to add, in a deleted scene from Jaws 2, when the group votes to get rid of Brody as sheriff, the only one who voted to keep Brody was the mayor.
This movie is 49 years old and produces the same effect first time people watches it. The definition of a masterpiece. :)
Cool little fact. The man who is doing the news at 13:40 is actually Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book Jaws.
Peter Benchley was a moron, an absolute hack. A terrible writer who co-opted the plot of "Moby Dick" and turned it into trashy pulp fiction. The novel "Jaws" was just plain awful. The movie "Jaws" was brilliant, all credit goes to Spielberg.
and regret it due to the after math to sharks in the ocean.
The story that Quint ( Robert Shaw ) was telling on the boat, is true. It's about the Heavy Cruiser USS Indianapolis. During World War II. It had delivered the parts to make the bombs that were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima on Tinian Island. On their voyage out alone which they should not have been. They were torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. A lot of the survivors that went in the water were attacked and killed by sharks.
The Shark attacks that this film is based on are real too (except the final). They even took place at the same location the movie was filmed.
World War 2 has a million and half true incredible stories like the USS Indianapolis. You should look up the stories of Joe Kennedy Jr. and J.F.K and PT 109, or the Battle of Ramree Island. So many incredible stories, unbelievable and yet true.
@@robertbretschneider765 They didn't take place in Martha's vineyard, they took place on the New Jersey shore in 1916.
The story is true but they got the date wrong.
@@bridgethaines7127 Yes.
Cassie: “I think it’s from the 80s?”
Carly: “It’s THAT old?”
Me: *looks at my ID* 😑
80s, 70s, 30s, 90s, it's all the 20th century. It's all old stuff. lol
And its from 1975 even
Actually 76
The irony is it's actually from the 70s.
Worse still since it's from the 70s.
You just experienced one of the greatest films of all time. The fact that you were that scared shows how well it still holds up. And it was made in the 70s.
Yep I still jump at parts
I love imagining what it was like to see in theatres when it first premiered
Saw it in the cinema in 2015 for the 40th anniversay. People older than me jumping and screaming left right and centre
@@marielpare8290 my father saw Jaws in a spanish theater in 1975. He came back home with a green face and he forbitten us to watch it. People in the theater were screaming all the movie.
I also scream when I saw the dead man inside the boat. I had 15 years. Now I laugh waiting this scene. 😜
The USS Indianapolis speach from Quint is one of the best scenes ever on film
Cmon, don't bullshit me.
yep
The U.S.S. Indianapolis story is 100% true.
It is exaggerated a bit for dramatic purposes, but still true.@@billucf96
The US Navy uses it a scenario in Basic Training. The recruits have to tread water for an extensive amount of time while BUDs divers play sharks and try to pull them under.
Fun fact: the TV reporter making recording on the beach is Peter Benchley, the author of the book
Hichcockian.
Dammit, I was today years old before I knew that.
@@Carandini You really should read the book. Like, it's SLEAZY 1970s fiction.
The cat from the Amity Gazette is Carl Gotlieb who wrote the screenplay....you guys probably wouldnt like the book....Ellen Brody is total slizzut and the shark drowns and it's anticlimactic fo sho.
@@pelicanphuucker4life And Hooper gets eaten, as well.
It was made in 1975. I went to watch it on my own and sat next to a girl. When the head dropped down she grabbed my hand and didn't let go for the rest of the film. At the end she said thank you and left
My mom seen this movie when it was playing at the movie theater she scream when it jump out of the water people look at her like she crazy I said I would jump if i seen that thing coming at me
@@PodreyJenkin138 I was a very shy 12 year old with anxiety issues, that was never going to happen
@@glyngasson8450 Still, it's very wholesome.
This anecdote is supposed to end with ‘and that’s how I met my wife’ 😅
Congratulations.
"Call the president!"
"They need a bazooka!"
Man this reaction gave us amazing gems 😂
I love how you kids don't know who Robert Shaw is. There's a great backstory that he showed up on set drunk the day they were to film the USS Indianapolis scene. Spielberg was pissed, he came back the next day, apologized, and gave one of the greatest performances in the history of film.
As a 53 year old man who just loves this movie, I gotta tell you.... you girls actually just moved me to tears.
To WATCH somebody... WATCH the movie... and gauge a reaction like yours.. tells me this masterpiece is as brilliant today as it was 46 years ago.
Brilliant video.
@@davehoward22 53 also and saw this when I was in the 2nd grade. My brother (in 1st grade) had a nightmare the day we watched. He woke me and my parents up. My mom flipped the light on in our room and I saw my brother standing on his bed and he was facing the wall trying to climb it and screaming "Jaws is going to get me, Jaws is going to get me!"
It was (and still is) one of the greatest creature features to date.
The sense of isolation at sea whilst being hunted down by a freak sized shark is supremely terrifying.
Apart from Jaws 2 (not a bad sequel), the subsequent movies should never have been made.
Nothing beats the original
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Agreed
This was the first movie I’ve ever seen as a kid, I still love it till this day
Fun Fact: Quint’s story about the USS Indianapolis is true and the US Navy’s Boot Camp training pool is name after the ship.
It's a hell of a story, and worth looking-up if you have the time and interest.
Some of you might remember Robert Shaw (Quint) played a baddie in a Bond movie in the 60s…
Fun Fact: hooper was meant to die in the shark cage but footage that show the shark ripping apart the cage was just so incredible he changed the script to include it
Robert Shaw was also great as the big crime boss in The Sting.
@@billparrish4385 Another classic to vote on 😂
Some interesting facts about “Jaws.”This is the movie that started the “summer blockbuster event” movies. Prior to “Jaws,” summer was considered a slow time to release movies because movie execs thought people would rather be outside enjoying the summer weather vs. inside a dark movie theater. This was also the movie that put Steven Spielberg on the map. He directed “Jaws” when he was only 27. To give you an idea how big a movie phenomenon “Jaws” was, it came out of nowhere and rocketed to the #1 biggest box office champ of all-time domestically in just 60 days, unadjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, by the end of it’s run 6 months later around Christmas 1975, Jaws” was #4 all-time. It remains the #7 biggest domestic box-office hit in movie history adjusted for inflation. If you are younger than 24, you have not seen a movie blockbuster at theaters in the US as big as “Jaws” was. “Titanic” barely beat it during it’s initial release in 1997-98. Since “Jaws” release in 1975, only the original “Star Wars” (1977) and “ET” (1982) were clearly bigger movie hits. The movie had such an impact that beach attendance was down significantly in 1975. Watching you two react to this unbelievably intense movie brought back a lot of memories. “Jaws” is the only movie I have ever seen where you could feel the authentic fear, thrills, and tenseness of the audience. Audiences actually stood up and cheered TWICE near the end of the movie each of the 5 times I saw it in 1975. They gave it a standing ovation - for a movie! For me, a 15 year-old kid in the summer of 1975, it was a magical time. I got my Beginners Permit to drive, I had my first crush on a girl, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” and I saw “Jaws.” It’s one of my favorite movies because, not only is it a great movie, but it’s my favorite summer growing up!
Air conditioning in theatres made summer blockbusters a thing because people couldn't afford it at home.
This movie has made me scared of swimming in the open ocean for my entire life, yet I love how Spielberg crafted this so well. So, every time I see a younger generation reacting to the same things I did, just reinforces how well this is shot. How he builds the tension right up to when you first see the shark, and then cranks it up, and tells an awesome story.
@@mister2628 Yep, and we were one of them that couldn’t afford it. Although late that very summer we were able to afford a window air conditioner for our living room. Yet another reason it’s my favorite summer!! :)
Great comment. Didn't know all of that, how awesome. Jaws has always been my favorite movie since I saw it as a kid. I never stopped loving sharks after seeing it, and they remained my favorite animal most of my life (now tied with koalas).
Also, many people don't know....
This is Based on a True Story: 1916, New Jersey coastline, a hungry rogue shark terrorized a stretch of about 40 miles between July 1 and July 14th starting on Long Beach Island and ending in Matawan, NJ where it uncharacteristically went 1 mile into a freshwater river for its final 2 victims. A total of 4-5 people died and a couple more were bitten, but survived.
They hired a shark hunter and believed they found the culprit, which was a younger Great White shark, when they caught it within a couple of miles from the final attacks. It was national news, and even President Woodrow Wilson got involved in trying to catch the shark.
"If you are younger than 24, you have not seen a movie blockbuster at theaters in the US as big as “Jaws” was. “Titanic” barely beat it during it’s initial release in 1997-98."
Makes sense since movies are all remakes and cliches now, or they just have no originality. Notice how both Jaws and Titanic (along with S.W. and E.T.) were all completely original at the time they were released, they appealed to all ages (family friendly), most were spectacles, and were incredibly well-written and well-made. There's a very good reason nothing in the last 24 years has entered this bracket. Youngsters today think they've seen a great movie, but people who were around in the 70s-90s know they're overhyped and it's more like wishful thinking that they saw a classic like these were.
When I saw this in the theaters, as a kid, the whole audience screamed when that head popped up. I, myself, jumped three feet out of my seat.
My dad and I saw this in 75 when I was 11... he still teases my 60 year old ass about the dock scene... where the shark is pulling the dock after the guy, and his pal is screaming 'SWIM!!!'. Apparently, I was about to climb my seat during that scene!!! He said after that, I seemed ok. I thought the head popping out scene was the wildest. I remembered the jump-scare the most.
As a bunch of fourteen year olds me and my mates watched this at the flicks when it was first released, the same thing happened to us my mate jumped into my lap. I read the book before watching the film and on the back cover it said read the first five pages and you will buy this book. So true because I did.
Don't forget, the mayor from Jaws is still the mayor in Jaws 2 so it is very important to vote in your local elections.
The town was run by the Mob in the book. That's why the Mayor didn't close the beaches.
And he's Mr. Robinson in The Graduate. And he's literally "Death" in Twilight Zone S1E2. Elections don't fix everything.
@@reesebn38 Right. I don't remember if they mentioned the mob in the movie or not.
@@cpmf2112 Not that I ever heard and I have the kind of memory that remembers stuff like that. Of course this movie was made in the Seventies, there were movies in that same time period. Where Mob guys would come and pretty much censor movies of any mention of the Mob.
@@cpmf2112 They don't.
Fun fact: Recentl, the actress who played Alex Wintners mom went into a deli and spotted some 'Jaws' memorabilia. After talking with the owner and mentioning she was in the film, it turns out the owner was the guy (then kid) who played her on screen son that got killed.
Unfortunately she died last year during the Covid outbreak ):
@@gwenking7700 😥
No way!
😯
@@gwenking7700 :(
Sadly Lee Fiero passed away last April from Covid. The restaurant mentioned is the Wharf on Martha's Vineyard. Jeff Voorhees (Alex) is the manager.
This wasn’t just the first “shark movie”. This was the first Summer Blockbuster
Indeed. It's a film that transformed Hollywood.
What was a "Blockbuster" before the now dead video store chain? A film that blew the doors off of expectations of box office receipts. And before that? A bomb that the Allies dropped on the Axis with an explosive power that was SO devastating, that it could nearly destroy an entire city block.
And it defined the genre.
The first shark movie and still the best by a long shot,even though it was made of rubber and foam.
Yes, the 1st movie to make more than 100 million dollars!
You can see Brody and Hooper both stepping back onto shore just as the credits finish. Even if it isn't a 'happy' ending, I find their victory and survival very uplifting.
@@PodreyJenkin138 I agree it's happy in a lot of ways. I just meant it's not entirely happy because Quint died before they defeated the shark, and so did other people like the kid Alex, and the woman at the start and so on.
@@BenBanjo87 The events of the beginning of the movie dont count towards whether or not a movie had a happy ending or not. Thats why its called...the ending.
@@ThatSamoanGuy don't even try man... Appreciate ur efforts but this guy, if you go back and read his comment divulges no less than 4 crucial moments in the movie. I just don't understand why people just can't say they liked the movie and welcome other people to watch it. It should be a law that details of ANY movie can not be revealed. When I was younger that pretty much was the "rule". Sorry, for the rant, just aggravates me when that happens. Oh well the times they are a changing....some just don't know any better I guess.... BTW, ur comment was perfect.
Stability is a victory in this flick. :)
Absolutely
Interesting fact about Peter Benchley, the author of the novel this movie was based on: He later in life expressed his regrets about ever writing the novel, because he felt it heavily influenced the shark hysteria and as a consequence, radical hunting of sharks around the world. His novel was also as much commentary on US society in the seventies as it was about a killer shark, but that part was essentially left out of the movie, as it was "not Hollywood enough". Benchley then became an advocat for the preservation of the oceans and encouraged young people to get into marine biology to get a better understanding of the oceans and sharks.
Nice to know!
Yes, he apologised many times. And the novel, at least, is way more "scientific" than the movie, although in the time the novel was written the knowledge about white sharks, and the real behaviours they have, were very limited, so there is a lot of things that are wrong in the novel as well.
@@davida7153 It's also in a way more grim, with the mayors desperate attempts to keep the beach open being explained with him knee-deep in debt with some mafiosi and Brodys wife cheating on him with Hooper. Plus Hooper being eaten alive in the shark cage and Brody being the sole survivor at the end of the novel.
And Peter Benchley appeared in the movie as the TV reporter on the beach at the 13:38 mark of this video.
Thank you for posting about Peter Benchley's regrets, because if someone else hadn't, I sure as heck would have.
More videos with your sister please. You are both awesome!
I'll second that vote. They were very entertaining together.
I second the second..................
@@SquierStrat72 third it they are adorable !!!!
I THIRD THAT VOTE
Me too on that! The two of you together are good kharma.
I can only imagine, that this is the closest we will ever get, to seeing what the audience's reaction was when this premiered. Thank you.
It was.
I almost broke the backrest of the cinema chair when the head appeared in the boat. 😂
I think you can actually see the audience reaction from the opening weekend. I know it's in the documentary
And the theatre was pitch black, too. As soon as the music started everhyone was kinda crunched down in their seats. lol We had to wait in line for 2 hours just to get tickets. We watched it again later that day, too.
When that head appeared, the audience reacted just like the girls did - only time I've ever seen an audience jump in unison!
@@stephenward7856 Jurassic Park when the girl falls threw the ceiling. Everyone jumped and screamed. Another Spielberg classic
15:34 LOL, Even Carly was a little shocked at this "BLONDE MOMENT" LOL! Call the President!" LOL
Robert Shaw's performance as Captain Quint is in my top five all time acting performances. I just get lost in his character. He is the modern version of "Moby Dick's" Captain Ahab.
it’s the moments with him that are most engaging in the film :)
Robert Shaw was such a fine actor, and he was brilliant in this part. Scheider and Dreyfus were superb, too.
Shaw's accent in the film is unidentifiable :).
He was great in From Russia With Love and as Henry VIII in A Man For All Seasons.
@@ftumschk And Shaw was a writer too.
Yes, the USS Indianapolis story is true.
The Shark attacks that this film is based on are real too (except the final). They even took place at the same location the movie was filmed.
@@robertbretschneider765 I didn't know that! I would never swim in amity waters just on principle, but now I wouldn't go in within...crap the whole east coast. Lol I grew up in Cali and used to boogie board as a kid growing up. I'll stick to cliff jumping in the Sierra Nevada range and Cascades up here in Seattle where I'm at now. Only thing to watch out for there is rocks😜. Not being eaten alive.
@@robertbretschneider765 Well I've never heard about this outside of urban legends. Do you have sources for this assumption ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard
@@robertbretschneider765 Not exactly. Peter Benchly's orignal book was loosely inspired by the 1916 shark attacks at the Jersey resort town of New Haven. There is some dispute as to whether the shark involved was a young great White or a Bull Shark. Here are some links:
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/150702-shark-attack-jersey-shore-1916-great-white
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shark-attacks-that-were-the-inspiration-for-jaws-15220260/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160713-the-true-story-of-jaws
Fun fact there are about 4 great whites that were just tagged and tracked off the jersey shore earlier this week. The largest was measured being a 20ft female so only 5 feet shorter than “Bruce” in the movie
Jaws still holds up. The water-level filming has to be one of the top-5 genius choices in all of film history.
A genius choice that caused a lot of headaches and migraines during filming.
The fact that the shark rarely worked was also a happy mistake hence we are 45 minutes into the movie before we see it
Gwen King,
Sadly that has become a myth. The shark isn't seen much for the first half of the film by design. Bruce was not scheduled to be used until July 1974 for the Orca based scenes. The beach scenes were filmed in May and June.
This is all noted in The Jaws Log and Memories From Martha's Vineyard.
Much more of the shark WAS due to be shown during the Orca scenes, but not for the beach scenes. Not beyond the (very early) storyboards.
Cheers.
Spielberg says different. In my extra dvd in the set
@@joetravieso3542
Spielberg says "I really wanted to do it (the Chrissie attack) without showing the shark. What could be REALLY scary is not seeing the shark""
Spielberg, very early on when planning the film and getting the story boards drawn, did want to show the shark or some of it but that changed after settling on the Bruce contraption. When the film crew arrived on Martha's Vineyard for shooting there were no plans to use Bruce for the beach scenes. Bruce simply couldn't be used in the 4ft shallow State Beach waters anyway.
According to Carl Gottlieb the filming was only 5 days behind schedule (bad weather day losses) when they went out to sea. It was there that Bruce kept malfunctioning.
Bruce didn't malfunction during any of the beach scene because he wasn't used for them when they were filmed in May and June 1974. Only a fin contraption (towed) was used for the pond scene. That worked well enough. Only at the end of location shooting did they do some pick up shots for two beach scenes in Katama Bay (Alex Kintner being taken on the raft and the red rowboat guy getting munched) and Bruce worked fine for those.
Edit. Spielberg HAS at times contradicted himself via false memory and his humble manner and that is where the confusion comes in.
Cheers.
This movie was a smash hit when it came out in the ‘70s. Back in the ‘70s TV was literally G rated; zero cussing, zero nudity, and only “clean” TV approved violence. If you wanted to get more of a scare or adrenaline rush from boundary pushing or taboo breaking stuff you had to go to the movie theater. When I saw Jaws in the theater in 1975 I was a kid and it definitely scared me as it was much more intense than what I usually watched on TV. I have only seen Jaws once and that was almost 50 years ago, I’m looking forward to seeing how you girls react to this. Being a boy at the time, I did not scream (that would have been humiliating for a boy to do back in the day) but I was scared and it came out as nervous laughter during the movie. Looking forward to seeing clips of this after all these years. Thanks for posting!😀
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis (the ship that Quint says he served on during WW2) is in fact a real story. All the information in Quint’s monologue about how The Indianapolis was sunk after delivering the Hiroshima bomb is unfortunately true; since the mission was so secret, no one in the navy even knew that the ship was missing until the first survivors were spotted in the ocean 3 days later.
Sadly, the captain of the Indianapolis was court-martialed and found guilty of dereliction of duty. It wasn't until decades later that he was exonerated. The incident effectively ended his Navy career.
@@YKB1966 McVay was the only US Navy captain to be court martialed for losing their ship during the entire war. He died by suicide later in life. It wasn't until the Clinton Administration that he was exonerated of fault for the loss of the ship.
A real story that still, for the sake of the movie, is "amended": the vast majority of the men who died in the water did not die from shark attacks, but from hypothermia. Still, some died in shark attacks, but all the rest of it -- the numbers who died and who were rescued, that no one knew they were "late" because their secret mission to deliver the Bomb was SO secret, etc. -- is all true.
How Robert Shaw spoke those lines is memorable.
@@johnfrancis0063one of the greatest monologues of all time.
Quint is an absolute legend. Robert Shaw was also drunk when he gave that monologue about the Indianapolis
I have read that Robert Shaw adlibbed a lot of the Indianapolis story and they kept it because it was so good. The other actors played along.
I understand Robert Shsw rewrote the speech the night before and delivered it in one take. He deserved the Oscar for that performance. There are other films with performance of such calibre, Burl Ives in The Big Country 1958 to name but one.
Robert Shaw was drunk pretty much the whole time.
Classic scene!
Correction, Robert Shaw was drunk for the first take but the outcome was terrible. He apologised to Spielberg and they reshot it when he was sober - that's the version in the movie.
You watch this movie, constantly feeling unnerved, and yet you NEVER see the shark the first hour and 20 minutes of the movie! That’s great filmmaking!
Hitchcock's remarks on the difference between surprise and suspense are incredibly accurate.
Probably because the film crew had such a difficult time making the prop shark work. It kept malfunctioning on them even sinking at certain points throughout film making. Good thinking on Spielberg 's part for using the yellow barrels to great effect. It ended up working better than if he had been able to show the shark more in the film.
They could not get the mechanical Shark working for most of the film. John Williams musical genius literally saved this Movie!
They show the shark like 30 minutes in.
It builds suspense. Godzilla 1954 we see him after 26 minutes. The fact that he shows up almost immediately in minus one took us all by surprise.
"Jaws" is the quintessential example of how the "less is more" principle. Themalfunctions with the mechanical shark forced Spielberg to show less of it than originally intended... and that ended up making it even more effective. Sme thing as in the original "Alien".
The name they gave the shark was Bruce. The producers for “Finding Nemo” were friends with Steven Speilberg and the Great White that’s in Nemo was named after Bruce.
Fun fact: Spielberg named the shark Bruce after his lawyer.
@@Jedi4Life-u5y Jaws almost sounds like "jafs" , in norwegian it means to take a bite out of something. Jaws is called "Haisommer" (shark summer) in Norway , they could make a parody with wolves : "Vargsommer" , lol......
There’s a great boy and his dog story called the Thing. You’ll love it.
I would love to watch them watch The Thing.
Why is your logo a swastika?
Y'all don't do that to them, don't make them watch that 😭😂
“Boy and his dog” 😂 ….I mean, you’re not wrong!
Lmao a boy and his dog, oh yes a must see and with her sister.
"Didn't they bring a gun?"
"Or a rocket launcher?"
I can't. 🤣🤣
😂😂😂 well, gun laws were more lax in the 70’s
another great one
"what are they testing?"
"i dont know, how hungry the shark is?"
Probably would have had they called the president.
That would be "Grizzly".
@@markjuarez1791 Shame Hugh Glass didn't have one lol
23:35 “Did he die?”
“Yeah, oh yeah.”
That reaction & response was SOO funny but was also heartbreaking bcuz of how sweet you both are. I just know his death really broke your hearts 😢
This was genuinely hilarious. And not in a disrespectful way. It means this masterpiece of a film still works!
It’s amazing to see a few things…
1.) there are people out there who haven’t seen these classic films
2.) they don’t know what happens even through pop culture spoilers
3.) the film still works
4.) the film still works!
Haha. *Voice over loudspeaker* The Film is still working. The film is still working.
Okay, and I realize most people on here won't have a clue what I'm doing there.
There is a documentary on the making of this film in which they talk about all the problems they had with the shark. The reason you don't see the shark for over half the film was an accident. They were having so many issues with it that they ended up having to show as little of it as possible, and put off showing it for as long as they could. They used the barrels as a way to show the viewer the shark's movements and suggest what it was doing because they couldn't show the shark itself. It just so happened that not seeing the shark made the movie even scarier. The filmmakers fondly named the shark Bruce. On the set, problems with Bruce were so frequent that everyone regularly heard the the guy working with the team calling out over a loudspeaker, 'The shark is not working. The shark is not working." There is a documentary special on the impact of Jaws on movie making and the world in general. I believe there is a book of it too. Both are titled, "The Shark Is Still Working."
@@ravendarkauthor4939
*static*
“The film is still working. Repeat: the film is still working.”
In Dreyfuss voice.
@@PaulRizzo Hee! Yes!
Shark has him half in its mouth, dragging him underwater: "Did he die..." haha. This channel is the best.
Watch jaws the revenge... apparently you can live :p
"how is it not dead, he stabbed it so many times"
He is on the same farm that my cousin's dog lives in
Because Mario Van Peebles doesn’t “did he die” in Jaws 4.
Smart ladies.🤣🤣🤣
You two should watch a romantic comedy called "the exorcist" 😏
Lol
:O
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It has a happy ending also.
This is the best comment on any of her uploads. We'll done, blew my Braveheart idea out of the water 💧lol
Or Rosemary’s Baby!
@ 17:34 I died at they didn't bring a rocket launcher! 🤣🤣🤣
Canadian reaction just pouring out of these two: "OH, my GOSH...", "Did he die?", "YA, oh, YA" 23:29
Absolutely stunning performance ladies.
Smart ladies.🤣🤣🤣
Fun reaction. As for the shark looking "fake", a lot of people these days think that anything that isn't CGI looks fake, even though CGI often looks faker than anything. This movie was a blast to watch in theaters with a packed audience full of people who hadn't seen it and didn't know what to expect. Because of this, I saw it 13 times during its first run. It's nice to see that it still has a big effect on people even now when they're watching it on a TV screen at home.
I know what you means. Its strange hearing younger folks say the shark looks fake, when they are used to watching modern films with all their clearly fake backgrounds (skies, oceans) and even explosions and fire. They look fake to me, being brought up on real films like Jaws, Deliverance etc which were filmed on location in real settings and not in studios with green screen and GCI backgrounds.
I was a very young kid when this came out, but even then I remember people saying the shark looked "fake". When I finally saw the movie, I thought it looked fine...definitely good enough to be scary. However, Spielberg was never quite satisfied with how the shark looked, so he had the shark edited out as much as possible...which ended up being a brilliant decision, because it gave the film its suspense.
Back to the Future II made a joke about the shark looking fake.
The Indianapolis, from Quint’s story, was a real event that actually happened
Sharks responsible were most likely the Oceanic White tip one of the very few sharks I am nervous to be in the water with for good reason
I met survivors from than ship
The captain of the ship suffered survivor's guilt his whole life and killed himself years later.
Because the US government blamed him for it and court-martialed him in a sham of a trial. Despite the Japanese submarine commander testifying that there was nothing the US captain Charles B Mcvay III could have done, because of this Charles received dozens of letters from crewmembers families accusing him of getting their loved one’s killed. He was exonerated in 2000 by then President Bill Clinton.
@@_S0LUS_ Ironically, the commander of the Japanese submarine I-58, Mochitsura Hashimoto, had his entire family in Hiroshima where the first atomic bomb blew up over a week later, killing them all.
He testified that no action Mcvay could have done would have prevented the torpedoes from hitting the Indianapolis as he'd fired a whole spread in a wide arch. Zig-zagging would not have prevented at least one of the two torpedoes that hit the ship from getting through.
One of the finest movies. One of the best directed movies. One of the best music scores, and best acted by Shaw. Just a masterclass, and all before digital and composite shots. Also the first blockbuster.
The 1st summer blockbuster. It’s hard to believe Spielberg wasn’t even given a nomination for best director by the Academy.
Loving the slo-mo replay of jump scares lol!
Becky! This video from Cassies Channel has many of the slo-mo jump scares, from other than Jaws! th-cam.com/video/hxQ7f2E6x3E/w-d-xo.html
Their reactions and jump-scares are so genuine and adorable. Such a joy to watch.
There's nothing like watching Jaws in the seventies in a movie theater. The big screen, the big shark, the big soundtrack, the big dark theaters, scared the shyte out of everyone. Watching it in a little tv screen today with an obvious machine shark might be corny, but back then, it worked.
I was 14 and my big sister took me. I watched the whole thing with my feet up in the seat, hugging my knees.
It was as epic as going to Disneyland. The experience was that awesome.
What do you mean “corny” and “obvious machine shark” and “back then?” It’s still a fantastic movie and far from corny and the shark looks great and it very clearly still works
I saw it in a local imax theater a few years ago for the 40th anniversary, and it was great. I've seen Jaws literally 100+ times, but that was the last time, as I've experienced it fully, no need to rewatch lol.
A car full of us saw this at the drive-in on the original release... and went swimming after the flick... on a full moon night... more than a couple of us had some serious problems once in the water, couldn't get to the island quick enough. Still gives me the heebie-jeebies when I think of it.
"Put the stupid mayor in jail."
In Jaws 2, he's still the mayor.
Spoilers!
Jaws 2? no such thing
No. Feed him to the shark... Especially the townspeople who wanted the beach open. All they care about is their money... not tourist safety.
He would have been the Mayor still in Jaws The Revenge but he died of cancer before filming.
I saw Jaws in the theater with my girlfriend when we were in high school; she dug her fingernails into my forearm throughout most of the movie. Still one of my favorite movies of all time, about as perfect as a movie can be.
“Did they not bring a gun?” -Carly
“Or a rocket launcher?” -Cassie
😂
They brought a gun. Just like the boat, though, they needed a bigger one.
Lol!!!
Jaws came out in the late 70s
@@tcooke6722 mid 70's. (1975).
Chief Brody actually did bring a gun.
"We're going to need a bigger boat". Best line in the whole movie.
He actually ad-libbed that line.
Yes, he ad-libbed the line.
But there was also a story behind it. The production crew often complained that they need a bigger boat to haul all the necessary equipment. The words "We're gonna need a bigger boat" were said a lot.
*gonna
you're gonna need a bigger boat
I like the line when Hooper says to Quint. "You ever have one do this before?
First there's one blonde woman who wants to watch movies, then there are two. Then BAM, you're in a cult.
😆
Isn’t that how it always happens
What's that from? If it's just something you came up with, I'd suggest you try your hand at writing. Because that's a great line.
If the women look like them sign me up as long as it's not one of them celibacy cults.
Beware the popcorn.
That's the beauty of JAWS, they hardly show the shark at all until the movie's closer to being over, they just give you more subtle hints that it's there. That way when they actually *do* show the shark, it's that much more impactful.
Mostly thanks to the problems with the animatronic shark. A bit of a blessing in disguise.
I was 8 years old when I saw this movie. My mother had gone to see it first to make sure her kids could handle it. People were screaming in the theater and my mother said I was glued to the screen and never flinched. Still one of my top favorite movies to this day. Love seeing the young ones reaction and it still scares people as it did in 1975.
I was roughly the same age when I saw it and the town I grew up in was much like the town in the movie. It left an impression. Especially as we had Orcas where we lived, which are bigger than the shark in the movie.
I was 11 that summer, but in germany we had a rating 16 for that movie. My elder brother was that impressed about and i was a huge fan of monsters (of course) so i try to see it and it works...but it scares me that hard so i hab fear about open water many many years.
same
I was an usher at the local theatre when this came out. It sold out every show for almost four months. Since I knew when all the really sudden shark-jump-out-at-you moments were, I'd go in just before those moments to watch the popcorn and soft drinks fly, which they invariably did.
This movie came out in 1975 and it was HUGE as a box office draw. I remember my mother using Quint's death as a teachable moment the thing he hated in the end is what killed him...that sticks in my mind even all these years later. You guys are so cute together and enjoy the Popcorn in Bed reactions!!!
Well, actually, the unresolved trauma of not being rescued soon enough is what Quint is really fuming about, which ultimately leads to his own demise. If he could forgive the delayed rescue of the Indianapolis, he might have been more keen to let Brody radio for help. However, that's a less interesting movie.
@@darrenwalters9886 Actually Quint is Captain Ahab and the Shark is Moby Bruce
Good lesson, eventually Joe Biden is going to kill me
highest grossing film of all time until it was surpassed by star wars
@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison Interestingly the Quint character just drowns in the Benchley novel after harpooning the shark he gets entangled and is dragged under and drowns so your Ahab reference is entirely valid, Melville's Moby Dick novel is a lesson of how hatred and the pursuit of revenge never ends well a theme used over and over in stories down through the ages.
I’m glad this movie still has these effects on people. It still is one of my favorites. I have the theater poster on my wall.
I remember when this hit the theaters, and people lined up around the block to see it. We were stunned. It was a new phenomenon. This really was the very first summer blockbuster. Happened again the next summer with Star Wars (though that had a bit of a slower build to blockbuster status). And the motion picture biz was forever changed. (I'm not altogether sure it was for the better.) Fun sister act, guys.
I remember when HBO and cable hit homes. The movie they used to sell the idea of watching movies in your own home was JAWS. I was both scared to death and amazed at how far technology had come.
Jaws, Close Encounters, and Star Wars were the first modern blockbusters.
"Star wars slower build." From what I've heard that shit was IMMEDIATE just due to the special effects.
Little Sister Carly: "...did they seriously not bring a gun?"
Cassie: "Or a Rocket Launcher?"
LOL!!!
Or a tank???!!!!
Watch Grizzly If You Want A Rocket Launcher Type Ending!!
Bullets fired from a gun can ONLY penetrate about 18-24 inches of water and then the bullet loses ALL of it's kinetic energy
@@sabrecatsmiladon7380 18-24 inches... for a high powered rifle with a large caliber bullet, however, lower velocity lower mass/caliber bullets can be lethal for someone in much deeper water versus a high velocity, greater mass/caliber bullets, a 9mm handgun can be lethal up to 8 to 10 ft. deep.
'Did they not bring a gun?'
'...or like a rocket launcher...'
😂😂😂
Not until the sequels
I swear to god when they are loading the boat they put a machine gun on board!
Resident Evil logic.
That rocket launcher was good.
Scheider’s reaction at 17:10 is one of the greatest shots in cinema history
I actually had a chance to meet Susan Backlinie a few months ago who played as Chrissie, the 1st victim in Jaws, and she was such a sweet woman! We went back and forth on questions and she even told me she sometimes feels paranoid when she goes to the beach of a possible strange coincidence happening lol. It was incredible to meet her! Great reaction once again!!! Jaws is easily one of my all time favorites! Great reaction ladies!
So what did she tell you about being in the movie?
@akyhne She said that it was an honor for her to be the opening kill to such an iconic movie, and that Spielberg was a very polite and generous man to work with
I remember how people were afraid to go swimming after this movie.
I remember beeing affraid to go swimming after i saw it.
Have not gone NEAR the ocean since!!!
Shit, we got our pool after we saw this and swimming at night I still thought the shark could get me... 🤪
Even in a lake! lol You would yell "shark" on the lake and the water would clear.
Terrified!
This movie was the very first "Summer Blockbuster". Also, the story Quint tells about the USS Indianapolis is a true story. The largest recorded shark attack in history. Roughly 850 men went into the water and they pulled 317 out 5 days later. The rest were lost to their injuries, dehydration, exposure, and shark attacks.
Fun fact. A few years later in his less well received film 1941 Spielberg had an homage scene to Jaws where a woman goes skinny dipping and encounters a Japenese submarine. He used the same actress.
An underrated comedy.
"Horrywood!"
Carly: *covers her face in horror*
Cassie: *pulls Carly's hand down* We don't do that here...
This was so funny reaction. So many memorable jump scares and quotes from both of you 😂 Hope Carly joins us again in the future! 🎉
The classic music is done by John Williams, same for Star Wars, Close Encounters, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, etc.
Don't forget the first two Home Alone movies, Catch Me If You Can, and The Terminal
If you ever wondered why Generation X is so tough, JAWS was rated PG.
I agree with you 100%. But I'm still nervous as hell, anytime I've been in the ocean, because of this damn movie
On the other hand Rambo was rated R 18+ when it was originally released.
Yes, the age ratings were a little different back then.
That's what I love about some reaction videos. "It's PG, it can't be that bad." A little later *horrified screams*
I saw this in the theaters at 3 and LOVED it. It never scared me. It fascinated me. I became obsessed with Great Whites as a result. I couldn't stop drawing them or looking out at the water at the beach hoping to see one. Jaws remains probably the best summer movie of all time.
Freaking _Poltergeist_ was rated PG, also Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Brody isn't panicking in the beginning, because he's the chief of police. He has to remain calm in the public eye. Would you want the person in charge of your safety panicking and not thinking straight?
Shortly before quarantine, there was a theatre that showed this - at a lake. You watched it while in an inner tube.
You. Could. Not. Pay. Me.
Alamo Drafthouse did this out at Volente Beach. What really completes the experience is the scuba diver poking you in the butt from underneath.
@@johnbode5528 Butt pokes are no good. What'll do is fake dorsal fin brushing by your legs.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
46 yrs old and still scares the bejeezus out of people. Jaws is an absolute masterpiece. G,day from Australia.🤘
An aussie scared of fish that bite once in awhile yeah no yeah hand in your man card.The spiders or snakes will get ya before that.
@@tazkar1956 Sharks are killers.
@@tazkar1956 Lol
Fun fact: “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” wasn’t scripted. The actor thought of that on the fly
and if i remember correctly, the shooting star was real and a cool coincidence.
@Duncan Kessing shit. You’re right!
Without closed captioning it’s hard to tell
In a show on the making of this film they said Spielberg and the main screenwriter worked late each night redoing what they thought was unworkable dialogue, sometimes only having a ready script as the sun came up.
@@kevinpatrickcarey3741 too
I believe the USS Indianapolis/dolls eye speech was also impromptu as the government had just declassified that report.
You gals are a great sport. Cassie always rewinds the most intense jump scares and replays them in slow motion. It is HILARIOUS!!! 😊😆😇😅🤣
I watched this movie in a filled theater when it first came out, and when the shark first came out of the water, many people came out of their seats in the theater. In 1975 this movie was setting new marks in realism. And Capt Quint's story about the deliver of the a-bomb was a true story, about the crew being eaten by sharks.
@@elessartelcontar9415 They didn't have the real horrors of never ending war, mass shootings, outrageous pharmacy prices and disease to deal with.
Carly: So she just died. In the first 3 min of the movie.
Cassie: Maybe that means we’re ... that’s it.
Lol’d so many times. The rocket launcher was a good one too. Great reaction, and your sis was lovely and funny.
That was absolutely adorable. Maybe I'm a jerk, but I laughed Everytime you had a jump scare. The slowmo replays were genius
That was my first thought as well. The black and white slow motion reply reactions were done perfectly!
Same.
What great reactions!! It's even scarier in the dark, on the big screen. In the theater, when the head pops through the hole...the folks in front of me were so startled that their bucket of popcorn went airborne and showered kernels over both of our rows!! 😳 Single greatest response to a moment on screen that I've ever seen!
BTW, the theater was packed and everyone screamed at the same spots that you two did! 👍🏻😃
Those ARE two of the greatest pop-out scares in movie history...
As Quint was sliding into the shark's mouth, furiously kicking in a panic to get away, when you said "Not this way, not for him" ... tears, man, you totally got the entire tragic arc of this character. Great reaction.
Quint's story regarding the sharks in the water was his own account of his experience in the real life sinking of the USS Indianapolis incident in July, 1945. Most of the survivors who died after the sinking were taken by sharks.
Quint is not only a World War 2 Navy veteran, but also a survivor of PTSD!!!
Actually, most of the people on the Indianapolis died from exposure from the sun and drinking sea water which was poisonous. There were sharks, but only a very few attacks.
If I'm not mistaken the Indianapolis was the ship that was involved with the delivery of the first Atomic Bomb to the Island of Tinian where the Enola Gay took off from.
@@mikemuir0178 We don't really know how many were taken by sharks. I find 'very few' to be suspect as once there's blood in the water, a group of sharks will often go wild and bite anything around them, including other sharks. Exposure was certainly the bigger killer though, especially with many of the sailors already being wounded from the sinking itself.
@@davidcox1899 Correct, and was nearly sunk on the way to Tinian but the Japanese sub captain who spotted her decided he couldn't get a decent shot (and was morally repulsed by the idea of using Kaiten - piloted torpedoes - of which his sub had two).
16:47 As we say here in Gansett: honor the man, crush the can
“ We’re gonna need a bigger boat” is a line that has been repeated many times since the movie, applying the thought to many different scenarios when the supplies available, vs supplies needed. 😀
One of my favorite scenes in a mediocre movie was when Richard Dreyfiss and Emilio Estevez are playing a game. One is giving movie quotes the other trying to guess the movie. Estevez's Character's clue is, "you're gonna need a bigger boat," and Dryfuss's (a co-star in Jaws) character doesn't get the answer.
It was actually " You're gonna need a bigger boat.
The younger brother with the shark fin is now police chief Jonathan Searle of Oak Bluff, where they filmed Jaws.
Looked pretty real in 1975 when movie came out! It still looks real to me!
We're gonna need a bigger boat .🚢
Way better than all stupid CGI of today
The people who say the special effects in this movie look fake are the same people who think CGI looks real. Terrible judges of quality and craft.
There is no CGI in jaws. Just saying but I know what meant.
Looks like somebody did not understand your comment. The effects in this movie were very realistic. As for CGI, They ought to keep that under raps until they figure out how to make it look real.
@@TheRealCARCHARO Yeah... That's what he said. No CGI in "Jaws". He was talking about people who think CGI looks real("Terrible judges of quality and craft") when compared to the non-CGI effects from "Jaws". Ben Jammin is fully aware there was no CGI in "Jaws". Read his comment again.
Saw this movie in the theater when I was 15. It was quite an experience when the ENTIRE AUDIENCE screamed at the top of their lungs.
somehow i imagine Shaw getting a chuckle out of that ;)
Same here. I was sixteen and saw it with my mom. She screamed. A lot. 😁
I was seven. And sick little thing that I was, I cried when the shark died. Didn't shed a tear over Alex Kitner.....
The Mayor is one of the most misunderstood charactor in the movie, next to Quint.
It isn't greed that is motivating the Mayor, it's politics. The townspeople are overwhelmingly merchants and landlords. In a summer destination town, 90% of their yearly income is made from April to August. They have to survive the rest of the year on what they make. Everyone laughs at the lady who shouts, "24 hours is like three weeks, but in terms of earning, its true. They will lose three weeks of income in two days.
So, the mayor is trying to do what's best for the people, but is also in denial about how big this problwm is. He wants to believe it was a freak incident unlikely to happen again.
Im not saying he was justified, only that Mayor Vaugh isn't as one dementional as you might think. Hes actually very complex.
@24:50 - as they reach land, notice the shape of the beach and the grass, it resembles a shark head. With the clump of seaweed the eye. Very clever (and I'm sure it was intentional)
Love the “scared-blanket-cam” btw! 😂
Also: “We’re gonna need a BIGGER BOAT” is a classic cinema line !
I murmured it when Godzilla was chasing the minesweeper boat in Minus One. He could have caught it effortlessly. I believe he was toying with them.
when i was a kid,i actually fell in love with sharks,thanks to this movie,and in reality,they are really fascinating animals
unless you're between their teeth
_"unless you're between their teeth"_
Well, not to nitpick, but there is at least one amazing woman who has had her arm between the teeth of a lot of sharks and definitely considers that among the most fascinating experiences - th-cam.com/video/G8LmxwOgBhA/w-d-xo.html 🥰
So is the T-Rex.
Unfortunately and sadly, the movie had an awful side effect after where thousands of sharks were brutally and senselessly slaughtered. Peter Benchley would say years later that he wished that the movie had never been made.
You two are living testaments that the rest of us are way over stimulated. I WISH I still experienced movies the way you do, you're both so lucky.
I just love your "jump" at the head appearing - that scene was added, after filming, specifically to "get the popcorn to jump higher!"
Omg, this was too funny. Jaws is my all-time favorite movie so your reactions were HYSTERICAL. Some fun facts: the girl at the beginning literally had a rope tied to her leg and they pulled her under at random, almost drowning her for real. The scar contest were real scars the actors had. I believe the shark was meant to be seen a lot more, but they had sooo much trouble with it that it was used less which actually helped the film’s suspense. The animatronic shark’s name was Bruce. Finally, in one of the crowd scenes there is a woman in the crowd who it is believed may have been the murder victim the lady of the dunes. The victim was murdered not long after filming in an area not too far from there, and I don’t believe she was every identified and the murder was never solved.
I hope you do more horror movies! Your reactions were so funny, but you probably shouldn’t do anything like Midsommar or Hereditary… I don’t think you guys could handle those lol. Very entertaining video!
I wouldn’t say Quint’s death was deserved but he did have a Captain Ahab level obsession… he hunted Shark’s because he hated them but that’s also inviting a Shark-based death; and he endangered the other two men so that he could fight this one to the death!
Can you IMAGINE what he was feeling moments before his feet slid into the shark's mouth, though? Because he'd seen it first hand. That moment of panic. That was the one thing he had been thinking about, dreaming about, agonizing over his entire adult life. Obsessing over it so much to the point that it recedes back into his subconscious so he's always thinking about it. Now it's happening, and that shark is MASSIVE.
Quint character is legendary in part because of his gruesome death. Imagine him dying by drowning like in the novel, it would be a let down for the character.
@@jackprescott9652 wow, it really seems like Spielberg improved on the book. That almost never happens anymore.
As my dad would always say, “this film is like a fine wine, just gets better with age.” Great reactions to this masterpiece
Absolutely! 47 years later and this movie still scares the crap out of people.
Sister: "I'm nervous."
Me: "You should be."
This and John Carpenter’s The Thing are the two perfect Covid movies.
I love how Spielberg didn't lower his standards for script and acting because it was "only" a scary/monster movie. Same for The Thing, Star Wars, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Alien, LOTR. Every genre deserves the highest standards of movie making...
Yeah do the Thing!
If they're new to horror and can't handle it too well the The Thing 1982 will send them into orbit lmfao I mean it's my favorite horror but maybe they should build up to it 😆
and The Mist.
@@youtubeistrash953 Best to dive in head first with The Thing I say!
Quint virtually bitten in two..
“Did he die?!?”
😂
Smart ladies.🤣🤣🤣
No they sewed him back together stupof
hahaha xD
Seriously one of the greatest adventure films of all time. LOVE this movie, and yes, it's scary as hell. That's the point! And the reason you don't see the shark earlier is that they couldn't get it to work properly... so they just showed you a lot more stuff that INDICATED the shark was around. Nothing more frightening than what you can't see! Fantastic storytelling in this movie!
As I watched them watching Jaws I noticed as the movie goes on you see more and more of the shark-- first a fin, then some of its body when it eats the kid on the raft, then its head and mouth when it's in the pond, finally the whole thing once the men go out on the boat. Very well directed.
Pretty sure they invented the shark pov shot. That was just as scary to see it approach its prey, know it's coming, and be on the edge of your seat waiting for it.
Officially this was the first ever summer blockbuster. It kicked off the summer 🎥 trend that continues to this day. It also kept millions of people of the beach that summer.
Great fun! I'd recommend "Duel" which was a Spielberg movie a few years before this. Spielberg always said that he felt Jaws was almost a remake of Duel (for reasons that would become clear if you watch it!). Also, the noises of the shark sinking when it was shot are slowed down audio from the end of Duel, which again would make sense if/when you see it!
Spielberg also directed several episodes of Columbo.
I was trying the other day to recall that films name to recommend it. Its a great movie.
@@ravenmasters2467 Yeah, Dennis Weaver. I love Duel.
Probably the best JAWS “first time” reaction ever. I hope you have more of these sister reaction videos. So many great jump scares and commentary.👍🏻
lol! I thought you were going to say, "I hope you have more sisters."
Yes, I havent seen reactions from a first watch since 1975. Movie is still awesome!
The USS Indianapolis is a TRUE STORY, yes.
More sailors died from exposure and dehydration than shark attacks.
@Chandler Burse New Jersey in the early 20th century had multiple attacks by a shark that swam upriver.
@@padfolio Did happen, the men made circles like the old British squares hammering the water and shouting and the sharks circled in. Most memorable testimony was when a sailor tried to wake a friend and the body tipped as he had no bottom. When the flying boat rescue plane finally landed they could not take off because the survivors climbed all over it to get out of the water.
@joemaloney1019 The sharks mainly ate the dead and didn't attack the living to the extent that's portrayed by Quint, but the rest is pretty much correct. Still one of the best monologues in any film though.
My parents went to see Jaws, and us kids went to see a Disney film. It was over first so we walked into their theater just after the shark blew up and the whole screen turned red. I remembered that my whole life.